Caroline Sampson

Sorry to hear that. Hate that moment when the penny drops and you want to hit rewind 😢

I didn't know I needed a lidded pan until I saw that! Gorgeous!

Black Country Roots: Windrush Voices Stories of Industry and Manufacturing 1950-1970 from Dudley’s Windrush generation. Celebrating Black British heritage through real voices and lived histories.

#ArchivesWM member Dudley Archives is hosting 'Working Life', a pop-up exhibition by the Dudley Caribbean & Friends Ass. as part of their Culture and Heritage Community Project.
Further information on can be found at:
Black Country Roots: Windrush Voices
#archives @blackcountrysoc.bsky.social

Impact seminar - connecting with young audiences Join us to hear how archives are finding creative and inclusive approaches to engaging young people.

An online impact seminar organised by The National Archives to hear how Croydon Archives, Somerset Archives and Local Studies, and TNA are finding creative and inclusive approaches to engaging young people.

🗓️ Wednesday 12 November (10–11.30am)
Online via Zoom
#archives #ArchivesWM

Archives hive mind! Any ideas for remote online transcribing projects which would appeal to a retired archivist who loves palaeography and is coming to an end of their present project? Could be anything C16th-C20th, but I lean towards the earlier material unless it’s a topic I’m interested in.

That's pretty cool, it has to be said!

Hi all. Late posting again as I've been Out Out for #ConfinedCocktails in Ross-on-Wye. Gin with rosemary and grapefruit tonic, and a gorgeous slushy mocktail with strawberries and mint. Oh and btw, we are still TOP OF THE LEAGUE!

One of @araen.bsky.social case studies of work in relation to record keeping and climate change includes #ArchivesWM member Shropshire #Archives 👇

Coventry City players Brandon Thomas-Asante and Haji Wright, currently joint top scorers in the Championship PlayUpSkyBlues

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness #PUSB

#UnconfinedWalks in Coventry, visiting the site of the former CCFC stadium, Highfield Road, and the lovely Coventry Music Museum where we were honoured to be the 50000th visitor! #PUSB

Shared #UnconfinedWalks with 30000 other people 😁😁😁

Hi all. Sorry I'm late. Exciting goings-on so I'm only just home from the match. Pre-match #ConfinedCocktails cider in the pub and I'm now swigging sauvignon and grinning like an idiot at the league table.

#UnconfinedWalks at Bradgate Park, Leics. Went looking for colour and found it. Bonus peacocks!

What a great idea! I might virtually join you. I really enjoyed the glow of colour of my gleanings on the dining room table. Even without the camera, just fiddling about with them was special. Might also head out to Bradgate Park this week as it's been rewarding there in previous years.

Thank you. Messing about with my camera was also a mood lifter, as it always is.

A tarmac path leading through trees and bushes full of autumn colours

A pattern of leaves of different colours and sizes

Autumn leaves, fruits, berries and flowers arranged in a pattern

A salmon pink leaf overlaid with berries and fruits of different colours

Grumpy today and it's grey and dismal so #UnconfinedWalks along the cycle route because it's good for autumn colour. The textures and rich colour have brightened me up a bit.

I don't remember those!!

A canal with a brick bridge ahead and a cast iron bridge over a side loop

A rural canal full of leaf debris and floating crabapples. The trees and shrubs are turning yellow and red

A small tree covered in pink, red and yellow leaves

A view of a canal and tow path from a bridge. There is a canal boat passing underneath, a bridge in the distance and autumn colours in the trees

#UnconfinedWalks was the 6.5k canal loop which is lovely at this time of the year.

Feet in grey walking shoes with turquoise Ravenclaw socks standing on a huge drift if acorns

Bright red shiny round berries against bright green leaves

Swags of round dimpled red Bryony berries trailing through an ivy hedge

Pale yellow-green leaves against a cloudy white sky

#UnconfinedWalks left me in no doubt that this is one of the most spectacular #MastYear s I've ever seen. To the retail park and back along the canal.

#UnconfinedWalks was bathed in low golden sunshine at Brandon Nature Reserve. There were swarms of ladybirds; we were covered in them. Also saw a guy wandering the paths in bare feet for reasons best known to himself. There was also a hornet nest in the pine cone art installation!

I detest that feeling with a passion. From an attendee's point of view though, it was really slick!

It's going so smoothly! Thanks for such a useful overview.

Thanks Rachel. Great to think that @archiveswm.bsky.social is at the heart of such a positive step forward for the sector.

Gorgeous #UnconfinedWalks this morning with M who, having better spatial awareness than me, bolted together the best bits of 2 walks. Breezy and sunny, with lots of canal soup thanks to storm Amy.

Hi there. A day of off-the-scale excitement here cos We are Top of the League, the only side still unbeaten in the EFL and scoring an unbelievable amount of goals. Golden, glorious times. Whole family in uproar. #UnconfinedCocktails is Inch's cider. #PUSB

No words. Lots of very loud screaming but no words! #PUSB

a flyer with text and a photograph of people holding a Kings Heath CND banner. It advertises Birmingham People's History Archive presents 'Decisions and Consequences' 4 October at All Saints Church, Vicarage Road, Kings Heath, Birmingham Free event no need to book all welcome

#Birmingham People's History Archive event
Saturday 4 October from 10am (talk at 1.30pm)
Please note the venue: All Saints Church, Kings Heath
(not at the archive in Margaret Street)

The sky here is a horrible dark green colour. We've been at a neighbour's funeral this afternoon and it really did feel grim, bucketing it down.

This sounds awfully hard. I'm just coming out the other side of a period of full-on anxiety. I reconnected with a practitioner who used to work at our old GP surgery who does massages. Magical difference after one session. Worth trying?

Archives West Midlands Annual Review 2024–2025 We are delighted to announce the publication of our latest Annual Review. As with our previous reviews, it contains an overview ...

After the #ArchivesWM AGM in September the annual review for 2024-2025 is now available via the website!
Introduced by The National Archives it offers an overview of the work of the charity and includes 'Around the Archives' sharing news of the great projects taking place across the region
#Archives