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#HistNursing #HistMidwifery #Belfast
Fascinating blog, esp on ‘handywomen’ in working class women’s health
@rcnhistory.bsky.social

📚 For book historian Allie Alvis (@book-historia.bsky.social), preserving rare books isn’t just about the objects—it’s about telling their stories. Alvis brings those hidden histories to life through social media, informing & entertaining a growing audience.⁠ blog.archive.org/2025/04/09/v...

Make copies, preserve them, create a parallel black list, hide this list.
Deleting research from databases or from being found renders knowledge as good as non-existent.

Can We Trust Our Government to Safeguard Vital Research Data? Meet the Digital Archivists Battling to Keep Information Accessible! Through clever usage of APIs, the Library Innovation Lab at Harvard Law School has created an archive of Data.gov, home to 311,000 public datasets

How Digital Archivists Are Saving Public Information from the Memory Hole
➡️ spectrum.ieee.org/digital-arch...

Basic Principles on the role of Archivists and Records Managers in support… | Cécile Chemin Some quick and distilled thoughts on Archives and Human Rights with direct downloads to helpful resources, including extractions from the ICA International…

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Black Archives, Not Archives of Blackness: On Laura Helton’s “Scattered and Fugitive Things” | Los Angeles Review of Books Dorothy Berry reviews Laura Helton’s “Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History.”

I love libraries and archives and museums. To read about the history of work to maintain libraries and share histories I suggest you skip my piece and just go buy this book (or! request it at your local library!) but if you need to be convinced, here:

lareviewofbooks.org/article/blac...

What Elon Musk Got Wrong About Why Federal Retirement Is Still Managed out of a Limestone Mine The massive underground facility, which has been used to store archives since the 1960s, remains a crucial but convoluted hub for US government records.

www.wired.com/story/limest...

It's #dpc #digitalpreservation #ff Follow Friday. This week a simple reflection. Data has never mattered more, and never more fragile. #DPC and the #digipres community have expertise and contacts that will help with that. Spread the word and save the bits.

That sounds like simultaneously a lot - because it will take such a load off and be such a relief… _and_ not a lot at all because it will only help with a small part of the load you are currently carrying. Take care, and enjoy breathing.

Love my job. Love all the ethical questioning it swims in. Love that it is so embedded in society. Love that it is about public and common good. Love that its independence is a sign of a working democracy.
#Archivist

This post by a former NARA employee is good, outlining some of its powers and responsibilities.

I knew that NARA administered the Electoral College. There’s a lot of similarly important stuff.

It will *not be good* for the next Archivist of the United States to be a Trump stooge.

On you go.
I’d read it!

So, the issues of preservation of records, evidence and memory have arrived already.

#NoDemocracyWithoutArchives

Today some of my wonderful #IMPs students in @uofgartshums.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social gave me a gift for #ChineseNewYear #YearOfTheSnake 😎😎😎

To find out more about Liberating Histories, tune into our podcast series 🎙️

It explores the last 50 years of feminism through the campaigns, communities & controversies sparked by some of its most cherished magazines ✨

Listen wherever you get your podcasts: liberatinghistories.org/podcast-seri...

Well done that nameless archivist! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckg3kxqqykzo

I love nativity sets. Just leaving this here 😎

Oh. Sigh…

Historians celebrating New Year’s Eve, or they call it ‘new government archival documents declassification day’

Slow-Cooked Irn Bru Ham (with Irn Bru Glaze) Irn Bru Ham uses a classic Scottish drink to slow cook a delicious ham, before adding a glaze to make an even tastier recipe! It's easy and so moreish.

It was this recipe. I think the glaze needed something, some ginger, maybe? Or maybe a stronger mustard. But lovely nevertheless.

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Thinly sliced ham joint on a steel carving tray.

Tried a version of ham in cola today, using Irn Bru. It is delicious, will def do again!

Oh Melinda, much love to you. Have a wonderful Christmas tomorrow, and I hope you find much joy in unexpected places.

Earlier this year I was at a university meeting on the use of LLMs in assessment, and the presenter said “there’s no reliable system that detects AI”, and all the STEM people nodded while all the humanities people said “er, you just *read* it.”

Four staff from Information Studies. We are all wearing academic gowns. From left: David wearing a blue gown with a yellow and blue hood; Kat wearing a black gown with wide white trim with red details and a black and red hood, then Adele and Ian wearing a black gown with pink trim and a pink and black hood (the Glasgow PhD gown).

Just some of the @uofglasgow.bsky.social Information Studies staff at graduation today - many, many congratulations to our #IMPs and #MuseumStudies MSc students - we are so proud of you! @dmcmenemy.bsky.social

We’re recruiting for a Collaborative Doctoral Award @ies-sas.bsky.social working in collaboration with British Jesuit Archives! A funded PhD project that seeks to reconstruct a Jesuit library. Find out more and apply at the following link, and please share: www.lahp.ac.uk/prospective-...

I’m sorry to read this. Hope he continues to recover.

That sounds like a wonderful project; I'd love to find out more.

Ach, only the best people indeed (alas, not me). Many, many happy returns to you both tomorrow!

RPG card for 'Overwhelmed Archivist. Creature - Human Wizard'. It includes an image of a middle aged, bearded white man in chunky futuristic armour, sitting at a desk lit by some sort of electrical / lava lamp things. A severed hand in a jar of liquid is on the desk. This is unusual in an archive and might be better in a museum collection. The Overwhelmed Archivist is quoted as saying "Bah! As if I had time to preserve everything", suggesting that he needs to spend more time on appraisal and less on accumulating random body parts.

"When Overwhelmed Archivist enters the battlefield..."

Disability History Month: Accessibility and Archives — Archives & Records Association “For disability, see infirmities” This is one of four blogs written for Disability History Month 2025 - you can read the other blogs here (published each Thursday up to 12th December) alongside oth...

More from our blog series for: #UKLHM #LocalHistoryMonth

We have a blog from Prof Lucy Delap reflecting on the challenges even experienced users of archives face when searching for disability and Deaf histories. www.archives.org.uk/news/disabil...