South Wales Record Society

Today's #Archive30 is #UntoldStories. So many of them in minutes of the Welsh Society of Philadelphia www.southwalesrecordsociety.co.uk/34.htm. In March 1831 the Society had to help Elizabeth Vaughan and her children: they had come to Philadelphia to meet her husband /

Researching subjects Hidden histories Records of disability LGBTQ+ history Records of enslaved people Stillbirth Travelling communities (including Gypsy and Roma) Local and community history Getting started with local …

Discover #UntoldStories in our archives. Explore guides on LGBTQ+ history, Disability, Enslaved people, Stillbirth, and Travelling communities (including Gypsy & Roma): recordoffice.wordpre...

We’re proud to support DerbyshireLGBT+ and their Our Stories project uncovering LGBT+ history🌈
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A square book lying on a wooden surface. The book cover shows part of a colourful map of the world. Text on the cover reads: Maps Their Untold Stories; Rose Mitchell and Andrew Janes; Second Edition.

Today’s #Archive30 theme is #UntoldStories, so it would be very remiss of me not to mention that a certain publication featuring lots of interesting maps & the stories behind them is available “from all good bookshops”. shop.nationalarchives.gov.uk/products/map...

Peto, with a short haircut and in a Met police uniform, sits at a desk in front of a map of the Met Police's divisions.

Front cover of Barbara Bell's 'Just Take Your Frock Off - A Lesbian Life', showing a hand-tinted photograph of a woman with a bobbed haircut and yellow blouse.

Barbara Bell's 1940s memoir was the start of our hunt for #UntoldStories of early Met WPCs - ones already in our library by Lilian Wyles and Dorothy Peto by contrast reflect the upper-working and middle class backgrounds of many early female Met officers in the 1920s & '30s. #Archive30 #LGBThistory

How the other half lived: 1899-1908 | The Royal Berkshire Archives Latest news

This month’s highlight explores the #UntoldStories of the Cope family, exploring what an extremely thorough inventory can tell us about every day life for the wealthy in early-Edwardian England. #Archive30

Staff smoking concert programme, 5th November 1909

Hospital cricket 🏏 team 1953-1954

Black and white photo showing a game of cricket and the Hospital chapel and water tower in the background

Map of the hospital showing the cricket ground

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#UntoldStories
#Whitchurchhospitalcricket

It’s fair to say that there are many many untold stories but we are choosing #Cricket 🏏 today

We have been asked to help Whitchurch Heath CC with their story as it’s their Centenary
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Our collections hold many #UntoldStories. From unidentified photographs to anonymous letters, to commonplace books with forgotten lingo such as a “scubbled spiter.” #Archive30

Register of Inebriates | Flickr Ref: GD/Mus/115 The Register of Inebriates, sometimes referred to by the press as the “Dundee Roll of Fame” or “Black List”, was created in March 1905 under the Licensing (Scotland ) Act 1903. People convicted under the act were to be listed, photographed and described in notices shared to the Police and Town Council. Copies of the Orders were given to publicans in the city, to warn them that “liquor should not be supplied to such person”. There are 7 men and 35 women of ages ranging from 16 to 63. Those entered on the list would have appeared numerous times before the Police Court for various crimes, all linked to drunken behaviour. They were often millworkers and labourers who moved around a lot. Offenders often appeared in court with others on the list. For more information please see these blog posts: dundeecityarchives.wordpress.com/2018/03/22/black-list/

There are many #UntoldStories in the archives. Take for instance the stories of the people who found themselves on the so called "Black List". You can see their photos here: www.flickr.com/photo.... We have told some of their stories here: dundeecityarchives.w... #Archive30

@arascot.bsky.social You asked... #Archive30 #UntoldStories

#Archive30 Untold stories day.
Northern Ireland is full of untold stories in a narrative dominated by civil war and politics.
So Super 8, the series focussing on home movies, is really important: A collection of beautiful films often made only for friends & family that hold universal tales of life

