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Award-winning archive of British & international industrial & communication design
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University of Brighton Design Archives @designarchives.bsky.social · Nov 26
Designing from Home: A new short film by design historian @harrietatkinson.bsky.social & Design Archives Director @suebreakell.bsky.social uncovers the domestic space which shaped the life & work of renowned graphic designer & German-Jewish emigrant FHK Henrion (1914-1990)
vimeo.com/1133125381?s...
DESIGNING FROM HOME - OFFICIAL TRAILER
Directed by HARRIET ATKINSON & SUE BREAKELL Produced by HUGH HARTFORD ARCHIVE AGI Alliance Graphique Internationale  The Estate of Ferenc Berko   The…
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designarchives.bsky.social
The Design Archives will be closed from 24 Dec-4 Jan & from 5-16 Jan we will be running a reduced service while we conduct some collection audits.

We wish you all Happy Holidays & Happy New Year.

'Greetings for Christmas'
Designed by Negus & Negus
ICOGRADA / The ICoD archive
ICO/3/14/109
Light pink poster with an illustration of a stamp in red. The stamp is set to 25 Dec 1971, and also says 'Greetings For Christmas, Negus and Negus Designers'. This is a realistic illustration and the stamp reads in reverse.
December 19, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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librarycolleen.bsky.social
When Saving Becomes Loss - Archival Memory in the Digital Age.
National Archives UK. 📜
#AnnualDigitalLecture
youtu.be/aWWrrhrIdYk?...
Annual Digital Lecture 2025 - When saving becomes loss: Archival memory in the digital age
YouTube video by The National Archives UK
youtu.be
December 17, 2025 at 12:06 PM
designarchives.bsky.social
Season's Greetings from Lipson-Jacob Associates
Designer: Stan Brod

ICOGRADA / theICoD archive
ICO/3/32/72

@arascot.bsky.social #ArchiveAdventCalendar #ChristmasColours
Poster with NOEL spelled out in red, the negative space between the letters is green. Each letter occupies a square and the letters are laid out so NO is on top of EL
December 17, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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britishlibrary.bsky.social
We’re excited to share our new main catalogue, making it easier for you to find and request the majority of our published collection. We’ve also launched an interim version of our Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue. Find out how to start searching and requesting on our website bit.ly/BLNewCatalogues
British Library catalogue search page displaying the new main catalogue, designed to make finding and requesting published items easier.
December 15, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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brodiewaddell.bsky.social
Hooray! The British Library has just released a beta version of its rebuilt Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue: searcharchives.bl.uk

2,619 hits for 'petition' in Western Manuscripts, texts in English, in case you're curious. 🗃️
Screenshot of search for 'petition' on the BL's Archives and Manuscript catalogue
December 15, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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sodesignhistory.bsky.social
Introducing thematic foci of the 2026 DHS Annual Conference ⚡️Design in an Age of Uncertainty ⚡️

3. Ecology and Responsibility ♻️

The Call for Papers is officially open 📣

Find out more: buff.ly/XXu0w0L

Deadline? 1st of February 2026 ⏳

#designuncertain
#callforpapers #dhsconference
December 15, 2025 at 12:15 PM
designarchives.bsky.social
#ChristmasCards from the Willy de Majo archive including cards from Theo Crosby, Robin & Lucienne Day, Beverly Pick, and cards designed by De Majo himself.
WDM/7/2/1
@arascot.bsky.social #Archiveadventcalendar

Explore de Majo's archive on the ArchivesHub here: archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/designarchiv...
nine Christmas cards laid out in a grid; there are images of santas, trees, paint brushes to look like ornaments, all in vibrant colours of pink, red, green and blue
December 10, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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uknatarcsector.bsky.social
Applications are open for our Resilience Grants funding programme!

Our Resilience Grants, worth up to £20,000, support archives to respond to change and develop sustainable solutions to any challenges they face.

