East Riding Archives

27/05/2026

🌊 We and Changing Coasts East Riding need your help! We are inviting local people to share photos, memories, stories, and evidence of coastal erosion including homes, landmarks, and places that have been lost to the sea.
See more below 👇

🌊 Your photos. Your stories. Our coastal history. 🌊
The East Yorkshire coast is changing, and we need your help to capture its story. Changing Coasts East Riding is inviting local people to share photos, memories, stories, and evidence of coastal erosion including homes, landmarks, and places that have been lost to the sea.
📸 Have old photos?
📝 Memories or stories of how the coast has changed?
🏠 Landmarks that no longer exist?
Your contributions will help preserve the history and heritage of our coastline for future generations.
👉 Find out more or submit your evidence:
🌐 https://orlo.uk/uMAoK
📲 Or scan the QR code on the poster.
Please share and help spread the word 💙

20/05/2026

The archives recently were gifted a collection (DDX2620) relating to Mary Foster, nee Goodinson. She was, by all accounts, an extraordinary sportswoman, excelling in many sports including football, cricket, golf and swimming.

Mary made the Dick, Kerr’s Ladies football team as a goalie, and the Hull Wanderers hockey team. Dick, Kerr Ladies was one of the most famous and popular teams of the WWI era, being formed by employees of the Dick, Kerr & Co. munitions factory – and boasted players such as Lily Parr!

Read more of Mary's story in our e-newsletter 🔗 https://orlo.uk/7o2vR

📜 Image 1- Group photograph (with Mary standing on the far left) of the Women’s Royal Air Force cricket team, July 1954 (DDX2620/6/1)
📜 Image 2- Mary (cropped from image 1), 1954 (DDX2620/6/1)
📜 Image 3- An advertisement for the cricket match. Combined Services v. New Zealand Ladies, 1954 (DDX2620/6/1)
📜 Image 4- Telegram sent upon Mary making the selection in 1954 (DDX2620/6/1)

10/05/2026

Can you read cross-writing? This challenging method of correspondence was often used in the 1700s and 1800s as a way of saving postage costs by using less paper. After filling a page, the writer turned it 90 degrees and wrote across the existing text. Sometimes the writer used a different colour ink for the second layer.

This example is from the Chichester-Constable collection.
📜DDCC/144/31, letter to Eliza Chichester, 1824.

06/05/2026

This June we will be hosting the REMEMBERING HUMBERSIDE exhibition at the Champney Treasure House, Beverley.

This thought-provoking exhibition looks at the Humberside vision, its achievements, and how it was perceived by its residents.

Remembering Humberside is a free, touring exhibition which marks the 30th anniversary of the abolition of Humberside County Council and sets the shared history of the Humber region within a longer historical and cultural perspective.

📅 3 June 2026 until 25 June 2026
📍 Ground floor corridor, Champney Treasure House, Beverley
🎟️ Free entry
🕰️ Available during Champney Treasure House usual opening hours

01/05/2026

📰 Our Spring 2026 Archives e-newsletter has just been published! Read and subscribe for East Riding local history stories- such as rugby football, fish, and influential people- every three months:

🔗 https://orlo.uk/cC7P5

28/04/2026

Take a step back in time and discover what life was like in Medieval Beverley with the "Medieval Guilds and Crafts Trail".

For live locations and audio commentary on this trail, you can download the East Riding Archives' What Was Here? App on Google Play or the Apple App Store.

Take a step back in time - Discover Medieval Beverley of old.

22/04/2026

We are very much looking forward to contributing to this brilliant local initiative! Watch this space! 🌳

21/04/2026

Today, 21 April 2026, would have marked the 100th birthday of Queen Elizabeth II, the longest‑reigning monarch in British history. To mark the centenary of her birth, we have selected a small number of documents from the Archives that record her visits to Beverley to celebrate the Silver Jubilee (1977) and Golden Jubilee (2002).
You can view these documents on display in our Archives Research Room at the Champney Treasure House, Beverley during April and May.

13/04/2026

We have had such a busy morning at the U3A Community Information Fair at Bridlington Spa. Thank you to all who popped by to find out more about the work of the East Riding Archives! 📜