New blog up on the Places, Plants and People Archive Network website, featuring lots of beautiful images of Kew Gardens! By @alyssamyers.bsky.social collections.reading.ac.uk/places-plant...

'The Ongoing Importance of Archives' Reflections from this year's undergrad placement student Lily Bunch on her time in the Design Archives, read now on our site: blogs.brighton.ac.uk/brightondesi...

Our new exhibition Remembering Humberside is up-and-running @hullhistorycentre.bsky.social and @northlincsmuseum.bsky.social. If you're lucky enough to be on Humberside it's well worth a visit. For everyone else, there's a nice write-up in The Hull Story. www.thehullstory.com/allarticles/...

Thrilled to be given the 'Leader Award' for #DisabiltySmartImpactAwards for 2026. Thank You @businessdisability.bsky.social and countless colleagues along the way - especially our #50MillionVoices core team, trustees, volunteers, allies, employers & many people who stammer from around the world!

Thank you to those who have completed the UK Archive Sector Survey 2026! For those that haven’t yet, please do tinyurl.com/UK-Archive-S... The evidence helps us to advocate & demonstarte the social and economic importance of archives to funders & stakeholders

Nothing like a Mary Anning letter at the @theul.bsky.social @theulspeccoll.bsky.social to close off a sunny #FossilFriday.

In case you missed it, wonderful Archives Hub feature by the @musichallsociety.bsky.social Archive! Mimicry, music and magic: an introduction to the British Music Hall Society archive: blog.archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/2026/03/26/m... #britishmusichallsociety #Archives #BMHS

A century and a half of history encased in more than 1,500 archive boxes After three years, conservation and cataloguing of the archives of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) has been completed...

Ever wondered what the Archives and Records Association can do for new professionals working with records in the UK & Ireland? Come along and find out for yourself at our next knowledge-sharing and networking event: online, Weds 20 May: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ara-sfnp-c....

What a terrific opportunity! careers.kew.org/vacancy/arch...

Yep. When you digitize old stuff, you now have to look after the original artifact *and* it's digital surrogate. "Just put everything online" is not the labor-saving flex laypeople think it is.

#WhyArchives? Because the past deserves a future & the future deserves a past. #Archive30

#WhyArchives? For exploring, for educating, for enjoying. For empathy, for expertise, for enduring value. For evidence, for ever, for everyone. #Archive30 #ExploreYourArchive

Wrapping up #Archive30, a month that’s incl. the exhibition opening & a closer look at the #KarunCollection, showing #whyarchives matter as they connect objects, stories, and context in powerful ways. Thanks for hosting @arascot.bsky.social 🎉 @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social @dmu.ac.uk #textiles

A poetic ode to archives for #WhyArchives this year (with thanks to O'Shaughnessy). #Archive30

#Archive30 #WhyArchives Without #archives the #BritishMuseum would have little idea of its history, or who has worked there over the years. Judith Stanley was 1 of the 1st female employees & in 1756 our accounts show her employment & the wages book shows she accepted her salary with a X.

📢 We’re recruiting for a Digital Lead here at Kresen Kernow! Do you love working at the intersection of archives, heritage and digital innovation? Are you passionate about collections management, digital archives and improving access to history?

It's #MapMonday! This is a map of the #GPO and surrounding area issued by Hibernian Fire and General Insurance Co. Ltd, showing buildings that were destroyed or damaged by fire during Easter Week 1916. From the Inspiring Ireland 1916 project, deposited by the National Museum of Ireland.

TNA job klaxon! Records Specialist - Family History: deadline, 7th May...

People end up working in archives from a variety of different backgrounds. For #ArchiveBeginnings we asked some of our team to share their own backgrounds of how they ended up working here. #Archive30

#Archive30 #ArchiveBeginnings The earliest document on the foundation of the #BritishMuseum in the #archives, this is a 1738 extract from the Will of Arthur Edwards relating to the Cotton Library (1 of the 3 founding collections). Dudley Ryder, Attorney General, gave his advice & signed the document

Whether it’s milk or dark, a bar or a box, everyone likes a bit of chocolate! For #ArchiveFoodandDrink we’re sharing the results of this chocolate eating survey, completed by Reading Festival Chorus members in 1997 🍫 Happy chocolate eating! 📸 D/EX1225/10/12/5 #Archive30

This map shows the route of the Norfolk Marathon in a souvenir programme from the 1980s. The route shows Kelling Hospital, Blickling Hall and Aylsham Market Place, amongst other landmarks. #londonmarathon #norfolkmarathon

The #britishmuseum #archives holds the business records of William Duesbury of the Derby China Co, founded in the mid-18th C. It includes the records of the Bow & Chelsea Porcelain Manufactories - here are some documents & designs from the papers. #Archive30 #BusinessArchives

As a supplement to the piece in The Times Literary Supplement (@thetls.bsky.social), www.the-tls.com/regular-feat..., here’s a (rather long!) thread on Shakespeare’s house in the Blackfriars, what we knew, and what we now know, with some links to key documents. (1/20)

With nearly 1,000 #BusinessArchives—some dating back to the 1500s—DRO is ideal for researching local industries, from coal and lead mining to engineering and cotton manufacturing. Explore our business archive guide to see what we hold and how to access it: recordoffice.wordpre...#BusinessArchives—some #Archive30

Our volunteer Maya has been helping us complete the last stages of cataloguing the archive of Howard & Sons, a chemicals company operating in Uphall, Ilford from 1897 to 1980. Here she is marking business invoices with their unique reference numbers. #BusinessArchives #ArchiveVolunteers #Archive30

Please do take part if you can, having this data is so valuable in making the case for archives.