Apply by Wednesday 21 January 2026: nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-sec...
A staff member in an archive conservation studio holds a clear plastic sheet against a very large paper document.
December 9, 2025 at 11:54 AM
designarchives.bsky.social
All Set For Christmas
Table settings by Housewife, Ideal Home, Good Housekeeping, Woman, presented by the Design Centre

@designcouncil.bsky.social archive
DCA/10/1/93
Features 'Oriana' cutlery by Robert Welch Designs, 1957
@arascot.bsky.social #archiveadventcalendar #FestiveFood
Red poster with gray fork, knife spoon and a white circle with text in black
December 8, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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mrcwarwick.bsky.social
#CfP Call for Papers

Organised by Global History and Culture Centre, University of Warwick:

Between Thompson and the Global: Reflections on Labour History Today

Workshop: 26-27 June 2026, University of Warwick

Deadline for abstracts: 30 January 2026

Submit to globalhistory@warwick.ac.uk
Between Thompson and the Global: Reflections on Labour History Today We invite papers for a workshop entitled “Between Thompson and the Global: Rethinking Labour History Today”, to be held at the University of Warwick on 26-27 June 2026. This workshop will seek to bring together historians of labour to collectively reflect on a large historiographical shift that has taken place over the last two decades, from the social history of labour (in national contexts) to global and trans-national labour history. The social history of labour “from below” is a tradition initiated by E.P Thompson’s The Making of the English Working Class (1963), and extended over several decades by a robust tradition of politically engaged left-wing historical studies of the working classes: a tradition most powerfully entrenched in British historiography (but with many imprints elsewhere, ranging from the United States to Brazil to South Africa to India). The global history of labour, which revised and questioned many of the features of “Thompsonian” history-writing, has sought to overcome “methodological nationalism” in the writing of labour history, to investigate specific labour histories within a global frame, and to enable trans-national histories of workers and work. It has emerged as an increasingly dominant frame of reference for contemporary studies of labour around the world. This workshop seeks to place these two historiographical traditions in conversation with each other, to examine the stakes of the passage from the older, “Thompsonian” tradition to the “global turn”, and to think about the changed meanings of “doing labour history” today. Participants are urged to explicitly reflect on the methodological and conceptual issues at stake in the practice of labour history. We would like to invite submissions that address (but are not necessarily limited to) the following themes: 1. To what extent has the global labour history tradition that has flourished over the last 20 years drawn upon or rejected the methodological and conceptual approaches of Thompsonian social/labour history? What other methodologies and concepts have been deployed and proven fruitful? 2. How do we address the burgeoning critique of Thompsonian social/labour history as parochial and Anglocentric (Bressey, 2015; Satia, 2020), and how have historians responded to this challenge and reshaped British labour history accordingly? What can historians of British labour learn from broader global trajectories of workforce formation and labour movements? 3. How might integrating histories of consumption, environment, and reproduction enrich our understanding of labour and its global entanglements? 4. In what ways can collaboration between historians of Britain and the global south generate new analytical frameworks or unsettle established narratives of class, race, and empire? 5. What kinds of politically-engaged global social and labour history can best respond to the contemporary challenges of rising global inequality and the appropriation of class politics by some sections of the populist right? 6. The legitimacy of 'radical' forms of labour-history writing initially arose from politics, from the apparently established centrality of the industrial working class both in society and in projects of social emancipation. That centrality has now been in precipitous decline for a long time. In this context, how might we think about what the ‘politics of doing labour history’ actually implies today? 7. What has been gained and what has been lost in the shift from a labour history dominated by “history from below” to one dominated by global history? Please send abstracts to globalhistory@warwick.ac.uk
December 8, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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cultinformatics.bsky.social
One week to our webinar on 15 December on "Technical Writing in the Humanities: a facilitated writing sprint" in collaboration with the Programming Historian @proghist.bsky.social. Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/diskah-web...
#DigitalHumanities #DigitalMethods
DISKAH Webinar: Technical Writing in the Humanities
DISKAH webinar on Technical Writing in the Humanities
www.eventbrite.co.uk
December 8, 2025 at 10:48 AM
designarchives.bsky.social
Salon du Cadeau
25 Nov - 4 Dec
Les Halles Courtrai
Designer: Boudewijn Delaere, VVG

Icograda / theICoD Archive
ICO/3/3/41
@arascot.bsky.social
#ArchiveAdventCalendar #boxesandbows
black poster with multicoloured 3d shapes designed and decorated as presents.
December 3, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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heritagenetwork.bsky.social
Calling all Interpretation Consultants!

Our members Birse Community Trust are out to tender for a Digital Interpretation Consultant for their exciting Ballogie Souter's (shoemaker's) shop project.

You can find the full details on our website.

heritagetrustnetwork.org.uk/jobs/
#HeritageJobs
A photograph of the interior of the shop. It's a time capsule space full of original boxes and tools.
December 3, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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royalhistsoc.org
Next Wednesday, we make our final Visit of 2025 to historians @lshtm.bsky.social and @ioe.bsky.social.

