#Archive30 #WhyArchives Archives provide the bedrock for an infinite variety of projects! Our university interns contribute blog posts to our website about their discoveries. @arascot.bsky.social @theironroom.bsky.social @archiveswm.bsky.social
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People in a variety of chairs facing a very old TV
Why archives? They give us voices from the past, whether literally through oral histories or through other evidence. #WhyArchives #Archive30
📜Els documents son el testimoni de les activitats de les persones i institucions, formant el patrimoni documental, clau per l'estudi i divulgació de la memòria històrica. La seva preservació permet entendre el què, qui, per què, quan i on del nostre passat.
#WhyArchives #Archives30 #ConeixlArxiuUPC
📚És important establir com s'han de gestionar els documents per facilitar trobar-los, preservar-los i saber com i fins quan és imprescindible la seva conservació, evitant acumular documents de manera innecessària i optimitzar l'ús de l'espai d'emmagatzematge
#WhyArchives #Archives30 #ConeixlArxiuUPC
🏛️ Els arxius tenim per missió donar accés a la informació. Ens encarreguem de la gestió, preservació i difusió dels documents de persones i institucions des que es creen fins que es preserven o s'eliminen.
#WhyArchives #Archives30 #ConeixlArxiuUPC
Per la darrera publicació de #Archives30 ens preguntem #WhyArchives Per què som importants els arxius?
Desitgem que a través de les nostres publicacions de #Archives30 i #ConeixlArxiuUPC us en pugueu fer una idea, però per a qui no hagi pogut seguir-les totes, us en fem un resum.
#ArxiuUPC #ODAUPC
#WhyArchives?
In this year of anniversaries here in Bexley - including Lesnes, Crossness and Danson - the Local Studies and Archive Centre has become the place to be! Archives enable everyone to learn about our local area and take pride in our heritage. #Archive30 #CelebratingBexley
Early 20th century photograph of a large multi-ethnic group of merchant seamen in Cardiff. Many of them are looking up at the camera, raising one hand.
Image of an objection about low minimum wages made by Miss J. Kitts of Devonport in 1912: STRICTLY PRIVATE and CONFIDENTIAL for use of Members of the Trade Board only. OBJECTION received from:- Miss J. Kitts, 9, Wilton Street, Stoke, Devonport. File 11-3. 8th April, 1912. Sir, In the receipt of the notice, I am surprised to think It has come a farthing less, instead of a farthing more. I would like for the employer to stand by a worker for an hour and see the amount of work a worker has to do in a garment in an hour to earn that, and then judge to see if she does not deserve the higher rate. I for one can speak from experience of 22 years in the Wholesale clothing trade and know what hard work means to be able to get just a living wage. I started at the age of thirteen getting half crown for the first six months, 3/- the next six months after that I was put under a machinist to learn Trousers and Boys’ knickers getting a third of what a machinist earned my wages averaged eight shillings a week in the busiest time and where no trade, go home. For four years I was a learner until there was a vacancy of a machine for me to go on. I was able then to earn good money for a few years until they started cutting down the prices owing to foreign competition, we were told, so we had to submit as it was our living, at last it was getting so bad, I had to leave as I had my widow mother to help support, this last five years and half and I could not afford to work for little.
Postcard which shows two uniformed figures standing and holding the arms of a protestor who is slumped on the ground. It includes the text "No people that holds dear its freedom of thought, speech, and assembly will submit to the suppression of these rights under a tattoo of nightstick blows or horses' hoofs! I emphatically protest the savage sentences imposed upon eighteen Anti-Nazi workers and students for peacefully demonstrating against the presence of the Hitler propaganda ship, the "Karlsruhe," in Boston Harbor. I urge the dropping of all charges and the immediate, unconditional release of all eighteen defendants."
Late 1920s or early 1920s photograph of two women. One (Eileen Younghusband) is wearing a white dress and sitting down. The other (identity currently unknown) is standing behind her and resting one hand on the back of the chair, she is wearing a top hat, bow tie, waistcoat and frock coat.
Last day of #Archives30 ! So #WhyArchives ?
Archives are the raw materials of history, allowing us to look at the past through contemporary eyes & see life in all its unpredictable, messy, joyful, scary variety. They help us challenge narratives, explore hidden histories & connect with being human.
The last day of #Archives30 is #WhyArchives? They give us a tangible link to the people of the past which shows we're really not that different: which parent doesn't still write very clearly and carefully so their child can read that they love them?
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It’s the last day of #Archive30, so today we ask the question #WhyArchives? Archives allow us to connect with the past and to understand the present; to learn how our communities and landscapes were created; to understand our heritage and a sense of place.
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Black and white photo showing an out-patients waiting room. People sit on benches in the middle of the room. Nurses can be seen in the background.
It's the final day of #Archive30 with @arascot.bsky.social and today we ask #WhyArchives?
Archives can create a sense of belonging. They give us the chance to learn from the past to influence our future. They spark our curiosity and imagination.
