For #ArchivesToday I encouraged people in the US to contact their reps and voice support for IMLS and NEH - both of which have been attacked by the current administration and provide vital support for libraries and archives #Archives30
After #ArchivesToday yesterday, we would like to know what #ArchivePlan you have. What are you working towards?
Or maybe you would like to share an interesting architectural item.
#Archive30
#Archive30: #ArchivesToday are places of teaching & learning, also in relation to digital historical data, so we have set up a Digital History of Education Lab where we work with and provide information on digital research methods, e.g. in online lectures:
bbf.dipf.de/de/dhelab
#DHELab #histed #dh
#Archive30 #ArchivesToday
"my" other archives are volunteer-run Dorfarchiv #Adelboden. we publish our own periodical, Adelbodmer Hiimatbrief - and as of today(!) all issues from 1947 to 2023 are freely availabe on #EPeriodica 🥳
www.e-periodica.ch/digbib/volum...
Stack of legacy media, including VHS tape, CD, cassette tape, and MiniDV tapes
Archives includes working with both print and digital in various formats. Archivist Jenny focuses on print. Archivist Laurinda deals with digitization and born digital materials, including this stack of obsolete media on their desk, waiting for digitization.
#ArchivesToday #Archive30
A collage of photos from Whitchurch Hospital in Cardiff. Main photo is a bronze medal.
Day 7 #Archive30 @arascot.bsky.social
#ArchivesToday often 👀 something like this 😃
Busy busy researching and adding missing jigsaw 🧩 to the Whitchurch Hospital story
#CardiffCityMentalHospital
#alwaysnewstoriestodiscover
Setting up our Kangchenjunga 1955 exhibition - the photo album shown here is our newest donation.
It's the photo album of John Kempe and documents his 1953 Kangchenjunga reconnaissance- his work in 53 and 54 laid the foundation for the successful ascent in 1955. #ArchivesToday #Archives30
Our new display at New Scotland Yard includes prisoner record sheets like this one for 20-year-old Peckham-born Percy Moore. A square piece of paper with information on distinctive marks on the subject's body, his height, six other measurements (such as the length and breadth of his head), his name, aliases, birthdate and sentencing details (18 months for forgery and larceny). At the top right is a photograph of the bare-headed Moore in a suit and elaborate bow tie holding both hands palm down on his chest (to show if he had any fingers missing) with a chalked tag of the number '2013' on his shoulder. Behind him a mirror captures his profile and another chalked board gives his name.
As well as our public gallery, we create displays in Met buildings such as the Peel Centre in Hendon. Today we start installing one at New Scotland Yard, where our bust of Sir Robert Peel can be seen in his glass box by the main entrance 24-7! #ArchivesToday #Archive30 #CMU150
#ArchivesToday In books owned by 18th c. poet Alexander Pope, he added marginalia comparing text variants, including 'Paradise Lost'. See it on display in the ‘Provenance’ exhibition, L2, Philip Robinson Library #Archives30 @arascot.bsky.social
A crochet stag sits on a black trolley against a white wall with a booklet in front with the words Here To-Day on the front
Godric is reading a c.1945 Reading-based literary magazine called 'Here To-Day' from the Phoebe Cusden collection for today's #Archive30 #ArchivesToday.
Wonder if he found it interesting? 🤔 😉
Discover more about the collection on our online catalogue: ww2.berkshirenclosure.org.uk/calmview/Rec...
Photograph of a room filled with large upright machinery, some with large tape reels visible and more tape reels in racks on the wall. A woman sits on a stool inputting data via a keyboard. The whole room is a mainframe computer system dating to the late 1960s/early 1970s and the image is entitled “The University Computer”.
Modern colour photograph of a pile of 3.5 inch floppy disks sitting on some archival Tyvek wrapping.
#ArchivesToday deal with a wide range of digital formats from the earliest days through to dynamic web pages and social media
#DigitalPreservation isn’t making sure things are backed up, it's maintaining and making accessible resources for 21st century history for future generations
#Archive30
Celebrating #archivestoday as it's Janis Ian's birthday! We are so very thankful that Janis has deposited her archive with Berea College, here is a large assortment of posters showing just some of the gigs Janis has been on over the past fifty years #archive30 www.berea.edu/janisian
Handwritten essay discussing venereal patients at the Glasgow Lock Hospital
It's always interesting to see how research interests change. A new entry at no.1 for our most accessed collection 2024/5 was the records of Glasgow Medical Society and in particular, a series of essays written by its members. The most popular essay was on venereal patients #ArchivesToday #Archive30
For #Archive30 #ArchivesToday here’s our most recent Victorian Commons article, on the history of the position of Chairman of Ways and Means, a post currently held by Nus Ghani MP. victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2025/03/19/t...
Adrian Farmer, Heritage Coordinator for the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site, has recorded the talk he delivered at the record office on the importance of research for this historically significant area, so it’s now available for all to enjoy: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEvc...
#ArchivesToday
In #ArchivesToday here at #BexleyArchives we have just put up brand new Bexley Snapshots in Time display banners created by our #BexleyMuseum friends at Hall Place which will be here till the end of the month before going on tour. #CelebratingBexley #Archive30
Photograph of the Archives Centre building exterior in 2025
Photograph of the 5 archival boxes containing the Attlee Papers
The first delivery to the Archives Centre was 5 boxes of material about Clement Attlee in 1965 - before we even had our own building!
Today, we have 637 unique collections across thousands of boxes: archives.chu.cam.ac.uk/collections/...
#ArchivesToday #Archive30 @arascot.bsky.social
Today's #Archive30 is #ArchivesToday and we are here looking forward to the publication of Kirsti Bohata's edition of the diaries of the feminist pioneer Amy Dillwyn. News of launch events to follow.
Everyday is different in @dmuleicester.bsky.social Special Colls whether it's sharing our fashion collections with textiles, tidying the stores or organising theatre programmes. Whatever it is we ❤️ #ArchivesToday (and tomorrow) for @arascot.bsky.social #Archive30 & #DMUat155 @librarydmu.bsky.social
In the #ArchivesToday I am hoping to finish cataloguing the records of Polepark Nursery. As you can see there are quite a lot of albums or folders of photographs! We are hoping to publish the catalogues of the schools A-L later this year, with M-W to follow later. #Archive30
It's Monday morning and we want you to tell us what is going on in #ArchivesToday. What's on your to do list? What new projects are you working on? Do you have any announcements to share? Tell us about your day. Or maybe about modern problems facing #ArchivesToday #Archive30
A day on the beach for the Rich family
Fanny bible beautifully inscribed
Schooldays!
My husband’s grandad, the war hero. Joe was seriously wounded and was awarded the MM. we have all his photos, medals and his service records
#archive30 #day7 #archivestoday
Small, family archives that can be shared and enjoyed online
Take a look. You may be surprised at how extraordinary ordinary families are!
historicalclues.blogspot.com/2022/01/a-fa...
#archive30 #day7 #archivestoday
Well we can tell you what they are NOT...
A fusty room where noone can see our history.
We have photos, objects and a museum where anyone can come and see our archive. We rotate regularly so nothing is forgotten.
We also upload objects onto an online archive
#Archive30 #ArchivesToday At Winterbourne we archive copies of our newsletters and events leaflets - they will become the archives of tomorrow. @arascot.bsky.social
