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Tag Archives: Webley-Parry
As the swallow flies; my Great Aunt Gwenol’s story
We are delighted to present a guest blog by Gretel McEwen, written in response to discovering her great aunt Gwenol’s photograph albums in our collections. Behind the glass doors of Ceredigion Archives in Aberystwyth rest countless personal and family stories. … Continue reading
Posted in Guest blog, Our favourite documents
Tagged Cairo, Dolfriog, Egypt, guest blog, Japan, Merioneth, Penrhyndeudraeth, Satow, Webley-Parry
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Photography and Dressing Up in Victorian Cardiganshire
We are delighted to present a guest blog by Dr. Lucy Smith. Dr. Lucy Smith has degrees in English Literature and Archive Administration and her doctorate was on Julia Margaret Cameron’s photography. She is particularly interested in creative archives, and … Continue reading
Posted in Guest blog, Our favourite documents, Photography
Tagged dressing up, guest blog, Kewley, photographs, Webley-Parry
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Captain Beefheart mince pies
Another Explore Your Archives exclusive! For our Making History event, I made the shrub – already blogged about – and, helped by my friend Mark, some festively archival mince pies using another recipe from the Webley-Parry recipe books. Here it is again: … Continue reading
Posted in Explore Your Archive, Recipes
Tagged Christmas, Explore Your Archive, EYA2017, recipe, Webley-Parry
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Shrub – by popular demand!
I made shrub for Making History, our Explore Your Archive 2017 event last November. The brave souls who tasted it were impressed and apparently completely unharmed! We therefore present (by popular demand) a blog all about making this very alcoholic … Continue reading
Posted in Explore Your Archive, Recipes
Tagged Christmas, Explore Your Archive, EYA2017, recipe, shrub, Webley-Parry
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How the other half ate: Tea biscuits from the Webley-Parry collection
This is not the first, or indeed the last, time that the Webley-Parry cookbook makes an appearance on our blog. For Explore Your Archives Week 2016, this archivist tried the Tea Biscuits recipe. Here is the transcript, with original spelling … Continue reading
Posted in Explore Your Archive, Our favourite documents, Recipes
Tagged Explore Your Archive, EYA2016, household, recipe, Webley-Parry
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Eliza Webley-Parry: The Journals of a Genteel Woman of Nineteenth-Century Cardiganshire
Dr Rose McCormack Over the past three months I have been volunteering for Ceredigion archive. The project I have been working on has been an exciting one; I was asked by the archive to look at the diaries of Eliza … Continue reading
Posted in Guest blog, Our favourite documents, Women's History
Tagged Blaenpant, Brigstocke, Glanhelyg, guest blog, Noyadd Trefawr, Webley-Parry
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