"Explore Your Archive" is an ARA platform to encourage everyone to visit, use, celebrate and be inspired by archives in the UK & Ireland.
The ARA (Archives & Records Association UK and Ireland) is the leading professional body for the record-keeping sector
Today is #EYAPets
#EYAPeataí - share your pets in the archives!
Here's Alice Laden, who worked as the housekeeper of George Bernard Shaw, looking after Bunch, her lovely ginger cat in 1946: https://archives.lse.ac.uk/records/SHAW_PHOTOGRAPHS/1/47/5971
Alice wrote "The George Bernard Shaw Cookbook" which contains recipes she would cook for him, including brussels sprouts casserole https://www.abebooks.co.uk/9780207153037/George-Bernard-Shaw-Vegetarian-Cook-0207153035/plp
Explore Your Archive is delighted to announce a new season of our podcast, arriving in 2026 and now hosted by two new volunteer hosts, Nella McNicol and Aimy Stevens. It has been so exciting for us to lead these conversations and continue shining a light on the incredible work happening across the archives sector - we'll share the first episode soon
Explore Your Archive's latest Spotlight Exhibition is here! This time, we are shining a light on the annual conference of the Community Archives and Heritage Group (CAHG). Visit the exhibition to see posters from the event and find out more about the work being done by CAHG
Who are the Quakers?
New blog post: "Faith in action - the Library of the Society of Friends, an archive of protest", from the Library of the Society of Friends (Quakers in Britain)
Don't forget next month is our Focus Week, where we share archive stories on a particular theme. We'd love to see people get involved this year on Mastodon
November 29th #EYAConservation #EYACaomhnú
November 30th
#EYABeauty
#EYAÁilleacht
December 1st #EYAMedieval #EYAMeánaoiseach
December 2nd
#EYASilence
#EYACiúnas
December 3rd
#EYAPets
#EYAPeataí
December 4th
#EYADigital
#EYADigiteach
December 5th
#EYAInclusion
#EYACuimsiú
December 6th
#EYAAnniversaries #EYACuimhneacháin
December 7th #EYAYourArchives #EYADoChartlann
Happy December! Today is #EYAMedieval. Share your archive stories on the medieval theme, we'd love to see them...
We'd love to see some engagement on Mastodon for our upcoming Focus Week archives campaign. All details here: https://www.exploreyourarchive.org/explore-your-archive-focus-week-2025/
November is fast approaching which means only one thing for Explore Your Archive – Focus Week! The highlight of our campaign’s year, Focus Week condenses all of the engrossing, engaging, and exciting things about what archives and ourselves do.
Looking ahead to this year’s Focus Week got us thinking about the great moments from previous editions. So we asked for feedback from archives who have participated before…https://www.exploreyourarchive.org/explore-your-archive-focus-week-2025/
Don't forget next month is our Focus Week, where we share archive stories on a particular theme. We'd love to see people get involved this year on Mastodon
November 29th #EYAConservation #EYACaomhnú
November 30th
#EYABeauty
#EYAÁilleacht
December 1st #EYAMedieval #EYAMeánaoiseach
December 2nd
#EYASilence
#EYACiúnas
December 3rd
#EYAPets
#EYAPeataí
December 4th
#EYADigital
#EYADigiteach
December 5th
#EYAInclusion
#EYACuimsiú
December 6th
#EYAAnniversaries #EYACuimhneacháin
December 7th #EYAYourArchives #EYADoChartlann
The Explore Your Archive’s Resource Team is currently planning a project that will help connect Archives, schools, and young people to boost awareness of our sector.
We'd love your help by filling in this sort survey, to help us gather opinions from the record keeping sector https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=QGCMqSoBpUyLwFx98LBQgO8gj6bcAeFNpiJIY6uR7EJUMThJRDNKVTAxTDVWSzZQMUo1M01VMFNXQy4u&route=shorturl
New blog post from us:
"Education at St Paul’s School, from the Tudors to the Second World War" https://www.exploreyourarchive.org/education-at-st-pauls-school-from-the-tudors-to-the-second-world-war/
New blog post:
"Make ’em laugh – a look into the British Stand-Up Comedy Archive" https://www.exploreyourarchive.org/make-em-laugh-a-look-into-the-british-stand-up-comedy-archive/
#EYAHumour #comedy #archives #Kent @archivistodon @histodons
Each year we run a "focus week" where we publish blog posts to raise awareness of archives and invite people to share their archive stories on a daily theme on social media. We've just announced this year's themes, which take place in November. We'd love to see people on Mastodon get involved!
29 November #EYAConservation
30 November - #EYABeauty
1 December - #EYAMedieval
2 December - #EYASilence
3 December - #EYAPets
4 Devember - #EYADigital
5 December - #EYAInclusion
6 December - #EYAAnniversaries
7 December - #EYAYourArchives
New blog alert!
To mark World Photography Day, the post focuses on the photographic collection of Edward Chambré and Margaret Hardman, held by the The National Trust.
https://www.exploreyourarchive.org/shining-a-light-on-the-photographic-collection-of-edward-chambre-and-margaret-hardman/
#Chambre #Hardman #TheNationalTrust #MargaretMills #photograph #photographs #photography #archives #history #histodons #sunshine #sun #garden #gardens @histodons @archivistodon
This month our theme is "humour". Where are your funny archives?
A Cathedral to Nature: The Archives of the Natural History Museum https://www.exploreyourarchive.org/a-cathedral-to-nature-the-archives-of-the-natural-history-museum/
For July’s ‘Nature’ theme we at EYA approached Rebecca Keddie, Assistant Archivist at the Natural History Museum, to find out what specimens The NHM holds tucked away in the archives. What follows is a wide and panoramic account touching on various intriguing aspects of the archive collections.
New blog post from us! This one's from the National Trust for Scotland https://www.exploreyourarchive.org/nature-beauty-and-heritage-for-everyone-the-archives-of-the-national-trust-for-scotland/
#archvies #heritage #Scotland #Scottish #history @histodons #glam #EYANature
Archivists and historians and everyone else! Share your archive stories relating to the theme of nature. We love to read and share them
New blog alert: https://www.exploreyourarchive.org/putting-egypt-on-the-map-frederik-ludvig-nordens-travels-in-egypt-and-nubia/
Ruth Gooding, Special Collections Librarian at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David gives insight into the travel account and illustrations produced by Frederik Ludvig Norden in his book Travels in Egypt and Nubia (1757).
#Egypt #wales #Norden #nubia #archives #archivists @histodons #travel #travels #history #histodons #travelling #EYATravel @archivistodon
Our library has just launched a fellowship scheme where we’ll pay up to £5,000 to support a researcher to come work on a project using our archives (on site, London, UK).
All info, including eligibility criteria and application details here: https://www.lse.ac.uk/library/whats-on/lse-library-fellowships
I'm supervising the politics fellowships, where proposals should be on one of the following themes:
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