Janice Tullock
@jtullock.bsky.social
Archivist, consultant, genealogist, mentor. If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday. ~Pearl Buck
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Janice Tullock
@jtullock.bsky.social
· Nov 10
There’s been in influx of new people here so, like many others I thought I’d do an intro thread.
Most of my time is taken up working with archives, museums and heritage sites. I provide an extra pair of management eyes, improve collections management or support organisations planning projects.
Most of my time is taken up working with archives, museums and heritage sites. I provide an extra pair of management eyes, improve collections management or support organisations planning projects.
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There’s been in influx of new people here so, like many others I thought I’d do an intro thread.
Most of my time is taken up working with archives, museums and heritage sites. I provide an extra pair of management eyes, improve collections management or support organisations planning projects.
Most of my time is taken up working with archives, museums and heritage sites. I provide an extra pair of management eyes, improve collections management or support organisations planning projects.
November 10, 2024 at 8:50 AM
There’s been in influx of new people here so, like many others I thought I’d do an intro thread.
Most of my time is taken up working with archives, museums and heritage sites. I provide an extra pair of management eyes, improve collections management or support organisations planning projects.
Most of my time is taken up working with archives, museums and heritage sites. I provide an extra pair of management eyes, improve collections management or support organisations planning projects.
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Spoke to a senior university health professional recently who said that if the naming and filing conventions in the NHS were standardised, we’d have the most incredible easily anonymised dataset for research, and even useful AI-assisted breakthroughs. It’s what the tech could excel at. But nope.
This why you need people with practical life experience in positions of power. If you've had a white collar job you'll know the purpose of bureaucracy. From file naming conventions to good databases. It is the oil in the machine
November 13, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Spoke to a senior university health professional recently who said that if the naming and filing conventions in the NHS were standardised, we’d have the most incredible easily anonymised dataset for research, and even useful AI-assisted breakthroughs. It’s what the tech could excel at. But nope.
Thanks for all your questions about file names and emojis. I will give an archivists view soon. However I’m knee deep in sorting 19th century paper files today so bear with me. Other archivists, feel free to step in!
November 12, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Thanks for all your questions about file names and emojis. I will give an archivists view soon. However I’m knee deep in sorting 19th century paper files today so bear with me. Other archivists, feel free to step in!
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New best practice:
Never use an emoji in a filename.
Avoid file managers that allow them.
Never use an emoji in a filename.
Avoid file managers that allow them.
November 12, 2025 at 12:25 PM
New best practice:
Never use an emoji in a filename.
Avoid file managers that allow them.
Never use an emoji in a filename.
Avoid file managers that allow them.
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And they are a nightmare when preserving the files! (from experience with newsletters with emoji in the subject line).
November 12, 2025 at 11:46 AM
And they are a nightmare when preserving the files! (from experience with newsletters with emoji in the subject line).
No no no begs every archivist. You are never going to be able to find anything. Please don’t start using emojis in file names. Who asked for this? What fresh hell is next?
November 12, 2025 at 10:38 AM
No no no begs every archivist. You are never going to be able to find anything. Please don’t start using emojis in file names. Who asked for this? What fresh hell is next?
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The BBC now a target of the MAGA censorship playbook
Trump Threatens to Sue the BBC for $1 Billion After Jan. 6 Documentary
They should learn some lessons from @therickwilson.bsky.social and @michaelwolffnyc.bsky.social and push back
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/w...
Trump Threatens to Sue the BBC for $1 Billion After Jan. 6 Documentary
They should learn some lessons from @therickwilson.bsky.social and @michaelwolffnyc.bsky.social and push back
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/w...
Trump Threatens to Sue the BBC for $1 Billion After Jan. 6 Documentary
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:18 PM
The BBC now a target of the MAGA censorship playbook
Trump Threatens to Sue the BBC for $1 Billion After Jan. 6 Documentary
They should learn some lessons from @therickwilson.bsky.social and @michaelwolffnyc.bsky.social and push back
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/w...
Trump Threatens to Sue the BBC for $1 Billion After Jan. 6 Documentary
They should learn some lessons from @therickwilson.bsky.social and @michaelwolffnyc.bsky.social and push back
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/w...
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Job klaxon 📢: fancy managing a busy University archives service? Now's your chance: warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...
MRC Manager and Head of Archives and Special Collections (42364-1025) - University of Warwick
Title: MRC Manager and Head of Archives and Special Collections (42364-1025). Application Deadline: . Position Type: Permanent
warwick-careers.tal.net
November 7, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Job klaxon 📢: fancy managing a busy University archives service? Now's your chance: warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...
After five years studying, a pesky landslide on a train track wasn’t stopping me! I’m now officially an MSc graduate of the Strathclyde Genealogy programme.
Remind me, never again…..
Remind me, never again…..
November 5, 2025 at 5:46 PM
After five years studying, a pesky landslide on a train track wasn’t stopping me! I’m now officially an MSc graduate of the Strathclyde Genealogy programme.
Remind me, never again…..
Remind me, never again…..
Wow. Not only is the fee to get a will jumping to £16 but the bulk buy commercial rate seems to stay at £1.50 todayswillsandprobate.co.uk/did-the-new-...
Did the new £16 probate fee just lock in a two-tier system? | Today's Wills and Probate
Does the increase in fees for copy probate documents create a two tier system asks Neil Fraser of Fraser and Fraser
todayswillsandprobate.co.uk
November 4, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Wow. Not only is the fee to get a will jumping to £16 but the bulk buy commercial rate seems to stay at £1.50 todayswillsandprobate.co.uk/did-the-new-...
On mum duties today to drive my daughter for her volunteering at Park run, Croxteth Park. Apparently a T-Rex can’t get the bus…..
