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Teresa Doherty @dohertyta.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

#HistNursing #HistMidwifery #Belfast Fascinating blog, esp on ‘handywomen’ in working class women’s health @rcnhistory.bsky.social

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 09/04/2025

📚 For book historian Allie Alvis (@book-historia.bsky.social), preserving rare books isn’t just about the objects—it’s about telling their stories. Alvis brings those hidden histories to life through social media, informing & entertaining a growing audience.⁠ blog.archive.org/2025/04/09/v...

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Cécile Archives @cecilearchives.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Make copies, preserve them, create a parallel black list, hide this list. Deleting research from databases or from being found renders knowledge as good as non-existent.

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Dorothy Berry @dorothyjberry.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

I love libraries and archives and museums. To read about the history of work to maintain libraries and share histories I suggest you skip my piece and just go buy this book (or! request it at your local library!) but if you need to be convinced, here: lareviewofbooks.org/article/blac...

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Black Archives, Not Archives of Blackness: On Laura Helton’s “Scattered and Fugitive Things” | Los Angeles Review of Books

Dorothy Berry reviews Laura Helton’s “Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History.”

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William Kilbride @williamkilbride.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

It's #dpc #digitalpreservation #ff Follow Friday. This week a simple reflection. Data has never mattered more, and never more fragile. #DPC and the #digipres community have expertise and contacts that will help with that. Spread the word and save the bits.

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Cécile Archives @cecilearchives.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Love my job. Love all the ethical questioning it swims in. Love that it is so embedded in society. Love that it is about public and common good. Love that its independence is a sign of a working democracy. #Archivist

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James Elder @jameselder.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

This post by a former NARA employee is good, outlining some of its powers and responsibilities. I knew that NARA administered the Electoral College. There’s a lot of similarly important stuff. It will *not be good* for the next Archivist of the United States to be a Trump stooge.

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James Elder @jameselder.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

So, the issues of preservation of records, evidence and memory have arrived already. #NoDemocracyWithoutArchives

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Liberating Histories @liberatinghistorys.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

To find out more about Liberating Histories, tune into our podcast series 🎙️ It explores the last 50 years of feminism through the campaigns, communities & controversies sparked by some of its most cherished magazines ✨ Listen wherever you get your podcasts: liberatinghistories.org/podcast-seri...

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Liz Rees @lizarees.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Well done that nameless archivist! www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckg3kxq…

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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Historians celebrating New Year’s Eve, or they call it ‘new government archival documents declassification day’

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Adele Redhead 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @delredhead.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Tried a version of ham in cola today, using Irn Bru. It is delicious, will def do again!

Thinly sliced ham joint on a steel carving tray.

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Christopher Pittard @christopherpittard.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Earlier this year I was at a university meeting on the use of LLMs in assessment, and the presenter said “there’s no reliable system that detects AI”, and all the STEM people nodded while all the humanities people said “er, you just *read* it.”

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Adele Redhead 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @delredhead.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Just some of the @uofglasgow.bsky.social Information Studies staff at graduation today - many, many congratulations to our #IMPs and #MuseumStudies MSc students - we are so proud of you! @dmcmenemy.bsky.social

Four staff from Information Studies. We are all wearing academic gowns. From left: David wearing a blue gown with a yellow and blue hood; Kat wearing a black gown with wide white trim with red details and a black and red hood, then Adele and Ian wearing a black gown with pink trim and a pink and black hood (the Glasgow PhD gown).

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Michael Durrant @michaelwdurrant.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

We’re recruiting for a Collaborative Doctoral Award @ies-sas.bsky.social working in collaboration with British Jesuit Archives! A funded PhD project that seeks to reconstruct a Jesuit library. Find out more and apply at the following link, and please share: www.lahp.ac.uk/prospective-...

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Collaborative Doctoral Awards – student recruitment - LAHP

Information Session The information session for candidates will be held virtually, on Zoom, on 9 December 2024. Candidates can expect a briefing about the application process, tips for how to strength...

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Liz Wood @worsted.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

"When Overwhelmed Archivist enters the battlefield..."

RPG card for 'Overwhelmed Archivist. Creature - Human Wizard'. It includes an image of a middle aged, bearded white man in chunky futuristic armour, sitting at a desk lit by some sort of electrical / lava lamp things. A severed hand in a jar of liquid is on the desk. This is unusual in an archive and might be better in a museum collection. The Overwhelmed Archivist is quoted as saying "Bah! As if I had time to preserve everything", suggesting that he needs to spend more time on appraisal and less on accumulating random body parts.

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Archives and Records Association UK and Ireland @araukie.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

More from our blog series for: #UKLHM #LocalHistoryMonth We have a blog from Prof Lucy Delap reflecting on the challenges even experienced users of archives face when searching for disability and Deaf histories. www.archives.org.uk/news/disabil...

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Disability History Month: Accessibility and Archives — Archives & Records Association

“For disability, see infirmities” This is one of four blogs written for Disability History Month 2025 - you can read the other blogs here (published each Thursday up to 12th December) alongside oth...

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

There's something here about the way "middle class white women, amirite" has become such an all purpose clapback on social media that *even a rich middle class white man accused of sexual misconduct* now thinks it'll work as a defence, I think?

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Adele Redhead 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @delredhead.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Today I gave one of my favourite but most difficult lectures of the year; ‘records of life and death’… which leads into memory and the archive. Every time I am in the office, I walk past this. It is a remembrance of members of the University community who have died recently.

