No matter your role, it's important to use the correct protective equipment. Here's a novelty postcard from the Second World War showing various nonsensical bits of equipment that an Air Raid Warden could use!

While Erling Haaland does look like he personally held off the English army at the Battle of Stamford Bridge until being speared from below, he also purchased a 16th century copy of Snorri Sturluson's writing to return it to the community so he's in our good books.

Tomorrow we'll be joining Wycombe Museum for the Chair Festival! We'll be hosting a children's design workshop where you can design your own chair, inspired by some of the historic marketing material we have in our collection. There's no need to book, just pop in from 2pm to 4pm!

All of our tours for Heritage Open Days are now fully booked! If you've missed your chance to see behind the scenes of our archive, don't despair! We're running loads more tours for Buckinghamshire History Festival in November. Head to histfestbucks.co.uk for more information.

We have a slight change in our next Saturday opening. Usually we'd open for the first Saturday of the month, but for August we'll now open for the second Saturday instead. So that's closed on the 1st, open on the 8th! This is just for August, and we'll be back to normal for September.

The worst depiction of an archivist in media is the archivist in Minas Tirith who brings FIRE into the record store. The best depiction of an archivist in media is Brother Armbruster in A Canticle for Leibowitz, who absolutely Gets It™

All of our free tours for Heritage Open Days are booked except one! If you’d like to book one of the last few places, email us at [email protected]

Thinking of these five students who were each given a rap across the hand for playing football when it was 'too hot and exhausting', 105 years ago today.

Might start messing around a little. Start using ᚦe thorn in emails a little.

We've been featured by Heritage Open Days in their '10 Awesome Archives' blog post! Have a look at some of the events taking place in our archive and in others from around the country.

Here’s another great theatre poster for #MKMonday, this one of a 1980 production of ‘Woyzeck’ by George Büchner. This took place in the Jennie Lee Theatre in Bletchley.

We're researching a historic Milton Keynes song competition after finding a poster for it and did a quick search to try and find out more. The AI decided that what we actually wanted was an original song about Milton Keynes.

[To the tune of Eleanor Rigby] Buckinghamshire Archives Finds in a box an old thing that nobody has seen Turns into a meme

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We did have a fresh meme for you this morning but Canva is having issues with uploads, but on the bright side it has meant we've generated this dumb image from the error itself

"Do we need to explain what cuckoldry is or will our audience get it?" - Us, writing the script for a new video, 2026.

Do you want to shape the future of archive services in Buckinghamshire? We're recruiting for a County and Diocesan Archivist to lead our service! For more information and to apply, head to the link below. jobs.buckinghamshire.gov.uk/job_detail/3...

Don't forget! We'll be at High Wycombe Library this time tomorrow for South Asian Heritage Month! We'll be listening to your stories and discussing how you can donate your memories to our oral history collection.

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we've done that political compass quiz and the results are a bit problematic tbh

A very stark poster for #MKMonday, here's 'The Mother' by Bertolt Brecht, performed at the Woughton Centre Theatre in 1981.

It's now so hot that we're having to take drastic measures: building enough ladders to reach up into the sky and negotiate with the sun itself. We'll let you know how we get on.

"Hey did you finish that 1925 Ordnance Survey map that covers parts of Hertfordshire?" "Yeah, made it real useless just like you asked."

We're still open.

This time next week we'll be visiting High Wycombe Library for South Asian Heritage Month! We're interested in recording oral histories to safeguard memories in our collection. Come along and find out how it works!

Sadly we have had to cancel this talk due to the extreme temperatures. We'll be hopefully rescheduling it soon for when temperatures are cooler! If you've booked a space, you should have received a cancellation email.

It's so warm in the archive right now that we've chosen a new Muad'Dib.

We've found a great bit of World Cup history in our archive...

Due to the extreme heat on Thursday, we're sadly cancelling this event! We're hoping to reschedule it and will post here as soon as we have a new date and time in place.

Another one of our tours for Heritage Open Days is fully booked! Make sure you email us at [email protected] to secure your free space before it's gone. This will be one of the last chances to see our archive on site in Aylesbury before we move to High Wycombe next year!

There's now a red weather warning in place for Wednesday and Thursday. While the archive will be open, please be aware that we don’t have air conditioning! We’ll be doing all that we can to keep you (and our documents) nice and cool.

Yesterday was the first day of summer, and today is #MKMonday! Here are some people ordering ice cream in Greenleys, 1976.

Great news history fans: the seal survived uneaten. Have a good weekend!

If you're heading out in the countryside this weekend, make sure you stay safe! We've found this great poster from 1979 with some great guidance.

Places are going fast for our free archive tours for Heritage Open Days! The tour on the 11th of September is now fully booked. Make sure you reserve your free spot for the other talks by emailing us at [email protected]

This talk is now fully booked! Thanks for all the fantastic interest - we'll try to run it again in the future!

It's great working in the GLAM sector Giving Lovely Archives Money

We're pleased to announce our rescheduled date for our new talk, 'Witchcraft and the Archive'! This talk will cover historic witch trials, evidenced through documents in our collection and beyond. Interested? Book your free space by emailing us at [email protected]

Let's talk about mass trespass.

Shout out to our Community Engagement Officer who today accidentally dressed like our repackaged document shelving

We've also got ANOTHER video releasing tomorrow! Two videos in five days? We would say we're spoiling you, but in truth we're doing it solely for the love of the game.

We've found some great posters from the 1970s and 1980s around Milton Keynes which we'll be sharing for #MKMonday! Here's the 1975 poster for Fanshen!, a play by David Hare that was performed at the Jennie Lee Theatre in Bletchley.

Let's answer your questions

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This time next week we'll be at High Wycombe Library for one of our archive drop-ins! Come along and see what documents we have to share and learn a little about what we do.

To help celebrate Pride Month, we'll be visiting Patch in High Wycombe for a brand new talk on our Lost Victorian Voices project! We'll be explaining the research process behind discovering historic LGBTQ+ voices in our collection and what we uncovered. 🗓25th of June, 6:30pm 🔍Patch, High Wycombe

We’ve got lots of architectural plans here in the archive, and we’re sharing these drawings for #MKMonday. These are from a 1975 plan of some houses in Newton Blossomville, right in the north of the county.

Here's a surprisingly colourful map of Slough from we think around 1948! This was a survey to work out the use of land around the area.

us turning up to America: hello do you want to learn about parish registers??

We're now fully booked for this talk! Due to this unprecedented demand, we're going to look at running the talk again at a later date and hopefully recording it.