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Archives West Midlands is a Non-Profit Organization that exists to protect and conserve the regions rich and diverse archives for now and for the future.
https://www.archiveswestmidlands.org.uk/
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Archives West Midlands @archiveswm.bsky.social · Nov 17
Hello #Bluesky 👋
As an introduction, we are an independent not for profit partnership of archive services in the region. We collaborate on projects and strategy, and provide training, resources and advocacy. To learn more about who we are see our website
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Archives West Midlands
Providing a voice for the region’s archives
www.archiveswestmidlands.org.uk
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One ledger survives.

During the First World War, the Yorkshire Miners' Association recorded members who had died on active service. By January 1918 3529 names had been written.

The last and only surviving volume covers 1918-1921 and can be seen in full at wdc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...
First page of a 'Registration book' kept by the Yorkshire Miners' Association recording members killed or died during military service. The volume starts on 2 January 1918 and the last entry was made over three years later, in February 1921. At the top of the page is a running total - previous volumes, now missing, had recorded 3529 names (3401 men and 128 women). Archives of the Yorkshire Miners' Association, document reference: 1479/YK/9/3/1.
November 12, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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We’re inviting qualified archive professionals, or those with equivalent experience, to join the pool of consultants for the #ArchivesRevealed Scoping Grants funding strand!

Find out more and apply here: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-rev... (1/3)
An archivist and a volunteer sit in a reading room and hold open a diary resting on a cushion. Next to them sits a box containing a painting of a soldier from World War One.
November 12, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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🚨ONE MONTH'S TIME!🚨

Railway Work, Life & Death project co-lead Mike is privileged to give the 2025 @balhnews.bsky.social Dymond Lecture!

‘Heads – you lose!’ Working for the railways in Britain before 1939
Thursday 11 December 2025, 7pm, online

#LocalHistory #Railway200

www.balh.org.uk/dymond2025
Posed staff safety image, showing a railwayman leaning out of a guard's van, about to hit his head on a passing signal post. The image caption reads 'Heads - you lose!', with explanatory text above.
November 11, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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🔔 We are recruiting! Job spec, salary details & how to apply here: buff.ly/q1SSXCM
ROLE: Ski Collections Cataloguer
FULL TIME: 37 hpw
DURATION: Fixed Term: 5 months
CLOSING DATE: 25-Nov-25

@dmu.ac.uk @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social @icshc.bsky.social @librarydmu.bsky.social @araukie.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Job Opportunity! @mrcwarwick.bsky.social 👇
#Archives #ArchivesWM
mrcwarwick.bsky.social Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick @mrcwarwick.bsky.social · 3d
🚨 Archive Job Alert 🚨

📜 Fancy working with our fantastic archive collections?

We're looking for a *new* MRC Manager to lead our service!

Could this be YOU?

Find out more about the role at warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...

More about the MRC at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...
Five photographs of the Modern Records Centre: Two students walking outside the main entrance. A view down the aisle of one of our strongrooms. A student looking through a photograph album in our seminar room. Digitisation Assistant at work scanning a volume. A view of our searchroom, with an Archive Assistant handing out a document to a researcher.
November 11, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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This Weds, @araukie.bsky.social Section for New Professionals will be hosting two excellent speakers to talk about job applications for new #archives and #recordsmanagement professionals.
ARA SfNP Online Event: Job Applications and Interviews
Join us online for tips, tricks, and advice on acing your archives and records management applications and interviews.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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👋Hi there @uknatarcsector.bsky.social great to see you here on Bluesky!
#archives #ArchivesWM
uknatarcsector.bsky.social UK Archive Sector Leadership @uknatarcsector.bsky.social · 3d
Hi there! We’re the Archive Sector Leadership team at The National Archives UK.

We support archives of all types and sizes across England.

