Ships Log

The Catalogue Is Online One of the main goals of the Trawling Through Time project since the very beginning, way back in April 2018, was to produce an online finding aid for the Cook, Welton & Gemmell archive, that would allow researchers to discover what we hold in the collection and request to see items […]

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TV Times

On That’s TV Humber   The moment has arrived!  Following its Big Screen Preview back in August 2019, ‘Trawling Through Time: The Story Of Cook, Welton & Gemmell’ will be broadcast on That’s TV Humber at 9pm this Saturday 9th and Sunday 10th November. That’s TV Humber is available on Freeview Channel 7, and Virgin Channel […]

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Big Screen Preview

Unlocking an Archive, To Tell A Story… On Friday 16th August the project tv documentary will receive its big screen preview at Parkway Cinema, Beverley, before it airs on That’s TV Humber later in the year. ‘Trawling Through Time: The Story Of Cook, Welton & Gemmell’ begins at 7pm and admission is just £2!  (Please […]

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Making Plans

An up-close perspective of the original materials… Hello from the Treasure House Conservation Workshop!  Before I describe the digitisation process we’re undertaking I thought it would be worth looking back to the pre-digital age and taking a brief look at the history of technical drawing reproduction and the physical nature of the plans. Though they […]

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