The 1811 rules of the Friendly Associated Coal Miners of Wakefield include clauses which specifically ban inappropriate hat wearing and boasting about the size of your wage packet, along with slightly more standard rules for sick pay, unemployment benefit and a yearly pub feast
On a *completely* unrelated subject, please admire the scanning of this vast parchment document which had been tightly folded for 225 years and was marginally larger than our A1 scanner bed
Now online at wdc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...
Prisons, 'pauperism', punishment (capital & corporal), probation, policing - & that's just the 'P's
Our digitised annual reports of the Howard Association, 1867-1912, are rich sources on history of crime (& broader social history)
Read them online at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...
'Can she ride?'
We're wheeling out the New Woman for #WorldCyclingDay
This 1897 edition of The Wheelwoman combines fashion tips, club news and advice to women on voting in local elections
Lots more New Women, pioneer racers & 19th century cycling magazines online at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...
In 1918, a teenage miner wrote out his notes on 'The safety lamp' for his Education Committee course
Born in Derbyshire, Alwin Machen moved to Yorkshire to look for work after the 1926 General Strike...
... once in Yorkshire, Machen used his artistic skills to draw posters for his local branch of the Yorkshire Miners' Association
Machen's papers relating to his work as Thorne Branch Secretary, YMA Compensation Agent and President are now catalogued at mrc-describe.epexio.com/records/MAC
Sorry we're late. We have been busy building up to #InternationalArchivesDay, and now we're exhausted!
Feel the burn!
The Cake and Biscuit Manufacturers' War Time Alliance also weighed in on the Jaffa Cake debate in 1949
The Alliance's Biscuit Names Committee firmly placed the disputed item in a list of biscuit 'names seemingly not open to objection'
Crucial advice for #NationalBiscuitDay
From a strategic baked goods planning document published in 1946 by the Cake and Biscuit Manufacturers' War Time Alliance
(yes, this was a thing and yes, we hold the archives - mrc-describe.epexio.com/records/CAB)
Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick
Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick
Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick
Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick
Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick
Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick
Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick
Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick
Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick
Video
us, lightly touching a document: I just need to move you so I can make sure you're properly supported on this table
the document, the pages enormous: you SHOVE document? you throw the vellum like a paper aeroplane? oh! oh! jail for archivist! jail for archivist for One Thousand Years!!!!
