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Wednesday, 21 January 2026
Fishing for Funding: Professor Hardy and the Origins of Hull's Fisheries Research and Zoology Department
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Given Hull’s heritage as a fishing port, it is perhaps unsurprising that fisheries research played a significant role in the early establish...
Monday, 5 January 2026
Reintroducing the University Records Project
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Cast your mind back to Summer 2023 and you might remember that we started a multi-year project to deal with a backlog of uncatalogued materi...
Monday, 15 December 2025
The birth of aviation in Hull: The Ling Monoplane
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Image: C DIEJ/2 - The Ling/Newington Monoplane, May 1910 The history of aviation goes back much farther than you may think. The Chinese are ...
Tuesday, 4 November 2025
History Bakers: Dorset Apple Cake (The Great British Bake Off - Week 9 – Patisserie Week)
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History Bakers: Mrs K. Leng's Dorset Apple Cake (The Great British Bake Off - Week 9 – Patisserie Week) Apples To Apples… To Apples To t...
Monday, 27 October 2025
History Bakers: Mrs E. Horsley's Lemon Biscuits (The Great British Bake Off - Week 7-8)
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With no-one feeling up to Meringue Week or another Pastry bake here is an Archivist staple another biscuit recipe. I decided to make lemon ...
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