Enlightenment! Derbyshire Setting the Pace in the Eighteenth Century
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University of Nottingham Enlightenment! Derbyshire Setting the Pace in the Eighteenth Century Survey of Ephemera Dr. N.G. Howe ([email protected]) June 2011 Contents Project Brief .............................................................................................................................. 4 Overview .................................................................................................................................. 5 Editorial Note: ......................................................................................................................... 6 Manufacturing Archives in Derbyshire: .............................................................................. 6 Misc. Traders ......................................................................................................................... 50 Derbyshire Trade Directories .............................................................................................. 51 Bailey‟s Northern Directory, or Merchant‟s and Tradesman‟s Useful Companion, for the Year 1781 ................................................................................................................ 51 Bailey‟s Western Directory (1783) ................................................................................... 52 Bailey‟s British Directory (1784) ...................................................................................... 54 Pigot‟s Directory Derby and Chesterfield (1819-1820) ................................................ 54 Pigot and Co‟s Commercial Directory for Derbyshire (1835) ..................................... 57 Places of Interest: ............................................................................................................... 64 Bodleian Library: The John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera .......................... 65 British Library .................................................................................................................... 80 Online Catalogue .............................................................................................................. 81 British Museum ..................................................................................................................... 81 Trade Cards ........................................................................................................................ 92 Derbyshire Record Office ................................................................................................. 93 Chatsworth House – 01246 565300 ..................................................................................... 95 Kedleston Hall – 01332 842191 ............................................................................................ 95 University of Nottingham Archives, Kings Meadow Campus ...................................... 96 Victoria and Albert Museum ............................................................................................... 99 Enlightenment! Derbyshire Setting the Pace in the Eighteenth Century: Survey of Ephemera Derbyshire Banking in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries .............................. 100 Conclusions .......................................................................................................................... 109 Limitations ....................................................................................................................... 109 Further Research ............................................................................................................. 110 Appendix One – Survey of Ephemera ............................................................................. 112 Page | 3 Enlightenment! Derbyshire Setting the Pace in the Eighteenth Century: Survey of Ephemera Project Brief To undertake 120 hours research to explore ephemera collections held in major archives, including the British Museum, British Library, V&A and Bodleian Library, both on line and if appropriate in person, to identify merchandising and trade ephemera relating to industries in Derbyshire in the 18th and 19th centuries (particularly but not exclusively relating to the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site); to record these, should they be found, including rights and permissions, and to provide a schedule and report to the Enlightenment project board. The audience will be primarily the museum and heritage providers within the area; the potential to develop resources related to the project may be explored and could be located on the enlightenmentderbyshire blog.1 It may be appropriate to consider publication in an appropriate journal if the project proves valuable. The placement is nominally located at Belper North Mill, one of the partners for the Enlightenment project, and within the 120 hours, it will be expected that the placement will visit the museum. However, the research project will be undertaken principally from Nottingham University. The placement will be managed by Ros Westwood, Derbyshire Museums Manager and Project Lead for Enlightenment from: Buxton Museum and Art Gallery, Terrace Road, Buxton, Derbyshire SK17 6DA. 01629 533544 [email protected]. The project will commence on 17th March and be completed and report received by 31 May 2011 (Revised to 30 June 2011). 1 http://enlightenmentderbyshire.wordpress.com. Page | 4 Overview This report sets out the results of a survey of merchandising and trade ephemera pertaining to the industries of Derbyshire during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, conducted as part of a postdoctoral internship between the University of Nottingham and Enlightenment! Derbyshire and had a time limit of 120 hours. A number of archival holdings were examined during the course of the research both in London and the East Midlands. The first part of the report contains details of archival holdings retrieved from the National Register of Archives, as well as some of the companies and industrial centres drawn from Derbyshire Trade Directories of the period. The main section also lists the archives looked at or approached, along with some information about them and some information about items of interest or potential interest. Information about Banks of eighteenth and nineteenth century Derbyshire is also present as are suggestions for further reading on the topic. The conclusions section sets out the limits of the work which has been undertaken during the time available and outline areas which would benefit from or provide material for further study. Appendix One contains a more detailed survey of items for which more information was available or desirable. Appendix Two contains a reading list provided by Dr. Esther Ketskemety, Assistant Curator of Furniture, Textiles and Fashion at the Victoria and Albert Museum detailing further reading on the topic of furnishing and textiles. This project has only scratched the surface of the ephemera that is out there and additional research is required to create a more comprehensive survey. Additionally there is great potential for other spin off projects using this material, both for collaborative doctoral projects but also post-doctoral research projects. Personal and Estate papers will provide interesting future research, whilst more work is needed on Derbyshire‟s Banks during the Industrial Revolution and could easily be linked to the Derwent Valley World Heritage Site. Enlightenment! Derbyshire Setting the Pace in the Eighteenth Century: Survey of Ephemera Editorial Note: As far as possible all spellings of place personal and company names have been presented as they appear upon the original documents consulted. In places punctuation has been added to aid clarity. For reasons of space it has not always been possible to present information in the exact format that it appears on the original. Manufacturing Archives in Derbyshire: Early on in the project to enable the research to more effectively focussed, an online search of the National Register for Archives2 was undertaken using their place name function.3 Their database can also be searched by corporate name,4 personal name5 and family name.6 A brief search of some Derbyshire Trade Directories for the period was conducted in order to gain a feel for what industries were based within the county and also establish where main economic centres were. This information was then used to help key word search online catalogues. The main difficulty in searching these archives was knowing what key terms to look for in order to seek out ephemera hidden within the archive. In many catalogues it is easy to locate account books, which occasionally contain bills, receipts and more rarely cheques with them. Correspondence is also frequently listed and easy to find as are deeds. Other key papers, such as stock, hour and pattern books are occasionally listed as such or under the helpful term of miscellaneous papers which is the usual hiding place for items of an ephemeral nature such as samples, plans, adverts and pricelists. 2 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/default.asp. 3 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/searches/simpleSearch.asp?subjectType=PL. 4 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/searches/simpleSearch.asp?subjectType=O. 5 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/searches/simpleSearch.asp?subjectType=P. 6 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/searches/simpleSearch.asp?subjectType=F. Page | 6 Enlightenment! Derbyshire Setting the Pace in the Eighteenth Century Survey of Ephemera Company Trade Date Scope Repository Record