1A: Create an integrated digital platform, identifying and collating written, photographic, pictorial, cartographic, oral and other information sources that may shed light upon changing interpretations of the Derwent Valley, <\/h3>More information on this strategy <\/summary>URI: <\/h5>https:\/\/researchframeworks.org\/dvmwhs\/researchframework\/v1\/strategy\/strategy-61bb660f46493<\/a><\/span>: <\/h5>1A <\/span>More information: <\/h5>\n\nThere is a wide range of material evidence with potential for shedding light on the history of the Derwent Valley and changing interpretations. This includes maps, photographs, paintings and drawings, personal and business manuscripts, objects, published books or articles and oral histories (such as that compiled by <\/span>in<\/i>Heritage from the memories of people living in the vicinity of Calver Mill, just upstream of the World Heritage Site).<\/span>1<\/sup> These records are spread over a wide range of institutions within Derbyshire, including the Derbyshire Record Office, John Smedley Ltd<\/span>,<\/span> Strutt\u2019s North Mill, Derby Local Studies Library and Derby Museum and Art Gallery.<\/span>2<\/sup> Important material is also held elsewhere in Britain, including national museums, art galleries and other institutions such as the British Museum, British Library, Tate Britain and the National Archives at Kew, and in North America at the Universities of Columbia and Yale and the Yale Center for Art. Supplementary resources are held by organisations such as Derbyshire County Council, which maintains the county\u2019s Historic Environment Record (HER) and manages the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site. The Derbyshire HER is partially available through the Historic England Heritage Gateway,<\/span>3 <\/span><\/sup>but there are ambitions to create a dedicated website. Archaeological records are held in many locations, including regional and national museums and the digital record curated by the Archaeology Data Service in the University of York.<\/span>4<\/sup><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nSome of these sources were surveyed as part of the recently completed Enlightenment!<\/i> Project,5<\/sup> and it would be useful to establish the location of all other archives and the current state of online access. There is significant potential for an internet-based platform that would allow people to search for and locate information and increase engagement with the heritage resource.6<\/sup> This would also help to highlight gaps in our knowledge base and thus facilitate targeted research: for example, the comparative dearth of Quaker and other Nonconformist records relating to the industrial communities of the Valley.7<\/sup> At a minimum, the website would provide a searchable database of all key sources. It would have the facility to attach digital images, and should have a simple open-source platform that is not reliant on a web developer for updating the information in the database. It must also integrate with, but not replicate, information in other websites, such as the National Register of Archives.8<\/sup> It should require minimal on-going management once it has been set up. An enhanced version would allow interaction with users, such as linking and tagging records, and would provide the facility to upload research articles. It could also host datasets for statistical research.<\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/researchframeworks.org\/dvmwhs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2021\/12\/SO_1A_Fig-4.2_Belper-map-218x300.jpg\")
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Fig.<\/span><\/i>4<\/span><\/i><\/a> <\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/i>2<\/span><\/i> The Strutts\u2019 mill complex at Belper, showing to the north of the mills the horseshoe weir across the Derwent that was built by Jedediah Strutt in 1797. The map shows parts of the liberties of Belper, Duffield and Makeney, based on copies of parts of the Enclosure Award plans; it includes alterations to the Strutt Estate that were surveyed by James Hicking between 1805 and 1818 (\u00a9Derbyshire<\/a><\/span><\/i> Record Office D1564\/3)<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n\n\nPauline Beswick and Sarah Chubb<\/p>\n
Referenc<\/span><\/b>es<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n1 <\/span><\/sup>http:\/\/www.inheritage.co.uk\/wp\/calver-weir\/<\/span><\/p>\n2 <\/span><\/sup>see Chapter 5 for further details<\/span><\/p>\n3<\/span><\/sup> http:\/\/www.heritagegateway.org.uk\/gateway\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n4 <\/span><\/sup>www.archaeologydataservice.ac.uk <\/span><\/p>\n5 <\/span><\/sup>Westwood, R and Rhodes, A (eds) 2013 Enlightenment! Derbyshire Setting the Pace in the 18th<\/sup> Century<\/i>. Buxton: Buxton Museum and Art Gallery<\/span><\/p>\n6 <\/span><\/sup>Locus Consulting 2014 Expanding the Neighbourhood Plan Evidence Base \u2013 Museums, Records Offices, Archives and HERs<\/i>. Lincoln: Locus Consulting; <\/span><\/span>https:\/\/historic<\/span><\/a> england.org.uk\/images-books\/ publications\/expanding-the-neighbourhood-plan-evidence-base-project\/<\/span><\/p>\n7 <\/span><\/sup>See, for example, Orchard, S 2009 Nonconformity in Derbyshire: A Study in Dissent, 1600\u20131800<\/i>. Milton Keynes: Paternoster<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
