About to record another brilliant Borthwick Papers podcast this afternoon: which reminds me, if you want excellent hour-long podcasts on interesting Yorkshire based research, then LOOK NO FURTHER: open.spotify.com/show/5fJ9KAS...

Happy Easter, folks! www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/heritage-and...

Good day to you! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It's true! This has been a long time in the planning, so I'm delighted everything is now live for people anywhere in the world to access. Remember many local libraries in the UK offer free Ancestry access as well!

This sounds like an amazing resource for people interested in Yorkshire history, or with ancestors here: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“Ah crap I gotta get back before my parking runs out!”

Folks! A reminder! A signal boost! A note that the gardening can wait til tomorrow! By thunder, there’s sixteen million all new records to search!

Good news for people with Yorkshire ancestors!

Our monthly newsletter is slightly later than usual - we wanted to tie in all our exciting news with the launch of our probate registers and Bishops’ Transcripts onto Ancestry! The probate collection is our Archive of the Month - read on to find out more www.york.ac.uk/borthwick/ne...

Two new collections added by #Ancestry, which may help with #FamilyHistory, #LocalHistory & #OnePlaceStudies in (and beyond) #Yorkshire: ● Prerogative & Exchequer Court of York Wills, 1389-1858 ● Yorkshire, Bishops’ Transcripts of Baptism, Marriage & Burial Registers, 1558-1912 #OnePlaceWednesday

And here is the official announcement from the Borthwick Institute for Archives. Brilliant records for #FamilyHistory, #LocalHistory and #OnePlaceStudies!

Big news for the wills world: #EarlyModern 🗃️

Just been having a look at this - what a source. Even indexes everybody listed in the will and how they were related to the testator. Well worth a look.

If you want the most extra picture possible here is me, signing the agreement with Ancestry…..IN ABU DHABI

Yes! Not just the testator - all the legatees are listed as well! ALL OF THEM! With their relationship to the testator! We were BLOWN AWAY by that!

This is such a huge achievement, and a massive new research resource that is accessible to everyone with access to Ancestry (always check with your local library, btw, you may get free access there). Huuuge thanks to EVERYONE who has worked on this over the last five years to get us to this point!

Today we've launched our digitised Probate Registers and Bishops' Transcripts collections onto Ancestry. Together that's 16 million records covering 1389-1858 - these can be accessed via a subscription to Ancestry or for free here at the Borthwick! www.ancestry.co.uk/search/colle...

Just in time for that long Easter weekend eh? Get your feet up and find out what your ancestors actually owned. How about THAT

Anyone for SIXTEEN MILLION new records to search on Ancestry? Including for the first time ever, all of the wills from the Court of York, 1389-1858? Not just the indexes this time, but also new images of the Registers themselves?

Welcome back 👀(if you know, you know). Photographed in our Terrance Dicks Archive #DoctorWho

This time last year - what an amazing project to be involved in! youtu.be/yex_Br6t0ak?...

Yes folks! Calling folks of world! And here is Peter Sellers naughty version of that from the @goonshow.org archive here @uoyborthwick.bsky.social!

Today’s fun! A visit from the UoY and York St John Doctor Who societies to look at the Terrance Dicks Archive. Honestly such an uplifting afternoon! Loved it!

Words used @uoyborthwick.bsky.social today "I laughed so hard, I broke my collar stiffener" "WHY IS THERE A DALEK IN MY ARCHIVES DISPLAY?" (yes this was in all caps) "I've been looking at pictures of tits, we're showing them to the students next week" "Fetch the Bindomatic 5000!"

Another day, another slightly baffling vintage advert from the archives ('a showerfully good idea' was right there!)

This is an amazing resource for anyone working on their York family history, and we're pleased to say the Society is running a second weekly drop in session here at the Borthwick on the main university campus, every Friday from 10am-4pm for all your local history needs 😊 @balhnews.bsky.social

‘This never happened to the other feller’

We also experienced the jump-scare of a faded Tellytubby preserved via haunted fax from 1999.

Now we've shared the official highlights of our Collections Development Week, it's time for the unofficial ones, starting with the moment Keeper of Archives Gary Brannan found a (pristine) pair of paper underpants in one of our recent additions.

Collections Development Week, Day 4: As the searchroom team finish off our Robin Murray Archive, Keeper of Archives Gary Brannan has found time and space in his calendar to continue reboxing the Terrance Dicks Archive. Sadly jelly babies are prohibited in the strongroom.

One O Clock news on BBC One, lads

Nurse! NURSE! He’s on the telly again!

Well, this is work, you understand?

It’s me!

‪If you want to see our Keeper of Archives @gbrannanarchive.bsky.social talking about our Galton and Simpson archive, look no further!

Ahem

Bit like me babez xoxo

Was researching my undergrad dissertation using the Rowntree company archives @uoyborthwick.bsky.social and had vague notions of being an historian, and I thought ‘if I’m an academic I’d get to play with archives ccasionally, if I do their (I.e archivists) job, I get to play with them every day’

The news is out! Happy #doctorwhoday!

Not to get ahead of ourselves but we are just putting the finishing touches to a VERY exciting announcement for Doctor Who Day on Sunday. Watch this space... (pun absolutely intended).

On the tube and someone has just gone ‘Holborn? What’s that mean IN ENGLISH’ and like, oh mate, you’re gonna kick yourself when you realise it probably comes from the Old English words "hol" (hollow) and "burne" (stream).

Nurse! Nurse! He’s out on the trains again!

It’s me! On an old train! youtu.be/dl97ZiGu2ac?...

New podcast alert! An EXCELLENT look at girls education in the late 19th / early 20th century. It's an hour long and in chapters like a proper book, so you can enjoy it on your commute / over your weekend / in the bath, as appropriate open.spotify.com/episode/0S8P...

Second bullet point on CV- 'created plan to solve legacy issues' Third bullet point on CV- 'multiplied legacy issues to an unprecedented magnitiude'

Ah, the euphamistically termed 'legacy issues'

"Let's incorporate the numeral 1s, capital Is and lowercase Ls into the reference numbering system. Surely nobody will ever confuse those three almost-identical vertical lines, especially once san-serif fonts are introduced!"

Edit: unless you’re an archives professional, when leaving behind whacking great known, wide-scale problems for one of your successors to deal with sometime in the next 100 years is basically your job

‘Archival Success Stories’ and ‘Expert’ it says here, room enough for the obscene publications act to be invoked, for sure @tonyhancock.bsky.social

‘May 15th’ is the answer for all of you thundering to your keyboards to ask ‘BUT WHEN IS @uoyborthwick.bsky.social DAY?!?!?’