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Sally-Anne Shearn

@sally_shearn

Archivist & history enthusiast. PhD in talking too much. Collections Information Archivist @UoYBorthwick & Henrietta Crewe fan in my spare time. She/her

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A lovely find this morning while checking through some letters by Lady Victoria Stanley and her husband - this letter from Siegfried Sassoon to Malcolm Bullock in 1943.

A lovely find this morning while checking through some letters by Lady Victoria Stanley and her husband - this letter from Siegfried Sassoon to Malcolm Bullock in 1943.
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The end of the boxlisting of the JRRT archive is in sight! For reference, it's everything with a green slip in this photo and more on another aisle besides. Just a massive and incredibly rich archive of social and political history from the 1960s to the present

The end of the boxlisting of the <a href="/JRRT1904/">JRRT</a> archive is in sight! For reference, it's everything with a green slip in this photo and more on another aisle besides. Just a massive and incredibly rich archive of social and political history from the 1960s to the present
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Can we make some sort of rule that organisations publishing newsletters and reports have to include the damn date somewhere. Don't make me read your 15 page bibliography looking for the latest date, or speedread all your niche news for some clue 😭😭 #archivistwoes

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'He is our new hand. He has not been at all accustomed to the retail trade, and will never I think make much out of it, he seems kind and chearful' A somewhat crushing description of the newly apprenticed George Cadbury from the teenage Henry Isaac Rowntree, c 1855

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Happy Birthday to Annabel Crewe (later Annabel Milnes, Lady Houghton), born OTD in 1814. Thank you for leaving me such a fascinating collection of letters to transcribe and catalogue (and yet more letters turning up hopefully at West Horsley Place 😊)

Happy Birthday to Annabel Crewe (later Annabel Milnes, Lady Houghton), born OTD in 1814. Thank you for leaving me such a fascinating collection of letters to transcribe and catalogue (and yet more letters turning up hopefully at <a href="/WHorsleyPlace/">West Horsley Place</a> 😊)
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DEVASTATED that my eldest has just asked “What’s that piece of paper we are going to see tomorrow?” What? You mean THE DECLARATION OF ARBROATH??? As an archivist and Scot the document I’ve wanted to see most? That ‘piece of paper’?!! 😭

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‘Now I would like to explain to you what Hallowe’en is and means, but I am not quite sure that I know myself.’ In 1926 a young Peter Rowntree experienced an American Halloween for the very first time 🎃#HappyHalloween #Rowntree

‘Now I would like to explain to you what Hallowe’en is and means, but I am not quite sure that I know myself.’ 

In 1926 a young Peter Rowntree experienced an American Halloween for the very first time  🎃#HappyHalloween #Rowntree
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It's hard to imagine a more perfectly designed logo than the one used by the Secretaries Group for Change in the 1970s. Taken from the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust Archive #WomensHistoryMonth

It's hard to imagine a more perfectly designed logo than the one used by the Secretaries Group for Change in the 1970s. Taken from the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust Archive #WomensHistoryMonth