A woman removes a cardboard box from a long set of shelves in a strong room
Join us for the second webinar in our 2026 series, hosted by @librariesconnected.bsky.social, looking at the practical issues you may need to address as you prepare for Local Government Reorganisation: members.librariesconnected.org.uk/events/69b14...
📅Wednesday 18 March 2026 (14:00 – 15:00)
Fantastic fully funded PhD opportunity from @camglamresearch.bsky.social on the entomology of East Anglia and the associated archival records.
Bugs'n'books.
www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/initiatives/...
Reassured to see that Duolingo is equipping me with allllllllll the vocab I'm likely to need on my next trip to Deutschland 🙄
Must be high-resolution digital images
Archives using the toolkit must have permission to use the images (inc. printing them for school workshops)
Provide credit line as ‘Archive service name/copyright holder + catalogue reference’
Submit to hannah@hjsheritage.co.uk by Wednesday 25 March (2/2)
A student wearing school uniform stands in a repository by an open drawer. He looks down at a large document showing illustrations of country houses.
Would you like your archive’s collections to feature in a new toolkit which will help young people understand the career opportunities within archives?
To be considered, submit up to 3 digital images of records (any type from any period on any topic are welcome!)
See requirements 👇(1/2)
A record keeper looks at a large drawing in the open draw of a repository. The drawing contains illustrations of steam trains and horses and carriages.
Here’s our weekly slate of upcoming events with spaces still available!
These events cover our open grant schemes, heritage science, community engagement, carbon literacy and more: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-sec...
Book now to avoid disappointment!
JOB ALERT 🚨
The Victoria and Albert Museum are looking to recruit a Curator of Dance.
More information & how to apply can be found here: vam.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/...
I would also pay actual cash for a Sweep cover of Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights
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!
See thread 👇(1/5)
📷 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:
www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cg...
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...
