Retreat online archives project underway

16 Apr 2015 | by Tara Craig

Work is underway to digitise the archives of The Retreat

A sketch drawing of a cricket team fielder and bowler during a match. Artist signed as E B Bennett, early twentieth century. | Photo: Borthwick Institute for Archives, University of York: RET 5/15/2/6.

Work is underway to digitise the archives of The Retreat, the York-based mental health facility founded by Quaker William Tuke.

The project is a cooperation between the Wellcome Library and the Borthwick Institute for Archives.

The first batch of material went online at the beginning of the year. The work is expected to take until June 2016, by which stage the team hopes to have created more than 450,000 digital images. Team members include digitisation assistants and a conservation technician.

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