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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 ❤️

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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
exploreyourarchive.bsky.social
It’s the final day of #ExploreYourArchive focus week! Our final theme is #EYAYourArchives - use the hashtag to showcase anything you want to celebrate in your archives! 📢

Thank you so much for getting involved this year, it’s been great to see all your fantastic posts 👍🎉

#ExploreYourArchive
White text on an orange background: #EYAYourArchive. Other text: 2025 EYA 7th December. ArchI’ve Explored
December 7, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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araireland.bsky.social
Today is the last day of the Explore Your Archive focus week and we want to see #EYAYourArchives | #EYADoChartlann!

Don’t forget to tag 🏷️ @araireland.bsky.social & @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social in your posts

#ExploreYourArchive #CuardaighDoChartlann
December 7, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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❄️⛸️Olympic champion, #Hollywood actor, and #WinterSports legend Sonja Henie features in the Film Pictorial Annual 1938 for @arascot.bsky.social's #ArchiveAdventCalendar. 🎞️ Thin Ice or Happy Landing? @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social @dmu.ac.uk
@librarydmu.bsky.social #filmhistory
December 6, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Looking ahead to next year for today's #ExploreYourArchive #Anniversaries theme, 2026 marks 100 years since the death of Gertrude Bell.

Her archive of photographs and letters of her travels and life in the Middle East are still used globally today.

Explore the archive here: gertrudebell.ncl.ac.uk
Photograph of Gertrude Bell's grave in Baghdad.
December 6, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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Thema Archwiliwch Eich Archif heddiw yw #EYAPenblwyddi

“Cadeirlan Bangor a’r ddinas, y ddinas hynaf yng Nghymru, yn dathlu eu pen-blwydd yn 1500 oed.”

Gallwch weld yr arddangosfa ar-lein drwy'r ddolen ganlynol:
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#ExploreYourArchives #exploreyourarchive
Mae 2025 yn nodi carreg filltir aruthrol yn hanes Bangor, wrth i'r Gadeirlan a’r ddinas, y ddinas hynaf yng Nghymru, dathlu eu pen-blwydd yn 1500 oed. Er mwyn nodi'r pen-blwydd arwyddocaol hwn mae'r Archifau a Chasgliadau Arbennig ym Mhrifysgol Bangor wedi curadu arddangosfa sy'n tynnu sylw at y cyfnodau pwysig yn hanes yr Eglwys Gadeiriol a hynny drwy eitemau o'n casgliad archifol a chan gynnwys llyfrau prin o Lyfrgell y Gadeirlan - casgliad sydd wedi bod yng ngofal Prifysgol Bangor am sawl degawd.
December 6, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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We're delving into the Post Office Irish Postage Stamp Collection for today's #ExploreYourArchive theme #EYAAnniversaries #EYACuimhneacháin

This stamp was published in 1997 to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Irish state:
doi.org/10.7486/DRI....
Irish stamp featuring books, a painter's palette with brushes, and a mythological illustration. Text reads "Éire 52" and "Rialtas na hÉireann 1922-1997."
December 6, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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whitchurchhospital.bsky.social
Day 8 @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social

For #EYAAnniversaries we thought we would look back at the Whitchurch Hospital Centenary back in 2008.

Who remembers coming along to the open day back in April 2008?

#ExploreYourArchive #Archives #EYAFocusWeek #heritage
A round cake on a gold board with a patterned tablecloth. The cake has a sketch of Whitchurch Hospital in black and the word Centenary underneath in gold lettering A large poster advertising the open day in April 2008 A booklet from the Centenary event to coincide with a lecture by Dr Ian Beech, I can’t believe it’s not butter. Invite for the Open event back in April 2008
December 6, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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2026 marks 350 years since Bethlem moved from its medieval Bishopsgate home to a purpose-built site at Moorfields, with the iconic Raving & Melancholy statues installed over the gates. Today’s site still sits on a 999-year lease from the City of London, so only 649 years left...
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December 6, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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This December marks the 70th anniversary of the University of Exeter, having been awarded its Royal Charter in 1955. To celebrate, this autumn we put the charter on display in the Forum Library for students, staff & the public to visit and enjoy.