Special Collections Blog - Special Collections Blog - LibGuides at De Montfort University

#Archive30: Thakar’s collection is full of #UntoldStories: 'overlooked histories and objects once dismissed as folk art', now celebrated and treasured (Apollo Magazine, 2023). More on our blog 👉️ buff.ly/alLIQgf @arascot.bsky.social @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social #fashionhistory #antiquetextiles

We’re taking part in ARA Scotland #Archive30! Day 4 #UntoldStories: The Alasdair Gray Archive champions radical empathy. In 2026, we celebrate Agnes Owens’ centenary and launch @aowensarchive.bsky.social, amplifying her life and work.

Archives are full of #UntoldStories. Why don't you tell us one you have found in your archive. #Archive30

Cover of 'Family and Society in Early Stuart Glamorgan: the Household Accounts of Sir Thomas Aubrey of Llantrithyd, c. 1565-1641': cover image of portrait of elderly man in cap and ruff, grey hair, vandyke moustache and beard, holding a staff.

Today's #Archive30 is #ArchiveFashion - and by coincidence on this day in 1636 Thomas Aubrey of Llantrithyd paid 6s for 2 pairs of shoes, 9s. 6d. for a pair of boots and a whole pound for 4 dozen points. More on his fascinating account books at www.southwalesrecordsociety.co.uk/19.htm

Whitchurch Hospital corridor (canteen entrance on the left) One of the orange trucks charging on the right. Group of people dressed in Edwardian costumes walking down the corridor towards the camera

Photo taken in the main hall back in 2008. Old fashioned camera in the middle of the screen and Julia on the left and the photographer on the right

Photo taken outside the main entrance of Whitchurch Hospital in April 2008

Photo taken in April 2008 showing an old minibus in the background and then left to right: Julia, Cardiff Mayor and Julia

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Something a little different than usual, photos from the centenary in April 2008. A number of us dressed up Edwardian (well as close as we could find!) style!!

Who remembers the occasion?

#Whitchurchhospital
#dressingup
#costumes

What do we think of this 1902 outfit? We spy quilting, crochet, chiffon, ruffles, flowers and is that a heart shaped jewel on a choker? The lady hasn't been identified but may be Violet, Viscountess Milner. If you recognise her, let us know!
#Archive30 #ArchiveFashion #HistFashion

Time for some #ArchiveFashion. Click the hashtag to see the great #Archive30 catwalk.

A smiling female Met officer in the 1967 Norman Hartnell-designed uniform, topped off by Mirman's cap, a pillbox cap with a stiff peak.

A smiling female Met officer in the 1978 soft-topped cap, also designed by Mirman. It proved too easy to pull down over the officer's eyes, gaining the nickname of the 'Butcher's boy' or 'Smurf' cap.

Simone Mirman began her millinery career collaborating with #Schiaparelli (the subject of a new V&A exhibition) before moving on to royalty. She also designed two hats for Met WPCs, though the second proved so impractical that it was replaced in less than a year. #Archive30 #ArchiveFashion

Off-white leather glove with the design of an outline map of central London (between Kensington Gardens and Bank) across the palm and fingers. [From the collections of The National Archives (UK), reference EXT 11/159.]

Close-up of part of the glove, showing Newgate Street, Cheapside, Bank, Blackfriars, St Paul's Cathedral and Cannon Street.

Close up of part of the glove, showing the British Museum.

Close-up of the part of the glove, showing Hyde Park, [the Great] Exhibition [in the Crystal Palace], [Buckingham] Palace Gardens, and Green Park.

Here's the kind of white glove that we do want to see in the archives! Leather glove painted with a "handy" map design showing London landmarks at the time of the 1851 Great Exhibition. Design registered by George Shove. Held by The National Archives (UK) 📁 EXT 11/159. #ArchiveFashion #Archive30

Black and white photograph of a young girl wearing a sailor suit and skirt seated beside her mother in an Edwardian style blouse and skirt

Photo of a white and red child's sailor suit and skirt styled on a mannequin

Children’s sailor suits became fashionable after being popularised by royalty in the Victorian era.