Our focus is on working as a historian outside 'traditional' history departments - something that's increasingly common. The RHS welcomes historians to join us, wherever they work bit.ly/3KBcnTy
Slide inviting historians to Join the Royal Historical Society, with the closing dates 15 December 2025 and 9 March 2026.
December 3, 2025 at 9:09 AM
designarchives.bsky.social
Hinter dem Regenbogen
Horst Kleineidam
Staatsschauspiel Dresden Uraufführung

Behind the Rainbow
Horst Kleineidam
State Theatre Dresden Premiere

Icograda / theICoD Archive
ICO/3/13/99
#EYAMedieval #ExploreYourArchive @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social
Brown poster with white text at the top with an image of a medieval illustration in the middle. The illustration shows a fish on top of a large pointed stone/pillar/column, inside the fish is the sun, the moon and a human body. Two groups look on from either side and behind the fish is a rainbow that disappears into the landscape.
December 1, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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archive.org
Planning your week? 📖
Join Samuel Moore & Heather Joseph as they explore PUBLISHING BEYOND THE MARKET & how collective, scholar-led publishing can reshape open access.
📆 Thurs Dec 4th
🕙 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET
📍 Online
🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1839631951...

@SamuelMoore.org @HJoseph.bsky.social
Book cover for "Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care, and the Commons" by Samuel A. Moore, featuring vintage printing blocks arranged in a drawer.
November 30, 2025 at 4:59 PM
designarchives.bsky.social
Design, December 1955
@DesignCouncil Archive
Orange journal cover with Design written at the top in big black letters. The cover contains images of fork, knives and spoons overlapping in a grid-like pattern
December 1, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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tibetcurator.bsky.social
📣 Call for Papers 📣

Please share widely.

I am pleased to announce a #CfPs for the upcoming international
conference on Museums and Dissidence at @officialuom.bsky.social

Scan the QR code for further details.

#Museums
#Dissidence
#PoliticalDisagreement
#Conference
#MuseumActivism
November 12, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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mrcwarwick.bsky.social
'Archival Reader' in action!

Cutting edge technology in use in the University of Warwick Library, beaming microfilmed content to a very 1960s student #Warwick60

More '60s and '70s campus photos online at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...
Black and white photograph taken in the University of Warwick library in the 1960s. It shows a woman looking at microfilm on the 'Archival Reader', a big manual microfilm reader. Metal filing cabinets containing rolls of film can be seen in the background.
November 26, 2025 at 1:00 PM
designarchives.bsky.social
Designing from Home: A new short film by design historian @harrietatkinson.bsky.social & Design Archives Director @suebreakell.bsky.social uncovers the domestic space which shaped the life & work of renowned graphic designer & German-Jewish emigrant FHK Henrion (1914-1990)
vimeo.com/1133125381?s...
DESIGNING FROM HOME - OFFICIAL TRAILER
Directed by HARRIET ATKINSON & SUE BREAKELL Produced by HUGH HARTFORD ARCHIVE AGI Alliance Graphique Internationale  The Estate of Ferenc Berko   The…
vimeo.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:14 PM
designarchives.bsky.social
The Willy de Majo Archive catalogue is now live on the ArchivesHub! Read the feature from @sirps.bsky.social on the Hub blog and explore the catalogue here: archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/designarchiv...
November 26, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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royalhistsoc.org
Now open: call for the Royal Historical Society's First Book and Early Career Article Prizes, 2026.

Eligible titles, published in 2025, may be submitted by the author before the closing date of 15 December. Further details and how to apply: bit.ly/3KnR47v

#Skystorians
Royal Historical Society Book and Article Prizes, 2026: submissions now invited - RHS
The Royal Historical Society invites applications for its First Book Prize, 2026 and Early Career Article Prize, 2026. The call for submissions opens on Monday 29 September 2025 and runs to Monday 15 ...
bit.ly
November 14, 2025 at 9:24 AM
designarchives.bsky.social
De-energize the crisis eliminate

Designed and produced as a public service by Raychem Corporation
Designer: John Rieben

Icograda / ICoD Archive
ICO/3/32/116
brown poster with red, orange, blue, yellow and cream coloured geometric shapes
November 24, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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dmuspecialcolls.bsky.social
🔔 1 DAY TO GO! 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 @icshc.bsky.social @librarydmu.bsky.social @araukie.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 9:01 AM