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Liz Wood

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Tired, archive-themed, occasionally falling over a cat.

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Liz Wood @worsted.bsky.social · 18h

It's in the cellars

Liz Wood @worsted.bsky.social · 2d

Not quite the same but there may be a few stylistic similarities - we've got some examples of rank and file (CPGB associated) workplace bulletins from the 1920s/30s - some of the Rufford Stars are up at cdm21047.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...

cdm21047.contentdm.oclc.org

Liz Wood @worsted.bsky.social · 8d

Honourable mention goes to Faint Not Batchelor, father and son duo

Screenshot of six people with the first name Faint Not in a database of East Sussex parish records: Faint-Not Kennard, Faint-Not Parkar, Faint-Not Gutsell, Faint Not A Young Maiden Creseye, Faint Not Bachelor, and Faint Not Wife of John Hawkins

Screen shot of baptism entry of Faynt not Batchelor, son of Faynt not Batchelor, in 1619

Liz Wood @worsted.bsky.social · 8d

Name of the week goes to:

Screenshot:
Name. Faint Not Wines
Other. Wines, Faint Not
Arrival. 1634 New England

Liz Wood @worsted.bsky.social · 12d

Kept in the locked cupboard that the lion is sitting in front of, thirty minutes before the hour glass runs out

Liz Wood @worsted.bsky.social · 12d

That lion has the look of a creature that's recently been removed from sitting on a crucial pile of papers

Liz Wood @worsted.bsky.social · 20d

Yes, 1984/5 letters at the moment

Liz Wood @worsted.bsky.social · 20d

#MondayMotivation from today's freshly catalogued archives

Back of a forty year old letter with 'KEEP IT UP AND MAKE THE BASTARDS PAY!' written on it in all caps.

Liz Wood @worsted.bsky.social · Sep 4

Statement of health policy, 1957.

Literally the only document in the archive file with a cigarette burn.

Memorandum headed 'Statement of health policy' with a singed hole in the top right corner.

Liz Wood @worsted.bsky.social · Sep 3

If you can get there, thoroughly recommend a visit - an outstanding building crammed with history

Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick @mrcwarwick.bsky.social · Sep 3

Looking forward to #HeritageOpenDays later this month!

Join us at the Miners' Hall, Barnsley, on 16-17 September - a fantastic opportunity to see inside the NUM & Yorkshire Miners' Association's historic home & find out more about the union archives

www.heritageopendays.org.uk/submission-e...

Illustration showing the South Yorkshire Miners' Association offices, Barnsley, in c.1874-1881.

Photograph of the Miners' Hall, Barnsley, including trade union banners on display around the edges of the hall.

Liz Wood @worsted.bsky.social · Sep 1

The legitimately great as well as the absolutely daft

Liz Wood @worsted.bsky.social · Sep 1

Mr Kipling himself was an advertising gimmick:

"The cakes needed a man's name, it was decided. Professional bakers, like chefs, are men, and a man's name would have more authority with women. ... It was a woman, however, who came up with Mr Kipling." (She remained resolutely unnamed in the article)

Extract from article text explaining that "The cakes needed a man's name, it was decided. Professional bakers, like chefs, are men, and a man's name would have more authority with women. It was a woman, however, who came up with Mr Kipling. Why Mr Kipling? That was what everyone asked at the conferences. "And when you get that sort of playback you know it's good," said the experts."

Liz Wood @worsted.bsky.social · Sep 1

Other publicity stunts involved hanging cake from the ceiling and suspending pointy signs over aisles of relentlessly orange packaging...

Boxes of suspended cake.

Aisle of cake with pointy arrows hanging above it

Liz Wood @worsted.bsky.social · Sep 1

In today's unexpected NUM find, a magazine featuring the launch of Mr Kipling in 1967 through "Shock Troops" "in the Van of the Cake Revolution" (or six blokes in branded suits brandishing platters of cake) ...

Page with the headline 'In the van of the great cake revolution' and part of a photograph showing grinning men in corporately striped suits brandishing a tray of Mr Kipling cakes.

The other half of the page, showing more of a photograph showing grinning men in corporately striped suits brandishing a tray of Mr Kipling cakes.

Liz Wood @worsted.bsky.social · Sep 1

A very hidden cat to hopefully help

Black, orange and white cat curled up in a partially collapsed box.

Liz Wood @worsted.bsky.social · Aug 31

She had come to tell me sad tales of her empty food bowl, saw the cardigan and embedded herself in it for about an hour. After a brief snack break, she's returned to nest in it. She loves it very much.

Liz Wood @worsted.bsky.social · Aug 31

Got the scruffy cat cardigan out from the wardrobe for the first time in months...

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Jon Vernon @onlyindevon.co.uk · Aug 29

The Freddy Mercury hoovering display team were also a particular highlight...

Liz Wood @worsted.bsky.social · Aug 29

Not a family thing, but reminds me a lot of a 1925 autograph album I worked with a few years ago - even down to the now rusting pin. Mix of heartfelt, sentiment and solid innuendo (mostly in verse) from Bermondsey's Princess Club girls to Eileen Younghusband.

wdc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...

Page from autograph album with a pin in and the caption ' A stitch in time saves time'.

Page from an autograph album: 'Fall from the window. Fall from above. Fall from anywhere. But don't fall in love.'

Page from an autograph album: 'Oh Tommy I love you. I love you almighty. I wish your Pyjamas. Were next to my nighty (On the cloths line)'.

Page from an autograph album: 'Dont tell the world your trouble. Don't make your friends feel sad. Don't sign. Don't cry there are others just as bad your road may be as nothing those others are rich & well. Don't tell the world your troubles they all have enough of their own.'

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Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick @mrcwarwick.bsky.social · Aug 27

Grant funding for community-focused public engagement work by "creative academics who want to experiment", including independent researchers

Got great plans or initial thoughts about archives here? Drop us a line (we're particularly eyeing up the NUM archives here but SO MANY OTHER POSSIBILITIES!)

The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · Aug 25

The SHAPE Involve and Engage programme opens on 1 September. We are looking for researchers from across the UK to deliver innovative public engagement projects working in partnership with a gallery, archive, library or museum (GLAM organisation).

Find out more: buff.ly/efUOSoL

Liz Wood @worsted.bsky.social · Aug 21

The M.R. James Memorial Treadmill?

Liz Wood @worsted.bsky.social · Aug 19

Biscuit tin?

One of my former workplaces had an archive office cat (Chekov), unfortunately we didn't overlap.

Liz Wood @worsted.bsky.social · Aug 18

Week off ✔️

Bakery ✔️

Bread pudding the size and weight of a house brick ✔️

Oblong slab of bread pudding on a paper bag with a knife in front of it.

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Anne-Grethe Jensen @daneanne.bsky.social · Aug 14

I have questions about archive distance courses and/or part time UCL MA course. If anyone are happy to talk to me as employer/student/mentor of such undertakings (or can point me in the direction of friendly people) please let me know. I am on a fact finding mission.

Liz Wood @worsted.bsky.social · Aug 13

Still think that this is a strong contender...

bsky.app/profile/jmad...

Joseph M. Adelman @jmadelman.bsky.social · Sep 5

I let students come up with the icebreakers in the senior seminar and one came up with a doozy too good not to share and pose to you all:

If you could drop an angry rhino into any moment in history, when and where would you put it?