A poster printed on purple paper advertising Limehouse Chinatown: The original chinatown, myths and realities

A poster for ‘Hop Lee Chinese Laundry’ on an exposed wall, next to some shelves with packets wrapped in brown paper

A display of Paka Poo gaming sheets

A view across St Anne’s church, Limehouse

Visited the wonderful Limehouse Chinatown exhibition at St Anne’s church. Such fascinating and evocative history, right on my doorstep 🧧🐉

Had a lovely group of teen students in and was talking about the Alexandra Hospital for Children with Hip Disease and how the long term child patients were entertained and they told me they had read about it in Jacqueline Wilson's Queenie. Love to see JW still having an impact!

ARCHIVES OPEN DAY 11am-3pm, WEDNESDAY 13 MAY 2026 Drop in to see items from the St Bartholomew’s Hospital collection used during the Channel 5 series, ‘Our Hospital Through Time’, and other items from our collections spanning nine centuries. Come and find out more about the work of Barts Health NHS Trust Archives! Where? Trust Archives, Kenton and Lucas Block (Entrance C), St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London EC1A

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

10/10 👏👏

Looga-barooga! Worcestershire is also a classic

I am being marketed the mangelwurzel hard at the moment and I'm starting to think maybe I do actually need to grow one

It’s me, I’m the hero

I read it as "Th. Syon" too, Thomasina would make sense

It's absolutely fine to dispose of duplicates of historic material

Exhibition panels featuring images from the St Bartholomew's Hospital archives collections and stories about the history of the hospital on the wall of the main corridor in the hospital's King George V building. Two pillars to either side are decorated with Barts 900 bunting, and a man stands looking at his phone to the left of the image

Another group of exhibition panels featuring images from the St Bartholomew's Hospital archives collections and stories about the history of the hospital on the wall of the main corridor in the hospital's King George V building. The closest panel, headed 'Pioneers' features an archive image of a boy in red jumper and tights lying on his front doing exercises. A man stands in front of one of panel looking at it with his hand on his chin

A cuboid display unit in the square at St Bartholomew's Hospital, part of the outdoor exhibition. Two panels of the four around the unit are visible; next to the unit is a lamp and a wooden shelter, and behind it are mature trees in leaf and the central fountain. One panel shows a large close-up photograph of pages from the hospital's medieval cartulary, where the text has been written around a hole in the parchment. The other, with the heading 'Explore' has images of items from the collections amongst a checkerboard design with details about Barts Health NHS Trust Archives and the Barts900 logo

Display units from the outdoor exhibition in Guildhall Yard, at the centre of the City of London. Behind the units are both medieval and modern buildings of Guildhall. Amongst the panels that can be seen are a large photograph of a hand, a photograph of the hospital's Hogarth staircase, and a black and white photograph of a female nurse pushing a male patient in a wheelchair in the square. People can be seen looking at and walking towards the display units

Did you spot the exhibition panels in the main entrance corridor of St Bartholomew's, in each episode of #OurHospitalThroughTime? They are a smaller version of the outdoor exhibition we mounted for #Barts900 three years ago. Explore more of the hospital's history via the online version: rb.gy/20khgd

Remember to watch the final episode of Our Hospital Through Time tonight at 8pm on Channel 5. There's more of us showing
@profaliceroberts.bsky.social our collection items and history of St Bartholomew's Hospital!

#History #Archives

@bartscharity.bsky.social

@bartsnorthwing.bsky.social

ChatGPT: You’re so right, archivist. Eating the document would help preserve it using a new storage solution — one that's never been tried before in the archive sector. You wouldn't just be enjoying a cheap lunch, you would be furthering archival science for the world.

A yellow post-it note labelled ‘HISTORICAL INTEREST’ is stuck on piece of photocopied paper. A plain green post it note is also adhered to the paper.

I’ll be the decider of that

What do we do with duplicates?

The original and duplicate are placed in a Document Arena (or Docudome™), then we turn away from them and allow one to consume the other, unobserved. This is a double-blind trial, where we don't know which was the original. Thus, only the strongest document survives.

