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🗃️ Women’s Screen Work in Archives Made Visible
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Our AHRC funded project aims to make the history of women’s screen work better known by working with #archives, #museums and #filmmaker donors. 🗃️ 🎞️ 🎥 🎬Website coming soon. Posts by Project Team, project lead: @helenexeter.bsky.social
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bdcmuseum.bsky.social
Don't forget that our kids' #creativeworkshop - 'From #Script to #Screen' - is coming up this Saturday 15th November with @womensscreenwork.bsky.social!

Perfect for kids aged 9-12 who are curious about what happens behind the scenes of a #film🧜‍♀️

It's free - link to book here: tinyurl.com/mw9em9tu
November 12, 2025 at 10:40 AM
womensscreenwork.bsky.social
We are really looking forward to bringing our project to younger audiences with this workshop in partnership with @bdcmuseum #archives #womenfilmmakers #womenmakemovies #femfilmhist
bdcmuseum.bsky.social The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum @bdcmuseum.bsky.social · 12d
Do you have creative kids aged 9-12? Why not bring them along to our next #workshop - 'From Script to Screen' - on 15th November? A fantastic chance for children to explore #creative choices behind the scenes of #filmmaking as part of the @beinghumanfest.bsky.social. Book here: tinyurl.com/mw9em9tu
November 4, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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greavesian.bsky.social
Calling historians and researchers. The BBC Written Archives Centre has changed its access rules without consultation. This means an end to proper independent research into the BBC's rich history. 178 have already signed the open letter. Please join the campaign here:

tinyurl.com/bbcwaccampaign
Open letter BBC Written Archives - August 2025
Join the campaign to protect the future of independent research at the BBC Written Archives Centre The following text is an open letter expressing the concern of historians and researchers about chan...
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August 18, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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June 25, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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June 25, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Great opportunities here 👇🏻
oralhistsoc.bsky.social Oral History Society @oralhistsoc.bsky.social · Jun 19
Do you enjoy #oralhistory and promoting its use? Volunteer as a Regional Adviser for the Oral History Society! You’ll be part of a community of oral history practitioners who are as enthusiastic as you are – sharing ideas, inspiring change, and helping voices be heard

www.ohs.org.uk/volunteering...
A poster featuring a map of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland and a microphone. Included are the words Regional Advisors Wanted Oral History Society.
June 25, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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June 25, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Thanks for having me on the podcast @infinite-women.com!
June 17, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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carvehername.bsky.social Carve Her Name @carvehername.bsky.social · Jun 24
#OnThisDay, 24 June 1916, Mary Pickford becomes the first Hollywood star to sign a million-dollar contract.

#ReclaimTheFrame #HollywoodHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory 🗃️
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Mary Pickford in the 1910s. She is a white woman with blonde hair in ringlets. A small, probably grey, kitten is sitting on her shoulder.
June 24, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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June 24, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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oralhistsoc.bsky.social Oral History Society @oralhistsoc.bsky.social · Jun 19
👋Hello from the Oral History Society! Since 1973, we've championed the collection, preservation and use of recorded memories across the UK and beyond. Whether you're new to #oralhistory, curious, or experienced in the field, do join us in our mission to support and develop the use of oral history.
A group of people gathered round a table for a tailored training session provided by the Oral History Society. Interview recording equipment can be found on the table.
June 24, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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June 24, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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whatsontvclass.bsky.social
We are super excited to have a CFP out for our upcoming What's On Symposium at @leedsunimedia.bsky.social on 19th September 2025! See all details below Deadline to apply: 4th July. Looking forward to reading your proposals!
June 2, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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exeterunispeccoll.bsky.social University of Exeter Special Collections @exeterunispeccoll.bsky.social · Jun 20
Refugees' stories often feature within our Middle East collections. The documents in this image are from the Richmond papers and concern charitable work in the early 1970s by the Quakers and UNIPAL (Universities' Educational Fund for Palestinian Refugees).

