News from the Mills Archive

Volunteers win work placements on Vodafone Scheme

Two more Mills Archive volunteers – Guy Boocock and Nathanael Hodge – have won places on the Vodafone World of Difference scheme. They will be paid by the Vodafone Foundation to work for the Archive for four months part-time, undertaking specific projects. Guy's project is to catalogue the correspondence and research notes of Stephen Buckland, an eminent molinologist, while Nathanael will work to establish a presence for us on the Archives Hub, a website that brings together archive catalogues from across the UK for easy searching.  Guy and Nathanael are following in the footsteps of Chris Wheeler.

More mills supporting the Archive

Nine mills have now expressed their support of the work which the Archive is doing by taking out membership of our Friends organisation. Information about them is available on our new Featured mills page.  More mill members are expected later this year.

Archive to host the Spring meeting of the SPAB Mills Section

Following the successful 2011 Autumn meeting, the Archive is pleased to host the 2012 Spring meeting of the Mills Section, entitled Traditional milling in the 21st century. The meeting has been arranged for Saturday 10th March. More information and a booking form is available on the Section website.

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