Always interesting looking at evaluation data. It's worth saying: if you're a UK archive working on digital preservation and need support on getting started, creating digital asset registers, offering digital access or advocating for preservation, here you go: www.dpconline.org/digipres/pro...

People are the heart and soul of archives. Through our collections we can find hundreds, or more likely thousands, of snapshots into human experiences and emotions shared by so many people. Love, grief and friendship are just a handful of human experiences which we can find in our collections.

The online application system for Archive Service Accreditation has now re-opened! The revised application form reflects changes implemented as part of the 2023-2025 accreditation review. Explore the revised standard and instructions for applying here: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-sec...

📢 New course launch! We’ve added #N2KH: Advocacy to our learning pathway - supporting digital preservation practitioners to advocate for #DigitalPreservation, communicate its value, and build support within their organizations. Learn how to make your case […] [Original post on digipres.club]

One of my MLitt students is doing their thesis on potential applications for AI based noise reduction of archival recordings of speech. If this is your area of interest, there is a survey here they’d be grateful for contributions to app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/dundee/sou... #archives #oralhistory

Here’s our regular reminder of upcoming events with spaces still available! These events cover community and volunteer engagement, support for filling in the UK archive sector survey, the new Inclusive Archival Practice Network and more! Sign up here: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-sec...

An absolutely cracking example of Elizabeth I's Great Seal. TNA E 355/3. Fun fact, I found this in the first series I listed when I started working at The National Archives [E 355] discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C1...

Love this plan for the Belvidere Fever Hospital, Glasgow (c.1874). The hospital was primarily for the treatment and care of patients with infectious diseases #ArchivePlan #Archive30

Many people will recognise this #ArchivePlan of the old Olympia. These were drawn up in 1994 and show the various pools and slides. Were you ever brave enough to go on the Cannonball? You can read more about the old Olympia here: dundeecityarchives.w...#ArchivePlan #Dundee #Archive30

There are lots of plans in the British Museum archive including these, from a guidebook in 1961, a from a design plan for the new building in 1838, & from a suggested design by Charles Barry for the new reading room in the 1850s. #Archive30 #ArchivePlan #britishmuseum #archives

Happy #MapMonday ! This drawing of Carrickfergus town is an annotated plan showing town walls, dwellings, church, and monuments. Deposited in the DRI by the Royal Irish Academy as part of the 'OS200: Digitally Re-mapping Ireland’s Ordnance Survey Heritage' project: doi.org/10.7486/DRI....

Arguably, an archivist is trained to throw things away, that is to identify which records should be permanently preserved and which should not. Visit our blog for more #AboutAppraisals and the archivist's role in selecting records: recordoffice.wordpre...#AboutAppraisals#Archive30

#AboutAppraisals We received a very large transfer of architectural plans of Salvation Army buildings last year. Some plans are in very poor condition, while many are duplicates or show only minor details (like door handles). So we are appraising them to keep the most relevant examples. #Archive30

#dyddllunymap #mapmonday Sale plan of Llandudno and environs Dyddiad/Date : 1849 MC/3/179

We’re delighted to share the Government’s vision for archives in England: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-sec... Baroness Twycross, Minister for Museums, Heritage and Gambling, and Lords Minister, officially launched the new vision at the M&S Archive at University of Leeds on Friday (1/3)

Here’s a short video showing what digital preservation involves. In this case, a file only works from a CD and can’t just be copied to our network—so we have to convert it into a playable format. #Archive30 #DigitalPreservation

When our Conservation Team have been busy packaging a collection, it's hard not to think of Christmas or birthdays! #ArchivePresent #Archive30

#Archive30 #ArchiveConservation Here is an image from the restoration & conservation of the Round Reading Room ceiling, part of the Great Court millennium project, & an original design drawing for the windows by Sydney Smirke from 1856. #britishmuseum #archives

We're looking for a training officer to join our committee for the UK & Ireland's community of new #archives and #recordsmanagement professionals. Find out more about the role here: tinyurl.com/SfNP26TO. Apply to [email protected] by 24 April.

It's one month until View Day at St Bartholomew's Hospital, which means one month till our next #Archives Open Day! Drop in between 11am-3pm on Wednesday 13 May to see original records and objects, including some featured in #OurHospitalThroughTime, and find out more about our collections

Our Preservation & Digital Resources Coordinator Sirpa Kutilainen co-leads the HVAC Shut Down Group which explores sustainable conservation and preservation measures that can be applied to the GLAM sector. Read more here blogs.brighton.ac.uk/hvac/ #archiveconservation @arascot.bsky.social #archive30