Christopher Hilton

Equal Pay Act 1970, Sex discrimination Act 1975 and Race Relations Act 1976. Women’s Archive Wales want to understand more about the impact of these legislations on women in Wales.

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Fascinating bit of infrastructure from that period when stagecoaches dominated; I didn't know that there were such things.

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Archive Treasures: Geoffrey Burgon, Britten, Brideshead, Blake and Pears | Britten Pears Arts What links the composer of the evocative TV theme for Brideshead Revisited to The Red House? The composer Geoffrey Burgon may be best known for his work i

Poet and artist William Blake, born #OTD in 1757; Britten, of course, set a group of his Songs and Proverbs for baritone, but here's a story from the Britten Pears archive about a Blake project that remained unrealised. www.brittenpearsarts.org/news/archive...

A tidal river, fringed by glistening mudbanks, twists away between stands of tawny yellow-brown reeds, under a crisp blue autumn sky.

A good day to be over at Snape Maltings for a meeting: arrival nearly delayed by my being diverted off the route between car park and office, going slithering off across the mud in search of the right angle.

Interesting on an international friendship snapped off by the arrival of World War I.
(As a part-Fleming, there's a bit of me that gets chippy about how often one has to use the words "oft-overlooked" and "Belgian" next to each other.)

What a venue to offer for that, though! Our own accreditation ceremony venue - small meeting room at about 6 metres above sea-level - pales in comparison....

I am insanely jealous - back in the teens when that little group of us used to meet up to discuss Preservica stuff, rotating round our various institutions, I always hoped you might host a meeting there!

Britten Pears Arts Integrated Catalogue - Books - 1-9400419 Bendzhamin Britten / I. Kholst ; perevod s Angliiskogo V. Ashkenazy ; predislovie M. Chulaki

Interesting! I'd not come across this before but looking through the catalogue here we do turn out to have a copy: www.bpacatalogue.org/books/1-9400.... Britten of course had friends in the USSR and visited a few times so it makes sense that there would be a market for a translation.

PS Mrs Atherton's life and divorces were a staple of the Edwardian gossip press www.ebay.co.uk/itm/16631418... that Para Handy's crew read on the quayside, but the story ends unhappily: trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/ar...

Some issues we still remember (though when @robertsaunders.bsky.social spoke recently on @ppfideas.bsky.social about tariff reform in the years before WW1, it was news to me just what emotions were involved) but others, like the doings of the glamorous Mrs Atherton, are now a footnote of a footnote.

An extract from an early 20th century book in Scottish dialect, printed in an old-fashioned serif typeface on yellowed paper: "Hiv I no' a richt to tak' the breadth o' the street if I want it?" said Big Macphee? "Am I no' a ratepayer? I hiv a ludger's vote, and I'm gaun to vote against Joe Chamberlain and the dear loaf."

Currently reading Neil Munro's short stories (Para Handy and others) and struck as always how popular fiction often tells you more about the hot-button issues of its time than more "literary" works: debates about tariffs, the arrival of old age pensions, WW1 landgirls wearing troosers.

Tower Bridge Quieter Time - Tower Bridge Explore Tower Bridge in a calmer way. Quieter Time is a designated period to create a more inclusive and comfortable environment for all.

Quieter Time @towerbridge1894.bsky.social Dates in December and January 9.30am-11.30am. www.towerbridge.org.uk/whats-on/qui... #Autism

Icom and Interpol launch initiative to combat cultural theft and trafficking - Museums Association Museum community agrees to strengthen global action against cultural heritage crime

News | Icom and INTERPOL launch initiative to combat cultural theft and trafficking

Museum community agrees to strengthen global action againt heritage crime at triennial Icom conference

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It's tempting to look back at moments like that and see them as the point when things began to go wrong.... certainly I look back on articles in the early 2000s about this thing called "Web 2.0" and think No, don't do it; Web 1 was great, but this new stuff is not going to end well!

