There are still a few places available on our Summer Seminar on Friday. Grab them while you can... 🎟️🏃⌛️

Announcement! Join us on Friday 5th August 2 - 4pm to hear Leah Sidebottom from The Wiener Holocaust Library talk about the launch of the Refugee Map. Our hybrid AGM will follow - you can join us online or at the PPF Head Office (CR0 2NA). To book, email [email protected].

We’ve had a great in-person committee meeting this afternoon (one member short sadly). Great plans started for the next year of activity! Thanks to King's Archives for hosting and the tour round a few KCL buildings 🏛❤️ #businessarchives

It’s a bit lonely for me at the moment, so I’m keen to recruit a Vice-Chair, Secretary, Treasurer, Communications Officer and Training Officer onto the committee. See more detail on the Archives and Records Association (UK & Ireland) website archives.org.uk/officer-vacanc…

Hello! We are back! Read all about out new members in our latest blog post here; …ctionforbusinessrecords.wordpress.com/2024/07/19/hel… #ARAsectionforbusinessrecords #ARASBR #ARA

The schedule of this lovely plan of Revd Lodge's estate at #Yockenthwaite (no date) states: "N.B. the fences coloured red only belong to this estate" #MapMonday (ref:- M 117)

We kick off our Tudor-themed Tower Treasures week, with this beautiful document and seal of Elizabeth I, you can even see her signature at the top. In 1573 Elizabeth I prorogued parliament to avoid giving assent to a bill that had been passed by Parliament. #TowerTreasures

Location quiz for today🧐Can you identify these locations in the Trafford area? Answers will be posted tomorrow morning.

#MapOnATuesday. Today it’s the 1883 street map of the Manor of Aston published by order of the Local Board and surveyed by J. W. Brown. The manor covered a much smaller area than you’d imagine the size of Aston to be. MAP/25930 LibraryofBirmingham

Here we go! Carbon Literacy Training for Archives, Records and Special Collections. ARA Environmental Sustainability The National Archives

Today we have released 182 files online including records from the Prime Minister’s Office, 1999-2003, covering Tony Blair’s Labour administration (PREM 49). nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/the…

📷Under the spotlight📷 🧵Exhibition: Coming in From the Cold celebrates the heritage of Zimbabwean women in Manchester, the Manchester Ukrainian Community and Pakistani community celebrations in Manchester. 1/5 #ExploreYourArchive

#OnThisDay 1936: The speaking clock was introduced in the UK. Ethel Jane Cain, the voice of the clock, was interviewed 21 years later. Precisely.

It may be the height of summer, but the #mondayblues are always present. Let’s fix that with this Wedgwood tobacco jar and presser, made at Etruria in 1887. It is composed of a ‘Lavender’ coloured body, introduced by Wedgwood in 1858, and decorated with inlaid bands.

250 years ago on 1st August 1774, Birmingham scientist Joseph Priestley discovered oxygen. Not that people couldn’t breathe before then - Priestley identified the gas as a process of an experiment and published his findings - Read more here: tinyurl.com/3f4c64tw LibraryofBirmingham

For #TeapotTuesday, here’s a 'Black Anthemium' earthenware teapot from the 1930s. It has a milky green ‘celadon’ body with an ornamental transfer-printed design known as ‘anthemium’. There is a print on the base of the teapot which notes it as a trial.

Scarce fewer things to make an archivist’s heart flutter than a load of beautiful empty shelves. Five whole aisles free for new thrills!

Did you know we turn 99 years old today? 🎂 What else is 99 this year? 📺🏉📖