This is a slightly strange title to see on the cover of a document. Don't Look Within would be even more tempting

Cambridgeshire Archives' bake off starts again this week, in which we bake using actual recipes from historical documents that we hold, keeping to the ingredients and method of cooking as much as possible. Which member of the team will win this year? #bakeoff www.facebook.com/Cambridgeshi...

Nice wallpaper! One of our searchers has had a huge copy of our 1604 map of the Fens printed for the wall of their office #cambridgeshirearchives #oldmaps #fens #fenland www.facebook.com/oxwillow/pos...

🔍 Did you know that we have a searchable dataset that draws on records of Londoners of African, Caribbean, Asian and Indigenous heritage in our parish registers from 1561-1840? The project started in 2000 and, thanks to our staff and volunteers, now has records of 2600 Londoners! #SwitchingTheLens

#Medieval tile pavement Burton Lazars, #Leicestershire c. 1450-1525 From the master house of the Order of St Lazarus of Jerusalem - a leper hospital. It includes heraldry & a merchant’s mark, suggesting one donated to the hospital. Now #BritishMuseum #London #TilesOnTuesday

Huntingdon Town Hall is one of my favourite buildings in the whole county, a definite hidden treasure. The ballroom includes portraits by #JoshuaReynolds and #GainsboroughDupont

New Orleans court officials have been searching for records dumped in a landfill by City workers www.nola.com/news/landfil...

Upcoming talk alert! Former Cambs Archives team member Laura Housden will be giving a talk at the Museum of Cambridge on 14 August about the files of the Cambridge Charity Organisation Society, formed in 1879 to relieve distress of the ‘deserving poor.’ www.museumofcambridge.org.uk/event/mappin...

Archbishop Matthew Parker was born #OTD in 1504. He left the bulk of his collection to @parkerlibcccc.bsky.social but in 1574 gave us 100 books, including this new edition of the Gospels in Anglo Saxon type (1571). The notes are by Abraham Wheelock, first Cambridge Professor of Arabic. CUL 1.24.9.

This photo could almost have been taken 380 years ago 🙂

Other papers of Alice Thornton & her wider family are at North Yorkshire County Record Office & @thorntonsbooks represents the project

#randomdocument 20: "Bennet is punish’t Sixpence for pocketing the Cucumber & one Shilling for Blotting the Book." Always nice to see justice done for cucumber pocketing. From the Society of Cambridge Youths account book for 1764 #cambridgeshirearchives

Here's a fabulous train going up the Hopton Incline of the Cromford and High Peak Railway, near Middleton, in 1950. This is now part of the High Peak Trail, a 17 mile trail for walkers and cyclists, from High Peak Junction near Cromford to just south of Buxton. #Railway200 #trains #history

Sophie Bridges, one of our archivists, will be presenting on ‘Responsibility without authority’: Angela Raspin and Churchill Archives Centre’ at the Women's History Network conference this September. You can register to attend online at the link below ⬇️ #WomensHistory #Archives

The Internet Archive (which I've used quite a lot to research Cambridgeshire CC's committee and sub-committee history) is now a US federal deposit library www.kqed.org/news/1204942...

Step into nature with Hunts Archives! Join us in Huntingdon library on Saturday afternoon as we showcase a fascinating display of records of the natural world including historic maps, pictures and diaries. Tickets are £3, pre-book here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-step-int... #huntingdonshirearchives

📖 Ever wondered what an #archive looks like beyond the reading rooms? 📚 Join us for our monthly behind the scenes tours of our site, featuring over 100km of shelving, followed by a special display of historic documents 📜 📅 Next tour - Wednesday 6 August 🎫 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/behind-the... .

Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire parish registers are now available on Ancestry. Over four million entries! www.ancestry.co.uk/cs/recent-co... #genealogy #familyhistory #cambridgeshirearchives #huntingdonshirearchives #chfhs #cambs #hunts #parishregisters

Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire parish registers have made it to Ancestry. In between enquiries today I'll be sure to be looking at my relatives. Available for free in all Cambridgeshire libraries www.ancestry.co.uk/cs/recent-co...

. @fhsofcheshire.bsky.social's #FridayRoundUp At #Ancestry this week new parish register records for #Cambridgeshire and #Huntingdonshire and estate records from Ballynahinch, #Galway Full list of all updates, including world wide in screenshot below with Alt Text as usual

Cambridgeshire Archives scanning bureau specialises in the digitisation of historical documents. Here's our photographer Soo at work! Prices start at £8.90 for a single item up to A3 size. A link to our prices: www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/residents/li... #cambridgeshirearchives

This is very nice! A community-based railway project, focused on the #Axminster-Lyme Regis branch line. #Railway200 #RailwayHistory Photographs & films to come soon, plus lots of dates where the team behind this are out & about: fortheloveofarailway.co.uk

80 years ago today, the Potsdam Conference began. Lettice Marston (later Churchill's personal secretary 1946-65) went to Berlin as a member of the planning staff making arrangements for the conference on the post-war future of Europe. Marston's archive is a recent addition to our collections

Join us on the evening of Tuesday 29 July for one of our popular guided walks around 17th century Huntingdon, including royal visits, a Civil War battle, witch trials, Pepys and (of course) Cromwell. More details and bookings at: www.cromwellmuseum.org/events/cromw...

