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University of Brighton Design Archives
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Award-winning archive of British & international industrial & communication design
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Theo Crosby: 100 Lives

An exhibition about designer Theo Crosby (1925-1994) is on now through 11 December at Osh Gallery, London
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More about the exhibition here: www.oshgallerylondon.com

And more about the Crosby archive here: blogs.brighton.ac.uk/brightondesi...
architectural drawings of a chair designed by Crosby
November 10, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Currently doing some marking. A reminder to everyone involved in archives and collections: digitisation is not preservation. If I digitise a box of records and put the files on a USB stick I haven't preserved a thing. It's all about what you do with the files post-digitisation. #archives #digipres
Colour photograph of a white USB stick. Printed text on the USB stick reads: '...this is not an archive.'
November 10, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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⏳Still time to register!⏳

Sign up to OHNI's 'Archiving and Oral History' ONLINE workshop with the Digital Repository of Ireland, focusing on archiving #oralhistories

💻Friday 21st November 3-5:30pm
🎟️Member €35/Non-Member €50

#OralHistory #OHNI #DRI

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Sign up to OHNI's 'Archiving and Oral History' ONLINE workshop with the Digital Repository of Ireland discussing preserving #oralhistory.
November 10, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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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...
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 10, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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Join Professor Annebella Pollen for an online in-conversation event with Associate Professor Sally-Anne Huxtable, guest editor of recently-published special issue of the Journal of Design History 'Design and the Occult' and Chair of the Design History Society. Reserve your place: buff.ly/TaiOP06
November 10, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Careers with Art History: Working in Museums and Galleries - A morning of careers advice from professionals working in museums and galleries.

Join us for a free webinar offering an overview of a museum and gallery-based roles and routes into them.

📍Online
📆Sat 15 Nov
🎟️ https://loom.ly/ppSqlNY
November 10, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Cronmatch Colour Scale, from the Willy de Majo Archive.
WDM/2/4/10
A grid of 4 x 6 diamonds each with a different colour and number inside, inbetween each diamond is the Cronmatch logo. To the right of the grid is text about the Cronmatch Colour Scale.
November 5, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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It's today and there are a few spaces left if you'd like to visit the #Georgian seaside with us
seasidenetwork.bsky.social Seaside Heritage Network @seasidenetwork.bsky.social · Sep 15
We're going all #JaneAusten for our next #seasideheritage seminar.
Won't you be so kind as to join us?
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November 5, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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Design, November 1955
Cover designed by FHK Henrion
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Cream magazine cover has a vertical blue rectangle on the left side that overlaps an olive green square in the middle. Inside the coloured blocks is an image of a light and a large desk with lots of knobs on it Design is written at the top in olive green.
November 3, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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!! CORRECTION - Closing date 11 Nov!!

📣 Job alert!
We are looking for a permanent full-time archivist to join our friendly team!

Closing date: 11 November 2025

Apply at: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

#ArchiveJobs #LibraryJobs #Heritage #ExeterJobs #Exeter #Archives #RareBooks
November 3, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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sodesignhistory.bsky.social
Could you be our new Student Ambassador? If you have a strong interest in the history of design or related fields and a commitment to equal opportunities and inclusive practices we want to hear from you! To find out more visit our website: buff.ly/JCbTcey
November 3, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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Another installment in the surprising reach of the 1951 Festival of Britain: the scale model of the Midland Railway completed for the Festival in the then Derby Borough Museum. Now located in the Silk Mill Museum of Making.
Image of large model railway setup in old mill building
November 1, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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The National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) Digital Preservation Conference playlist is now available on YouTube with 37 videos from the conference!

#digipres #DigitalPreservation #archives #library 📚

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NDSA's Digital Preservation Conference 2025 - YouTube
Presentation recordings from the National Digital Stewardship Alliance's Digital Preservation Conference held October 9 and 10, 2025 virtually. The conferenc...
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October 28, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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Black history month. @lselibrary.bsky.social amazing oral histories black women NGO leaders. 16 collected womens resource centre
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#blackhistorymonth
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logo womens resource centre
October 27, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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One week to go to my Photo Oxford talk at @bodleianlibs about the photographic and artistic life of Constance Talbot. Hear about her witnessing the birth of #photography and maintaining a love of art throughout her life. 5th November 1-2pm Weston Library:

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Constance Talbot, early photographer and lifelong artist Talk by Rose Teanby — Photo Oxford
Sir Victor Blank Lecture Theatre, The Bodleian Library Wednesday, 5 November
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October 29, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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We've got a new job available here in the archive! We're looking for an Archive Assistant to support our collections team.

For more information, head to jobs.buckinghamshire.gov.uk/job_detail/3...
Records of Buckinghamshire with the words 'We're Hiring! Archive Assistant' overlaid.
October 27, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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The Discipline of Design in Cold War Brazil: Professionalization, Modernization and Authoritarianism (1947-1985)

