Caroline Catchpole

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Keen to share your thoughts on our 3-year digital capacity building strategy?

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Dawson’s Creek was my entire teenage years. I was obsessed in that unique teenage girl obsession way. I can’t believe James Van Der Beek has died. Cancer can absolutely fuck right off.

The NFL: overall, wish it wasn’t a thing. But props to them for green lighting Bad Bunny’s halftime show. Magnificent. Gives me a glimmer of hope

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CLOSING IN 2 WEEKS 🚨
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✨ We’re excited to share the first articles from AI & ARCHIVES — a special issue of the new journal Cambridge Forum on AI: Culture and Society (Cambridge University Press). www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📢 DPC Members 📢 Join us on 3 Feb, 14:00–16:00 UTC for 💾 Copy That Floppy… LIVE! 💾
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If you would like to actively participate in tomorrows Holocaust Memorial Day #HMD2026, EHRI has some suggestions for you, from the US to Poland, from online to in person. Some events are live-streamed; some activities digital; access for all. #IHRA #ESHEM www.ehri-project.eu/holocaust-me...

Today, on #HolocaustMemorialDay, we remember the 6 million Jews murdered in the Holocaust, the millions more murdered under Nazi persecution, as well as all those who have been persecuted during genocides worldwide buff.ly/tuqqfvy

The Turner & Constable exhibition poster at Tate Britain

The dog doesn’t let me go to many exhibitions anymore (such a tyrant) but I made it to this one and omg, so glad I did. Just exquisite. To see them next to each other & read about their respective careers. Top notch (I say this as the most basic art person you’ll ever meet).

Today we launched our Digital Collections Portal. A platform to provide access to our born digital collections.
postalmuseum.access.preservica.com/portal

#digipres #access

Also, grief is hard because now I miss them so much today

I had the loveliest dream about someone I love who died & we sat on a sofa & chatted and caught up about life. It wasn’t like they weren’t here anymore, almost like they’d just been in another room. I truly believe their spirit is still with me & it’s nice to check in from time to time 🩶

I read the house interiors are nice, so willing to watch just for those tbh

On this day in 1912 the British Polar Party headed by Captain Scott reached the South Pole.

Oh no, I was waiting for that to come into streaming somewhere. The books are sort of readable so I was willing to give the film a go.

My barometer of how light it’s getting is not having to put the dog’s light up collar on for his late afternoon walk 👏🏻

Still open, till end of next week. Can you be part of taking the sector standard forward for the next few years? Bring your ideas and experience, and form part of a really impactful UK archives programme.

Windows into past worlds - using maps to find forgotten history - Global Maritime History Amy Walker is a historian specialising in histories of poverty, ‘ordinary people’, and heritage. She completed an Undergraduate degree at the University of Greenwich and a Masters degree at the Instit...

Congratulations to our @ihr.bsky.social MA student Amy Walker @amywalkerhist.bsky.social, who completed the course this autumn, on this blog post - giving an insight into her fascinating research into social history and ordinary lives in #Greenwich.
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Black and white photograph showing the Chancellor of the University of Exeter (centre) - Mary Cavendish, the Duchess of Devonshire - with two honorary graduates on either side of her. A small boy also stands to her left. The honorary graduates - Agatha Christie (far left), Theodor Heuss, William Hodge and Bernard Leach - are wearing velvet bonnets.

Information box containing a cropped image of a letter signed by Agatha Christie on the right hand side, and on the left hand side, the following text: "This collection is from the offices of Hughes Massie and Co. Ltd. relating to Agatha Christie's literary estate. Throughout her career her agent was Edmund Cork, and these files were created by him to reflect his dealings with publishers, film-makers and other professional persons with an interest in the Christie estate, including Agatha Christie herself, and her husband, Sir Max Mallowan. Each file of correspondence relates to a particular year, and may include correspondence between Agatha Christie and Edmund Cork, correspondence between Cork and American literary agent, Harold Ober, and other interested parties. There are between 5,000-6,000 letters in the collection. Further information is available on the archive catalogue."

Agatha Christie died on 12 January 1976 - 50 years ago today.

Did you know our Agatha Christie business papers comprise thousands of letters, incl. from the novelist herself?

📷 EUL UA/P/5i: Christie receiving an honorary degree from @exeter.ac.uk in 1961

#AgathaChristie #OnThisDay #OTD #Archives

The Life of Chuck & People We Meet on Vacation are two very good, very watchable Netflix film recs

Does anyone know of any large collections of correspondence between women covering the 1910s-1960s? I have surveyed a huge collection covering 30+ years of friendship and I’m wondering how unique it is?

The dog definitely has a softer snore. And you’re right. I was watching tv & not trying to sleep at the time!

Two people stand in the corridor of a repository looking through a series of black and white photographs.

We’re seeking 5 new members to join the Archive Service Accreditation Committee!

Do you have experience supporting development across a range of archive services and good understanding of the UK’s accreditation standard?

Apply by 23 January: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-sec...

Listening to my dog snoring next to me is so cute. Yet, if it were my husband, all I’d want to do is gently poke him in the ribs to make it stop. The dog is definitely spoilt.

That’s true. Health and all that.

I feel virtuous this year because last year my number one purchase was nice & spicy Nik Naks whereas this year, it’s red peppers. Not that I stopped buying Nik Naks, mind, so i probably can’t be too smug.

Hey Bluesky, send us your best ducks

(Happy #InternationalUnsolicitedDuckPicDay to all who celebrate)

An illuminated moon installation on the lawn of Gilbert Whites House with the house lit up in the background.

This year we chose to go somewhere smaller for our annual winter lights outing & @gilbertwhites.bsky.social did not disappoint! With the added bonus of the trail starting through the house & a focus on trying to minimise the impact of the lights on the environment with UV torches to use outside.

She is a lyrical genius & one of the best types of humans
& I won’t hear a bad word said of her 🤩

Seeing the Eras tour at Wembley was genuinely one of the highlights of my life and the docuseries they’ve released on Disney of it is everything I need rn (100% would recommend watching the final night show if you have Disney)