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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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Adele Redhead 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @delredhead.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

That sounds like simultaneously a lot - because it will take such a load off and be such a relief… _and_ not a lot at all because it will only help with a small part of the load you are currently carrying. Take care, and enjoy breathing.

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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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Adele Redhead 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @delredhead.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Oh Melinda, much love to you. Have a wonderful Christmas tomorrow, and I hope you find much joy in unexpected places.

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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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Adele Redhead 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @delredhead.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

I’m sorry to read this. Hope he continues to recover.

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Adele Redhead 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @delredhead.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

That sounds like a wonderful project; I'd love to find out more.

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Adele Redhead 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @delredhead.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Ach, only the best people indeed (alas, not me). Many, many happy returns to you both tomorrow!

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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 · 30/11/2024

I don’t think I saw an announcement or anything, just spotted it one day. It was a real ‘uft’ moment. It has been added to since, but I don’t know who does it.

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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 · 23/11/2024

Absolutely! My class this year are (thankfully) shredders!

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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

It was on my ‘to be read’ shelf for quite a while. And then I read it slowly over a few weeks. That was right for me, but I can also see a v quick read at first would also have been good. It is a perfect mix of professional and personal. You’ll get to it when the time is right for you.

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

Well, thank you for writing it! I usually have a book on the go to read slowly when my daughter is in her music lessons. I am glad I read it slowly (a chapter or two at a time, over a few weeks). There was a lot to think about. I am sorry for your loss, but glad your dad had a good death.

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

Humanities and Archives scholars, practitioners, researchers… have much to offer in these arenas. I am really looking forward to my lecture in a week or so to my archive students #IMPs on the records of death and dying. It is (for many reasons) the hardest lecture of the year, but rewarding too.

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

I want to revisit this book now. What can we do to help those we love navigate their own, individual, end of life experience? What can we do to make this easier for them? And what can we take from doing this to help ourselves too, in the future?

The front cover of the book Contented Dementia by Oliver James.

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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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Adele Redhead 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @delredhead.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

But actually, I don’t think any of them are on here… (yet)

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