A talk by Dr Livia Rezende, Senior Lecturer in Design History & Theory at UNSW Sydney, part of the IOTA II series, more info available here:
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Colour photograph of the back of a cream-coloured car with stickers on the back. Original image caption is: 'GK 0406' the ethanol-powered car in the world, designed in Brazil.’ Source: O Desempenho Da Secretaria de Tecnologia Industrial, Período 1974/1978. Ministério da Indústria e Comércio, Brasília, Jan 1979, p34.
October 27, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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October 26, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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I'm so pleased to share this Call for Papers for a conference on Food and Nutrition in Wartime in the Modern World, 19th-21st centuries, organised with my colleagues Chris Batten and @rfhodge.bsky.social, kindly supported by @fwwsoc.bsky.social. Submissions to foodandwarconf@gmail.com by 22/12/25!
CALL FOR PAPERS Food and Nutrition in Wartime in the Modern World, 19th-21st centuries 16-17 April 2026 We welcome papers with a historical focus on a range of food and nutrition-related topics, including, but not limited to: Technological and productive innovations in food production in war Food and nutrition as a site of technocratic and bureaucratic developments Food and nutrition science in wartime Turning points in the development of bureaucratic, legal, social, political, etc approaches to food management e.g. the impact of the First World War blockade on the Second World War or wartime rationing on subsequent wars Social, cultural and legal perspectives on feeding of civilian, combatant and incarcerated/prisoner populations in war. Civilian, individual and/or community responses to food shortages. Survival strategies for populations facing difficulties accessing food and malnutrition in war, including generational and demographic cohort effects e.g. the elderly, marginalised and minority populations, such as those living in asylums, etc. Humanitarian interventions; including logistics, organisations, distribution on the ground and the use of humanitarian aid for religious, social or political aims. The weaponisation of food and nutrition in war in colonial and civil war contexts. The changing uses of food and nutrition in local, regional, national or international contexts over the period. Proposed panels (submissions do not need to be limited by these themes): Feeding incarcerated populations in wartime. Wartime occupations. Humanitarian interventions. Feeding fighters and civilians during asymmetric warfare, civil wars, guerrilla wars and/or anticolonial wars. Please submit a paper title and abstract of no more than 300 words to foodandwarconf@gmail.com by Monday 22 December 2025, 5pm (UK time). Informal enquiries may be sent to foodandwarconf@gmail.com. CALL FOR PAPERS Food and Nutrition in Wartime in the Modern World, 19th-21st centuries 16-17 April 2026 We welcome papers with a historical focus on a range of food and nutrition-related topics, including, but not limited to: Technological and productive innovations in food production in war Food and nutrition as a site of technocratic and bureaucratic developments Food and nutrition science in wartime Turning points in the development of bureaucratic, legal, social, political, etc approaches to food management e.g. the impact of the First World War blockade on the Second World War or wartime rationing on subsequent wars Social, cultural and legal perspectives on feeding of civilian, combatant and incarcerated/prisoner populations in war. Civilian, individual and/or community responses to food shortages. Survival strategies for populations facing difficulties accessing food and malnutrition in war, including generational and demographic cohort effects e.g. the elderly, marginalised and minority populations, such as those living in asylums, etc. Humanitarian interventions; including logistics, organisations, distribution on the ground and the use of humanitarian aid for religious, social or political aims. The weaponisation of food and nutrition in war in colonial and civil war contexts. The changing uses of food and nutrition in local, regional, national or international contexts over the period. Proposed panels (submissions do not need to be limited by these themes): Feeding incarcerated populations in wartime. Wartime occupations. Humanitarian interventions. Feeding fighters and civilians during asymmetric warfare, civil wars, guerrilla wars and/or anticolonial wars. Please submit a paper title and abstract of no more than 300 words to foodandwarconf@gmail.com by Monday 22 December 2025, 5pm (UK time). Informal enquiries may be sent to foodandwarconf@gmail.com.
October 23, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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On Friday 21 November we host the 2025 RHS Anniversary Lecture given this year by Prof. Jane Ohlmeyer (Trinity College Dublin): bit.ly/48NJHR5

‘Visible | Invisible: Voices of Women in Early Modern Ireland‘

6pm, at Mary Ward House, London, and online. Booking now open and all welcome. #Skystotrians
‘Visible | Invisible: Voices of Women in Early Modern Ireland‘: In Person
The Royal Historical Society's 2025 Anniversary Lecture with Professor Jane Ohlmeyer MRIA, FBA (Trinity College Dublin): IN PERSON BOOKING
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October 27, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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Coming soon to British Online Archives — Witchcraft and Magic in England, c. 1400–1920.
Featuring rare records from The National Archives, British Library, UCL, and The Folklore Society.
Register your interest: buff.ly/YBeFCF1
October 22, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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Clocking on for spooky season.
Page from 1492 edition of Nuremberg Chronicle showing a woodcut illustration of the "danse macabre"
October 21, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Next week's International Council on Archives’ (ICA) Section on University & Research Institutions Archives conference about 'challenges towards sustainability' includes the Design Archives' @sirps.bsky.social presenting their ongoing research, read more here:
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Design Archives speaker at the International Council on Archives conference | University of Brighton Design Archives
  The Design Archives’ Preservation and Digital Resources Coordinator Sirpa Kutilainen will be presenting a paper at the International Counc...
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October 22, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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National Army Museum identifies portrait of Black Waterloo veteran:

www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

#Hstory #BlackHistory 🗃️
London museum identifies black Waterloo veteran in rare 1821 painting
‘Honourable’ bandsman Thomas James will feature in display at National Army Museum highlighting service of black soldiers in Napoleonic wars
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October 21, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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Women In Print: 150 Years of Liberty Textiles

At the William Morris Gallery through June 2026, including this portrait of textile designer Jacqueline Groag from the @designcouncil.bsky.social archive
More information here: www.wmgallery.org.uk/event/women-...

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black and white photograph of a woman with light hair and a fringe. She is resting her chin on top a closed fist with a cigarette in the other hand.
October 21, 2025 at 8:36 AM