Claire Titley
@clairelouisetitley.bsky.social
Archivist. Shropshire lass in Leytonstone. Interests include London history, books, hills, art, architecture. 🐈⬛ 🇵🇸
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Exactly one woman has won the Booker in the past six years www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 16, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Exactly one woman has won the Booker in the past six years www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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January is bleak with nothing happening EXCEPT you can come to the London Metropolitan Archives for my talk on sexuality in the capital during the Second World War, from the cover of the blackout to LGBT+ lives AND new research on the mackintosh fetish scene:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/men-at-war...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/men-at-war...
Men At War – Lusting Loving Fighting Remembering 1939-1945
Join author Luke Turner to explore how the social upheaval of the Second World War had a profound impact on the sex lives of Londoners.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 16, 2025 at 11:02 AM
January is bleak with nothing happening EXCEPT you can come to the London Metropolitan Archives for my talk on sexuality in the capital during the Second World War, from the cover of the blackout to LGBT+ lives AND new research on the mackintosh fetish scene:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/men-at-war...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/men-at-war...
This is an amazing piece of work, the London Ringways being one of the great “what ifs” of 20C town planning
New! After eight years of waiting, they're online! See London's unbuilt motorways as even their planners never could in our amazing, immersive Ringways Map, hosted by the amazing SABRE Maps. It *might* be the best thing we've ever done. #ringways
The Ringways Map is here
The wait is over! The full map of the Ringways, London’s unbuilt urban motorway network, is now online. Not even the system's planners had anything like this.
www.roads.org.uk
November 16, 2025 at 10:49 AM
This is an amazing piece of work, the London Ringways being one of the great “what ifs” of 20C town planning
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Congratulations to Labour who have won the coveted Tommy Robinson endorsement. Excited for sensibles to explain to me why I have to vote for the people enacting actual fascist policy.
November 16, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Congratulations to Labour who have won the coveted Tommy Robinson endorsement. Excited for sensibles to explain to me why I have to vote for the people enacting actual fascist policy.
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“Only one woman author—not as famous as Capote—equaled the power of his 1947 photograph: Jane Bowles in Karl Bissinger‘s portrait, taken in 1946 to accompany a story of hers that appeared in Harper‘s Bazaar.” — Hilton Als, The Women, WHITE GIRLS (p109) *Loving this book.
November 11, 2025 at 6:47 PM
“Only one woman author—not as famous as Capote—equaled the power of his 1947 photograph: Jane Bowles in Karl Bissinger‘s portrait, taken in 1946 to accompany a story of hers that appeared in Harper‘s Bazaar.” — Hilton Als, The Women, WHITE GIRLS (p109) *Loving this book.
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I would quite like his high-collared winter overcoat. And those natty little yellow gloves.
The Orange Fruit Dove decorates the treetops with its flame-like plumage. This species lives in forests on the islands of Fiji, where it munches on fruits and berries. Only males display bold orange plumage; females are green.
Photo: Charles J. Sharp, CC BY-SA 4.0, iNaturalist
Photo: Charles J. Sharp, CC BY-SA 4.0, iNaturalist
November 11, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I would quite like his high-collared winter overcoat. And those natty little yellow gloves.
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It’s difficult to underestimate the extra burden that this is placing on our public libraries. For example, on a daily basis library workers are now filling the in-person/human service gap that billion euro banking institutions have abdicated from to maximise their profit margins.
"Essential services are now digital by default, leaving many older people feeling locked out of their own lives."
As more of our lives move online by default, digital ageism has quietly become one of the last unchallenged prejudices, writes Fiona Daly.
jrnl.ie/6864189
As more of our lives move online by default, digital ageism has quietly become one of the last unchallenged prejudices, writes Fiona Daly.
jrnl.ie/6864189
Opinion: We’ve grown far too comfortable excluding older people from the digital world
As more of our lives move online by default, digital ageism has quietly become one of the last unchallenged prejudices, writes Fiona Daly.
jrnl.ie
November 11, 2025 at 8:40 AM
It’s difficult to underestimate the extra burden that this is placing on our public libraries. For example, on a daily basis library workers are now filling the in-person/human service gap that billion euro banking institutions have abdicated from to maximise their profit margins.
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🚨 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...
📜 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...
November 10, 2025 at 10:52 AM
🚨 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...
📜 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...
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The ability of the far right to insist that their views - trans people are lying perverts, climate change is a hoax, immigrants are all thieving, raping scum - are necessarily legitimate & must be given a hearing is already a vast victory for forms of extremism beyond the pale not long ago.
