Findmypast Weekly Update

This week’s additions are from the Royal School of Needlework

Royal School of Needlework Workroom Orders
Beginning in 1932, until 1946, these 14,794 records reveal commissions large and small from across Britain and beyond, from coronations, churches, palaces, and regimental colours to private homes, film studios, and institutions such as the Royal Hospital School.  Find out who ordered, designed, and created these pieces, often with a description.

Royal School of Needlework Members and Committee Records
The 1,791 records within this collection chart the governance, membership and administration of the school over a 62 year period, from 1885 to 1895 and from 1929 up to the current 80-year closure period.

 

267,449 newspaper pages were added this week, with five new publications and updates to 15 existing titles.

New titles:

  • British Gazette, 1926
  • Croydon Monthly Standard, 1891–1892
  • East Ham Recorder, 1912, 1914–1915, 1918, 1922
  • Greenwood’s Weekly Diary, 1855–1857, 1861–1863, 1881, 1883–1888
  • Times of Ceylon, 1907–1915, 1921–1922, 1926–1930, 1933–1939, 1943–1944

Updated titles:

  • Barmouth & County Advertiser, 1922
  • Berks and Oxon Advertiser, 1942, 1949–1958
  • Bicester Advertiser, 1880, 1889
  • Bladud, 1891
  • Daily Dispatch (Manchester), 1906, 1911
  • Daily Telegraph & Courier (London), 1912–1913
  • Dundee Courier, 1816
  • Eastern Bengal and Assam Era, 1909
  • Eccles Advertiser and District Recorder, 1892
  • Gloucester Citizen, 2000–2001
  • Manchester Evening News, 2002, 2004–2005
  • Nation and The Athenaeum, 1921–1923
  • Shipping World and Herald of Commerce, 1897, 1909, 1913
  • Sunday Sun (Newcastle), 2003
  • The Record, 1884, 1886–1887, 1889, 1920–1923

 

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