Why aren’t Police Records in England & Wales covered by the Public Records Act? We've been campaigning on this since 2012 - blog for more info: www.campaignforrecords.org/blog/why-arent-police-records-covered-by-the-public-records-act #publicaccountability of interest @andyburnham.bsky.social ?

#yayadvent and #yayswap signups are now live. Though I'm around, this account is not actively monitored so please get in touch via the contact form on the website if necessary. yayadvent.weebly.com

Loved that performance of Bohemian Rhapsody at the Proms - so powerful with a full orchestra and choir

National Trust Members. It’s time to vote to keep the Faragists out. Best not to split the vote. Use the QUICK VOTE” link both for people and for motions.

As part of national Heritage Open Days, Hull History Centre is offering additional behind the scenes tours on 16-18 Sept, as well as a local studies book and map sale (16-18, 20 Sept) - see you there!

Job alert 🚨 Doncaster Archives are recruiting for an Archives Manager f/t permanent. Deadline 5 October 2025. Great opportunity 👇 uk.indeed.com/m/viewjob?jk...

In one of our archive strong rooms there is a shelf. The shelf does not contain the most exciting or interesting item in the archive but it does contain something amazing. Read this short thread to find out more. 🧵👇

Morning!

Could you be the next Chair of the CILIP LGBTQ+ network?

There’s a webinar coming up to launch Spaces, Places & Belonging! Learn about the new AHRC funded Community Hub, which will support inclusive, community led research across the UK GLAM and heritage sectors. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/spaces-pla...

A genuinely excellent day at #HistDayNorth at #DCDC25. So lovely to catch up with so many people and meet some new faces. And lots of new ideas and things to think about. Felt like being properly back at work. Bit shattered now though!

On my way to #HistDayNorth at #DCDC25 in Durham with a train picnic for breakfast. Really looking forward to it!

Followers of this account will instantly notice the chancers behind six-kneed Barbie here have used dazzle camouflage in an attempt to confuse you about which direction her extraneous joints are pointing and how fast they're going

🚨 Job klaxon. Rotherham Archives are recruiting an Archivist (maternity cover). Deadline 31 August 2025. Great opportunity for a qualified archivist to manage an accredited archive service 👇 ce0351li.webitrent.com/ce0351li_web...

A lovely day of pottering round Skipton today - including a walk along the canal, and visits to the Castle and the very fine Craven museum, which has a first folio and an excellent exhibition on WW2 poster art. Oh and Skipton has a rather good Oxfam Bookshop....

A lovely, if rather warm, visit to NT East Riddlesden Hall today - fascinating to see so many archives being used in telling the story of the hall, it's occupants and its later transfer to the National Trust. Some gorgeous embroidery and blackwork on display too. Plus really good scones!

A range of wildlife met alongside the canal in Skipton during this morning's #UnconfinedWalks, holiday edition

Turns out I don't know much about Finland. Land of saunas, happy people, interesting Eurovison acts, all the mobile phones I had in my 20s, and famous homoerotic art? Not sure I'll be able to eat much of the traditional food though! #chEUROty2025

The secret German weather station on the Arctic island of Svalbard. Part of the 'Weather War'. The team, led by Lieutenant Wilhelm Dege, were the last German troops to surrender in WW2, finally doing so FOUR MONTHS after Germany had officially surrendered. It was not for want of trying. /1

Details of our upcoming online workshop with @scotsarchives.bsky.social, and our face-to-face workshops in Cardiff and Glasgow, at the link! Apply by 30th June.

This is a good thread on copyright and why it continues after the creator’s death! Like the thread author, I think there’s potential to discuss the length copyright endures post death – 70 years is a lot – but not the principle.

Exeter, pursued by a bear

History requires deep, extensive research a lot of that research will end up not being directly relevant. You won't know that until you get in it. Research isn't just pulling a doc with all the answers, it's finding connections, it's understanding what's *not* being said, it's knowing context.

Well this is excellent news. I bloody loved this book - as all the people I've nagged into reading it since can attest! Huge thanks to @melindahaunton.bsky.social and @hannahkj.bsky.social for the recommendation!

Still time to apply for this 24-month post as Career Development Fellow in Modern World History – deadline 23 June www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNJ236/c...

PhD Studentship at Legacies of British Slavery Centre: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Another 2 people now. And one of them isn't an archivist!

No truer words #booksky

Welcome to the archives.

And I've now convinced a total of 4 more people to read it because it's fabulous! 3 weeks since I read it and I'm still going back and rereading regularly

So British DOGE's search for wasteful spending discovered that... councils need more money to update their IT systems? www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Mega historical bust ups. A thread. 1. King John and Philip of France The powerful foreigner cynically helped put the incompetent, odious sex offender on the throne only to launch an all out war against him. John bankrupted his kingdom, fell out with everyone and shat himself to death

“There’s no hope without penicillin.” The run up to D Day, as documented in some of our records at @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Settling in for #ConfinedCocktails with a nice glass of pink in time for Dr Who. Looking forward to starting my (careful, gradual) return to work next week! Also look at these lovely felt flowers a friend brought me today.

🔔 Neurodivergent archive accessibility workshop! 🔔 Are you a neurodivergent researcher using archives, an archivist interested in accessibility, or a neurodivergent archivist? Apply for our first 'Divergent Minds in the Archive' workshop at Imperial War Museums, London, on 4th July!

The BSECS-Northumbria Fellowship offers up to £4000 to research the history, culture, literature, and/or identity of the North East of England and the Scottish Borders in the long eighteenth century. Deadline for applications is 31 May 2025. Find out more at www.bsecs.org.uk/prizes-and-a...

Raising a glass to Sir Terry #Eurovision

One of my favourite nights of the year. Bring it on #Eurovision!

Yes, thrilled to be doing this with Alice, who conceived the workshop. We're looking for practice-based and research-informed engagements of all kinds with the #archives of colonialism (including #photography), for the October 2025 ISA meeting in Newcastle. 📜🗃️ More details in the link below!

Lovely sunny busy day. Have been into Hexham for the book festival and a talk by Alan Johnson which was excellent. Am now drinking water while working on the big sewing project which I may just complete in the next week! Cheers #ConfinedCocktails

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... This is very good. Though not in any way jolly or helping today's bleak mood. Necessary, though, to put authenticity above cliche.

Because if I wanted someone to confidently make up answers to my questions I would simply ask a man

I check the little screen, I check the big screen, I check the watch screen, I check the tablet screen. I check the screen that reminds me of the good times, I check the screen that reminds me of the better times.

Because, reasons, I signed up to walk a marathon in September in aid of Macmillan, who do brilliant work. If you’d be willing to chuck a few quid towards that, here’s the link: trk.justgiving.com/f/a/-5uE6Xuy... I’ll try not to be too dull about training for it…

In lieu of #ConfinedCocktails we present tripartite #TeaUp from Hadrian's Wall with @hannahkj.bsky.social and @jessamycarlson.bsky.social.

On 20 May, @kingshistory.bsky.social is hosting an afternoon commemoration of the life, work and legacy of Professor Dame Jinty Nelson FBA. Booking for this event is now available bit.ly/4cwX1ZW. Jinty was the first female President of the Royal Historical Society (2000-04) #skystorians 1/2

"[W]e have taken a number of specialist resources (which have sat on older technologies, and where we have lacked income streams to support them) offline." So Victoria's journals are now available only via ProQuest. How easily public access to essential scholarly resources can disappear. #C19th

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looked those up because they seem amazing and congratulations to Margaret Cavendish on both coming back from the dead and now proudly living as an out penguin

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