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Have introduced a new option for using your own camera in the Searchroom! You can now buy a licence for three consecutive days at a cost of £36.00 alongside our day licence at £14.00. (Victorian glass plate cameras aren't allowed unfortunately).

On our hunt for easter egg related content we found a little advert from the 1960s - "Go to work on an egg". So for the aftermath of Easter, our egg hunt to you is spotting these posters in the photos. They made us laugh for sure. [PH/S/13/A/5/123]

We hold records of the protesters and supporters of the Newbury Bypass - representing both sides of the debate. Here is a former Heritage Open Days display. Find out more by searching the collection references on our catalogue (D/EX2473 & D/EX2476). #ArchiveAction #Archive30

Town plans are always popular with our visitors. We like to see how a known place looked a century or two ago, and a single record yields so much information! This plan shows Ramsey in 1848. #PopularItem #Archive30 #ExploreYourArchive #ManxArchives

Does a recently acquired jar of shiny paperclips count as #SomethingNew?! These aren’t ordinary paperclips though - oh no! They’re archive friendly brass paperclips #Archive30 ARA Scotland📎#Archive30 ARA Scotland #OoohHowExciting

The records of the Royal Hampshire County Hospital contain a number of memoirs of the years 1941-1945, written in the 1980s. One, written by Nancie Malcolm gives an account of how she spent VE Day (5M63/E10/32). The photo is of the Hospital in 1941 (5M63/L1/3) #VE80 #Victory80

#thomasthetankengine is 80! First published in 1945 when Wibert Awdry held a curacy at St. Nicolas’ church, Kings Norton. You can see his name on the front cover of this 1945 parish magazine. Ref – L 14.41@LibraryofBham Thomas & Friends Parish News

A view from Shore Terrace looking up Castle Street. There is no date on this image - would you say 1960s? Any guesses? Ref: DCC-BW091-06 #Dundee #Archives

There are still spaces left on our Behind the Scenes Tour this Saturday. Join our archivists at 2pm for a look around our award-nominated archive building The Hold in Ipswich and see the collections in their natural habitat. Find out more orlo.uk/UQfCJ

These road maps were used by Harrogate-based photographer Bertram Unné as he toured Yorkshire, seeking inspiration for the thousands of photos we hold at the Archives #MapMonday #EYATravel 📷

Here's something you don't see often: a lockable ledger with the key still in the lock! Usually the key has vanished, which can be quite a problem if the lock is still locked…

During the 1834 parliament fire, caused by the burning of tally sticks, the Lords collections survived the disaster. People were even throwing records out of the burning building! Commons records were mostly lost, but some survived, although not without a little charring!

Today is #NationalWritingDay and the theme is ‘Share Your Voice’. So, whether you’re an aspiring writer, a published author, or something in between: tell us what you're working on! Pictured: Mary Shelley’s first draft of Frankenstein, which is safely stored at the Bodleian.

📣Our Shakespeare in London display is now open! 📅 30 June to 25 September 2025 A chance to see our rarely displayed treasures related to #Shakespeare ✅ Shakespeare's signature ✅ John Keats’ 1820 copy of Shakespeare’s plays ✅ Civitas Londinum map thelondonarchives.org/visit-us/exhib…

Widening of the railway bridge over the Dundee & Newtyle railway line at Harefield Road c.1932. Kings Cross Road can be seen running across this photograph with Camperdown Works seen in the background. Ref: TC/EN/105/6

Our 'Accession of the month' is a sale catalogue for a herd of Jersey Cattle and other items. The sale took place at Chawton Rectory, home of Rev Charles Edward Knight, a great great nephew of #JaneAusten (43A05/156) #hampshirearchives #HampshireHeritage #Janeausten250

In the mid 1860s, a young Octavia Farmbrough started a curious scrapbook project. She'd ask local people questions, and record their responses. We're very lucky to have her scrapbook today in our archive! Here are her questions, and just a few of the answers.

#OTD in 1928 the Equal Franchise Act was passed finally giving women the same voting rights as men. This mechanical card (c1912) shows a Suffragette and policeman with facial expressions that change as the wheel is turned. The Suffragettes campaigned for votes for women.

#OnThisDay 2 July 1644 was the battle of Marston Moor, the largest & bloodiest battle of the #EnglishCivilWar, a Parliamentarian & Scots Covenanter victory ending Royalist control of the north of England. Painting of the battle by James Ward (1826) in our collection. #17thCentury

#PhotoFriday The Waterloo Bar on the corner of New Street and Christ Church Passage. Next to it, the entrance to the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists opened in 1829. Ref- New Street 123 LibraryofBirmingham Brumpic RBSA Gallery