What bothers me is that impartiality and balance are two different and incompatible things. Impartiality means that you don't intervene to put your thumb on the scales. Balance necessarily requires that you intervene to artificially make every issue look like a 50/50.
November 10, 2025 at 11:02 AM
The ability of the far right to insist that their views - trans people are lying perverts, climate change is a hoax, immigrants are all thieving, raping scum - are necessarily legitimate & must be given a hearing is already a vast victory for forms of extremism beyond the pale not long ago.
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Really pleased to announce the launch of the all-new, all-dancing, London Lives website - www.londonlives.org It has been thoroughly re-engineered to facilitate more types of search, and redesigned for phones and tablets. The team very much hopes peope like it. 1/
London Lives
www.londonlives.org
November 5, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Really pleased to announce the launch of the all-new, all-dancing, London Lives website - www.londonlives.org It has been thoroughly re-engineered to facilitate more types of search, and redesigned for phones and tablets. The team very much hopes peope like it. 1/
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Hi Lisa Nandy! I’m a BAFTA winner from a small town. Instead of asinine questions like this, why not tell us how we can continue to make a living in the eviscerated creative sector over which you notionally preside?
October 31, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Hi Lisa Nandy! I’m a BAFTA winner from a small town. Instead of asinine questions like this, why not tell us how we can continue to make a living in the eviscerated creative sector over which you notionally preside?
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Everytime I think about this I get so angry. Not just my wasted time but the ~20 other ppl who helped me with this internally & externally, the fricking community partners who put in time and got NOTHING. For a 1-2% success rate. How on EARTH is this good use of tax funding? Wish I hadn't bothered.
After submitting a FOIA request UKRI, I obtained success rates by three grant call scheme and I can only say that I am disheartened by the results:
- AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2%
- ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1%
- ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%
- AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2%
- ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1%
- ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%
October 27, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Everytime I think about this I get so angry. Not just my wasted time but the ~20 other ppl who helped me with this internally & externally, the fricking community partners who put in time and got NOTHING. For a 1-2% success rate. How on EARTH is this good use of tax funding? Wish I hadn't bothered.
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Welp
The dead internet theory is feeling pretty smug right now
The dead internet theory is feeling pretty smug right now
October 26, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Welp
The dead internet theory is feeling pretty smug right now
The dead internet theory is feeling pretty smug right now
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I’m going to tell my students this was Brexit
October 25, 2025 at 5:48 AM
I’m going to tell my students this was Brexit
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the tories are proposing to deport 5-7% of the UK's (legal) population
not of immigrants, of all of us
not of immigrants, of all of us
October 22, 2025 at 5:47 PM
the tories are proposing to deport 5-7% of the UK's (legal) population
not of immigrants, of all of us
not of immigrants, of all of us
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Step back into London's Music Hall! 🎩
🏛️ Join The London Archives for talks, rare document displays & expert insights : www.thelondonarchives.org/whats-on/cen...
🎭 Head to @canalmuseum.bsky.social
for 'Gatti's Music Hall' – a live Victorian performance www.canalmuseum.org.uk/whatson/musi...
🏛️ Join The London Archives for talks, rare document displays & expert insights : www.thelondonarchives.org/whats-on/cen...
🎭 Head to @canalmuseum.bsky.social
for 'Gatti's Music Hall' – a live Victorian performance www.canalmuseum.org.uk/whatson/musi...
October 21, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Step back into London's Music Hall! 🎩
🏛️ Join The London Archives for talks, rare document displays & expert insights : www.thelondonarchives.org/whats-on/cen...
🎭 Head to @canalmuseum.bsky.social
for 'Gatti's Music Hall' – a live Victorian performance www.canalmuseum.org.uk/whatson/musi...
🏛️ Join The London Archives for talks, rare document displays & expert insights : www.thelondonarchives.org/whats-on/cen...
🎭 Head to @canalmuseum.bsky.social
for 'Gatti's Music Hall' – a live Victorian performance www.canalmuseum.org.uk/whatson/musi...
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Almost everything I've seen about implementing AI in archives feels as though it was written in a world with neither archivists nor archival description
I have read through the new OCLC blog post about AI in archives (hangingtogether.org/exploring-ai...) and liveblogged my response over on Mastodon.
Overall, it really doesn't feel like they consulted with archivists or took our expertise seriously.
Some highlights:
Overall, it really doesn't feel like they consulted with archivists or took our expertise seriously.
