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Archives, maps & photography. Armchair archaeology. Fascinated by Jacquetta Hawkes & creative archaeology. Never tired of postcards. Views are mine, unless reposts.
Big news! Announcing the shortlist for the Marsh Awards Community Archaeologist of the Year 2025 🎉
Meet the six archaeologists championing community heritage across the UK. Get to know their stories and find out about the incredible work they do here 👉 bit.ly/4jN6tdm
Congratulations!
A comparison to demonstrate how I retrieve weak colour information from a faded autochrome: I never paint on new colour to digitally colourise a photo, I only ever work with & boost the colour information in the original plate. This photo shows WWI French war graves at Laffaux on Moday 14th May 1917
13.06.2025 21:47 — 👍 209 🔁 21 💬 11 📌 1📣 Hello Bluesky! We’re ARA Northern 💙
We’re the regional group for the Archives and Records Association (ARA) in Northern England — and we’re thrilled to be joining Bluesky!
We look forward to sharing news from the North with you! 🎉
#Archives #RecordsManagement #ARANorthern #BlueskyArchives #ARA
Design of the College Shield by the Herald of Arms, dated 1574
Photograph of the Torpids rowing team and their furry friends, dated 1900
A 19th-century College key
Painting entitled ‘Three Dancers’ by artist John Craxton, dated c. 1953
It’s #InternationalArchivesDay! As @lincoln.ox.ac.uk College Archivist, I get to look after a wide range of records, objects and artworks dating from the Middle Ages to the present day! 📜🎨🎉
Archive catalogue:
lincoln.ox.ac.uk/discover/lin...
Artwork listing:
artuk.org/discover/art...
On the regional train rolling north from Rome to Pisa; in the lead car the soundscape is being contested between two women intoning their afternoon Ave Marias and a live version of Because the Night. An echoey Trenitalia announcement reminds us that our schedule could be subject to variations
08.06.2025 13:55 — 👍 18 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Taken exactly 97 years ago this month - in June 1928 - this beautiful autochrome study of a German garden in Baden is a wondrous riot of colour. I just love the 'twenties outfit with cloche hat and aqua marine scarf! It is all original colour, not colourised. 😍
08.06.2025 20:38 — 👍 271 🔁 45 💬 1 📌 1
A map on tiles showing railway lines across the north of England, headed NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY. In a frame of orange-brown tiles, mounted on a stone wall. There is a small interpretation panel below the map.
@milleanick.bsky.social I ticked off another of the North Eastern Railway tiled maps at Scarborough yesterday.
08.06.2025 14:00 — 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Sunset on Friday 18th December 1908. I have cleaned-up this astounding autochrome photograph of twilight 117 years ago, taken in colour by Julien Gérardin. It is an original colour plate, not colourised.
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🎙️More podcasts 🎙️ added to the The World Turned Upside Down
A unique free open access resource for everyone interested in the people, events and ideas of the British Civil Wars - explored and explained by leading historians
Take a look👇
A certificate from the Chesterfield Musical Festival 1934, certifying that the Settlement Singers gained 2nd Class Female Voice Choirs.
A handwritten time table. The sheet of paper is divided into rows and columns with times above and entries such as 'Assembly', 'Prayers', 'Number with Handwork', Writing', Story or Nature Study' and 'Recreation'.
When we took this certificate out of its frame, we found a school timetable lurking underneath! We don't know which school it belongs to, but as the certificate is for a Chesterfield festival from 1934, the timetable is likely to be from around the same place and time.
#1930s #history
The irony of a silverfish being discovered on this page of a notebook, containing a drawing of a silverfish, is not lost on us. Nature notebook of Allan Mahood from the Ted Ellis archive (NRO, ACC 2025/21). #silverfish #archives #bugsinbooks
21.05.2025 10:29 — 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
A room with a long table and chairs and wooden panelling on walks. Three people seated surrounded by sound and film recording equipment.
It’s oral history recording this week at The Exchange for the Unlocking the Vaults project - such great stories and recollections that will be an integral part of the planned interpretation. Thank you to all our participants 😊
www.birmingham.ac.uk/the-exchange...
Pleased to be in #Manchester today. What a #library!
Archives+ is hosting a members’ event for @ARANorthern
‘Where Next For EDI in #archives?’
Cover of 'The County of London Plan', 1945 (PAM 16030) Shows a raised colour map of London. Published by Penguin Books.
Model of proposed housing/road improvements.
Colour maps showing proposals for housing and businesses.
A fold-out colour map of London in 1945.
'The County of London Plan' by E. J. Carter & Erno Goldfinger (PAM 16030) published 1945. A proposal on how to develop London following the Second World War.
