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Award-winning archive of British & international industrial & communication design
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The Willy de Majo Archive catalogue is now live on the ArchivesHub! Read the feature from @sirps.bsky.social on the Hub blog and explore the catalogue here: archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/designarchiv...
November 26, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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royalhistsoc.org
Now open: call for the Royal Historical Society's First Book and Early Career Article Prizes, 2026.

Eligible titles, published in 2025, may be submitted by the author before the closing date of 15 December. Further details and how to apply: bit.ly/3KnR47v

#Skystorians
Royal Historical Society Book and Article Prizes, 2026: submissions now invited - RHS
The Royal Historical Society invites applications for its First Book Prize, 2026 and Early Career Article Prize, 2026. The call for submissions opens on Monday 29 September 2025 and runs to Monday 15 ...
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November 14, 2025 at 9:24 AM
designarchives.bsky.social
De-energize the crisis eliminate

Designed and produced as a public service by Raychem Corporation
Designer: John Rieben

Icograda / ICoD Archive
ICO/3/32/116
brown poster with red, orange, blue, yellow and cream coloured geometric shapes
November 24, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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dmuspecialcolls.bsky.social
🔔 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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c20society.bsky.social
EVENT: Join C20 for a special curator talk and tour of the new exhibition, Theo Crosby: 100 Lives at Osh Gallery - celebrating the visionary architect, designer, curator and artist.

🗓️ Tue 9 Dec 2025 - 6:30-8PM
📍 Osh Gallery, 46 Essex Road, London
🎟️ Tickets: secure.c20society.org.uk/Default.aspx...
November 20, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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librariesconnected.bsky.social
Today we publish groundbreaking new research showing that public #Libraries in the South East deliver millions in value by supporting mental health and wellbeing, particularly among older people.

Find out more:

www.librariesconnected.org.uk/news/south-e...
An older man reads with a young boy in a library.
November 20, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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In case you missed it the #ArchiveAdventCalendar is back 🥳🎉
arascot.bsky.social ARA Scotland @arascot.bsky.social · 15d
We are pleased to announce the daily themes for the 2025 #ArchiveAdventCalendar. A reminder that anyone can take part in December. Just post something with the daily hashtag and #ArchiveAdventCalendar. We can't wait to see what you will all share this year! 😁🎄🎅
November 20, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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mrcwarwick.bsky.social
Call for papers #CFP

Blood is the Price of Coal: Coal Communities, Health and Welfare in Britain and Beyond from the 19th Century to the Present

18 June 2026: 1 day conference + NUM archive exhibition

Submit abstracts / express interest at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...

Deadline: 25 Jan 2026
Blood is the Price of Coal: Coal Communities, Health and Welfare in Britain and Beyond from the 19th Century to the Present When and where: University of Warwick, Coventry, on Thursday 18 June 2026. Conference summary: This free one day conference aims to bring together researchers from higher education, community and campaign groups to explore the history of health and welfare in Britain’s coal mining industry. Held jointly by the University of Warwick's Centre for the History of Medicine, Science and Technology, and Modern Records Centre, the event will run alongside an exhibition which will explore some of the themes covered by the speakers through the National Union of Mineworkers' archives. We welcome contributions from new and established researchers, working inside and outside higher education. Confirmed participants include: - Jörg Arnold (University of Augsburg / Institute for Contemporary History Munich - Berlin), author of The British Miner in the Age of DeIndustrialization - Keith Gildart (University of Wolverhampton), Principal Investigator on research project On Behalf of the People: Work, Community and Class in the British Coal Industry 1947-1994 and former miner - Quentin Outram (University of Leeds), Secretary of the Society for the Study of Labour History and co-editor of Coal in Victorian Britain Conference themes: Subjects that could be addressed include but are not limited to: The human cost of coal, including: - Mining disasters, their contemporary impacts and later memorialisation. - Industrial accidents, industrial diseases and workers’ compensation. - Mine safety and the improvement of conditions. - Mining and mental health. Industrial health and welfare, including: - Pre-nationalisation provision in and beyond the colliery. - National Coal Board provision, including the NCB Medical Service, housing and the Coal Industry Social Welfare Organisation. - Trade union campaigns and benefit schemes. - Sport and social provision as mining welfare. Coal and community, including: - Environmental impact. - Mining families and the intergenerational effects of the mining industry. - Impacts of the industry with particular reference to gender, race and ethnicity. - Coalfield communities after coal: the effects of deindustrialisation. Submission guidelines We wish to make space for dialogue between academic and community-based researchers, and welcome involvement from mining heritage and local history groups / researchers from former coalfield communities. We welcome and encourage alternative presentational styles. Possible formats for contributions could include: - 15-20 minute papers. - 5 minute lightning papers (for example showcasing a particular object or archival source, or highlighting a particular place, event, individual or experience). - Round table discussions. - Posters or displays. Submission deadline: 25 January 2026. Limited funding for travel support will be available, with priority given to early career researchers or participants who cannot draw upon institutional funding. For additional enquiries, please contact the conference organisers at archives@warwick.ac.uk
November 20, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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sodesignhistory.bsky.social
A reminder that Professor Annebella Pollen will be in conversation with Associate Professor Sally-Anne Huxtable, guest editor of recently-published special issue of the Journal of Design History 'Design and the Occult', next week. This event will be held online, register here:
Design and the Occult: An in-conversation with Sally-Anne Huxtable
Annebella Pollen in conversation with Sally-Anne Huxtable
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November 19, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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sodesignhistory.bsky.social
In this month's Routes to Design History podcast, we talk to Ana Elena Mallet, an independent curator specializing in modern and contemporary design, and cultural management. Listen here: buff.ly/b99Fyph
November 17, 2025 at 10:45 AM
designarchives.bsky.social
The City in Maps: Urban mapping to 1900
4 June 1986 - 31 December 1987 at @britishlibrary.bsky.social
Designed by John Ronayne
Icograda / The ICoD Archive
ICO/3/54/18
#MapMonday
dark green poster with an old map of the city of Chichester on it
November 17, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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dmuspecialcolls.bsky.social
🔔 We are recruiting! 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 12, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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sodesignhistory.bsky.social
Don't forget to sign up for our Routes to Design History mentorship and networking event next week, where you can engage with an international group of scholars, practitioners, and professionals who have featured as speakers on our RTDH podcast.