A tall university building in the background, with a low wall and a seat / bench in the foreground. This will be shown in more detail in the next pictures.
It is dark with lights on in the buildings and streetlights, with a couple of trees against the sky.

A slightly closer view of the concrete wall and bench. We can see writing on the wall.

A closer view of writing on the wall. It reads:
Sun Guihua
Dr Johanna Green
Professor James Milner-White
Mr Joseph Russo MA (Hons)
Rev Stuart Dougall MacQuarrie MPhil MBA
Mr David 'Biggs' Wright
Professor Peter Swithin Meadows, FRSB, FLS, FRGS
Mr Terry M Millar MICWCI

The wall is a pale grey. The writing is dark. I don’t know how it was added, but it looks as if it is intended to fade over time.

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British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Calling mid-career library and archive professionals 📣 Looking to advance your career and connect with international peers? Join our International Library Leaders Programme for behind-the-scenes access and valuable insights. Apply by 6 February 2025: bit.ly/BL-Internati...

A view of the spiral staircase at the British Library, with two visitors standing on the platform looking out at the space below.

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Henning Hansen @henninghansen.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Intrigued by the People’s Bookshelf at the National Library of Latvia. Each book in the collection has been donated by a member of the public and is inscribed by its former owner, telling a personal story relating to the book.

Huge shelves with books behind a glass wall

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Ginny Dawe-Woodings @helloginnybatty.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I've been having some amazing conversations about this lately. As an archivist I have to process a lot of material that I would rather not see or that is immensely emotional, and then I apply content warnings and closures as appropriate so that researchers aren't 'surprised'. It can be gruelling.

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Adele Redhead 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @delredhead.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Well done to my wonderful colleague Tim! I am so, so happy for you. Very well deserved 🎉

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Adele Redhead 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @delredhead.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

One of our cats: Oggy. He is the smartest cat we’ve ever had in some ways. But an utter idiot in others. He is my wee darling ❤️

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Karyn @archivesnkaryn.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Just finished the second talk in the series of CAHG Digital Preservation webinars. This one on policy and documentation and how the toolkit can help. You can access the toolkit here, doi.org/10.7207/comm... and the webinar recoding will be on the SCA YouTube channel soon!

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Adele Redhead 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @delredhead.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

One for the #IMPs after today’s disaster planning lecture

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Adele Redhead 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @delredhead.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

A quick trip to Aberdeen with the boy* to help with the driving and get him settled before he starts his next placement tomorrow in Foresterhill. Nearly back home in time for hospital visiting. *boy is pushing it a little; he’s 19 in a few days!

King’s College chapel in Aberdeen. The chapel’s crown tower can be seen from below, against a sky blue between the clouds.

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Adele Redhead 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @delredhead.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Finished this book today. It was heartbreaking and wonderful and made me think. The debate in the UK at the moment on #AssistedDying is so important. But much more important is that we all understand end of life care and how to do it right. @doctoroxford.bsky.social

A picture of a (clearly read) paperback copy of Dear Life by Rachel Clarke - a doctor’s story of love, loss and consolation

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Prof. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

Exciting new digital resource - Foundling Hospital Archive - half a million records- lives of 27,000 children in the Hospital’s care, their mothers’ circumstances, and the Hospital’s operation and guiding principles coramstory.org.uk/the-foundlin... #skystorians 🗃️

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Foundling Hospital Archive - Coram Story

The Foundling Hospital archive contains some half a million documents dating from the 1730s and reveals the lives of the children in its care.

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Adele Redhead 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @delredhead.bsky.social · 10/10/2024

Is it too early to go to bed? I am shattered. 7.5 hours of online meetings today (and most over-ran. The cats usually wake me the back of 5…

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Jane Winters @jfwinters.bsky.social · 11/01/2024

The most humane coverage I’ve read of the British Library ransomware attack: ‘It is important to remember that experiencing a cyber attack is traumatic for everyone involved, & that the British Library’s staff are working extremely hard to mitigate the impact to users & restore their services.’

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British Library cyber attack explained: What you need to know | Com...

In this essential guide, Computer Weekly investigates the cyber attack on the British Library that has rendered IT systems inoperable and caused service disruption to thousands of users

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mia ridge @miaout.bsky.social · 10/01/2024

'Restoring our services – an update' from the British Library Main catalogue searchable from Jan 15 Special collections accessible on-site Acknowledgement of the impact on researchers Accelerated investment in our core technology infrastructure blogs.bl.uk/living-knowl...

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Restoring our services – an update

As we begin a new year, I'm pleased to confirm that – as promised before Christmas – next Monday 15 January will see the return online of one of the most important datasets for researchers around ...

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William Kilbride @williamkilbride.bsky.social · 17/12/2023

This is a profound mistake. Despite leading so much #digitalpreservation good practice and capability, the UK is about 20 years away from having the qualified leadership and competence in depth to approach a project like this. I know about these things. This is a mistake.

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Adele Redhead 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @delredhead.bsky.social · 05/12/2023

One of my favourite days of the year today - assessed Records and Evidence presentations for the #IMPs. No photos of them, but we were in an especially nice part of the University!

University of Glasgow, view from the West Quad looking East, the Victorian mock gothic buildings silhouetted against a deep blue sky.

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