All posts by Liz Rees

About Liz Rees

Hi, I’m the senior manager for Archives, which is based at the Discovery Museum in Newcastle, but covers the whole of Tyne & Wear.

I first got interested in archives through studying history at university, but it took a year working on a job creation programme surveying business records in Wales to get me started in the profession. That took me from copper works to laundries to pop factories and showed me that archives are certainly not all glamour! Records that have been stored away in attics and cellars for decades or even hundreds of years are often filthy and have sometimes been used as bedding by pigeons, rats and other creatures.

Nevertheless I got caught up in the thrill of never knowing what you might find on opening that box, cupboard or room that no one has looked in for years, and I’ve now been working in archives for over thirty years.