8 <\/span><\/sup>www.nationalarchives.g<\/span><\/a>ov.uk\/nra<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Status: <\/h5>Active <\/span>Found in the following Frameworks: <\/h5>Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site<\/a> <\/span>Categories: <\/h5>Museum<\/a>, <\/span>Industry<\/a>, <\/span>Documentary archive research<\/a>, <\/span>Derbyshire<\/a>, <\/span>Interpretation<\/a>, <\/span>World heritage site<\/a> <\/span><\/div><\/details><\/div><\/div>1B: Assess the contribution of studies of material culture to our understanding of changing interpretations of the Derwent Valley <\/h3>More information on this strategy <\/summary>URI: <\/h5>https:\/\/researchframeworks.org\/dvmwhs\/researchframework\/v1\/strategy\/strategy-61c1bd9e55593<\/a><\/span>: <\/h5>1B <\/span>More information: <\/h5>The dramatic beauty of the Derwent Valley, particularly along the limestone gorge between Cromford and Matlock Bath, attracted artists even before <\/span>Sir Richard <\/span>Arkwright established his cotton mills at Cromford between 1771 and 1790. One of the earliest artists was Thomas Smith (1721\u20131767), whose representations of the Cascades below Matlock Bath and Hopping Mill Weir are included in this volume.1<\/sup> He was followed by workers in many mediums, including watercolourists, engravers and later, photographers. Their work appeared in books, on gallery walls and on the newest and most fashionable consumer goods that were available to Georgian and Victorian society. Pottery in particular was commonly ornamented with scenes of Derbyshire landscapes and buildings, including the images of Masson Mill and the Derby townscape that were applied to the Derby Porcelain Company products illustrated here. The challenge for further researchers lies not in the further study of well-known published sources, but in the detailed examination of the artefacts, original diaries, sketchbooks and other documents which provide the source material upon which past interpretations have been based.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\nThe Heritage Lottery Fund\u2019s Enlightenment! <\/i>programme of 2008 to 2013 facilitated an initial survey of some of these resources, including both artefacts in public ownership2<\/sup> and the archival and ephemeral holdings in some of the major libraries.3<\/sup> The funding also enabled the purchase of further collections for Derby Museum, Belper North Mill and Buxton Museum and Art Gallery,4<\/sup> and enhanced, in particular, the internationally important porcelain collections in Derby and Buxton Museums. There is still a need for a deeper study of the representations used on porcelain5<\/sup> and on other objects such as letterheads, watch papers and retailers\u2019 boxes. Such images encompass the contemporary sense of place, but particular questions to consider are whether the images are sufficiently realistic or too influenced by artistic need to help us understand the changing landscape of the Valley. Further questions to be addressed by examination of the archive sources include identification of the artists who were commissioned to undertake this work and the markets for their products.<\/span><\/p>\nRos Westwood<\/p>\n
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<\/span><\/p>\nFig.4.3 Late 18th century coffee jar with two oval painted panels, including one of Masson Mill (above) and a landscape view. These are attributed to the porcelain painter Thomas \u2018Jockey\u2019 Hill, who worked at Derby between 1795 and 1800 (\u00a9 Derby Museums Trust)<\/span><\/i><\/p>\nReferences <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n1 <\/span><\/sup>Brighton, T 2013 Thomas Smith of Derby, 1721\u20131767: Pioneer of the Picturesque<\/i>. Bakewell: Bakewell and District Historical Society; Figs 4.16 and 7.1<\/span><\/p>\n2 <\/span><\/sup>Unpublished list of Enlightenment-related artefacts in UK public museums, available at Derby Museums<\/span><\/p>\n3 <\/span><\/sup>Howe, N 2011 Enlightenment! Derbyshire Setting the Pace in the 18th<\/sup> Century. Survey of Ephemera<\/i>. <\/span>https:\/\/enlightenmentderbyshire.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/07\/enlightenment-derbyshire-survey-of-ephemera-report-web1.pdf<\/span><\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n4 <\/span><\/sup>Westwood, R and Rhodes, A (eds) 2013 Enlightenment! Derbyshire Setting the Pace in the Eighteenth Century<\/i>. Buxton: DCC<\/span><\/p>\n5 <\/span><\/sup>Ledger, A P 2000 \u2018Further watercolour sources of landscape painting on Derby dessert services\u2019. Derby Porcelain International Society Journal<\/i> 4<\/b>, 8\u201326<\/span><\/p><\/span>Status: <\/h5>Active <\/span>Found in the following Frameworks: <\/h5>Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site<\/a> <\/span>Categories: <\/h5>Industrial<\/a>, <\/span>Pottery<\/a>, <\/span>Georgian<\/a>, <\/span>Documentary archive research<\/a>, <\/span>Derbyshire<\/a>, <\/span>Interpretation<\/a>, <\/span>Art<\/a>, <\/span>World heritage site<\/a> <\/span><\/div><\/details><\/div><\/div>
More information on this strategy <\/summary>URI: <\/h5>https:\/\/researchframeworks.org\/dvmwhs\/researchframework\/v1\/strategy\/strategy-61bb660f46493<\/a><\/span>: <\/h5>1A <\/span>More information: <\/h5>\n\nThere is a wide range of material evidence with potential for shedding light on the history of the Derwent Valley and changing interpretations. This includes maps, photographs, paintings and drawings, personal and business manuscripts, objects, published books or articles and oral histories (such as that compiled by <\/span>in<\/i>Heritage from the memories of people living in the vicinity of Calver Mill, just upstream of the World Heritage Site).<\/span>1<\/sup> These records are spread over a wide range of institutions within Derbyshire, including the Derbyshire Record Office, John Smedley Ltd<\/span>,<\/span> Strutt\u2019s North Mill, Derby Local Studies Library and Derby Museum and Art Gallery.<\/span>2<\/sup> Important material is also held elsewhere in Britain, including national museums, art galleries and other institutions such as the British Museum, British Library, Tate Britain and the National Archives at Kew, and in North America at the Universities of Columbia and Yale and the Yale Center for Art. Supplementary resources are held by organisations such as Derbyshire County Council, which maintains the county\u2019s Historic Environment Record (HER) and manages the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site. The Derbyshire HER is partially available through the Historic England Heritage Gateway,<\/span>3 <\/span><\/sup>but there are ambitions to create a dedicated website. Archaeological records are held in many locations, including regional and national museums and the digital record curated by the Archaeology Data Service in the University of York.