📷 EUL MS 115

#WorldRefugeeDay #Archives
Collage of documents concerning concern charitable work by the Quakers & UNIPAL in the 1970s, including a typescript letter, a manuscript letter and a images of Jerash refugee camp.
June 22, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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scparris.com S.C. Parris 🖤🦇🩸 | MLIS @scparris.com · Jun 21
At work vibrating bc the daughter of the collection I’m processing is coming in today to identify people in photos for us! #archives #archivist #genealogy
June 22, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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June 21, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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zoevb.bsky.social Zoe Burgess @zoevb.bsky.social · Dec 30
Pleased to share a fantastic special issue of Open Screens on Hidden Screen Industries, including my article ‘Taken by my wife’ 📕🎞️ www.openscreensjournal.com/issue/1297/i...
June 21, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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ihrhistorylab.bsky.social
Just over a month to go until our annual conference! Have you booked your ticket yet?

For more details and to secure your place, please use the link below. We can't wait to see you there!

www.history.ac.uk/events/histo...

#skystorians #history #postgrad
June 19, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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royalhistsoc.org
Current RHS funding programmes include our next round of 'Early Career Fellowship Grants' to support academic activities. Grants are for a maximum of £2000 for early career historians to complete a discrete project.

The call for this next round runs until 5 September bit.ly/3ZAJfjK #Skystorians
Image of woman reading with text: Applications now invited for RHS Early Career Fellowship Grants. Closing date 5 September 2025
June 20, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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ihr.bsky.social
Our excellent @ihrlibrary.bsky.social colleagues are here to help
drjeremyfilet.bsky.social Dr Jérémy Filet @drjeremyfilet.bsky.social · Jun 18
A colleague just pointed out this excellent scheme from the @ihr.bsky.social !

If you need articles or chapters, they might be able to help!

www.history.ac.uk/library-digi...
Document Supply
We provide a reprographics and inter-library loan service.
www.history.ac.uk
June 18, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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teadevotee.bsky.social
Hosting a workshop @mansfieldoxford.bsky.social on women, work and wages in the 1970s in September - please see cfp attached or feel free to email me for a normal sized one - students and ecrs especially encouraged
June 12, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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jwomenshistory.bsky.social
🗃️ The Summer Issue of the JWH is out! Read about our commitment to foreground women's history in these times of erasure and the editors' summary of its contents here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
Project MUSE - Editorial Note: Transformations and the Power of Imagination
muse.jhu.edu
June 12, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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historyworkshop.org.uk
Today is World Refugee Day.

✊🗃 From the archive, a podcast episode by Ria Kapoor @riakapoor.bsky.social featuring Peter Gatrell, Pual Dudman @paulvdudman.bsky.social, Heather Faulkner and Mezna Qato @meznaqato.bsky.social, on creating Refugee Archives.

www.historyworkshop....

#WorldRefugeeDay
Creating Refugee Archives
How can historians and archivists best document, preserve, and make accessible the voices and artifacts of refugee and migration experience?
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
June 20, 2025 at 6:30 AM
womensscreenwork.bsky.social
Thanks so much! We’re excited about what is ahead and #DWFTH7 gave us energy and ideas
helenwarner.bsky.social Helen Warner @helenwarner.bsky.social · Jun 19
The @womensscreenwork.bsky.social panel was excellent. Such a great project. Can't wait to see it progress
June 21, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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Such very sad news, Barbara was so incredibly knowledgeable and her astute and warm advice to researchers contributed hugely to the field of film history
scmstudies.bsky.social Society for Cinema and Media Studies @scmstudies.bsky.social · May 27
Barbara Hall, film historian, Archivist for the Art Directors Guild, former Archivist at the Margaret Herrick Library (AMPAS), and co-author of Letters from Hollywood: Inside the Private World of Classic American Moviemaking (2019), passed away on May 24, 2025, surrounded by her loving family.
June 20, 2025 at 11:52 PM