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Dr Hannah Blythe

@hanblythe.bsky.social
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Health humanities and history of mental health, psychology, charity and the NHS. Former policy person. Trying to play squash. Currently at Leeds, formerly LSHTM and Cambridge. Affiliated at Birkbeck.

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Dr Hannah Blythe @hanblythe.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I mean delay repay is all well and good but I would actually really like is to book a train, get on it and reach my destination on time. A woman can dream.
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Dr Hannah Blythe @hanblythe.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Why is the train service between Derby and Sheffield so terrible these days?! Consistently genuinely a massive challenge to get to where I need to be now!
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UCU Commons @ucucommons.org · 26/06/2026
PETITION: www.change.org/p/stop-redun...
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Dr Hannah Blythe @hanblythe.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
I've recently held a casual research contract at Hertfordshire, collaborating with a social scientist. If universities benefit from humanities research, there's a case for them offering training in those disciplines! It's a real shame to see plans of closing humanities courses. c.org/fkmz9dSDn2
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TORCH The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities @torchoxford2013.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
📅 Join us tomorrow! Be part of an engaging event on Tuesday 28 April at 5:30pm: “Healing in a Technological Age: Spirituality, Religion, and the Practice of Medicines” org by @oxmedhum.bsky.social tinyurl.com/yn5828vu @albertogiubilini2.bsky.social @ethoxcentre.bsky.social #Humanities #Health
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Healing in a Technological Age: Spirituality, Religion, and the Practice of Medicine
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Dr Hannah Blythe @hanblythe.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Charity has played a role in the NHS since its foundation in 1948. How and why? This is the latest article from a research project on voluntarism in Britain's nationalised health service charityandthenhs.glasgow.ac.uk?page_id=546 #skystorians #healthpolicy #hospitals #histmed #philanthropy
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Publications – Border Crossings
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Dr Hannah Blythe @hanblythe.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
New @mbhjournal.bsky.social article, co-written with Martin Gorsky, is out! ‘Free From Doubt’? The border between charity and the state in the British National Health Service 1948–74 Quant & qual analysis of charitable spending in 3 early NHS hospitals #histmed #skystorian doi.org/10.1093/tcbh...
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‘Free From Doubt’? The border between charity and the state in the British National Health Service, 1948–74
Abstract. Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) is widely regarded as epitomizing statist healthcare. However, before its launch in 1948, Britain had a ‘
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Kristof Smeyers @kristofsmeyers.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Good morning all! For those who can't wait any longer: our book PERFORMING MAGNETISM is already available in open access, with huge thanks to @leuvenup.bsky.social Read it here: openresearchlibrary.org/content/d7d0... Or here: www.jstor.org/content/oa_b...
book cover, it reads: 

Eleonora Paklons, Kristof Smeyers, Kurt Vanhoutte, Hannah Welslau (eds)

PERFORMING MAGNETISM
The theatrics of persuasion in the long nineteenth century

the cover shows a man in a tuxedo staring straight at you, his skin is green and his eyes are yellow
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Dr Hannah Blythe @hanblythe.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
New @mbhjournal.bsky.social article, co-written with Martin Gorsky, is out! ‘Free From Doubt’? The border between charity and the state in the British National Health Service 1948–74 Quant & qual analysis of charitable spending in 3 early NHS hospitals #histmed #skystorian doi.org/10.1093/tcbh...
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‘Free From Doubt’? The border between charity and the state in the British National Health Service, 1948–74
Abstract. Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) is widely regarded as epitomizing statist healthcare. However, before its launch in 1948, Britain had a ‘
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Dr Hannah Blythe @hanblythe.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Some MA funding at Leeds School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science! #Masters #HistSci #Theology #PhilSci #skystorians
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Dr Hannah Blythe @hanblythe.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
What can the British Film Institute's archive tell us about public mental health messaging? I think about this in my latest blog for @torchoxford.bsky.social, considering comms re MMR vaccines & autism, in-patient hospitals, electro-convulsive therapy & more torch.ox.ac.uk/article/the-...
