{"id":1148,"date":"2015-12-14T12:05:07","date_gmt":"2015-12-14T12:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/?p=1148"},"modified":"2024-11-07T14:31:56","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T14:31:56","slug":"my-internship-at-gloucestershire-archives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/history\/2015\/12\/14\/my-internship-at-gloucestershire-archives\/","title":{"rendered":"My Internship at Gloucestershire Archives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This post comes from third year undergraduate student in English Literature &amp; History,\u00a0Emily Smith.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Calibri;font-size:medium\">In September, I became an intern at Gloucestershire Archives to work on a co-ordinated project with Gloucestershire Constabulary on their archive collection. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Calibri;font-size:medium\">The project has grown from the discovery of photograph albums on police premises and the help of retired police officers in looking after the collection. To the creation of a database of archive material and images containing almost 2,000 entries, with the prospect of new facilities at Gloucestershire archives to be able to re-house the material. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1160\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1160\" style=\"width: 1005px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1160\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/159\/sites\/446\/2018\/05\/glos-archives-police.jpg\" alt=\"Glos Archives Police\" width=\"1005\" height=\"589\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1160\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The new webpage for the collection.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Calibri;font-size:medium\">During my internship, I have taken part in further oral history training, building on knowledge from my History degree and putting it into practice. Interviewing retired police officers for the collection has certainly been thoroughly interesting, particularly since they are used to being the ones asking the probing questions! With interviews still on going, I am learning a lot and enjoying the use of digital mediums to record an important part of British history. I recently interviewed retired police officer Bob Parker, who told the story of delivering supplies to Birdlip village, when it was cut off by heavy snow during the extreme weather of 1947. I was then able to turn this into a digital story, making it much more accessible to the community and presenting history in a different way.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Relief of Birdlip Village 1947\" width=\"1290\" height=\"968\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/B2cG9mBH4v4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Calibri;font-size:medium\">A large part of my time with the archives has been devoted to creating and editing content for the website. With no prior web editing experience, this has been a very enjoyable experience. Being able to work with such interesting archive material has been invaluable. For example, I recently created a webpage using newspaper articles from the collection that outlined the unfortunate death of the first police officer murdered on duty, Sergeant Samuel Beard near Speech house in Gloucestershire.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1159\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1159\" style=\"width: 323px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-1159 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/159\/sites\/446\/2018\/05\/beard-murder-2.jpg\" alt=\"Beard murder (2)\" width=\"323\" height=\"442\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1159\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Report from the murder of Sgt Samuel Beard, August 31st, 18161<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Calibri;font-size:medium\">Using photos and newspaper articles, we were also able to trace a father and his <\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Calibri;font-size:medium\">three sons, all police officers, and piece together their experiences during the First World War. You can find out the story of Henry Hayward and his sons in the early part of 2016, when the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/gloucestershirepolicearchives.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;font-family:Calibri;font-size:medium\">website<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Calibri;font-size:medium\"> goes live.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Calibri;font-size:medium\">Gloucestershire Archives holds historic archive collections, as well as local and family history resources relating to Gloucestershire and south Gloucestershire. You can find out more about the collections they hold and planning your visit on their <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gloucestershire.gov.uk\/archives\/article\/107703\/Archives-Homepage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;font-family:Calibri;font-size:medium\">website<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Calibri;font-size:medium\">.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post comes from third year undergraduate student in English Literature &amp; History,\u00a0Emily Smith. 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