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Rachel MacGregor
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Digital Preservation Officer at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick. Interested in digital preservation, archives and public engagement. Also random public transport content. Views my own unless a repost. She/her.
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hagenilda.bsky.social
Does anyone have access to an e-book/PDF of Thom Hartmann: 'The Edison Gene: ADHD and the gift of the hunter child'?
November 25, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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mrcwarwick.bsky.social
We're proud to be a member of the #GeneralStrike100 national partnership

Explore our interactive map & sign up to visit your nearest partner & #GeneralStrike100 history sites at actionnetwork.org/forms/visit-...

Looking forward to sharing our collections through onsite events & digitised sources!
Image including a photograph of a public meeting in 1926, showing speakers and crowd. Two logos are visible - the logo for the General Strike 100 national partnership and the Modern Records Centre's own logo.
November 24, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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ciliplgbtq.bsky.social
Perhaps of interest to #archive folks:

Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging (EDIB) Self-Assessment Toolkit (SAT) workshop. The EDIB SAT will be embedded as part of the Archive Service Accreditation assessment from Spring 2026:

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/equality-d...

#EDI
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Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging Self-Assessment Toolkit
This workshop introduces the EDIB Self-Assessment Toolkit, developed by Archives West Midland.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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gillianmurphy.bsky.social
We're planning an exhibition to mark the centenary of The Women's Library next year. We'd like to feature collections and research that people are working on currently. Please get in touch and let us know.
September 18, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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miaout.bsky.social
Online tickets are now available for the Fantastic Futures 2025 conference! #FF2025 is the annual conference of the AI4LAM community, jam-packed with inspiration and practical lessons for AI in GLAMs. Sign up to watch all talks on Thurs and Fri Dec 4 - 5 for free! www.conftool.org/fantastic-fu...
Fantastic Futures 2025 - ConfTool Pro - Login
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November 24, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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oldenoughtosay.com
UK immigration consultation. Designed terribly and probably intentionally to make it difficult to disagree, but worth doing if you do.
November 22, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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rbrett.bsky.social
After you help your boss convert a doc to PDF
November 22, 2025 at 4:55 PM
anoldhand.bsky.social
Had a most wonderful day @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social celebrating 60 years with assorted alumnae. Met some amazing people including a cohort from the Class of ‘65 including one of them who booked Rod Stewart’s then relatively unknown band for one of the opening events #Warwick60
A group of men and women in an archives searchroom looking at documents
November 22, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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pastpostcard.bsky.social
Had a rather mixed experience yesterday with local history some of which Beryl and myself do not intend to repeat.
November 22, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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mrcwarwick.bsky.social
Call for papers #CFP

Blood is the Price of Coal: Coal Communities, Health and Welfare in Britain and Beyond from the 19th Century to the Present

18 June 2026: 1 day conference + NUM archive exhibition

Submit abstracts / express interest at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...

Deadline: 25 Jan 2026
Blood is the Price of Coal: Coal Communities, Health and Welfare in Britain and Beyond from the 19th Century to the Present When and where: University of Warwick, Coventry, on Thursday 18 June 2026. Conference summary: This free one day conference aims to bring together researchers from higher education, community and campaign groups to explore the history of health and welfare in Britain’s coal mining industry. Held jointly by the University of Warwick's Centre for the History of Medicine, Science and Technology, and Modern Records Centre, the event will run alongside an exhibition which will explore some of the themes covered by the speakers through the National Union of Mineworkers' archives. We welcome contributions from new and established researchers, working inside and outside higher education. Confirmed participants include: - Jörg Arnold (University of Augsburg / Institute for Contemporary History Munich - Berlin), author of The British Miner in the Age of DeIndustrialization - Keith Gildart (University of Wolverhampton), Principal Investigator on research project On Behalf of the People: Work, Community and Class in the British Coal Industry 1947-1994 and former miner - Quentin Outram (University of Leeds), Secretary of the Society for the Study of Labour History and co-editor of Coal in Victorian Britain Conference themes: Subjects that could be addressed include but are not limited to: The human cost of coal, including: - Mining disasters, their contemporary impacts and later memorialisation. - Industrial accidents, industrial diseases and workers’ compensation. - Mine safety and the improvement of conditions. - Mining and mental health. Industrial health and welfare, including: - Pre-nationalisation provision in and beyond the colliery. - National Coal Board provision, including the NCB Medical Service, housing and the Coal Industry Social Welfare Organisation. - Trade union campaigns and benefit schemes. - Sport and social provision as mining welfare. Coal and community, including: - Environmental impact. - Mining families and the intergenerational effects of the mining industry. - Impacts of the industry with particular reference to gender, race and ethnicity. - Coalfield communities after coal: the effects of deindustrialisation. Submission guidelines We wish to make space for dialogue between academic and community-based researchers, and welcome involvement from mining heritage and local history groups / researchers from former coalfield communities. We welcome and encourage alternative presentational styles. Possible formats for contributions could include: - 15-20 minute papers. - 5 minute lightning papers (for example showcasing a particular object or archival source, or highlighting a particular place, event, individual or experience). - Round table discussions. - Posters or displays. Submission deadline: 25 January 2026. Limited funding for travel support will be available, with priority given to early career researchers or participants who cannot draw upon institutional funding. For additional enquiries, please contact the conference organisers at archives@warwick.ac.uk
November 20, 2025 at 11:53 AM
anoldhand.bsky.social
Litter picking at lunchtime on my #UnconfinedWalks It was fun - must do this more often!
November 19, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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mrcwarwick.bsky.social
"How to keep well in wartime"

'Get enough sleep'

Some useful and not so useful tips issued for the Ministry of Health by the Ministry of Information, published in 1943.

