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Disco Stu doesn’t advertise but 1970s York was perfect for some retail flare-apy.

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Rockin' in the Free Speech World Government has said the 2023 Freedom of Speech Act will be brought into force after all, albeit with amendments. Whilst the changes are welcome, there are still some significant issues for the HE sector to deal with. wonderfulhighered.com/2025/02/24/r...

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The Lost Medieval Library Found in a Romanian Church https://www.medievalists.net/2024/11/lost-medieval-library-found-romanian-church/ #History

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Lydia Becker, an early leader of the women’s suffrage movement, was born #OTD 1827 in Manchester. Founded Women’s Suffrage Journal. She and fellow campaigners won votes for women in municipal elections and places on school boards.

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“Unless we assess fairly the actions of the past, we have no sound basis upon which to plan for the future.” JFK jotted these lines about learning from and about history in 1954 (on his brother's stationery). www.jfklibrary.org/asset-viewer...

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CILIP is concerned that the removal, hiding, and modification of data, research and other information resources by authorities in the USA is already starting to impede the vital work of UK information professionals. Read more👇 www.cilip.org.uk/news/693964/...

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A lovely view of campus from the 1980s, with the iconic Chemistry water tower in the distance. The tower, built in 1965 and demolished in 2001, comprised an inverted 21m diameter conical tank, made up of 32 pre cast concrete petals each weighing 8.5 tonnes.

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Next week's daily #HigherEducationPostcard posts will showcase some of Yorkshire's universities

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This St. Val's, we're hoping for a nutritious bottle of Valentine's Meat-Juice🫀❤️

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Crossing campus, and travel adversity….?

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A clean sweep

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🧶💾 Punch cards aren’t just relics of computing—they’re still powering knitting machines today! Discover how hobbyists & archivists are preserving this blend of tech + textile. ⁠ 🔗 https://blog.archive.org/2025/02/12/vanishing-culture-punch-card-knitting/ ⁠ 🕳️ #VanishingCulture⁠

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'Thrift says that university management has largely “done as it has been told” in the hope of getting “a tiny bit more money”. “It hasn’t exactly rolled over and played dead, but sometimes it can feel as though it is dangerously close to Stockholm syndrome”.' 1/3

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We are in a war on knowledge, a war on facts, and a war on truth. The atrocious sacking of the 11th Archivist of the United States, Colleen Shogan (which she announced on her LinkedIn account last night) heralds a new era of burning of the books. www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...

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Happy to be called woke if anyone wishes - heres a piece I wrote with Andrew Young (COO @LSE) & Louise Oldridge (research lead @Nottingham Business School) about research we are doing into a lack of diversity amongst senior staff in univeristy professional services. wonkhe.com/blogs/why-ar...

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Whew, I can finally announce! HUGE NEWS! The University of York Archaeology Department received a very generous grant to support our (Wolfson) Digital Archaeology and Heritage Lab. We will be massively updating our infrastructure, capacity & technology. 🏺 www.york.ac.uk/york-unlimit...

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A rare photo of the landing pad, before Central Hall touched down in 1968.

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Recently discovered these woodblock printing plates, used in early York/student publications. I’ve yet to trace the publication it appeared in (or whether the college roof is Langwith or Derwent) but am sure I’ve seen the image before!

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A grand way to start the week. An afternoon in what was part of the house of the abbots of St Mary’s Abbey, York. Busy working under some 15th century beams on an exciting archive project.

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Marianne Faithfull (1946-2025). Singer, actress and cultural icon. In the summer of 1965 she joined University of York students and performed at the June Ball in the King’s Manor.

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In 1647 the city of York unsuccessfully petitioned parliament for a university, warning of the harm of a north south divide and the “ignorance of illiterate men, through whom that sad proverbe is fulfilled upon us: the blinde leade the blinde and both fall into the ditch.”

