New in #LocalStudies, ‘Forecast - A Diary Of The Lost Seasons’ examines how British culture, memory and identity are based on the folklore, rituals and customs inspired by the times of year which are increasingly losing their distinctness due to climate change. #EYANature

Join us at Alfreton Library on Tuesday 5 August between 10am-12pm to celebrate the library’s 50th anniversary. Have a hot drink, a biscuit or two and chat about Alfreton and the library over the last 50 years 📚 . #AlfretonLibrary #LibraryAnniversary

Here's a fabulous train going up the Hopton Incline of the Cromford and High Peak Railway, near Middleton, in 1950. This is now part of the High Peak Trail, a 17 mile trail for walkers and cyclists, from High Peak Junction near Cromford to just south of Buxton. #Railway200

One of our volunteers was curious about a young offender he came across on a conviction certificate of 1881, who'd stolen a pair of leggings and two ferrets. He managed to trace young Alfred's story to its fatal end: #history.

Our latest #NewAccession is a lovely addition to our collection for the Parish or Fairfield, Buxton. Amongst the papers are early parish magazines from the late 1880s. They are a wonderful snippet of community life .

This year marks 200 years of railways in the UK. We'll celebrate this over the coming months with extra posts highlighting Derbyshire’s rich railway heritage. Let's start with Reg Barber remembering being a fireman on the Wirksworth line. #Railway200

This was the Buxton Hit Parade on 29 July 1976: Elton John and Kiki Dee were number one, followed by Dr. Hook and Demis Roussos. Can you remember the first single you bought?

These sketches of Stanton Moor and the area around Hope were made by Alice Stanley in c1930 when she was 13. They are from her school summer camp’s ‘Nature note and sketch’ books. Such neat handwriting, an archivist’s dream! . #EYANature

Good luck to the #lionesses at today's #womenseuros2025 final. We wonder if any of the members of the Holmewood Ladies Football Team from 1976 will be watching?

This cheese warehouse in Derby in the late 19th century is certainly the place to be on #NationalCheeseandWineDay. More than enough to satisfy anyone’s appetite! . #PhotoFriday

Ragged Schools hoped to offer free education to destitute children in the Victorian era. Derby Ragged School was one of them. Find out more about the school in this latest blog post: #victorian #school.

Which duck nests in a burrow? What is the connection between cats and clover? Just two questions answered in the book ‘What the countryman wants to know’ co-written by Bolsover author Fred Kitchen in 1948. Find a copy in our #LocalStudies library. #EYANature

Our latest #NewAccession is of deeds relating to land and property known as Number 2, "The Hill", Whittington Hill, Old Whittington, Chesterfield. They contain these lovely plans of the area.

We only hold objects when they've come with a collection like our #ArchiveOfTheWeek: Belper Poor Law Union (ref D19). These poignant items belonged to pauper 'lunatics wandering at large' sent to the County Lunatic Asylum in the early 1900s.

These sketches of geese were made by Vauncey Harpur Crewe in 1869. He is most likely to have seen them wandering around the Calke Abbey estate. We can't quite make out the name of the first one - does anyone know which type of #goose it could be? . #EYANature #birds

Do you enjoy an ice cream on a hot summer’s day? Do you listen out for the chimes of an ice cream van? If you were in Bolsover in the early 1900s you may have listened out for the braying of a donkey. Here is the ice cream cart ready to tempt you. #PhotoFriday

This year marks the 85th anniversary of the Battle of Britain. Back in 2020, for the 80th anniversary, one of our archive assistants wrote a blog post about Spitfires Bolsover Colliery Company fundraised for and that fought in the Battle: #BattleOfBritain.

Discover what differentiates wildlife found in the bogs and moorlands of the Derbyshire Peakland from the fauna in other upland areas along the spine of England in Doug Kennedy’s ‘Wildlife of the Pennine Hills.’ Find a copy in our #LocalStudies library. #EYANature

This little book turned up in one of our collections - a beautiful crest album made by Ellen Sharples in 1866, containing tiny crests, monograms, insignias and coats of arms, with hand painted decorative patterns. #archives #1800s #victoriana #exploreyourarchive

Further to the #NewAccession of a stamp collector's archive in May, we've received his diaries and a copy of "The Beggar's Ramble", a poem naming places along the Derbys-Notts border. See our blog for an earlier version of a different part of the county: