#OTD 1917 the 'October' Revolution took place in Russia Our archives include significant primary sources on the relationship between Britain and Russia in the decade following the 1917 revolutions 650+ documents have been digitised and are freely available online at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...

🎉 It’s World Digital Preservation Day! 🎉Watch a brand new #WDPD2025 vlog and hear directly from the Modern Records Centre at the University of Warwick on why they preserve their digital records👉🏼 👀 https://www.dpconline.org/blog/wdpd/vlog-uni-warwick-wdpd2025 […] [Original post on digipres.club]

Today is World Digital Preservation Day! And we're asking "Why do we preserve"? We preserve because the history of our University is really important to all of its members, past, present and future including a digital record of the changing face of our campus #WDPD2025 #DigiPres

For true sporting excellence, BREAD is the (1935) diet of champions. For a varied athletic diet, include cheese biscuits and tea. (from mrc-describe.epexio.com/records/CTC/... )

An early adopter of Movember, J Graham captain of Millwall Athletic had a brief but brilliant career. From 'The Sportfolio - Portraits and Biographies of Heroes and Heroines of Sport & Pastime, 1896'. Part of the Cyclists' Touring Club archive. mrc-describe.epexio.com/records/CTC/...

Delighted to report the latest issue our hosted journal Reinvention: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research (V18.2) has just been published. Read the issue here - fully open access to all! reinventionjournal.org #announcement #newissue #journal #undergraduateresearch

Aftermath of war The experiences & treatment of ex-servicemen, physically or psychologically affected by the First World War, seen through archives relating to the 'sweated trades' in the 1910s & 1920s More sources on working people & disability digitised & indexed at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...

AWFUL!! We're preparing the Spiritual Garments ready for the archival summoning of spirits (or document production as it is sometimes known) More ghostly goings on from the lantern lectures of Henry Sara at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...

From 'a submarine railway between France and England' in 1877 to 'opportunities ahead' in 1986..... On 30 October 1990 English and French tunnellers met for the first time underneath the English Channel during the construction of the Channel Tunnel. #ChannelTunnel

To former followers of our account on X-Twitter, we’re now posting on Bluesky, with a range of news about upcoming digital publications, launches and interesting details from the English hearth taxes of the 1660s-70s. #skystorians #familyhistory

#OTD 1997 Salman Rushdie made a secret visit to Warwick Arts Centre to mark the first anniversary of the Writing at Warwick Programme (also supported by @jonathancoe.bsky.social) Ephemera relating to his visit and the Writing Programme is in our ‘Student Life’ Exhibition (on until 1 Dec) #Warwick60

We are going to be using the Bluesky account here to share some of the exciting facts from the archive, and some of the items we have found. Below is an image of an anti-Common Market campaign in London, with the National Front and unions marching, taken from our film collection.

Thanks to the Friends of Hemingfield Colliery for welcoming us on Saturday & sharing the brilliant work that they've developed over the years hemingfieldcolliery.org Very useful to discuss the NUM Mining the Past project with volunteers, whose feedback will help to shape our future engagement work

Ready for my close-up! #BlackCatDay This photograph from the Bristol Unity Players' Club shows the cast of 'On Guard For Spain' (1938) with an unamused black cat. mrc-describe.epexio.com/records/BUP/... See our digital collection of archives on the Spanish Civil War warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...

Made by Holborn Trades Council, the leaflet survived as part of the Trades Union Congress archives Author Peter Abrahams, future organiser of the 5th Pan-African Congress in Manchester, spoke at the protest meeting advertised on the leaflet's other side cdm21047.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...

In one of our latest blogs, @redhen90.bsky.social shares information about the national partnership to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the General Strike 1926. Find out more: www.balh.org.uk/blog-making-... #WeAreLocalHistory #LocalHistoryForAll @gftu.org.uk

'Picture Post: Cry Hungary', 1956 A tribute to a tortured people by the world's reporters and photographers...in aid of the refugees" On 23 October 1956 tens of thousands of Hungarians took to the streets to demand the end of Soviet rule. mrc-describe.epexio.com/records/MSX/...

