Joan Sinar (1925–2015)

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Notes

^1. The first paragraph of this obituary has been provided by Adam Green, the remainder was written by Philip Riden. The help of those who contributed information is gratefully acknowledged: Derbyshire Record Office (including the county local studies library), Dudley Fowkes, Alex Millar of Wigan Archives, the assistant archivist at Somerville College Oxford, the University of Manchester, Andrew George of Staffordshire Record Office, the Royal Historical Society and Mrs Miriam Wood.

^2. Birth certificate, Leigh (Lancs.) RD, June quarter 1925; the date given in an obituary notice in The Daily Telegraph, 25 April 2015, is incorrect.

^3. Information kindly supplied by Mr Andrew George from the minutes of the records committee of the county council; and see also [D.V. Fowkes], The First Forty Years: A History of the Staffordshire Record Office 1947–1987 (Staffordshire CC, [1987]), 3.

^4. Brian Carpenter, ed. Ten Centuries of Devon Archives (Friends of Devon's Archives, 2002), 9–11, 16–25.

^5. Derbyshire Record Office, D1971 (an unlisted accumulation of ‘accommodation’ files from the office's own records).

^6. J. Ferguson, ‘The Early Days of the Derbyshire Record Office’. In Essays in Derbyshire History Presented to Gladwyn Turbutt, edited by P. Riden, and D.G. Edwards, 266–80. Derbyshire Record Society, 30, 2006.

^7. Information from a cv written in 1992, now in the archives at Somerville College.

^8. ‘The Derbyshire Record Office in 1963’, Derbyshire Archaeological Journal, 83 (1962), 90–3 was the first; the last in the series was ‘Derbyshire Record Office and Diocesan Record Office, 1970’, ibid., 90 (1970), 94–100. See also ‘The Derbyshire Record Office’, Bulletin of Local History: East Midlands Region, 8 (1973), 3–11, and short notes on the office in other issues of this periodical (latterly East Midlands Historian).

^9. ‘Ockbrook’, Derbyshire Miscellany, 8, no. 1 (1977), 29–38; ‘Elmton’, ibid., 8, no. 3 (1978), 97–102 (and a separately published booklet, Elmton: a short history (1976)); ‘Calke and Ticknall’, ibid., 8, no. 5 (1979), 148–73; ‘Calke Abbey: Its Setting and Working Estate’, ibid., 10, no. 6 (1985), 169–75; ‘Derbyshire Conservation Areas: Newton Solney’, Derbyshire Life & Countryside, April 1981, 50–1. Similar material for other places is available in typescript in the county local studies library at Matlock.

^10.Derbyshire: An Illustrated History (1979); The Grants of Arms to Derbyshire County Council (1985); see also Pentrich Revolution, 1817 (a catalogue for one of the office's first large exhibitions, mounted in 1967 to mark the 150th anniversary of the rising), and Derbyshire Historic Buildings Trust: The First Twenty Years (1994).

^11. ‘John Morton Bestall 1921–1973: a memoir’, Derbyshire Archaeological Journal, 93 (1973), 5–8; the whole of this special issue of the Journal, which Joan edited, was dedicated to Bestall's memory.

^12. See note 7 above.