Tag Archives: Webley-Parry

As the swallow flies; my Great Aunt Gwenol’s story

Posted on 9 April 2020 by

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 →

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Photography and Dressing Up in Victorian Cardiganshire

Posted on 11 October 2018 by

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 →

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Captain Beefheart mince pies

Posted on 22 December 2017 by

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 →

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Shrub – by popular demand!

Posted on 15 December 2017 by

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 →

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How the other half ate: Tea biscuits from the Webley-Parry collection

Posted on 16 November 2016 by

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 →

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Eliza Webley-Parry: The Journals of a Genteel Woman of Nineteenth-Century Cardiganshire

Posted on 10 October 2016 by

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 →

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