<\/span>4<\/sup><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nSome of these sources were surveyed as part of the recently completed Enlightenment!<\/i> Project,5<\/sup> and it would be useful to establish the location of all other archives and the current state of online access. There is significant potential for an internet-based platform that would allow people to search for and locate information and increase engagement with the heritage resource.6<\/sup> This would also help to highlight gaps in our knowledge base and thus facilitate targeted research: for example, the comparative dearth of Quaker and other Nonconformist records relating to the industrial communities of the Valley.7<\/sup> At a minimum, the website would provide a searchable database of all key sources. It would have the facility to attach digital images, and should have a simple open-source platform that is not reliant on a web developer for updating the information in the database. It must also integrate with, but not replicate, information in other websites, such as the National Register of Archives.8<\/sup> It should require minimal on-going management once it has been set up. An enhanced version would allow interaction with users, such as linking and tagging records, and would provide the facility to upload research articles. It could also host datasets for statistical research.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Fig.<\/span><\/i>4<\/span><\/i><\/a> <\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/i>2<\/span><\/i> The Strutts\u2019 mill complex at Belper, showing to the north of the mills the horseshoe weir across the Derwent that was built by Jedediah Strutt in 1797. The map shows parts of the liberties of Belper, Duffield and Makeney, based on copies of parts of the Enclosure Award plans; it includes alterations to the Strutt Estate that were surveyed by James Hicking between 1805 and 1818 (\u00a9Derbyshire<\/a><\/span><\/i> Record Office D1564\/3)<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n\n\nPauline Beswick and Sarah Chubb<\/p>\n
Referenc<\/span><\/b>es<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n1 <\/span><\/sup>http:\/\/www.inheritage.co.uk\/wp\/calver-weir\/<\/span><\/p>\n2 <\/span><\/sup>see Chapter 5 for further details<\/span><\/p>\n3<\/span><\/sup> http:\/\/www.heritagegateway.org.uk\/gateway\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n4 <\/span><\/sup>www.archaeologydataservice.ac.uk <\/span><\/p>\n5 <\/span><\/sup>Westwood, R and Rhodes, A (eds) 2013 Enlightenment! Derbyshire Setting the Pace in the 18th<\/sup> Century<\/i>. Buxton: Buxton Museum and Art Gallery<\/span><\/p>\n6 <\/span><\/sup>Locus Consulting 2014 Expanding the Neighbourhood Plan Evidence Base \u2013 Museums, Records Offices, Archives and HERs<\/i>. Lincoln: Locus Consulting; <\/span><\/span>https:\/\/historic<\/span><\/a> england.org.uk\/images-books\/ publications\/expanding-the-neighbourhood-plan-evidence-base-project\/<\/span><\/p>\n7 <\/span><\/sup>See, for example, Orchard, S 2009 Nonconformity in Derbyshire: A Study in Dissent, 1600\u20131800<\/i>. Milton Keynes: Paternoster<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
8 <\/span><\/sup>www.nationalarchives.g<\/span><\/a>ov.uk\/nra<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Status: <\/h5>Active <\/span>Found in the following Frameworks: <\/h5>Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site<\/a> <\/span>Categories: <\/h5>Museum<\/a>, <\/span>Industry<\/a>, <\/span>Documentary archive research<\/a>, <\/span>Derbyshire<\/a>, <\/span>Interpretation<\/a>, <\/span>World heritage site<\/a> <\/span><\/div><\/details><\/div><\/div>1B: Assess the contribution of studies of material culture to our understanding of changing interpretations of the Derwent Valley <\/h3>More information on this strategy <\/summary>URI: <\/h5>https:\/\/researchframeworks.org\/dvmwhs\/researchframework\/v1\/strategy\/strategy-61c1bd9e55593<\/a><\/span>: <\/h5>1B <\/span>More information: <\/h5>The dramatic beauty of the Derwent Valley, particularly along the limestone gorge between Cromford and Matlock Bath, attracted artists even before <\/span>Sir Richard <\/span>Arkwright established his cotton mills at Cromford between 1771 and 1790. One of the earliest artists was Thomas Smith (1721\u20131767), whose representations of the Cascades below Matlock Bath and Hopping Mill Weir are included in this volume.1<\/sup> He was followed by workers in many mediums, including watercolourists, engravers and later, photographers. Their work appeared in books, on gallery walls and on the newest and most fashionable consumer goods that were available to Georgian and Victorian society. Pottery in particular was commonly ornamented with scenes of Derbyshire landscapes and buildings, including the images of Masson Mill and the Derby townscape that were applied to the Derby Porcelain Company products illustrated here. The challenge for further researchers lies not in the further study of well-known published sources, but in the detailed examination of the artefacts, original diaries, sketchbooks and other documents which provide the source material upon which past interpretations have been based.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\nThe Heritage Lottery Fund\u2019s Enlightenment! <\/i>programme of 2008 to 2013 facilitated an initial survey of some of these resources, including both artefacts in public ownership2<\/sup> and the archival and ephemeral holdings in some of the major libraries.3<\/sup> The funding also enabled the purchase of further collections for Derby Museum, Belper North Mill and Buxton Museum and Art Gallery,4<\/sup> and enhanced, in particular, the internationally important porcelain collections in Derby and Buxton Museums. There is still a need for a deeper study of the representations used on porcelain5<\/sup> and on other objects such as letterheads, watch papers and retailers\u2019 boxes. Such images encompass the contemporary sense of place, but particular questions to consider are whether the images are sufficiently realistic or too influenced by artistic need to help us understand the changing landscape of the Valley. Further questions to be addressed by examination of the archive sources include identification of the artists who were commissioned to undertake this work and the markets for their products.<\/span><\/p>\nRos Westwood<\/p>\n