This publication, about the Home Front, can be found in The Brewers' Society archive.

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Front cover of 'How to keep well in Wartime'. The publication was issued for the Ministry of Health by the Ministry of Information. The cover shows an illustration of a family. The man appears to be carrying a soldier's helmet, the woman is carrying a basket of food, the young girl is on a bicycle, and the young boy is carrying what looks like a picnic blanket. Contents page of 'How to keep well in Wartime'. Chapter headings 1. Be regular in your living habits. 2. Get enough sleep. 3. Get your share of air and sunshine. 4. Keep your mind and body active. 5. Choose the right food. 6. Be moderate in all things. 7. A word to those who worry. 8. Fight disease with hygiene. 9. Stop germs from spreading. 10. Help yourself to be well.
November 18, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Do I know anyone at the Royal Society of Medicine library? (Which is to say, I think I met someone at an event recently and can't remember where. Was it you?)
November 17, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Today, we are celebrating the archive of the wonderful Peepal Tree Press, an archive that we are so blessed to have at @leedsunilibraries.bsky.social and @lulgalleries.bsky.social
An image celebrating the archive and forty years of Peepal Tree Press
November 13, 2025 at 5:52 PM
anoldhand.bsky.social
On the train to Warrington. My first companions were cheerily drinking M&S cocktails and off to see the Fast Show live in Brum. They are replaced by someone from [redacted name of law firm] who is merrily sharing his client details with me via his lap top.
November 13, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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riacheyne.bsky.social
Still time to register for this free online event next week! With fantastic contributions from @nlisn.bsky.social @ukdishisthub.bsky.social @neurodiversemuseum.bsky.social @owenbarden.bsky.social @louisebell.bsky.social @sambrady.bsky.social and many more!
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As we come to the end of our @edicaucus.bsky.social funded 'Divergent Minds in the Archive' project, we're delighted to invite you to 'Accessing Archives and Collections: Disability, Neurodivergence, Chronic Illness' - a free online symposium on 17th and 18th November. 1/n
Microsoft Forms
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November 11, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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Why is the British Library of all places publicizing an event about ‘forgotten’ or ‘lost’ maps ’found’ in the ‘dusty drawers’ OF A LIBRARY. Not catalogued perhaps but not lost… argh! events.bl.uk/events/hidde...
Hidden in Plain Sight: The Secret Maps of a Forgotten Map Library | British Library
Professor James Cheshire spent three years sifting through the dusty drawers of the University College London Map Library to research his book The Library
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November 10, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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mrcwarwick.bsky.social
Several of these have been digitised as resources for a module on Anglo-German relations - warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...
Cycling diaries kept during tours of 1933 & 1938, & lantern slides from journalist 'Petronella' in which tourist snaps are rendered less innocuous when you see the banners flying
November 10, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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The Courtauld is offering a a new fully funded Peter Fergusson PhD Scholarship in English Medieval Architecture for eligible projects focusing on England from the eleventh to the early sixteenth centuries. Statement of intents are due by 17 November 2025.
Peter Fergusson PhD Scholarship in English Medieval Architecture, Courtauld, statement of intent deadline 17 November 2025
The Courtauld is offering a a new fully funded Peter Fergusson PhD Scholarship in English Medieval Architecture for eligible projects focusing on England from the eleventh to the early sixteenth centuries. Statement of intents are due by 17 November 2025.
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November 10, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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mrcwarwick.bsky.social
For true sporting excellence, BREAD is the (1935) diet of champions. For a varied athletic diet, include cheese biscuits and tea.

(from mrc-describe.epexio.com/records/CTC/... )
Advert from 1935 promoting BREAD as a sporting food for champions. It includes a drawing of a man and woman enjoying sandwiches made with BREAD. A sketch of the same couple propping up their bikes against a lone tree is in the background. "Cyclists and Hikers. Take plenty of sandwiches with you on your tour. Eat plenty of Bread on your tour. It is best for energy and prevents you from feeling tired. Read what E.B. SEELEY, who cycled 21,079 miles in 1934, writing in "CYCLING", says- "For breakfast I eat bread and cheese; for tea I eat cheese biscuits and drink tea; and for supper I have more bread and cheese." BREAD is the best food for renewing spent energy."
November 5, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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mrcwarwick.bsky.social
🚨 Archive Job Alert 🚨

📜 Fancy working with our fantastic archive collections?

We're looking for a *new* MRC Manager to lead our service!

Could this be YOU?

Find out more about the role at warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...

More about the MRC at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...
Five photographs of the Modern Records Centre: Two students walking outside the main entrance. A view down the aisle of one of our strongrooms. A student looking through a photograph album in our seminar room. Digitisation Assistant at work scanning a volume. A view of our searchroom, with an Archive Assistant handing out a document to a researcher.
November 10, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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hagenilda.bsky.social
Would any successful Bodleian visiting fellow recipients be willing to share their application materials with me? Especially if medieval/early modern. Ta!
November 8, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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Sex, lies, and the Chevalier d'Eon! You can now listen to my @long18thsem.bsky.social talk on Lord Mansfield and the Chevalier d'Eon on the IHR website: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Signature of the Chevalier d'Eon
October 5, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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schopflin.bsky.social
Roasted cauliflower did you say?
Cooking dish taken out of the oven, showing beige, cheese-topped dish with browning and crispy edges
November 7, 2025 at 6:50 PM
anoldhand.bsky.social
Job klaxon 📢: fancy managing a busy University archives service? Now's your chance: warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...
MRC Manager and Head of Archives and Special Collections (42364-1025) - University of Warwick
Title: MRC Manager and Head of Archives and Special Collections (42364-1025). Application Deadline: . Position Type: Permanent
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November 7, 2025 at 4:13 PM