A glimpse of Twenties fashion through the notes of a budding dressmaker in 1926 A student at Gloucestershire Training College of Domestic Science, W.B. Wakefield's notebooks record the practical study deemed suitable for a young woman in the 1920s mrc-describe.epexio.com/records/ATD/...

Wills, old handwriting, transcription technology and volunteer power - great sounding free online event tomorrow from our friends at @post-doc-club.bsky.social

It was a privilege to attend the National Union of Mineworkers (Yorkshire Area) Miners’ Memorial Day Service at Wakefield Cathedral on Sunday, an important event commemorating those who have given their lives in Yorkshire’s coal mines Sharing stories and memories with attendees was a real highlight

In case you missed it! Catch the recording of @rluk.ac.uk's latest Inclusive Collections, Inclusive Libraries seminar here: www.rluk.ac.uk/icil-on-dema... 📹 Listen to how our LGBTQ+ Intern Rosaleen Williams explored queer narratives in our Cultural Collections @universityofleeds.bsky.social

Type of chemical worker (Mrs Bannan, Huddersfield Branch) Shown here striking a definite pose in 1916, Mrs Bannan was one of a growing number of women who joined the Workers' Union in the early 20th century More photos of WU campaigns & events, 1911-1921, available at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...

"We are sun-starved" Not sure a Collaro Sunray Lamp is the answer.... This advertisement is from September 1939, when people had a lot more on their minds than the lack of sunlight.

CfP: The British General Strike of 1926: New Directions of Research, 7-8 May 2026 @newcastleuni.bsky.social Deadline: 6 February 2026 More details: @sslh.bsky.social sslh.org.uk/2025/10/13/c... sslh.org.uk/wp-content/u... Kindly supported by @leverhulme.ac.uk #GeneralStrike1926 #GeneralStrike100

🚨 😾 VICTORIAN EMERGENCY CAT TRICYCLE 😾 🚨 Pop a card in the London post in 1896, & a chauffeur driven tricycle would collect your pet for care & cure, providing a smooth springed ride to the Hampstead infirmary More Cycling World Illustrated gems digitised at mrc-describe.epexio.com/records/CTC/...

🚨🚨🚨 Happening TODAY: Kate Astbury, 'Napoleon, theatre and the Hundred Days', 17.00 in FAB6.02. @100days1815.bsky.social @mrcwarwick.bsky.social @warwickuni.bsky.social #napoleon #theatre #research

'The Arts Britain Ignores', an Arts Council report published in 1976, proved the catalyst for the creation of the Minority Arts Advisory Service by the report's author Naseem Khan The MAAS archive shows the artistic depth of work promoted by MAAS in the 1970s-80s mrc-describe.epexio.com/records/MAA

Earlier this year we launched our Black British Timeline video as part of the Legacies of Change: Windrush 2 Justice campaign think of it as the 1st half of this year’s story! It’s the perfect companion to our #BHMUK25 Legacies of Change campaign & great resource to use in your classroom this mth

As cold and flu season kicks in, we're adjusting the office decor accordingly These Tony Hancock-esque posters were issued by the Ministry of Health in 1958 #HistMed [ mrc-describe.epexio.com/records/POW/... ]

Hello BlueSky! Starting this account to showcase the ever growing list of radical online archives and collections. Nearly 1000 collections from the around the world are listed at the link below. Please follow for updates and collection highlights! hatfulofhistory.com/radical-onli...

On #WorldMentalHealthDay we're sharing a leaflet from the TUC archive encouraging nurses to take a break. The leaflet also highlights the dangers of work place stress and exhaustion. Be fair to yourself! #histnursing #histmed #archives #MRCArchives mrc-describe.epexio.com/records/TUC/...

In 1968, against the backdrop of the Race Relations Act and Powell's 'Rivers of Blood' speech, local Birmingham groups campaigned against racism and in support of civil rights The archives of activist Margaret Stanton capture some of the grassroots activities mrc-describe.epexio.com/records/MSP/...

Founded in 1919, The Economic League promoted the views of industrialists and business. It sought to blacklist employees who were identified as communist or left wing. This 1950 leaflet suggests communism is about to devour the world. #WorldOctopusDay mrc-describe.epexio.com/records/TUC/...