Well done Luke! 🙂

Delighted we were able to support the BL to save for the nation five exceptional medieval mss from Longleat House - Including an unparalleled volume for the study of Hebrew in medieval England, comprising a trilingual Hebrew-Latin-Old French dictionary, glossed Hebrew Psalter, & Hebrew grammar.

Hello, Bluesky! 👋 We are King’s College London Archives and the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives. We have millions of items covering 3 centuries of King’s and merged institutions & over 800 collections of senior British Military personnel. We can't wait to share our fantastic collections!

Most people know the Baptist Church on St Andrew's Street in Cambridge. However, did you know it used to look like this? It was replaced with the current building in 1903.

This weekend sees Civil War reenactors taking over Castle Hills in Huntingdon with living history, drill displays and a skirmish each day as part of Huntingdonshire History Festival - More details at: www.cromwellmuseum.org/events/battl... Do come along! 😀⚔️

More donations keep coming in - here's some photos of the opening of the Wimpole Way in 1989. You never know what the next envelope will contain around here.

I'm off to Ely Library next week for a talk on smallholding and gardening. It'll be on Tuesday 8th July at 2pm and you'll get a cup of tea and a biscuit afterwards. Do come along if you're free. There's more details at www.library.live/calendar/d7a...

And I forgot to add you can listen to our podcast on this project - The Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland - featuring Zoe Reid (pictured in the article) here sites.libsyn.com/448569/beyon...

News | Largest collection of filmed HIV/Aids testimonies opens to public – three-year project was led by the National HIV Story Trust @thelondonarchives.bsky.social #HIVStory #NationalHIVStoryTrust

The US National Archives' forthcoming exhibition will include some horseshoes given to President George HW Bush by Elizabeth II and a red necktie given to President Donald Trump by Italian PM Paolo Gentiloni. Seems to be stretching archive theory a bit visit.archives.gov/whats-on/exp...

tldr: yes.

Our friends at United Bricks have produced for us a range of Civil War figures, ideal for LEGO and 17th Century enthusiasts alike! They include a pikeman, musketeer, officer, Charles I and Cromwell figures - they're now available to order online at: shop.cromwellmuseum.org/products/civ... 😀

Our final spring online lecture is next Wednesday, 18 June, when the excellent @jonathanhealey.bsky.social will be talking about the subject of his new book, 'The Blood In Winter' and how the country tipped into Civil War.⚔️ Bookings at: www.cromwellmuseum.org/events/the-b... - don't miss it! 😀

Great to hear more recognition for Lise Meitner, whose contributions to nuclear physics were essential yet often overlooked. We preserve Lise's personal archive here in Cambridge, and researchers are welcome to access it: archivesearch.lib.cam.ac.uk/repositories...

Site of first purpose-built prisoner of war camp saved by Historic England funding Norman Cross prison in Cambridgeshire was home to up to 7,000 inmates during French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars www.theguardian.com/culture/2025... #History #PrisonHistory 🗃️

From 'Breathe through your nose' to 'Care for your feet', a cast of largely unimpressed London infants spreading the municipal health message in 1938 More excellent health advice available through our digitised sources on British healthcare, 1900-1948, at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...

#randomdocument 19: St Ives cattle market 1886. Occasionally cattle would force their way through front doors and run upstairs, sometimes even breaking windows to fall to the street below. This photo is a favourite; it was once used in an episode of Sapphire and Steel #huntingdonshirearchives

Not every day you get a gong at the Libraries Connected Awards. Very cool! This was for all my work making local studies more accessible, particularly setting up Picture Cambridgeshire. #LCSeminar2025

Our spring online lecture this week, on Wednesday 10 June at 7.30pm, is Erica Canela talking on Cromwell and the Quakers, the radical & controversial religious group of the 1650s! More details on how to join the talk (live or by watching a recording) at: cromwellmuseum.org/events/cromw...

Cambridgeshire County Council has reaffirmed its commitment to children in care following comments at a recent public meeting.

Had a wander around on my lunch break and found this - another Dinky door! This one is just by the Cambridge University Press bookshop and how I've missed it before now I don't know.

The longest lasting of the original gang of Cambridgeshire County Council committees was the Cromwell Museum Management Committee which survived, unchanged in both name and remit, for 43 years until 2016. That's nearly four times longer than the Interregnum itself @cromwellmuseum.bsky.social ‬

On Friday I attended a meeting of our stakeholder group, the County Advisory Group on Archives and Local Studies, at the old Bishops Palace in Ely. CAGALS is the only one of the 1973 gang of Cambridgeshire County Council committees to survive in something like its original form. More or less. Ish.

From the Archives... Thank you to the members of the Staffordshire Sight Loss Association for giving us the opportunity to share items from our Special Collections and Archives today! We really enjoyed the session, and valued exchanging ideas on how we can make archives more accessible.

All done now! - I have finished writing the guide to the committees and sub-committees of all 13 Cambridgeshire County Council administrations from 1974 up to 2025. Now I can just sit back and wait for the bids to roll in for the movie rights

The new ‪ARA Journal has arrived and what an international issue it is too, with articles on subjects touching Oman, France, Poland, the Philippines and the Yellow River Basin @araukie.bsky.social #archives