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
Two volunteers sit at a table reading through a book of magistrate records. They also have laptops set up in front of them.
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...
Document with Elizabethan Great Seal
Elizabethan Great Seal
Elizabethan Great Seal
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...
Plan showing a long single storey building, a ward layout and a cross section of the main building
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...
#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
Historic map illustration of Carrickfergus, featuring detailed drawings of a castle, town walls, and a ship on the sea. The map is labeled with landmarks
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....
Colour photograph of a small slightly dirty basement room containing a large messy pile of cardboard boxes, bags and some metal chests on shelves on the right hand side.
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...
#Archive30
Tubes in a room containing architectural plans
Architectural plans being sorted on a table
Plans of Salvation Army corps hall at East Dereham, 1929
Plans of Salvation Army retirement home at The Old House, Sevenoaks
#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
Two school children sit at a table studying an old landscape photograph.
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
A photograph of a stack of blue-grey boxes, all different sizes and heights. They have all been tied up with unbleached cotton tape.
When our Conservation Team have been busy packaging a collection, it's hard not to think of Christmas or birthdays!
#ArchivePresent #Archive30
Glass of beer.
Peroni 0.0% for me. I have booked reasonably priced trains for a weekend in Edinburgh this summer, so I’m feeling more productive than I really have a right to do. Cheers! #ConfinedCocktails
#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 newprofessionals@archives.org.uk by 24 April.
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
thermal image of an archive store shows an image of a hallway in purple, orange and pink hues
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
Day 14: #unusualarchives #Archive30
Many files and correspondence in our collections document the unusual challenges faced for the administration of a remote island community, and the solutions they devised to overcome these challenges.
@arascot.bsky.social @falklandsinuk.bsky.social
Cover of the box, featuring a large illustration of a fairy tale castle. It also has word written in Cyrillic alphabet.
The inside of the box, which contains nine smaller boxes, each depicting a scene from a different fairy tale.
A close-up of one of the small boxes with its lid removed, showing several empty black wrappers.
As today's #Archive30 theme is #UnusualArchives, we couldn't resist the temptation to share some chocolate 😃 This gorgeous East European chocolate box features images from fairy tales and even still has some - alas empty - wrappers.
#art #illustrations
We're currently recruiting for five (yes five!) Collaborative Doctoral Partnership awards at IWM See the full list of projects and partners here, with further details of how to apply: www.iwm.org.uk/research/doc...
I'm lucky enough to be co-supervising this PhD project. Deadline 22 May 2026 "Rethinking Reparations: A Cultural and Social History of Post-First World War Compensation to Civilians in Britain and its Empire, 1918-25": www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate...
colourful map
This lovely colour-coded map shows the Surgeon's districts of Glasgow, c.1831. The surgeon assigned to each district was responsible for visiting the poor for free.
#ColourfulArchives #Archive30
We know, it's a Monday morning and the coffee hasn't quite hit yet so you want to learn something new! Luckily, we've got a lovely blog full of all kinds of #recordsmanagement and #archives insights from across the ARA new professionals community: aranewprofessionals.wordpress.com/posts-by-the...
Plan of Exeter, entitled 'A Plan of the City and Suburbs of Exeter'. Built-up areas are highlighted in red. Gardens, cemeteries and the countryside are highlighted in green. The river is highlighted in blue. A key on the right notes places of interest in Exeter, including 'Globe Tavern', 'Hurt's Alms Houses' and 'Fulling Mills'. Street names and many building names are also named on the plan. The plan extends as far as St Thomas in the south and to the top of Sidwell Street in the north.
This 'Plan of the City and Suburbs of Exeter' dates back to 1765 and is from Benjamin Donn's 'Map of the County of Devon'.
It was the first entirely new survey of Devon since the one undertaken by Christopher Saxton in the 16th century.
📷 Townsend Maps T15
#MapMonday #MondayMaps #MappingOurExeter
A 'colour-flower' drawn by the filmmaker/artist Norman McLaren in 1947 (ref. GAA31/PP/9) University of Stirling Archives.
A 'colour-flower' drawn by the filmmaker/artist #NormanMcLaren in 1947.
#ColourfulArchives for today's #Archive30
#CultureOnStirCampus
Last year we had the rare opportunity to have a look at one of our biggest items - a plan of the works of the Dundee Water Company from 1863. As you can see it only just fits on our searchroom table. #SomethingBig #Archive30
Today’s document is a 1821 survey of the lands held by the Rt. Hon. Henry, Earl and Baron of Abergavenny. This impressive looking volume is bound in leather with gold embossed detailing. Inside it features detailed colourful plans covering Abergavenny, Blaenavon, Goytre and Nantyglo.
#Archive30 #SomethingBig This is the biggest item in the #britishmuseum archive. It’s a phased site plan for an archaeological excavation at Mucking in Essex from the 1970s. Staff feet in the image for scale! #archives
A glass of cloudy liquid with ice cubes on a wooden surface.
This improvised nameless monstrosity is the syrup from a tin of peaches enlivened with gin. It’s better than it sounds. Cheers! #ConfinedCocktails
