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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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Archives & Collections, Library of Birmingham @theironroom.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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

[ mrc-describe.epexio.com/records/POW/... ]

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 · 2d

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

Rachel MacGregor @anoldhand.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 2d

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

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Rachel MacGregor @anoldhand.bsky.social · 2d

Yikes!

Rachel MacGregor @anoldhand.bsky.social · 3d

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

Loses the entire evening

Rachel MacGregor @anoldhand.bsky.social · 3d

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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

Rachel MacGregor @anoldhand.bsky.social · 3d

Excellent! Enjoy 🥰

Rachel MacGregor @anoldhand.bsky.social · 3d

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

Rachel MacGregor @anoldhand.bsky.social · 3d

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

Rachel MacGregor @anoldhand.bsky.social · 3d

Ooh - waves 👋

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Rachel MacGregor @anoldhand.bsky.social · 5d

The police may be able to assist with this.

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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 6d

Cast your vote in our Annual General Meeting before midnight on 31 Oct: buff.ly/aczpS66

You can help shape the Trust now and for generations to come so that we remain a place for everyone, for ever.

A photo of a young boy in a blue waterproof coat looking up through a pair of binoculars at something unseen in the surrounding woodland scene. Text overlay reads: "have you cast your vote yet? Make your voice count in this year's AGM"

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Rachel MacGregor @anoldhand.bsky.social · 6d

😱

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stuartmaconie.bsky.social @stuartmaconie.bsky.social · 7d

I know Handsworth well. I love it. The Soho Road is one of the most vibrant streets in the world. I was attached to the library there for a writing project last year and I wrote a whole chunk about it in my book Hope And Glory. Read it if you get a chance

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Rachel MacGregor @anoldhand.bsky.social · 7d

Ah yes - the old Bull Ring... mind you good old Brummagem would not be good old Brummagem if it wasn't incessantly knocking bits down and building new bits!

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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 7d

Awful news from Wales, the St Fagan's Museum has been broken into and prehistoric goldwork has been taken. Its painful to think what objects might now be at risk. Thoughts with the museum team who must be devastated, all speed to the police and a curse on the crooks.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

St Fagans: Bronze Age gold jewellery stolen from musuem

Police are investigating a burglary at St Fagans museum in the early hours of Monday morning.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Rachel MacGregor @anoldhand.bsky.social · 7d

Rude

Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 7d

We are here in Birmingham today. Can't say I like the place.

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