Morwenna
@morwanneg.bsky.social
Archivist. History, books, cats, art, feminism and cricket. Views my own. She/Her
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"Isn't it all digitised?"
In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.
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"The chancellor approved it"
October 12, 2025 at 2:25 PM
"Isn't it all digitised?"
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The deadline is approaching to apply for a free place to our 2025 conference ‘Safeguarding Future History: Meeting the Challenge of Records at Risk’
More info and how to apply 👇
www.britishrecordsassociation.org.uk/category/news/
More info and how to apply 👇
www.britishrecordsassociation.org.uk/category/news/
News – British Records Association
www.britishrecordsassociation.org.uk
October 13, 2025 at 9:28 AM
The deadline is approaching to apply for a free place to our 2025 conference ‘Safeguarding Future History: Meeting the Challenge of Records at Risk’
More info and how to apply 👇
www.britishrecordsassociation.org.uk/category/news/
More info and how to apply 👇
www.britishrecordsassociation.org.uk/category/news/
Autumn beginning to pop
October 15, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Autumn beginning to pop
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On Wednesday 15 October, Tracy Borman (@tracyborman.bsky.social) is giving an in-person talk at The National Archives, talking about her excellent new book The Stolen Crown [1/3]. www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/whats-on/eve...
The Stolen Crown with Tracy Borman
Hear the shocking tale of the plot to kill Elizabeth I from historian and broadcaster Tracy Borman.
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
October 1, 2025 at 9:20 AM
On Wednesday 15 October, Tracy Borman (@tracyborman.bsky.social) is giving an in-person talk at The National Archives, talking about her excellent new book The Stolen Crown [1/3]. www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/whats-on/eve...
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Oh and for those who saw me sewing this last week - it's now finished! #ConfinedCocktails
September 27, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Oh and for those who saw me sewing this last week - it's now finished! #ConfinedCocktails
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#DigiPres the Digital Archiving Department at The National Archives (UK) is currently looking for a Digtial Archivist (Transfer) www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi... and 2 Data Engineers www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi.... ce.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi...
October 15, 2025 at 12:27 PM
#DigiPres the Digital Archiving Department at The National Archives (UK) is currently looking for a Digtial Archivist (Transfer) www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi... and 2 Data Engineers www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi.... ce.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi...
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JOB ALERT
Tate is looking for Records Manager & Assistant Records Manager roles.
For more information, head over to: jobsearch.tate.org.uk/jobs/job/TG1...
and:
jobsearch.tate.org.uk/jobs/job/TG1...
Tate is looking for Records Manager & Assistant Records Manager roles.
For more information, head over to: jobsearch.tate.org.uk/jobs/job/TG1...
and:
jobsearch.tate.org.uk/jobs/job/TG1...
TG-1427343 Records Manager | 03 November, 2025 | Jobs and careers with Tate
Jobs and careers with Tate - This is an exciting opportunity to join the Information & Records Management Team at Tate as Records Manager, leading on all aspects of information and records management ...
jobsearch.tate.org.uk
October 15, 2025 at 2:46 PM
JOB ALERT
Tate is looking for Records Manager & Assistant Records Manager roles.
For more information, head over to: jobsearch.tate.org.uk/jobs/job/TG1...
and:
jobsearch.tate.org.uk/jobs/job/TG1...
Tate is looking for Records Manager & Assistant Records Manager roles.
For more information, head over to: jobsearch.tate.org.uk/jobs/job/TG1...
and:
jobsearch.tate.org.uk/jobs/job/TG1...
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FOLKS!
We are SO VERY NEAR to securing the peerless archive of Ray Galton and Alan Simpson for the nation, forever. That's Hancock, Steptoe and Son plus so so much more. Its all their scripts, professional correspodence, plus diaries, working notes - the lot
yustart.hubbub.net/p/galtonands...
We are SO VERY NEAR to securing the peerless archive of Ray Galton and Alan Simpson for the nation, forever. That's Hancock, Steptoe and Son plus so so much more. Its all their scripts, professional correspodence, plus diaries, working notes - the lot
yustart.hubbub.net/p/galtonands...
‘Innit Marvellous?’: The Galton and Simpson Archive project
Saving Hancock and Steptoe and more
yustart.hubbub.net
September 18, 2025 at 9:02 AM
FOLKS!
We are SO VERY NEAR to securing the peerless archive of Ray Galton and Alan Simpson for the nation, forever. That's Hancock, Steptoe and Son plus so so much more. Its all their scripts, professional correspodence, plus diaries, working notes - the lot
yustart.hubbub.net/p/galtonands...
We are SO VERY NEAR to securing the peerless archive of Ray Galton and Alan Simpson for the nation, forever. That's Hancock, Steptoe and Son plus so so much more. Its all their scripts, professional correspodence, plus diaries, working notes - the lot
yustart.hubbub.net/p/galtonands...
