Screen shot showing an album of photos, the main photo is the spine of the red cuttings book. Smaller photos are various newspaper clippings relating to the hospital

Screen shot showing an album of photos. Small photos are various newspaper clippings relating to the hospital

Screen shot showing an album of photos, the main photo is Dr Edwin Goodall, the 1st Medical Superintendent. Smaller photos are various newspaper clippings relating to the hospital

Screen shot showing an album of photos, the main photo is Florence Raynes, the 1st Matron. Smaller photos are various newspaper clippings relating to the hospital

Day 5 #Archive30 @arascot.bsky.social
#PopularItem

Something different this year, we are going for the red cuttings book 📕. Always a popular item to share as it contains so much history (1908-1915) from the Cardiff City Mental Hospital

I wonder who put it all together 🤔🤔

Cover of The Diaries of John Bird 1790-1803. Cover image has a late C18 view of Cardiff Castle and the silhouette of a late C18 gentleman with hat and cane.

Today's #Archive30 is #PopularItem. The diaries of John Bird, clerk to the first Marquess of Bute, took the lid off late C18 Cardiff. They were immensely popular and sold out but you can still see them via our web site www.southwalesrecordsociety.co.uk/04.htm

A printed map showing the area around Scarcliffe and Glapwell. Different areas are in different colours and there is a key for the colours and for all the symbols on the map. The main colour is pale blue, which indicates an area of limestone.

Ordnance Survey maps are often looked at in our Searchroom and are definitely a #PopularItem. This example is slightly less usual, as it's from the 1960 geological survey. Apart from being interesting, we think they're beautiful 😍

#Archive30

#Archive30: This embroidered Kantha textile from Bengal is always a #PopularItem with visitors looking at the Karun Thakar Collection. Featuring symbolic patterns, Kantha is a craft known for transforming old sarees and dhotis into quilts, blankets etc. Early C20th. @arascot.bsky.social #textiles

Handwritten page from the first page of the attestation register for Met women officers, showing the first three ever to be attested (i.e. given power of arrest). This occurred on 19 April 1923 and oddly they did not start with warrant number 1, but instead repurposed their 1919-1923 ID numbers of 76, 118 and 120.

One of our more popular items are our books of attestation signatures. Those for 1958-2003 are digitised and available by email, whilst those from 2003 almost up to the present were recently donated to us. (Pre-1958 ones are at the National Archives.) #PopularItem #Archive30 #WomensHistory

The love for Godric has gone to his head and he now believes he is our most #PopularItem! He’s also been studying our collections so believes he knows what it will take to make you popular…
#Archive30

Music: “Popular”
Performed by Ariana Grande
From Wicked - Music & Lyrics By Stephen Schwartz

A #PopularItem from our collections is this painting of the proposed City Hall from c.1910. We have a copy of it on our wall. Not only is it colourful, it always gets people talking. It wasn't built due to Mr Caird's gift of £100,000 to build the simpler Caird Hall. #Archive30

For today's #Archive30 theme we want to see a #PopularItem from your collections.

Visitors to our Research Room and long-distance enquiries request a access to a wide variety of records – but some of our most popular tend to be our healthcare records, particularly those that relate to mental health.
#Archive30 #PopularItem

South Wales Record Society

Today's #Archive30 is #UntoldStories. So many of them in minutes of the Welsh Society of Philadelphia www.southwalesrecordsociety.co.uk/34.htm. In March 1831 the Society had to help Elizabeth Vaughan and her children: they had come to Philadelphia to meet her husband /

Researching subjects Hidden histories Records of disability LGBTQ+ history Records of enslaved people Stillbirth Travelling communities (including Gypsy and Roma) Local and community history Getting started with local …

Discover #UntoldStories in our archives. Explore guides on LGBTQ+ history, Disability, Enslaved people, Stillbirth, and Travelling communities (including Gypsy & Roma): recordoffice.wordpre...

We’re proud to support DerbyshireLGBT+ and their Our Stories project uncovering LGBT+ history🌈
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A square book lying on a wooden surface. The book cover shows part of a colourful map of the world. Text on the cover reads: Maps Their Untold Stories; Rose Mitchell and Andrew Janes; Second Edition.