<\/span><\/p>\nFig.4.3 Late 18th century coffee jar with two oval painted panels, including one of Masson Mill (above) and a landscape view. These are attributed to the porcelain painter Thomas \u2018Jockey\u2019 Hill, who worked at Derby between 1795 and 1800 (\u00a9 Derby Museums Trust)<\/span><\/i><\/p>\nReferences <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n1 <\/span><\/sup>Brighton, T 2013 Thomas Smith of Derby, 1721\u20131767: Pioneer of the Picturesque<\/i>. Bakewell: Bakewell and District Historical Society; Figs 4.16 and 7.1<\/span><\/p>\n2 <\/span><\/sup>Unpublished list of Enlightenment-related artefacts in UK public museums, available at Derby Museums<\/span><\/p>\n3 <\/span><\/sup>Howe, N 2011 Enlightenment! Derbyshire Setting the Pace in the 18th<\/sup> Century. Survey of Ephemera<\/i>. <\/span>https:\/\/enlightenmentderbyshire.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/07\/enlightenment-derbyshire-survey-of-ephemera-report-web1.pdf<\/span><\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n4 <\/span><\/sup>Westwood, R and Rhodes, A (eds) 2013 Enlightenment! Derbyshire Setting the Pace in the Eighteenth Century<\/i>. Buxton: DCC<\/span><\/p>\n5 <\/span><\/sup>Ledger, A P 2000 \u2018Further watercolour sources of landscape painting on Derby dessert services\u2019. Derby Porcelain International Society Journal<\/i> 4<\/b>, 8\u201326<\/span><\/p><\/span>Status: <\/h5>Active <\/span>Found in the following Frameworks: <\/h5>Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site<\/a> <\/span>Categories: <\/h5>Industrial<\/a>, <\/span>Pottery<\/a>, <\/span>Georgian<\/a>, <\/span>Documentary archive research<\/a>, <\/span>Derbyshire<\/a>, <\/span>Interpretation<\/a>, <\/span>Art<\/a>, <\/span>World heritage site<\/a> <\/span><\/div><\/details><\/div><\/div>
URI: <\/h5>https:\/\/researchframeworks.org\/dvmwhs\/researchframework\/v1\/strategy\/strategy-61bb660f46493<\/a><\/span>: <\/h5>1A <\/span>More information: <\/h5>\n\nThere is a wide range of material evidence with potential for shedding light on the history of the Derwent Valley and changing interpretations. This includes maps, photographs, paintings and drawings, personal and business manuscripts, objects, published books or articles and oral histories (such as that compiled by <\/span>in<\/i>Heritage from the memories of people living in the vicinity of Calver Mill, just upstream of the World Heritage Site).<\/span>1<\/sup> These records are spread over a wide range of institutions within Derbyshire, including the Derbyshire Record Office, John Smedley Ltd<\/span>,<\/span> Strutt\u2019s North Mill, Derby Local Studies Library and Derby Museum and Art Gallery.<\/span>2<\/sup> Important material is also held elsewhere in Britain, including national museums, art galleries and other institutions such as the British Museum, British Library, Tate Britain and the National Archives at Kew, and in North America at the Universities of Columbia and Yale and the Yale Center for Art. Supplementary resources are held by organisations such as Derbyshire County Council, which maintains the county\u2019s Historic Environment Record (HER) and manages the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site. The Derbyshire HER is partially available through the Historic England Heritage Gateway,<\/span>3 <\/span><\/sup>but there are ambitions to create a dedicated website. Archaeological records are held in many locations, including regional and national museums and the digital record curated by the Archaeology Data Service in the University of York.<\/span>4<\/sup><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nSome of these sources were surveyed as part of the recently completed Enlightenment!<\/i> Project,5<\/sup> and it would be useful to establish the location of all other archives and the current state of online access. There is significant potential for an internet-based platform that would allow people to search for and locate information and increase engagement with the heritage resource.6<\/sup> This would also help to highlight gaps in our knowledge base and thus facilitate targeted research: for example, the comparative dearth of Quaker and other Nonconformist records relating to the industrial communities of the Valley.7<\/sup> At a minimum, the website would provide a searchable database of all key sources. It would have the facility to attach digital images, and should have a simple open-source platform that is not reliant on a web developer for updating the information in the database. It must also integrate with, but not replicate, information in other websites, such as the National Register of Archives.8<\/sup> It should require minimal on-going management once it has been set up. An enhanced version would allow interaction with users, such as linking and tagging records, and would provide the facility to upload research articles. It could also host datasets for statistical research.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Fig.<\/span><\/i>4<\/span><\/i><\/a> <\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/i>2<\/span><\/i> The Strutts\u2019 mill complex at Belper, showing to the north of the mills the horseshoe weir across the Derwent that was built by Jedediah Strutt in 1797. The map shows parts of the liberties of Belper, Duffield and Makeney, based on copies of parts of the Enclosure Award plans; it includes alterations to the Strutt Estate that were surveyed by James Hicking between 1805 and 1818 (\u00a9Derbyshire<\/a><\/span><\/i> Record Office D1564\/3)<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n\n\nPauline Beswick and Sarah Chubb<\/p>\n
