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#ACollection is the theme for #Archive30 today- spoilt for choice?! Our Valuation Office collection is large and complex and reaps great rewards when researched, it is certainly one of our

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For #WorldBookDay this is a list of books borrowed from the British Museum reading rooms by members of the Women's Social and Political Union. This list of reading materials gives

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#OTD in 1545 the #MaryRose sunk. In our collections, we hold the original warrant for two new ships in 1510, one of which was the Mary Rose, and the other

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Fancy learning more about Jane Austen's inspiration for her novel Persuasion (1817)? In 1810, her brother Francis was involved in a legal battle over the killing of a Chinese shoemaker

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A little thread of bits & bobs I’ve been working on since lockdown. In case you’re interested in what keeps us archive people busy. Other than dressing as Rosie the

Who Do You Think You Are? There is no better diversion, teens to oldies, than turning detective. This THREAD will list sources (for the island of Ireland). All FREE. Get

Une Plus Grande Guerre

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.@LouBell here - i'm excited, and a little nervous, to be the first takeover for #FWWandPopCulture. I'm here all week and will be talking about some of the different work

"Sew What?" Podcast

The framed embroidery was made by @Dorcasstories's grandmother at her Dorcas club in Jamaica in 1989/90 and was given to Rose as a wedding present. It is the object that

Thread.About twenty years ago I discovered the newspaper archives in Keighley Library @bradfordlibs247. The Great War period was full of images of soldiers and what had happened to them. I

(1/14) One of the aerial photos of Stonehenge in 1906 ("the first", apparently) is doing the rounds again on Twitter. I was happy to ignore it but retweets keep popping

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The database created by Catherine Hall which details all those people who got paid compensation for loss of slave property and the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade. We ALL

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Lesbian identities are often difficult to uncover in the archive. Unlike male homosexuality, sexual relationships between women were never criminalised, which led to less visibility. But their stories and experiences

Still seeing folk argue about the Once in a Generation/Indy mandate thing so I thought the following might be useful. 1. There was no commitment to once in a generation

Some Greens are worried about how HS2's drilling and tunnelling into the chalk below its route might affect drinking water and chalk streams such as the River Misbourne. It's a

Charity Tax Group

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@MartynDaySNP for asking @DCMS to support #GiftAidRelief. @JWhittingdale confirmed support for #GiftAid but noted the proposals would break the link to tax paid & impact

1/JFK ASSASSINATION THREAD:Today is impt deadline for USGOVT in ensuring release of #JFKassassination records. Fed agencies had to identify to @USNatArchives specific basis for postponing release of records beyond Oct