November 1, 2025 at 9:13 AM
On mum duties today to drive my daughter for her volunteering at Park run, Croxteth Park. Apparently a T-Rex can’t get the bus…..
Will someone please fix David’s glasses?
October 22, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Will someone please fix David’s glasses?
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Did you know that access to government records was one of the many grievances enumerated in the Declaration of Independence. That's right, transparency and access to government archives and records has been a paramount value of the US from day one! #AskAnArchivist
October 16, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Did you know that access to government records was one of the many grievances enumerated in the Declaration of Independence. That's right, transparency and access to government archives and records has been a paramount value of the US from day one! #AskAnArchivist
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A new exhibition that tells the story of Women’s Rugby League for the first time has opened at the University of Huddersfield. The Pioneers: Women in Rugby League reveals the hidden history of the sport through rare archival treasures.
Discover more via our blog🔗 tinyurl.com/3934ahrf
Discover more via our blog🔗 tinyurl.com/3934ahrf
October 14, 2025 at 11:02 AM
A new exhibition that tells the story of Women’s Rugby League for the first time has opened at the University of Huddersfield. The Pioneers: Women in Rugby League reveals the hidden history of the sport through rare archival treasures.
Discover more via our blog🔗 tinyurl.com/3934ahrf
Discover more via our blog🔗 tinyurl.com/3934ahrf
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If in doubt, print it out.....www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Have plans on paper in case of cyber-attack, firms told
Prepare to switch to offline systems in the event of a cyber-attack, firms are being advised.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 14, 2025 at 11:41 AM
If in doubt, print it out.....www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I know we often measure Archive collections in Olympic swimming pools, but can anyone think of a smaller equivalent for cubic metres? Just over half an Olympic swimming pool isn’t hitting the spot!
October 8, 2025 at 1:31 PM
I know we often measure Archive collections in Olympic swimming pools, but can anyone think of a smaller equivalent for cubic metres? Just over half an Olympic swimming pool isn’t hitting the spot!
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If you weren't able to join the #ArchivesAccreditn launch webinar, you can see the updated standard, guidance and application form online*: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-sec...
Guidance - Archives sector
Find out more about the Archive Service Accreditation standard and read supporting guidance.
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
October 6, 2025 at 11:40 AM
If you weren't able to join the #ArchivesAccreditn launch webinar, you can see the updated standard, guidance and application form online*: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-sec...
Yep, he’s not wrong. Speaking on behalf of all you civil servant types who can’t speak….
As a local government journalist of many years I could have easily told these plonkers that there is nowhere left to cut in local government. Actually anyone could have told them that.
*gasp*
October 5, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Yep, he’s not wrong. Speaking on behalf of all you civil servant types who can’t speak….
My mind is returning to this talk. Shall I add it to the list or not?
Anyway, I’m now mentally writing a talk entitled “How to do genealogy like an archivist would” It’s all about file naming conventions, record keeping, digital preservation. It’s a wild ride!
This is not writing up case studies, as you can see.
This is not writing up case studies, as you can see.
October 5, 2025 at 9:28 PM
My mind is returning to this talk. Shall I add it to the list or not?
I’ve sorry all the Steve’s are losing their jobs, but this has made me
Giggle…
Giggle…
You don’t have to be called Steve or Stephen to work at Blackpool, but it does help.
October 5, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I’ve sorry all the Steve’s are losing their jobs, but this has made me
Giggle…
Giggle…
Collections Management folks, would any laws have been broken had the sword been sent and accepted by the King, given its provenance ? It’s got me
Thinking….
Thinking….
*DEVELOPING*: I've updated my scoop with previously unreported details about the State Dept. staffer who requested the sword, NARA's response, and that the gift Trump gave King Charles III wasn't even a replica of Eisenhower's West Point Officer's Sabre:
lastcampaign.substack.com/p/exclusive-...
lastcampaign.substack.com/p/exclusive-...
October 5, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Collections Management folks, would any laws have been broken had the sword been sent and accepted by the King, given its provenance ? It’s got me
Thinking….
Thinking….
This must be the prettiest road leading to a local authority archive service? - North East Wales Archives Hawarden.
October 3, 2025 at 3:11 PM
This must be the prettiest road leading to a local authority archive service? - North East Wales Archives Hawarden.
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Part 1 of McEwan’s What we can know is amazing. It follows its protagonist’s attempts to find a lost 2014 poem. Set in 2119 when much of Britain is submerged under water, it feels like a love letter to the quirks & pitfalls of historical researcher esp know that the bodleian is on top of Snowdonia
October 2, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Part 1 of McEwan’s What we can know is amazing. It follows its protagonist’s attempts to find a lost 2014 poem. Set in 2119 when much of Britain is submerged under water, it feels like a love letter to the quirks & pitfalls of historical researcher esp know that the bodleian is on top of Snowdonia
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BREAKING: sources say NARA has forced out Dr. Todd Arrington, the federal director of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum, after he declined to allow the Trump administration to remove a sword from the library for a gift to King Charles
lastcampaign.substack.com/p/exclusive-...
lastcampaign.substack.com/p/exclusive-...
EXCLUSIVE: NARA Ousts Eisenhower Library Director Over Proposed Trump Gift to King Charles
The director, a historian and Army veteran, declined to allow the Trump administration to remove a priceless artifact from the library's permanent collection
lastcampaign.substack.com
October 2, 2025 at 4:05 AM
BREAKING: sources say NARA has forced out Dr. Todd Arrington, the federal director of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum, after he declined to allow the Trump administration to remove a sword from the library for a gift to King Charles
lastcampaign.substack.com/p/exclusive-...
lastcampaign.substack.com/p/exclusive-...