Adele Redhead 🏴
@delredhead.bsky.social
Archivist, senior lecturer and archival educator of #IMPs - palaeography; cataloguing; metadata; records and information management @UofGlasgow, cat lover
All views my own, RTs may be.
All views my own, RTs may be.
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#HistNursing #HistMidwifery #Belfast
Fascinating blog, esp on ‘handywomen’ in working class women’s health
@rcnhistory.bsky.social
Fascinating blog, esp on ‘handywomen’ in working class women’s health
@rcnhistory.bsky.social
We are delighted to announce that our second Emerging Scholars Blog is now available to read on our site. Congratulations to Dr Caitlín Smith for writing this wonderful piece. #spéirgorm #womenshistory
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Regulation of midwives in Belfast in the first half of the twentieth century
Between 1907 and 1929, Mrs Sarah C. was taken to court on three occasions and brought before the Maternal and Child Welfare Committee of the Belfast Corporation on six occasions for misconduct and …
womenshistoryassociation.com
June 22, 2025 at 7:27 PM
#HistNursing #HistMidwifery #Belfast
Fascinating blog, esp on ‘handywomen’ in working class women’s health
@rcnhistory.bsky.social
Fascinating blog, esp on ‘handywomen’ in working class women’s health
@rcnhistory.bsky.social
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📚 For book historian Allie Alvis (@book-historia.bsky.social), preserving rare books isn’t just about the objects—it’s about telling their stories. Alvis brings those hidden histories to life through social media, informing & entertaining a growing audience. blog.archive.org/2025/04/09/v...
April 9, 2025 at 2:02 PM
📚 For book historian Allie Alvis (@book-historia.bsky.social), preserving rare books isn’t just about the objects—it’s about telling their stories. Alvis brings those hidden histories to life through social media, informing & entertaining a growing audience. blog.archive.org/2025/04/09/v...
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Make copies, preserve them, create a parallel black list, hide this list.
Deleting research from databases or from being found renders knowledge as good as non-existent.
Deleting research from databases or from being found renders knowledge as good as non-existent.
This is the literal destruction of knowledge.
Mississippi libraries are being ordered to remove academic research on race and gender from library databases.
mississippitoday.org/2025/04/08/m...
Mississippi libraries are being ordered to remove academic research on race and gender from library databases.
mississippitoday.org/2025/04/08/m...
Mississippi libraries ordered to delete academic research in response to state laws - Mississippi Today
The two research collections state officials ordered for deletion included material from professional journals, conference papers, books, student dissertations, periodicals and newspaper articles.
mississippitoday.org
April 9, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Make copies, preserve them, create a parallel black list, hide this list.
Deleting research from databases or from being found renders knowledge as good as non-existent.
Deleting research from databases or from being found renders knowledge as good as non-existent.
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How Digital Archivists Are Saving Public Information from the Memory Hole
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Can We Trust Our Government to Safeguard Vital Research Data? Meet the Digital Archivists Battling to Keep Information Accessible!
Through clever usage of APIs, the Library Innovation Lab at Harvard Law School has created an archive of Data.gov, home to 311,000 public datasets
spectrum.ieee.org
April 1, 2025 at 6:26 PM
How Digital Archivists Are Saving Public Information from the Memory Hole
➡️ spectrum.ieee.org/digital-arch...
➡️ spectrum.ieee.org/digital-arch...
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I love libraries and archives and museums. To read about the history of work to maintain libraries and share histories I suggest you skip my piece and just go buy this book (or! request it at your local library!) but if you need to be convinced, here:
lareviewofbooks.org/article/blac...
lareviewofbooks.org/article/blac...
Black Archives, Not Archives of Blackness: On Laura Helton’s “Scattered and Fugitive Things” | Los Angeles Review of Books
Dorothy Berry reviews Laura Helton’s “Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History.”
lareviewofbooks.org
March 15, 2025 at 2:53 PM
I love libraries and archives and museums. To read about the history of work to maintain libraries and share histories I suggest you skip my piece and just go buy this book (or! request it at your local library!) but if you need to be convinced, here:
lareviewofbooks.org/article/blac...
lareviewofbooks.org/article/blac...
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It's #dpc #digitalpreservation #ff Follow Friday. This week a simple reflection. Data has never mattered more, and never more fragile. #DPC and the #digipres community have expertise and contacts that will help with that. Spread the word and save the bits.