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Blog Post | The Publics of Mental Health and the British Film Institute (BFI) National Archive
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Dr Hannah Blythe @hanblythe.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Latest blog on public mental health messaging and the British Film Institute’s archive #history #healthhumanities #mentalhealth #vaccines #publichealth torch.ox.ac.uk/article/the-...
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Blog Post | The Publics of Mental Health and the British Film Institute (BFI) National Archive
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Dr Hannah Blythe @hanblythe.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Latest blog on public mental health messaging and the British Film Institute’s archive #history #healthhumanities #mentalhealth #vaccines #publichealth torch.ox.ac.uk/article/the-...
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Blog Post | The Publics of Mental Health and the British Film Institute (BFI) National Archive
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Dr Hannah Blythe @hanblythe.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
What can the British Film Institute's archive tell us about public mental health messaging? I think about this in my latest blog for @torchoxford.bsky.social, considering comms re MMR vaccines & autism, in-patient hospitals, electro-convulsive therapy & more torch.ox.ac.uk/article/the-...
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Blog Post | The Publics of Mental Health and the British Film Institute (BFI) National Archive
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LSHTM Centre for History in Public Health @lshtmhistory.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
The Centre is delighted to invite applications for the Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson studentship, allowing the successful applicant to undertake a three-year PhD in the History of Public Health. Please circulate widely. More details can be found via the link below. www.lshtm.ac.uk/study/fees-a...
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2026-27 Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Studentship | LSHTM
The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) is pleased to invite applications for a three-year full-time PhD studentship, starting in September 2026, funded by a donation from
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Dr Hannah Blythe @hanblythe.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
This looks like an amazing opportunity and a fascinating project #histmed #phd
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LSHTM Centre for History in Public Health @lshtmhistory.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Join us for our next seminar on 26 February, when @olibasciano.bsky.social (author of Outcast, F&F:2025) will be discussing the cultural legacy of leprosy (Hansen’s disease). Details below: Location: G08/ Hybrid (link below) Time: 12:45 - 14:00 www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...
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Leprosy, stigma and the fight for patient agency | LSHTM
This presentation examines the cultural legacy of leprosy (Hansen’s disease) and its stigmatisation in the 19th century onwards, using 20th century Brazil as a case study.  Its target audience is
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Dr Hannah Blythe @hanblythe.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
This looks fascinating!
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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Please circulate. Our deadline for our ECR Prize at @histhum.bsky.social is approaching (30 January 2026)
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Dr Hannah Blythe @hanblythe.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Sounds like a great idea to make use of these wonderful rooms
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Dr Kat Rawling @katrawling.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Deadline approaching for 'In/Out' SSHM2026 at University of Leeds! Submit your paper or panel proposals by 5pm GMT, 11 Jan 2026 to sshm2026leeds@leeds.ac.uk More details at: sshm.org/sshm-2026-in... @sshmedicine.bsky.social @historynerdess.bsky.social @universityofleeds.bsky.social #histmed
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Dr Hannah Blythe @hanblythe.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
So useful!
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Voices of Motherhood @voicesofmotherhood.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
We are delighted to share the programme for our upcoming conference! We will be running fourteen panels across two days in early February - all online and open to everyone 😊 please see our website for more details on speakers, panels and how to book.
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‘The Politics of Motherhood: Maternalism, Maternity and Mothering’ Conference Programme – Voices of Motherhood
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Dr Hannah Blythe @hanblythe.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
It's advent, so here's a blog I wrote last year about how NHS hospitals have used charity to observe Christmas @bharchives.bsky.social www.bartshealth.nhs.uk/archives-blo...
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Essential Comforts | Blogs from the Archives-Barts Health NHS Trust
Christmas Charity in the Early NHS
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Dr Hannah Blythe @hanblythe.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Special issue of @histhum.bsky.social co-edited by me and @sarahvmarks.bsky.social is out! There’s an Intro and six further articles. Recovery and rehabilitation in mental health: Historical perspectives Here’s our co-authored Intro: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Dr Hannah Blythe @hanblythe.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Latest writing, with @sarahvmarks.bsky.social. Intro to our special issue of @histhum.bsky.social: Recovery and rehabilitation in mental health: Historical perspectives journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Durham Institute for Medical Humanities @durhamimh.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Applications are now open for our 2026 International Medical Humanities PhD Summer School! The Summer School is held jointly with the Centre for Medical Humanities and Bioethics at @liu.se. Apply by 16 February 2026 👉 tinyurl.com/Phd-summer-s...
