Hidden in our archives are what remains of the stories of people who were not heard in their lifetime. Our Change Minds projects explored the lives of real people in our casebooks, but there are hundreds more waiting to be re-discovered.
Uncover their stories here bit.ly/MOTM_people
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Copy of a petition addressed to the Earl of Pembroke
Day 4 of #ExploreYourArchive. With today's theme being #EYASilence, Emma Towner, the Library's BBC Script Collection Archives Assistant, discusses voting, or the lack of.
www.library.wales/news/article...
Water colour sketch of lakeside view looking across to an island with a tower building, mountains in the distance and a cloudy but summer-like sky.
Lose yourself in this landscape from #westcork #ireland #EYASilence @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social @ucclibrary.bsky.social #archives #localhistory #watercolour #art #landscape
Two typewritten documents, situated in the centre and left-hand side, layered on top of a handwritten logbook, situated on the right-hand side.
For #EYASilence, we thought it fitting to look back at a time in which the Gardens had to be silent. This instruction sheet, issued during the Blitz in WWII, and an air raid logbook detail how the frequency of bombing raids led to the regular suppression of daily operations. #KewLA
Vintage black-and-white photo of a group of household servants in uniform, including four women, a man, and a child, posed outdoors in front of a leafy wall.
For today's #EYA theme #EYASilence #EYACiúnas we are thinking of some of the underrepresented voices in the historical record. This photo, titled Mr. Austin's servants, shows household servants in uniform in the early twentieth century.
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The Round Reading Room at the British Museum was historical a quiet place for study & reflection. People were often removed for being too noisy! #britishmuseum #archives #EYASilence #britishlibrary #readingroom
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This 1885 engraving by CE Andrew shows a Tower of Silence, a place for excarnation where the deceased are placed on top to decompose naturally. https://ow.ly/pGgn50X8qFY #EYASilence
In oral history recordings, silence can be as powerful as the words it punctuates. In this emotional clip, former RCP president Andrew Goddard speaks about losing his friend and colleague, Donal O’Donoghue, to #COVID.
#ExploreArchives #EYASilence
👉 history.rcp.ac.uk/exhibitions/...
Blue coloured front cover and list of rules for Falmouth free public library, printed in 1897.
🤫 Ever been told to be quiet in a library? Silence isn’t mandatory at Kresen Kernow, but in the 1897 Falmouth Free Library rules, it was #31—just above “dogs not admitted”! 🐶 Today’s #ExploreYourArchive theme: #EYAsilence #falmouthlibrary
Interior of the Quiet Room. We see a table with four chairs around it, standing on a rug. There is a fireplace to the right and a bookcase on the wall. A sign on the wall reads 'Silence'.
Cover of the programme for the opening of the Quiet Room.
A female student holds a trowel and lays bricks in a wall, overseen by two men.
The inside of the programme: The Quiet Room. A sanctuary of rest. It gives an impression of peace and simplicity. Over the doorway are the words 'Cofia Ddysgu Byw', at night time a light shines outside in the darkness; before entering the porch the lusty shouts of school boys come from the playing fields behind; students are talking in the corridor opposite and in the garden plots. The door is opened. Silence. The Quiet Room.
In 1932 a Quiet Room was opened at Glamorgan Training College in Barry.
The purpose of the room was to provide a quiet space for contemplation and reflection, and especially to remember staff and students who had passed away.
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College Statutes outline governance proceedings and rules for conduct of members. Here you can see a copy of the statutes from 1681. Statute 20 urges College members to maintain silence during the reading of the Bible or other appointed book. #EYASilence #ExploreYourArchive #EYA
A view of the Linnean Society Library. It is warmly lit, with two stories of books held aloft by pillars.
Today's #EYA item is the blissful #silence in our reading room. Open to all for research, you don't need to be a member of the Society. Email library@linnean.org to book a space. #EYASilence
Official written documents relating to HIV/AIDS from the 1980s and 1990s
The first mention of #HIV/AIDS in RCP minutes is 6 years after the first AIDS-related death in Britain. The RCPs silence helped the state take advantage of the epidemic to spread fear, introduce queerphobic policies, and cut services such as healthcare
#ExploreArchives #EYASilence
For #EYASilence we immediately thought of Blackfen Library - pictured here in 1949 - where stern librarians inspected children’s hands for cleanliness before they could borrow books. If anyone whispered there would be a very brusque ‘SSHH!’. #ExploreYourArchive
Colour image of an 1875 Ballamona Hospital patient casebook opened to show detailed entries for two patients: Catherine Kelly and William Corteen. A small photographic portrait of Catherine Kelly has been pasted onto her case history page.
Archives play a vital role in ensuring that the lives of vulnerable people in society are not lost in the silence of the past. Pictured is the earliest patient casebook from Ballamona Hospital, which opened in 1868: tinyurl.com/4bxwcdnj #EYASilence #ManxArchives #IsleOfMan
A square image with a teal background. In the centre of the image there is a photograph of library conduct. It mentions no smoking, consumption of food or drink, no disturbances and silence in all areas except service, reference and catalogue areas.
Dyddie’ da! Does dim yn debyg i Lyfrgell gyfeillgar!
#EYATawelwch #LlyfrPCYDDS
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Those were the days, nothing like a friendly library!
