black and white photograph of a tea making machine with a small exhibition display stand to the left.
The Tea Making section at the Farm and Factory Exhibition, Northern Ireland, part of the Festival of Britain, 1951. Designed by W.M. de Majo. M.B.E., M.S.I.A, part of the @designcouncil.bsky.social archive.
ID: DCA/30/1/FOB/FF/53
#NationalTeaDay
Promotional graphic for a live online event titled “Preserving the Web in the Age of AI.” The design features a dark green and teal background with futuristic accents. Event details read: “April 28th, 10am PT / 1pm ET, ONLINE.” Text explains that as publishers block archiving in response to AI, the event will explore what happens to the web’s memory, access, and accountability. Speakers include Mike Masnick (Techdirt), Mark Graham (Internet Archive), and Kendra Albert (Albert Sellars LLP), with headshots of each speaker shown. The right side includes a stylized, retro-futuristic illustration of computers, books, and digital media. The bottom right reads “Future Knowledge Podcast Live Recording,” with Internet Archive and Authors Alliance logos displayed.
🚨 LIVE ONLINE EVENT 🚨
Publishers vs. preservation: what happens when the web can’t be archived? Find out on PRESERVING THE WEB IN THE AGE OF AI, a LIVE Future Knowledge #podcast recording 🎙️
📆 Tues, April 28
🕙 10 AM–11 AM PDT/🕐 1 PM–2PM EDT
📍 ONLINE
🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/preserving...
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✨Could you be SAVE's next intern?
Get hands-on, in-depth experience of the heritage sector and nationwide campaigning with a paid internship at SAVE.
Find out more here👉 bit.ly/4evASxU
Three year postdoc going at @qmulsse.bsky.social working with @karlpike.bsky.social on ‘Politics and mythmaking: disentangling myth from ideology’, funded by the Leverhulme Trust. Details here:
black poster with a vodka bottle in the middle-left, a red dotted line extends from the bottle diagonally to the right towards an illustration of a truck that has crashed into a telephone pole. The text is written in white.
'Driver! From wine and vodka to crime - the way is short'
This Soviet-era anti-alcohol poster was commissioned by the Protection of Public Order Management, Leningrad City Council & Leningrad commercial transport, 1964
#EYACrime @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social
ICOGRADA / ICoD Archive
ICO/3/27/4
Don't forget to join us today at 4pm UK time to hear Dr Kellie Bradshaw discuss her research on 'Controlled Leisure: Women Shop Assistants in London before 1914'. You can sign up for the session here: womenshistorynetwork.org/sign-up-for-...
Colourful illustration of an Italian shipyard. Giorgio Barilani illustration of the Riva shipyard in Sarnico, Italy, with a view of the Plancia, Carlo Riva’s former office, 1965, Archivio Storico Riva – Ferretti Group.
Francesca Mucchetti, a doctoral student from University of Turin, Italy, has joined the Design Archives for a three-month placement part of her programme of study to work on the ICSID/ @wdo.org archive. Read more on our site here:
blogs.brighton.ac.uk/brightondesi...
Image ©Riva-Ferretti Group
Our national diary day is getting closer! This year we are keen to hear thoughts and feelings about nature and wellbeing, in addition to the day to day. We accept handwritten and typed diaries, but also photography and sketches, or other creative approaches!
#diary #sketch #photography #journalling
4 PhD funded positions at Swansea University on history, heritage, archives and museums.
#PublicHistory #Museums #Archives #Heritage
www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate...
JOBS: TWO 4.5-year postdocs @wellcometrust.bsky.social -funded project ‘Conserving Global Health’ @livunihss.bsky.social: History of Conservation and Animal Health
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRD198/p... History of Conservation and Earth Systems’ Health
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRD410/p... Please share widely!
This is a fabulous PhD opportunity to study the history of Scottish video games and its intersection with museums.
More details can be found at the following link. Click on 'Fully Funded PhD Research Studentship' on the left side:
ce0173li.webitrent.com/ce0173li_web...
37 black and white photographs are tiled into one composite image. Photos include designed objects like phones, cameras, glasses, cutlery, cars, toilets, textiles, clothing, packaging and more.
We’re excited to share a funded Collaborative Doctoral Partnership w/us & The National Archives; ‘Surfacing & sharing visual design records through AI-driven datasets’ @cultinformatics.bsky.social
More information:
www.brighton.ac.uk/research/pos...
