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Dr Tasha Kitcher
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Digital Researcher at the National Archives, UK

Historian and curator focused on media history, history of science and technology, and digital approaches to the study of history
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I only moved to Brighton for a chance to live nearer an Electrophone
October 5, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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History IS for everyone, see! (National Archives cat!!!)
September 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Part two: the General.
August 29, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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Working at the National Archives is great, I mean, look at THIS!

(Part of CO 1069/611, supplied today by @hcraddock.bsky.social)
August 29, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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The best thing about working with web archives is, hands-down, the absolutely ludicrous designs we thought were acceptable in the early 2000s

Check out the page itself to see a man fall over: webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/200401...
Very yellow webpage for the 'Incident Contact Centre' website from the UK Government Web Archive
May 12, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Spring is here: goslings and flowers amid a day in the office
April 9, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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I wish all my tools recommended coffee breaks during processing
Progress bar for an online tool, step three suggests "Get coffee - take a short break while we're processing"
March 10, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Slightly strange find in the UK Government Web Archive, extract taken from a page of the British Council's website

webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/202303...
Still from a video player with a red puppet hiding behind a computer screen. Below the image is a synopsis reading "Frank told a bad joke at his new place of work. Nobody laughed. Now at 3.00am he's unable to sleep as he obsesses and ruminates over this social faux-pas, leading him to ponder on the nature of memory itself. Trapped in a loop, a self-imposed purgatory as the clock ticks."
March 7, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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Doing some important work today
March 7, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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Graphing early copyright law in Neo4J, fun!
March 5, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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Highly recommend moving to the seaside
Sunset view of the bandstand in Hove, West Sussex
February 26, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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First day at my new job today! Excited to be getting my teeth into a new role as digital researcher at the national archives - nice to meet some geese too
A goose walking besides the lake outside the national archives
February 3, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Exhibition - opened ✔️
Exterior image of exhibit titled "the connection engine." The title is displayed on a wall next to a pink doorway, through which a large video wall reveals historic images of Bradford.
January 9, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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This coffee I got at lunch today is 100% me now my out of office is on
Very happy looking gingerbread man sat in a bubble bath of whipped cream (on top of a coffee)
December 20, 2024 at 5:05 PM
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Amazing moment restoring my faith in computer vision models today as my iPhone suggests a horse in my camera roll is an elephant
A screenshot from an iPhone camera roll where the user has searched for the word “Elephant” and two black horses stood in the new forest full of gorse have been proposed as the answer
November 29, 2024 at 9:30 AM
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The Loughborough station cat mans the ticket office in the morning 😭
Cat manning a train station ticket office
November 25, 2024 at 6:39 AM
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Is this conference going to be an “I was there” moment in ten years?

Enjoyable and somewhat cheering end of project conference for Towards a National Collection, featuring the formal launch of the ten project recommendations
Final conference panel at the Contact Theatre
November 21, 2024 at 5:23 PM
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Did a communications historian even visit Manchester if they didn’t say hello to Alan?
Alan Turing statue, Manchester
November 20, 2024 at 10:28 AM
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SNOW!
November 19, 2024 at 1:24 PM
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When I’m not working I sometimes do pottery
November 13, 2024 at 12:33 PM
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Chatsworth’s Christmas display this year features many theatrical scenes depicting scientist Henry Cavendish!
Theatrical scene with text reading “Henry’s a scientist he questions everything he sees” Theatrical scene showing Henry looking at the planets with his telescope Theatrical scene with Henry talking to a lion, the text reads “there’s a Christmas meal tonight and lion wants to go”
November 12, 2024 at 7:37 PM
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Interesting comms object of the day - Rabbitt telephone, a portable phone which could make calls from specific shared access points. Didn't last long, thanks to the advent of the mobile

See info here: collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co80...
August 30, 2024 at 1:46 PM