Community Outreach

Getting Started

If you want to know more about the history of your area, but don’t know where to start, you can download the "Getting Started" booklet below.

It tells you where you can find the information you need; gives a guide to starting up a local history group; and goes through how you present the results of your research. And much more besides.

- Download the "Getting Started" booklet. [pdf : 590k]

The "Getting Started" booklet was produced as part of the Rural Roots project.

Discovering Village Histories

"Discovering Village Histories" is a beginner’s guide to finding out more about the history of your local community. It gives you a summary of what can be seen in the Archives and Local Studies collections and information about how to use the Treasure House.

- Download the "Discovering Village Histories" booklet. [pdf: 692k]

The "Discovering Village Histories" booklet was also produced as part of the Rural Roots project.
 

Rural Roots Project

• Rural Roots was a project to help take the archives and local studies service out to rural communities in the East Riding of Yorkshire.
   
• The project received a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund as part of a programme called Archives 4 All that was supported by the National Archives and ran from January 2007 to March 2008.
   
• The project created and supported three heritage groups in the rural communities of Easington, Bolton and Newbald.
   
• During the project these groups received support on how to research their local history through a variety talks, presentations and training sessions.  They received digital copies of documents from the archives and local studies collections to work on.
    
• For further information on the work of the Bolton Rural Roots group, visit the Bolton Fangfoss Group website.
   
• For further information on the work of the SKEALS (Spurn, Kilnsea and Easington Local Studies) group, visit the SKEALS website.