In this clip, Wheels4Me loan recipient, Jeremy tells us how having access to cycling has helped him reconnect with his family & get back to doing things that were important to him. Watch the full video on YouTube & find out how you can trial a cycle yourself at wheels4me.co.uk youtu.be/q-ZnnXd3M2s

Join me at two events at the British Library later this month: On 20 October, the British Library joins forces with Wikimedia UK and the Wikimedia Foundation to explore the impact of AI on open knowledge and the wider information landscape. In-person only! www.bl.uk/stories/blog...

Woohoo! Great #digipres story @makethecatwise https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20251009-rescuing-knowledge-trapped-on-old-floppy-disks

We're so grateful to Sak for his work with @britishlibrary.bsky.social playbills - not only does blplaybills.org make them findable online, but we learn from his experiments!

Bulletin of the John Rylands Library goes #OpenAccess manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2025/10... #History 🗃️

'"The factory is 9 years young & we've continued to grow. We've got the skill & the competency here to produce this fantastic product." Mr Sykes praised the "pioneering spirit" of the team in Hull. "This is just another thing we can be incredibly proud of"' #AbPoli #CdnPoli #FUCP #UnlockRenewables

Whoa 📚 🏴‍☠️ www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

Exciting! Congrats @musicheritageplace.bsky.social #earlymodern 🗃️ www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

I quite like: Services: the mountains, the big promises an organisation makes. Experiences: the paths people walk to access those services. Capabilities: the tools, processes, and functions that make it possible. Foundations: the bedrock: IT, data, infrastructure, governance.

Paging #digitalpreservation and #databases. #digipres

gold-plated FOMO in action

🚴John Betjeman said that it was worth cycling 40 miles in a headwind to see them. 🪽The early C16th Angel Roof at St Wendreda in Cambs is adorned with over 100 oaken angels.

If you are looking for easy to understand digital preservation training resources then look no further than our next #DPClinic. The resources produced by this project are second to none and of particular relevance to community groups. www.dpconline.org/events/event...

'Documents detailing the affairs of 19th-century families linked to Sandbach, Tinne and Company, a business that dealt in enslaved people, cotton, sugar and coffee, were being traded online by collectors of rare stamps and postmarks.' 1/2

Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central #Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY. There was also a 71% drop in air pollution. Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople

The British Transport Police won't investigate bike thefts if the bike was left for more than two hours. road.cc/content/news...

Join us on 20 November for the Annual Digital Lecture, a partnership between The National Archives, UK and the School of Advanced Study. The wonderful @nannathylstrup.bsky.social will be speaking about ‘When saving becomes loss: archival memory in the digital age’. Free to register!

This is a great thread and I’m not sure I have anything to add to the excellent contributions already - but I am mulling it over now in my head and might be seeing what it means to my #MidiPres colleagues 🤔 #digipres

Loose memoranda roll found in a loft. "Washed but not mended" [TNA E 160/17]

One of the best parts of the day job is putting on document displays. Today, I got to show off this gorgeous 15th-century illuminated statute book [TNA E 164/10] #LegalRecords

Indignity by Lea Ypi – family, history and the fallibility of memory blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofb...

Yesterday we sent out this briefing to all UK MPs and our press list. It is our response to calls for digitisation of adoption and care records. We believe there is a better - & much needed - solution to make these records more accessible to those that need them. #LongLostFamilies bit.ly/4mBqsxo

⏰ 9:15am, 25 Sept 1915 The worst single day of Allied losses on the Western Front and one you’ve likely never heard of. In just 12+ hours: 🇫🇷 23,615 French dead 🇬🇧 8,581 British dead A day almost erased from memory. Today remember Champagne, Artois & Loos #forgottenbattles

Once again, it was my privilege to chair the judging panel for this, in memory of a much-missed colleague and friend. Those who knew Richard will be able to imagine how delighted he would have been to see the vitality of digital history.

