ARA Scotland
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The Scottish section of @araukie.bsky.social
Comann na Tasglannan is Clàraidhean na h-Alba.
Comann na Tasglannan is Clàraidhean na h-Alba.
Historic Environment Scotland are hosting 4 free online events all about 'Making the Case for Archives and Libraries'. Each running on Monday lunchtime from 19th Jan to 9th Feb, and lasting an hour.
Click the link below for more info and to book via Eventbrite:
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www.eventbrite.com/cc/making-th...
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January 7, 2026 at 9:10 PM
Historic Environment Scotland are hosting 4 free online events all about 'Making the Case for Archives and Libraries'. Each running on Monday lunchtime from 19th Jan to 9th Feb, and lasting an hour.
Click the link below for more info and to book via Eventbrite:
www.eventbrite.com/cc/making-th...
Click the link below for more info and to book via Eventbrite:
www.eventbrite.com/cc/making-th...
Thank you to everyone who took part in #ArchiveAdventCalendar. We wish all of our followers a #MerryChristmas and here's to a fabulous and fun 2026. See you all next year!
December 25, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Thank you to everyone who took part in #ArchiveAdventCalendar. We wish all of our followers a #MerryChristmas and here's to a fabulous and fun 2026. See you all next year!
One more sleep to go. Time to get ready for #Santa to visit. #ArchiveAdventCalendar
December 24, 2025 at 8:58 AM
One more sleep to go. Time to get ready for #Santa to visit. #ArchiveAdventCalendar
Is that sleigh bells I can hear? Is that snow glistening? That must mean that we are walking in a #WinterWonderland #ArchiveAdventCalendar
December 23, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Is that sleigh bells I can hear? Is that snow glistening? That must mean that we are walking in a #WinterWonderland #ArchiveAdventCalendar
Now, be honest. Have you been #NaughtyorNice this year? #ArchiveAdventCalendar
December 22, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Now, be honest. Have you been #NaughtyorNice this year? #ArchiveAdventCalendar
December 21, 2025 at 8:35 AM
It’s mighty chilly outside. Best stay inside beside the #WarmFire! #ArchiveAdventCalendar
December 20, 2025 at 8:46 AM
It’s mighty chilly outside. Best stay inside beside the #WarmFire! #ArchiveAdventCalendar
Let’s celebrate and let our hair down at the #ArchiveAdventCalendar #ChristmasParty
December 19, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Let’s celebrate and let our hair down at the #ArchiveAdventCalendar #ChristmasParty
Tell us what your hard working #ArchiveElves have been up to recently #ArchiveAdventCalendar
December 18, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Tell us what your hard working #ArchiveElves have been up to recently #ArchiveAdventCalendar
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Today’s #ArchiveAdventCalendar @arascot.bsky.social
#Decorations
Decs ➡️Cardiff City Mental Hospital & Whitchurch Hospital
1st ➡️ clippings book @glamarchives.bsky.social
Dr P K McCowan’s 1st 🎅🏻 as Medical Superintendent. The hall sounds beautifully decorated, be amazing to see 📷 get in touch ✍🏻
#Decorations
Decs ➡️Cardiff City Mental Hospital & Whitchurch Hospital
1st ➡️ clippings book @glamarchives.bsky.social
Dr P K McCowan’s 1st 🎅🏻 as Medical Superintendent. The hall sounds beautifully decorated, be amazing to see 📷 get in touch ✍🏻
December 14, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Today’s #ArchiveAdventCalendar @arascot.bsky.social
#Decorations
Decs ➡️Cardiff City Mental Hospital & Whitchurch Hospital
1st ➡️ clippings book @glamarchives.bsky.social
Dr P K McCowan’s 1st 🎅🏻 as Medical Superintendent. The hall sounds beautifully decorated, be amazing to see 📷 get in touch ✍🏻
#Decorations
Decs ➡️Cardiff City Mental Hospital & Whitchurch Hospital
1st ➡️ clippings book @glamarchives.bsky.social
Dr P K McCowan’s 1st 🎅🏻 as Medical Superintendent. The hall sounds beautifully decorated, be amazing to see 📷 get in touch ✍🏻
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#ArchiveAdventCalendar theme 15 is #WrappingPaper. If someone made wrapping paper featuring Dunblane’s historic Leighton Library, do you think this is what it would look like?
🚶Dunblane's historic Leighton Library is now closed for the winter, except for opening by special arrangement for groups
🚶Dunblane's historic Leighton Library is now closed for the winter, except for opening by special arrangement for groups
December 15, 2025 at 7:41 AM
#ArchiveAdventCalendar theme 15 is #WrappingPaper. If someone made wrapping paper featuring Dunblane’s historic Leighton Library, do you think this is what it would look like?
