gbrannanarchive.bsky.social
Keeper of Archives and Research Collections @uoyborthwick; also Deputy Director of Library, Archives, and Learning Services @uniofyork. Makes archives sexy. ‘A dumpling floating in a stew of time’. All views my own.
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A few gems, including Eric’s drawings for the chicken costumes from 1970s Xmas specials; ‘what do you think of it so far - rubbish!’ and ‘there’s a hell of a draught in here, I don’t know where it’s coming from but I know where it’s going’
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No longer happening, but under my predecessor, two fully dressed up ventriloquists dummies used to come to staff Christmas parties.
We also attribute any malfunction of shelving to the ghost of our founding director.
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‘Typical shabby nazi trick!’
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I mean come on, it’s only the German Invasion Plans from 1941, folks!
A mere 80-odd years ago I’d have got the George Cross for this.
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And yet more thrills here!
www.york.ac.uk/borthwick/ne...
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A low bar to hurdle, but an important one nonetheless
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'Almost as fabulous as @helenacoxcurator.bsky.social' is so going in the bio
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If you’d like to see more of the work by Laurence on Moorgate, it’s here. It’s a real, living archive and I’m sure there’ll be more to explore on this in due course
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‘Must be captured’, I imagine
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Marked as being a hospital by the look of it
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TA Barracks I think, Bootham isn’t outlined, it’s just marked as a hospital
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Anyway, they’re all at borthcat.york.ac.uk/index.php/md... and you are entirely welcome to come and look!
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Also, hooray for technology being able to help me understand them in real time.
Now, what I did not know is that there were similar, very detailed, plans drawn up for an invasion of Ireland. Here’s my family’s part of the world on the west coast.
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I’d have got the George Cross for that in 1940, I’ll tell you that much.
Sadly, it’s 2025.
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Huge thanks to Simon, Nicola and Kevin for all their help with this. A journey we started way back in Lancaster, via Brighton and Glasgow. Happy.
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The run of names after 'Chegwin' will have happened in nanoseconds
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I imagine that being part of MOJ means they’ll have fed in via other means?
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Melinda why are you saying Penguin, all I see is a sweet innocent chicken