Evening all. Very lazy post treatment day with lots of naps. Now an evening of podcast listening and some gentle sewing. Cheers. #ConfinedCocktails

Sadly not this time! Hope you have a fabulous time

Moulded pot from Corbridge showing a smith (god?) at work

View of the site at Corbridge, with the museum building in the background

Durham and English Heritage are now recruiting for a fully-funded PhD on Roman Corbridge 🥳🥳🥳

This is a fantastic opportunity to work on one of our most important and understudied finds assemblages from Roman Britain. Deadline 1st June. Please share widely!

www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

Archives #JobKlaxon - Curious Arts are recruiting for a north-east based Digital Archivist drive.google.com/file/d/1NHPQ...

Oh I bet - I have a very select few authors I'll happily buy in hardback and KJC is definitely one

Very, very good. Have recommended it to a few folks who have all really enjoyed it too

And wonderfully narrated too!

How about Rivers of London if they've not read them?

I normally don't do much 20th century history but this one was really interesting and surprisingly engrossing.

I did see KJC was at TNA and was very envious of those who went. New book out in a few weeks too!

Assuming you've already recommended this

Actually if they like history books cannot recommend this enough - loved it!

Depends on what they are interested in - I've just finished quite a serious but interesting 20th century history book on Nazi women, and am also listening to a KJ Charles and a Douglas Adams. My listening is diverse!

Unexpectedly chemo free week so have celebrated with a quiet day of sewing, audiobooks, walk in the sunshine, library visit etc. Just water to drink while I sew and listen. Cheers! #ConfinedCocktails

I'd forgotten about that blog by Jo. Thanks for the reminder - so lovely to see his stuff still being used

Congratulations! And that is, indeed, a fabulous stamp!

The Arrival Of Spring In Woldgate, East Yorkshire, 2011, painting by David Hockney (b.1937).

Coffee with a friend tomorrow before some National Trusting with my mum and sister. Oh and a new fountain pen nib arriving.

Left hand holding a glass of clear liquid. Being a 25% complete embroidery in blues, oranges and greens of stylised flowers.

Evening. Drinking water after a rather good curry while waiting for the apple pie to bake! Having had a lovely week off with family - I have sewn and read books and had retail therapy and rested which has been delightful. Cheers! #ConfinedCocktails

KJ Charles at Love Letters Late We’re thrilled to be partnering with The National Archives for Love Letters Late — a special late-night celebration of romance, stories, and after-hours literary magic. Join us on Friday, April 10th f...

I am doing an event at the National Archives, for crying out loud! The Love Letters exhibition, talking and signing advance copies, courtesy of Notting Hill's Saucy Books!

They are fabulous. And a little bit mad!

I've just realised I'm going to be on holiday when they hit Hexham this year unfortunately! Their shows are always such fun.

Evening. Quite a long week but celebrating being on leave (and the out-of-office being on for the next week) with some sewing and a glass of water. Cheers #ConfinedCocktails

A yellow record card from Battersea Polytechnic, showing information about Susannah Cowell, who undertook a course of practical Laundry Work in 1927. The card shows details such as her education, marital status and the hours she attended (all of them!)

Another call for the hive-mind of Bluesky!
Can any paleography experts identify the occupation of Susannah Cowell, shown here on her student registration card? She was a student at Battersea Polytechnic in 1927, taking a course in Laundry Work.
#archives #educationhistory #trickyhandwriting

Buffy - Once More, with Feeling - I'll Never Tell YouTube video by Samantha Graff

www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2rh...
Nicholas Brendon RIP.

Not a problem - we're very happy to help and do inductions!

Discworld QOTD, from Reaper Man

This sounds like a fabulous project - if you'd like to arrange an intro session for them to Tyne & Wear Archives we're happy to do one - just drop me a line.

Conference programme for Broken Bonds: New Perspectives on Marital Breakdown in the English Common Law World 1801–1969. One-day hybrid academic conference, in person and online, at Northumbria University, Monday 20 April 2026. Registration link provided. The programme runs from 8.45am to 5.45pm and includes: an opening overview by Dr Jennifer Aston (Northumbria University); Session One with papers by Prof. Danaya Wright (University of Florida) and Chloe Challender (Warwick University); Session Two with papers by Penelope Russell (University of Sheffield), Dr Stephanie Brown (University of Hull), and Dr Sophie Michell (Open University); a keynote address by Baroness Hale of Richmond DBE on the role of conduct in matrimonial law; Session Three with papers by Dr Rosemary Elliot (University of Glasgow) and Prof. Rebecca Probert (University of Exeter); and Session Four with papers by Dr Naomi Cousins (Leeds Beckett University), Dr Ellen Durban (Independent Scholar), and Ruth Tweedale (University of Westminster). A drinks reception follows closing remarks. Logos for the ESRC, New Histories of Divorce, and Northumbria University Newcastle appear at the foot of the page.

Only 5 weeks until the *free* Broken Bonds: The History of Divorce and Marital Breakdown conference at Northumbria University! Thanks to the ESRC, travel bursaries are available. Details in replies 👇
#LegalHistory #DivorceHistory #FamilyLaw #SocioLegalStudies #WomensHistory #ESRC #ECRHistory

Jobs! Three jobs! I am hiring three full-time, three-year postdocs to research the long history of song at Newcastle, from any disciplinary background (within reason), starting 1 October 2026. Spread the news far and wide – all details in the link below...

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Close up of an ornately decorated capital I, taken from Archbishop's Register 28 in the Archdiocesan Archive.

🚨FIXED TERM ARCHIVE JOB KLAXON🚨

We are looking for an experienced archivist to develop and implement a scoping project to re-catalogue and make available the York Archdiocesan Archive (6 months full time, or 12 months part time).

Full details at the link:
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