| Enhance awareness of DVMWHS assets and research activities | Site tours for University-based and other researchers | N/A | DVMWHS Website | On-going | DVMWHS Team | NLHF & Arts Council | | 2.3 | | | | Y |
| Virtual Reality Tours | Develop virtual reality tours of mills, other industrial buildings & workers’ housing as interpretative resources | Virtual reality tours available at selected DVMWHS sites; lectures & other presentations; publicity via DVMWHS website, tourist offices etc | On-going | DVMWHS Team; in collaboration with other parterds (including Univs of Nottingham & Derby) | NLHF & Arts Council | | 2.3 | | | | Y |
| Networking Grants | Grants for international conferences (with potential for providing platforms for disseminating DVMWHS research) | DVMWHS Website; University partners to assist with publicity and dissemination | Ongoing | Universities of Derby (Paul Elliott) and Nottingham (Susanne Seymour) pursuing current opportunities | To be determined | | 2.3 | | | | Y |
| National/international conferences | N/A | DVMWHS and conference websites | DVMWHS Website | DVMWHS Team | | Including: Llobregat Valley 2019; European Association of Archaeologists 2018, 2019, 2021; 2023; LSE Conference 2022; British Hydropower Association 2022; Royal Geographiocal Association – Institute British Geographers 2022. | 2.3 | | | | Y |
| Arkwright society talks and exhibitions | N/A | DVMWHS, Cromford Mill & Arkwright Soc. websites | Regular meetings during year plus periodic exhibitions (e.g as part of Georgian Derbys festivals) | Arkwright Society members exploring digital technology to maximise reach of these talks | | | 2.3 | | | | Y |
| Belper Historical Society talks | N/A | DVMWHS Website | DVMWHS Website | BHS members and invited speakers | | | 2.3 | | | | Y |
| Updating and improving wayfinding around Belper, Darley Abbey and MIford | Improved on-site signage, etc, enhancing understanding of historic assets | DVMWHS Website | Ongoing | DVMWHS Team | NLHF & Arts Council | | 2.3 | | | | Y |
| Investigate from original sources the industrial history of Lumsdale Valley. Linked to programme of building consolidation by SPAB | Publication: Piper, C and A 2019 Lumsdale. The Industrial Revolution in a Derbyshire Valley. Chesterfield: Banner Publications Ltd | DVMWHS website | Ongoing | Christine and Alan Piper, Lumsdale Working Group | | | | | 2C | | y |
| Debyshire Buildings at Risk’ project: survey of selected bulidings at risk. This is a county-wide survey, and there may be potential for including selected DVMWHS buidings | Building surveys and restoration | Derbys Historic Buildings Trust | Ongoing | Derbys Historic Buildings Trust | | Useful to discuss potential for including selected DVMWHS buildings at risk | 2.1.5 | | 9A–E | | y |
| Development of Lombe’s Derby Silk mill, with particular emphasis upon the Italian connections (especially the Peijroni silk mill group) | Documentary, cartographic and photographic archive; summary publication in Derbyshire Miscellany (Autumn 2021: vol 22, Part 6) | Publication | Ongoing | David Purdy (volunteer researcher , Museum of Making) | | | | 4.2; 5.6 | 4A; 4D | | Y |
| AHRC bid on history of cotton spinning in the UK, c.1770–1840. JMS to liaise re. update in progress | Publication and database | | Bid in progress | Dr Peter Maw, Associate Professor 18th Century Histiory, Universityof Leeds | AHRC | DK provided letter of support on behalf of DVMWHS RG | | Agenda Themes 4+5 & linked SOs | | | |
| Proposed synthetic study of the mills of the Derwent Valley mills. | Proposal being developed by Adam Menuge in collaboration with RG members and will be submitted to Historic England. | Published monograph. Could include during course of preparation: workshops; talks; podcasts; exhibitions; films/ videos; DVMWHS website updates | Proposal in prep. | Adam Menuge in collaboration with RG members (e.g Ian Jackson research on Belper mills and hydropower) | Historic England | | 2.3 | | | | |
| Debyshire Buildings at Risk’ project: survey of selected bulidings at risk. This is a county-wide survey, and there may be potential for including selected DVMWHS buidings | Building surveys and restoration | Derbys Historic Buildings Trust | Ongoing | Derbys Historic Buildings Trust | | Useful to discuss potential for including selected DVMWHS buildings at risk | 2.1.5 | | 9A–E | | y |
