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exploreyourarchive, 10 days ago to archivistodon

Spotlight on the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah RACE Centre and Education Trust

Archive information: https://www.exploreyourarchive.org/spotlight-2/archive-information-ahmed-iqbal-ullah-race-centre-and-education-trust/

Exhibition information: https://www.exploreyourarchive.org/spotlight-2/exhibition-coming-in-from-the-cold-taking-centre-stage/

#race #archives #archivist @archivistodon @histodons

exploreyourarchive, 2 months ago to archivistodon

This month's archive theme is women #EYAWomen. Share your archives and stories on the theme, we would love to see what you come up with.

#archives #archivists #histodon #GLAM #galleries #libraries #museums @archivistodon

exploreyourarchive, 3 months ago to archivistodon

John La Rose was born in Trinidad and was a poet, essayist, publisher, filmmaker, trade unionist, and cultural and political activist. In 1966, with his partner, Sarah White, he set up one of the first Black British bookshops in the UK, New Beacon Books. His wide-ranging contribution to the struggle for racial equality and social justice, as well as cultural change, is unparalleled in the history of the black experience in Britain.

Learn more about the Activism of John La Rose and the archive collection of the George Padmore Institute here https://www.exploreyourarchive.org/spotlight-the-george-padmore-institute/

#GeorgePodmore #archives @archivistodon @histodons #GLAM #museums #libraries #bookshops #Trinidad

exploreyourarchive, 3 months ago to LGBTQ

The Bishopsgate Institute’s archiving of LGBTQ+ Britain differs from that of many other cultural organisations...

Read more in our brand new blog post! https://www.exploreyourarchive.org/bishopsgate-institute-special-collections-and-archives/

#LGBTQ+ #archives #archivists @histodons @archivistodon

exploreyourarchive, 3 months ago to archivistodon

Next month (February) is #EYASecrets. Share your archives and stories on the theme of secrets, we would love to see what you come up with.

#archives #archivists #histodon #GLAM #galleries #libraries #museums @archivistodon

exploreyourarchive, 3 months ago to swimming

In this clip from ‘In The Swim’ from Screen Archive South East we see Crawley’s newly built swimming pool in 1964 - the perfect way for new towners to keep fit and relax!

You can read more about how the new town movement encouraged healthier ways of living at https://www.exploreyourarchive.org/spotlight-2/exhibtion-unlocking-new-town-archives

#WSRO #UniversityOfBrighton #NewTowns #NewtownArchives #Crawley #CrawleyNewtown #Swimming #Leisure #tourism #healthyliving #archivies #universities #archivists #Brighton @histodons

exploreyourarchive, 4 months ago to archive

Happy Saturday! We're delighted to launch this year's hashtags. Have a look at the topics and share any archives you find that relate to the topics. We love to share what you find :)

#archives #archive #archivist #GLAM #libraries #galleries #museums #universities #research #history @histodons @archivistodon

exploreyourarchive, 4 months ago to archive

Happy New Year from the Explore Your Archive team!

We are an Archives and Records Association (ARA UK & Ireland) platform set up to celebrate archives, records, and the people who use them.

We have monthly hashtags which we will share soon to inspire you to find archives to share, but in the meantime please tag us in any of your archive-related finds or stories - we'd love to share them.

#archives #archivists #archivist #archive #GLAM #libraries #galleries #museums #history #ARA #ArchivesAndRecordsAssociation @histodons @archivistodon

exploreyourarchive, 4 months ago to history

New Blog Post!

"The Johnstone Twins: A Tale of Festive Illustrations and Artistic Collaboration " https://www.exploreyourarchive.org/the-johnstone-twins-a-tale-of-festive-illustrations-and-artistic-collaboration/

#illustrators #GLAM #archives #histodons @histodons @archivistodon #Newcastle

exploreyourarchive, 5 months ago to history

It's the last day of our focus week! Today is #EYAYourArchive - show us what you've got!

And thanks for all those who shared their archives with us this week -

merci d'avoir participé @Athenenoctua

go raibh míle maith agat @ucdarchives

thank you! @RuthSalter @glansburytrust @CordeliaBeattie @politicscurator

#history #histodons #archives #archivists #libraries #galleries #museums #GLAM @histodons @archivistodon

exploreyourarchive, 5 months ago to random

Just two more days to go for focus week. Today is #EYAChallenge - show us what you've got!

exploreyourarchive, 5 months ago to histodons

This is fabulous! #EYAHobbies

From LSE Library: "Some hobbies and pastimes including "Hot Cockles", "Hoodman blind" and "Animals imitated", from 1801 rare book "Glig-Gamena Angel-Deod, or the Sports and Pastimes of the People of England’"