February 14, 2025 at 1:21 PM
It's #dpc #digitalpreservation #ff Follow Friday. This week a simple reflection. Data has never mattered more, and never more fragile. #DPC and the #digipres community have expertise and contacts that will help with that. Spread the word and save the bits.
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Love my job. Love all the ethical questioning it swims in. Love that it is so embedded in society. Love that it is about public and common good. Love that its independence is a sign of a working democracy.
#Archivist
#Archivist
February 12, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Love my job. Love all the ethical questioning it swims in. Love that it is so embedded in society. Love that it is about public and common good. Love that its independence is a sign of a working democracy.
#Archivist
#Archivist
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This post by a former NARA employee is good, outlining some of its powers and responsibilities.
I knew that NARA administered the Electoral College. There’s a lot of similarly important stuff.
It will *not be good* for the next Archivist of the United States to be a Trump stooge.
I knew that NARA administered the Electoral College. There’s a lot of similarly important stuff.
It will *not be good* for the next Archivist of the United States to be a Trump stooge.
February 10, 2025 at 8:12 AM
This post by a former NARA employee is good, outlining some of its powers and responsibilities.
I knew that NARA administered the Electoral College. There’s a lot of similarly important stuff.
It will *not be good* for the next Archivist of the United States to be a Trump stooge.
I knew that NARA administered the Electoral College. There’s a lot of similarly important stuff.
It will *not be good* for the next Archivist of the United States to be a Trump stooge.
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So, the issues of preservation of records, evidence and memory have arrived already.
#NoDemocracyWithoutArchives
#NoDemocracyWithoutArchives
Deleting the database appears to violate 44 U.S.C. § 3106 which requires that agencies notify the archivist upon the removal or deletion of federal records. There is no indication that the DOJ reported the deletion to the National Archives and Records Administration.
Deletion of Jan 6 charges database appears to violate the law - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
The DOJ’s removal of a database detailing criminal charges and convictions related to the January 6th attack from its website appears to be illegal. The DOJ’s removal of a database detailing criminal ...
www.citizensforethics.org
January 31, 2025 at 9:47 PM
So, the issues of preservation of records, evidence and memory have arrived already.
#NoDemocracyWithoutArchives
#NoDemocracyWithoutArchives
Today some of my wonderful #IMPs students in @uofgartshums.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social gave me a gift for #ChineseNewYear #YearOfTheSnake 😎😎😎
January 29, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Today some of my wonderful #IMPs students in @uofgartshums.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social gave me a gift for #ChineseNewYear #YearOfTheSnake 😎😎😎
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To find out more about Liberating Histories, tune into our podcast series 🎙️
It explores the last 50 years of feminism through the campaigns, communities & controversies sparked by some of its most cherished magazines ✨
Listen wherever you get your podcasts: liberatinghistories.org/podcast-seri...
It explores the last 50 years of feminism through the campaigns, communities & controversies sparked by some of its most cherished magazines ✨
Listen wherever you get your podcasts: liberatinghistories.org/podcast-seri...
January 22, 2025 at 4:23 PM
To find out more about Liberating Histories, tune into our podcast series 🎙️
It explores the last 50 years of feminism through the campaigns, communities & controversies sparked by some of its most cherished magazines ✨
Listen wherever you get your podcasts: liberatinghistories.org/podcast-seri...
It explores the last 50 years of feminism through the campaigns, communities & controversies sparked by some of its most cherished magazines ✨
Listen wherever you get your podcasts: liberatinghistories.org/podcast-seri...
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Well done that nameless archivist! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckg3kxqqykzo
January 12, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Well done that nameless archivist! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckg3kxqqykzo
I love nativity sets. Just leaving this here 😎
Packing up the nativities in St Clare’s shop and thought I’d send one out as a gift to someone. Repost this post for a chance to win this Fair Trade nativity set from Peru.
Nativity, Peruvian ceramics
This wonderful little ceramic nativity set has been crafted and hand painted in Cusco in Peru and features Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus alongside some cute stable characters – with a Peruvian …
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January 7, 2025 at 10:23 PM
I love nativity sets. Just leaving this here 😎
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Historians celebrating New Year’s Eve, or they call it ‘new government archival documents declassification day’
December 31, 2024 at 10:44 AM
Historians celebrating New Year’s Eve, or they call it ‘new government archival documents declassification day’
Tried a version of ham in cola today, using Irn Bru. It is delicious, will def do again!
December 26, 2024 at 6:23 PM
Tried a version of ham in cola today, using Irn Bru. It is delicious, will def do again!