Great discussion here about the arc that tech has gone through in our times. I had a jolt of Proustian recognition when @rafaelbehr.bsky.social mentioned AltaVista; I realised I first used AltaVista on election day in 1997, a generation ago, so no wonder things have changed a *lot* in that time.

📣 Archive job klaxon: Newcastle University are hiring a Digital Preservation Project Officer F/T 3yrs. Closing date 12 Dec 2025.
#digipres

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The @scottpolar.bsky.social are looking for a librarian. This is a rare opportunity! Work with (probably) the world's largest dedicated polar library alongside archive and museum colleagues. The dream 😍

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Right, that needs to go into the next iteration of RiC....

DAMS (Digital Asset Management System) Manager Oxford University Museum of Natural History is seeking a dynamic and approachable individual to manage our new Digital Asset Management System (DAMS), which is due to go live in November with over 175...

We are currently hiring for a Digital Assets Management System (DAMS) Manager.

They will be responsible for ensuring that the museum’s digital assets are managed and used effectively for collections management, research, teaching, and public engagement.

Apply now!
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A black and white photograph of Centre Point

Richard Seifert was born OTD in 1910. His firm did much to change the skyline of London, with a series of high rise offices built from the 1960s. Design duties were overseen by the likes of George Marsh, whilst Seifert dealt with the business side www.modernism-in-metroland.co.uk/richard-seif...

rosa may billinghurst suffragette in wheelchair surrounded by police

disability history @lselibrary.bsky.social
exploring Rosa May Billinghurst
wheelchair user, militant suffragette
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padlet links
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@lsegender.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social @scotsuffragette.bsky.social
#disabilityhistorymonth

Remarkable story, and demonstration of the things engineers grapple with unknown to most of the public. I remember the Northern line being closed for the London Brodge works but had no idea that was helping deal with this unique problem further up the line as well.

Blimey, talk about a statement building: an absolute temple of reading.

Text: Her full nature ... spent itself in channels which had no great name on the earth. But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs

Born on this day in 1819, George Eliot. Here's my favourite bit from the greatest English novel - Eliot's concluding paean to Middlemarch's heroine, Dorothea (who, among other things worked to improve the housing of the local agricultural labourers). Here's to all the Dorotheas, past and present.

Restoring our services – November 2025 update In the coming weeks and months we will be restoring a number of key functions.

Latest update from @britishlibrary.bsky.social says they are launching a new version of their main catalogue on Monday 8 December and around that time also launch an interim version of their Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue. Hooray!
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A sixteenth-century handwritten book, lying open on a dark grey-blue cushion. Cloth-covered weighted cords hold the book open to display the text, including a section underlined in red and a paragraph starting with a large, red capital M.

The St  Andrews Chronicles, one of the most important manuscript histories of Scotland, is going on public display for the first time in its 500-year history. The book will be on display at @uniofstandrews.bsky.social from 21 November to 7 December
#BookHistory
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A typed itemised estimate for the repair of a car, on blue paper; the letterhead, of South Bucks Garages, is in 1930s Art Deco style.

Folding chairs laid out in the foyer of a modern wood and concrete building.

Well, that was fun: every folding chair in the archive used for a rolling programme of archive talks as part of Britten's birthday celebrations, telling the tale of the young Britten's 1937 car crash. That takes the archive to 1000+ Red House visitors at our drop-in events; see you next season!

'Blessed Cecilia, appear in visions
To all musicians, appear and inspire:
Translated Daughter, come down and startle
Composing mortals with immortal fire'
-WH Auden

Today's the feast of St Cecilia, martyr and patron saint of music. Glass by Pippa Blackall, 2008, St Edmundsbury Cathedral, Suffolk.

Now the exhibition's over, the Luzern Kunstmuseum have sent some stats and our little Max Ernst was part of something big: 5 years to plan, 99 international loans, 46,000 visitors in its 4 months' run. Safely home now; it'll be back in the Red House drawing room next open season.