She's a philosopher of aesthetics not ethics. That she isn't willing to publish any of her arguments in peer-reviewed journals is academic cowardice.

She is using her academic philosopher title as a way of adding legitimacy to her own views.

Exhibition ‘In Focus: Nurse Catherine Pine’ In Focus: Nurse Catherine Pine  Friday 6th March - Sunday 4th October The fourth exhibition of our In Focus - In Focus: Nurse Catherine Pine is now open. This exhibition gives an in depth look at t...

This #WomensHistoryMonth, check out the new exhibition at the Florence Nightingale Museum, 'In Focus: Nurse Catherine Pine', and find out about this St Bartholomew's Hospital nurse and her life's work in the fight for women's rights
www.florence-nightingale.co.uk/exhibition-i...

Two Working LEGO Printing Presses | LEGO® Ideas The development of mechanical printing changed how ideas move through the world. Once text and images could be printed rather than copied by hand, knowledge was…

Hi #EarlyModern Bluesky - did you know that someone brilliant has built working printing presses using Lego and they are trying to get enough supporters so that Lego will release it as a kit?

They look so cool!

beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...

The only words I'm interested in hearing from Tony Blair will be delivered from the dock in The Hague.

I've signed this and sent it on.

White text on a blue background. The text reads - "this stoneware jar is part of the Royal London Hospital object collection. The jar was used to store leeches. It has a lid that locks by twisting the metal clasp. It has holes so that the leeches could breathe but not escape. In 1837 Barts bought 96,000 leeches for use in the hospital. Leeches were still in use at Barts up until the 1930s. They are still used in micro surgery and plastic surgery to help restore blood flow." There is a picture of a beige ceramic pot with a claw-like attachment that stops the lid from falling off.White text on a blue background. The text reads - "this stoneware jar is part of the Royal London Hospital object collection. The jar was used to store leeches. It has a lid that locks by twisting the metal clasp. It has holes so that the leeches could breathe but not escape. In 1837 Barts bought 96,000 leeches for use in the hospital. Leeches were still in use at Barts up until the 1930s. They are still used in micro surgery and plastic surgery to help restore blood flow." There is a picture of a beige ceramic pot with a claw-like attachment that stops the lid from falling off.

On this week's episode we looked at the dispensary accounts for the hospital which showed the purchase of leeches. Here you can see an example from our collections of a pot used to store leeches 🪱🪱

Spanish PM Sánchez responds to Trump:

"Spain is against this disaster... Govts are here to improve people's lives... It is absolutely unacceptable that those leaders who are unable to fulfill that mission use the smoke of war to hide their failure, and in the process, fill the pockets of a few."

Catch me this evening talking about las sanguijuelas 🪱

Hannah Spencer walking into Westminster, sucking her teeth, tutting, and muttering "tell you what, you've had some cowboys in here."

Catch Ep2 of Our Hospital Through Time tonight at 8pm on Channel 5. Tune in to see us showing @profaliceroberts.bsky.social our collection items and discussing more of the history of St Bartholomew's Hospital!

#History #Archives @bartscharity.bsky.social @bartsnorthwing.bsky.social

My feeling is if they were disappointed with the ‘product’ they received they shouldn’t have accepted the degrees.

It’s like finding a fly in your restaurant soup, and only complaining when you’ve finished the last spoonful. It’s like buyers remorse.

Ooh I’m midway through Matrix by Lauren Groff which is about Marie de France and it’s got some plantagenet history. So confusing!

Being nice to trans people really did turn out to be a load bearing part of liberal democracy ey

I am pleased to see she comments 'potential difficulties remain – including whether the instructions and technology for reading the glass would remain available for future generations' as I was beating my head on the desk, sobbing and laughing hysterically from years of archivists hearing similar.

oh god. It's going to be a day in which we are forced to tap the 'the world didn't start in 1900' sign every five minutes, isn't it?

Anyway, stop firing your premodernists, stop making them feel irrelevant, stop making them do just the introduction sessions of 'the real' history.