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Claire Newing

@clairennewing.bsky.social

Web Archivist at The National Archives (UK). I like archives, libraries, museums and all things culture and history but I REALLY like web archives! https://nationalarchives.gov.uk/webarchive

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Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
1. Red Squirrel (rare in the UK)
2. Fox
3. Hedgehog
4. Chipmunk
5. Turtle (not sure what type, but it was in the University of Michigan Botanical Gardens and it was huge!)

30.11.2025 21:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Very excited to be back at Senate House to attend The National Archives #AnnualDigitalLecture. If you're here, please take a look at our poster on our experiences archiving social media channels.

20.11.2025 18:02 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Digital Ghosts – Inspace

Brilliant couple of days in Edinburgh discussing web archiving and attending the Digital Ghosts exhibition. Recommend a visit, it's on until 16 November inspace.ed.ac.uk/digital-ghos...

07.11.2025 15:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Digital Ghosts - Exhibition Late and Panel Discussion Exhibition Late with panel discussion

This #wdpd2025 I'm travelling to Edinburgh with two colleagues to attend the Digital Ghosts Late event. Looking forward to meeting with lots of web archiving colleagues while we're in town. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/digital-gh...

06.11.2025 11:39 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Celebrating digital records Explore this blog to learn about The National Archive's digital preservation work and how you can preserve records that matter to you.

Happy World Digital Preservation Day 2025. Thanks to my colleague Francesca for mentioning the UK Government Web Archive in her excellent blog post www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/blogs/digita... #wdpd2025

06.11.2025 11:30 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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UK Government Web Archive We capture, preserve, and make accessible UK central government information published on the web from 1996 to present.

We're hiring a Data Analyst and Crawl Engineer. Come and work with me at The National Archives, UK and help us make our web archives even better. Closing 21 October 2025. www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cg... www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/webarchive/

08.10.2025 09:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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When saving becomes loss:β€―Archival memoryβ€―in the digital age Explore archival memory, data loss, and attempts to preserve the past in the digital age at this year’s Annual Digital Lecture.

Join us on 20 November for the Annual Digital Lecture, a partnership between The National Archives, UK and the School of Advanced Study. The wonderful @nannathylstrup.bsky.social will be speaking about β€˜When saving becomes loss: archival memory in the digital age’. Free to register!

30.09.2025 18:33 β€” πŸ‘ 75    πŸ” 56    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 4

Good to see a web archive being referenced @archive.org

17.09.2025 18:21 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Great to see you using a web archive as a reference. Thank you!

17.09.2025 18:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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UK Government Web Archive Researcher Workshops Explore the UK Government Web Archive, one of the world’s largest openly accessible internet archives, in workshops.

Are you a web archive user, or would you like to know how to / more about using web archives? Book now for a half-day workshop this October to learn more about the UK Government Web Archive and shape our future offering for researchers: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/uk-governm...

26.08.2025 13:21 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Research Projects Data Analyst As the living, growing home of our national story, The National Archives is already a special place to work. We’re an institution nearly 200 years old with a collection spanning 1,000 years of history...

Job klaxon! We’re looking for a data analyst to work on two amazing research projects, including with me on @ehri-uk.bsky.social. Any digital humanities folks out there, please consider applying: nationalarchives.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/Careers/job/... #dhist #digitalhumanities

06.05.2025 07:15 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
Quick Check NeededGOV.UK

We're recruiting for a Senior Data Engineer. Come and help us capture, preserve and provide access to almost 30 years of archived websites. Web Archiving is awesome! www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cg...

23.04.2025 17:54 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Always enjoy the lightning talks :) Lots of analogue notes! #iipcwac2025

09.04.2025 09:26 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Silence has fallen and everyone is typing away in the Training Working Group 'write-a-thon' at #iipcga2025

08.04.2025 14:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This has long been a favourite of the Web Archiving Team πŸ™‚

13.02.2025 19:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Specialist Infrastructure Engineer As the living, growing home of our national story, The National Archives is already a special place to work. We’re an institution nearly 200 years old with a collection spanning 1,000 years of history...

Come and work with me at The National Archives (UK). We're looking for a Specialist Infrastructure Engineer in our Web Archiving Team: tinyurl.com/yeysbc6z

19.12.2024 10:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Authorisation for revision of a traffic sign 'Small Animals Likely to be in the road ahead', Department for Transport (DfT), document certified 14 December 2023, archived version dated 22 January 2024: webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/202401... #EYAAnimals #Exploreyourarchive #Hedgehog

29.11.2024 16:23 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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