Preservation and Interpretation – A trainees perspective

Since August 2013 I have been working at Gloucestershire Archives as a trainee archivist; and in September I moved to Liverpool to study for my Masters in Archives and Records Management, the professional qualification which will allow me to work as an archivist in the future.

Coming to Gloucester

October is Black History month and this year we are celebrating the stories of people from Gloucester’s Caribbean community – in particular, the reflections of a few folk who arrived from Jamaica in the late 1950s and early 1960s to live in Barton and Tredworth. They saw moving to the UK as an attractive option as they believed there were greater opportunities for financial advancement and they would enjoy quality housing. But there were drawbacks too – in this pre-Concorde period the BOAC flight from Jamaica took a long time.