Today’s #Archive30 theme is #UntoldStories, so it would be very remiss of me not to mention that a certain publication featuring lots of interesting maps & the stories behind them is available “from all good bookshops”. shop.nationalarchives.gov.uk/products/map...

Peto, with a short haircut and in a Met police uniform, sits at a desk in front of a map of the Met Police's divisions.

Front cover of Barbara Bell's 'Just Take Your Frock Off - A Lesbian Life', showing a hand-tinted photograph of a woman with a bobbed haircut and yellow blouse.

Barbara Bell's 1940s memoir was the start of our hunt for #UntoldStories of early Met WPCs - ones already in our library by Lilian Wyles and Dorothy Peto by contrast reflect the upper-working and middle class backgrounds of many early female Met officers in the 1920s & '30s. #Archive30 #LGBThistory

How the other half lived: 1899-1908 | The Royal Berkshire Archives Latest news

This month’s highlight explores the #UntoldStories of the Cope family, exploring what an extremely thorough inventory can tell us about every day life for the wealthy in early-Edwardian England. #Archive30

Staff smoking concert programme, 5th November 1909

Hospital cricket 🏏 team 1953-1954

Black and white photo showing a game of cricket and the Hospital chapel and water tower in the background

Map of the hospital showing the cricket ground

Day 4 @arascot.bsky.social
#Archive30
#UntoldStories
#Whitchurchhospitalcricket

It’s fair to say that there are many many untold stories but we are choosing #Cricket 🏏 today

We have been asked to help Whitchurch Heath CC with their story as it’s their Centenary
Shares and likes appreciated

Our collections hold many #UntoldStories. From unidentified photographs to anonymous letters, to commonplace books with forgotten lingo such as a “scubbled spiter.” #Archive30

Register of Inebriates | Flickr Ref: GD/Mus/115 The Register of Inebriates, sometimes referred to by the press as the “Dundee Roll of Fame” or “Black List”, was created in March 1905 under the Licensing (Scotland ) Act 1903. People convicted under the act were to be listed, photographed and described in notices shared to the Police and Town Council. Copies of the Orders were given to publicans in the city, to warn them that “liquor should not be supplied to such person”. There are 7 men and 35 women of ages ranging from 16 to 63. Those entered on the list would have appeared numerous times before the Police Court for various crimes, all linked to drunken behaviour. They were often millworkers and labourers who moved around a lot. Offenders often appeared in court with others on the list. For more information please see these blog posts: dundeecityarchives.wordpress.com/2018/03/22/black-list/

There are many #UntoldStories in the archives. Take for instance the stories of the people who found themselves on the so called "Black List". You can see their photos here: www.flickr.com/photo.... We have told some of their stories here: dundeecityarchives.w... #Archive30

@arascot.bsky.social You asked... #Archive30 #UntoldStories

#Archive30 Untold stories day.
Northern Ireland is full of untold stories in a narrative dominated by civil war and politics.
So Super 8, the series focussing on home movies, is really important: A collection of beautiful films often made only for friends & family that hold universal tales of life

Special Collections Blog - Special Collections Blog - LibGuides at De Montfort University

#Archive30: Thakar’s collection is full of #UntoldStories: 'overlooked histories and objects once dismissed as folk art', now celebrated and treasured (Apollo Magazine, 2023). More on our blog 👉️ buff.ly/alLIQgf @arascot.bsky.social @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social #fashionhistory #antiquetextiles

We’re taking part in ARA Scotland #Archive30! Day 4 #UntoldStories: The Alasdair Gray Archive champions radical empathy. In 2026, we celebrate Agnes Owens’ centenary and launch @aowensarchive.bsky.social, amplifying her life and work.

Archives are full of #UntoldStories. Why don't you tell us one you have found in your archive. #Archive30

Cover of 'Family and Society in Early Stuart Glamorgan: the Household Accounts of Sir Thomas Aubrey of Llantrithyd, c. 1565-1641': cover image of portrait of elderly man in cap and ruff, grey hair, vandyke moustache and beard, holding a staff.