🍰 LEO (Lyons Electronic Office) was the first computer used for business, developed by UK firm J. Lyons & Co Ltd, known for tea shops and cakes. They needed to automate their payroll, marking the beginning of computers in business. Photo courtesy of the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick.

Medievalists and early modernists ahoy! 🚨 Our librarians are surveying the oldest books in the Library Special Collections and have found an intriguing endpaper bound into this 1516 edition of the Decretum Gratiani. Do YOU recognise this heavily abbreviated Latin scrap?

#PowerAndPride2025 tinyurl.com/BHMOct25 Local photographer Herbert Walters’ collection-Portraits of Black Britain (MS 5183/3) has become available on birmingham.access.preservica.com/archive. Photographs mostly taken in Birmingham and London between 2008–2022 #LibraryofBham @blackhistorymonth.org.uk

"The price of a cup of tea & a biscuit" In a nod to #WorldTeachersDay yesterday, we're going back to the 1950s, an era of "old unsuitable buildings" & "overcrowded classrooms", when the National Union of Teachers contrasted average spending on state education to that on booze & tobacco #HistEd

Looking forward to co-hosting this roundtable next Thursday with our colleagues from the University of Birmingham! Please, email us at [email protected] if you'd like to join and we can send you a Teams invite :)

Health is Wealth During the 1920s the Industrial Health Education Council toured the country, holding 'Heath Meetings' for millworkers, miners & other industrial workers. These posters and more are in our digitised sources on British healthcare, 1900-1948: warwick.ac.uk/services/lib... #HistMed

🖥 We have a number of online research training courses starting in October. Visit the IHR website to register and find detailed information on each course: www.history.ac.uk/study-traini...

Also looking forward to meeting @astonuniversity.bsky.social students at their annual Meet the Archivist event - love a chance to promote the rich resources @mrcwarwick.bsky.social

Fancy a pleasant change from your ordinary drink? We give you “the great nerve and brain strengthener and restorer.” Yes, celery coffee was a thing in 1892. This advertisement is from the Young Women’s Christian Association’s ‘Our Own Gazette’. #InternationalCoffeeDay #WorldVegetarianDay

Archives, memory, representation & empowerment - and the gaps in the records... We really enjoyed taking part in this event at @rshc.bsky.social, sharing stories around labour movement collections & records of resistance - from the MRC's origins to the NUM archives via the Spanish Civil War & Chile

Decided it was about time to make an account for this research project. You can learn more about the current "People's Papers" archival efforts underway @wcmlibrary.bsky.social here: wcml.org.uk/blog/the-peo... And catch up on updates via Instagram: www.instagram.com/peoplespapers/

Happy National Sporting Heritage Day - we hold the National Cycling Archive - a treasure trove of resources on the history of cycling, including the pioneering women cyclists of the late nineteenth century explore more here: warwick.ac.uk/services/lib... #NSHD #cycling #sport 🚴‍♀️

Historians, archivists, librarians and historians working in the field of labour history. A starter pack to get you going… go.bsky.app/CUqdx9a

As we celebrate the Red Roses' victory, we're hailing some of the sport's pioneers! Founder members of the Women's Rugby Football Union, the University of Warwick's team first scrummed down in 1980/1, making the cover of the Student Union handbook a year later #Warwick60 #WRWC2025

🚨The call for papers for the History and Archives in Practice 2026 conference #HAP26 is now live! 🚨 Along with @ihr.bsky.social @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy @royalhistsoc.org we invite you to explore 'Shaping Societies, Improving Lives: The Impact of Archives and Historical Research' ⬇️

Start of term, so it's advertising-our-Special-Collections-through-the-medium-of-road-signs time again... Anyone keen to see our lovely 1578 edition of Dante may find us somewhere in Circle 3, in the vicinity of the staff cake table

Shipmates Ahoy!! ⚓ On #WorldMaritimeDay take an archival visit to the International Seafarer's Club in Poplar Challenge a rival ship's crew to a billiard battle, "work the scurvy out of your bones" with a game of quoits and generally "have a ripping time" mrc-describe.epexio.com/records/NUS/...