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West Yorkshire Archive Services
PO Box 5, Nepshaw Lane South,
Morley
LS27 0QP
Opening Times:
Enquires to Sarah Shooter
Mon - Fri 9.00am - 5.00pm
For office opening hours please view our website
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Description:
West Yorkshire Archive Service offers activities and resources to support a wide range of learning. The focus of our work is about using and understanding archives and assisting people to use them in their teaching and learning.
The West Yorkshire Archive Service exists to preserve the local heritage of historical documents and to help members of the public make use of them. The Service has offices in Wakefield, Bradford, Calderdale (Halifax), Kirklees (Huddersfield), and Leeds. Anyone interested in the history of Yorkshire, who would like to discover what records have survived, is welcome to visit or contact any of the offices of the West Yorkshire Archive Service.
WYAS collects and preserves historical records of all kinds dating from the twelfth century to the present day. More information about the kinds of archives we keep can be found in our online catalogue or in our collections guides.
Contact Details:
Sarah Shooter
educationandoutreach@wyjs.org.uk
0113 289 8222
Learning Programmes:
What are Archives?
This hour long session (often runs alongside memory box in primary to make a full half day session) introduces the class to archives and the archivist. The activity sees a brief introduction to archives followed by a chance to be an archivist, put together and catalogue their own ‘collection’. The session also covers handling, preservation and storage of archives.
The main part of the session is to allow the class to handle and explore original documents.
Memory Box
Best run alongside What are Archives? gives the class an opportunity to create archives for the future whilst learning handling original documents. The class will create their own register, draw pictures of the school today, create their own maps, whilst looking at maps of the past amongst, other activities.
Specialisms:
Archives