Today's #Archive30 is #ArchiveFashion - and by coincidence on this day in 1636 Thomas Aubrey of Llantrithyd paid 6s for 2 pairs of shoes, 9s. 6d. for a pair of boots and a whole pound for 4 dozen points. More on his fascinating account books at www.southwalesrecordsociety.co.uk/19.htm

Whitchurch Hospital corridor (canteen entrance on the left) One of the orange trucks charging on the right. Group of people dressed in Edwardian costumes walking down the corridor towards the camera

Photo taken in the main hall back in 2008. Old fashioned camera in the middle of the screen and Julia on the left and the photographer on the right

Photo taken outside the main entrance of Whitchurch Hospital in April 2008

Photo taken in April 2008 showing an old minibus in the background and then left to right: Julia, Cardiff Mayor and Julia

Day 3 @arascot.bsky.social
#Archive30
#ArchiveFashion

Something a little different than usual, photos from the centenary in April 2008. A number of us dressed up Edwardian (well as close as we could find!) style!!

Who remembers the occasion?

#Whitchurchhospital
#dressingup
#costumes

What do we think of this 1902 outfit? We spy quilting, crochet, chiffon, ruffles, flowers and is that a heart shaped jewel on a choker? The lady hasn't been identified but may be Violet, Viscountess Milner. If you recognise her, let us know!
#Archive30 #ArchiveFashion #HistFashion

Time for some #ArchiveFashion. Click the hashtag to see the great #Archive30 catwalk.

A smiling female Met officer in the 1967 Norman Hartnell-designed uniform, topped off by Mirman's cap, a pillbox cap with a stiff peak.

A smiling female Met officer in the 1978 soft-topped cap, also designed by Mirman. It proved too easy to pull down over the officer's eyes, gaining the nickname of the 'Butcher's boy' or 'Smurf' cap.

Simone Mirman began her millinery career collaborating with #Schiaparelli (the subject of a new V&A exhibition) before moving on to royalty. She also designed two hats for Met WPCs, though the second proved so impractical that it was replaced in less than a year. #Archive30 #ArchiveFashion

Off-white leather glove with the design of an outline map of central London (between Kensington Gardens and Bank) across the palm and fingers. [From the collections of The National Archives (UK), reference EXT 11/159.]

Close-up of part of the glove, showing Newgate Street, Cheapside, Bank, Blackfriars, St Paul's Cathedral and Cannon Street.

Close up of part of the glove, showing the British Museum.

Close-up of the part of the glove, showing Hyde Park, [the Great] Exhibition [in the Crystal Palace], [Buckingham] Palace Gardens, and Green Park.

Here's the kind of white glove that we do want to see in the archives! Leather glove painted with a "handy" map design showing London landmarks at the time of the 1851 Great Exhibition. Design registered by George Shove. Held by The National Archives (UK) 📁 EXT 11/159. #ArchiveFashion #Archive30

Black and white photograph of a young girl wearing a sailor suit and skirt seated beside her mother in an Edwardian style blouse and skirt

Photo of a white and red child's sailor suit and skirt styled on a mannequin

Children’s sailor suits became fashionable after being popularised by royalty in the Victorian era.

Local girl Gladys Harrison is pictured here in her sailor suit, now in our collection, with her mother Lily, around1917.

#ArchiveFashion #Archive30 @arascot.bsky.social

Godric's head superimposed onto a man's body who is wearing a suit. There is also a woman in fancy clothing next to him. Item reference D/EX2656/1.

Godric's head superimposed onto a man's body, who is wearing horse riding gear. He is standing next to a horse on his left, and two children riding two further horses on his right. Item reference D/EX73/2/19/3.

Godric's head superimposed onto a man's body, who is wearing sports-wear, and is sitting next to a man in the same clothes who is holding a tennis racket. Item reference D/EX73/4/3/17/2.

Godric's head superimposed onto a man's body who is wearing a suit and is seating with a cello between his legs. 4 other people surround him, 3 women and 1 man. They appear to be musicians, and are holding other string instruments. Item reference D/EX1090/3/2.

Godric has been very busy this week trying on a myriad of outfits from history, but he's a little shy about it. Tell him how good he looks! 🙂‍↕️ #ArchiveFashion #Archive30