Archivist & history enthusiast. PhD in talking too much. Collections Information Archivist @UoYBorthwick & Henrietta Crewe fan in my spare time. She/her
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ALT Logo of Secretaries Group for Change in which the letter S is a woman kneeling and bowing her head as she holds aloft a cup of tea labelled HIS.
ALT Orange Caramac wrapper labelled 'caramel candy bar' and priced 10p
![I have asked quite a number of people what the origin of it is, and none of them seem to be quite certain. However it seems to be an occasion when the children just go wild, and are at liberty to do just what they [like], including it appears quite a lot of damage to property. They dress up in the evening and put on masks and go round to the neighbours houses with Jack lanterns which they make by cutting out the inside of pumpkins, putting a light inside, and cutting holes to represent the mouth, nose and eyes. These they bring up to the window to frighten the people inside. and the grownups really pretend to be very frightened. Then the children may ring the bell and make weird noises, or do anything that is likely to frighten the people inside. If anyone comes to the door, they are liable to have water thrown in their face, and so as a rule people will not answer the doorbell on this evening.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F9xOiFhWAAARcMP.jpg?name=orig)
ALT I have asked quite a number of people what the origin of it is, and none of them seem to be quite certain. However it seems to be an occasion when the children just go wild, and are at liberty to do just what they [like], including it appears quite a lot of damage to property. They dress up in the evening and put on masks and go round to the neighbours houses with Jack lanterns which they make by cutting out the inside of pumpkins, putting a light inside, and cutting holes to represent the mouth, nose and eyes. These they bring up to the window to frighten the people inside. and the grownups really pretend to be very frightened. Then the children may ring the bell and make weird noises, or do anything that is likely to frighten the people inside. If anyone comes to the door, they are liable to have water thrown in their face, and so as a rule people will not answer the doorbell on this evening.
ALT Advertisement for Rowntree’s Cocoa showing a beautiful woman in a witch’s hat carrying a tray with two cups of hot cocoa and her husband standing behind her. The text reads ‘My Wife’s A Witch! What a girl! I picked her for her eyelashes - I never dreamt she was so wizard at housekeeping. D’you wonder I’m spellbound? She can beat the what-on-earth-shall-we-have-for-supper problem just like that! She says Rowntree’s Cocoa makes our supper snack more satisfying. She says that’s because Rowntree’s Cocoa is more than just a drink, it’s a food as well. She has all the answers!’
ALT An extract from Court Book 4, showing an entry for Long Preston
ALT Quote from a letter by Henrietta Crewe in June 1833. "At the risk of putting you out of all patience & out of pocket too with postage I cannot resist sending you a line, dearest Annabel, to wish you many many happy returns of your birthday -because this Scrib will arrive exactly on the 13th - I can hardly believe that you are actually 19 - & yet it even must be so since I am past five & twenty. I hope that some day or other I shall be able once more to offer my good wishes in person; but absent or present no one forms them with more affectionate sincerity than myself.
ALT Graphic in yellow and black, York Festival of Ideas logo, drawn map of folk park with headline 'A suggested folk park for York', text reads: Online, Weds 7 June 2023, To See Life as Our Ancestors Lived It: Imagining a Folk Park for York, Sally-Anne Shearn, Find out more: yorkfestivalofideas.com
ALT A photograph showing archive boxes on shelves in the strongroom.
ALT A watercolour of a man sitting down, with the caption 'I am very tired indeed', taken from the 19th century scrapbook of the young Laura Hannam.
