iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Dr Tasha Kitcher @tashakitcher.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

I’m running a survey to ask researchers what they want the UK Government Web Archive to offer in the future to enable wider use of the collection. If you’re a web archive user, or you would like to be, please take ten minutes to complete this survey: www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/UKGWA-Rese...

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Dr Tasha Kitcher @tashakitcher.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

All I want for Christmas... is youuuu (Microsoft Artefacts Jumper)

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Dr Tasha Kitcher @tashakitcher.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

I only moved to Brighton for a chance to live nearer an Electrophone

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Dr Tasha Kitcher @tashakitcher.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

History IS for everyone, see! (National Archives cat!!!)

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Dr Tasha Kitcher @tashakitcher.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Working at the National Archives is great, I mean, look at THIS! (Part of CO 1069/611, supplied today by @hcraddock.bsky.social)

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Dr Tasha Kitcher @tashakitcher.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

The best thing about working with web archives is, hands-down, the absolutely ludicrous designs we thought were acceptable in the early 2000s Check out the page itself to see a man fall over: webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/200401...

Very yellow webpage for the 'Incident Contact Centre' website from the UK Government Web Archive

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Dr Tasha Kitcher @tashakitcher.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Spring is here: goslings and flowers amid a day in the office

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Dr Tasha Kitcher @tashakitcher.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

I wish all my tools recommended coffee breaks during processing

Progress bar for an online tool, step three suggests "Get coffee - take a short break while we're processing"

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Dr Tasha Kitcher @tashakitcher.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Slightly strange find in the UK Government Web Archive, extract taken from a page of the British Council's website webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/202303...

Still from a video player with a red puppet hiding behind a computer screen. Below the image is a synopsis reading "Frank told a bad joke at his new place of work. Nobody laughed. Now at 3.00am he's unable to sleep as he obsesses and ruminates over this social faux-pas, leading him to ponder on the nature of memory itself. Trapped in a loop, a self-imposed purgatory as the clock ticks."

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Dr Tasha Kitcher @tashakitcher.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Graphing early copyright law in Neo4J, fun!

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Dr Tasha Kitcher @tashakitcher.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Highly recommend moving to the seaside

Sunset view of the bandstand in Hove, West Sussex

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Dr Tasha Kitcher @tashakitcher.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

First day at my new job today! Excited to be getting my teeth into a new role as digital researcher at the national archives - nice to meet some geese too

A goose walking besides the lake outside the national archives

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Dr Tasha Kitcher @tashakitcher.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

This coffee I got at lunch today is 100% me now my out of office is on

Very happy looking gingerbread man sat in a bubble bath of whipped cream (on top of a coffee)

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Dr Tasha Kitcher @tashakitcher.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Amazing moment restoring my faith in computer vision models today as my iPhone suggests a horse in my camera roll is an elephant

A screenshot from an iPhone camera roll where the user has searched for the word “Elephant” and two black horses stood in the new forest full of gorse have been proposed as the answer

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Dr Tasha Kitcher @tashakitcher.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

The Loughborough station cat mans the ticket office in the morning 😭

Cat manning a train station ticket office

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Dr Tasha Kitcher @tashakitcher.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Is this conference going to be an “I was there” moment in ten years? Enjoyable and somewhat cheering end of project conference for Towards a National Collection, featuring the formal launch of the ten project recommendations

Final conference panel at the Contact Theatre

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Dr Tasha Kitcher @tashakitcher.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Did a communications historian even visit Manchester if they didn’t say hello to Alan?

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Dr Tasha Kitcher @tashakitcher.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

When I’m not working I sometimes do pottery

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Dr Tasha Kitcher @tashakitcher.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Chatsworth’s Christmas display this year features many theatrical scenes depicting scientist Henry Cavendish!

Theatrical scene with text reading “Henry’s a scientist he questions everything he sees”

Theatrical scene showing Henry looking at the planets with his telescope

Theatrical scene with Henry talking to a lion, the text reads “there’s a Christmas meal tonight and lion wants to go”

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Dr Tasha Kitcher @tashakitcher.bsky.social · 30/08/2024

Interesting comms object of the day - Rabbitt telephone, a portable phone which could make calls from specific shared access points. Didn't last long, thanks to the advent of the mobile See info here: collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co80...

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