BBC News - What is the story behind the Great Fire of Northampton? - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The secret is out! I'm very excited to be the SLV LAB's latest Creative Technologist-in-Residence! I'm going to be spending the next few months playing around with place-based collections at the State Library of Victoria: https://lab.slv.vic.gov.au/residencies-opportunities

Anne Lister died on this day, 22nd September, in 1840. Today, 185 years later, we are carrying out repairs on the church where her partner, Ann Walker, is buried. 1/11 📷 The cupola of Old St Matthew's, Lightcliffe, West Yorkshire (before repairs)

BBC News - Notre-Dame Cathedral's towers reopen six years after huge fire - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

BBC News - Settle Victoria Hall reunited with 100-year-old film posters - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Our work resurrecting ice age #ghostponds in the Guardian today @timholtwilson.bsky.social @hburningham.bsky.social @uclgeography.bsky.social ‘Just add water’: how to bring back ancient plants in a Norfolk ghost pond | Wildlife | The Guardian share.google/kO6HQaC4PAUJ...

Reminded of the anniversary by @jamiemctrusty.bsky.social, a thread to mark 85 years since the sinking of the SS City of Benares; a story told through the papers of one nine-year-old girl. Her name was Beryl Myatt. #WW2 #history #navalhistory 🧵

Digitization alert! We recently digitized materials by and about Irish patriot and suffragist Maud Gonne. The materials include correspondence, photo, articles, Women's Prisoners' Defence League records, and more. Check them out: https://findingaids.bc.edu/repositories/2/resources/254/digitized

Very pleased that the book Sue and I edited, The Materiality of the Archive: Creative Practice in Context, has just come out in paperback (so a bit cheaper!). www.routledge.com/The-Material...

This is brilliant - and actually rather useful for anyone teaching methods (correlation isn't causation etc.) to undergraduates.

107 yrs ago Horatio Ellis Evans killed in Salonika, Greece. He was treated at the Hospital in 1916 & awarded the Military Medal. On recovering, re-posted overseas & killed in action - 17th September 1918 Thank you Jan for the research #firstworldwar #WeWillNeverForget #militaryhospital

Does anyone recognise this late Victorian periodical? Based on the page numbers this is obvs an article from a larger work but I can’t trace it anywhere. It’s got lots of full-page images & I’m confident for various reasons that it was produced in 1881.

After Prom 72 (the Last Night of the Proms 2025) you have donated over £102,000. Thank you! #BBCProms #LNotP

#ICYMI - this came out this week! #Railway200 #RailwayHistory #TransportHistory #MobilityHistory 👇👍😀

After Prom 71 you have donated over £96,600. Thank you! #BBCProms

The endless confusion of Balkan historical research… Lioum-Koula Koda Lume Lyumcula Kula Lums Kukës It’s all the same bloody place!

REQ fact of the day. Did you know (I didn't before I started this project) that the King of Portugal is listed as a complainant in an Elizabethan Requests case? You can now find the record by search REQ 2 for "King of Portugal" [REQ 2/253/44] discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C2...

This is so freaking cool www.science.org/content/arti...

The NDSA Fixity survey closes on September 15. Your response will help determine how organizations use fixity methods to ensure stability of digital content. #digipres #DigitalPreservation #archives #library📚 Survey link here: umn.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

It's the middle of the night, and a young fireman confronts a fire the like of which he's never seen before. It is the night of 7 September 1940, and 24-year-old Frank Hurd is fighting fires on the first night of the London #Blitz. An illustrated thread... 🧵 1/19

After Prom 63, you have donated over £78,500. Thank you! #BBCProms

After Prom 62, you have donated over £76,400. Thank you! #BBCProms

We at The WFA have launched our PhD Grant Scheme for 2025. The grant is open to doctoral students researching ANY aspect of the First World War. Where will our grant take you? See website for full details 👇🏻 www.westernfrontassociation.com/latest-news/... #Fwwhist #phdchat

Believe it or not, this is a parish register from the seventeenth century that was damaged during a fire! 🔥 Heat causes the collagen fibres in the parchment to denature and shrink and eventually turn to gelatine, which sometimes has a ‘glassy’ appearance. #EarlyModern #Skystorians

Discworld QOTD, from Men at Arms

Barnes railway bridge reopened to passengers yesterday after a maintenance closure that has finally resolved a problem that’s been affecting it since the 1970s. www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/bar...