In case you thought we were having a week-long party when we were closed - this is what we were up to: Moving, ordering and shelving 200m of files (that’s nearly the length of 2 football pitches!) I think we need a bit of a lie-down now as it was a little bit warm in there 🫠

📢 Join us for "Past, Present, Future: A Dialogue on #FloodRisk on the #RiverChew" workshop! 🌊Explore the 1968 flood, share memories, and discuss future risks with academics & locals.🗓️ Sept 30, 10 AM & 2 PM📍Pensford Memorial Hall, BS39 4HW. Register: eventbrite.com/e/past-present… 🌊

Thank you Frome Library for hosting our #riot1831 exhibition! B&NES Council Bath Record Office steve poole Research from UWE Bristol John Drury

Get creative with Bath Record Office next month at a special Marbling Day School Bath Record Office 🎨 Have fun trying out different marbling paint techniques and then use them to cover a handmade book! Buy tickets now ow.ly/MWug50PGLWP

Local museum looking for a Collections Manager - especially with experience in the relevant collections. Know someone who’d love to work in the heart of Georgian Bath with a fantastic collection of beautiful objects? ⬇️

More than 100 years of Bath’s housing history has been preserved and made accessible following a two-year project carried out by staff at Bath Record Office. More information on our newsroom: newsroom.bathnes.gov.uk/news/two-year-… Bath Record Office

There are several collections in the project, including a series featuring the redevelopment of Snow Hill. bathecho.co.uk/news/community…

Well, Christmas is upon us and we’re having some holiday time… The office will be closed on 25 & 27 December and 2 January. If you want to escape to some peace and quiet, contact us for an appointment… Photo of decorated pre-Google era research tool called a card catalogue.

CLOSED WEEK 22-26 January 2024 To allow time for some archival housekeeping, we will be closed to the public for a week. Appointments as usual from Tuesday 30 January. Happy New Year!

What you do NOT want to find lurking in the #archives 🫣

It’s #NationalApprenticeshipWeek2024 and, whilst we don’t have an #apprentice on staff, we do have some records… John Palmer Jr was apprenticed to his father - before he ran the BathOldTheatreRoyal and post coaches, becoming Postmaster General The Postal Museum

It’s the season for #Archive30 and we kick off with #YourArchive We’re hidden in the basement of the Guildhall in the centre of the city of Bath. This is the large and heavy safe door to Strongroom 1 - the first of our 11 strongrooms that have all had a previous life…

#WhereYouStarted is today’s #Archive30 This is where the BRO started… behind a heavy safe door where the Town Clerk kept his records. It’s hopefully a bit more orderly now but Mind Your Head (and feet, there’s a trip hazard too) on your way in…

#Archive30 is celebrating #SomethingNew today. How about a new member of the team? Young Robin is nearly a year old so his Mum is about to come back to work. He already looks quite at home here, surrounded by archivists in a search room!

#Archive30 today is a #TypicalDay Well, there isn’t one. This morning was Bug-Hunting, though we also save them too. Or retrievals - including biscuits for the Volunteers. Or cleaning our storage. Or cataloguing. Or preparing outreach Or packaging. Or writing a talk. Or…

#Archive30 our #MiniMilestones are the Planning Apps. We finished the 2013 cataloguing project with lots of #volunteers - we still have the volunteers and they’re still repackaging. Only two rows of envelopes left to do… The big #Milestone will be finishing…

#Archive30 it’s #SoundandVision On Tuesday will become the proud owners of a new overhead photography unit. This will allow us to better digitise awkward items, like deeds, bound scrapbooks, mounted images or certificates… Then we just need time to actually do it all 😂

May is #LocalHistoryMonth and we’re looking at #buildings this week. Some have had unexpected uses. The Saracen’s Head, one of the oldest pubs in Bath, had a circulating library in part of it a century ago. A #library in a #pub 👍 😃 Try it as a jigsaw: tinyurl.com/SHead-lib

Please note, this will also affect access to Local Studies material on the catalogue.

Come and see us on Monday 👋🏻