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Dr Hannah Blythe @hanblythe.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
I’ve be co-editing a special issue of @histhum.bsky.social with @sarahvmarks.bsky.social on Recovery and rehabilitation in mental health: historical perspectives Our Intro article is available now! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Recovery and rehabilitation in mental health: Historical perspectives - Hannah Blythe, Sarah Marks, 2025
Recovery and rehabilitation are highly charged terms in contemporary mental health, with their meanings and implications contested by professionals and survivor...
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History of the Human Sciences @histhum.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Recovery and rehabilitation in mental health: Historical perspectives Hannah Blythe @hanblythe.bsky.social and Sarah Marks @sarahvmarks.bsky.social’s introduction to their special issue journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Recovery and rehabilitation in mental health: Historical perspectives - Hannah Blythe, Sarah Marks, 2025
Recovery and rehabilitation are highly charged terms in contemporary mental health, with their meanings and implications contested by professionals and survivor...
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Dr Hannah Blythe @hanblythe.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
The cost of living in London (six years ago) was the primary reason I did not do my PhD in London. Even with a stipend more generous than the UKRI’s, it would have been financially a ludicrous, practically unviable, decision. PhD students need to be treated and paid like independent adults
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Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) @sshmedicine.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Check out new new #histmed CFPs added to our page: 'Life Histories in Mind: Mental ILL Health and Learning Disability in Context' Manchester Metropolitan University, 21 July 2026 Deadline for abstracts: 15 January 2026 Organised by Rob Ellis and Rebecca Ball @re-histories.bsky.social #DisHist
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History of Medicine CFPs
If you wish to share your CFPs on the SSHM website please contact the Exec Sec, Dr Justine Pick admin@sshm.org Intimate States: New Histories of Medicine, Welfare, and Care under Socialism Location…
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Dr Rebecca Hutten @rhutten.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Thanks @berghahnbooks.bsky.social @mkbruun.bsky.social and I are of course delighted to see it out in the world.
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Kate Smith @kateesthersmith.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Reminder that the deadline for proposals is Monday 6 October!
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Janet Weston @janetweston.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
~ Public Health Humanities Toolkit ~ Are you a researcher / educator / practitioner with overlapping interests in public health, and the arts/humanities/social sciences? Have a look at our call for proposals (non-text based modes of presentation very welcome!) www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/cen...
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Public Health Humanities | LSHTM
Understanding, developing, and advocating for the arts and humanities within public health research, training, and practice.
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Dr Hannah Blythe @hanblythe.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Great to be in Berlin for #EAHMH25. Lots of fascinating papers in the programme!
A photo of Berlin with the TV Tower in the background and a blue sky
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whc-grace.bsky.social @whc-grace.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Excited that my article on occupational psychiatry and management science at Roffey Park is out in History of the Human Sciences! Read if you're curious about how different 'mental health awareness' at work could have been... Thanks to editors @hanblythe.bsky.social and @sarahvmarks.bsky.social
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Dr Hannah Blythe @hanblythe.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
A really interesting new article by @whc-grace.bsky.social is out in History of the Human Sciences Rehabilitation at Roffey Park: Management and psychiatry in occupational mental health, 1943–83 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Dr Hannah Blythe @hanblythe.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Is there some unspoken university policy where job rejection emails are sent late on a Friday afternoon, just as you’re trying to wind down and enjoy the weekend? Like guys, it’s miserable enough without you raining on my little Friday parade. Let me enjoy my ignorance for a few days.
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Rebecca Wynter @rebeccawynter.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
🚨Historians of drink, drugs, sex, crime, law, #police🚨 CfP 'Policing and #PublicHealth, c.1800-2000' workshop www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/cen... [typo in description: we *may* be able to make a small travel contribution] #HistSTM #LegalHist #HistSex #HistGender #HistMed
Two uniformed 1960s London police women looking to the left with metal and gauze masks over their mouths and noses.
