Sarah Radford

Costumes from Downton Abbey

Costumes from Pride and Prejudice (1995 version)

Lots of costume eye candy at the Cosprop exhibition at the Fashion and Textile Museum, Bermondsey, today.

Here's your chance to learn about DROID, a powerful digital preservation tool! #digipres #archives #DigitalPreservation

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Snickers bar and a metal whistle

Parents, please check your kids’ candy this Halloween. I’ve just found an ancient metal whistle with the inscription “QUIS EST ISTE QUI VENIT" inside a Snickers bar. I blew it and heard a note of infinite distance, and now I’m haunted by a figure in pale, fluttering draperies. Be safe.

3/4 sketch portraits of Herschel (left) and Faraday (right) on a small piece of paper, laid on top of a letter. MS. eng. lett. C. 718, fold. 138-143. Bodleian Libraries. Digital surrogate online.

Nice little break from transcribing letters: found these doodles of Faraday @rigb.org and Herschel in a letter from novelist Maria Edgeworth (1802-1869) in 1844 @bodleian.ox.ac.uk, writing about Faraday’s Xmas lectures on electricity - pretty solid likenesses to be honest!

London museum identifies black Waterloo veteran in rare 1821 painting ‘Honourable’ bandsman Thomas James will feature in display at National Army Museum highlighting service of black soldiers in Napoleonic wars He fought in the Napoleonic wars and is one of only nine Black soldiers known to have received the Waterloo Medal, the first British medal awarded to soldiers regardless of their rank. Yet the story of Pte Thomas James has been overlooked for centuries. Continue reading...

London museum identifies black Waterloo veteran in rare 1821 painting

Four WW1 Grimsby soldiers found during hospital build Privates Arthur Cook, Robert Cullum, John Fraser and William London were found during building work.

BBC News - Four WW1 soldiers found during hospital build
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Picture of the reading room with yellow text over the top, reading Lambeth Palace Library Career Open Day, for ages 16-18 plus undergrads and career changers, 30th October opening times 10am-4pm, 15 Lambeth Palace Road, SE1 7JT

🎓Join us for our Careers Open Day - a chance to explore exciting roles, meet the team and discover how to enter these professions.

📅What's on📅
👤Chat with staff!
📚Book a Library tour!
🕰Enjoy our collections!
🤝Meet professional bodies and learn about the wider sector!
🎶Explore our current exhibition

If you weren't able to join the #ArchivesAccreditn launch webinar, you can see the updated standard, guidance and application form online*: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-sec...

Magic Lantern Show and Exhibition Late View Join us at The London Archives for an evening of Victorian magic and entertainment with Jeremy and Carolyn Brooker from the Magic Lantern Society.

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Get your tickets whilst they last! Selling fast! @thelondonarchives.bsky.social #MagicLantern

Can't go wrong with tea and cake!

My dad has unearthed and sent me a copy of my undergrad dissertation (submitted 2006), which, aside from the nostalgia, has made me realise that next year it will 20 years since I graduated and 20 years since I started working in archives. What should I do to celebrate?

Nice trip down to Nymans NT in Sussex this morning for a walk and a look around the Oliver Messel exhibition

I was lucky enough to attend one of their open days a few years ago. I've never properly visited the Minster though, must rectify that soon.

The almshouses are a true gem of Croydon.

Thank you for sharing David.

Yesterday I walked the Thames Bridges Trek in memory of much-missed former colleague and dear friend Rachel Cosgrave. Rachel loved London and walking so it seemed very apt.

🔍 Did you know that we have a searchable dataset that draws on records of Londoners of African, Caribbean, Asian and Indigenous heritage in our parish registers from 1561-1840?

The project started in 2000 and, thanks to our staff and volunteers, now has records of 2600 Londoners!

#SwitchingTheLens

WeTransfer TOS says they can use all your uploaded content for genAI

Bye forever, WeTransfer.

Running for Rachel Help Talitha Wachtelborn raise money to support Mind

Many in the UK record-keeping sector will remember Rachel Cosgrave who was lately Senior Archivist at Lambeth Palace Library. Her recent, sudden death has been a shock to the community. If you would like to help her family raise funds in her memory, click this link www.justgiving.com/team/running...

I have vivid memories of visiting the Mary Rose as a child in the early 90s, walking up those metal stairs and looking out at a vast expanse of damp, dark timber and the constant drip-dripping of water.

Old St Paul’s cathedral, LPL MS 1106 f.96v

📢Attention Cathedrals!📢

Lambeth is opening a new programme to offer free cathedrals visits from our expert collections care team, to advise on a range of preservation issues.📚

More details here:

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Welcome to the archives.

So sorry to hear this. Sending you strength.

Job klaxon!

Job alert: Project Archivist, St Paul's Cathedral www.stpauls.co.uk/vacancies/pr...

Archivist Ginny stands at a stall with books for sale and handling objects, and a display on the history of View Day

Using a pill-making machine from our handling collection to make play doh pills!

An ice cream cone at the stall

View Day is here again! Visit our stall in the square at St Bartholomew's Hospital and find out how a day to survey the hospital properties evolved into a viewing of the patients and now an annual celebration of the hospital's work. Ice cream and historic pill making - it's all happening!

Yes, thank goodness. Very bad timing though!

Working late this evening for 'Cathedrals at Night' at St Paul's. Fantastic to see so many people so engaged with the archives. Also great to sneak a peek at the new exhibition in the churchyard about the St Paul's Watch, the volunteers who protected the cathedral during the Blitz

What a fantastic piece of work! Very sorry to have missed this.

Yes Croydon! Made it down to see the Archives Can Be Anything exhibition before it closed, and meet some of the Young Archivists, what a brilliant project.