What a fascinating story!

...formal class photos, a conga line of Reggie carriers, and a student hard at work on a very retro computer - phew!

We hope you work hard and play hard just like they did, and when it comes to your assessments remember that we may well have a load of records to help you with your studies 👋

We undertake these Collections Weeks twice a year so that the service you get the rest of the year is far better! This week we will also be rearranging objects in the stores and working on our new location system. Stay tuned!

We take this time to repackage large new collections into archival boxes and folders so they are better protected and better stored, and alongside that we create basic box lists so that we have an idea of what we have received.

Fantastic!

P32 for us!

The seal is in remarkable condition!

How interesting!

It is a small booklet of several pages of cat pictures with humorous* captions, akin to our internet cat pictures today!

*some we didn't get but must be hilarious to those in the industry, we're sure.

#InternationalCatDay

Now just how fancy were these boxes...

Aha! Mystery solved!

We think it's a "B" not an "R" as it matches the B in Bland and doesn't match the R in road, but otherwise none the wiser!

He gives a lot of detail of the horror of his days, and yet still is clearly holding back recounting the full experience so as not to upset his parents too much. He later became a medical student at Guy's Hospital, providing a neat connection between our military and college collections! #archives