@histodons #archives #GLAM

Pages from Glig-Gamena Angel-Deod with 6 drawings to show the activites 'Hoodman blind' and 'Hot Cockles'. The drawings include people with hoods covering their heads and others bent over in preparation to be spanked.
A page from Glig-Gamena Angel-Deod with 3 drawings to show the game 'Animals imitated'. It includes people with sticks, drums, dogs, bells and a stag.
A page from Glig-Gamena Angel-Deod with 3 drawings to show the activity called 'Mummeries'. There are various people dressed up in outfits like those a jester might wear. Others have animal heads.

exploreyourarchive, 5 months ago to random

Happy December! Show us what archives you have for #EYAHobbies...

exploreyourarchive, 5 months ago to mentalhealth

New blog alert: "The Practice of Inclusion Within the Walls of Fulbourn Asylum" https://www.exploreyourarchive.org/the-practice-of-inclusion-within-the-walls-of-fulbourn-asylum/

As November highlights to us the importance of inclusion, we delve into the records of Fulbourn Hospital (formally Fulbourn Asylum), held by Cambridgeshire Archives. Bringing light to mental health histories is instrumental in helping us learn today. We can understand better the lives that were lived, and the practices faced by the patients who were in this type of care.

#MentalHealth #Cambridgeshire #Inclusion #archives #GLAM @histodons

exploreyourarchive, 5 months ago to random

Today is #EYAArt #EYAEalaín. Show us your artistic archives!

exploreyourarchive, 5 months ago to philosophy

Today is #EYAUnique #EYAUathúail Show us your archives on the theme "unique" and tag us!

From LSE Library:

"John Stuart Mill, author of “On Liberty”, was a philosopher, economist, member of the Liberal Party, and the first MP to call for women’s suffrage. Here's his passport from our archives for #EYAUnique"

#JohnStuartMill #Liberty #Philosophy #Economy #suffrage #archives #libraries #passports @archivistodon @histodons

A leather container with a gold 'Passport' written on it.

exploreyourarchive, 5 months ago to random

Today is #EYASmall Show us your tiny archives!

#EYABeag

exploreyourarchive, 5 months ago to history

From LSE Library for #EYABig:

"I believe that the influence of woman will save the country before every other power." - Lucy Stone

It can be hard to imagine the size of a suffrage banner from a photo! This one features Lucy Stone, an American suffragist and abolitionist

#EYABig #history #LucyStone #suffrage @histodons #women #history @archivistodon

exploreyourarchive, 5 months ago to mastodon

Possibly this is precisely the wrong audience (!), but we're delighted to have recently started experimenting with Mastodon. More information about us joining the platform here: https://www.exploreyourarchive.org/create/social-media/

One of our volunteers produced a short video offering an introduction to getting started with Mastodon, which you can view here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tl9DuZOu00o

#mastodon #archives #GLAM #libraries #galleries #archives #museums #history #training

exploreyourarchive, 5 months ago to history

A late submission from LSE Library yesterday for #EYAExpedition :

"For #EYAExpedition, we celebrate pioneering French mountaineer Claude Kogan, who died in 1959 while leading a woman-only expedition to Cho You.

This from the Autograph Letters lists those on the "Women Expedition to Nepal 1959" https://lse-atom.arkivum.net/uklse-dl1al01003009 "

#archives #archivists @archivistodon #GLAM #galleries '#galleries #libraries #museums #history @histodons

A printed header of a lettter for the "Women's Expedition to Nepal 1959". Reads as follows: Cho Oyu (26750ft.) Sponsored by Raymond Lambert and Tensing Norgay. Margaret Darvall LONDON Dorothea Gravina LONDON Eileen Healey LONDON Loulou Bolaz GENEVA Claudine Van Der Stratten BELGIUM Colette Le Bret (Doctor) PARIS Jeanne Franco CHAMONIX Pem Pem Norgay NAMCHE BAZAR Nouma Norgay NAMCHE BAZAR Douma NAMCHE BAZAR LEADER Claude Kogan NICE

exploreyourarchive, 5 months ago to archivistodon

It's #EYABig today! What archives do you have to share inspired by the theme "big"?

#archives #archivists @archivistodon #GLAM #galleries #museums 'libraries #archives

exploreyourarchive, 5 months ago to archivistodon

Happy Sunday! Today's theme for focus week is #EYAExpedition. What archives do you have to show us inspired by the theme? We'd love to see them.

#archives #GLAM #libraries @galleries #museums #archivists @archivistodon

exploreyourarchive, 6 months ago to Occult

New blog post alert!

Explore the darker side of the Ferguson Collection

With Hallowe’en just behind us, in the first of a series of spooky-themed blog posts by the University of Glasgow Archives & Special Collections, we delve into 19th century literature on the occult. In this article we look at Sir Walter Scott’s (famed writer of Ivanhoe) conception of the supernatural, before moving on to explore the significance of a rare anthology of ghost stories
https://www.exploreyourarchive.org/the-darker-side-of-the-ferguson-collection-part-1/

#Ivanhoe #ghosts #occult #archives #libraries #glasgow #WalterScott #supernatural #archivists #history #ferguson @histodons