One of many items that will be on display at our Architecture drop-in event on Friday 6th June, 12-3pm. #festivalofarchitecture
The cover of the book The local historian's encyclopaedia by John Richardson. The title is in a gold box on top of an illustration drawn in 1792 of a coach being boarded by ladies and gentlemen, outside a tavern.
If you’re confused by a dame or a denizen or want to know the difference between a flonk and a fold, then 'The Local Historian’s Encyclopaedia' is for you. Full of fascinating facts it’s a go to book for anyone interested in #LocalAndCommunityHistoryMonth - find a copy in our #LocalStudies library.
20.05.2025 10:14 — 👍 16 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Three books laid on a table in a fan shape. They are all guides to how to research local history.
If you want to take part in #LocalAndCommunityHistoryMonth but don’t know where to start, our #LocalStudies collection has lots of books to help. (As well as lovely staff who’ll be more than happy to point you in the right direction 😃).
#LocalHistory
In our latest blog, Sophie Coulthard from Collection Care takes us behind the scenes and talks about how they conserved special collection items for display in the recently refurbished gallery spaces here at the John Rylands.
Blog: ow.ly/FzQn50VTMjy
21 May 2025 - Members’ Event
Join us at Archives+ #Manchester
‘Where next for EDI in #archives?’
(round table discussion)
Enjoy a tour of the iconic Central Library
Meet your committee!
Tell us what you need from YOUR region
Details are being sent directly to members
I get that some people aren't fans of wide and even ultra-wide-angle lenses, but for me, the wider the better!
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#filmphotography #photography #believeinfilm #shootfilmbenice
21 May 2025 - Members’ Event
Join us at Archives+ #Manchester Central Library
‘Where next for EDI in #archives?’
(round table discussion)
Enjoy a tour of the iconic Library
Meet your committee!
Tell us what you need from YOUR region
Details are being sent directly to members
21 May 2025 - Members’ Event for ARA Northern @araukie.bsky.social
Join us at @archivesplus
‘Where next for EDI in #archives?’
(round table discussion)
Enjoy a tour of the iconic #Manchester Central Library
Tell us what you need from YOUR region
Details are being sent directly to members
Next Tuesday, Julia King will talk about Syon Abbey and the Book Trade at the Book Collecting Seminar @ies-sas.bsky.social do not miss it! 👇 ies.sas.ac.uk/events/syon-...
06.05.2025 18:14 — 👍 18 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
Call for Contributions! The Student & Early Careers Conference 2025 is back 🎓🏺
🗓️ 30 July | 🕒 3 - 8 pm | 📍 Online
Share your work in a friendly space: talks, posters, or videos welcome!
Submit by 2 June, 9 am 👉 conference@archaeologyuk.org
Find out more 👉 www.archaeologyuk.org/youth-engage...
Are Early Medieval Books your thing? We have a summer school course for you!👇 #Skystorians #MedievalSky
ies.sas.ac.uk/london-inter...
This year’s Book Trade History conference will explore the Book Trades at War. Booking information coming soon for conference in London on 23/24 November.
01.05.2025 17:41 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Two Exhibition information boards for John Baskerville exhibition in foyer of Library of Birmingham
A blue circular plaque on a board framed by blue curtains with two coat of arms small plaques for Birmingham and Civic Society
Two people standing next to mounted board opening curtains to reveal blue circular plaque
A man standing in a room speaking to a seated audience at tables. The Lord Mayor of Birmingham
Attended a lovely event at The Exchange for unveiling of blue plaque for John Baskerville, to be placed on Baskerville House next door to the Library of Birmingham with exhibition in the foyer to mark 250th anniversary of his death
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Enjoy!
27.04.2025 10:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
3 white cups and saucers filled with tea
In lieu of #ConfinedCocktails we present tripartite #TeaUp from Hadrian's Wall with @hannahkj.bsky.social and @jessamycarlson.bsky.social.
27.04.2025 09:53 — 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0📷 Desperately seeking shutterbugs
We're looking for photographers to undertake a commission alongside the British Journal of Photography!
Winning photographers will be invited to visually interpret the moments, discoveries, or actions that initiate significant change and advancement.
Extract of a Land Values map showing the village of Swanwick. The printed black and white Ordnance Survey map has been annotated with colour boundaries and plot numbers corresponding to a separate schedule.
One of our most popular collections is D595 Inland Revenue: Derbyshire Valuation Offices. Whilst the title is not riveting, the collection contains maps and schedules giving extensive information about the owners and occupiers of land and property just prior to WW1.
#PopularItem #Archive30