📷 EUL MS 294

#EYAAnniversaries #UniOfExeterArchive
Display case with four shelves, featuring a range of items, including a congratulatory address, photographs, a special issue newspaper, the Royal Charter of the University of Exeter, and a speech made by Queen Elizabeth II in 1956. The Royal Charter of the University of Exeter with a large red seal.
December 6, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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#ExploreYourArchive Thank you to everyone who has helped celebrate 400 years of Worsbrough Mill with us this year.

#WorsbroughMill400 has been a year long celebration made possible with funding from The National Lottery Heritage Fund &
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Your listening age 400. Thank you to everyone who has helped us celebrate 400 years of Worsbrough Mill
December 6, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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linneansociety.bsky.social
Friends and family celebrating 25 years of marriage for the Silver wedding anniversary of D.H. and Rina Scott, with a handy key to remember all of those many faces. (SCO/1/6/3) #EYAAnniversaries
A yellowed photograph, black and white, of a crowd of people seated formally in front of a large white building. A smaller piece of paper in the upper right hand corner appears to label figures in the portrait, with numbers corresponding to those on a loose sketch of the scene.
December 6, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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brasenose.bsky.social
#ExploreYourArchive 2025 marked 80 years since the end of WWII. College was taken over by the military, and most BNC students moved to Christ Church. This is an image of sandbagging in 1939 from Principal Stallybrass’s photo collection. brasenosecollegelibrary.wordpress.com
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December 6, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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This year it’s our 90th birthday 🎂 and to celebrate we have recreated the exhibition put together for our Golden Jubilee in 1985, but this time it's online! Filled with collection highlights plus additions that reflect our last 40 years #EYAAnniversaries www.oxfordshirehistory.org.uk/public/exhib...
December 6, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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This image was an entry as part of the “Snap your street” collection from 1998, which was a collection of images from York’s recent history. The image itself is from the 1984 York Minster fire, with this year marking the 41st #EYAAnniversaries of the fire. 

#archives #york #yorkminster
Colour photograph of the Rose Window engulfed in flames in the South Transept of the Minster.
December 6, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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The anniversary of the first 100 years of St David’s College started at 7am and finished with a well-deserved tea at 4.30. It included a series of student tableaux recording the history of Lampeter, from the Druids to Modern Lampeter.

#EYAAnniversaries #UWTSDlib
The image is square with a teal background. In the bottom left corner there is the UWTSD logo and in the right there is the UWTSD library logo. In the centre of the image there is an old photograph of Lampeter students wearing graduation robes. The image is square with a teal background. In the bottom left corner there is the UWTSD logo and in the right there is the UWTSD library logo. In the centre of the image there is an old photograph of students wearing white robes and scarves around their faces. They are holding a sign that says “Druids.”. The image is square with a teal background. In the bottom left corner there is the UWTSD logo and in the right there is the UWTSD library logo. In the centre of the image there is a scan of paper showing the Celebration of the Centenary of the College in 1927. There is a list showing the activities throughout the day. The image is square with a teal background. In the bottom left corner there is the UWTSD logo and in the right there is the UWTSD library logo. In the centre of the image is a scan of an invitation for the Celebration of the Centenary of the College at St David’s College, Lampeter, in 1927.
December 6, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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rbgkew.bsky.social
For #EYAAnniversaries, we delved into collections on our Millennium Seed Bank, which opened at Wakehurst 25 years ago. Among the reports & articles on the development of one of the world’s largest seed banks, we discovered publicity materials featuring none other than Sir David Attenborough! #KewLA
Various materials layered on top of each other so that corners and sections of pages are obscured. On the bottom is newsletter article opened on a two-page spread with a light green border and the title in the centre reads ‘The Millenium Seed Bank Project’. Underneath the title, two images are fully visible – on the left hand side, a person collecting seeds in Cumbria and to the right, a model version of the ‘Wellcome Trust Millennium Building’. Materials on top of the article from left to right are: section of a report on the Kew Seed Bank; a leaflet with a cream background and image of a small plant titled ‘Your Opportunity to Sponsor a Millennium Seed Bank Tree’; a leaflet with a logo of a plant with a green steam, yellow petals and a green globe in the centre reading ‘millennium seed bank appeal kew’ with a photograph of Sir David Attenborough outside the Palm House to the right. Article - MAFF Bulletin, Crown Copyright.
December 6, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Festive greetings between two poets from 114 years ago on #EYAAnniversaries. Our most recent collection comes from Cardiff University Special Collections & Archives and features letters from #EdwardThomas to fellow poet and friend, #GordonBottomley. @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social #WWI #warpoets
Image shows detail of a letter from Edward Thomas to Gordon Bottomley – the letter is dated Christmas 1911 from Wick Green. Collection held at Cardiff University Special Collections & Archives.
December 6, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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#ExploreYourArchive Day 8 #EYAAnniversaries