#EYASilence #UWTSDlib
A pen and ink sketch of a room in a Georgian-era house with panelled walls and door, a fireplace with an empty grate, patterned rug on the floor and a plushily upholstered armchair. It is labelled at the bottom "Ye Silence Room. Godolphin House. Newmarket. 16/3/16"
If you find the run up to Christmas all a bit much, welcome to "Ye Silence Room" courtesy of local amateur artist H J Rylands in 1916 - a comfy chair for one and perfect peace and quiet - lovely!
#EYASilence #1910s #art
Colonel Sauerzweig’s arrangement and translation of 'Silent Night' from the Conradh na Gaeilge archive🌟
Humming beneath the melody, the lower voices in the quartet set a quiet, peaceful tone that fits today’s #ExploreYourArchive theme of #EYASilence
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Whilst celebrating the collections, it's important to recognise histories that are underrepresented in archives. #EYASilence is an opportunity to highlight work taking place to challenge these silences, such as Ashanti Harris's project which consulted the Scottish Theatre Archive.
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Cropped and filtered sepia photograph of group of children standing in the road in front of Tondu Council School circa early 1900s. Taken by Edwin Miles. Collection held at Glamorgan Archives.
A favourite image from the Edwin Miles photographic collection held @glamarchives.bsky.social. Early 1900s group of pupils from Tondu Council School frozen in time #EYASilence
Zoomed in to discover two little monkeys perched on the wall! @araireland.bsky.social @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social
Black and white photograph of a Welsh Guards orderly holding a sign declaring "silence", to quieten the crowd for the Prince of Wales' address at a wayside station called Winchelsea. The crowd consists of many adults and children waving flags. Photo dated June 1st 1920.
For #EYASilence here is a black and white photograph from 1st June 1920 of a Welsh Guards orderly silencing the crowd for the address of the Prince of Wales (future King Edward VIII) at a wayside station called Winchelsea in Australia. @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social
Today’s Explore Your Archives theme is #EYASilence Libraries are well known places of silence, more so in years gone by when Librarians would enforce the rule with an iron hand. Here we have a couple of letters of correspondence between Bangor University’s Registrar and the Librarian at the time, Thomas Richards, regarding students releasing a dog in the library and another student setting off fireworks in the library. Both believed to be RAG week pranks. The students received harsh punishment, being banished from the library for the rest of term and the firework culprit also receiving a hefty fine.
Today’s Explore Your Archives theme is #EYASilence
THOMAS RICHARDS, U.C.N.W. LIBRARIAN
Date: November 1937 UCNW/REG 13i
#ExploreYourArchives #exploreyourarchive
Llun sepia wedi'i docio a'i hidlo, o grŵp o blant yn sefyll ar y ffordd o flaen Ysgol Cyngor Tondu tua dechrau'r 1900au. Tynnwyd gan Edwin Miles. Casgliad Archifau Morgannwg.
Un o fy hoff ddelweddau o gasgliad ffotograffig Edwin Miles a gedwir yn @glamarchives.bsky.social es.bsky.social. Grŵp o ddisgyblion ar ddechrau'r 1900au o Ysgol Cyngor Tondu wedi'i rewi mewn amser. Rhaid oedd chwyddo’r llu i weld y ddau fwnci bach yn eistedd ar y wal! #AEATawelwch #EYASilence
Through lists, accounts & correspondence, the archive can reveal the names, ages, health conditions & relatives of the enslaved people over decades. These details can be pieced together to discover the stories of individual people, & we can begin to break the silence.
#EYASilence #Archives (2/2)
Four documents from the Gale and Morant family papers and plantation records, laid out in a fan shape, which include accounts, lists and invoices.
The Gale & Morant Family Plantation Records provide powerful evidence of the enslavement of people of African and Caribbean descent in Jamaica.
As the papers were created by the plantation owners and managers, the voices of the enslaved people are silent.
📷 EUL MS 44
#EYASilence #Archives (1/2)
For #EYASilence, we are highlighting the eighteenth-century Business Partnership Records in the Registry of Deeds, also known as the ‘Anonymous Partnership Records’.
Please visit virtualtreasury.ie/item/ROD-PR-AP.
#ExploreYourArchive
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Pos i chi, pa le all fod yn uchel ond mynnu distawrwydd hefyd? Os ddyfaloch chi sinema, fe ddyfaloch chi’n gywir! Dyma'r rhaglen diwrnod agoriadol yr Odeon yng Nghasnewydd ar 12 Mawrth 1938.
#AEADistawrwydd #EYASilence
A riddle for you, what place can be loud but also demand silence? If you guessed a cinema, you guessed right! This is the programme for the opening day of the Odeon in Newport on 12th March 1938. #EYASilence
2 photographs in an album, showing the Silent Sister Convent, one of them dining and the other of the Tomb of the Funder.
4 photographs of the Sister's, one of them gardening, one of them walking in crocodile formation, on of them doing needlework, and one of them praying. They wear hooded cloaks and their faces are not seen.
Shh... 🤫 Here are some photographs of a Silent Sister Convent. If you know anything about this convent, please let us know! We believe these photographs were taken in France. 📷 D/EX1690/1 #EYASilence
