Salon du Cadeau 25 Nov - 4 Dec Les Halles Courtrai Designer: Boudewijn Delaere, VVG Icograda / theICoD Archive ICO/3/3/41 @arascot.bsky.social #ArchiveAdventCalendar #boxesandbows

Calling all Interpretation Consultants! Our members Birse Community Trust are out to tender for a Digital Interpretation Consultant for their exciting Ballogie Souter's (shoemaker's) shop project. You can find the full details on our website. heritagetrustnetwork.org.uk/jobs/ #HeritageJobs

Next Wednesday, we make our final Visit of 2025 to historians @lshtm.bsky.social and @ioe.bsky.social. Our focus is on working as a historian outside 'traditional' history departments - something that's increasingly common. The RHS welcomes historians to join us, wherever they work bit.ly/3KBcnTy

Hinter dem Regenbogen Horst Kleineidam Staatsschauspiel Dresden Uraufführung Behind the Rainbow Horst Kleineidam State Theatre Dresden Premiere Icograda / theICoD Archive ICO/3/13/99 #EYAMedieval #ExploreYourArchive @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social

Planning your week? 📖 Join Samuel Moore & Heather Joseph as they explore PUBLISHING BEYOND THE MARKET & how collective, scholar-led publishing can reshape open access. 📆 Thurs Dec 4th 🕙 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET 📍 Online 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1839631951... @SamuelMoore.org @HJoseph.bsky.social

Design, December 1955 @DesignCouncil Archive

New publishing opportunity! The London Record Society are looking for someone to edit a volume based on the archive of the Working Ladies' Guild, which supported impoverished women in late nineteenth-century Britain. Further information and contact details in the text below.

📣 Call for Papers 📣 Please share widely. I am pleased to announce a #CfPs for the upcoming international conference on Museums and Dissidence at @officialuom.bsky.social Scan the QR code for further details. #Museums #Dissidence #PoliticalDisagreement #Conference #MuseumActivism

'Archival Reader' in action! Cutting edge technology in use in the University of Warwick Library, beaming microfilmed content to a very 1960s student #Warwick60 More '60s and '70s campus photos online at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...

Designing from Home: A new short film by design historian @harrietatkinson.bsky.social & Design Archives Director @suebreakell.bsky.social uncovers the domestic space which shaped the life & work of renowned graphic designer & German-Jewish emigrant FHK Henrion (1914-1990) vimeo.com/1133125381?s...

The Willy de Majo Archive catalogue is now live on the ArchivesHub! Read the feature from @sirps.bsky.social on the Hub blog and explore the catalogue here: archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/designarchiv...

Now open: call for the Royal Historical Society's First Book and Early Career Article Prizes, 2026. Eligible titles, published in 2025, may be submitted by the author before the closing date of 15 December. Further details and how to apply: bit.ly/3KnR47v #Skystorians

De-energize the crisis eliminate Designed and produced as a public service by Raychem Corporation Designer: John Rieben Icograda / ICoD Archive ICO/3/32/116

🔔 1 DAY TO GO! Job spec, salary details & how to apply here: buff.ly/q1SSXCM ROLE: Ski Collections Cataloguer FULL TIME: 37 hpw DURATION: Fixed Term: 5 months 🔔 CLOSING DATE: 25-Nov-25🔔 @dmu.ac.uk @icshc.bsky.social @librarydmu.bsky.social @araukie.bsky.social

EVENT: Join C20 for a special curator talk and tour of the new exhibition, Theo Crosby: 100 Lives at Osh Gallery - celebrating the visionary architect, designer, curator and artist. 🗓️ Tue 9 Dec 2025 - 6:30-8PM 📍 Osh Gallery, 46 Essex Road, London 🎟️ Tickets: secure.c20society.org.uk/Default.aspx...

Today we publish groundbreaking new research showing that public #Libraries in the South East deliver millions in value by supporting mental health and wellbeing, particularly among older people. Find out more: www.librariesconnected.org.uk/news/south-e...

In case you missed it the #ArchiveAdventCalendar is back 🥳🎉

Call for papers #CFP Blood is the Price of Coal: Coal Communities, Health and Welfare in Britain and Beyond from the 19th Century to the Present 18 June 2026: 1 day conference + NUM archive exhibition Submit abstracts / express interest at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib... Deadline: 25 Jan 2026

A reminder that Professor Annebella Pollen will be in conversation with Associate Professor Sally-Anne Huxtable, guest editor of recently-published special issue of the Journal of Design History 'Design and the Occult', next week. This event will be held online, register here:

In this month's Routes to Design History podcast, we talk to Ana Elena Mallet, an independent curator specializing in modern and contemporary design, and cultural management. Listen here: buff.ly/b99Fyph

The City in Maps: Urban mapping to 1900 4 June 1986 - 31 December 1987 at @britishlibrary.bsky.social Designed by John Ronayne Icograda / The ICoD Archive ICO/3/54/18 #MapMonday

🔔 We are recruiting! Job spec, salary details & how to apply here: buff.ly/q1SSXCM ROLE: Ski Collections Cataloguer FULL TIME: 37 hpw DURATION: Fixed Term: 5 months CLOSING DATE: 25-Nov-25 @dmu.ac.uk @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social @icshc.bsky.social @librarydmu.bsky.social @araukie.bsky.social

Don't forget to sign up for our Routes to Design History mentorship and networking event next week, where you can engage with an international group of scholars, practitioners, and professionals who have featured as speakers on our RTDH podcast. Book your place here: buff.ly/G7fDAnA

Theo Crosby: 100 Lives An exhibition about designer Theo Crosby (1925-1994) is on now through 11 December at Osh Gallery, London @pentagramdesign.bsky.social More about the exhibition here: www.oshgallerylondon.com And more about the Crosby archive here: blogs.brighton.ac.uk/brightondesi...