Referenc<\/span><\/b>es<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n1 <\/span><\/sup>http:\/\/www.inheritage.co.uk\/wp\/calver-weir\/<\/span><\/p>\n2 <\/span><\/sup>see Chapter 5 for further details<\/span><\/p>\n3<\/span><\/sup> http:\/\/www.heritagegateway.org.uk\/gateway\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n4 <\/span><\/sup>www.archaeologydataservice.ac.uk <\/span><\/p>\n5 <\/span><\/sup>Westwood, R and Rhodes, A (eds) 2013 Enlightenment! Derbyshire Setting the Pace in the 18th<\/sup> Century<\/i>. Buxton: Buxton Museum and Art Gallery<\/span><\/p>\n6 <\/span><\/sup>Locus Consulting 2014 Expanding the Neighbourhood Plan Evidence Base \u2013 Museums, Records Offices, Archives and HERs<\/i>. Lincoln: Locus Consulting; <\/span><\/span>https:\/\/historic<\/span><\/a> england.org.uk\/images-books\/ publications\/expanding-the-neighbourhood-plan-evidence-base-project\/<\/span><\/p>\n7 <\/span><\/sup>See, for example, Orchard, S 2009 Nonconformity in Derbyshire: A Study in Dissent, 1600\u20131800<\/i>. Milton Keynes: Paternoster<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
8 <\/span><\/sup>www.nationalarchives.g<\/span><\/a>ov.uk\/nra<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Status: <\/h5>Active <\/span>Found in the following Frameworks: <\/h5>Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site<\/a> <\/span>Categories: <\/h5>Museum<\/a>, <\/span>Industry<\/a>, <\/span>Documentary archive research<\/a>, <\/span>Derbyshire<\/a>, <\/span>Interpretation<\/a>, <\/span>World heritage site<\/a> <\/span><\/div><\/details><\/div><\/div>1B: Assess the contribution of studies of material culture to our understanding of changing interpretations of the Derwent Valley <\/h3>More information on this strategy <\/summary>URI: <\/h5>https:\/\/researchframeworks.org\/dvmwhs\/researchframework\/v1\/strategy\/strategy-61c1bd9e55593<\/a><\/span>: <\/h5>1B <\/span>More information: <\/h5>The dramatic beauty of the Derwent Valley, particularly along the limestone gorge between Cromford and Matlock Bath, attracted artists even before <\/span>Sir Richard <\/span>Arkwright established his cotton mills at Cromford between 1771 and 1790. One of the earliest artists was Thomas Smith (1721\u20131767), whose representations of the Cascades below Matlock Bath and Hopping Mill Weir are included in this volume.1<\/sup> He was followed by workers in many mediums, including watercolourists, engravers and later, photographers. Their work appeared in books, on gallery walls and on the newest and most fashionable consumer goods that were available to Georgian and Victorian society. Pottery in particular was commonly ornamented with scenes of Derbyshire landscapes and buildings, including the images of Masson Mill and the Derby townscape that were applied to the Derby Porcelain Company products illustrated here. The challenge for further researchers lies not in the further study of well-known published sources, but in the detailed examination of the artefacts, original diaries, sketchbooks and other documents which provide the source material upon which past interpretations have been based.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\nThe Heritage Lottery Fund\u2019s Enlightenment! <\/i>programme of 2008 to 2013 facilitated an initial survey of some of these resources, including both artefacts in public ownership2<\/sup> and the archival and ephemeral holdings in some of the major libraries.3<\/sup> The funding also enabled the purchase of further collections for Derby Museum, Belper North Mill and Buxton Museum and Art Gallery,4<\/sup> and enhanced, in particular, the internationally important porcelain collections in Derby and Buxton Museums. There is still a need for a deeper study of the representations used on porcelain5<\/sup> and on other objects such as letterheads, watch papers and retailers\u2019 boxes. Such images encompass the contemporary sense of place, but particular questions to consider are whether the images are sufficiently realistic or too influenced by artistic need to help us understand the changing landscape of the Valley. Further questions to be addressed by examination of the archive sources include identification of the artists who were commissioned to undertake this work and the markets for their products.<\/span><\/p>\nRos Westwood<\/p>\n
<\/span><\/p>\nFig.4.3 Late 18th century coffee jar with two oval painted panels, including one of Masson Mill (above) and a landscape view. These are attributed to the porcelain painter Thomas \u2018Jockey\u2019 Hill, who worked at Derby between 1795 and 1800 (\u00a9 Derby Museums Trust)<\/span><\/i><\/p>\nReferences <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n1 <\/span><\/sup>Brighton, T 2013 Thomas Smith of Derby, 1721\u20131767: Pioneer of the Picturesque<\/i>. Bakewell: Bakewell and District Historical Society; Figs 4.16 and 7.1<\/span><\/p>\n2 <\/span><\/sup>Unpublished list of Enlightenment-related artefacts in UK public museums, available at Derby Museums<\/span><\/p>\n3 <\/span><\/sup>Howe, N 2011 Enlightenment! Derbyshire Setting the Pace in the 18th<\/sup> Century. Survey of Ephemera<\/i>. <\/span>https:\/\/enlightenmentderbyshire.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/07\/enlightenment-derbyshire-survey-of-ephemera-report-web1.pdf<\/span><\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n4 <\/span><\/sup>Westwood, R and Rhodes, A (eds) 2013 Enlightenment! Derbyshire Setting the Pace in the Eighteenth Century<\/i>. Buxton: DCC<\/span><\/p>\n5 <\/span><\/sup>Ledger, A P 2000 \u2018Further watercolour sources of landscape painting on Derby dessert services\u2019. Derby Porcelain International Society Journal<\/i> 4<\/b>, 8\u201326<\/span><\/p><\/span>Status: <\/h5>Active <\/span>Found in the following Frameworks: <\/h5>Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site<\/a> <\/span>Categories: <\/h5>Industrial<\/a>, <\/span>Pottery<\/a>, <\/span>Georgian<\/a>, <\/span>Documentary archive research<\/a>, <\/span>Derbyshire<\/a>, <\/span>Interpretation<\/a>, <\/span>Art<\/a>, <\/span>World heritage site<\/a> <\/span><\/div><\/details><\/div><\/div>
