Napton Windmill is a red brick tower mill with batter, built about 1835. It had a dome cap, windows , acorn finial, three pairs of stones and originally had two ...
Nathaniel Hawthorne is one of America’s most celebrated writers, especially famed for The Scarlet Letter of 1850. He stayed in Leamington three times, including Lansdowne Circus in 1857. On his ...
I did the bulk of my National Service at RAF Gaydon, April 1958 to December 1959. I was in equipment accounting and as I arrived as the 1,000 hours flying ...
I’m very excited to share the news that we’ll be holding an outdoor screening at the record office itself in Warwick in September.
Venues and dates have been secured for the Near Belonging exhibition. There’s now a really comprehensive tour in place with just one set of dates still to be confirmed.
The Near Belonging group meeting at Warwickshire County Record Office has been making what I suggested could be called ‘archive box homes’.
Part of the ‘adoption’ process for participants has been having their portrait made in a similar pose or style to the archive image. Very few people like having their photograph ...
This month is all about sharing and being brave, which is why I’m finally publishing thoughts and experiences from the project here, online.
This is more a pictures than words update, as the merged new and old portraits are now all complete and have been shared with participants, so I’d love to share them here too
Near Belonging has evolved unusually, in that the activity has happened simultaneously in three groups
