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 WikiProject Staffordshire.

Requested
Please add your suggestions and requests!

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


 * Stafford
 * Staffordshire

Organisations



 * 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
 * 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 )
 * 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

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

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

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

 File:Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme Police hat badge.jpg File:Memorial to Thomas Noon Talfourd in Shire Hall Stafford.jpg File:Persons throwing stones at the telegraphs - sign.jpg File:Richard Brinsley Sheridan plaque at Stafford Post Office 02.jpg File:Small Bass barrel from Burton 01.JPG File:Staffordshire police helmet.jpg|Donated by SAHS File:Staffordshire Shire Hall.jpg|Donated by SAHS File:Wills Woodbine cigarette machine.JPG 

OpenStreetMap
Added:


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

Requested resources

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

Useful

 * The Sutherland Collection