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.

Are you an archives or heritage professional in Scotland? Are you interested in applying for our Archives Revealed programme? Sign up for one of our in-person support days: Edinburgh (10th March): www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/archives-r... Perth (12th March): www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/archives-r...

Sorry to hear that Michael Cook, one-time City Archivist of Newcastle as a precursor to a long and distinguished career, has died at the age of 94 news.liverpool.ac.uk/2026/02/11/o...

"dusty finds from the Faber archives" ☹️

Want to see something old and gorgeous? On this occasion it's not us, but this bobby dazzler - The Evidence Chest. It has quite an interesting story. Join us!

@beinghumanfest.bsky.social have launched their 2026 funding grants! Open to researchers at universities & research orgs across the UK, to collaborate with local community & partners to create exciting public engagement projects. For more info, head to: www.beinghumanfestival.org/get-involved

The archive volunteering award 2026 (UK & Ireland) is now accepting nominations - read more here www.archives.org.uk/news/the-ara...

Question: how did Mandelson forward government emails from a personal email account within four minutes of receiving them? Surely he wasn’t permitted a blackberry with both personal and government email access?

Thanks to @thefnl.bsky.social this exceptionally rare Tudor map of Kingsbridge in Devon has been acquired for public research at the Devon Heritage Centre, after more than four centuries in private hands.

Great to hear Jill Craigie will have a blue plaque this year. Her film ‘To be a Woman’ supported the Equal Pay Campaign petition way back in 1951 1/ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill_Cr... #womensHistory @womenshistnet.bsky.social

🚨NEWLY CATALOGUED COLLECTION🚨 We are delighted to announce that after a 2-year project, the Arthur Scargill Archive is now available for research in our public reading room!🎉 More info➡️ tinyurl.com/cz3s5dxk Browse the catalogue➡️ tinyurl.com/vn4xvdd6 @mrcwarwick.bsky.social @sslh.bsky.social

£2m heritage funding will make London’s papyrus archive easier to visit share.google/1s44nmM9NIUN...

CLOSING NEXT WEEK 🚨 Send us your feedback on The National Archives’ digital capacity building strategy, Our Digital Century, that ends this year! Your responses will help us evaluate the programme and ensure future initiatives meet the sector’s needs: www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/OISX44/ (1/2)

Applications are open for Scoping Grants worth £3000! Apply by 19 February to have an independent consultant produce an expert collections report on a full or partial archival collection. Apply here: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-rev... (1/2)

Has your archive successfully generated income using practical and creative initiatives? Apply to be a speaker in our fundraising webinar series by 31 January: www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/EJERFR/ This is a fantastic way to showcase your brilliant work and share best practice with the wider sector!

📣 Join us next month for the launch of the RIBA Refugee Committee online database. A result of groundbreaking research, the database will include entries for each one of the individual architects who escaped to the UK from Nazi-occupied Europe, whatever their fate or their stature

Our Campaign for Records once again calls for police records in England and Wales to be brough under public record legislation as West Midlands Police are criticised for poor recordkeeping re handling of Aston Villa / Maccabe match. more here: www.campaignforrecords.org/blog/