Read more about the 100th Anniversary of the construction of the Bodie Creek Bridge in our Archives newsletter from 2024 and 2025 (Issue. 1):
nationalarchives.gov.fk/about-archiv...

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December 6, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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Our current #CM150 exhibition at Sidcup marks 150 years of the Crime Museum collection, whilst its successor next year will mark the 125th anniversary of Assistant Commissioner Edward Henry's formation of the Met's Fingerprint Bureau on 1 July 1901. #EYAanniversaries #ExploreYourArchive
Courtroom sketch by William Hartley of a seated Edward Henry, his walrus moustache protruding above an opened case, possibly a portable writing case. An inscription below reads 'SIR EDW. HENRY WATCHES FO[R] THE POLICE', meaning it probably shows him at the January 1913 trial of his would-be assassin Alfred Bowes - he pleaded for mercy for him and paid for his passage to Canada after his release from prison in 1922.
December 6, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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The Isle of Man Sea Terminal turned sixty this year! The Modernist design with its 'crow's nest' was in complete contrast to the Victorian structure it replaced. Our Harbours records span nearly 250 years, starting with the first Commissioners' minutes from 1771. #EYAAnniversaries #ManxArchives
Black and white photograph showing the new Sea Terminal building under construction. The Douglas Head Hotel can be seen in the background. Black and white photograph showing the new Sea Terminal building under construction. The end of Loch Promenade and Peveril Buildings can be seen in the background.
December 6, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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#OnThisDay in Derby in 1745, Bonnie Prince Charlie abandoned his march to London to restore the Stuart monarchy in England, Scotland and Wales. The Jacobite rebels were ultimately defeated at the Battle of Culloden in Scotland on 16 April 1746.

#EYAAnniversaries #18thCentury
Letter which begins: Mansfield eleven o'clock Fryday Dec. 6 1745 Sir we were much allarm'd here last night with a report of the Rebels being within a few miles of this place the Derbyshire forces left us in no small hurry & confusion which contributed a good deal to encrease the allarm. we sent our horses to Warsop that they might be out of danger at all events & were resolved our selves to wait the event...
December 6, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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2025 has been a year of anniversaries for #CelebratingBexley and #BexleyArchives – Dissolution of Lesnes Abbey (500 years), Crossness Pumping Station (160 years), Danson Park (100 years), London Borough of Bexley (60 years). #EYAAnniversaries #ExploreYourArchive
December 6, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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2025 marked the anniversaries of the opening (1895) & closing (1935) of the Galway-Clifden railway. Arthur J. Balfour's album documents the railway's construction.

The Balfour album is fully digitised: digital.library.universityofgalway.ie/p/ms/categor...

#EYAAnniversaries #ExploreYourArchive
December 6, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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gwentarchives.bsky.social
On this day, in 1916, David Lloyd George became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
#EYAAnniversaries
December 6, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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gwentarchives.bsky.social
Ar y diwrnod hwn, ym 1916, daeth David Lloyd George yn Brif Weinidog y Deyrnas Unedig.
#AEADathliadau #EYAAnniversaries
December 6, 2025 at 10:01 AM