Child on the train has just loudly told her little brother to get his dusty, musty, crusty hands out of the communal bag of crisps. Voluble, irritating but A+ on vocab
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Child on the train has just loudly told her little brother to get his dusty, musty, crusty hands out of the communal bag of crisps. Voluble, irritating but A+ on vocab
Suttons floral display at the Chelsea Flower Show, 1958 – a grass bath runs through beds containing a vast variation of flower types.
We are thrilled to announce, with our partners The National Lottery Heritage Fund, the Pilgrim Trust & the Wolfson Foundation that #ArchivesRevealed has awarded 14 cataloguing grants, and a consortium grant!
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📷 Royal Horticultural Society
A wide shot of a construction site where the refurbished and redesigned buildings of The Box, Plymouth would eventually stand.
These new case studies – developed to support the work of The Major Archive Projects Learning Exchange – are ideal for archive services considering a capital development project!
Share with your colleagues and let us know what you think: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-sec...
© The Box
A small girl wearing a rabbit costume and blue coat carries a book as she walks to school. Her mother (head out of shot) wheels her baby brother along in a pushchair. The baby says "Peter Rabbit may be the 'Hero' of the story, but surely the obedient, widowed Mrs Rabbit is a more effective symbol of the oppression inherent within Mister McGregor's regime" The girls looks furious and snaps "Mum!! He's critiquing my world book day costume from a marxist perspective again!"
A cartoon reminder that tomorrow is World Book Day (In the UK anyway). Originally for the @theguardian.com
Run by The National Archives and @araukie.bsky.social, this event builds on last year’s Leadership for Recordkeepers Summit.
A limited number of travel bursaries are available through the booking link! (2/2)
This is the first of several regional workshops exploring what others have achieved with heritage science and how you can apply to make use of the RICHeS programme’s facilities, expertise, and resources: www.eventbrite.com/cc/introduci... (2/2)
📣📡 Calling all #archives with collections of #audiovisual recordings of performance or rehearsals! We need your help! With a *very* short and friendly survey: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/oxford/aud... 📽️📼🎭🪩 @apac-ssn.bsky.social 🙏
A white rectangular cake with the 'Accredited Archive Service' logo branded into the icing.
John Sheridan presents an accreditation certificate to Cllr Nadia Cenci in a lecture theatre.
John Sheridan, Cllr Nadia Cenci and Judith Berry stand in a lecture theatre, stand in a line smiling for the camera. Berry holds up the accreditation certificate.
Twelve white cup cakes - half are branded with the 'Accredited Archive Service' logo, the other half have 'Suffolk Archives' printed on them.
On Friday, our Chief Digital and Information Officer John Sheridan presented Cllr Nadia Cenci, Suffolk County Council, and Judith Berry from Suffolk Archives with a certificate marking their retention of accredited status!
Congratulations to everyone at @suffolkarchives.bsky.social!
Two people work at a computer monitor resizing scanned photographs on the screen.
Here’s our weekly slate of upcoming events with spaces still available!
These events cover sustainability action planning, community engagement, criminal justice records, heritage science and more: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-sec...
Book now to avoid disappointment!
Great opportunity to be involved in something new at The National Archives, based in my department but collaborating across the organisation and the wider archive sector.
Regional Loans Programme Coordinator:
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We can't wait to hear your ideas! 🤹♀️
Find out more about the #WomenInCircus Symposium on Wednesday 5 August 2026: tinyurl.com/WomenInCircu...
@openresshef.bsky.social @unishefplayer.bsky.social @whiteroselibraries.bsky.social @whiteroseuc.bsky.social @apac-ssn.bsky.social
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An archivist, wearing a yellow cardigan, stands in a repository removing a cardboard box from a long line of shelves which hold almost identical cardboard boxes.
Join us on 25 March for our next online lunchtime event exploring how archives can engage with difficult records through people-centred and trauma-informed practices!
This month’s theme: Working with criminal justice records
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/working-wi...
As far as I know, farm archives have never really been used to track queer histories before. Given they mostly record the financial ongoings on a given farm, you can understand why. However, my year of research at The MERL has proved their potential.
Find out more in this blog:
Thanks to the National Lottery Heritage Fund for highlighting the Change Minds project on its website. Read all about the project and the impact it has had on the participants, thanks to the funding received over the past decade. www.heritagefund.org.uk/stories/onli...
Archivists taking boxes from stacks and metal shelves at Ironbridge Museum Trust Archive
Calling policy makers, practitioners and researchers!
We’re hosting an event, with @ucl.ac.uk, to present new research from an AHRC-funded collaborative doctoral award on voluntary sector organisations and their important contributions to record-keeping: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/charity-ar...
📆13 May
A woman sits in an office smiling as she types something into a laptop.
We’re pleased to announce that 17 digital projects are underway for the 2026 peer mentoring programme!
Mentees are matched with an experienced digital professional and work with them over 6 months to shape and develop a digital project for their archive…
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-sec...
A woman sits at a red table in a reading room with a large black-and-white illustration book open in front of her. Another woman, wearing a lanyard, is stood behind her also looking at the open book.
Here’s our weekly slate of upcoming events with spaces still available!
These events cover sustainability action planning, community engagement, manorial records, heritage science and more: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-sec...
Book now to avoid disappointment!
Madeline Horwath on the end of the Winter Olympics – cartoon www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Learn more about the discovery process behind our current exhibition, Love Letters.
From structured research to serendipitous finds — three specialists and a volunteer share the thrill of uncovering heartfelt emotions centuries later: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/explore-the-...
I think this would improve almost every conference I've been to; even when people finish their presentations on time, a bear hanging round on stage would add to the general gaiety. I'd also let him deal with anyone who turns up with a Mac they want to plug in without having brought the right cable.
And as for the old 'this is more of a comment than a question' people...
And all of a sudden, the next verse makes *so* much more sense...
'Oops, was that your apartment block that I inadvertently crushed with my tail?
Gosh, this is awkward'
Manorial Court Roll from Crown Manor of Perching, Sussex 1849
📣Calling archive professionals
Join us on 17 & 24 March for a two-part online introduction to manorial records: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/introducti...
No previous knowledge of manorial documents or Latin required!
Registration for History and Archives in Practice is now OPEN!
We can't wait to host #HAP26 and explore intersections of archives and history!
@unisheffieldlib.bsky.social @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy @ihr.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.org
More info and to register ➡️ tinyurl.com/2skavaty
Four students in school uniform stand in a line in front of a glass exhibition cabinet and a labelled poster of a world map.
We’re seeking a supplier, with significant experience of archives and public engagement work, to create a new toolkit to help archives run engagement sessions for schools about archive careers!
Find out more and apply here by Wednesday 25 February: www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/QW5177/
Get in touch with us by Friday if you’re interested in presenting at our fundraising webinar: www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/EJERFR/
All you need to apply is a brief description of an income-generating initiative your archive has successfully implemented 📈
Five people stand in front of a wall of book shelves talking. Two of the people appear to be in fancy dress. One man wears a top hat, long black coat, cravat and golden pocket watch. Another woman wears a Victorian era blue dress.
Communities can now make submissions, detailing their traditions and heritage practices, to the Inventories of Living Heritage: livingheritage.unesco.org.uk
Archives are a key safeguarding resource for documenting intangible heritage and can be cited in submissions as a key source of information!
If only everything in life was as permanent and reassuring as Clare Balding's hair.
A man wearing a lanyard sits in an office watching something on a computer monitor.
Check out our website for all upcoming free online events with spaces still available!
Our current slate covers strategic advocacy, data migration, records of traumatic histories and more: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-sec...
🎫Book now to avoid disappointment!
