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De Montfort University Special Collections, part of Library and Student Services. Explore our collections on our catalogue: http://specialcollections.catalogue.dmu.ac.uk
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🎉 #ExploreYourArchive Week starts tomorrow! And this year we're celebrating @dmu.ac.uk at 155 years for each daily theme. Find out more from Kat but no sneaky peeks 👀 buff.ly/bDhczSr @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social @araukie.bsky.social
#dmuforlife #DMUat155 @librarydmu.bsky.social
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Lights, popcorn, action! Special Colls #Presents its Film & TV themed collections for @arascot.bsky.social #ArchiveAdventCalender. Comedy, Period drama, or a bit of festive horror! Pick your fave from our catalogue here: buff.ly/8KzVDNc
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December 1, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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🏰 #ExploreYourArchive Day 3: A lost church, the death of a king... DYK, every time you step onto @dmu.ac.uk campus, you walk in the footsteps of medieval #Leicester? #EYAMedieval @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social @araukie.bsky.social @librarydmu.bsky.social #archives #RichardIII #archives #DMUMuseum
December 1, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Today's #ExploreYourArchive Focus Week theme is #EYABeauty.

Beauty can be found in many places in archives, here are a few illustrations from our Local Illustration Collection showing off some nearby naturally beautiful places.

[Refs. ILL/2/60, ILL/2/135, ILL/2/137, ILL/12/97]
Colour illustration of Tunsal Hill, near Sunderland Black and white illustration of Caldron Snout in Teesdale. Black and white illustration of High Force in Teesdale. Black and white illustration of Lambton Peep.
November 30, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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arascot.bsky.social
For day 1 of the #ArchiveAdventCalendar it's all about the presents. #Presents
December 1, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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What #EYABeauty lies on the inside of this unassuming folder? We're showing off Elsie Wakefield's fungi illustrations today 🍄 Wakefield became Head of Mycology at Kew Gardens in 1915 and our Archives hold her personal papers collection, which includes letters, illustrations and photographs. #KewLA
A blank grey paper folder on a brown wooden surface. Numerous coloured illustrations of mushrooms layered on top of each other so that corners and sections of pages are obscured. On each sheet there are light pencil annotations next to the illustrations.
November 30, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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araireland.bsky.social
The day 3 theme of the Explore Your Archive focus week is #EYAMedieval | #EYAMeánaoiseach! Hasten with thy content and forgetteth not to tag 🏷️ @araireland.bsky.social & @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social in your posts #ExploreYourArchive #CuardaighDoChartlann
December 1, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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🎨 #ExploreYourArchive Day 2: What is #EYABeauty anyway? The Cooper Hewitt Museum define it with 7 concepts. Exploring our fab @dmu.ac.uk artists through each, we can’t help feeling they forgot an 8th! @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social @araukie.bsky.social @librarydmu.bsky.social #archives #dmuforlife
November 30, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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🎮 Riffing on this retro game–themed @dmu.ac.uk prospectus, we’re kicking off #ExploreYourArchive by showing how education and #EYAConservation power up the past. Hit play to enter the archive! @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social @araukie.bsky.social @dmu.ac.uk #DMUat155 @librarydmu.bsky.social
November 29, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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🎉 #ExploreYourArchive Week starts tomorrow! And this year we're celebrating @dmu.ac.uk at 155 years for each daily theme. Find out more from Kat but no sneaky peeks 👀 buff.ly/bDhczSr @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social @araukie.bsky.social
#dmuforlife #DMUat155 @librarydmu.bsky.social
November 28, 2025 at 2:07 PM
dmuspecialcolls.bsky.social
This #FashionFriday we're setting our own trends ✨
Some of our most gorgeous collections have been transformed into calendars, diaries, #Christmas cards and more. Explore the full range on the print shop: buff.ly/bIPOSvY @dmu.ac.uk @librarydmu.bsky.social #fashionhistory #alumni #dmuforlife
November 28, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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We’re delighted to announce that #AYearinArchives 2025 is now live!

Have a browse and let us know which projects you enjoy reading about: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-sec...

📷 RNLI, Tower Hamlets Local History Library & Archives, Staffordshire County Council, Gateshead Archive

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Four women pose for the camera wearing colourful patterned dresses. A large exhibition space displaying a buggy (with an explanatory placard in front of it) and an interactive screen. A colourful yellow and red poster entitled 'Cockney Rebels: Popular Music in Tower Hamlets 1624-2003'. The centre of the poster shows an electric guitar in front of photos of performers from various decades. A black and white image of four people wearing raincoats and walking in a straight line. Two of the people carry models of boats. The other two carry collection boxes that say 'life-boat'.
November 27, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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exploreyourarchive.bsky.social
💫 Not long to go until EYA Focus Week 💫

Check out the themes below for this year!

