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Janice Tullock

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Archivist, consultant, genealogist, mentor. If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday. ~Pearl Buck

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Janice Tullock @jtullock.bsky.social · Nov 10

There’s been in influx of new people here so, like many others I thought I’d do an intro thread.

Most of my time is taken up working with archives, museums and heritage sites. I provide an extra pair of management eyes, improve collections management or support organisations planning projects.

A window containing coloured hexagons with writing on them. In the background is the Natural History Museum. These are from a staff workshop.

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Janice Tullock @jtullock.bsky.social · 8h

Jane, at this point of writing the report you don’t know how tempted I am!

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Janice Tullock @jtullock.bsky.social · 8h

It’s certainly an impressive figure!

Janice Tullock @jtullock.bsky.social · 9h

American or British???? 🤣

Janice Tullock @jtullock.bsky.social · 10h

Apparently this collection takes the same space as 960,000 bananas! Surely that’s a useful advocacy stat????

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Janice Tullock @jtullock.bsky.social · 10h

5 double decker buses is apparently just over an Olympic swimming pools. Who knew??

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Janice Tullock @jtullock.bsky.social · 10h

Maybe shipping containers… hmmm

Janice Tullock @jtullock.bsky.social · 10h

HANNAH! Stop encouraging them!

Janice Tullock @jtullock.bsky.social · 11h

Well that’s convenient for them…. Let me know if you need a good solicitor who will send a letter before action cheaply

Janice Tullock @jtullock.bsky.social · 11h

I know we often measure Archive collections in Olympic swimming pools, but can anyone think of a smaller equivalent for cubic metres? Just over half an Olympic swimming pool isn’t hitting the spot!

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Janice Tullock @jtullock.bsky.social · 1d

Please excuse the typo. There was of course only one Ken Dodd.

Janice Tullock @jtullock.bsky.social · 1d

Having catalogued the archive of a Ken Dodd, the master of a comprehensive touring show, I thought I had seen everything. But this? Mind you, Ken came home to his own bed most nights. I wonder if the same is the case here?????

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Melinda Haunton @melindahaunton.bsky.social · 2d

If you weren't able to join the #ArchivesAccreditn launch webinar, you can see the updated standard, guidance and application form online*: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-sec...

Guidance - Archives sector

Find out more about the Archive Service Accreditation standard and read supporting guidance.

www.nationalarchives.gov.uk

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Janice Tullock @jtullock.bsky.social · 3d

Yep, he’s not wrong. Speaking on behalf of all you civil servant types who can’t speak….

Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 3d

As a local government journalist of many years I could have easily told these plonkers that there is nowhere left to cut in local government. Actually anyone could have told them that.

James Ball @jamesrball.com · 3d

*gasp*

Janice Tullock @jtullock.bsky.social · 3d

My mind is returning to this talk. Shall I add it to the list or not?

Janice Tullock @jtullock.bsky.social · Feb 22

Anyway, I’m now mentally writing a talk entitled “How to do genealogy like an archivist would” It’s all about file naming conventions, record keeping, digital preservation. It’s a wild ride!

This is not writing up case studies, as you can see.

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Janice Tullock @jtullock.bsky.social · 3d

I’ve sorry all the Steve’s are losing their jobs, but this has made me
Giggle…

John86 @john86l.bsky.social · 3d

You don’t have to be called Steve or Stephen to work at Blackpool, but it does help.

A club statement from Blackpool saying Steve Bruce has been sacked along with coaches Steve Agnew and Stephen Clemence. Stephen Dobbie and Steve Banks will take temporary charge.

Janice Tullock @jtullock.bsky.social · 3d

Collections Management folks, would any laws have been broken had the sword been sent and accepted by the King, given its provenance ? It’s got me
Thinking….

Tony Clark @anthonyclark.bsky.social · 3d

*DEVELOPING*: I've updated my scoop with previously unreported details about the State Dept. staffer who requested the sword, NARA's response, and that the gift Trump gave King Charles III wasn't even a replica of Eisenhower's West Point Officer's Sabre:
lastcampaign.substack.com/p/exclusive-...

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Janice Tullock @jtullock.bsky.social · 5d

Ooh go soon as it’s going to be closed to move to a new building hopefully soon.

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Janice Tullock @jtullock.bsky.social · 5d

Not having a stormy day is cheating surely????

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Janice Tullock @jtullock.bsky.social · 5d

This must be the prettiest road leading to a local authority archive service? - North East Wales Archives Hawarden.

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Lucie Matthews-Jones @luciejones83.bsky.social · 6d

Part 1 of McEwan’s What we can know is amazing. It follows its protagonist’s attempts to find a lost 2014 poem. Set in 2119 when much of Britain is submerged under water, it feels like a love letter to the quirks & pitfalls of historical researcher esp know that the bodleian is on top of Snowdonia

A audible book cover of Ian McEwan’s What we can know with a penguin book symbol. It shows a church spire with water

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Janice Tullock @jtullock.bsky.social · 6d

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Tony Clark @anthonyclark.bsky.social · 6d

BREAKING: sources say NARA has forced out Dr. Todd Arrington, the federal director of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum, after he declined to allow the Trump administration to remove a sword from the library for a gift to King Charles

lastcampaign.substack.com/p/exclusive-...

EXCLUSIVE: NARA Ousts Eisenhower Library Director Over Proposed Trump Gift to King Charles

The director, a historian and Army veteran, declined to allow the Trump administration to remove a priceless artifact from the library's permanent collection

lastcampaign.substack.com

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Janice Tullock @jtullock.bsky.social · 7d

Cake!

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Janice Tullock @jtullock.bsky.social · 8d

This feedback from today’s training session for community archives in St Helens, funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund made me giggle. I know exactly what she means!

Janice Tullock @jtullock.bsky.social · 9d

Ah Covid, it has been such a long time since you called on this household. I’d be grateful if you kept away from me for a while please????

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