| Promote and enhance DVMWHS Research Framework | Maintain and enhance editable web resource, forming component of common digital platform for Regional Research Frameworks https://researchframeworks.org | Online wiki to which stakeholders can contribute; accessible via desktop/laptop computer and mobile phone | DVMWHS Website and HE Research Networks platform: https://researchframeworks.org/dvmwhs/ | In progress | DK in liaison with Dan Miles (Historic England) | Historic England | All sections uploaded; comments facility added; further enhancements to be expected as HE RF network develops (including addition of theses to RF bibliography; titles to be added can be listed temporarily on the relevant section of this spreadsheet) | 2.3 | | 1A | | Y |
| Continue to expand ‘Resources’ section of DVMWHS RF wiiki | Provide catalogue of university PhDs and other dissertations with relevance to DVMWHS research . This spreadsheet to be added to wiki, enhancing dissemination of information relating to new projects | DVMWHS RF wiki | Ongoing | DVMWHS RG | | New ‘Theses & dissertations’ field added to Research Spreadsheet; completed theses/dissertations of DVMWHS interest being added to this spradsheet; to be transferred to wiki ‘Resources’ section when work has advanced further | 2.2 | | | | Y |
| Revise and expand list of ‘Derbyshire Archive Collections’ in DVMWHS RF wiiki | Ensure contact and content details of listed collections remain up to date; add other relevant collections (e.g.proposed combined museum for PDMM, NSC & Institute for Quarrying at National Stone Centre; UHDB Medical Museum; Derbys Mapping Portal ) | DVMWHS RF wiki | Ongoing | DVMWHS RG | | Part of process of regular updating of wiki | 2.3 | | | | Y |
| Periodic Research Workshops to encourage and facilitate research and to explain/promote use of Research Famework | N/A | DVMWHS Website | April 2019 (Cromford); April 2022 (Derby Univ: hybrid); Nov 2023 (Cromford MIlls); March 2025 (Strutts Centre, Belper) | DVMWHS Team, DRO and Research Group memberrs | | Latest workshop held at Strutts Centre, Belper (March 2025); fociused upopmn theme of ‘Threading Research Together’ | 2.3 | | | | Y |
| Collections Documentation (documents, maps, artefacts, etc) | Listing and digitising pre-Ordnance Survey maps of the DVMWHS Core/Buffer Zones | DRO Online mapping portal | DRO & DVM websites | Completed and launched 2019; ongoing maintenance and updating of map portal | DRO & DVMWHS Team | | | 2.1; 2.2 | | 1A | | |
| Prepare database of information for use in further research by North Mill Research Group | Database (North Mill) | North Mill & DVM websites | Ongoing | North Mill Research Group | | | 2.1; 2.2 | | 1A | | y |
| Catalogue the Cromford Mills Archive | Catalogue (Cromford Mills) | Cromford Mill & DVM websites | In progress | Cromford Mills – Rosemary Annable | | | 2.1; 2.2 | | 1A | | y |
| Catalogue the Willersley Castle and Arkwright Family documents held by DRO | Willersley Castle and Arkwright Family documents now available online (DRO Online catalogue D7573). | DRO & DVM websites | In progress | Work conducted ty Rosemary Annable and Jane Middleton-Smith, building upon listing of Arkwright material by Christopher Charlton. DRO staff compiled online catalogues | | | 2.1; 2.2 | | 1A | | y |
| Depicting Derbyshire – digitising visual representations of Derbyshire 1700-1820 | Project website | Buxton Museum website | In progress | Buxton Museum & Gallery – Anna Rhodes | | | 2.1; 2.2 | 1.6 | 1A | | y |
| Proposal for project collating oral records for people’s memories of the Derwent Valley textile industry. | Consolidated and readily accessible archive in DRO, including material from earlier Threads project | DRO website | Proposal is curently on hold (SC) | DRO – Sarah Chubb | | Interface with East Midlands Textile Network project capturing oral records of people’s memories of the textile industry: http://www.knittingtogether.org.uk | 2.2.1 | | | y | |
| Recatalogue WG & J Strutt business archive and English Sewing Cotton Co.collections at DRO | New catalogues on DRO Online Catalogue. Research guides on DRO blog | DRO website | May to Sept 2022 | DRO – Sarah Chubb | | Includes references to research on use of cotton from plantations using enslaved labour and will contribute valuable data to on-going research on these subjects. | 2.2 | 11.1-2 | 11A; 11C | | |
| Catalogue Milford School 19th Century logbooks | Plan to transfer reords to DRO | DVMWHS website | Ongoing | DVMWHS Team | | | 2.2 | 7.7 | 7D | | y |
| Indexing by volunteers of recently purchased Duffield Manor records | Indexed record, expediting use as aresearch resource | DRO website | On-going | DRO – Sarah Chubb | | | | | | | |
| Proposal noted by Adam Russell (PDMS) at recent DAAC meeting to deposit Jim Rieuwert’s archives and photograph collection relatiing to the Derbyshire mining industry in the DRO; possibly some records to Chatsworth archive collection. Further details to be provided when known | Deposition of records in DRO | DRO website | To be determined | DRO – Sarah Chubb | | | 2.2 | 2.1, 2.3, 10.7 | 2A, 10E | y | |