#ExploreYourArchive
exploreyourarchive.bsky.social Explore Your Archive @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social · Aug 28
🎉 Exciting announcement….🎉

The daily themes for EYA Focus Week are here!! ✨

Focus Week will take place from the 29th November to the 7th December. It’s time to start planning your posts! 👀 We can’t wait to see them in November ❤️

#ExploreYourArchive
A graphic entitled "2025 Focus Week Themes" with the EYA logo beneath it. Beneath them is listed the dates and corresponding hashtag to use, which are: 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
November 11, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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This beautiful pocket-sized 'biographical portrait of two brilliant young chess masters' Harry Pillsbury (US) & Rudolf Charousek (Czech/Hungarian), 1914 for #ChessTuesday From the @englishchess.bsky.social Library. #chesshistory #chessliterature @richardjameschess.bsky.social @librarydmu.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 10:00 AM
dmuspecialcolls.bsky.social
🔔 CLOSING TODAY 🔔 Job spec, salary details & how to apply here: buff.ly/q1SSXCM

ROLE: Ski Collections Cataloguer
FULL TIME: 37 hpw
DURATION: Fixed Term: 5 months
🔔 CLOSING DATE: 25-Nov-25🔔

@dmu.ac.uk #sportshistory @icshc.bsky.social @librarydmu.bsky.social @araukie.bsky.social #skiclubgb
November 25, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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🔔 1 DAY TO GO! Job spec, salary details & how to apply here: buff.ly/q1SSXCM

ROLE: Ski Collections Cataloguer
FULL TIME: 37 hpw
DURATION: Fixed Term: 5 months
🔔 CLOSING DATE: 25-Nov-25🔔

@dmu.ac.uk @icshc.bsky.social @librarydmu.bsky.social @araukie.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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🔔 2 DAYS TO GO! Job spec, salary details & how to apply here: buff.ly/q1SSXCM

ROLE: Ski Collections Cataloguer
FULL TIME: 37 hpw
DURATION: Fixed Term: 5 months
🔔 CLOSING DATE: 25-Nov-25🔔

@dmu.ac.uk @icshc.bsky.social @librarydmu.bsky.social @araukie.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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🔔 3 DAYS TO GO! Job spec, salary details & how to apply here: buff.ly/q1SSXCM

ROLE: Ski Collections Cataloguer
FULL TIME: 37 hpw
DURATION: Fixed Term: 5 months
🔔 CLOSING DATE: 25-Nov-25🔔

@dmu.ac.uk @icshc.bsky.social @librarydmu.bsky.social @araukie.bsky.social #skiclubgb
November 22, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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🔔 4 DAYS TO GO! Job spec, salary details & how to apply here: buff.ly/q1SSXCM

ROLE: Ski Collections Cataloguer
FULL TIME: 37 hpw
DURATION: Fixed Term: 5 months
🔔 CLOSING DATE: 25-Nov-25🔔

@dmu.ac.uk @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social @icshc.bsky.social @librarydmu.bsky.social @araukie.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 12:00 PM
dmuspecialcolls.bsky.social
Cosy #autumn vibes this chilly #FashionFriday with this pink and tan ensemble from our collection of French #Fashion Drawings, 1925. C'est magnifique!
@librarydmu.bsky.social #fashionhistory #historicfashion #fashionillustration #1920sstyle #vintage
November 21, 2025 at 9:00 AM
dmuspecialcolls.bsky.social
#ThrowbackThursday time with some #OldTech magic from the ITMS Museum Coll: the 1980s BT mobile “brick” and the mysteriously named 1970s Silent 700. Feel nostalgic… or just confused? @dmuleicester.bsky.social @librarydmu.bsky.social #retrotech #retrophone #retrocomputing
November 20, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Textile artist Britta Marakatt-Labba's embroidery of Sami culture, Indigenous Finno-Ugric people inhabiting the Arctic #womensart
Complex pictorial embroidery with reindeer herd, herders and their dogs in a circular snowy landscape
November 20, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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physiciansgallery.bsky.social
Blog! What we mean by addiction is ever changing. In 1600s Britain, reading books was seen as addictive. You could also be addicted to astrology or to writing poetry.
Read more 👉 www.rcpe.ac.uk/heritage/her...
Promotional image showing illustration of coffee plant with words 'Blog post Hooked - Defining Addiction'
November 20, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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And that's why you can't have ink in the reading room! Historic damage to a 1647 pamphlet on infant baptism by John Cotton #readers
Ink damage (possibly intentional?) to a page from the pamphlet 'The grounds and ends of the baptisme of the children of the faithful' by John Cotton, 1647
November 19, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Get training like Gary Kasparov this #ChessTuesday! 🗡️ Nothing says 90s like this chess-meets-samurai guide by Michael Gelb and Raymond Keene: Openings are ‘Drawing the Sword,’ endgames ‘The Cleanest Kills. From the @englishchess.bsky.social Library @richardjameschess.bsky.social #chesshistory #chess
November 18, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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ICYMI: This #FashionFriday explore the Karun Thakar Collection in our latest blog: buff.ly/JTsyqXh where 'every object has a story to tell about the people who made it and the way that they lived' #fashionhistory #textiles #antiquetextiles
@ihr.bsky.social @dmu.ac.uk @librarydmu.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 9:00 AM