Project ID: 739
| Description | Northampton U3A's Leathercraft Activity Group became volunteers on the National Leather Collection's project to help sort and catalogue 800-plus boxes of leather related objects, including fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls and leather under garments. |
| Topics | Social history Technology Natural world Arts Ageing |
| Type | U3A-led research (SLP) |
| U3A | Northampton U3A |
| Organization/partner | National Leather Collection |
| Year started | 2015 |
| Source of reference | Sources 63, February 2018 This link is no longer available but you can still access the original article. Go to u3a.org.uk then Resources / Publications /Sources Archive and find the number of the issue. |
| Output | The information will be digitised to make it available as a national project. www.nationalleathercollection.org |
| Notes | Several different study groups were involved - microscope users group, photography group and local history group. NLC would like to hear from other areas - did your town have a tannery, saddlery, book bindery etc? Genealogy groups, could you research people influential in the leather industry? NLC also holds the V&A's furs and leather collection, as well as a collection relating to the sporting use of leather. Contact philip.warber@nationalleathercollection.org |