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Rachel MacGregor

@anoldhand.bsky.social

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Digital Preservation Officer at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick. Interested in digital preservation, archives and public engagement. Also random public transport content. Views my own unless a repost. She/her.

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Rachel MacGregor @anoldhand.bsky.social · 4h

I know this looks dodgy and I was sceptical but having made it numerous times with great success I can highly recommend. I use white flour and never worry about egg size. I usually use all the liquid strained from the tea. Good luck!

Recipe for Bara Brith featured on a postcard

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Bryony Hooper @bryonyhooper.bsky.social · 6h

The next DigiPres North meeting is booked in for world digital preservation day #WDPD25
Where we'll be discussing TeraCopy!

If you're a Northern digipres person without an invite and want to come along drop me a message!
#digipres

a man with a beard is standing in the snow with the words `` i belong in the north '' written above him .

ALT: a man with a beard is standing in the snow with the words `` i belong in the north '' written above him .

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 8h

“You’re not paid according to the value you bring you’re paid according to the strength of your union. Use your industrial strength, or you’ll be taken for granted.”

✊ Powerful words from @rmtunion.bsky.social Eddie Dempsey on last night’s UCU Live. Thank you for the solidarity

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Rachel MacGregor @anoldhand.bsky.social · 7h

I have one which I will need to photograph when I get home. I don’t know about authentic but it comes out perfectly every time.

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Andrew R Nicoll @andrewrnicoll.bsky.social · 12h

**Job opportunity**

Deputy Head of Archives and Libraries

Starting salary: £48,448
Contract type: Permanent
Location: John Sinclair House, Edinburgh

Full details and how to apply can be found here: rb.gy/ta6q44

Deputy Head of Archives and Libraries

Here at HES, we are welcoming applications for the role of Deputy Head of Archives and Libraries, which is a Grade 5 Permanent position working full time hours, based in John Sinclair House, Edinburgh...

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Archaeology Data Service @ads-update.bsky.social · 14h

⭐ The ADS Data Catalogue is Live!⭐

Explore hundreds of thousands of archaeological resources including over 100,000 reports and 5,000 archive collections.

👉To find out more and start exploring visit buff.ly/BMulYqQ

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Rachel MacGregor @anoldhand.bsky.social · 12h

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Rachel MacGregor @anoldhand.bsky.social · 14h

Boo - at least you are not in the office surrounded by All The Bugs and Lurgies 🤧

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Archives & Collections, Library of Birmingham @theironroom.bsky.social · 2d

Join us for the annual Chris Upton Memorial Lecture on Mon 3rd November at 5.30pm tinyurl.com/UptonBaskerv... Professor Caroline Archer-Parré will be giving her talk: Inhuming and exhuming: John Baskerville’s death, burial, and post-mortem life #LibraryofBham @typetweets.bsky.social #BaskervilleSoc

Image 1 : A book - front cover facing on. Cover is a reproduction of a painting depicting a male figure wearing the traditional eighteenth-century garb of a gentleman - wig with curled up sides and frock coat with neckerchief. Title of the book at the top of the page is John Baskerville: art and industry of the Enlightenment. Names of the editors beneath this on the left of the cover.

Image 2 – Two books resting on a table, both front covers facing on. Title is A History of Birmingham in the top left of the front cover. An illustration of a bustling square – Georgian and early Victorian architecture. A group of people carrying a jardinière in the bottom left of the picture and a horse and carriage in the right. People populating the various corners of the illustration. A bookcase behind the table on which the books are resting.

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Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick @mrcwarwick.bsky.social · 2d

As cold and flu season kicks in, we're adjusting the office decor accordingly

These Tony Hancock-esque posters were issued by the Ministry of Health in 1958 #HistMed

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1958 Ministry of Health poster. It includes two mugshots of a moustached and sneezing man, and the caption: 'WANTED ... a handkerchief COUGHS & SNEEZES SPREAD DISEASES Trap the germs in your handkerchief'/

1958 Ministry of Health poster. It includes includes a picture of a dinner queue, with a moustached man sneezing into a plate of food. The other four members of the canteen queue are glaring at him. The caption reads: 'coughs and sneezes spread diseases.. .. trap the germs in your handkerchief'.

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Rachel MacGregor @anoldhand.bsky.social · 3d

Harsh. But am am trying to think of an alternative… .mdb ?

Rachel MacGregor @anoldhand.bsky.social · 3d

Sorry! I could have used Smith but went for Jones instead… was sore tempted to insert the correct name as they are quite long deceased but it seemed a bit mean. And as you suggest I am sure they were far from alone!

Rachel MacGregor @anoldhand.bsky.social · 3d

Found under Jones’s* desk (*name substituted here)

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Rachel MacGregor @anoldhand.bsky.social · 3d

Yikes!

Rachel MacGregor @anoldhand.bsky.social · 4d

You’d think if you lived Quite A Long Way from the south coast they might consider this. Mais non.

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Rachel MacGregor @anoldhand.bsky.social · 4d

What have you even been doing with your time if you haven’t been visiting Nuneaton to see #GeorgeEliot ‘s mantilla and buying a marrow

Badly photographed mantilla which once belonged to the novelist George Eliot

Statue of George Eliot in Nuneaton town centre

Rachel MacGregor @anoldhand.bsky.social · 4d

I mean this was in the 1980s although it was probably even harder to get then. Same brother took me to France - was doing A Level French and had never been. The examiner expressed surprise - but guess what - not everyone’s parents can afford foreign holidays! Still makes my blood boil now 😡

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Rachel MacGregor @anoldhand.bsky.social · 4d

Loses the entire evening

Rachel MacGregor @anoldhand.bsky.social · 4d

I did manage to taste it though because my cosmopolitan brother procured it from France 😁 as a confirmed Francophile he would not have questioned why anyone would want to drink it.

Rachel MacGregor @anoldhand.bsky.social · 4d

Green chartreuse was my affected teenager drink of choice entirely because my role model Iris Henderson (played by Margaret Lockwood) drinks it on a train in The Lady Vanishes. Still a bit of a role model although I never did get to run off with Michael Redgrave. Still like a green chartreuse

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Rachel MacGregor @anoldhand.bsky.social · 4d

Drinking a Moldovan red to accompany my stuffed marrow and getting the autumn vibe going #ConfinedCocktails

Dinner table scene with a plate and a pumpkin shaped serviette and wine, olives (with pumpkin shaped cocktail stick) and crisps in the background

Half a baked stuffed marrow filled with lentils

Rachel MacGregor @anoldhand.bsky.social · 4d

I own that bag in purple and now I remember where I bought it!

Rachel MacGregor @anoldhand.bsky.social · 4d

Excellent! Enjoy 🥰

Rachel MacGregor @anoldhand.bsky.social · 4d

I did not know about this and now I need to see it/read the book 😍

Rachel MacGregor @anoldhand.bsky.social · 4d

@melindahaunton.bsky.social the weather forecast promised glorious sunshine but we only had overcast clouds so firmly in boot territory here!