Wikipedia:GLAM/Staffordshire Archives and Heritage Service

From November 2012 - March 2013, Andy Mabbett was Wikipedian in Residence at Staffordshire Archives and Heritage Service (Archives, Museums), which manages:

• Staffordshire County Museum
• Shire Hall Gallery
• Staffordshire & Stoke on Trent Archives Service at the William Salt Library

He remains available as point of contact.

A case study on the residency was published.

Participants

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• User:Helen Johnson 98 *
• User:Woollams *
• User:Timgroom *
• User:Ian Denny *
• User:Sarahabradshaw *
• User:Howardd58 *
• User:Winifredalison *
• User:Ironbridge96 *

County

Consider starting Wikipedia:WikiProject Staffordshire.

Articles

Requested

Please add your suggestions and requests!

See also "most wanted" missing articles from all existing articles in the category trees:

• Stafford
• Staffordshire

Organisations

Use this!

• Staffordshire County Museum
  • The carriage collection
    • The Shrewsbury Collection
    • State Chariot - used in coronation
  • Britzschka chariot (see Britzka)
  • Puppet collection
    • Douglas Hayward
    • Lanchester Marionettes
    • Other individual makers
• Staffordshire County Council (currently a redirect; see rationale)
• Evode
  • Makers of Evo-Stik; see [1]
• Flash Female Button Makers Union
  • Court case, contemporary with Tolpuddle Martyrs; under the same judge, Judge Baron John Williams
• Joules (brewery) of Stone (the original; but mentioning the recreation [2])
• Lotus Shoes (not to be confiused with Lotus shoes) and/or Shoe making in Staffordshire
• Frederick Riley Ltd
• Stafford Gatehouse Theatre
• Staffordshire County Police and Stoke-on-Trent City Police (see Staffordshire Police)
• Stevenson Salt & Co
  • Bank, which opened in Cheapside, London in 1788 and which in 1867 merged with Bosanquet & Co and later with Lloyds Banking Company; owned by Salt family of Stafford - see [3]

People

• Thomas Francis Anson, 3rd Earl of Lichfield (1856–1918)
• Thomas Edward Anson, 4th Earl of Lichfield (1883–1960)
• Thomas William Arnold Anson, Viscount Anson (1913–1958)
• Thomas William Robert Hugh Anson, 6th Earl of Lichfield (b. 1978)
• Edward Anson's armorial porcelain service [sic]
• Murder of Christina Collins
  • on which the Inspector Morse novel The Wench is Dead is based
• Dyott family (see Dyott)
• Murder of Lizzie Gaskin
• Edward Knight (British actor)
  • father of John Prescott Knight, not to be confused with Edward Knight (American actor)
• John Sparrow (judge)
  • Chairman of Stafford Quarter Sessions (d. 1821)
• Thomas Peploe Wood (artist, 1817-1845)
• Lord Justice Frederick John Wrottesley (called to the bar, 1907)
• Mayor of Stafford
  • list needs expansion, plus individual articles

Places

• St Chad's Church, Stafford

Other

• Stafford Shire Hall Act 1794 - see [4]

To review or expand

• John Prescott Knight
• Stafford Gaol (needs pre-20th century history)
• List of museums in Staffordshire

Created

• Shire Hall, Stafford
• Staffordshire County Museum

Improved

• Blanche Fury
• Thomas Noon Talfourd
• William Salt
  • William Salt Library
• John Stevenson Salt
• Thomas Salt
• Tolpuddle Martyrs
• Shakes versus Shav

Categories

Main

• Commons:Category:Staffordshire

New

• Category:Buildings and structures in Stafford
• Commons:Category:Shire Hall, Stafford
• Commons:Category:Stafford knots
• Commons:Category:Staffordshire County Museum
  • Commons:Category:Collection of Staffordshire County Museum
• Commons:Category:William Salt
• Commons:Category:William Salt Library
  • Commons:Category:Collection of the William Salt Library

Gallery

Some of the images taken, or donated, as part of the residency

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OpenStreetMap

Added:

• Staffordshire Archives
• William Salt Library
• Details of Shugborough Estate

See also

• outreach:Wikipedian in Residence/SAHS

Requested resources

• Wikipedia:Introduction
• Wikipedia:Your first article
• Wikipedia:Cheatsheet (Cheatsheet also available as a PDF)
• Help:Wikipedia: The Missing Manual for your PC or e-reader

Useful

• The Sutherland Collection