Local girl Gladys Harrison is pictured here in her sailor suit, now in our collection, with her mother Lily, around1917.

#ArchiveFashion #Archive30 @arascot.bsky.social

Godric's head superimposed onto a man's body who is wearing a suit. There is also a woman in fancy clothing next to him. Item reference D/EX2656/1.

Godric's head superimposed onto a man's body, who is wearing horse riding gear. He is standing next to a horse on his left, and two children riding two further horses on his right. Item reference D/EX73/2/19/3.

Godric's head superimposed onto a man's body, who is wearing sports-wear, and is sitting next to a man in the same clothes who is holding a tennis racket. Item reference D/EX73/4/3/17/2.

Godric's head superimposed onto a man's body who is wearing a suit and is seating with a cello between his legs. 4 other people surround him, 3 women and 1 man. They appear to be musicians, and are holding other string instruments. Item reference D/EX1090/3/2.

Godric has been very busy this week trying on a myriad of outfits from history, but he's a little shy about it. Tell him how good he looks! 🙂‍↕️ #ArchiveFashion #Archive30

Some excellent #ArchiveFashion on display at the laying of the Caird hall foundation stone on 10th July 1914. I bet they all must have been very hot in those clothes on what was described as "the hottest day of the year". #Archive30

You can view the full picture here: www.flickr.com/photo...

This adverts from the Risca and Blackwood Advertiser offers an alternative to the traditional suit that felt “relaxed, well dressed and smartly sporty all at once.”
#Archive30 #ArchiveFashion

#Archive30 #ArchiveFashion

all the rage in 17th century #Switzerland: giant fur caps (brämihauben)

#Burgerbibliothek #Bern, ark.burgerbib.ch/ark:36599/65...

#Archive30 #ArchiveBuildings

Dorfarchiv #Adelboden is housed in the rather unremarkable 1959 parsonage. our Heimatmuseum colleagues, however, use the former "English Church", built in 1908 on a plot donated by the owner of the Grand Hôtel.

#DAAdelboden #newacq

We have a interesting new donation for #ArchiveFashion today. This scarf dates back to the coronation of Queen Elizabeth - who was the II in England but I in Scotland. This rather chic sartorial protest reflects disappointment at this not being reflected in the Queen's regnal title #Archive30

For #ArchiveFashion we're travelling from Uzbekistan to Ghana to India to Japan 🌍️ there's a whole world of fabulous fabrics to explore in the Karun Thakar Collection for #Archive30 on #FashionFriday @arascot.bsky.social @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social #Karuncollection #fashionhistory @dmu.ac.uk

First World War postcard showing the front entrance and water tower on the left hand side

First World War postcard showing the front entrance and water tower on the left hand side

Photo showing the front entrance and water tower on the left hand side

The front cover of the Staff Handbook showing the front entrance and water tower on the left hand side

Day 2 @arascot.bsky.social
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the theme is #ArchiveBuilding #AdeiladArchif

Here is the beautiful building
@whitchurchhospital.bsky.social in better days #WW1 #Firstworldwar

#militaryhospital
#welshmetropolitanwarhospital
#whitchurchhospital

A painting of King's Cross Police Station with a police van and uniformed male officer in front of it. It is a cubic building with bricks that appear yellow, four floors of windows, a carriage entrance to the left and large chimneystacks on its roof.

We have a large collection of photographs of police stations and police courts taken by the Met's Surveyor's Office in c.1908-1912, showing the boom in construction during that era. These are sometimes complemented by more artistic renderings of the same stations. #Archive30 #ArchiveBuildings

Here's our wee Session House Museum in Saline, West Fife, which hosts the society's archive during the Summer 🌞 📃 @araukie.bsky.social @arascot.bsky.social

#Fife #heritage #Archive30 #ArchiveBuildings