Lights, Camera, Action: Part Two

Filming has finished and the edited results are back .... here is our Graduate Trainee Programme video:

Our Graduate Traineeship from Archives & Special Collections on Vimeo.

Despite the nerves, I am pleased I could take part in promoting the Traineeship, it has been a nice chance to express my appreciation for the opportunities I have had and remind myself of the goals I am still eager to achieve during my short time here. It really does fly by and I endeavor to make the most it whilst it lasts!

 

And, of course, not forgetting my trainee profile video too:

Rosie Everritt: Graduate Trainee 2013-14 from Archives & Special Collections on Vimeo.

Lights, Camera, Action : Part One

Tomorrow we will be filming my video for the ‘Meet Our Trainees’ series on our website. I am quite nervous about it as I am by no means a natural in front of the camera, but it will be a nice opportunity to reflect on what I have enjoyed during my time here so far, including some of the things I have learnt and anticipating what is still to come!

What I am looking forward to is meeting Mary as she will be back to film a catch-up video to talk about where the traineeship has led her three years on and life beyond the Archives and Records Management qualification, which should be very insightful.

I feel a bit nauseous imagining myself filming a catch up video in three years’ time, wherever I will be – that’s too far away to bear thinking about!

You can watch Mary's and Grace’s videos here:

Mary Allen: Graduate Trainee 2011-12 from Archives & Special Collections on Vimeo.

 

 

 

Grace Pritchard Woods: Graduate Trainee 2012-13 from Archives & Special Collections on Vimeo.

 

 

Hello!

A little bit about me

My name is Rosemary Everritt and I am very happy to introduce myself as the new Graduate Trainee Archive Assistant at Archive & Special Collections, Falmouth University & University of Exeter, Penryn Campus for 2013-2014.

I hope to use this blog, throughout the year, to track my journey into the world of archives, whilst I undertake this traineeship. I hope that I can introduce to you some of the tasks that a Graduate Trainee is likely to encounter, as well as showing you some interesting items in the collections that I come across along the way- and why you too should discover archives!

I know I found it helpful and interesting to read Mary’s and Graces’ blogs whilst I was learning about archives, so I hope that mine can perhaps go some way to being similarly useful for you.

Having relocated from Portsmouth for this post, I can't wait to explore Cornwall and its heritage whilst I am here. So far I have become particularly intrigued by the Cornish language used in the Gorsedh Kernow Collection! Diskudha Kovskrifenn, as is in my title, translates as 'discovering an archive'.

A selection of books held in The Chris Brooks Collection of Victorian Culture

 

 How I discovered archives

Over the last few years I have been volunteering in archives whilst studying English Literature at University of Portsmouth, most recently for The Arthur Conan Doyle Collection. Prior to this I also volunteered for the Dickens Community Archive Project with Portsmouth City Museum which sought to create a website highlighting the recent history of Portsmouth and its residents in celebration of Dickens’ bicentenary. Before this, I first of all carried out an internship with my local theatre as it began to set up an archive.

Therefore it was the study of literature and a personal interest in history that brought me to archives so now I can’t wait to have a peek at the Chris Brooks Collection of Victorian Culture, here at the Penryn Campus, with all those lovely Victorian novels!

I hope that this blog might be helpful in some way and I would love to hear from you about your interests in archives or these collections specifically, so please do feel free to get in touch.