Archives, family and local history

Visiting us

Information on how to contact the archives service, when is it open, where to find it, where can you park and disabled access.

Using our service

Information about booking, a readers ticket, using the research room, getting copies, charges, viewing closed documents, research, talks or tours and other facilities.

Browse our archives

Information about searching our catalogue, records held, parish registers held, are birth, marriage or death certificates held, house or property history, film and sound archives, do you have maps and what can you view online.

Online catalogue

Information about what a catalogue is, how to use it, local history books, anything not in the catalogue, are there East Riding history documents in the Hull History Centre, archives for Hull, uncatalogued archives and recently catalogued archives.

Family history

How to start tracing your family history, can you do it online, where to go, can you search at Bridlington and Goole libraries and are there family history classes.

Local history

Help with local history, finding out about where you live, places in East Riding that are in Victoria County History and help in researching.

Giving us documents

Information on giving us documents, which places we collect documents for, collection policy, gift of documents, confidential documents, what happens to the documents, why we collect, how to give documents and collecting film, sounds and digital archives.

Caring for our documents

Information about how we care for your collections, conservation, conservators, where collection are conserved, viewing the conservators, help care for collections, repair your documents and contact the conservator.

Educational and professional uses

Can you do academic research, help getting legal evidence, services offered to colleges and universities and what we offer schools.

Information about events that are held, how to book and how much do events cost.