It's #WorldDigitalPreservationDay, and we're asking #WhyPreserve ? Our hospitals have been creating digital records in various forms for over 60 years, but as technology evolves, information and records can become inaccessible. Digital preservation is essential for future access #WDPD2025

✨Job opportunity ✨ Wolverhampton City Archives are seeking a part-time permanent Archive Assistant Closing date for applications is 16 November #archives #ArchivesWM

A reminder that this exhibition runs until 20th December and can be viewed whenever the Archives are open

#ArchivesWM EDIB self assessment toolkit will be embedded into the Archive Service Accreditation from Spring 2026! The National #Archives Sector are running online workshops to introduce this toolkit between Dec 2025 - Feb 2026 (all workshops cover same content so only need to book one).

In one of our latest blogs, @redhen90.bsky.social shares information about the national partnership to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the General Strike 1926. Find out more: www.balh.org.uk/blog-making-... #WeAreLocalHistory #LocalHistoryForAll @gftu.org.uk

An online impact seminar organised by The National Archives to hear how Croydon Archives, Somerset Archives and Local Studies, and TNA are finding creative and inclusive approaches to engaging young people. 🗓️ Wednesday 12 November (10–11.30am) Online via Zoom #archives #ArchivesWM

#ArchivesWM member Dudley Archives is hosting 'Working Life', a pop-up exhibition by the Dudley Caribbean & Friends Ass. as part of their Culture and Heritage Community Project. Further information on can be found at: Black Country Roots: Windrush Voices #archives @blackcountrysoc.bsky.social

The event takes places from 1-2pm GMT. Book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ales-lunch... The event costs £10 for ARA members and £15 for non-ARA members. Please note the event will be recorded and the recording made available for ARA members only. @aranewprofs.bsky.social @araukie.bsky.social

Join Walsall #Archives this Saturday for the Walsall Archives Local History Fair! Discover the borough’s fascinating past through displays and hands-on family activities, including talk by historian Ian Bott (12 noon, booking required) 📆 Sat 25 Oct ⏰11am–2.30pm 🎟️ Free

On Wednesday 26th November, Dr Anna-Maria Sichani, BRAID Research Fellow, will discuss how the cultural heritage sector can build capacity for responsible #AI 💻 Online 🕑 12-1pm GMT 🎉 Free and open to all ARA members 🎟️ Book your place here by Mon 24th Nov: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/empowering...

In one of our new episodes of #LocalHistoryMatters, Tim Hamilton talks about his work with the Black Country Living History Museum. Listen to all episodes: www.balh.org.uk/podcast #WeAreLocalHistory #LocalHistoryForAll

One of @araen.bsky.social case studies of work in relation to record keeping and climate change includes #ArchivesWM member Shropshire #Archives 👇

Health is Wealth During the 1920s the Industrial Health Education Council toured the country, holding 'Heath Meetings' for millworkers, miners & other industrial workers. These posters and more are in our digitised sources on British healthcare, 1900-1948: warwick.ac.uk/services/lib... #HistMed

Medievalists and early modernists ahoy! 🚨 Our librarians are surveying the oldest books in the Library Special Collections and have found an intriguing endpaper bound into this 1516 edition of the Decretum Gratiani. Do YOU recognise this heavily abbreviated Latin scrap?

Great shout out to @archiveswm.bsky.social for developing their EDIB-SAT tool for measuring EDI practice in Archive Services which is now a core part of the new Accreditation Standard 🌟

Good news 📣 Walsall #Archives is extending its opening hours to include Fridays and the first Saturday of every month! Offering residents, researchers and history enthusiasts more opportunities to explore the borough’s rich heritage. #ArchivesWM

#Archives - something to share with your community groups ✨Archive Basics ✨ a useful resource from The National Archives (UK) for those new to the sector, or those who may not be archive professionals – such as members of community archives and owners of private collections.

Find out more at this webinar about the revisions to the Archive Service Accreditation Standard, reflect on what this means for services, and how this will impact on applications. 📅Mon 6 October 🕰️11am-12.45pm (UK time) 💻Online #archives

After the #ArchivesWM AGM in September the annual review for 2024-2025 is now available via the website! Introduced by The National Archives it offers an overview of the work of the charity and includes 'Around the Archives' sharing news of the great projects taking place across the region #Archives

Archives, memory, representation & empowerment - and the gaps in the records... We really enjoyed taking part in this event at @rshc.bsky.social, sharing stories around labour movement collections & records of resistance - from the MRC's origins to the NUM archives via the Spanish Civil War & Chile

Calling all #ArchivesWM members - a free online course on carbon literacy! No limit on number of staff/volunteers joining and specifically shaped for the #archives sector Mon 26 Jan 2026 (9.30am to 1pm) & Tues 27 Jan 2026 (1 – 4.30pm). Must attend both days of the course.

📣Job Opportunity📣 Stoke-on-Trent City Council seeks innovative & experienced Archive Services Manager to lead the Stoke-on-Trent City Archives team, following recent relocation to the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery(PMAG) Closing date for applications: 7 October #Archives #ArchivesWM

Archives West Midlands held its AGM today at the fabulous Staffordshire History Centre, with a special guest and speakers from our member services. Thank you to hosts Jo Terry, Helen Johnson & Richard Lewis and to attending #ArchivesWM trustees, member services and ambassadors (1/2)

🚨Heritage Open Week Events! Join us for a talk exploring the history of the University and explore your family history using the archives. 📅Friday 12th September ⌚13.00-15.30 📅Wednesday 17th September ⌚10.30-13.00 📢Book via by email or phone - links on our website warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...

