Preparation is well underway for our first CollabArchive project: Roberta Hewitt: Lost and Found in the Archives which starts on 9 March.
The PRONI team at the Reprographics and Digitisation lab are busy scanning a selection of material for our first CollabArchive project which will explore the remarkable life of Roberta Hewitt, wife of writer John Hewitt.
PRONI holds the John Hewitt Papers comprising c.4,500 documents and volumes relating to the life and career of John Hewitt and his wife Roberta (née Black).
For this project, we have selected material that will help the volunteers learn more about Roberta’s life and help PRONI bring her story forward, including:
- Bound volume of Roberta Hewitt's diary. October 1947-December 1950 (D3838/4/2/1)
- Bound volume of Roberta Hewitt's diary. January 1951-February 1974 (D3838/4/2/2)
- Index to people and events referenced in Roberta Hewitt's diaries (D3838/4/2/4)
- Roberta Hewitt Employment Papers (D3838/4/1/2/1)
- Letters and a postcard to Roberta Hewitt from various political figures (D3838/4/1/3/1)
- Birth, marriage and death certificates, passports, etc. (D3838/1/1)
- Letters of sympathy to John Hewitt upon the death of his wife Roberta (D3838/3/19)
Garreth Montgomery and Joy Carey, from the Reprographics and Digitisation team, have been busy scanning the above so that they can be made digitally accessible to our volunteers and later to the public through PRONI’s e-catalogue and this website.
Watch this space!
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