🚶Dunblane's historic Leighton Library is now closed for the winter, except for opening by special arrangement for groups
🚶Dunblane's historic Leighton Library is now closed for the winter, except for opening by special arrangement for groups
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#ArchiveAdventCalendar theme 15 is #WrappingPaper. Don’t you think this Dunblane Museum wrapping paper design looks cute?
🚶Visit Dunblane Museum on Saturdays until 20 Dec
🕥 10.30am-4.30pm (last entry 4pm)
🆓 Free admission - donations invited
🚶Visit Dunblane Museum on Saturdays until 20 Dec
🕥 10.30am-4.30pm (last entry 4pm)
🆓 Free admission - donations invited
December 15, 2025 at 7:48 AM
#ArchiveAdventCalendar theme 15 is #WrappingPaper. Don’t you think this Dunblane Museum wrapping paper design looks cute?
🚶Visit Dunblane Museum on Saturdays until 20 Dec
🕥 10.30am-4.30pm (last entry 4pm)
🆓 Free admission - donations invited
🚶Visit Dunblane Museum on Saturdays until 20 Dec
🕥 10.30am-4.30pm (last entry 4pm)
🆓 Free admission - donations invited
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Child Hollywood star Jane Withers delivers a beautifully wrapped pile of presents. With only 10 DAYS until #Christmas it's deffo time to get the #wrappingpaper out. Film Star Scrapbooks c 1930-1945 for @arascot.bsky.social's #ArchiveAdventCalendar #filmhistory #filmarchives @librarydmu.bsky.social
December 15, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Child Hollywood star Jane Withers delivers a beautifully wrapped pile of presents. With only 10 DAYS until #Christmas it's deffo time to get the #wrappingpaper out. Film Star Scrapbooks c 1930-1945 for @arascot.bsky.social's #ArchiveAdventCalendar #filmhistory #filmarchives @librarydmu.bsky.social
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@arascot.bsky.social I would not have minded a present wrapped in this. A sheet of #WrappingPaper for the old Edinburgh bakers D.S. Crawford & designed for them, like much of their publicity material, by Robert Burns in 1924. It would have been used in their shops & tearooms. #ArchiveAdventCalendar
December 15, 2025 at 9:31 AM
@arascot.bsky.social I would not have minded a present wrapped in this. A sheet of #WrappingPaper for the old Edinburgh bakers D.S. Crawford & designed for them, like much of their publicity material, by Robert Burns in 1924. It would have been used in their shops & tearooms. #ArchiveAdventCalendar
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A recruitment poster for the 9th (Cyclist) Battalion, as they were established for General Service for the First World War. Before it entered our collection it was used as a means of packing up a picture! 🎁🖼️
#ArchiveAdventCalendar #WrappingPaper #hampshirehistory #visitwinchester #visithampshire
#ArchiveAdventCalendar #WrappingPaper #hampshirehistory #visitwinchester #visithampshire
December 15, 2025 at 9:48 AM
A recruitment poster for the 9th (Cyclist) Battalion, as they were established for General Service for the First World War. Before it entered our collection it was used as a means of packing up a picture! 🎁🖼️
#ArchiveAdventCalendar #WrappingPaper #hampshirehistory #visitwinchester #visithampshire
#ArchiveAdventCalendar #WrappingPaper #hampshirehistory #visitwinchester #visithampshire
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Paper bags for sales at the fish stall at Walthamstow market, c1960s. #ArchiveAdventCalendar #WrappingPaper @arascot.bsky.social
December 15, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Paper bags for sales at the fish stall at Walthamstow market, c1960s. #ArchiveAdventCalendar #WrappingPaper @arascot.bsky.social
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Need inspiration for your gift wrapping? Here are some #WrappingPaper samples from a Shaw-cum-Donnington Women's Institute scrap book dated 1965. #ArchiveAdventCalendar
December 15, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Need inspiration for your gift wrapping? Here are some #WrappingPaper samples from a Shaw-cum-Donnington Women's Institute scrap book dated 1965. #ArchiveAdventCalendar
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#ArchiveAdventCalendar Who remembers this co-op #WrappingPaper and going to see Father Christmas at the grotto? 🎅
December 15, 2025 at 11:26 AM
#ArchiveAdventCalendar Who remembers this co-op #WrappingPaper and going to see Father Christmas at the grotto? 🎅
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We may be biased, but we do think marbled paper makes the most beautiful #WrappingPaper there is 😍
#ArchiveAdventCalendar
#ArchiveAdventCalendar
December 15, 2025 at 12:20 PM
We may be biased, but we do think marbled paper makes the most beautiful #WrappingPaper there is 😍
#ArchiveAdventCalendar
