Don't forget to join us for Martin Stilwell's Zoom talk this Wednesday. Learn more about this fascinating project to map all bombs, doodlebugs, rockets and crashed aircraft that fell on Surrey during #WW2. Tickets are £5 via surreycc.gov.uk/culture-and-le… #surreyhistory #surreyww2

🚨today is the final day to apply 📢 #museumjobs #heritagejobs #artsjobs #hiring #museumdevelopment #financejobs #fundraisingjobs #museumfundraising

Are you interested in working at Suffolk Archives? We are currently recruiting for an Archivist. Does that sound like you or someone you know? Take a look at the job description here - bit.ly/49aqeqo Closing date: 11:30 pm, 18 Feb 2024

We could do with some help people, if you know Arabic script. Max and Rob looked at the reverse of a First World War (1914-18) souvenir item. Max and Rob found the name ‘Achmet’ lightly inscribed in Latin script along with Arabic script text and Eastern Arabic numerals 1/5

To celebrate our Carboniferous exhibition we will be open Tuesday 13 Feb for the school holidays with a special event.  Meet the adventurer Captain Jon Voyage and his beautiful dinosaur, Odysseia the Parasaurolophus! Free, appearances at 11.30am, 1pm and 3pm

Thanks to the Stoke-on-Trent City Archives is Moving blog you can now get a sneak peek of the newly-constructed archive strongrooms at The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, where the Minton Archive will one day reside. Looking good so far! 😍 themintonarchive.org.uk/moving-minton-…

Open the castle doors! 📢 Shrewsbury Castle and Soldiers of Shropshire Museum are now OPEN for the 2024 season! 🥳And what a season we have ready for you! See below 👇and do share (we’ve just retired our carrier pigeon! 🪶😭). 1/8

Well, it seems WooCommerce 8.6.0 is a bit FUBAR on some custom themes, products only show headings, no details or anything else. Cue frantic debugging.

Hello IKEA UK : would it be possible for you to redirect telephone callers of old number to your new Customer Services number, rather than just have a message reading out the new number which is 1 digit different from ours? 😃

If the Guildhall in #Shrewsbury is no longer to be used by the Uni, SCC can use it, and no longer need to build addition offices for the Council as part of Riverside development? Perhaps Riverside could be used for subsidised social rental accom rather than private landlords?

Installing an ANPR noise camera in #shrewsbury town centre could be a real moneyspinner for Shropshire Council ShrewsburyTC

Finally live after many months of hard work is West Sussex Record Office; with Archives and Records Association (UK & Ireland) Archives Card sign in, PAYG Preservica access, shop with events ticket sales, and search room booking with document orders & CALM record SEO. wsro.org.uk

It’s a warm summer’s evening here in #shrewsbury , the garden has lots of flowers. There are no bees, hoverflies, wasps, butterflies or anything. Frankly, a bit scary. If this lack of pollinators is country wide, next year will be the same and UK food production will crash.

Twenty years working with archives and I still spell hierarchy wrong all the time.

Had a lovely evening catching up with friends and colleagues in that London at the launch of the new Museums Data Service, an exciting new platform for the sector.

In your travels from Shrewsbury to London @JBuckleyLabour , have you experienced the dangerous levels of overcrowding at Euston, with the changes to the departure boards into advertising and the new screens crushing the crowds together? Louise Haigh ? London Euston

We may be closed but you can still view items from our collections from the comfort of your own home. We've got almost 40,000 items held in our collections and are working on photographing them and adding them to our online collections website: collection.tamworthcastle.co.uk #Heritage

Discover historic objects, photographs and documents cared for by museums and #Archives in the Black Country #ArchivesWM Black Country Society blackcountryhistory.org

We have a final festive flourish to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the MA website! Every day for the next 24 days we'll be releasing a new hi-res majolica artwork onto the blog - that's a bit fancier than your average advent calendar, eh?! 🎄🗓️🎄 themintonarchive.org.uk/10au-the-majol…