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Happy #ScottishArchivesDay everyone! A day to celebrate all things Scottish and all things Archives. Share your favourite Scottish item (no matter how tenuous a link!) or shout about your favourite Scottish archive.

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Congratulations🥳 to #ArchivesWM member service Sandwell Archives for their funding award as part of The National Archives ‘Archives Revealed’. Read more 👇

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I'm very pleased to share news of a new project I am leading at The National Archives. PASSAGE combines archival research on the transatlantic trade of enslaved people with an international programme that centres the research of West African & Caribbean scholars. Read more here: shorturl.at/XLyC8

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Explore the history of public toilets & their role in society in two new pieces of content. ‘The history of indecent advertisements in public toilets' beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/explore-the-...

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Announcing our first article of 2025! “Teaching Archival Intelligence through an Immersive Class Experience” by Dulce Kersting-Lark from University of Idaho Library: elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol12/i...

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Delighted that the National Archives has announced the first successful projects under the new Archives Revealed programme. Fantastic cataloguing and consortium projects that will enable access to previously hidden history - all supported by Heritage Fund. www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/a...

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New Carbon Literacy for the Cultural Sector training courses are available thanks to the Carbon Literacy Project. Everyone in the GLAM sector is covered including a specific course for archives developed by The National Archives & consultant Lorraine Finch💚🌱🌍♻️🏛️ carbonliteracy.com/culture/#:~:....

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Interested in applying to the RLUK/ TNA Professional Fellowship Scheme 2025-26? Join us for a drop-in session to learn more about the scheme and ask questions about the process of becoming a Professional Fellow. To register, visit: www.rluk.ac.uk/professional... @rluk.bsky.social

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This 'Plan of the City and Suburbs of Exeter' dates back to 1765 and is from Benjamin Donn's 'Map of the County of Devon'. It was the first entirely new survey of Devon since the one undertaken by Christopher Saxton in the 16th century. 📷 Townsend Maps T15 #MapMonday #MondayMaps #MappingOurExeter

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#MapMonday A plan of Bangor University showing Penrallt House before it was demolished. The Penrallt Estate covered the area surrounding Main Arts extending over Roman Camp. Penrallt house would have stood roughly were the Main Tower of the University stands now.

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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.

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The big reveal!! 🧐 The boxes contained our new interactive digital heritage display units, which can now be found in patient waiting areas around the Royal London Hospital. Patients & visitors can explore items from our collections curated by our 'Bringing the Collections Closer' community curators🧵

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Really important reflections by student Garfield Campbell on the challenges of researching LGBTQ+ lives in colonial records. This is a really important but under-researched area of our collections. blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/lgbtq-histor... #LGBTQ #QueerHistory #LGBTHM

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We’ve had an incredible number of interviewee applicants to our upcoming Practice Interview event, with first time applications from Azerbaijan, Hungary and Turkey! 🙌 We’re looking for a small number of additional interviewers to join us. Interested in getting involved? Apply here:

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We are delighted to be launching the 2025-26 round of the RLUK/ The National Archives Professional Fellowship Scheme which is open to colleagues from RLUK member institutions and TNA. To find more about the scheme and how to apply, please visit: www.rluk.ac.uk/professional... @rluk.bsky.social

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#dyddllunymap #mapmonday “Darlun eglurhaol o fynyddoedd Eryri fel y gwelir hwy o Fôn a luniwyd gan y diweddar Jeremiah Jones. Enwyd pob trum, copa a bwlch.” An explanatory drawing of the mountains of Eryri as seen from Anglesey drawn by the late Jeremiah Jones. BMSS/33485 d.d./n.d.

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#Love is in the air this month, and we are beginning our romantic journey with this collection of handwritten Swahili love songs in the wimbo form by Bakari Abedi, c. 1966 ow.ly/XSTJ50UR0Ei #EYALove

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💘 This week, we're celebrating the @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social theme of #EYALove by sharing love stamps from the 'Post Office Irish Postage Stamp Collection' deposited in the Digital Repository of Ireland by An Post Museum & Archive doi.org/10.7486/DRI.... #EYAGrá #Philately💞

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This week! Come hear me chat about d'Eon's many interactions with the English Law Courts this Friday 14 February.

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This is a great, positive thread about all the hard work that goes on behind the scenes to ensure archives users have something to use, and have as good an experience as possible. I hope someone bought the team some biscuits to fuel all this.

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Final call for this vacancy that closes on Wednesday.

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Did you know that the Michael Palin Centre for Stammering and Wayne State University are working together to find the genes for developmental stammering? 🧬 Want to be part of this important study? Find out more and book an appointment by contacting Leanne Taylor at [email protected].