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Earlier this year I was at a university meeting on the use of LLMs in assessment, and the presenter said “there’s no reliable system that detects AI”, and all the STEM people nodded while all the humanities people said “er, you just *read* it.”
December 15, 2024 at 6:40 PM
Earlier this year I was at a university meeting on the use of LLMs in assessment, and the presenter said “there’s no reliable system that detects AI”, and all the STEM people nodded while all the humanities people said “er, you just *read* it.”
Just some of the @uofglasgow.bsky.social Information Studies staff at graduation today - many, many congratulations to our #IMPs and #MuseumStudies MSc students - we are so proud of you! @dmcmenemy.bsky.social
December 9, 2024 at 9:47 PM
Just some of the @uofglasgow.bsky.social Information Studies staff at graduation today - many, many congratulations to our #IMPs and #MuseumStudies MSc students - we are so proud of you! @dmcmenemy.bsky.social
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We’re recruiting for a Collaborative Doctoral Award @ies-sas.bsky.social working in collaboration with British Jesuit Archives! A funded PhD project that seeks to reconstruct a Jesuit library. Find out more and apply at the following link, and please share: www.lahp.ac.uk/prospective-...
Collaborative Doctoral Awards – student recruitment - LAHP
Information Session The information session for candidates will be held virtually, on Zoom, on 9 December 2024. Candidates can expect a briefing about the application process, tips for how to strength...
www.lahp.ac.uk
December 5, 2024 at 5:15 PM
We’re recruiting for a Collaborative Doctoral Award @ies-sas.bsky.social working in collaboration with British Jesuit Archives! A funded PhD project that seeks to reconstruct a Jesuit library. Find out more and apply at the following link, and please share: www.lahp.ac.uk/prospective-...
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"When Overwhelmed Archivist enters the battlefield..."
December 3, 2024 at 6:37 PM
"When Overwhelmed Archivist enters the battlefield..."
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More from our blog series for: #UKLHM #LocalHistoryMonth
We have a blog from Prof Lucy Delap reflecting on the challenges even experienced users of archives face when searching for disability and Deaf histories. www.archives.org.uk/news/disabil...
We have a blog from Prof Lucy Delap reflecting on the challenges even experienced users of archives face when searching for disability and Deaf histories. www.archives.org.uk/news/disabil...
Disability History Month: Accessibility and Archives — Archives & Records Association
“For disability, see infirmities” This is one of four blogs written for Disability History Month 2025 - you can read the other blogs here (published each Thursday up to 12th December) alongside oth...
www.archives.org.uk
December 2, 2024 at 11:56 AM
More from our blog series for: #UKLHM #LocalHistoryMonth
We have a blog from Prof Lucy Delap reflecting on the challenges even experienced users of archives face when searching for disability and Deaf histories. www.archives.org.uk/news/disabil...
We have a blog from Prof Lucy Delap reflecting on the challenges even experienced users of archives face when searching for disability and Deaf histories. www.archives.org.uk/news/disabil...
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There's something here about the way "middle class white women, amirite" has become such an all purpose clapback on social media that *even a rich middle class white man accused of sexual misconduct* now thinks it'll work as a defence, I think?
December 1, 2024 at 9:05 AM
There's something here about the way "middle class white women, amirite" has become such an all purpose clapback on social media that *even a rich middle class white man accused of sexual misconduct* now thinks it'll work as a defence, I think?
Today I gave one of my favourite but most difficult lectures of the year; ‘records of life and death’… which leads into memory and the archive.
Every time I am in the office, I walk past this. It is a remembrance of members of the University community who have died recently.
Every time I am in the office, I walk past this. It is a remembrance of members of the University community who have died recently.
November 26, 2024 at 10:21 PM
Today I gave one of my favourite but most difficult lectures of the year; ‘records of life and death’… which leads into memory and the archive.
Every time I am in the office, I walk past this. It is a remembrance of members of the University community who have died recently.
Every time I am in the office, I walk past this. It is a remembrance of members of the University community who have died recently.
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November 25, 2024 at 6:14 PM
Calling mid-career library and archive professionals 📣
Looking to advance your career and connect with international peers? Join our International Library Leaders Programme for behind-the-scenes access and valuable insights.
Apply by 6 February 2025: bit.ly/BL-Internati...
Looking to advance your career and connect with international peers? Join our International Library Leaders Programme for behind-the-scenes access and valuable insights.
Apply by 6 February 2025: bit.ly/BL-Internati...