More information: <\/h5>\n\nThere is a wide range of material evidence with potential for shedding light on the history of the Derwent Valley and changing interpretations. This includes maps, photographs, paintings and drawings, personal and business manuscripts, objects, published books or articles and oral histories (such as that compiled by <\/span>in<\/i>Heritage from the memories of people living in the vicinity of Calver Mill, just upstream of the World Heritage Site).<\/span>1<\/sup> These records are spread over a wide range of institutions within Derbyshire, including the Derbyshire Record Office, John Smedley Ltd<\/span>,<\/span> Strutt\u2019s North Mill, Derby Local Studies Library and Derby Museum and Art Gallery.<\/span>2<\/sup> Important material is also held elsewhere in Britain, including national museums, art galleries and other institutions such as the British Museum, British Library, Tate Britain and the National Archives at Kew, and in North America at the Universities of Columbia and Yale and the Yale Center for Art. Supplementary resources are held by organisations such as Derbyshire County Council, which maintains the county\u2019s Historic Environment Record (HER) and manages the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site. The Derbyshire HER is partially available through the Historic England Heritage Gateway,<\/span>3 <\/span><\/sup>but there are ambitions to create a dedicated website. Archaeological records are held in many locations, including regional and national museums and the digital record curated by the Archaeology Data Service in the University of York.<\/span>4<\/sup><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nSome of these sources were surveyed as part of the recently completed Enlightenment!<\/i> Project,5<\/sup> and it would be useful to establish the location of all other archives and the current state of online access. There is significant potential for an internet-based platform that would allow people to search for and locate information and increase engagement with the heritage resource.6<\/sup> This would also help to highlight gaps in our knowledge base and thus facilitate targeted research: for example, the comparative dearth of Quaker and other Nonconformist records relating to the industrial communities of the Valley.7<\/sup> At a minimum, the website would provide a searchable database of all key sources. It would have the facility to attach digital images, and should have a simple open-source platform that is not reliant on a web developer for updating the information in the database. It must also integrate with, but not replicate, information in other websites, such as the National Register of Archives.8<\/sup> It should require minimal on-going management once it has been set up. An enhanced version would allow interaction with users, such as linking and tagging records, and would provide the facility to upload research articles. It could also host datasets for statistical research.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Fig.<\/span><\/i>4<\/span><\/i><\/a> <\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/i>2<\/span><\/i> The Strutts\u2019 mill complex at Belper, showing to the north of the mills the horseshoe weir across the Derwent that was built by Jedediah Strutt in 1797. The map shows parts of the liberties of Belper, Duffield and Makeney, based on copies of parts of the Enclosure Award plans; it includes alterations to the Strutt Estate that were surveyed by James Hicking between 1805 and 1818 (\u00a9Derbyshire<\/a><\/span><\/i> Record Office D1564\/3)<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n\n\nPauline Beswick and Sarah Chubb<\/p>\n
Referenc<\/span><\/b>es<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n1 <\/span><\/sup>http:\/\/www.inheritage.co.uk\/wp\/calver-weir\/<\/span><\/p>\n2 <\/span><\/sup>see Chapter 5 for further details<\/span><\/p>\n3<\/span><\/sup> http:\/\/www.heritagegateway.org.uk\/gateway\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n4 <\/span><\/sup>www.archaeologydataservice.ac.uk <\/span><\/p>\n5 <\/span><\/sup>Westwood, R and Rhodes, A (eds) 2013 Enlightenment! Derbyshire Setting the Pace in the 18th<\/sup> Century<\/i>. Buxton: Buxton Museum and Art Gallery<\/span><\/p>\n6 <\/span><\/sup>Locus Consulting 2014 Expanding the Neighbourhood Plan Evidence Base \u2013 Museums, Records Offices, Archives and HERs<\/i>. Lincoln: Locus Consulting; <\/span><\/span>https:\/\/historic<\/span><\/a> england.org.uk\/images-books\/ publications\/expanding-the-neighbourhood-plan-evidence-base-project\/<\/span><\/p>\n7 <\/span><\/sup>See, for example, Orchard, S 2009 Nonconformity in Derbyshire: A Study in Dissent, 1600\u20131800<\/i>. Milton Keynes: Paternoster<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
8 <\/span><\/sup>www.nationalarchives.g<\/span><\/a>ov.uk\/nra<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/span>
Status: <\/h5>Active <\/span>Found in the following Frameworks: <\/h5>Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site<\/a> <\/span>Categories: <\/h5>Museum<\/a>, <\/span>Industry<\/a>, <\/span>Documentary archive research<\/a>, <\/span>Derbyshire<\/a>, <\/span>Interpretation<\/a>, <\/span>World heritage site<\/a> <\/span><\/div><\/details><\/div><\/div>1B: Assess the contribution of studies of material culture to our understanding of changing interpretations of the Derwent Valley <\/h3>More information on this strategy <\/summary>URI: <\/h5>https:\/\/researchframeworks.org\/dvmwhs\/researchframework\/v1\/strategy\/strategy-61c1bd9e55593<\/a><\/span>: <\/h5>1B <\/span>More information: <\/h5>The dramatic beauty of the Derwent Valley, particularly along the limestone gorge between Cromford and Matlock Bath, attracted artists even before <\/span>Sir Richard <\/span>Arkwright established his cotton mills at Cromford between 1771 and 1790. One of the earliest artists was Thomas Smith (1721\u20131767), whose representations of the Cascades below Matlock Bath and Hopping Mill Weir are included in this volume.1<\/sup> He was followed by workers in many mediums, including watercolourists, engravers and later, photographers. Their work appeared in books, on gallery walls and on the newest and most fashionable consumer goods that were available to Georgian and Victorian society. Pottery in particular was commonly ornamented with scenes of Derbyshire landscapes and buildings, including the images of Masson Mill and the Derby townscape that were applied to the Derby Porcelain Company products illustrated here. The challenge for further researchers lies not in the further study of well-known published sources, but in the detailed examination of the artefacts, original diaries, sketchbooks and other documents which provide the source material upon which past interpretations have been based.