Currently doing some marking. A reminder to everyone involved in archives and collections: digitisation is not preservation. If I digitise a box of records and put the files on a USB stick I haven't preserved a thing. It's all about what you do with the files post-digitisation. #archives #digipres

⏳Still time to register!⏳ Sign up to OHNI's 'Archiving and Oral History' ONLINE workshop with the Digital Repository of Ireland, focusing on archiving #oralhistories 💻Friday 21st November 3-5:30pm 🎟️Member €35/Non-Member €50 #OralHistory #OHNI #DRI oralhistorynetworkireland.ie/event/archiv...

🚨 Archive Job Alert 🚨 📜 Fancy working with our fantastic archive collections? We're looking for a *new* MRC Manager to lead our service! Could this be YOU? Find out more about the role at warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G... More about the MRC at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...

Join Professor Annebella Pollen for an online in-conversation event with Associate Professor Sally-Anne Huxtable, guest editor of recently-published special issue of the Journal of Design History 'Design and the Occult' and Chair of the Design History Society. Reserve your place: buff.ly/TaiOP06

Careers with Art History: Working in Museums and Galleries - A morning of careers advice from professionals working in museums and galleries. Join us for a free webinar offering an overview of a museum and gallery-based roles and routes into them. 📍Online 📆Sat 15 Nov 🎟️ https://loom.ly/ppSqlNY

Cronmatch Colour Scale, from the Willy de Majo Archive. WDM/2/4/10

It's today and there are a few spaces left if you'd like to visit the #Georgian seaside with us

Design, November 1955 Cover designed by FHK Henrion @designcouncil.bsky.social archive

!! CORRECTION - Closing date 11 Nov!! 📣 Job alert! We are looking for a permanent full-time archivist to join our friendly team! Closing date: 11 November 2025 Apply at: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr... #ArchiveJobs #LibraryJobs #Heritage #ExeterJobs #Exeter #Archives #RareBooks

Could you be our new Student Ambassador? If you have a strong interest in the history of design or related fields and a commitment to equal opportunities and inclusive practices we want to hear from you! To find out more visit our website: buff.ly/JCbTcey

Another installment in the surprising reach of the 1951 Festival of Britain: the scale model of the Midland Railway completed for the Festival in the then Derby Borough Museum. Now located in the Silk Mill Museum of Making.

The National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) Digital Preservation Conference playlist is now available on YouTube with 37 videos from the conference! #digipres #DigitalPreservation #archives #library 📚 www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Black history month. @lselibrary.bsky.social amazing oral histories black women NGO leaders. 16 collected womens resource centre digital.library.lse.ac.uk/collections/... #blackhistorymonth @lsemedia.bsky.social @lseanthropology.bsky.social @lsegender.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social

One week to go to my Photo Oxford talk at @bodleianlibs about the photographic and artistic life of Constance Talbot. Hear about her witnessing the birth of #photography and maintaining a love of art throughout her life. 5th November 1-2pm Weston Library: photooxford.org/events/const...

We've got a new job available here in the archive! We're looking for an Archive Assistant to support our collections team. For more information, head to jobs.buckinghamshire.gov.uk/job_detail/3...

The Discipline of Design in Cold War Brazil: Professionalization, Modernization and Authoritarianism (1947-1985) A talk by Dr Livia Rezende, Senior Lecturer in Design History & Theory at UNSW Sydney, part of the IOTA II series, more info available here: blogs.brighton.ac.uk/brightondesi...

Watch: archive.org/details/the-...

I'm so pleased to share this Call for Papers for a conference on Food and Nutrition in Wartime in the Modern World, 19th-21st centuries, organised with my colleagues Chris Batten and @rfhodge.bsky.social, kindly supported by @fwwsoc.bsky.social. Submissions to [email protected] by 22/12/25!

On Friday 21 November we host the 2025 RHS Anniversary Lecture given this year by Prof. Jane Ohlmeyer (Trinity College Dublin): bit.ly/48NJHR5 ‘Visible | Invisible: Voices of Women in Early Modern Ireland‘ 6pm, at Mary Ward House, London, and online. Booking now open and all welcome. #Skystotrians

Coming soon to British Online Archives — Witchcraft and Magic in England, c. 1400–1920. Featuring rare records from The National Archives, British Library, UCL, and The Folklore Society. Register your interest: buff.ly/YBeFCF1

Clocking on for spooky season.

Next week's International Council on Archives’ (ICA) Section on University & Research Institutions Archives conference about 'challenges towards sustainability' includes the Design Archives' @sirps.bsky.social presenting their ongoing research, read more here: blogs.brighton.ac.uk/brightondesi...

National Army Museum identifies portrait of Black Waterloo veteran: www.theguardian.com/culture/2025... #Hstory #BlackHistory 🗃️

Women In Print: 150 Years of Liberty Textiles At the William Morris Gallery through June 2026, including this portrait of textile designer Jacqueline Groag from the @designcouncil.bsky.social archive More information here: www.wmgallery.org.uk/event/women-... DCA/30/1/POR/G/50/1

The Society now invites applications for its Workshop Grants programme 2026: bit.ly/4oPyUdZ Grants provide funding for groups of historians to come together for a day event to work collaboratively on a shared project. Closing date for applications: Friday 23 January 2026 #Skystorians