We're so excited to announce that next year's conference will be held in Bristol! #ARA2024... Or should that be #ARA2025? 🥳

The Librarian's pick for our #FiftyObjectsFriday "whilst rules may change, the commitment to an outstanding student experience… has never faltered." The orginal Library rules from the 1960s. Explore more of early student days here: wdc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collec…

5 September 1981 Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp was established at RAF Greenham Common in Berkshire. The anti-nuclear weapons protest was the biggest women-led movement in the UK since the Suffragettes. It lasted for 19 years until the airbase was decommissioned. #Greenham

We're excited to be part of #HeritageWeek2024 and we're inviting you to explore our Olympic themed exhibition at the Modern Records Centre in #Coventry Details here: heritageopendays.org.uk/submission-eve… 10th and 12th September at 11 - booking required warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/… Heritage Open Days

Anti-Nazi propaganda disguised as an English grammar book. This tiny volume would have been easy to hide and even when uncovered looked innocuous but reveals a pwerful message. Ref: MSS.159/3/C/a/140 #FiftyObjectsFriday

The whole University of Warwick community was saddened to hear of the death of our former Chancellor Sir "Sonny" Ramphal who served in office from 1989-2002. You can read about his achievements here: warwick.ac.uk/insite/news/in… Our sympathy to his family and friends.

I missed it so yes please!

The University's Special Collections includes some wonderful publications including this 1587 edition of Boccaccio's Decameron. More here: warwick.ac.uk/services/libra… #FiftyObjectsFriday

These are fantastic awards highlighting some of the brilliant work going on in #digipres - I've had a look through the nominees and already got several piv]ces of work I want to follow up (Alex Habgood and Maureen Pennock looking at you both for example!). #DPA2024 #ipres2024

My master's project Premissh won the @CLOCKSS certificate of distinction #DPA2024! iPRES 2024 DPC Chatter. Check it out: bishbashbackup.co.uk. Massive thanks to everyone UCL Information Studies for the amazing archives program, especially Hannah O'Smyth 🍉 who teaches digital curation & nominated me!

A training workshop to enable delegates to start to develop a business case proposal for digital preservation 🗓️Weds 13 November 1:15 to 4:30pm LibraryofBirmingham Free to #ArchivesWM member services (fee for non-members) For full booking details 👇 archiveswestmidlands.org.uk/events/event/m…

We're delighted to announce that catalogues for 5 collections relating to early mining unions are now available online, the first to be available as part of our 3 year project to conserve & catalogue the NUM archives! Find out more at warwick.ac.uk/services/libra…

My article based on the PROS archive Warwick MRC first presented at the MRC@50 day conference is finally published 🥳 If you'd like to have a read, follow the link in the post below (entirely open access!), and scroll all the way down to page 124.

Join us History at Aston Aston University in #Birmingham (2 Oct, 5:30 pm) for this unique opportunity to discuss with @ChrisEvansMP how we can shape the future of History (discipline and practice within and outside universities) for the benefit of all. eventbrite.co.uk/e/shaping-the-…

Here's me contributing to the Exchanges: The Interdisciplinary Research Journal special issue celebrating 50 years of Warwick MRC following the #mrc50 conference. On my perpetual use of the BASW archives, and what it means for SocWkHistoryNetwork and the history of the welfare state. exchanges.warwick.ac.uk/index.php/exch…

Our MRC 50th Anniversary special edition of the Exchanges Journal Exchanges: The Interdisciplinary Research Journal is now published! This special edition contains papers from our research symposium last year, all featuring our varied collections. Read it online here: doi.org/10.31273/eirj.…

For anyone interested in #digipres and related matters I blogged here about #iPres2024 conference with a few take aways here: anoldhanddigital.wordpress.com/2024/09/26/ipr… These days you can mostly find me on Bluesky and Mastodon (@[email protected])

🌟New Blog 🌟Ashleigh Coffey Keele University Library, recipient of an #ArchivesWM bursary to attend the 2024 Archives and Records Association (UK & Ireland) Conference, shares her experience of the conference and why attending was so beneficial. archiveswestmidlands.org.uk/news/ara-confe…