Many thanks to the ARA (Archives & Records Association UK and Ireland) and @exploreyourarchive for this wonderful week !
It will be a pleasure to see you next year 😉
Comment classer des dizaines de milliers de diapositives sans s'arracher les yeux sur une table lumineuse ? En les numérisant d'abord !
En zoomant sur les fichiers numériques, il devient possible de trier, identifier et (re)classer les photos.
Le retour d'expérience sur un 1er fonds a été présenté par les #ArchivesDeLyon au colloque des archivistes municipaux de l'#AAF à #Valenciennes.
From LSE Library: "Some hobbies and pastimes including "Hot Cockles", "Hoodman blind" and "Animals imitated", from 1801 rare book "Glig-Gamena Angel-Deod, or the Sports and Pastimes of the People of England’"
Joseph Fructus, dit Fructus-Rey, est un peintre et dessinateur français (1744-1831) obsédé par son #art. Sous son autoportrait, il déclare :
"Toujours a dessiné je passerois ma vie,
mon amour pour cet art tend presque à la follie".
Les #ArchivesDeLyon conservent 2 albums de vues des environs de #Lyon en 1820 et 1825, qui offrent des paysages inédits à la perspective... fuyante !
(Cote 17Fi 53)
As November highlights to us the importance of inclusion, we delve into the records of Fulbourn Hospital (formally Fulbourn Asylum), held by Cambridgeshire Archives. Bringing light to mental health histories is instrumental in helping us learn today. We can understand better the lives that were lived, and the practices faced by the patients who were in this type of care.
While four autobiograpical accounts of Alice Thornton's (1626-1707) life exist, each one is different from the others as she changed the structure and rewrote events. #EYAUnique#ExploreYourArchive
"John Stuart Mill, author of “On Liberty”, was a philosopher, economist, member of the Liberal Party, and the first MP to call for women’s suffrage. Here's his passport from our archives for #EYAUnique"
Extrait du plan scénographique de #Lyon, réalisé aux environs de 1548-1553 : ce plan, gravé et rehaussé à la gouache, est composé de 25 planches qui, une fois assemblées, mesurent 220 x 170 cm.
Conservé aux #ArchivesDeLyon (cote 2SAT 3), il est unique par bien des aspects : un seul exemplaire, commanditaire et destinataire inconnus, 4050 immeubles, 440 personnnages, tout un bestiaire...
Déclaration des droits de l'homme et du citoyen de 1789 suivie des 4 premiers articles de la Constitution, un document "écrit par par M. Capitaine Ing[énieu]r Géog[raphe] du Roi à l'Observatoire de Paris".
Un petit document par sa taille (10x10 cm), un grand texte pour l'humanité !
Happy Monday! We'll be sharing a weekly photograph of George Lansbury from the archives.
Here is George with his daughter Daisy Postage. As well as working as her father's secretary, Daisy was an activist and was involved in the suffragette movement. She famously dressed up as Sylvia Pankhurst to help the real Sylvia Pankhurst evade capture from the police.
Traditions multiples dans ce dessin #ArchivesDeLyon (vers 1919, cote 35II/121), intitulé "183e Société de Secours mutuels des Employés de la Soierie lyonnaise" : les #lions à #Lyon bien sûr, mais aussi la soierie lyonnaise, les sociétés de secours mutuels, ainsi que les récompenses obtenues lors d'expositions internationales ou universelles.
"Thousands of records documenting daily lives around the globe in the time of the European Expansion, Colonialism, and Resistance."
"The aim of the German-British Prize Papers Project is the complete digitization and sorting of the Prize Papers including the preservation of the collection’s material, the initial and in-depth cataloguing, the creation of research-oriented metadata and finally the presentation of the digital copies and the metadata in an open access research database. The portal development reflects our continuous engagement with developments in the field of Digital Humanities. We also pursue various research projects, and we cooperate with numerous international researchers and research institutions working on the Prize Papers and in project-related areas."
This is the only Black Friday deal I look forward to each year. Simply the best stay-at-home research resource. I've found many sexological gems over the years . . .
Explore the darker side of the Ferguson Collection
With Hallowe’en just behind us, in the first of a series of spooky-themed blog posts by the University of Glasgow Archives & Special Collections, we delve into 19th century literature on the occult. In this article we look at Sir Walter Scott’s (famed writer of Ivanhoe) conception of the supernatural, before moving on to explore the significance of a rare anthology of ghost stories https://www.exploreyourarchive.org/the-darker-side-of-the-ferguson-collection-part-1/
Great news that the radical feminist/queer journal 'Urania,' in circulation between 1916 and 1940, has now been digitised by LSE Library. Still, going to read the original copies earlier this year was a wonderful, if somewhat dizzying, research experience . . . 📚 😵
hello library uni folk! please give @heatherdawson a follow, who has recently joined Mastodon. Heather is a super knowledgeable academic support librarian at the LSE