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\nThe Heritage Lottery Fund\u2019s Enlightenment! <\/i>programme of 2008 to 2013 facilitated an initial survey of some of these resources, including both artefacts in public ownership2<\/sup> and the archival and ephemeral holdings in some of the major libraries.3<\/sup> The funding also enabled the purchase of further collections for Derby Museum, Belper North Mill and Buxton Museum and Art Gallery,4<\/sup> and enhanced, in particular, the internationally important porcelain collections in Derby and Buxton Museums. There is still a need for a deeper study of the representations used on porcelain5<\/sup> and on other objects such as letterheads, watch papers and retailers\u2019 boxes. Such images encompass the contemporary sense of place, but particular questions to consider are whether the images are sufficiently realistic or too influenced by artistic need to help us understand the changing landscape of the Valley. Further questions to be addressed by examination of the archive sources include identification of the artists who were commissioned to undertake this work and the markets for their products.<\/span><\/p>\nRos Westwood<\/p>\n
<\/span><\/p>\nFig.4.3 Late 18th century coffee jar with two oval painted panels, including one of Masson Mill (above) and a landscape view. These are attributed to the porcelain painter Thomas \u2018Jockey\u2019 Hill, who worked at Derby between 1795 and 1800 (\u00a9 Derby Museums Trust)<\/span><\/i><\/p>\nReferences <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n1 <\/span><\/sup>Brighton, T 2013 Thomas Smith of Derby, 1721\u20131767: Pioneer of the Picturesque<\/i>. Bakewell: Bakewell and District Historical Society; Figs 4.16 and 7.1<\/span><\/p>\n2 <\/span><\/sup>Unpublished list of Enlightenment-related artefacts in UK public museums, available at Derby Museums<\/span><\/p>\n3 <\/span><\/sup>Howe, N 2011 Enlightenment! Derbyshire Setting the Pace in the 18th<\/sup> Century. Survey of Ephemera<\/i>. <\/span>https:\/\/enlightenmentderbyshire.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/07\/enlightenment-derbyshire-survey-of-ephemera-report-web1.pdf<\/span><\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n4 <\/span><\/sup>Westwood, R and Rhodes, A (eds) 2013 Enlightenment! Derbyshire Setting the Pace in the Eighteenth Century<\/i>. Buxton: DCC<\/span><\/p>\n5 <\/span><\/sup>Ledger, A P 2000 \u2018Further watercolour sources of landscape painting on Derby dessert services\u2019. Derby Porcelain International Society Journal<\/i> 4<\/b>, 8\u201326<\/span><\/p><\/span>Status: <\/h5>Active <\/span>Found in the following Frameworks: <\/h5>Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site<\/a> <\/span>Categories: <\/h5>Industrial<\/a>, <\/span>Pottery<\/a>, <\/span>Georgian<\/a>, <\/span>Documentary archive research<\/a>, <\/span>Derbyshire<\/a>, <\/span>Interpretation<\/a>, <\/span>Art<\/a>, <\/span>World heritage site<\/a> <\/span><\/div><\/details><\/div><\/div>
Some of these sources were surveyed as part of the recently completed Enlightenment!<\/i> Project,5<\/sup> and it would be useful to establish the location of all other archives and the current state of online access. There is significant potential for an internet-based platform that would allow people to search for and locate information and increase engagement with the heritage resource.6<\/sup> This would also help to highlight gaps in our knowledge base and thus facilitate targeted research: for example, the comparative dearth of Quaker and other Nonconformist records relating to the industrial communities of the Valley.7<\/sup> At a minimum, the website would provide a searchable database of all key sources. It would have the facility to attach digital images, and should have a simple open-source platform that is not reliant on a web developer for updating the information in the database. It must also integrate with, but not replicate, information in other websites, such as the National Register of Archives.8<\/sup> It should require minimal on-going management once it has been set up. An enhanced version would allow interaction with users, such as linking and tagging records, and would provide the facility to upload research articles. It could also host datasets for statistical research.<\/span><\/p>\n Fig.