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Somewhere in there a football match is breaking out... "The very best quality football outfits" advertised in 1884, complete with view of fists-raised, high-tackling, stripy & be-hatted #19thC football action More sporting gems from the archives at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...

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Good to see @jfklibraryfdn.bsky.social posting again after being shut down earlier in the week There are over 70 archive / archive-adjacent US accounts now on Bluesky, many with great, diverse content. Take a look at the list of North American accounts at go.bsky.app/MN9ZZ3M & support where you can

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Don’t forget the conservation grants that are available from @thenmct.bsky.social . Our 2025 deadlines are 1 April and 1 October.

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The prize for the best dressed cat on a bicycle goes to...... 'Cats racing on ordinaries' as featured in a collection of cycling postcards and greetings cards from the 1870s-1930s. Part of the National Cycle Archive. 😻#LoveYourPetDay mrc-describe.epexio.com/records/CTC/...

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'Black Country Strike. Support the Kiddies' Members of Coventry branch of the Workers' Union with barrel organ and collecting boxes in 1913, during the Black Country minimum wage strike. The two month dispute raised the minimum wage from 18 to 23 shillings. mrc-describe.epexio.com/records/TGC/...

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Student periodicals in our University Archive are a rich resource for historical research, including LGBTQ+ history. In this blog student intern Chloë Edwards explored the impact of Section 28 on LGBTQ+ lives ➡️ specialcollections.exeter.ac.uk/2024/05/20/s... #LGBTplusHM #Exeter #UniOfExeterArchive

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'A useful food of a very high order' not that the British Beer and Pub Association is biased at all. #DrinkWineDay 🍷 Obviously we're not trying out this theory in the Modern Records Centre...... mrc-describe.epexio.com/records/BLR/...

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'A useful food of a very high order' not that the British Beer and Pub Association is biased at all. #DrinkWineDay 🍷 Obviously we're not trying out this theory in the Modern Records Centre...... mrc-describe.epexio.com/records/BLR/...

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Our new exhibition ‘Suffragettes, Stereotypes, Voices and Votes’ features sources on the Suffragette movement and women’s changing role in society from the 1920s to the present day Open for one week only! Unable to visit? See our online sources & resources at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...

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Our colleagues @lselibrary.bsky.social have launched a new page of archival material on Africa and the African Diaspora inspired by @africaatlse.bsky.social's Hub for African Thought. 🌍 Featuring #openaccess LSE Press titles - free to read and download. Browse below! www.lse.ac.uk/library/coll...

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We're excited to bring the @araukie.bsky.social sections for new professionals to Bluesky and even more excited for our meet the committee event, next Monday 24 February: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/coffee-sto....

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The Bicycle. Convenient form of transport or Vehicle of Lust & Iniquity? In the late 19th/early 20th century the bike became a shorthand for freedom, linked with ideas of women's liberation & the 'New Woman', & opening up romantic possibilities away from the prying eyes of family and neighbours ...

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From 1970 BBC radio & TV broadcasts were part of the @openuniversity.bsky.social teaching package enabling greater transparency of, and access to, higher education.

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'After the day's work' Wonder if this portable wireless telephony-thingy will catch on? #WorldRadioDay #13February 'New ventures in broadcasting. A study in adult education' published by the BBC in 1928. Part of the British Employers' Confederation archive. mrc-describe.epexio.com/records/BEC/...

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How not to label your family photographs.

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Join us on a short #LGBTQHistoryMonth thread as we look into a symbol of identity, solidarity and love, hidden between plain covers and written under an alias at a time when being openly yourself could be a criminal offence #LGBTHM

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Don't erase history - preserve it! And we can't do that without archivists, digital preservation specialists, archive assistants, conservators and the all important depositors - so today's post is dedicated to them all Below: our 'Don't Erase History' rubbers - free if you visit!

