Major news: A @nytimes.com story today reports on developments in our lawsuit, filed with @modernlanguage.bsky.social and @acls1919.bsky.social, opposing the illegal dismantling of the NEH.
The article covers newly released discovery in the case.
Here’s what discovery confirmed:
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black and white photo of a woman sitting at a drawing table with a kitten on her shoulder
shades of red and green squares make up a chevron or zig zag design
Enid Marx RDI (1902-1998) was an artist and painter most known for her work on the Utility Furniture Scheme as well as London Transport including this green and red 'Chevron' moquette ca1938-1945 #womenshistorymonth
Enid Marx and cat, @designcouncil.bsky.social archive, DCA/30/1/POR/M/41/2
The Bodleian one of the many libraries, archives and museums whose catalogues (which provide free, open research resources) are being hit hard by bots scraping content for AI companies.
It’s not that they shouldn’t do this, it’s just that they could be less aggressive in hammering servers.
New online hub helping partnerships promote wellbeing through archive exploration | The National Lottery Heritage Fund share.google/GZtWZn3hZNHk...
New platform to give care-experienced and adopted people better access to their records announced by
CoramBAAF & ARA today. The platform will make it easier for adopted & care-experienced people to find & access records relating to their adoption and time in care. www.archives.org.uk/news/new-pla...
The opening of Beowulf from the unique surviving manuscript of the Old English text, beginning with a large initial 'H'.
Hwaet! The Beowulf manuscript (Cotton MS Vitellius A XV) is now back online.
You can consult the entire manuscript through the online catalogue:
searcharchives.bl.uk/catalog/040-...
Discover Hella Jongerius' archives at Vitra Design Museum | Wallpaper* share.google/p7SU6U1dS3kU...
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
Oh no, I missed the follow up details. Next time!
Happy Birthday!
Making music with…paper?
Have you ever made music…with paper?
In 1960, founding Fluxus member Benjamin Patterson conceived of the score, Paper Piece.
BREAKING: As I was first to report earlier, Trump has nominated Bradford Wilson, who does not meet the statutory requirements—which include that the nominee be nonpartisan and professionally qualified—to be the next Archivist of the United States.
lastcampaign.substack.com/p/breaking-t...
On our 10th birthday, Art UK has reached a million artworks! Celebrate by sharing your 'one in a million' 🖼️
👉 Tag us and use #ArtUK10thbirthday – or fill in our form: https://artuk.org/discover/curations/one-in-a-million-chosen-by-you
Bernard Moss (1923–2012) © the artist's estate. 📷 Jewish Museum
News: we're thrilled to have received £80,000 of funding from the BFI to help us digitise a remarkable archive of agricultural films and make them available to the public!
Read more on the @uniofreading.bsky.social website:
www.reading.ac.uk/news/2026/Un...
At 08:06 GMT this morning a bus hit into the window frontage of Southwark Playhouse Borough after a collision on Newington Causeway. Our venue was closed at the time and no members of Southwark Playhouse staff were present or injured. We can confirm that both of our venues will be open and operating as normal this evening. Our thoughts are with those injured in the collision and we wish them speedy recoveries.
At 08:06 GMT a bus hit into the window frontage of Southwark Playhouse Borough after a collision on Newington Causeway.
Our venue was closed at the time and no members of Southwark Playhouse staff were injured.
We can confirm that our venues will be open and operating as normal this evening.
A close-up shot of a volunteer, wearing glasses and a blue jumper, scanning Archaeological 35mm Photographic negatives.
Are you an archives or heritage professional in Scotland?
Are you interested in applying for our Archives Revealed programme?
Sign up for one of our in-person support days:
Edinburgh (10th March): www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/archives-r...
Perth (12th March): www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/archives-r...
Sorry to hear that Michael Cook, one-time City Archivist of Newcastle as a precursor to a long and distinguished career, has died at the age of 94 news.liverpool.ac.uk/2026/02/11/o...
"dusty finds from the Faber archives" ☹️
We are looking at a large oak chest which is bounded in iron and has two iron hasps on either end of the lid and then a larger hasp in the centre with a lock. It has a round iron chain handle.
Want to see something old and gorgeous?
On this occasion it's not us, but this bobby dazzler - The Evidence Chest.
It has quite an interesting story. Join us!
@beinghumanfest.bsky.social have launched their 2026 funding grants! Open to researchers at universities & research orgs across the UK, to collaborate with local community & partners to create exciting public engagement projects.
For more info, head to: www.beinghumanfestival.org/get-involved
The archive volunteering award 2026 (UK & Ireland) is now accepting nominations - read more here www.archives.org.uk/news/the-ara...
Question: how did Mandelson forward government emails from a personal email account within four minutes of receiving them?
Surely he wasn’t permitted a blackberry with both personal and government email access?
Thanks to @thefnl.bsky.social this exceptionally rare Tudor map of Kingsbridge in Devon has been acquired for public research at the Devon Heritage Centre, after more than four centuries in private hands.
Great to hear Jill Craigie will have a blue plaque this year.
Her film ‘To be a Woman’ supported the Equal Pay Campaign petition way back in 1951
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#womensHistory @womenshistnet.bsky.social
