With thanks to.
The archive is built on a network of people whose generosity makes the work possible. Local historians who open the right doors. National-park officers who introduce the archive to a tradition-bearer. Curators who point to the right collection. Academic specialists who answer a factual question that lets a page get an emphasis right. They are not subjects of the archive’s photographic work; they are its sources, in the proper documentary sense, and they are cited as such.
The recognition is permanent. Each Source has a permanent SR-NNNN citation marker, a profile page at /sources/<slug>, and is named on every archive entry their contribution made possible.
Ed March-Shawcross
Moor to Restore Officer
North York Moors National Park Authority
Mapped the human terrain of the North York Moors for the archive and offered the introductions on which the entire Moors strand will rest.
Read profile →Daniel Carpenter
Director
Heritage Crafts
Heritage Crafts’ formal endorsement of TEA, now part of every outreach email, and the introduction chain that produced the first Red List subject.
Read profile →Mary Lewis
Head of Craft Sustainability
Heritage Crafts
The introduction list that became the spine of the August Heart of England trip, and the network connection to peer photographer Rob Wade.
Read profile →Robert Frewen
Director, North
Country Land and Business Association (CLA)
The warm introductions to Upper Swaledale farmers that anchor the August 2026 Yorkshire Dales trip.
Read profile →Ellen Milner
Hay meadow advocate
Yorkshire Dales (independent)
Warm introductions to hay meadow landowners across Swaledale and Wensleydale, and a timing correction that reshaped the Yorkshire trip schedule.
Read profile →Christopher Rodrigues
Chairman / Custodian
Guild of Handicraft Trust (Court Barn Museum)
The formal introduction to Hart Gold and Silversmiths, and the broader Chipping Campden ‘beta site’ conversation around the Arts and Crafts heritage.
Read profile →Stan Lawler
Member
British Artist Blacksmiths Association (BABA)
The introduction to the National School of Blacksmithing at Holme Lacy and a route into the wider BABA membership.
Read profile →Alistair Audsley
Network connector
Independent
The route to Sumit Rai and the Bicester Heritage cluster, and the planned route to Roger W. Smith.
Read profile →Caroline Gould
Principal Archivist
Museum of English Rural Life (MERL), University of Reading
Advocacy that moved the MERL conversation from a routine deposit enquiry into the active partnership pathway in front of the May 2026 Acquisitions Committee.
Read profile →Ollie Douglas
Curator of Collections
Museum of English Rural Life (MERL), University of Reading
Framed the MERL conversation as “mutually beneficial collaboration” before the call began - the framing that opened the partnership pathway.
Read profile →Amy Belinick
[Title TBC - confirm with Amy]
Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust (QEST)
Concluded the verbal partnership agreement between QEST and TEA - a national channel of QEST-supported makers and master craftspeople.
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