Photos from @designcouncil.bsky.social archive
📢 Journalists: Have you used the Wayback Machine in your research or reporting? Share your story & support: ➡️ www.savethearchive.com/journalists/
CALL FOR EDITORS 📣
British American Nineteenth-Century Historians (BrANCH) is seeking new co-editors of its journal, to take up posts in January 2027.
CV + Letter of Intent should be shared by 1st June 2026.
🌱 Archives & climate change? We're working on it thru the #SAGAProject!
Join the SAGA Public Conference in Florence on 14 May 2026 🌍
♻️ Sustainability
📊 Monitoring tools
🌿 Greening strategies
👉 Register now & be part of the conversation
🔗 https://loom.ly/ymF9jJw
#GreenArchives
Trust in Archives Initiative has just released the initial version of its much-anticipated Toolkit. It helps archives navigate the evolving landscape of #GenAI and the urgent questions it raises for the heritage sector. #GLAMS
A poster for a conference about archaeometallurgy in UK Heritage. The list of speakers includes Carl Heron (British Museum), Peter Bray (Reading University), Frances Macintosh (English Heritage) and some loser called "Robert Symmons". The conference in hybrid (on line, or in-person in Reading), and there is a QR code to register.
Conference alert!
It's free and it's hybrid, so you have no excuses no to be there.
A full room today for our #Hackathon! Excited for a collaborative day working with data and exploring #DigitalResearchInfrastructures to address research questions around #GlobalChallenges and #CulturalHeritage. #DISKAH, @ads-update.bsky.social, #DAFNI, #DataCulture from @regentsox.bsky.social
Illustration of a teal sickle is overlaid on an illustration of a hammer inside a red tank. The poster text is in both turquoise and red. 25 Years of Progress exhibition poster, FHK Henrion Archive, University of Brighton Design Archives. Courtesy of FHK Henrion Estate.
an illustration of a red painter's palette and a red hammer and sickle on a piece of Russian newspaper. The title is in white and black inside the painter's palette. Artists Aid Russia Exhibition poster, FHK Henrion Archive, University of Brighton Design Archives. Courtesy of the Henrion Estate.
Two wartime exhibition posters from the archive of graphic designer FHK Henrion (1914-1990) are on loan to a new exhibition at the Wallace Collection in London, 'The Wallace Collection at War'
Read more here including links to the exhibition & reviews: blogs.brighton.ac.uk/brightondesi...
The Design History Society is looking for the host for its 2027 annual conference, which falls in the 50th Anniversary Year.
Find out more here: buff.ly/nIGCycJ
The next Design History Society 'Routes to Design History' podcast drops today! This time, we chat to Dr Sabrina Rahman, Lecturer in Art History and Visual Culture at the University of Exeter. Listen here: buff.ly/AotpZjZ
black and white photo of a man sitting outside on a bench outside a brick home. A woman carrying a tray opens a door to join him. Image of FHK Henrion and Daphne Hardy Henrion in the garden of their home in Hampstead, c.1947. Photograph by Anneli Bunyard, courtesy Estate of Anneli Bunyard.
'Designing from Home' documentary by @suebreakell.bsky.social @harrietatkinson.bsky.social about FHK Henrion has been shortlisted at the London Independent Film Awards. Tickets for Sunday's screening at 4:00pm at the Genesis Cinema, Whitechapel here:
www.genesiscinema.co.uk/whatson/film...
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Logo with the words “OUR FUTURE MEMORY” in large letters filled with photographic imagery. To the right is Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML) After Violence Project logo, with “HMML” above a boxed design containing the words “AFTER VIOLENCE PROJECT” and a small play icon.
📢 A step forward for digital memory rights!
@InternetArchive.EU new signatories have joined the “Statement on Digital Rights,” strengthening a global push to protect how memory institutions preserve & share knowledge, history, and testimony.
🔗⤵️
blog.archive.org/2026/04/10/d...
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A woman sits in front of a computer in an office setting
#ICYMI: Join our team as a freelance Projects Manager!
Find out more: www.balh.org.uk/projects-man...
#WeAreLocalHistory #LocalHistoryForAll
If you are looking to develop your skills then being part of an ARA committee is a great place to start.
Our friends over at New Professionals are searching for a Training Officer - could you help them out?
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
Fantastic PhD studentship opportunity - Spitting Image: political satire in Britain in the 20th and 21st centuries.
Working across @exeter.ac.uk and @theul.bsky.social in partnership with the @camglamresearch.bsky.social and drawing on the Roger Law archive.
#PhDsky
