Ooh, this looks fun.
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Ooh, this looks fun.
If you read our research re: marginalisation in the UK archives sector a few years ago, you should definitely check out this brilliant work by Melanie Griffin (2025), looking at recruitment & retention of disabled archive workers in USA rbm.acrl.org/index.php/rb...
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!
Didn’t get round to photos on yesterday’s perambulation in central London. Today to Teddington’s attempt at French gothic (now the Landmark Arts Centre) for an International Women’s Day concert w Twickenham Choral contributing Roxanna Panufnik’s Wild Musick along with Eleanor Daley’s Upon my Heart
There’s certainly supposed to be some around
#UnconfinedWalks Still a little hazy this morning
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
Are there people in digital scholarship/digital humanities looking at something like "adversarial vibe coding"?
I'm thinking 2 or 3 folks trying to tackle the same core problem, using LLM assisted tools, and then a post-hoc assessment not just of effectiveness, but comparative strategies, etc.
#UnconfinedWalks a misty day
Proven that synchrotrom x-ray can be used to touchlessly read magnetic media. Now experimenting with reading degraded motion picture film without even need to unroll the film. It's even sitting in the can. [jaw dropping] 🤯🤯🤯
#JTS2026 #WorthTheTicket
Really pleased to see the recording of Phillippa Hellawell (TNA) & Liberty Paterson (TNA)'s seminar on The Ship Bedford and the slave trade @long18thsem.bsky.social @ihrlibrary.bsky.social www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
"Voices in Slavery’s Archive: New project to map enslaved people’s testimony across Guyana."
I could not be more grateful for the opportunity to do this project w/ colleagues I deeply respect in Guyana and the UK.
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#UnconfinedWalks lovely evening
I’d missed this example of moral panic
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?
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Perth (12th March): www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/archives-r... (1/2)
#unconfinedWalks yesterday was back to grey and occasional rain. Today however the shorts were out!
We're thrilled to announce that our annual WW1 weekend will take place in Leeds at the Royal Armouries - Here is a taste of who to expect on the Saturday, with more names to come! @seaspitfires.com @peterhart.bsky.social Sign up for further updates via the link:
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<light cruiser HMS Dido, operating out of Alexandria and certainly included the convoy action which turned into the Second Battle of Sirte
There was a copy of the Malta Convoy book in the library at Ainsdale High so I read it back than (it was in a version with two other stories, one was a sub operating in the Med during the war, and I’m not quite sure about the third), but the coincidence struck me too. Grampy’s sea service was on>
A large drift of daffodils naturalised in grass with a road and Queen Anne period house beyond
Close-up of multi-headed daffodils with white outer petals and small yellow trumpet
Close up if white blossom, with more blossom on the same tree massed behind and distant glimpses of blue sky and white cloud behind
More blossom with a light pink tinge and some new coppery leaves breaking out
#UnconfinedWalks rather windy, but it’s definitely starting to look like spring out there!
Call for applications!
We are looking for a small press to take up a temporary residency at UCL!
£5,000 to spend flexibly, an opportunity to work with outstanding collections & collaborate with brilliant students and staff!
blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll...
On 27/28 February 1942 the British executed Operation BITING, raiding a radar installation at Bruneval to gain insights into German radar technology.
In is one of the forgotten little episodes of the desert war, they tried the same thing in December 1941 at Benina, but seem to have failed.
#UnconfinedWalks An evening ride today, the clearest part of the day
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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Aberdeen used the DPC Rapid Assessment Model to assess organizational and technical capabilities in conjunction with Jisc. This helped them to work out exactly what they needed in terms of infrastructure and functional requirements #CopimConference www.dpconline.org/digipres/imp...
Currently rehearsing Haydn’s The Seasons, on autumn with Austrian peasants greeting the new wine
⏲️ New episode out 🌆 @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social are back with a bonus episode on 15-Minute Cities.
How did such a sensible and benign approach to urban planning give birth to a wild conspiracy theory about authoritarianism?
Listen / watch now ➡️ linktr.ee/originstoryp...
Cover of book with text in yellow reading: The Firearm Revolution: From Renaissance Italy to the European Empires, overlaid on an image of an angel in seventeenth-century dress with wings and a long gun.
Hello Bluesky! My new book, THE FIREARM REVOLUTION, is out on 14 April. It’s about how a new technology changed society, and how hard it was to control. Here’s a little thread of what’s inside:
#UnconfinedWalks A greyer day cheered by blossom