| Collections Research | Florence Nightingale comes Home’ UoN project: as part of this project, research conducted into Nightingale family papers at the DRO to map the changing estate. | Catalogue and GIS mapping portal; | DRO, DVM & UoN websites http://www.florencenightingale.org/; published book | Commenced 2018 | DRO – Sarah Chubb, in partnership with John Smedley Archive (Jane Middleton-Smith) and Lancaster and Nottingham Universities; | AHRC | | 2.1; 2.2 | | 1A | y | |
| Research on Arkwright Society collections by Cromford Mill volunteers | Cotton Threads newsletter includes news and poses research questions | Exhibitions at Cromford Mill; Cromford Mill & DVMWHS websites; afternoon meetings | Ongoing | Arkwright Society; Rosemary Annable | | | 2.1; 2.2 | | 1B | y | |
| Continuing research into John Smedley archive by Jane Middleton-Smith and Stanley Chapman | Archive databases (John Smedley Archives); journal publications | Publications in Derbys Arch Jnl. Trans Thoroton Soc Notts & annual Arkwright Society conference publication | Ongoing | John Smedley Archives | Archivist post (JMS) funded by John Smedley | JMS to provide information on location of Florence Nightingale’s geological collection (donated to a local school) | 2.1; 2.2 | | 1A | | y |
| Study of the Arkwrights and slavery | Commenced as Great Place scheme focusing on study of DRO and online records | DVMWHS website | Ongoing | DVMWHS Team | | | 2.2 | 11.1–2 | 11A; 11C | | y |
| Researching links of the Strutt and Douglas families with transatlantic slave trade | Strutt and Tissington papers at DRO; Birmingham City Archiives: Galton Archives | Published book proposed; talks to Belper Hist Soc and other local societies; exhibition; possible road trail | Ongoing | Frances Wilkins | | Interface with Global Cotton Connections project and work at Darley Abbey by volunteers from Slave Trade Legacies project. | 2.3.1–2 | 11.2 | 11A | | y |
| Researching Cromford’s 1841 Census and 1840/1 Tithe Award to elucidate changing village demography | Report in Cromford Mills archive collection | Cromford Mills monthly newsletter | Ongoing | Stephen Hill (Cromford Mills volunteer) | | | 2.2 | 7.1-4; 7.10 | 7A-B | | y |
| Catalogue Milford School 19th Century logbooks | Plan to transfer reords to DRO | DVMWHS website | Ongoing | DVMWHS Team | | | 2.2 | 7.7 | 7D | | y |
| Industrial Folkways’ project, studying developments in ritual and belief from material culture and other archaeological sources, with focus upon continuity and change during the Industrial Revolution | project website: https//industrialfolkways.wordpress.com/ | Proposed digital trails, exhibitions and workshops | Ongoing | Dr Kirsten Leach | | | | 3.1-5;3.7-8;5.7-8; 7.1,7.7,7.9 | | | Y |
Belper North Mill Research Group (source: Jane Whittaker): documentary, cartographic and photographic research on trespassing and poaching in C19 Milford; development of Bank Buildings, Chevin Rd, including details of occupants; developing community, buildings, infrastructure and land use of West Milford (particularly Chevin Road to Swainsley Court, Jacksons Lane, Morrells Lane & Hopping Hole Quarry); Milford School admissions registers & log books etc.
| Belper North Mill Research Group | Belper North Mill Research Group | Ongoing | Belper North Mill Research Group | | | | 1-3, 6-10 | | | y |
| Theses and dissertations in progress | History of Evans family of Darley Abbey, using Walter & Ada Evans records in the Taylor, Simpson and Mosley collection at DRO | University of Keele PhD thesis | DVMWHS website | 2022-25? | Karen Willis in partnership with DRO (SC) | | | | 2.2 | 6.1-9 | 6A-F | y |
| Networks and connections of regional British cotton spinning firms: 1780-1830 (Evans at Darley Abbey and McConnel & Kennedymills in Manchester) | University of Sheffield PhD thesis | DVMWHS website | From 2021 | Katherine Everitt | | | | | | | |
| Restoring the literary heritage of the Derwent Valley: walks, walking and invisible disabilities. Aim: to celebrate the valley’s literary heritage in the way Cumbria, for example, celebrates Beatrix Potter and William & Dorothy Wordsworth; including performances of creative writing | PhD thesis University of Derby (crossing over the subjects of creative writing and English. | DVMWHS website | From 2023 | Suzanne Reynolds | | | | 2.3.3 | 1.5; 1.6 | 1C | y |
| Weaving in the Derwent Valley | University of Derby PhD | DVMWHS website | On-going | Sue Russell | | | | | | | |
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