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Dr Hannah Blythe @hanblythe.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Fascinating article by @ulikoch.bsky.social out in History of the Human Sciences now: Abandoning rehabilitation and reclaiming recovery: Methadone maintenance treatment and the undoing of a ‘boundary object’, 1966–74 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Abandoning rehabilitation and reclaiming recovery: Methadone maintenance treatment and the undoing of a ‘boundary object’, 1966–74 - Ulrich Koch, 2025
This article uses the early history of methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) as a lens to draw out the epistemic and ethical-political stakes of rehabilitation ...
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Dr Hannah Blythe @hanblythe.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Fascinating new article by Rachael I. Rosner is out in History of the Human Sciences Leon J. Saul, Aaron T. Beck, and the story of recovery inside the Beck Depression Inventory #histpsych #mentalhealth #histmed journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Leon J. Saul, Aaron T. Beck, and the story of recovery inside the Beck Depression Inventory - Rachael I. Rosner, 2025
This article offers historical context for psychiatrist Aaron T. Beck's creation of the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), a widely celebrated patient-rated ...
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Dr Hannah Blythe @hanblythe.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
This project sounds fascinating! #phd #geography #healthhums
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LSHTM Centre for History in Public Health @lshtmhistory.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Join us for the next CHIPH seminar (in collab. with @psglshtm.bsky.social) on Thursday 15 May, when Dr. Rachell Sánchez-Rivera will be discussing state-sponsored population control in 20th century Mexico. Details below: Location: G24, Keppel St. Time: 12:45 - 14:00 www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...
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State-sponsored population control programmes: A new ph(f)ace of eugenics in
In this seminar, Dr. Sánchez-Rivera discusses the changeover from eugenics to population control programs and capitalist ventures during the second half of the 20th Century in Mexico. Special
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Jamie Banks @milkwknives.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Here's the first blog for our new project: 'Kicking the Habit: ‘Addictive’ Sport Sponsorship in Britain, 1965-2025'. It explores the tobacco, alcohol and gambling industries' sponsorship of sport in Britain. Like @fabiolacreed.bsky.social, I'm so happy to be working with such an amazing team!
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LSHTM Centre for History in Public Health @lshtmhistory.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Join us for our next CHIPH seminar on Tuesday 8th April, when Dr Manikarnika Dutta will be talking about British seamen and tropical medicine in the 1800s. Details and event listings (inc. Zoom link) are below: Location: G40, Keppel St. Time: 12:45 - 14:00 www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...
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British naval surgeons and tropical hygiene in the long nineteenth century |
This presentation explores how the treatment of British seamen aided the development of tropical hygiene in the long nineteenth century. The paper will be of interest to staff and students who want to
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Dr Hannah Blythe @hanblythe.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Seminar this week at the LSHTM Centre for History in Public Health! Details for joining are below #histmed
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Dr Hannah Blythe @hanblythe.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
The LSHTM Centre for History in Public Health is now on Bluesky! Follow for info about events and research #histmed #histpsych #medhums #publichealth
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Claire Boardman @claireboardman.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
👀 Funded PhD @ Coventry University: Uses and Abuses of the Past: the Role of Presentism in Cultural Memory. 'The inquiry ... will select and investigate a series of objects or sites to explore the use of history as a tool for debating contemporary social and cultural issues' tinyurl.com/4zksy84y
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Uses and Abuses of the Past: the Role of Presentism in Cultural Memory
This project explores the concept of ‘presentism’ in cultural representations of the past.
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Recovery Histories @recovery-histories.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Stay up-to-date with our research and events by signing up to receive the Recovery Histories monthly newsletter. Just follow the link to add your email address!: www.bbk.ac.uk/interests/se...
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Register your interest - CSA Recovery Project - Birkbeck, University of Londonbirkbeck-owl icon
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Archives and Records Association UK and Ireland @araukie.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
If you are working in UK record-keeping secto and based in the Midlands - do give our Midlands group a follow here: @aramidlands.bsky.social
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