Our online display, 'A Magna Carta Miscellany', is now live! Our 2025 exhibition 'Magna Carta 1225' marked 800 years since King Henry III reissued what most historians consider to be the definitive version of the famous legal charter.

Join us on 8 July (10AM) for a free online workshop where we’ll explore techniques and strategies for retaining business-critical knowledge when staff change position or leave an organisation. Ideal for archive managers! Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/succession...

New funding opportunity 👇 The Sites of Memory Community Research Grants are now open, supporting projects exploring the histories and legacies of transatlantic slavery. More info: www.london.gov.uk/programmes-s...

🚨We are hiring🚨 We are recruiting for 2x Archivist posts: Archivist (Access and Engagement) - fixed-term until March 2028. Project Archivist (Setting the Record Straight) - fixed-term, 12 months. To find out more about the roles and apply take a look at our website⬇️. #archives #jobs

Archives of Desire | Los Angeles Review of Books share.google/xNdYDjhoPJGW...

Great to see today's news about a newly discovered manuscript of Caedmon's Hymn! (And the brilliant Mark Faulkner, one of the scholars who found it, was the post-doc on the very first big research project I led!) But how did Caedmon's Hymn sound in Old English? Here you go...

Hardly noticed but at the end of last week the Government vision for archives in England was launched. No money attached as far as I know. Aim is for archives to be 'at the heart of society' through being accessible, inclusive and sustainable www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-sec...

The 2026 TownsWeb Archiving Digitisation Grant is now open, with 10 x £3,000 grants available. For more information and to request your application form, please read their latest blog post here: blog.townswebarchiving.com/twa-digitisa...

Shakespeare's 'missing' London house mapped with new discovery | King's College London share.google/cVAWuHK47plg...

Just 20 tickets left for our Leadership skills event next month! If you’re travelling from outside the host city of Birmingham, this week is your last chance to apply for a travel bursary! 📆 Tuesday 5 May (10am-2.30pm) Book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/leadership... (1/2)

Skills bursaries and records at risk grants are open to applications on a rolling basis, with funds available for rapid distribution! Records at risk grants support urgent interventions to save significant records facing immediate peril in the UK: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-sec... (1/2)

Very pleased to announce that BT Group Archives and UCL Department of Information Studies have a fully-funded PhD on offer. It's a really exciting one: to investigate how new computational methods can be used to get the most out of a digitised audiovisual collection. www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

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?

Trump: "I don't believe in building libraries or museums…It's most likely going to be a hotel with a beautiful building underneath and a 747 Air Force One in the lobby, which is going to be a trick."

We’re welcoming applicants for a fully funded history PhD project researching the first 100 years of the UK's Public Record Office, ahead of its bicentenary in 2038. Find out more and apply here by Friday 8 May: phd.leeds.ac.uk/project/2475... (1/2)

'A succulent Chinese meal' - iconic Australian quote immortalised in national film archive - BBC News share.google/3wZGpwYlxwLC...

Happy birthday to legendary movement artist Simone Forti. A choreographer & writer, Forti is one of the most influential figures of postmodern performance art. Learn more about how Forti's notebooks, part of Getty's archival collections, were a key part of her creative process.

'Finding Kraftwerk in the Design Archives' The Design Archives’ Digital Content and Systems Co-Ordinator Jen Grasso @brightonphotobooth.bsky.social reflects on some recent cataloguing activity. Read now on our site: blogs.brighton.ac.uk/brightondesi...

Hot off the press! Two new case studies about how the Debenhams Archive was saved through collaborative action- and the hard work of @ricshire.bsky.social Westminster Archives, South West Heritage and others www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/debenha...

I didn't appreciate how often I look at TNA's archives sector leadership pages until they all went down a few days ago.

🚨 We're looking for a new Project Archivist 🚨The main objective of the project is to catalogue the papers of Harriet Harman. [Full time, 2 years fixed contract] The deadline for applications is 3 April 2026 with interviews planning to be on the 14 April 2026 buff.ly/mhMCz8E

The UK annual Archive Sector Survey is now open! Take part by 29 May 2026 and help us gather evidence that will support archives to advocate for their social and economic value: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-sec... (1/4)

Deadline approaching for our next round of AMARC grants. See our website for more information on what we fund and how to apply. 📆Deadline: 1 April

Postgraduate student? Looking for a placement to enhance your research and improve your employability and impact skills - and have a funded allowance for that? The National Archives is advertising six studentships across different areas of our work: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/professional...

Major news: A @nytimes.com story today reports on developments in our lawsuit, filed with @modernlanguage.bsky.social and @acls1919.bsky.social, opposing the illegal dismantling of the NEH. The article covers newly released discovery in the case. Here’s what discovery confirmed: 🧵(1/7)

Enid Marx RDI (1902-1998) was an artist and painter most known for her work on the Utility Furniture Scheme as well as London Transport including this green and red 'Chevron' moquette ca1938-1945 #womenshistorymonth Enid Marx and cat, @designcouncil.bsky.social archive, DCA/30/1/POR/M/41/2

The Bodleian one of the many libraries, archives and museums whose catalogues (which provide free, open research resources) are being hit hard by bots scraping content for AI companies. It’s not that they shouldn’t do this, it’s just that they could be less aggressive in hammering servers.

New online hub helping partnerships promote wellbeing through archive exploration | The National Lottery Heritage Fund share.google/GZtWZn3hZNHk...

New platform to give care-experienced and adopted people better access to their records announced by CoramBAAF & ARA today. The platform will make it easier for adopted & care-experienced people to find & access records relating to their adoption and time in care. www.archives.org.uk/news/new-pla...

Hwaet! The Beowulf manuscript (Cotton MS Vitellius A XV) is now back online. You can consult the entire manuscript through the online catalogue: searcharchives.bl.uk/catalog/040-...

Discover Hella Jongerius' archives at Vitra Design Museum | Wallpaper* share.google/p7SU6U1dS3kU...

We are thrilled to announce, with our partners The National Lottery Heritage Fund, the Pilgrim Trust & the Wolfson Foundation that #ArchivesRevealed has awarded 14 cataloguing grants, and a consortium grant! See thread 👇(1/5) 📷 Royal Horticultural Society

Have you ever made music…with paper? In 1960, founding Fluxus member Benjamin Patterson conceived of the score, Paper Piece.

BREAKING: As I was first to report earlier, Trump has nominated Bradford Wilson, who does not meet the statutory requirements—which include that the nominee be nonpartisan and professionally qualified—to be the next Archivist of the United States. lastcampaign.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

On our 10th birthday, Art UK has reached a million artworks! Celebrate by sharing your 'one in a million' 🖼️ 👉 Tag us and use #ArtUK10thbirthday – or fill in our form: https://artuk.org/discover/curations/one-in-a-million-chosen-by-you#ArtUK10thbirthday Bernard Moss (1923–2012) © the artist's estate. 📷 Jewish Museum

News: we're thrilled to have received £80,000 of funding from the BFI to help us digitise a remarkable archive of agricultural films and make them available to the public! Read more on the @uniofreading.bsky.social website: www.reading.ac.uk/news/2026/Un...

At 08:06 GMT a bus hit into the window frontage of Southwark Playhouse Borough after a collision on Newington Causeway. Our venue was closed at the time and no members of Southwark Playhouse staff were injured. We can confirm that our venues will be open and operating as normal this evening.