Volunteering for Suffolk Archives

I did most of the research in the Jewish refugees section for Hannah Salisbury when she worked for Suffolk Archives. I’ve also worked on the following projects:

2025-2026

Agnes Strickland

I have just started cataloguing a collection of Agnes Strickland’s correspondence. She was an English historian (1796 – 1874), particularly famous in her lifetime for her Lives of the Queens of England. She lived for some years in and around Southwold.

2024-2025

St Audry’s Asylum, Melton

I’m part of a team indexing patients’ admission records. With over 7000 admission records in the collection, this is a big project.

2024

Pauper migrants to Quebec

We explored the lives of paupers from Thelnetham in west Suffolk who were funded by the parish to leave the village for new lives in Canada.

Military Tribunal records, WW1

Lionel Jenkins, County Surveyor for West Suffolk, was granted conditional exemption from military service but eventually had to ‘join the colours’

I helped to record some very rare case papers held in Bury St Edmunds and did some in-depth research into a number of the men involved. Find out more at https://www.suffolkarchives.co.uk/be-inspired/communityprojects/wwi-tribunals

2023

Ampton Military Hospital, West Suffolk

Page from Hazelwood’s scrapbook, held by Suffolk Archives

I researched the lives and times of patients who signed Alfred Hazelwood’s autograph book, compiled when he was head orderly and chauffeur at the hospital.

2022

Women’s Land Army, WW2

I helped compile a database of women working in Suffolk for the Women’s Land Army. This was to add to the roll-call of WLA woman serving in the County and part of Nicky Reynolds’ and Vicky Abbot’s project, Soil Sisters.