Lend us a follow and we’ll keep you updated with opportunities for free training, networking, grants, written guidance and more!
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Two people in a repository opening a drawer and examining a large colourful illustration.
November 11, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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It's #WorldDigitalPreservationDay, and we're asking #WhyPreserve ? Our hospitals have been creating digital records in various forms for over 60 years, but as technology evolves, information and records can become inaccessible. Digital preservation is essential for future access #WDPD2025
Photograph of two staff members at the London Hospital seated at IBM microcomputers in front of them, processing hospital expenditure accounts, c1970s [RLHLH/P/2/22/8]
November 6, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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✨Job opportunity ✨
Wolverhampton City Archives are seeking a part-time permanent Archive Assistant
Closing date for applications is 16 November
#archives #ArchivesWM
Archive Assistant - Wolverhampton job with City of Wolverhampton Council | 246586
Please note, this vacancy is currently open to redeployees of City of Wolverhampton Council onlyArchive AssistantSalary - £26403 - £28142 (Grade 4), p
www.wmjobs.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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A reminder that this exhibition runs until 20th December and can be viewed whenever the Archives are open
blackcountrysoc.bsky.social blackcountrysoc.bsky.social @blackcountrysoc.bsky.social · 29d
Photo exhibition at Dudley Archives. 14/10 to 20/12. From Agenoria to Beeching - The first and last days of steam in Dudley. Organised by the Dudley Local Archives and the Black Country Society as a contribution to Railways 200.. More details at www.blackcountrysociety.com/events
November 5, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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#ArchivesWM EDIB self assessment toolkit will be embedded into the Archive Service Accreditation from Spring 2026!
The National #Archives Sector are running online workshops to introduce this toolkit between Dec 2025 - Feb 2026
(all workshops cover same content so only need to book one).
EDIB Self-Assessment Toolkit workshop series
This series introduces the Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging (EDIB) Self-Assessment Toolkit (SAT), developed by Archives West Midlands, embedded as part of the Archive Service Accreditation...
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November 3, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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In one of our latest blogs, @redhen90.bsky.social shares information about the national partnership to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the General Strike 1926.

Find out more: www.balh.org.uk/blog-making-...

#WeAreLocalHistory #LocalHistoryForAll

@gftu.org.uk
The logo for the centenary of the General Strike. It includes images from the strike and the logos of project partners.
October 24, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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An online impact seminar organised by The National Archives to hear how Croydon Archives, Somerset Archives and Local Studies, and TNA are finding creative and inclusive approaches to engaging young people.

🗓️ Wednesday 12 November (10–11.30am)
Online via Zoom
#archives #ArchivesWM
Impact seminar - connecting with young audiences
Join us to hear how archives are finding creative and inclusive approaches to engaging young people.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
October 31, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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#ArchivesWM member Dudley Archives is hosting 'Working Life', a pop-up exhibition by the Dudley Caribbean & Friends Ass. as part of their Culture and Heritage Community Project.
Further information on can be found at:
Black Country Roots: Windrush Voices
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Black Country Roots: Windrush Voices
Stories of Industry and Manufacturing 1950-1970 from Dudley’s Windrush generation. Celebrating Black British heritage through real voices and lived histories.
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October 31, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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The event takes places from 1-2pm GMT. Book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ales-lunch... The event costs £10 for ARA members and £15 for non-ARA members. Please note the event will be recorded and the recording made available for ARA members only. @aranewprofs.bsky.social @araukie.bsky.social
ALES Lunchtime Seminar: "Reminiscence Workshops by Archives: Wigan & Leigh"
This talk will focus on the reminiscence sessions delivered by Archives: Wigan & Leigh at care homes around the Wigan Borough.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
October 22, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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Join Walsall #Archives this Saturday for the Walsall Archives Local History Fair!

Discover the borough’s fascinating past through displays and hands-on family activities, including talk by historian Ian Bott (12 noon, booking required)

📆 Sat 25 Oct
⏰11am–2.30pm
🎟️ Free
A flyer with text and a picture of an old car advertising Walsall Archives Local History Fair 2025 Saturday 25 October 11am to 2.30 pm
October 23, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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On Wednesday 26th November, Dr Anna-Maria Sichani, BRAID Research Fellow, will discuss how the cultural heritage sector can build capacity for responsible #AI

💻 Online
🕑 12-1pm GMT
🎉 Free and open to all ARA members
🎟️ Book your place here by Mon 24th Nov: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/empowering...
Empowering the cultural heritage community through Responsible AI training
A lunchtime webinar on Wednesday 26th November, 12.00pm -13.00pm.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
October 22, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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In one of our new episodes of #LocalHistoryMatters, Tim Hamilton talks about his work with the Black Country Living History Museum.

Listen to all episodes: www.balh.org.uk/podcast

#WeAreLocalHistory #LocalHistoryForAll
On a blue background is a white speech bubble with the words "local history matters."
October 23, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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One of @araen.bsky.social case studies of work in relation to record keeping and climate change includes #ArchivesWM member Shropshire #Archives 👇
araen.bsky.social ARA Environmental Sustainability Group @araen.bsky.social · Jun 9
We are busy collecting new case studies for our website: archives.org.uk/environment-...

If you have any examples of work you are doing in relation to record keeping and climate change, we would love to hear from you!

Email us at ARAenvironment@archives.org.uk

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Environmental Case Studies — Archives & Records Association
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October 23, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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Health is Wealth

During the 1920s the Industrial Health Education Council toured the country, holding 'Heath Meetings' for millworkers, miners & other industrial workers.