Natural history galleries in 1875
Smirke design plan 1851
Sir Hans Sloane manuscript catalogue page
Gatehouse on Great Russell Street, British Museum Montagu House, 1841
Without our important archive we wouldn’t know of our history, buildings, collection or foundational links to the British Library & the Natural History Museum, or that there was a philosopher’s stone in the Hans Sloane collection! #Archive30 #WhyArchives #BritishMuseum #BL_London #NHM_London
Group of 5 students looking at a volume.
Why Archives you ask? To preserve a tangible link to the past and inspire the next generation with a love and appreciation of history. #Archive30 #WhyArchives
My husbands Grace who lived to be 112! Once the oldest person in the UK, She’s largely forgotten now. But she’s in my archive!
Union badges once proudly worn by a shipwright who worked on the transatlantic liners from Liverpool. Symbols of a long forgotten trade.
Hardworking families.. we all have sorrow and troubles but sometimes we can leave them behind for a day. I can join my husbands family in their joy
Children at play remind us that we all become part of history
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#WhyArchives
Because archives have history just waiting to be explored. For us to find and make our own discoveries. To write our own stories. It’s about people and places that aren’t on display in museums. We can bring them to back life again. Once alive, they’ve now become history.
Postcard of a large group of nurses and men dressed in various military uniforms including the hospital uniform. Ceiling decorated for Christmas time and beds can be seen on both sides of the photo.
Front page of the nursing school prospectus for the Cardiff City Mental Hospital
Stamp for the Whitchurch Emergency Hospital dated 19 Jun 1940
Black and White photo of the front entrance and water tower with parked cars in the front of the photo
Last day for #Archive30 @arascot.bsky.social
#WhyArchives
Simply because we just had to share the rich and unique history of the Cardiff City Mental Hospital (CCMH) ➡️ Welsh Metropolitan War Hospital ➡️ CCMH ➡️ Whitchurch Emergency Hospital ➡️ Whitchurch Hospital
Last day of #Archive30 & #WhyArchives? Because preserving our @dmuleicester.bsky.social history not only means we can enjoy and learn from our heritage today, but ensures future generations can discover it too! Big thanks to @arascot.bsky.social for hosting & helping us share our #DMUat155 story
A photograph of five students looking at a dispatch box.
A reader using a magnifying glass in our reading room.
A series of newly packaged files.
#WhyArchives?
⭐ For us, archives are the building blocks of history - sometimes surprising, often fascinating and fun. They connect us to real lives, important histories, and untold stories from the past. And, of course, there's always more to discover.
Finishing up #Archive30 with #WhyArchives: as Jacques Derrida said, ‘There is no political power without power over the archive’
#WhyArchives? Because they give hard historical evidence. And they're endlessly fascinating. (Said the @iashedinburgh.bsky.social Heritage Collections Fellow!)
It's the last day of #Archive30 ☹️ We'd like thank you all for taking part for the first time over on Blue Sky. You have posted some really interesting stuff. But before you go, tell us #WhyArchives
Black and white photograph showing a group of people and police officers standing around a windowless horse drawn prisoner van, being driven by a police officer. 'V'.R' lettering on the van.
Black and white photograph of an early car with a canvas roof and open sides. Number plate A209, which is still perpetuated on a car in the Met's Historic Fleet (but not this one!).
Black and white photograph of two 1933 police cars parked side by side, one showing its rear and the other its front. The rear shows an attached spare wheel and a sign reading 'STOP POLICE'. The front view has a sign reading 'POLICE' in or on the windscreen.
Colour photograph of a blue and white police car with two female officers in the 1972-1985 'Surrey' uniform, one seated inside and the other standing outside with one hand on the open car door and the other hand holding a radio into which she is speaking.
#WhyArchives ? They're a great way of seeing change over time, as in these four snapshots of our transport history. #Archive30
3 pin badges on a black background inside a white border. The badges read: "Archi've preserved", "Archi've unlocked" and "Archi've imagined".
#WhyArchives?
For exploring,
for educating,
for enjoying.
For empathy,
for expertise,
for enduring value.
For evidence,
for ever,
for everyone.
#Archive30 #ExploreYourArchive
So many amazing answers from across the sector to #WhyArchives today. Again, lots of people saying it better than me. For transparency, for collective memory (and understanding what's omitted from that memory), for entertainment, & for a job where I am always learning #Archive30
Last one😢So fun; hope you've enjoyed🙏
#WhyArchives Preserving #gri's history is close to our❤️❤️#Archives enable this; digital & physical. Signing off with a treat; record of #gri 1st admissions 1794. This has been #Archive30 for the legendary #gri 🏥Special thanks to @MoMcEl😍
Catching up on the last of the #Archive30 posts in the supermarket queue. So many answers to #whyarchives!
So a last one - because 2 days of free lockdown access to digitised records can result in your mum making HUGE discoveries about family members from living memory
#Archive30 #WhyArchives ?... weil unsere Quellen immer wieder Schicksale aufdecken und Bande knüpfen. So konnten russische Nachfahren das lange gesuchte Grab ihres Großvaters, einem russischen Kriegsgefangenen im 1. WK., durch uns finden und zum Gebet besuchen.
#WhyArchives ? I've only needed to follow the #Archive30 hashtag to be reminded why- the diversity of collections & the stories they contain, and the knowledge & enthusiasm of my colleagues for their profession & for the sector at large. And there's always something new to learn!
