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Black History Month at the ERO: Part 2
In the second post focusing on Black histories at the Essex Record Office, we’ll explore some of the audio recordings preserved in the Essex Sound and Video Archive (ESVA). Including broadcasts on...
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Tales from the Parish Chest: bastardy in early modern north-Essex
For the last few months ERO has hosted two student placements jointly funded by the Friends of Historic Essex and University of Essex. They have both written for us about their experiences and what...
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Introducing the 2020 University of Essex MA placement student
Grace Benham, MA History student at the University of Essex, has recently embarked on a twelve-week placement with the Essex Record Office. She is working with a collection of oral history interviews...
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An Essex Quaker’s Wife – The Indomitable Mary Farmer & her Daughters
Julie Miller, a masters student from University of Essex, has taken up a research placement at the Essex Record Office, conducting an exploration into the story of John Farmer and his adventures,...
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An Essex Quaker’s Indiscreet Zeal – the Final Chapter
Julie Miller, a masters student from University of Essex, has taken up a research placement at the Essex Record Office, conducting an exploration into the story of John Farmer and his adventures,...
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An Essex Quaker in the Caribbean 1713-14
Julie Miller, a masters student from University of Essex, has taken up a research placement at the Essex Record Office, conducting an exploration into the story of John Farmer and his adventures,...
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An Essex Quaker’s American Adventure 1711 – 1713
Julie Miller, a masters student from University of Essex, has taken up a research placement at the Essex Record Office, conducting an exploration into the story of John Farmer and his adventures,...
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An Essex Quaker in Ireland 1710 – 11
Julie Miller, a masters student from University of Essex, has taken up a research placement at the Essex Record Office, conducting an exploration into the story of John Farmer and his adventures,...
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An Essex Quaker Goes Into the World -The Scottish Journey 1707-08
Julie Miller, a masters student from University of Essex, has taken up a research placement at the Essex Record Office, conducting an exploration into the story of John Farmer and his adventures,...
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‘Never look backward, always look ahead’: The First World War drawings of...
As the centenary of the end of the First World War approaches, we are delving into our collection looking at some of the fascinating wartime documents we look after. Join us on Saturday 10th November...
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Document of the month, June 2018: ‘war and confusions’ in Colchester
Archivist Lawrence Barker tells us about his choice for Document of the Month: a newly accessioned Church Book from Colchester dating from 1796-1816 (D/NC 42/1/1A). A year of ‘war and confusions’: this...
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“Neither freaks nor frumps”: two Essex Suffragettes – Lilian and Amy Hicks
On Wednesday 16 September 1908, Amy Hicks spoke at a suffrage meeting held at the Co-operative Hall in Colchester and declared that campaigners for women’s suffrage were ‘neither freaks nor frumps’....
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Colchester then and now: The Ichnography of Colchester
Regular readers will probably have noticed our Chelmsford Then and Now series of blog posts, written by Ashleigh Hudson, who worked with us on a research placement last year as part of her MA degree...
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Document of the Month, November 2016: Introduction of Daylight Saving Time,...
D/DU 1407/1 As the clocks go back again for the winter, November’s Document of the Month looks at the introduction of Daylight Saving Time in the UK in 1916, when the clocks went forward by one hour at...
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Historic sounds of Essex – coming to a town near you
Sarah-Joy Maddeaux, You Are Hear Project Officer If a bench could talk, what would it say? The listening benches being installed across the county by the Essex Record Office do talk, and they tell you...
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Who is more Essex? Stuart Bingham vs Ali Carter
There are many things for us Essexians to be proud of, and it seems that one of them is our county’s tendency to produce incredibly talented snooker players, most famously Ronnie O’Sullivan. In more...
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Registered wills – filling in the gaps
Wills can tell us all sorts of things about the lives of people in the past, and are a brilliant resource for genealogists and social and economic historians alike. As we have mentioned before, our...
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‘An Ocean of Books’
Hannah Salisbury, Engagement and Events Manager In preparing our latest mini-biography of an interesting person from Essex’s past for Essex Life magazine, I came across this wonderful quote from...
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Document of the month, July 2015: The heat of summer
Each month one of our Archivists selects a document to highlight. This month it is the turn of Chris Lambert – his chosen document will be on display in the ERO Searchroom throughout July 2015. It was...
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The expanding Essex electorate
As the 2015 General Election approaches, we take a look at some of the records of voting history in the Essex Record Office archives… The right to vote is something which we are all today well...
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