Some highlights:
Exploring AI uses in archives and special collections: Integration, entities, and addressing need - Hanging Together
Learn how archives and special collections are exploring using AI responsibly to meet accessibility requirements and improve access to unique resources.
hangingtogether.org
October 15, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Almost everything I've seen about implementing AI in archives feels as though it was written in a world with neither archivists nor archival description
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The LCC planners in County Hall couldn't open the windows because their plans would be covered in dirt and grit. Up to 4,000 died in the Great Smog of 1952. Today? Air quality is on the up and up. 'Yesterday's Britain, A Better Britain' is a sick joke. Never go back. (2/2)
October 10, 2025 at 4:51 PM
The LCC planners in County Hall couldn't open the windows because their plans would be covered in dirt and grit. Up to 4,000 died in the Great Smog of 1952. Today? Air quality is on the up and up. 'Yesterday's Britain, A Better Britain' is a sick joke. Never go back. (2/2)
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How has paperwork served as a tool of empowerment for people who often find power elusive?
In our latest podcast, a group of historians, archivists, and activists met at the Raphael Samuel History Centre (@rshc.bsky.social) to discuss the hidden history of paperwork 🗃️🎙️
In our latest podcast, a group of historians, archivists, and activists met at the Raphael Samuel History Centre (@rshc.bsky.social) to discuss the hidden history of paperwork 🗃️🎙️
Changing The Record
How has paperwork served over time as a radical tool for empowerment and change?
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
September 30, 2025 at 7:02 AM
How has paperwork served as a tool of empowerment for people who often find power elusive?
In our latest podcast, a group of historians, archivists, and activists met at the Raphael Samuel History Centre (@rshc.bsky.social) to discuss the hidden history of paperwork 🗃️🎙️
In our latest podcast, a group of historians, archivists, and activists met at the Raphael Samuel History Centre (@rshc.bsky.social) to discuss the hidden history of paperwork 🗃️🎙️
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Making archival boxes:
Human🤝Machine
If you don't fancy watching a box being made for 90 seconds, I would look away now.
Our conservation team, and their big scary machine, make around 2000 boxes every year. They can be made to almost any size and dimension, and can be completely customised.
Human🤝Machine
If you don't fancy watching a box being made for 90 seconds, I would look away now.
Our conservation team, and their big scary machine, make around 2000 boxes every year. They can be made to almost any size and dimension, and can be completely customised.
October 6, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Making archival boxes:
Human🤝Machine
If you don't fancy watching a box being made for 90 seconds, I would look away now.
Our conservation team, and their big scary machine, make around 2000 boxes every year. They can be made to almost any size and dimension, and can be completely customised.
Human🤝Machine
If you don't fancy watching a box being made for 90 seconds, I would look away now.
Our conservation team, and their big scary machine, make around 2000 boxes every year. They can be made to almost any size and dimension, and can be completely customised.
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At Lambeth Archives we are recruiting a Borough Archivist, details: effe.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... Please share!
Borough Archivist
Borough Archivist- REF 2499 PO1: £43,308 pa rising in annual increments to £45,852 pa inc Part-Time (27.5 Hours) Permanent Contract
effe.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com
October 1, 2025 at 6:04 PM
At Lambeth Archives we are recruiting a Borough Archivist, details: effe.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... Please share!
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Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
September 29, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
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Hold up, hold up.
*This* is a key financial backer of the Tony Blair Institute for Change, and the owner of the company in pole position to deal with the UK's digital ID roll-out?
RIGHTO.
fortune.com/2024/09/17/o...
*This* is a key financial backer of the Tony Blair Institute for Change, and the owner of the company in pole position to deal with the UK's digital ID roll-out?
RIGHTO.
fortune.com/2024/09/17/o...
Larry Ellison predicts rise of the modern surveillance state where ‘citizens will be on their best behavior’ | Fortune
Oracle's Larry Ellison believes citizens and police alike will be under constant surveillance of each other.
fortune.com
September 28, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Hold up, hold up.
*This* is a key financial backer of the Tony Blair Institute for Change, and the owner of the company in pole position to deal with the UK's digital ID roll-out?
RIGHTO.
fortune.com/2024/09/17/o...
*This* is a key financial backer of the Tony Blair Institute for Change, and the owner of the company in pole position to deal with the UK's digital ID roll-out?
RIGHTO.
fortune.com/2024/09/17/o...
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A short post about the Modern British City, out in November: www.lundhumphries.com/blogs/featur...
September 23, 2025 at 1:43 PM
A short post about the Modern British City, out in November: www.lundhumphries.com/blogs/featur...