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With perfect timing for the paperback publication of #NecessaryWomen today, why not read this splendid new review by @dustshoveller.bsky.social - herself a great Necessary Woman of Parliament previously of course! londonhistorians.wordpress.com/2025/02/06/a...

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Do you fancy getting started working with Transkribus? We're hosting a @transkribus.bsky.social in person workshop in Edinburgh, Mon, 24 Feb 2025 12:00 - 17:00. @jnockels.bsky.social will demistify automatic text recognition as well as its context, as part of @edcdcs.bsky.social training ☺️

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The deadline for our next Practice Interview event is fast approaching! ⏳ The deadline for applications is midnight GMT on Sunday 9 February. 🕛 To find out more details and apply, click here: https://buff.ly/4aq6y3V

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How can we trace same-sex relationships in rural archives, when love letters were heavily euphemistic or burned after reading? For LGBTQ+ History Month, Tim Jerrome shares his research into queer rural relationships: from his first find, to the challenges faced. merl.reading.ac.uk/blog/2025/02...

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Come and work with us! Applications are invited for the position of Training Manager and Digital Archivist, as part of the DRI team located at @ria.ie. Find out more and apply by 20 Feb 2025: ria.ie/about/career... #JobVacancy #JobFairy #DigiPresJobs

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The (U.K.) National Archives launches guidance for archivists working in fast response situations 📜 www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/t...

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Are you an educator, curator or organiser in the archives/heritage sector? Have you led an interesting project, exhibition, or engagement opportunity? We want to hear from you as a contributor to our blog. Please get in touch for more information.

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Today is International Map Day! One of our favourite items in the collections is this colourful map of Exeter, engraved by Frans Hogenberg in c 1618. Can you identify any landmarks that still exist today? 📷 Constable Maps 27 #InternationalMapDay #MapDay #MapMonday #MappingOurExeter #Exeter

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Come & work with me! Principal Records Specialist - Maps job at The National Archives (UK). Apply by 12 Feb. www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi... #MapMonday #ArchivesJobs #MondayMotivation

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Please do follow our wonderful section for Archives for Learning and Education - they've got some great events planned for 2025! @ales-araukie.bsky.social

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What's more romantic on Valentine's Day than coming to my online talk on The Chevalier d'Eon in the English Law Courts? www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-cheval...

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There's still time to apply to our global Practice Interview event, taking place from 3-10 March! The event coincides with International Women's Day (#IWD2025), and we'll be holding a session themed around the issues impacting women who stutter. Please apply on our website: https://buff.ly/4aq6y3V

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Happy #InternationalZebraDay! To celebrate here's some info about Zebras, and an illustration, taken from Thomas Bewick and Ralph Beilby's A General History of Quadrupeds, part of our Bradshaw-Bewick Collection. *We're also close to celebrating 500 followers here - Will we make by Monday?

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💾 Working with born-digital collections? 💽 Seeking inspiration for ways to collect, preserve, analyse, and curate them? 💾 Want to hear @dorothyjberry.bsky.social's keynote? Join us online or in person at this fabulous conference www.sas.ac.uk/about-us/ins...

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Today the Archives and Records Association (UK & Ireland) and The UK National Archives have launched new guidance for archive professionals about rapid response collecting. Find out more here: www.archives.org.uk/news/rapid-r...

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#ExploreYourArchive is now on BlueSky! We are an Archives and Records Association campaign set up to encourage everyone to visit, use, celebrate and be inspired by archives. Visit our website here: www.exploreyourarchive.org #ExploreYourArchive

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ahem turns up the volume on the microphone OOOOOK www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

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Applications already received from people who #stutter & #alllies from 9 countries & 5 continents. 100% of interviewees providing feedback on our previous global Practice Interview event in Oct '24 "now feel more confident about their next interview with a stutter!" #impact #OKToStutter

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New Vacancy! SCA is seeking a freelance heritage consultant to collaborate on Made in Scotland: Building Connections Between Business and Community Archives. Find out more and how to apply here: www.scottisharchives.org.uk/latest/news/...

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In 2024, we processed 248 archive acquisitions, with records covering 6 centuries, over 380 boxes, 1700 volumes, nearly 270 bundles, over 600 small items, nearly 900 GB of data - a full list of relevant collections can be found in our online catalogue: calmview.derbyshire.gov.uk/calmview/ove...

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Job opportunity: Archivist - AHRC Heritage Science and Unicorn Tapestry Project. Full time, 18 months. £32255-£38245. Edinburgh based. Full details: rb.gy/r2q38n Come and work with a great team in Edinburgh!

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