Anyone can consult archives! Details of our booking system & other services we provide can be found on our website: swheritage.org.uk/somerset-archi… #ArchivesForAll #Archive30 ARA Scotland

This is why asking to see the big brown volume you saw 5 years ago isn’t very helpful… We say it every year, but it’s such good #ArchiveAdvice we’re going to say it again - always make a note of the reference numbers of the documents you look at ☺️ #Archive30 ARA Scotland

We always welcome the deposit of #BusinessArchives from long established Somerset based businesses. Details on how to deposit records with us can be found here: swheritage.org.uk/somerset-archi… #Archive30 ARA Scotland

One of our researchers just donated this magnificent work to the library on Taunton Rugby Football Club. If there are any other budding writers out there who might have a niche interest they could turn into a book, take note! #SportArchives #Archive30 @ARAscot

For #SomethingScary we’ve gone for criss-crossed letters. Sure, they saved on paper & whatnot, but they give archivists a major headache when listing them. Could the recipient of the letter read it easily?! #Archive30 #WhySoStingyWithThePaper ARA Scotland

Over the past 12 months we’ve been working with Architype, Passivhaus specialists, to reduce the need for mechanical intervention to maintain the required temperature and humidity in our strongrooms & help reduce our carbon footprint #ArchiveSustainability #Archive30 ARA Scotland

Our Mental Health research guide provides a summary of the records we hold that may help you research ancestors admitted to Somerset’s mental health hospitals during the 19th and 20th centuries somerset-cat.swheritage.org.uk/guides/mentalH… #HealthArchives #Archive30 ARA Scotland

Here’s a lovely bill of sale for John Miller, nurseryman, seedsman & florist of Bristol which contains a small yet extremely detailed illustration of his business premises... including greenhouses! #SomethingSmall #Archive30 ARA Scotland #GardeningTwitter

Oh how we wish for a time machine, it would help with answering those tricky archival questions, or we could nip back & date a document. Whilst this is a photo of a dynasphere in 1931 we think it also looks like a prototype for a time machine #ArchiveTravel #Archive30 ARA Scotland

We hold vehicle licensing (registration) books for vehicles registered in Somerset from 1899 to 1974 (although bear in mind they don't record chassis numbers). A list of them can be found here somerset-cat.swheritage.org.uk/records/C/MT #ArchiveTravel #Archive30 ARA Scotland

We’re slowly replacing our old pokey seal boxes with new homemade padded seal socks, which take up less space and won’t scratch the document! #cozy #socksforseals #ConservationWin #Archive30 #crafting ARA Scotland

Once upon a time a prince was turned into a frog by a wicked witch. Alas, before a princess could undo the spell with a kiss the prince got trapped in a box of papers he was perusing pre-frog curse, didn’t live happily ever after & ended up here #ArchiveObject #Archive30 ARA Scotland

For #ArchiveFashion we’ve chosen this rather lovely bound portfolio of work compiled by Audrey Adams (née Burge) of Stoke St Mary as part of the City and Guilds of London Institute Advanced Certificate in Dress #Archive30 ARA Scotland #GreatBritishSewingBee

There are quite a few #ArchiveMyths (all archivists wear cardigans & gather dust in the strongrooms being a common one) but the one we encounter on an almost daily basis is that researching the history of a house is as easy as it looks on the telly. It’s not! #Archive30 ARA Scotland

Here are a few of the cats who support the Somerset Archive Team #ArchiveAnimals #CatBoxSunday #CatsOfTwitter #ShowUsYourCats ARA Scotland

Our former home the Somerset Record Office had a purrfect #ArchiveAnimals ambassador 🐈. We currently have a vacancy for an archive cat, payment in Dreamies and fusses, all applicants to form an orderly queue #CatsOfTwitter #Archives30 #ShowUsYourCats #CatsWithJobs ARA Scotland

We recently received a very generous donation which allowed us to purchase #SomethingBig …this 9 volume set of the History of the House of Commons during the Civil War and Commonwealth. #WhatEverFloatsYourBoat #Archive30 ARA Scotland

Dulverton tithe map is the biggest of the 500 or so tithe maps in our collection, at a whopping 9' 8' x 12' 10'! Here’s Eve stood next to it for scale! Thankfully it’s been digitised & can be viewed online via Know Your Place & the Somerset HER #SomethingBig #Archive30 ARA Scotland

Before we moved to the Somerset Heritage Centre in 2010 we were based at the Somerset Record Office in Obridge Road, Taunton. Opened in 1958, it didn’t look very big from the outside but was tardis-like inside with over 5 miles of shelving! #ArchiveBuildings #Archive30 ARA Scotland

This archive is so unusual we don’t know what it is 🤔. A piece of parchment, with an engraved metal plaque attached, we think it might be a membership certificate for an unknown group and it probably dates from the early 19th century #UnusualArchive #Archive30 ARA Scotland