When the clock strikes midnight on January 1, creative works from 1930 & sound recordings from 1925 will enter the public domain in the US, like: 💄 Dizzy Dishes, first Betty Boop cartoon 🕵️♀️ First 4 Nancy Drew novels 🚂 The Little Engine That Could 🎩 Morocco 🍑 Georgia on My Mind and many more! 🧵👇

Not just a national asset but an international asset. Trashed, ignored, diminished.

Inside the fascinating world of interior design archives | House & Garden share.google/oO0IBO6jwhZy...

The team have been delving into medieval import and export records and have uncovered some interesting findings.

And thanks to Digital Panopticon, we know he had been born in 1799, had no tattoo and sailed on the Georgiana. www.digitalpanopticon.org

A Cultural Evacuation: The Demarco Archive Leaves Scotland – Bella Caledonia share.google/10jRlpnb6v06...

We’re excited to share our new main catalogue, making it easier for you to find and request the majority of our published collection. We’ve also launched an interim version of our Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue. Find out how to start searching and requesting on our website bit.ly/BLNewCatalogues

New Archives Reveal Frida Kahlo Used Her Iconic Prosthetic Only in the Final Months of Her Life | BELatina share.google/t5FBf6YSkmR3...

"Information regulator reminds council leaders of need for compassion when releasing files on childhood care" www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Join us this Thursday for our final National Archives & Records Strategy for Scotland Online Consultation of the year. These sessions are designed to gather views on the need, priorities, and potential outcomes of a national strategy. Book your space here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/national-a...

Applications are open for our Resilience Grants funding programme! Our Resilience Grants, worth up to £20,000, support archives to respond to change and develop sustainable solutions to any challenges they face. Apply by Wednesday 21 January 2026: nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-sec...

Louvre Workers Announce Strike After Water Leak Drenches Egyptian Archives share.google/WoA4fUFicT6c...

I wish a notice like this wasn't necessary. www.icrc.org/en/article/i...

should probably have used this to publicise the fact that I could really do with a bit of volunteer help on these (digitised) letters! collections.sal.org.uk/san.19.02 can promise you that 1. it's pretty straighforward and 2. one of them contains a very cute drawing. DMs are open

Landmark British photographer Martin Parr dies aged 73

The Getty community grieves the death of Frank Gehry, a true legend of architecture whose designs and brilliance have shaped Los Angeles and the world. Through Gehry's archive, Getty will share his legacy for many years to come. Read our full message: gty.art/4awWKqD

Very sad news - and illustrates the critical importance of BL's Endangered Archives Programme - e.g. Digitising and First Aid to Documentary Heritage of “Manuscripts Collection of the Great Omari Mosque Library” - Phase II | Endangered Archives Programme eap.bl.uk/project/EAP1...

A 355-year-old Royal Charter that survived the blitz sold for $13m in Canada - BBC News share.google/d9LMFADxDRkZ...

📣Calling all UK-based archive professionals! Join us for an online consultation (15 January 2026) where we’ll discuss recent changes @gem.org.uk have made to The Generic Learning Outcomes (GLOs) framework Find out more and book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/archive-se...

Lewis Carroll Correspondence Discovered in Lincoln Cathedral's Archives. - The Association of English Cathedrals share.google/Pv5Sb6bgPx8e...

Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88

📣Calling archivists, researchers & heritage professionals! Join us online on Monday 26 January (1PM) to learn key concepts of trauma-informed and person-centred practices and practical frameworks for embedding these into your work. Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/introducti... (1/2)

Cluedo inventor's daughter hands over archives to Birmingham museum - BBC News share.google/7Qv94t3X2q9K...

This article references the work of Emma Marsh in surveying the bombing debris. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Did you know we offer free visits for school, college, and university groups to visit our archive and learn from the thousands of important documents it holds? Last year we undertook 40 educational visits, reaching 1,328 students and 142 teachers Find out more:

Congratulations to: Hackney Archives, Marx Memorial Library, Powys Archives @mediamuseum.bsky.social, @paulmelloncentr.bsky.social & @yorkminster.bsky.social Archives on achieving Archive Service Accreditation for the first time! (1/2) 📷 The Chapter of York, Photographer: Peter Li

Are you a community group with a passion for heritage? Or a museum, library, gallery or archive with a bold idea for community-led research? The Spaces, Places and Belonging Community Hub is accepting applications for seed corn grants: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/community-hu... (1/2)

Who’s afraid of the Guerrilla Girls? Calling themselves the “conscience of the art world,” the Guerrilla Girls are an anonymous feminist art collective who use humor and irony to expose sexism, racism, and other forms of discrimination in arts and culture industries.

Great work from Rachel & the team at Edinburgh University Archives.

We’re shaping the future of our training programme for the archive sector and we want your input! This focus group is your opportunity to share ideas and influence the topics that matter most to you and your colleagues. Register today: www.eventbrite.com/cc/focus-gro... (1/2)

US National Archives releases Amelia Earhart records promised by Trump  | Reuters share.google/5k1jZHbkPGVP...

Has anyone tried doing an update of this recently - asking young people about archivists?

Finally decluttering these Best Practice Guidelines from the nineties and noughties 🫡

Elderly Jews Were Among the Most Likely to Die in the Holocaust. Why Has History Forgotten About the Genocide’s Oldest Victims? Our latest groundbreaking @hgrporg.bsky.social exhibition is featured in @smithsonianmag.bsky.social 🔗 www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/e...

We’re thrilled to have awarded 8 new grants, each worth £1,600, with funding from the Discover! Creative Careers programme! These grants will help archives run engagement sessions with schools, sharing their collections & raising awareness of the exciting careers available across our sector! (1/3)

📢 Big news: The national curriculum review is here! We're proud to have contributed to Professor Becky Francis’ report, which recognises the vital role of creativity in every child’s education. 🎨

The Terry Jones Archive donated to BFI National Archive - British Comedy Guide share.google/bgt6uF2XcjxL...

Want to learn how to secure National Manuscripts Conservation Trust and the Friends of the Nations’ Libraries grants? Join us to hear from the funders and have the opportunity to hear case studies and take part in a Q&A! Book your space via Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1863059474...

🚨 URGENT: We're launching a campaign to stop this Government tearing families apart – will you join us? A few weeks ago, the Government suspended refugee family reunion. We can't let this stand. ✍️ Email the Home Secretary NOW: act.safepassage.org.uk/email-home-s...

The risible wages are well-known in the wider field of the library, museum, gallery and archive world. I’d like to think public opinion is with the people who make the place click day-in-day-out; they deserve better. Knowledge may be free but labour isn’t: spread the wealth and pay the workers!

And if you love plays where the stage appears to be set atop an archive of filing drawers then this is one for you - The Land of the Living | National Theatre share.google/nfV8DgYwKAPA...

Really interesting theatre piece highlighting a younger perspective on activism - and on archives Lessons on Revolution | Barbican share.google/5pP5TaVobYZS...

Ned gambling with losing the (surprising large) archivist/cycling fan contingent with use of the D*** word, but as ever a fascinating read.

Universities, archives and heritage groups unite for £1.5m Tudor Domesday project - Museums + Heritage share.google/uuXzitJgMK0r...

JOB ALERT Tate is looking for Records Manager & Assistant Records Manager roles. For more information, head over to: jobsearch.tate.org.uk/jobs/job/TG1... and: jobsearch.tate.org.uk/jobs/job/TG1...