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Becky Bowd

@beckybowd.bsky.social
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University Archivist and Records Manager at Heritage Quay, the archive service of the University of Huddersfield. Lover of all things Georgian, especially book/library related. All views my own.

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Becky Bowd @beckybowd.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Considering popping on another layer because the temp inside my flat has gone down to 23°c. It's a sign of how ridiculously hot it has been inside my flat this summer that 23°c now feels chilly.
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Becky Bowd @beckybowd.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
They really are!
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Becky Bowd @beckybowd.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I'm also watching it. Fantastic film. Hugh Grant is especially brilliant in it.
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Becky Bowd @beckybowd.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Thank you. That's so brilliant to hear too!
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Becky Bowd @beckybowd.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Thanks! I've gone with Levis so your advice really helped. Thanks!
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Becky Bowd @beckybowd.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Thanks extremely helpful advice and I've gone with Levi's.
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Becky Bowd @beckybowd.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Thank you great advice!
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Becky Bowd @beckybowd.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Thank you that has been extremely helpful and I have gone with Levi's. Much appreciated.
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Becky Bowd @beckybowd.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Anyone in the Leeds area got a good recommendation for a solicitor or conveyancer? I have had an offer on a house accepted and am now in need of one. My birthday present to myself this weekend... a house!!
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Becky Bowd @beckybowd.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
And success! Still lots of tickets available including for weekends which is when I have booked to visit (had to book an evening ticket is the only thing so a bit later than I'd have liked). So if you are in the queue for the #BayeuxTapestry hang tight and you will get there eventually!
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Becky Bowd @beckybowd.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Erm wait times of up to 9 hours? Am I queuing for Oasis tickets or something?!
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Becky Bowd @beckybowd.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Just 27000+ people ahead of me now. The queue is going down, albeit slowly. I'm unsure if the British Museum was quite prepared for this level of interest! And am v much regretting not logging on at dead on 10 on multiple devices.
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Becky Bowd @beckybowd.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Am also in the #BayeuxTapestry queue. I joined at about 10 past 10. Will I get tickets? Will the tapestry have returned to France by the time I get through to booking any? I will keep you posted. #theanticipation
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Becky Bowd @beckybowd.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
I have spent today viewing some houses around Leeds as I'm contemplating buying my first house at the grand old age of 38 after saving up for many years. This feels a little too grown up for my liking.
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Becky Bowd @beckybowd.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
holds the account. Is this really good application of data protection law? No! That isn't personal data, surely? Back to my letting agent/ the property management company I go. At least I can say I told you so, although I would rather just be able to pay my electricity bill and know it's all OK. 4/4
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Becky Bowd @beckybowd.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
registered at my address (although the account itself is). And here's where DP comes in... it needs the business to make the amendments and register the property and account as a residential address and no I cannot be told if the bill is being paid by anyone or which business 3/4
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Becky Bowd @beckybowd.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
find out who my energy supplier is and going round in circles with various suppliers and my letting agent and the building property management company. Less so. Today I found out what I have suspected all along... the account is registered as a business account and the energy board supply isn't 2/4
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Becky Bowd @beckybowd.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
A mini rant about data protection. GDPR is incredibly important. I navigate it every day in archives & rm whether it's in terms of how to manage researcher information or access to 20th/21st century records. But when it comes to I have been living in my flat since October and trying to 1/4
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Becky Bowd @beckybowd.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
What else to do when you're back in the village you grew up in on the second Saturday of half-term? Why attend the local panto of course... oh no she didn't, oh yes she did!
Front of a light pink paper programme which says "Stretham Players Presents Sleeping Beauty".
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Becky Bowd @beckybowd.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Glad to hear you made it back in time!
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Becky Bowd @beckybowd.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Ouch. Hope it's OK.
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Becky Bowd @beckybowd.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
I now have not 1 but 2 comfy reading chairs and a sofa to choose from when snuggling under my blanket, courtesy of a spare rocking chair from my sister. The existing chair and sofa were courtesy of Emmaus Leeds a fab charity who work with ex-homeless & I highly recommend for 2nd hand furniture. 2/2
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Becky Bowd @beckybowd.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Back to my flat in Leeds after a wonderfully refreshing Christmas and New Year break in Cambridgeshire. Well apart from yet another awful cold. My flat is now a balmy 15.4°c so I'm huddled under a blanket. Still warmer than the 11°c it was after 1.5 weeks without heating. And more importantly 1/2
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Becky Bowd @beckybowd.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Ooh I do like a subscription library bookplate. This is a rather detailed one too.
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Becky Bowd @beckybowd.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
I need to pay better attention!
