Coventry Archives

Another opportunity to see the Archive's vast bunker of goodies, plus a trip down into the Medieval Undercroft....

Pity it's not on the 6th when I hope to join one and all for brekkie. I am back in France for the week before Christmas.

Details are also in the Event diary for this talk by Peter Walters.

The latest workshop at the Archives, inspired by the exhibition Stories That Made Us....

Talking of archives in general, there's a word that keeps tripping me up - indenture. I've always thought of it as a term to mean employment, particularly enforced employment. So when documents turned up about all sorts of other things like marriage or business I was always surprised by what was in the document. So I finally looked the word up and really it's a word that just means it's a written contract between two or more parties. In medieval times it was copies of the text duplicated on one piece of parchment and then divided in such a way that the pieces were clearly part of the same original record so couldn't be changed for a new sheet of parchment because it wouldn't fit back into one whole. Indents in the divide being the source of the name. You learn something new every day.