Book your place here: buff.ly/G7fDAnA
November 12, 2025 at 12:03 PM
designarchives.bsky.social
Theo Crosby: 100 Lives

An exhibition about designer Theo Crosby (1925-1994) is on now through 11 December at Osh Gallery, London
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More about the exhibition here: www.oshgallerylondon.com

And more about the Crosby archive here: blogs.brighton.ac.uk/brightondesi...
architectural drawings of a chair designed by Crosby
November 10, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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mikejonesphd.bsky.social
Currently doing some marking. A reminder to everyone involved in archives and collections: digitisation is not preservation. If I digitise a box of records and put the files on a USB stick I haven't preserved a thing. It's all about what you do with the files post-digitisation. #archives #digipres
Colour photograph of a white USB stick. Printed text on the USB stick reads: '...this is not an archive.'
November 10, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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oralhistoryie.bsky.social
⏳Still time to register!⏳

Sign up to OHNI's 'Archiving and Oral History' ONLINE workshop with the Digital Repository of Ireland, focusing on archiving #oralhistories

💻Friday 21st November 3-5:30pm
🎟️Member €35/Non-Member €50

#OralHistory #OHNI #DRI

oralhistorynetworkireland.ie/event/archiv...
Sign up to OHNI's 'Archiving and Oral History' ONLINE workshop with the Digital Repository of Ireland discussing preserving #oralhistory.
November 10, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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mrcwarwick.bsky.social
🚨 Archive Job Alert 🚨

📜 Fancy working with our fantastic archive collections?

We're looking for a *new* MRC Manager to lead our service!

Could this be YOU?

Find out more about the role at warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...

More about the MRC at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...
Five photographs of the Modern Records Centre: Two students walking outside the main entrance. A view down the aisle of one of our strongrooms. A student looking through a photograph album in our seminar room. Digitisation Assistant at work scanning a volume. A view of our searchroom, with an Archive Assistant handing out a document to a researcher.
November 10, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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sodesignhistory.bsky.social
Join Professor Annebella Pollen for an online in-conversation event with Associate Professor Sally-Anne Huxtable, guest editor of recently-published special issue of the Journal of Design History 'Design and the Occult' and Chair of the Design History Society. Reserve your place: buff.ly/TaiOP06
November 10, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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forarthistory.org.uk
Careers with Art History: Working in Museums and Galleries - A morning of careers advice from professionals working in museums and galleries.

Join us for a free webinar offering an overview of a museum and gallery-based roles and routes into them.

📍Online
📆Sat 15 Nov
🎟️ https://loom.ly/ppSqlNY
November 10, 2025 at 2:24 PM
designarchives.bsky.social
Cronmatch Colour Scale, from the Willy de Majo Archive.
WDM/2/4/10
A grid of 4 x 6 diamonds each with a different colour and number inside, inbetween each diamond is the Cronmatch logo. To the right of the grid is text about the Cronmatch Colour Scale.
November 5, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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It's today and there are a few spaces left if you'd like to visit the #Georgian seaside with us
seasidenetwork.bsky.social Seaside Heritage Network @seasidenetwork.bsky.social · Sep 15
We're going all #JaneAusten for our next #seasideheritage seminar.
Won't you be so kind as to join us?
seasideheritage.org.uk/events/upcom...
November 5, 2025 at 11:22 AM
designarchives.bsky.social
Design, November 1955
Cover designed by FHK Henrion
@designcouncil.bsky.social archive
Cream magazine cover has a vertical blue rectangle on the left side that overlaps an olive green square in the middle. Inside the coloured blocks is an image of a light and a large desk with lots of knobs on it Design is written at the top in olive green.
November 3, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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!! CORRECTION - Closing date 11 Nov!!

📣 Job alert!
We are looking for a permanent full-time archivist to join our friendly team!

Closing date: 11 November 2025

Apply at: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

#ArchiveJobs #LibraryJobs #Heritage #ExeterJobs #Exeter #Archives #RareBooks
November 3, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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sodesignhistory.bsky.social
Could you be our new Student Ambassador? If you have a strong interest in the history of design or related fields and a commitment to equal opportunities and inclusive practices we want to hear from you! To find out more visit our website: buff.ly/JCbTcey
November 3, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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municipaldreams.bsky.social
Another installment in the surprising reach of the 1951 Festival of Britain: the scale model of the Midland Railway completed for the Festival in the then Derby Borough Museum. Now located in the Silk Mill Museum of Making.
Image of large model railway setup in old mill building
November 1, 2025 at 6:37 PM