... and the archives of the Secretary of the 1889 Tailors' Strike Committee are held here! Lithuania-born William Wess emigrated to London in 1880, aged 20, & quickly became a central figure in radical politics in the capital, co-founding/organising trade unions, political & educational groups... 🧵

The ‘Spaces, Places and Belonging’ Community Hub is a new national programme to support inclusive, community-led research across the UK’s galleries, libraries, #archives, and museums (GLAM) and heritage sectors. Launch Webinar: Weds 17th Sept 2025. On offer three grant schemes - to find out more 👇

Exhibition at #ArchivesWM member Dudley Local Archives and Local History Service From Agenoria to Beeching: The First & Last Days of Steam in Dudley 11 October - 20 December 2025 Organised by Dudley Archives and the @blackcountrysoc.bsky.social as a contribution to #Railways200

Black Country Society History Day 8/11/2025. After Agenoria: Aspects of the Railway Revolution in the Black Country. Organised in cooperation with the Black Country Living Museum. The programme for the day and booking details can be downloaded from tickets.bclm.com/127979/127980

📝Rebecca Wells, a final year English Literature student at Keele, spent her placement uncovering the powerful story of the North Staffordshire Miners' Wives Action Group. 🔗Check out her blog here: www.keele.ac.uk/library/spec... @archiveswm.bsky.social @aramidlands.bsky.social #WomensHistory

Last day to register for in-person attendance at our conference is today (11 Aug). For online delegates registration continues to start of the conference. Find out more here. openingdoors.eventsair.com/ara2025/ Conference dates are 27-29 August in person in Bristol, UK and online

New #DigitalHistory site: South Asian Britain: Connecting Histories "explores the links among South Asians across the United Kingdom, as well as the connections between South Asians and other groups in Britain, from the 1830s to the present day." southasianbritain.org/about-databa... #History 🗃️

We've extended the booking deadlines for our ARA2025 conference: In person - by 11th Aug and online right up to start of conference. Find out all about the conference here: openingdoors.eventsair.com/ara2025/

#skystorians 🗃️#archives

👀We've got a brand new exhibition - "1965: The Year When..." which dips into the archives to explore stories from that year, the year when the University was founded. See a taster here: warwick.ac.uk/services/lib... or pop in during our opening hours. On until 19th September!

#ArchivesWM members a free one day course in carbon literacy! Run twice to maximise members’ opportunities to attend. Increase your awareness of the carbon emissions with regards to archives, records management and special collections. Developed by The National Archives & the Carbon Literacy Trust.

190 mss, over 7000 pages of medieval medical recipes, 42000 new images, 7700+ texts, new cataloguing, imaging and conservation treatments - oh my! We're so pleased to have been part of Curious Cures Congrats to @theul.bsky.social and everyone who worked on it 🎉👏👏 www.lib.cam.ac.uk/stories/curi...

The National Archives are holding a webinar 🗓️17 September (2pm) to launch ‘Spaces, Places and Belonging’ Community Hub – a national programme supporting inclusive, community-led research across the UK’s galleries, libraries, archives, museums, and heritage sectors 👇 #ArchivesWM #archives

📢 Job Opportunity📢 Records Management Advisor with Staffordshire County Council

Update! This year #ArchivesWM member service Sandwell #Archives received funding for its “Illuminating Chance Glass” cataloguing project. A project archivist is now on board with the project moving forward. The Chance Brothers collection spans the the early 17th Century to the early 20th Century.

#OTD 'Larry' produced a cartoon highlighting the Warwickshire miner’s strike of 1909. The cartoon neatly contrasts working conditions and attitudes between workers and owners at a time of growing industrial unrest. More 'Sentinel' cartoons online at cdm21047.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...

Beep Beep! New exhibition at one of #ArchivesWM member services. The British Motor Museum, Gaydon, Warwickshire explores the sensory connection to the sound of a car in a brand new exhibition space. The museum also holds the world's largest collection of British cars.

Online & free @womenshistnet.bsky.social conference The theme Women in Archives, Museums & Personal Collections 📅4 & 5 September (Can register for one or both days) #Archives

📢Calling #ArchivesWM members📢 Free online course in carbon literacy for your staff and volunteers. The course will run twice, in September and repeated in December. All details👇 @mrcwarwick.bsky.social @shakespearebtrust.bsky.social

Exhibition News! Visit Sandwell Archives to celebrate 40 years of the West Bromwich African Caribbean Resource Centre Monday 4 August– Friday 29 August 2025 #ArchivesWM

Last year’s conference had as its theme sustainability. This year's conference continues to discuss the environment & sustainability. In this article we highlight those sessions dealing with this theme: www.archives.org.uk/news/environment-and-sustainability-at-aras-2025-conference Book by 5th Aug

Confused about where to start with digital preservation? Come along and find out in our demystifying session with @sharonmcmeekin.bsky.social, Wed 23 July, 15:00:

Do you have ancestors from Shropshire? Or do you live in Shropshire with an interest in family history/genealogy? If so Shropshire Family History Society can offer support and have resources available to help you in your research. Take a look at their new website 👇

And I forgot to add you can listen to our podcast on this project - The Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland - featuring Zoe Reid (pictured in the article) here sites.libsyn.com/448569/beyon...

The ARA conference is for all record-keepers: including Records Managers, Information Governance professionals & digital preservation. It attracts people from a range of disciplines setting innovation & best practice into a wider context. www.archives.org.uk/news/a-conference-for-all-record-keepers

Anyone for tennis? #Wimbledon #Tennis "If so, be sure to provide yourself with a frock that will allow you room to move and leap and to stretch your arms". To look this stylish follow the instructions in 'Our Own Gazette' 1920, part of the YWCA archive. mrc-describe.epexio.com/records/YWC/...