Our wonderful volunteers have been working on our photographs collection, organising the images by topic, and then housing them in conservation friendly sleeves and boxes. All ready for future researchers! #Archive30 #FutureArchives
Going back to 1857 our Police Orders are popular items that researchers request. Police Orders were internal newsletters circulated daily to police stations with information to help officers do their jobs, and updates on promotions and retirements. #Archive30 #PopularItem
#WhyArchives are important... Archives contain our history, our ancestors, untold stories, unheard voices, mysteries, answers & questions. They detail life throughout time, triumphs, failures, advances, relationships & so much more! ARA Scotland #Archive30
#Archive30 #WhyArchives British Museum #archive is vast & of exceptional importance. Without it we wouldn’t know about our history or the history of the collection: who visited the reading rooms, records of our collection & history of our building #britishmuseum
This rare handwritten manuscript of The Courtier's Library by priest and poet John Donne was found in our archives in 2017. The satire was circulated privately by Donne to friends in the early 1600s, its content too radical to publish. Find out more ⤵️
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The Army Flying Museum holds thousands of unique records detailing the history of Army aviation, going back to the late 19th-century. The pictured purpose-built strongroom allows for the Archive team to preserve them for future generations to enjoy.
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This 1940's press cutting from our Nutrition collection features some of the best #ArchiveAdvice you'll ever receive... 🍪
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I’ve got 100s of family photos. I’d say that whenever I post any of these they get loads of “likes! #PopularItem #Archive30
#WhyArchives No two days are the same. One minute you are helping an academic research the jute industry, then you are locating plans of the Tay Bridge landfall and then tracking down the identity of their father's war time sweetheart. And that's just answering emails!
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#Archive30 #PopularItem This lovely early 20th C plan showing the arrangement of the #library collection of the British Museum in the Round Reading Room has been very popular recently! #britishlibrary #BritishMuseum #archive British Library
The one item that always get the most comments is our orange 1980s uniform #PopularItem
Read about the history of uniforms here:
sainsburyarchive.org.uk/story/stories/…
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Today #Archive30 is asking that most profound of all existential questions, #WhyArchives ? This message to our visitors provides an answer.
A recent #ConservationWin from our marvellous conservators was to turn this bundle of disintegrating rentals from 1647 into documents that can be handled and read!
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Last day of this campagin by ARA Scotland. Thanks a lot.😉 Day 30 #Archive30 Today's topic is #WhyArchives We describe, register, digitise, preserve... #arxiusmuseus Museu Marítim
You asked for #SomethingScary and we delivered!
Would you join this tea party with a puppet in a caravan? 😱
Courtesy of Caravan and Motorhome Club member Ralph Lee. #Archive30
This is why asking to see the big brown volume you saw 5 years ago isn’t very helpful… We say it every year, but it’s such good #ArchiveAdvice we’re going to say it again - always make a note of the reference numbers of the documents you look at ☺️ #Archive30 ARA Scotland
