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Gary Brannan @garybrannan.bsky.social · 21d

FOLKS!

We are SO VERY NEAR to securing the peerless archive of Ray Galton and Alan Simpson for the nation, forever. That's Hancock, Steptoe and Son plus so so much more. Its all their scripts, professional correspodence, plus diaries, working notes - the lot

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‘Innit Marvellous?’: The Galton and Simpson Archive project

Saving Hancock and Steptoe and more

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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 20d

Just read a reference to working in archives as the 'second oldest' profession. am imagining the world where there are only two jobs on offer: sex worker or archivist

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Alipy @gazpachodragon.bsky.social · Sep 4

#yayadvent and #yayswap signups are now live. Though I'm around, this account is not actively monitored so please get in touch via the contact form on the website if necessary.

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Yay Advent

The original advent gift exchange. Get partnered with a stranger, give 24 gifts, get 24 gifts - one for each day of advent!

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Morwenna @morwanneg.bsky.social · Aug 29

@araconference.bsky.social beginning of day 3!

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Anne-Grethe Jensen @daneanne.bsky.social · Aug 27

The inspiration from day one of #ARA2025 is this slide and the idea that an empty shelf in an archive is a silent history. We were urged to be change-makers, to go out and find the missing records to give those silent histories a voice.

A slide stating: “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” Silence serves no one.

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · Aug 25

Gorgeous Jill MacDonald illustration from The Puffin Book of Magic

A black and white book illustration in a madcap psychedelic 70s style featuring a row of four wild eyed wizards in the foreground with a witch flying over their heads surrounded by cats and rabbits and playing cards underneath the words group magic inside an aura of jagged lines

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Morwenna @morwanneg.bsky.social · Aug 17

Lovely walk round Winkworth Arboretum today, not too hot & some leaves are already beginning to turn

View of the Surrey Hills in Winkworth Arboretum

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James Baker @jwbaker.bsky.social · Aug 15

Fund. Cataloguing. Hire. Cataloguers.

Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · Aug 15

article now published >> artreview.com/what-isnt-at...

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Laura @lauropea.bsky.social · Aug 17

Looking for Sanskrit palaeography advice! I did a year of Sanskrit back at uni and we learned to read devanagari, but not any of the other historical scripts it appears in in manuscripts - is there a good intro to these and Sanskrit palaeography in general?

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Anne-Grethe Jensen @daneanne.bsky.social · Aug 14

I have questions about archive distance courses and/or part time UCL MA course. If anyone are happy to talk to me as employer/student/mentor of such undertakings (or can point me in the direction of friendly people) please let me know. I am on a fact finding mission.

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Morwenna @morwanneg.bsky.social · Aug 17

Very belated in seeing this, but I'm so sorry to hear this sad news, hope you're doing ok x

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Christopher Hilton @chilton-bb.bsky.social · Aug 16

It's Behind the Scenes Day at the Red House today: we're showing people a selection of items from the Archive (musical scores, photos, scrapbooks, records, financial documents) all to do with holidays and travel, then taking people beyond the velvet rope into the archive stores....

Sheets of music manuscript, photos and other items laid out on a table.

LPs on Indian music, and assorted photos, laid out on a table.

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Peter Johnston @peterajohnston.bsky.social · Aug 17

We're currently recruiting an Apprentice Archivist in my brigade at IWM. It's a great role that will work across our Documents collection, a treasure trove of stories and secrets. If you're interested in forging a career as an archivist, this could be for you:
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Apprentice Archivist - IWM

Title: Apprentice Archivist. Location: IWM London. Application Deadline: 01/09/2025, 09:00

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Elizabeth Ammon @elizabethammon.bsky.social · Jun 20

Let’s play a game of “spot the woman”. Press box equivalent of where’s wally

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Morwenna @morwanneg.bsky.social · Jun 13

Please, please always include the salary!

Caroline Ball @heroicendeavour.bsky.social · Jun 12

Few things in life annoy me more than job ads that don’t include the salary. For me it’s to the point where it’s enough of a red flag to stop me even bothering to apply. 🚩

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Professionally Nosy @professionallynosy.bsky.social · May 20

Believe me, I would love to help. But alas
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Don’t make me tap the sign meme. Sign reads “archives can’t preserve or provide access to materials they never got.”

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · Jun 11

'Freedom School Painting' by Synthia Saint, US painter, author, keynote speaker, educator and actor #WomensArt

Vividly coloured painting as if looking down on a large crowd of mostly Black people, those at the top of the image wear mortarboard hats as if at a graduation ceremony

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Morwenna @morwanneg.bsky.social · Jun 11

I wanted to be a meteorologist due to Twister 😂

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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · Jun 11

If you think this looks like a mess: it isn‘t. It‘s a treasure trove of information. There is no history writing without archives, and there are no archives without people who appreciate and protect them.
History, much like democracy, begins locally. Cherish it.

Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · Jun 10

Welcome to the archives.

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Morwenna @morwanneg.bsky.social · Jun 11

He was actually on TMS last week for one of the women's matches last week I was rather surprised!

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Angela Puggioni @angelafromdpc.bsky.social · Jun 11

📢 DPC Career Development Fund announcement!

Supporting #DPC members to attend #iPres2025 in Wellington through our latest grant opportunity!

🎯 Full registration coverage
🌏 In-person & virtual options
⏰ Apply by July 1st, 2025
🔐 Available to DPC Members only

More info: buff.ly/A8urfvk

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Morwenna @morwanneg.bsky.social · Jun 10

I'm so sorry to hear this, hope you're doing ok & sending positive thoughts x

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Dinah Rose KC @dinahrose.bsky.social · May 28

Trying to change the light bulb

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Ria Cheyne @riacheyne.bsky.social · May 28

🔔 Neurodivergent archive accessibility workshop! 🔔
Are you a neurodivergent researcher using archives, an archivist interested in accessibility, or a neurodivergent archivist?
Apply for our first 'Divergent Minds in the Archive' workshop at Imperial War Museums, London, on 4th July!

Microsoft Forms

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Area Man @areamancm.bsky.social · May 23

HI I’D LIKE TO ADD YOU TO MY PROFESSIONAL NETWORK ON LINKED IN

Bloody great big ship crashing into some poor Norwegian’s front garden

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