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Becky Bowd @beckybowd.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
It really is!
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Becky Bowd @beckybowd.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Ooh yes I would be.
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Becky Bowd @beckybowd.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Ah true. Apologies!!
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Becky Bowd @beckybowd.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Oh of course. Absolute nightmare!the image, the type, the handwriting!have lots of those with the Bamforth postcard collection too.
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Becky Bowd @beckybowd.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
You work in publishing history and don't know about crown copyright?! Oof!!!
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Becky Bowd @beckybowd.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
You were along the right lines. I mean that's assuming there were contracts in place and it does get complicated as that isn't always clear and it could be with the institution or the creator, or the crown... Otherwise could be an orphan work if don't know but that wouldn't be the case for an OS map
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Becky Bowd @beckybowd.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
I think the overall takeaway from these conversations is copyright is complicated. For this reason I am very much looking forward to the next edition of the archive bible, aka Copyright for Archivists and Records Managers by Tim Padfield.
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Becky Bowd @beckybowd.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Ooh interesting. Music copyright is so complicated too. With the typographical arrangement at 25 years, and then often multiple copyrights if e.g. lyricists, multiple composers or arrangers, was it published before X date etc. We have many modern music collections @heritagequay.bsky.social
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Becky Bowd @beckybowd.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
It will be until 70 years after death of the creator. Even if they worked for an institution and the copyright is with the institution rather than the individual it still goes on the dates of the creator if known. Why copyright is such a minefield! Sound recordings are also incredibly difficult.
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Becky Bowd @beckybowd.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
And fascinating and dramatic accounts. Shows the importance of newspapers for recording evidence. You've done a fantastic job with the site though. Was like I wonder who these people were and the link to the biographies you've created is a historian/researcher's dream!
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Becky Bowd @beckybowd.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
I love a copyright session (you can tell I'm an Archivist and ex-library/book historian right!?!). I'm thinking this is a good example to use with students when we cover basic copyright principles with them.
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Becky Bowd @beckybowd.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Success today!
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Becky Bowd @beckybowd.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
That is a very good point to make and one that can easily be forgotten in the difference between American and UK copyright law.
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Becky Bowd @beckybowd.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
*even grotesques. Oops!
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Becky Bowd @beckybowd.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Not forgetting some rather wonderful and slightly scary gargoyles.
Grey stone face protuding from a plain grey stone background.Grey stone face with large nose protuding from a grey stone background.Close up of a grey stone face protuding from a grey stone background.Grey stone smiling face protuding from a grey stone background.
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Becky Bowd @beckybowd.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
And some more. My fave is the peasant as apparently incredibly rare for a lay person to be depicted and used to be in a window in the Lady Chapel @elycathedral.bsky.social
Blue, red and black decorative stain glass window on a plain background.Rectangular stain glass window, man in white with yellow and black glass.
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Becky Bowd @beckybowd.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Still don't have DMs on here! Will search it without using the link and find it!
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Becky Bowd @beckybowd.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Ended 2025 the right way after a year that has been a lot in my personal and professional life. Finally visited the wonderful @stainedglassmuseum.bsky.social in Ely. Absolutely fantastic and can highly recommend.
Coloured stain glass window, blue, yellow, red, green. 5 parts. depicting mills, buildings, and a church. On a white background.Blue stained glass rectangle with orange coloured fish. On a plain background.Rectangular stain glass window. Black lead stain glass ship with a blue ocean.Black and yellow stained glass window with images of people and cows. Museum label to right of window.
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Becky Bowd @beckybowd.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
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Becky Bowd @beckybowd.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Can't access that link sadly.
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Becky Bowd @beckybowd.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Yes I have been getting annoyed with the AI too. Still need to watch the second two.
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Becky Bowd @beckybowd.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
The Sea City in Southampton does the recreation using the archival evidence brilliantly it's worth saying, is incredibly well thought out and well worth visiting. But nice to see a TV version reliant on the archives too.
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Becky Bowd @beckybowd.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
I'm very intrigued to watch this tonight. www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/... Archives used for their purpose of providing evidence of the survivors experience of the sinking and told in their own words.
bbc.co.uk
Docu-drama Titanic Sinks Tonight creatives on recreating the survivors' stories -
The series features extensive research and real life testimony from the survivors of the Titanic, recreated by a cast of actors
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Becky Bowd @beckybowd.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
I bet they will be. My ears pricked up at the word archives, then Uni of York and I got very excited in the car while my Mum was rather bemused!
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Becky Bowd @beckybowd.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
3pm news! I was like ooh I must message Gary!
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