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Heslington Hall prior to its refurbishment by Bernard Feilden for the new University of York. The Grade II listed manor house dates from 1565–8 and was redeveloped 1852x54 by Yarburgh Yarburgh, whose architect, Philip Charles Hardwick, designed the Hilton London Paddington hotel.

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Are you working on African Studies collections and their intersection with Youth or the concept of Ageing? A last chance to submit your paper for SCOLMA’s 2025 conference! Click the link below to learn more & submit your abstract by this Friday, 17th Jan. scolma.org/?p=3143

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Where there’s a will, there’s a way. Some welcome news.

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For any interested in these amazing fifteenth-century murals, find out more in Kate Giles’ brilliant award-winning book ‘The Wall Paintings of Pickering Church: Their Discovery, Restoration and Meaning’

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St Sampson’s church, York. Its medieval tower was damaged by gunshot in 1644 during the Civil War. By 1844 the church fabric was so dilapidated the church closed and was rebuilt in 1848, with the tower’s upper stage added in 1907.

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If you are an archivist you should read this. It's so rare to see labor and expertise of archivists acknowledged let alone celebrated that I might have cried a little

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Steps on to archivist soapbox, taps microphone The biggest lie you can tell yourself is "I'll remember." No. You won't. Write down/add metadata about who/what/where/when. Put a year on EVERYTHING. Now is a great time to group project this with family!

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Holiday’s underway 🍺

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Ace that The Routledge Companion to Libraries, Archives, and the Digital Humanities has been published! Awesome editors Isabel Galine and Glen Layne-Worthey's Introduction is free to read: https://www.book2look.com/book/hpV4zdnW6q Book: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781003327738

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🎉 New Year, New Job? The ADS are excited to announce we are looking for two new Digital Archives Assistants to join our growing team! 👉To find out more visit the University of York jobs page or click here https://buff.ly/3ZVRMhE #JobOpportunity #DigitalArchiving #HiringNow #ArchaeologyJobs

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A #WarmFire on a picket line. This Christmas card was produced by Barnsley Trades Council during the 1984/5 miners' strike & shows NUM pickets with Christmas tree & flaming brazier Included in archives of Women Against Pit Closures mrc-describe.epexio.com/records/WPC/... #ArchiveAdventCalendar

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We’re looking for contributions to help build a richer, more representative record of student life, societies, activism & community -past and present- in the University Archive. If you have material to contribute, we’d love to hear from you! www.york.ac.uk/alumni/stude...

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Roses are red, Music has tuplets, This Pocklington will Has old rhyming couplets

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If you missed the exhibition of Islamic art that was on display at the Borthwick, and are in or near Cambridge, the Endless Stories exhibition looks brilliant, with some fantastic manuscript treasures 🤩

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Meanwhile in Glasgow, the party is just getting started….

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This argument would make X the Data Controller- and publisher- of everything posted on the platform, liable under both GDPR and defamation laws in every country for every post. This is a no-lose filing.

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My work features prominently in a Nature editorial today. Great to see digital preservation being taken seriously. "Millions of research articles are absent from major digital archives. This worrying finding, [...] was laid bare in a study by Martin Eve" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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A recording of the seminar we ran in partnership with the University of Oxford’s Heritage Pathway about using archives in the heritage sector is now available via the @ihr.bsky.social website: www.history.ac.uk/podcasts/usi...

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Racing into the weekend like…

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Going through some photos. With Oasis in the news and the cold biting, here’s a sunny picture of the library from around the Britpop era. Blackwell's bookshop is nestled to the right of the JBM. Before Longboi, another campus personality was the ‘Bookshop Cat’ (aka ‘Alcuin Cat’). Sadly no 📷 of 🐈‍⬛

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I have started to create a list for #ArchivesHub contributors, hoping to add more as more join Bluesky! - bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Today from the Terry's of York company archive - this rather lovely sketch of the grand staircase for the main administrative block of the factory at Bishopthorpe Road. Built in 1924 it was supposedly modelled on the famous staircase on the RMS Titanic and also boasted a similar glass dome above.

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