#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 👋🏻

We don’t just have the records of B&NES Council and are sometimes given some interesting memorabilia… Bath Newseum

Random photo from my phone… The shelving of the Gaol Committee minutes next to the Housing Committee minutes always makes me smile 😊 Is your phone full of #randomphotos from your collection - can you remember why you even took it??!!

Another #randomphoto from my collection. An inlaid leather binding with vellucent inset of goldfish in this Chivers #bookbinding for Sir Hector Duff who loved beautiful bindings and #heraldry

Family History Day!🌱 Join experts from Bath Record Office and Bristol & Avon Family History Society to help you get started with researching your family history. You can also use Ancestry on the library computers. Saturday 8 March, 10.00am - 3.00pm #BNESLibraries #FamilyHistory

It's the end of an era! Our online catalogue no longer lists the archive collections held at Bath Record Office as they have their own, brand new online catalogue that lists their archives & local studies holdings. It can be consulted here: collections.batharchives.co.uk/home 📣

Have your heard? Our #RemarkableBooks exhibition is next weekend 27/28 June. Just two days to see some of our hidden treasures #RareBooks #Incunabula #Books #Archives #Exhibition

Thank you to Samantha Harvey for presenting us with a copy of her Booker Prize-winning novel ‘Orbital’ for our collections. The copy will be on display as part of our selection of Women Authors celebrating female writers in with Bath. Including Jane Austen. #RemarkableBooks

Because we’re all working so hard for the #RemarkableBooks exhibition, the office will be CLOSED for the next two weeks (Mon 23 June-Mon 7 July) We will be taking bookings for appointments Tuesday 8 July onwards. We will keep an eye on the email and the phone though. ☎️

Busy day preparing for #RemarkableBooks on Friday - printing labels, cases arriving and building cubes. Nearly there!

I think this is the first time we’ve ever had a banner on the railings. #RemarkableBooks will be worth it. See you soon…

The #RemarkableBooks exhibition installation is going well… thanks to Bath Preservation Trust for lending this case

My feet are aching, I just want to go to sleep and I’m blootered, but we got it all set up… #RemarkableBooks is on from 10am to 4pm Friday 27 & Sat 28 in the Guildhall. PBFA Bath Book Fair B&NES Council #Archives @ARA #RareBooks