📣New initative for 2026 📣
The AWM Member Development Fund willl offer an opportunity to promote collaborative working across the region. Modest grants, open to #ArchivesWM membership, to support innovative or project-based work to develop and/or extend their service offer.
More details soon!
I've loved my time with #ArchivesWM! We're a friendly, supportive group and are looking forward to welcoming some new trustees later this year.
Would you or one of your service users/stakeholders relish the opportunity to join an ambitious, friendly network, helping to shape the future direction of #ArchivesWM, supporting #archive services across the West Midlands? The Board has 3 trustee vacancies from September 2026 - to learn more 👇
📣 #ArchivesWM member services and affiliates!
An event to support recordkeepers taking place in the region 👇
📣 #Job opportunity📣
Stoke-on-Trent City Archives is seeking an archivist to join the team based in the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery
2-year post 30 hours pw
Deadline for applications 17 March 2026 👇
#ArchivesWM #archives
Digital Sustainability - an urgent carbon priority
A free online seminar open to all staff and volunteers of #ArchivesWM member services.
📆Mon 16 March
🕰️2:00-3:00pm [Online]
For further details and booking 👇
#archives @irmsociety.bsky.social
📣Seed Corn Grants📣 from Spaces, Places and Belonging Community Hub @uknatarcsector.bsky.social
Deadline for applications Fri 17 April
Open to GLAM sector and community groups!
#Archives #ArchivesWM
Be inspired 👇
#ArchivesWM #archives
A National Archives event for Higher Education archives to learn more about procuring collections management systems and data migration. Archives from other organisations are welcome to attend.
23 Feb 11:00-12:00 GMT [Online]
#archives #ArchivesWM @uknatarcsector.bsky.social @araukie.bsky.social
First #ArchivesWM trustee meeting of 2026 making plans for training and a chance to connect with our observers from @araukie.bsky.social and @uknatarcsector.bsky.social who shared
forthcoming events: (1/2)
Heritage in Action: Digital & community engagement
2 Feb 1pm to 2:30pm GMT [Online]
#archives
@uknatarcsector.bsky.social is seeking 5 new members to join the Archive Service Accreditation Committee
#ArchivesWM #archives
Our next ‘Meet the Vendors’ session offers the opportunity to meet with commercial suppliers. This time providers of Digital Asset Management Systems (DAMS).
📆25 Feb 10:00 AM - 12:15 PM [Online]
Free to #ArchivesWM members
Open to non-members £10 per person
For more info & booking 👇
Happy New Year!
A reminder for #ArchivesWM members that our free online course in carbon literacy takes place later this month!
#archives @mrcwarwick.bsky.social
As we welcome the New Year a look back to some of the highlights of 2025 for #ArchivesWM
So many great examples of good inclusive practice from #archives across the country including #ArchivesWM service Sandwell Archives for a community podcasting project👏
The work of #ArchivesWM member service @shakespearebtrust.bsky.social has been highlighted in @uknatarcsector.bsky.social #AYearInArchives
As part of #ArchivesWM Digital Progress Programme, this bespoke course for our member services was designed to increase understanding of how to apply copyright when providing digital services and managing digital collections.
Programme lead Elizabeth Oxborrow-Cowan reveals more…👇
#archives
Celebrating success in #ArchivesWM
#ArchivesWM The National #Archives are seeking 5 new members to join the Archive Service Accreditation Committee
Application deadline 23 January 2026
@uknatarcsector.bsky.social
Great to see some @archiveswm.bsky.social services celebrating their successes in this year's edition. #ArchivesWM
📣Exciting Opportunity✨ to join the Library & Archives senior management team at University of Warwick. To lead @mrcwarwick.bsky.social, including the University Archives and Special Collections.
Closing date: 7 Dec
#Archives #ArchivesWM @uknatarcsector.bsky.social
Job Opportunity! @mrcwarwick.bsky.social 👇
#Archives #ArchivesWM
👋Hi there @uknatarcsector.bsky.social great to see you here on Bluesky!
#archives #ArchivesWM
✨Job opportunity ✨
Wolverhampton City Archives are seeking a part-time permanent Archive Assistant
Closing date for applications is 16 November
#archives #ArchivesWM
#ArchivesWM EDIB self assessment toolkit will be embedded into the Archive Service Accreditation from Spring 2026!
The National #Archives Sector are running online workshops to introduce this toolkit between Dec 2025 - Feb 2026
(all workshops cover same content so only need to book one).
An online impact seminar organised by The National Archives to hear how Croydon Archives, Somerset Archives and Local Studies, and TNA are finding creative and inclusive approaches to engaging young people.
🗓️ Wednesday 12 November (10–11.30am)
Online via Zoom
#archives #ArchivesWM
#ArchivesWM member Dudley Archives is hosting 'Working Life', a pop-up exhibition by the Dudley Caribbean & Friends Ass. as part of their Culture and Heritage Community Project.
Further information on can be found at:
Black Country Roots: Windrush Voices
#archives @blackcountrysoc.bsky.social
One of @araen.bsky.social case studies of work in relation to record keeping and climate change includes #ArchivesWM member Shropshire #Archives 👇
Good news 📣
Walsall #Archives is extending its opening hours to include Fridays and the first Saturday of every month! Offering residents, researchers and history enthusiasts more opportunities to explore the borough’s rich heritage.
#ArchivesWM
After the #ArchivesWM AGM in September the annual review for 2024-2025 is now available via the website!
Introduced by The National Archives it offers an overview of the work of the charity and includes 'Around the Archives' sharing news of the great projects taking place across the region
#Archives
