#ExploreYourArchives Throwback 🌟

A few weeks ago we took part in the @araukie.bsky.social focused campaign 'Explore Your Archives Week' for the first time - here is our first post on #EYADecisions 📝

Order to 'O/C's Commands, Divisions & Independent Brigades' entitled: ‘Ceasefire–Dump Arms’ signed by Frank Aiken, Chief of Staff, Irish Republican Army, General Headquarters, Dublin, 24 May 1923. A key document in the decision to end the civil war. #EYADecisions #EYACinntí

Manuscript entries from a parish Overseer's account book 1775-76.

Parish Poor Law records are a rich resource for the history of place & for family history research, recording the Overseers' decisions regarding expenditure. Entries on this page from a Walthamstow Overseers' account book include payment to Widow Warr for nursing a black child 1775-76. #EYAdecisions

It's Explore Your Archive Week #EYA2024. The first day's theme is #Decisions.

The Salvation Army has been helping people make the decision not to drink alcohol since 1865.

This #temperance pledge was signed in 1866 by our founder, William Booth, in 1866

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Decision 1963 yearbook - Discover CABHC Discover the materials held by the Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County

Newly online: "Decision" - the first (and last) school yearbook for the Deseronto High School, published in 1963 #EYADecisions

discover.cabhc.ca/decision-196...

Brown wood memorial with list of names in gold lettering.

Montage of images of Met Police officers involved in the Tottenham Outrage on 23 January 1909, a pursuit of two anarchists involved in a wage snatch, including Cater in the top left quarter and titled "Souvenir of the Tottenham Outrage". For his bravery Cater was also promoted straight to Sergeant without taking the relevant exam.

Wood Green Police Station decided to record not only #WWI armed forces deaths & survivors, but also officers awarded bravery awards, such as William Cater, one of the first recipients of the King's Police Medal for bravery in the 1909 Tottenham Outrage. #EYADecisions #ExploreYourArchive #WoodGreen

Front page for a script. Typescript. The title has been amended to "Decision" in pen.

Script for TV series "The Brothers" by Southampton-born N.J. Crisp. This episode is called "Decision".
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Image of a handwritten document reading "Expenditure. It was resolved that a Typewriter be purchased for the School office at an expenditure not exceeding £23"

The first theme is #EYADecisions. The minute books of the university held in the archives detail decisions made since the 1860s

Today the more recent Council minutes are preserved digitally, but this 1898 item shows a slightly more analogue decision being made: to buy a typewriter for £23 (or less)

A page from Seán Lester's diary. Handwritten entry reads: 18th November 1941. 21 years ago Elsie married me in that little Rtahmines church. Years of happiness. God, how lucky I have been.

Today’s #ExploreYourArchive theme is ‘Decisions.’
From our archive, here’s a touching diary entry by Seán Lester, reflecting on the wonderful decision to marry Elizabeth (Elsie) Tyrrell, written on their 21st wedding anniversary in 1941. ❤️
#EYADecisions #EYA2024
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Architect's drawing of The Grand Theatre Colchester, longitudinal section

Postcard with an illustration of the exterior of Birmingham Rep

Shelving with folders and plans

Shelves of books about theatres

Today’s #ExploreYourArchives theme is #EYADecisions.

We get lots of offers of theatre-related artefacts for our archives, but we decide what to accept based on our collection criteria - mainly items relating to theatre architecture and theatre design.

Plans, postcards, photos, models, books

I think this will resonate with many in the profession! And a brilliant use of the #EYADecisions theme for today's #ExploreYourArchive.

Printed Act for securing the payment to St Bartholomew's Hospital by the Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of London 1712 [SBHB/HA/99/9/12]. The ruling by the Court of Chancery was that the City (in the forms of the Mayor and Commonalty) should pay £3214.4.9 with costs and £100 per annum, and that Christ's Hospital pay £6733.1.8 with costs and £233.6.8 per annum.

So what WAS the eventual Decision? In 1711 Chancery ruled that St Bartholomew's should receive over £10,000 with costs, and over £300 in annual payments.
This hefty payout would have stood Bart's in good stead for its reconstruction programme, which started in the late 1720s. (6/6)
#EYADecisions

The legal records compiled by the hospital authorities relating to the cases in the Court of Aldermen and later the Court of Chancery, are now in the hospital's archives and record the complex wranglings over public funding of healthcare in the seventeenth century. (5/6)
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Photograph of pages from a leather-bound manuscript volume compiling arguments and agreements relating to 'the 500 Marks case', prepared in relation to the Court of Chancery case c1711 [SBHB/HA/99/12/22]

To cut a long story short, Christ's Hospital stopped paying up, and when the Beams at the Weighhouse and Blackwell Hall were destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666, Bart's found itself out of pocket, and launched a legal dispute in 1676 which was not settled until 45 years later! (4/6)
#EYADecisions

When St Bartholomew's Hospital was refounded by Henry VIII after the reformation, he endowed the hospital with property to the value of 500 marks a year on condition the City of London paid the same annual amount towards the hospital's running costs (2/6)
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Photograph of printed sheet produced c1710, entitled 'A Breviat of the Case between the City of London and St Bartholomew's-Hospital, touching the 500 Marks per Ann[um] covenanted to be paid by the Said City to the Said Hospital' [SBHB/HA/99/8/21]

Decisions about hospital funding are always weighty ones! One series of records in our collections captures the decision-making process in the court case about a dispute spanning decades which concerns payments between hospitals, import duties, and the City of London Weighhouse. (1/6)
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Pre-printed questionnaire with handwritten answers from Thomas Boyle concerning his departure from his "very low" circumstances in County Cork to Canada where his "comforts have been increased"

The annual #ExploreYourArchive Week starts today, with a different theme for each of the next ten days. This year starts with #EYADecisions: here Thomas Boyle from County #Cork confirms his decision to move to #Canada in 1823 was a good one and one he would recommend to others.

#history #archives

An image of a Minute Book dated 1581 lying open on a table supported by a cushion.

Our Minute Books are digitised, being a continuous sequence since 1581 of every #decision made by the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. They are also a treasure trove of medical, surgical and Scottish history! #EYADecisions #ExploreYourArchive archiveandlibrary.rcsed.ac.uk/special-coll...?

A collage of 9 images depicting various collections including photographs, bound volumes and manuscripts.

“Can’t you just digitise it all!” we’re asked. Sadly not my friend, because resources. #Decisions are made based on likely user-interest & fragility of material. Here's our digital collections site with c.15,000 images: archiveandlibrary.rcsed.ac.uk/special-coll... #EYADecisions #ExploreYourArchive

Colourful pictures of archive folders, boxes, and a rusty binder.

Decisions, decisions, decisions. Archiving is all about decision-making! Using professional standards, archivists decide how to order collections, how to describe them, and how best to store them #EYADecisions

4 posters with the following designs: one with a tv and telephone, one with the word HIFI, one has an image of a tattooed woman, and the last an illustration of 4 bright pink records

We asked a fine art placement student to help curate a selection of posters from the Design Council Archive to decorate our office & this was the final selection #EYADecisions #Decisions #ExploreYourArchive

Clockwise from top left: DCA/10/1/71, DCA/10/1/81, DCA/10/1/77, DCA/10/1/102

#ExploreYourArchive is here! And 1st up it's behind-the-scenes with #EYADecisions - How do we decide what to keep? Do we accept artefacts and the weird and wonderful? Find out 👇
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Day 1 #ExploreYourArchive
Share your favourite archive items that relate to today’s theme - #EYADecisions

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