Tools and Trades History Society
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About TATHS
The Tools and Trades History Society is an educational charity, whose aim is to further the knowledge and understanding of hand tools and the trades in which they were used.
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The Amberley Group are hard at work building yet another extension to house their growing collection.
Dear Member,
You may be aware that on 25 May 2018 new General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) came into force. Under the terms of these regulations we are required to inform you about your personal data that we hold and how and by whom it can be accessed.
We have prepared a TATHS Privacy Policy showing the information we collect about you, how it is used and your rights regarding it. The Policy will bes included in this Newsletter and is also available on the TATHS Website in the About Section under Constitution: HERE
We need to record data such as names and addresses to manage your membership of TATHS and deliver the Newsletter and other publications to you. You agreed to us using that information when you joined TATHS but we now need to ask you for specific permission to continue to store and process your data for this purpose with immediate effect.
One way we have used your data has been to provide a Membership List available to all members who have registered for the Members Only section of the Website. If you wish your details to remain on that list we need a written confirmation from you that you are happy for us to make your details available to other members. The Membership List has been withdrawn from the website for a period to enable you to reply.
Many of you have provided TATHS with your e-mail address which has been very useful in arranging local meetings. If we could use email to deliver important notices instead of post it would help reduce our running costs and we are asking for your permission to do this. If you agree, please check that we do have your latest email address.
We are sorry to put you to the trouble of having to write back but it is our understanding that the GDPR requires us to obtain a written permission. Please therefore complete this form and return it to us, either by post or as a scanned copy.
Please send your reply to the Secretary at the address shown or to the Membership Secretary at the address shown on the back of the Newsletter. We need permission from all members within the UK and European Union.
TATHS has appointed Paul Coutts, Membership Secretary, as our Data Protection Officer to ensure your data is processed according to the law.
If you have any further questions or concerns regarding this notice or the TATHS Privacy Policy please contact Paul Coutts or Tony Waldis.
A special treat for members: Samuel J Hardman's paper on "History of the Can Opener" is available on the Members' page at CanOpeners
This is a fascinating paper and well worth reading, even if it is not within your area of interest. Mr Hardman has produced a well researched account of the development of the can opener and similar tools, illustrated with photographs from his collection. Some of them look very similar to our "Whatsits"!
A Happy New Year to everyone interested in old tools and crafts.
As the New Year is a major festival in the Far East, I thought it would be interesting to introduce an oriental flavour and feature some tools from Japan. Here is a short article on Japanese sumitsubo (ink pots for laying down a line on timber), which may be of interest.
Richard Philips has helpfully expanded on the background to our recent publication on ropeworks. Some useful links here.
The TATHS publication of Mr Ellwood's memoir, 'Yarns from the Ropeworks' is commendably well produced, my compliments to you and your printer. I know how much effort Mrs Robinson put into editing Mr Ellwood's memoir, and taking photographs.
There is a wealth of material contained in the back issues of the TATHS Journals and Newsletters. It deserves to be better known and used. So, as a present to all our visitors, we are publishing copies of all the issues we hold up to 2012. You can find them under the "Resources" menu at the top of the page.
The first 70 issues of the Newsletter have been indexed and we have included both a title and a subject index in the lists. The pages also give a short list of key articles in each edition although they do not do justice to the detail and insights which you can find in the correspondence and "Whatsits" sections.
Go and have a look!