Checked in on the archive today and changed the insect traps...social distancing guidelines are not being observed 🦟 🕷 🐜 #archives

We’re looking forward to welcoming OE Tom Claughton (2014) for a virtual talk this afternoon to discuss his role as Refugee Resettlement Employment Officer Coventry City Council and his studies at the University of Oxford: BA in Modern Languages (French and Italian) and MSc in Migration Studies.

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Very excited to receive my copy yesterday Liz Palmer it’s a beautiful publication. Many congratulations John Garth #middleearth #Tolkien

Me! And SchoolArchive I suspect 🤔

From #Tolkien's "Progress in Bimble Town": "Sometimes late, when motor-bikes are not passing with a screech, one hears faintly (if one likes) the sea still at it on the beach… gnawing paper, trying to grind a broth of bottles, packets, tins, before a new day comes with more…"

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Delighted with this EBay find ⁦King Edward VI High School for Girls⁩ prefects, 1946. Interesting uniform variation 🤔 #archives

And another EBay gem to add to the Camp Hill Girls Sch collections. Lots of interesting images inc. #cricket in 1926 and the ubiquitous Swedish Drill! #archives

Delighted to be involved with #TheReacherGuy and looking forward to publication.

Great response from a chief exec. Outlines actions in a non-defensive tone and apologises for lack of communication 👏👏

Many have been using this period of lockdown to get fitter. How about trying a form of exercise which existed before the advent of mainstream competitive sport in education - the Swedish Drill? Read about it in our newest KE Archive blog post bit.ly/2CclfeO

Today I became the first care leaver ever to graduate from Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Not bad for someone who missed most of secondary school, went through half a dozen foster placements, was homeless at 16, and completed her A-levels living alone on benefits.

Happy 69th birthday to the "Godfather of Black British Photography", #Birmingham's very own Vanley Burke Vanley Burke.

I’ve been writing today. Uppermost in my mind have been Hinterland Magazine UEA Archives KE Archive & of course #TheReacherGuy himself. I am struck by how much the archivist has in common with Jack Reacher ... (Plus an archival scrap of my own from Jack Reacher Books #ThrillerFest 2017)

Loved doing this interview with Jack Reacher Books for Tes magazine on a subject very close to my heart ... And reading his school reports from King Edward's School for the #TheReacherGuy was great fun. “Paddles his own canoe.”

Heartfelt thanks from Jack Reacher Books to his old English and drama teacher King Edward's School Mr Parslew, co-star of my authorised biography #TheReacherGuy - see especially chapter 17, ‘Gentleman Jim’. Here is my interview with Lee aka Jim Grant (1973) for Tes magazine tes.com/news/lee-child…