<\/span><\/i>4<\/span><\/i><\/a> <\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/i>2<\/span><\/i> The Strutts\u2019 mill complex at Belper, showing to the north of the mills the horseshoe weir across the Derwent that was built by Jedediah Strutt in 1797. The map shows parts of the liberties of Belper, Duffield and Makeney, based on copies of parts of the Enclosure Award plans; it includes alterations to the Strutt Estate that were surveyed by James Hicking between 1805 and 1818 (\u00a9Derbyshire<\/a><\/span><\/i> Record Office D1564\/3)<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n Pauline Beswick and Sarah Chubb<\/p>\n Referenc<\/span><\/b>es<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n 1 <\/span><\/sup>http:\/\/www.inheritage.co.uk\/wp\/calver-weir\/<\/span><\/p>\n 2 <\/span><\/sup>see Chapter 5 for further details<\/span><\/p>\n 3<\/span><\/sup> http:\/\/www.heritagegateway.org.uk\/gateway\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n 4 <\/span><\/sup>www.archaeologydataservice.ac.uk <\/span><\/p>\n 5 <\/span><\/sup>Westwood, R and Rhodes, A (eds) 2013 Enlightenment! Derbyshire Setting the Pace in the 18th<\/sup> Century<\/i>. Buxton: Buxton Museum and Art Gallery<\/span><\/p>\n 6 <\/span><\/sup>Locus Consulting 2014 Expanding the Neighbourhood Plan Evidence Base \u2013 Museums, Records Offices, Archives and HERs<\/i>. Lincoln: Locus Consulting; <\/span><\/span>https:\/\/historic<\/span><\/a> england.org.uk\/images-books\/ publications\/expanding-the-neighbourhood-plan-evidence-base-project\/<\/span><\/p>\n 7 <\/span><\/sup>See, for example, Orchard, S 2009 Nonconformity in Derbyshire: A Study in Dissent, 1600\u20131800<\/i>. Milton Keynes: Paternoster<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n 8 <\/span><\/sup>www.nationalarchives.g<\/span><\/a>ov.uk\/nra<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/span> The dramatic beauty of the Derwent Valley, particularly along the limestone gorge between Cromford and Matlock Bath, attracted artists even before <\/span>Sir Richard <\/span>Arkwright established his cotton mills at Cromford between 1771 and 1790. One of the earliest artists was Thomas Smith (1721\u20131767), whose representations of the Cascades below Matlock Bath and Hopping Mill Weir are included in this volume.1<\/sup> He was followed by workers in many mediums, including watercolourists, engravers and later, photographers. Their work appeared in books, on gallery walls and on the newest and most fashionable consumer goods that were available to Georgian and Victorian society. Pottery in particular was commonly ornamented with scenes of Derbyshire landscapes and buildings, including the images of Masson Mill and the Derby townscape that were applied to the Derby Porcelain Company products illustrated here. The challenge for further researchers lies not in the further study of well-known published sources, but in the detailed examination of the artefacts, original diaries, sketchbooks and other documents which provide the source material upon which past interpretations have been based.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n The Heritage Lottery Fund\u2019s Enlightenment! <\/i>programme of 2008 to 2013 facilitated an initial survey of some of these resources, including both artefacts in public ownership2<\/sup> and the archival and ephemeral holdings in some of the major libraries.3<\/sup> The funding also enabled the purchase of further collections for Derby Museum, Belper North Mill and Buxton Museum and Art Gallery,4<\/sup> and enhanced, in particular, the internationally important porcelain collections in Derby and Buxton Museums. There is still a need for a deeper study of the representations used on porcelain5<\/sup> and on other objects such as letterheads, watch papers and retailers\u2019 boxes. Such images encompass the contemporary sense of place, but particular questions to consider are whether the images are sufficiently realistic or too influenced by artistic need to help us understand the changing landscape of the Valley. Further questions to be addressed by examination of the archive sources include identification of the artists who were commissioned to undertake this work and the markets for their products.<\/span><\/p>\n Ros Westwood<\/p>\n Fig.4.3 Late 18th century coffee jar with two oval painted panels, including one of Masson Mill (above) and a landscape view. These are attributed to the porcelain painter Thomas \u2018Jockey\u2019 Hill, who worked at Derby between 1795 and 1800 (\u00a9 Derby Museums Trust)<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n References <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n 1 <\/span><\/sup>Brighton, T 2013 Thomas Smith of Derby, 1721\u20131767: Pioneer of the Picturesque<\/i>. Bakewell: Bakewell and District Historical Society; Figs 4.16 and 7.1<\/span><\/p>\n 2 <\/span><\/sup>Unpublished list of Enlightenment-related artefacts in UK public museums, available at Derby Museums<\/span><\/p>\n 3 <\/span><\/sup>Howe, N 2011 Enlightenment! Derbyshire Setting the Pace in the 18th<\/sup> Century. Survey of Ephemera<\/i>. <\/span>https:\/\/enlightenmentderbyshire.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/07\/enlightenment-derbyshire-survey-of-ephemera-report-web1.pdf<\/span><\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n 4 <\/span><\/sup>Westwood, R and Rhodes, A (eds) 2013 Enlightenment! Derbyshire Setting the Pace in the Eighteenth Century<\/i>. Buxton: DCC<\/span><\/p>\n 5 <\/span><\/sup>Ledger, A P 2000 \u2018Further watercolour sources of landscape painting on Derby dessert services\u2019. Derby Porcelain International Society Journal<\/i> 4<\/b>, 8\u201326<\/span><\/p><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\nStatus: <\/h5>Active <\/span>
Found in the following Frameworks: <\/h5>Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site<\/a> <\/span>
Categories: <\/h5>Museum<\/a>, <\/span>Industry<\/a>, <\/span>Documentary archive research<\/a>, <\/span>Derbyshire<\/a>, <\/span>Interpretation<\/a>, <\/span>World heritage site<\/a> <\/span><\/div><\/details><\/div><\/div>
1B: Assess the contribution of studies of material culture to our understanding of changing interpretations of the Derwent Valley <\/h3>
More information on this strategy <\/summary>
URI: <\/h5>https:\/\/researchframeworks.org\/dvmwhs\/researchframework\/v1\/strategy\/strategy-61c1bd9e55593<\/a><\/span>
: <\/h5>1B <\/span>
More information: <\/h5>
<\/span><\/p>\nStatus: <\/h5>Active <\/span>
Found in the following Frameworks: <\/h5>Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site<\/a> <\/span>
Categories: <\/h5>Industrial<\/a>, <\/span>Pottery<\/a>, <\/span>Georgian<\/a>, <\/span>Documentary archive research<\/a>, <\/span>Derbyshire<\/a>, <\/span>Interpretation<\/a>, <\/span>Art<\/a>, <\/span>World heritage site<\/a> <\/span><\/div><\/details><\/div><\/div>