#ArchiveAdventCalendar
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@arascot.bsky.social For #Day15 of #ArchiveAdventCalendar with @arascot.bsky.social we really scratched our heads with this one. Until we remembered the box of photos of Mearnskirk Hospital at Christmas in 1955! #WrappingPaper! 🎄 🎅 🎁
December 15, 2025 at 12:42 PM
@arascot.bsky.social For #Day15 of #ArchiveAdventCalendar with @arascot.bsky.social we really scratched our heads with this one. Until we remembered the box of photos of Mearnskirk Hospital at Christmas in 1955! #WrappingPaper! 🎄 🎅 🎁
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The #britishmuseum #archives has a lot of hand printed and embossed paper, often used to wrap archival documents and papers. These are particularly lovely examples, from Lady Banks’s Dairy Book of Oriental China from the early 19th C. #archiveadventcalendar #wrappingpaper
December 15, 2025 at 12:44 PM
The #britishmuseum #archives has a lot of hand printed and embossed paper, often used to wrap archival documents and papers. These are particularly lovely examples, from Lady Banks’s Dairy Book of Oriental China from the early 19th C. #archiveadventcalendar #wrappingpaper
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We may not have any colourful #Christmas #wrappingpaper in the archive…but we do have gold paperclips and acid free tape - making do, archivist-style.
@arascot.bsky.social #ArchiveAdventCalendar
@arascot.bsky.social #ArchiveAdventCalendar
December 15, 2025 at 1:56 PM
We may not have any colourful #Christmas #wrappingpaper in the archive…but we do have gold paperclips and acid free tape - making do, archivist-style.
@arascot.bsky.social #ArchiveAdventCalendar
@arascot.bsky.social #ArchiveAdventCalendar
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Christmas cheer from the back of a van!
Members of the Women's Land Army receiving festive gifts 🎁 during the Second World War, in this seasonal view from the Young Women's Christian Association archives
(more info at mrc-describe.epexio.com/records/YWC/...)
#ArchiveAdventCalendar #WrappingPaper
Members of the Women's Land Army receiving festive gifts 🎁 during the Second World War, in this seasonal view from the Young Women's Christian Association archives
(more info at mrc-describe.epexio.com/records/YWC/...)
#ArchiveAdventCalendar #WrappingPaper
December 15, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Christmas cheer from the back of a van!
Members of the Women's Land Army receiving festive gifts 🎁 during the Second World War, in this seasonal view from the Young Women's Christian Association archives
(more info at mrc-describe.epexio.com/records/YWC/...)
#ArchiveAdventCalendar #WrappingPaper
Members of the Women's Land Army receiving festive gifts 🎁 during the Second World War, in this seasonal view from the Young Women's Christian Association archives
(more info at mrc-describe.epexio.com/records/YWC/...)
#ArchiveAdventCalendar #WrappingPaper
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#archiveadventcalendar
#day15
Well today was tough for us but we give you Santa visiting one happy and one terrified child 😜 in 1920 with Matron Jane Melrose looking on. Spot the stack of presents at the bottom of the bed beautifully presented with #wrappingpaper & ribbon
@arascot.bsky.social
#day15
Well today was tough for us but we give you Santa visiting one happy and one terrified child 😜 in 1920 with Matron Jane Melrose looking on. Spot the stack of presents at the bottom of the bed beautifully presented with #wrappingpaper & ribbon
@arascot.bsky.social
December 15, 2025 at 2:38 PM
#archiveadventcalendar
#day15
Well today was tough for us but we give you Santa visiting one happy and one terrified child 😜 in 1920 with Matron Jane Melrose looking on. Spot the stack of presents at the bottom of the bed beautifully presented with #wrappingpaper & ribbon
@arascot.bsky.social
#day15
Well today was tough for us but we give you Santa visiting one happy and one terrified child 😜 in 1920 with Matron Jane Melrose looking on. Spot the stack of presents at the bottom of the bed beautifully presented with #wrappingpaper & ribbon
@arascot.bsky.social
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We have a small display here at #BexleyArchives on Hides department store which includes this paper bag. Hides was a popular shop in Bexleyheath's Broadway 1861-1979 and had wonderful displays every Christmas. #WrappingPaper #ArchiveAdventCalendar
December 15, 2025 at 3:11 PM
We have a small display here at #BexleyArchives on Hides department store which includes this paper bag. Hides was a popular shop in Bexleyheath's Broadway 1861-1979 and had wonderful displays every Christmas. #WrappingPaper #ArchiveAdventCalendar