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Just read a reference to working in archives as the 'second oldest' profession. am imagining the world where there are only two jobs on offer: sex worker or archivist
September 18, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Just read a reference to working in archives as the 'second oldest' profession. am imagining the world where there are only two jobs on offer: sex worker or archivist
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#yayadvent and #yayswap signups are now live. Though I'm around, this account is not actively monitored so please get in touch via the contact form on the website if necessary.
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Yay Advent
The original advent gift exchange. Get partnered with a stranger, give 24 gifts, get 24 gifts - one for each day of advent!
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September 4, 2025 at 9:41 PM
#yayadvent and #yayswap signups are now live. Though I'm around, this account is not actively monitored so please get in touch via the contact form on the website if necessary.
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@araconference.bsky.social beginning of day 3!
August 29, 2025 at 8:44 AM
@araconference.bsky.social beginning of day 3!
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The inspiration from day one of #ARA2025 is this slide and the idea that an empty shelf in an archive is a silent history. We were urged to be change-makers, to go out and find the missing records to give those silent histories a voice.
August 27, 2025 at 9:31 PM
The inspiration from day one of #ARA2025 is this slide and the idea that an empty shelf in an archive is a silent history. We were urged to be change-makers, to go out and find the missing records to give those silent histories a voice.
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Gorgeous Jill MacDonald illustration from The Puffin Book of Magic
August 25, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Gorgeous Jill MacDonald illustration from The Puffin Book of Magic
Lovely walk round Winkworth Arboretum today, not too hot & some leaves are already beginning to turn
August 17, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Lovely walk round Winkworth Arboretum today, not too hot & some leaves are already beginning to turn
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Fund. Cataloguing. Hire. Cataloguers.
article now published >> artreview.com/what-isnt-at...
August 15, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Fund. Cataloguing. Hire. Cataloguers.
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Looking for Sanskrit palaeography advice! I did a year of Sanskrit back at uni and we learned to read devanagari, but not any of the other historical scripts it appears in in manuscripts - is there a good intro to these and Sanskrit palaeography in general?
August 17, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Looking for Sanskrit palaeography advice! I did a year of Sanskrit back at uni and we learned to read devanagari, but not any of the other historical scripts it appears in in manuscripts - is there a good intro to these and Sanskrit palaeography in general?
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I have questions about archive distance courses and/or part time UCL MA course. If anyone are happy to talk to me as employer/student/mentor of such undertakings (or can point me in the direction of friendly people) please let me know. I am on a fact finding mission.
August 14, 2025 at 4:23 PM
I have questions about archive distance courses and/or part time UCL MA course. If anyone are happy to talk to me as employer/student/mentor of such undertakings (or can point me in the direction of friendly people) please let me know. I am on a fact finding mission.
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It's Behind the Scenes Day at the Red House today: we're showing people a selection of items from the Archive (musical scores, photos, scrapbooks, records, financial documents) all to do with holidays and travel, then taking people beyond the velvet rope into the archive stores....
August 16, 2025 at 12:40 PM
It's Behind the Scenes Day at the Red House today: we're showing people a selection of items from the Archive (musical scores, photos, scrapbooks, records, financial documents) all to do with holidays and travel, then taking people beyond the velvet rope into the archive stores....
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We're currently recruiting an Apprentice Archivist in my brigade at IWM. It's a great role that will work across our Documents collection, a treasure trove of stories and secrets. If you're interested in forging a career as an archivist, this could be for you:
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Apprentice Archivist - IWM
Title: Apprentice Archivist. Location: IWM London. Application Deadline: 01/09/2025, 09:00
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August 17, 2025 at 7:31 AM
We're currently recruiting an Apprentice Archivist in my brigade at IWM. It's a great role that will work across our Documents collection, a treasure trove of stories and secrets. If you're interested in forging a career as an archivist, this could be for you:
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Let’s play a game of “spot the woman”. Press box equivalent of where’s wally
June 20, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Let’s play a game of “spot the woman”. Press box equivalent of where’s wally
Please, please always include the salary!
Few things in life annoy me more than job ads that don’t include the salary. For me it’s to the point where it’s enough of a red flag to stop me even bothering to apply. 🚩
June 13, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Please, please always include the salary!
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Believe me, I would love to help. But alas
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May 20, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Believe me, I would love to help. But alas
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'Freedom School Painting' by Synthia Saint, US painter, author, keynote speaker, educator and actor #WomensArt
June 11, 2025 at 3:13 PM
'Freedom School Painting' by Synthia Saint, US painter, author, keynote speaker, educator and actor #WomensArt
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If you think this looks like a mess: it isn‘t. It‘s a treasure trove of information. There is no history writing without archives, and there are no archives without people who appreciate and protect them.
History, much like democracy, begins locally. Cherish it.
History, much like democracy, begins locally. Cherish it.
June 11, 2025 at 6:23 AM
If you think this looks like a mess: it isn‘t. It‘s a treasure trove of information. There is no history writing without archives, and there are no archives without people who appreciate and protect them.
History, much like democracy, begins locally. Cherish it.
History, much like democracy, begins locally. Cherish it.