The #archive holds a beautiful #ArchiveCollection of 12 diaries and an album belonging to Annie Amos (Pike, nee Fisher) describing life as a young Victorian woman in London from 1852, including various important events. archivesearch.lib.cam.ac.uk/repositories/1… #Archive30
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
#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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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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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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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
Though more likely drawing in ink and pencil, Lyell does like a splash of colour in his geological sketches 🎨 and it’s tempting to think, perhaps, someone else carefully picked out the details in watercolour….
#ColourfulArchives #Archive30
This 1940's press cutting from our Nutrition collection features some of the best #ArchiveAdvice you'll ever receive... 🍪
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This is probably our best piece of #ArchiveAdvice we can give.
(that and take food out of packaging before accessioning it into the archive)
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A leaflet from ICOM, the umbrella group for worker co-ops. Set up in 1971, it gave advice and training to worker co-ops in the UK.
In 2001, ICOM merged with the Co-operative Union to become Co-operatives UK who continue to advise and support co-ops.
#Archive30 #ArchiveAdvice
#Archive30 day 30: #WhyArchives ?
Because evidence matters.
Because people want to remember & want to know.
Because we care.
Because the past deserves a future & the future deserves a past.
Always a #PopularItem is the periodical 'Women's Outlook' published by the Co-operative Press from 1919 to 1967. The range of articles cover social and political history and also design and style in the 20th Century. This knitting pattern is from Oct 1966. #Archive30 #CoopArchive
Some of the fashionable individuals from our archival collections Maynooth University Library #ArchiveFashion #Archive30
By far our most popular items are 2nd edition OS maps 1907/1908 which are a great place to start when researching property history.
Here is Prendergast – we are on the site occupied by the school.
#PopularItem #Archive30 #MapMonday
#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
#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
We’ve just launched our new #DigWhereYouStand website. We unearth #HiddenHistories from the archives and use creative practices to reimagine those lives. Welcome to the archive… 👉🏾 dwys.co.uk #Archive30 #Sheffield
