Judith Phillips

JUDITH PHILLIPS, Archivist at The Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle.

Judith worked in local government record offices in Bristol, Derbyshire and Sheffield, for nearly 30 years before being appointed to a year-long HLF project at the University of Sunderland to catalogue re cords of three mining organisations in the North of England Mining and Archive Research Centre.  This was followed by a two-year HLF project at The Bowes Museum to arrange and catalogue the records of the Museum and its founders and to make them accessible to the public.  Work as a Monument Trust Fellow subsequently allowed her to train and support curatorial staff and volunteers to maintain the public service.   She is currently engaged on a two-year part-time project, funded by the National Cataloguing Awards Scheme, to catalogue to item level the founders’ letters and bills.  Judith is also Honorary Archivist to the Museum.