These posters and more are in our digitised sources on British healthcare, 1900-1948: warwick.ac.uk/services/lib... #HistMed
Poster advertising health meeting for women mill workers in Dundee, 1926: 'INDUSTRIAL HEALTH EDUCATION COUNCIL "HEALTH IS WEALTH." HEALTH MEETING FOR WOMEN MILLWORKERS YOU ARE INVITED TO ATTEND A MEETING in the Y.M.C.A. HALL. Constitution Road, Dundee, On THURSDAY, 14th JANUARY AT EIGHT P.M. Dr. MARGARET SCOTT DICKSON, Dundee, will speak on "BARGAINS in HEALTH." Mr. NORMAN BLACK, L.D.S., R.C.S., Broughty Ferry, will speak on "TEETH in RELATION to HEALTH." (ILLUSTRATED by LIME-LIGHT SLIDES) There will also be shown a Film by the Dental Board on "THE CARE OF THE TEETH." Also a Film by the Ministry of Health on "Dr. WISE ON INFLUENZA." CHAIR to be taken by Mrs. KINNEAR, Dundee ADMISSION IS FREE, and QUESTIONS are INVITED. NOTE- This is the first of Seven Meetings, and the Mills are being grouped. This Invitation is to the WOMEN MILLWORKERS in the following Mills in the Eastern Area:— Messrs. James Prain & Sons, Larchfield Works ; Messrs. J. N. Kyd & Co., Walton Works ; Messrs. James Robertson & Co., Logie Works ; Messrs. The Victoria Spinning Co., Queen Victoria Works ; Messrs. M. & C. Hill, West Dudhope Works ; Messrs. D. McMaster & Co., South Dudhope Works ; Messrs. Scott, Sons & Co., North Dudhope Works ; Messrs. Alex. Henderson & Sons, South Dudhope Works ; Messrs. John Sharp & Sons' Works ; Messrs. Gilroy, Sons & Co., Tay Works ; Messrs. Wm. Ferguson & Sons, Dudhope Works.' Poster advertising health meeting for miners in Hamilton, 1926: 'Industrial Health Education Council "HEALTH IS WEALTH." MASS MEETING OF MINERS and others interested in the Mining Community IN LA SCALA PICTURE HOUSE, HAMILTON, (By kind permission of the Magistrates and the Management.) ON SUNDAY, 21ST FEBY. At 3 o'clock p.m. Dr. WILLIAM DENNESS, Bothwell, Will speak on "Miners' Sicknesses and Diseases." Dr. CHAS. READ, L.D.S., Glasgow, Will speak on "Teeth in Relation to Health, and what X-Rays reveal on Teeth Decay." There will also be shown Two Films, one by the Dental Board on "The Care of the Teeth." and one by the Ministry of Health on "Dr. Wise on Influenza." CHAIRMAN, - - WILLIAM B. SMALL, ESQ. All interested in the Mining Community invited --- including Ladies. QUESIONS AT THE CLOSE. ADMISSION FREE.'
October 3, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Medievalists and early modernists ahoy! 🚨

Our librarians are surveying the oldest books in the Library Special Collections and have found an intriguing endpaper bound into this 1516 edition of the Decretum Gratiani.

Do YOU recognise this heavily abbreviated Latin scrap?
Page of Latin, heavily abbreviated text, probably from the late 15th or early 16th century, annotated in tiny handwriting. The other side of the page of Latin, also annotated in tiny handwriting, discoloured around the edges by the glue that was used to stick it to the wooden board used for binding.
October 7, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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Great shout out to @archiveswm.bsky.social for developing their EDIB-SAT tool for measuring EDI practice in Archive Services which is now a core part of the new Accreditation Standard 🌟
October 6, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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Good news 📣
Walsall #Archives is extending its opening hours to include Fridays and the first Saturday of every month! Offering residents, researchers and history enthusiasts more opportunities to explore the borough’s rich heritage.
#ArchivesWM
Walsall Archives extends opening hours to welcome more visitors | Walsall Council
Walsall Archives extends opening hours to welcome more visitors
go.walsall.gov.uk
October 4, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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#Archives - something to share with your community groups
✨Archive Basics ✨
a useful resource from The National Archives (UK) for those new to the sector, or those who may not be archive professionals – such as members of community archives and owners of private collections.
Archive basics - Archives sector
This page includes resources for those new to the sector, or those who may not be archive professionals – such as members of community archives and owners of private collections.
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
October 3, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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Find out more at this webinar about the revisions to the Archive Service Accreditation Standard, reflect on what this means for services, and how this will impact on applications.
📅Mon 6 October
🕰️11am-12.45pm (UK time)
💻Online
#archives
Launch of the Revised Archive Service Accreditation Standard
Find out more about the revisions to the standard, reflect on what this means for your service, and how this will impact on applications.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
October 2, 2025 at 3:05 PM