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To mark 'International Day of Women and Girls in Science' here's a look back to the University of Warwick's science labs c.1980s. We don't know what's going on though! mrc-describe.epexio.com/records/UWA/... #WomenInScience #GirlsInSTEM

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In 1945 Rowntree's launched a campaign advertising their cocoa to women at home & in the workplace. As well as being architects, designers, musicians, reporters, librarians and bank tellers, the campaign also showed women as analytical chemists and scientific assistants #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM

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With all the new archive accounts on Bluesky our list of UK & Republic of Ireland archives has now hit a round 130! Welcome too to the excellent Clarks Archive at @shoemakersmuseum.bsky.social & the first official UK National Archives account @natarchivestrust.bsky.social go.bsky.app/6Qz8qG3

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The archives of Tom Mann and Ben Tillett at the MRC are rich sources on the late 19th / early 20th century labour movement and foundation of 'new unionism' The pamphlet below (from Tillett's archives) can be read in full through the link given by @lgupbook.bsky.social

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Hello from Aberystwyth University Archives 👋. Follow us to hear about our collections. We promise there will always be nice pictures! 📸

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"Now, lads, keep your eyes upon her, she may be a suffragette" Railway company responses to seat-slashing suffragettes satirised in The Railway Review in 1912 More cartoons on railway life & contemporary society, 1880-92, 1898-1920, in digitised union journals at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...

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More new archives on Bluesky! Welcome to Huddersfield @heritagequay.bsky.social & other recent archive arrivals: Birmingham Archives @theironroom.bsky.social Isle of Man PRO @isleofmanpro.bsky.social Uni of Galway @uniofgalwayasc.bsky.social National Marine Biological Library @nmbluk.bsky.social

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Queering the Quarantine In 2020 Queer/Disrupt constructed a space for creative LGBTQIA+ responses to the pandemic, including visual, written & a/v works The project digital content has been transferred to the MRC so that when the website goes dark the record remains warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/his...

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Yes, sometimes our archivists are trolled by the documents that they catalogue

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"Dole Not Coal" 40 years on from the 1984/5 Miners' Strike, explore examples of leaflets, pamphlets and other publicity material produced by local community groups & the NUM during the dispute 95 items digitised in full at cdm21047.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...

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It’s LGBT+ History Month! Throughout February we'll be sharing items from our collections that explore & celebrate this year’s theme of Activism & Social Change For a quick intro, see our research guide on MRC sources relating to LGBTQIA+ history at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib... #LGBTplusHM25

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Learn to make a digital collage using free software and cultural heritage collections from Europeana. Have fun, boost your digital and creative skills, while exploring vintage artworks and photos! ➡️ bit.ly/3CkQTq3

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A big welcome to the Explore Your Archive account - archives around the world can get involved with their monthly themes and annual focus week... follow @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social

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Always interested to see the results of archival research at the MRC Jack Taylor used Ernest Bevin's TGWU archives to explore ideas around the Labour Party & empire in the 1940s Looking for financial support for research trip expenses? @sslh.bsky.social grants may help- sslh.org.uk/bursaries-gr...

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For today's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange , we're looking at interiors, with members of the Canonbie Cycling Club captured in mid-snore during the group's annual meeting Four volumes of the hand-drawn CCC Chronicle, 1899-1901, are online at cdm21047.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...

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You get a real sense of movement from this contact sheet Made from strips of negatives (so that the photographer can select that One Shot) the sheets give a more fluid, less edited view of the shoot From Lady Allen's adventure playground archives - play on a London bombsite in the 1960s #histchild

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Today marks the start of the Lunar New Year celebrations ✨ Here is an image from the @uniofwarwick archive showing students preparing for Lunar New Year festivities mrc-describe.epexio.com/records/UWA/... We wish you all a happy and healthy Year of the Snake 🐍 #LunarNewYear #YearOfTheSnake

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Putting names to the boys underground An unexpected find as we catalogue the archives of the Yorkshire Miners' Association - a list of "lads" working at Hemsworth Colliery, near Wakefield, in 1901 - the youngest aged 13.

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Excellent resource on deciphering 18th & 19th century handwriting highlighted below - a free book-length guide available as a pdf from @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social

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