Sarah Radford
@sarahradford.bsky.social
Archivist, museum-goer, history lover.
Was at Senate House for The National Archives‘ Annual Digital Lecture last week and it was looking beautiful as always
November 23, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Was at Senate House for The National Archives‘ Annual Digital Lecture last week and it was looking beautiful as always
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On 17 Dec from 6pm, join the RCP Garden team for an evening of tea tasting & blending featuring ingredients in the Medicinal Garden. Inspired by recipe books in the RCP archives & led by expert gardeners create a blend to take home or give as a festive gift!
Book 👉 history.rcp.ac.uk/event/teas-g...
Book 👉 history.rcp.ac.uk/event/teas-g...
November 20, 2025 at 12:26 PM
On 17 Dec from 6pm, join the RCP Garden team for an evening of tea tasting & blending featuring ingredients in the Medicinal Garden. Inspired by recipe books in the RCP archives & led by expert gardeners create a blend to take home or give as a festive gift!
Book 👉 history.rcp.ac.uk/event/teas-g...
Book 👉 history.rcp.ac.uk/event/teas-g...
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Congratulations to: Hackney Archives, Marx Memorial Library, Powys Archives @mediamuseum.bsky.social, @paulmelloncentr.bsky.social & @yorkminster.bsky.social Archives on achieving Archive Service Accreditation for the first time! (1/2)
📷 The Chapter of York, Photographer: Peter Li
📷 The Chapter of York, Photographer: Peter Li
November 20, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Congratulations to: Hackney Archives, Marx Memorial Library, Powys Archives @mediamuseum.bsky.social, @paulmelloncentr.bsky.social & @yorkminster.bsky.social Archives on achieving Archive Service Accreditation for the first time! (1/2)
📷 The Chapter of York, Photographer: Peter Li
📷 The Chapter of York, Photographer: Peter Li
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Attention, SE19 people and those within reach...
Great day coming up at Bookseller crow! 6th Dec. Lots of authors visiting crystal palace to sign books! Info here booksellercrow.co.uk/event/christ...
November 16, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Attention, SE19 people and those within reach...
Have spent a delightful evening watching Margaret Atwood in conversation with Elif Shafak live at Croydon's Fairfield Halls this evening, which touched on many important and interesting things, not least the joy of leafing through a well-loved, dog-eared book.
November 14, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Have spent a delightful evening watching Margaret Atwood in conversation with Elif Shafak live at Croydon's Fairfield Halls this evening, which touched on many important and interesting things, not least the joy of leafing through a well-loved, dog-eared book.
Lots of costume eye candy at the Cosprop exhibition at the Fashion and Textile Museum, Bermondsey, today.
November 1, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Lots of costume eye candy at the Cosprop exhibition at the Fashion and Textile Museum, Bermondsey, today.
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Here's your chance to learn about DROID, a powerful digital preservation tool! #digipres #archives #DigitalPreservation
www.dpconline.org/events/event...
www.dpconline.org/events/event...
#DPClinic November – Mastering DROID - Digital Preservation Coalition
www.dpconline.org
October 24, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Here's your chance to learn about DROID, a powerful digital preservation tool! #digipres #archives #DigitalPreservation
www.dpconline.org/events/event...
www.dpconline.org/events/event...
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Parents, please check your kids’ candy this Halloween. I’ve just found an ancient metal whistle with the inscription “QUIS EST ISTE QUI VENIT" inside a Snickers bar. I blew it and heard a note of infinite distance, and now I’m haunted by a figure in pale, fluttering draperies. Be safe.
October 22, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Parents, please check your kids’ candy this Halloween. I’ve just found an ancient metal whistle with the inscription “QUIS EST ISTE QUI VENIT" inside a Snickers bar. I blew it and heard a note of infinite distance, and now I’m haunted by a figure in pale, fluttering draperies. Be safe.
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Nice little break from transcribing letters: found these doodles of Faraday @rigb.org and Herschel in a letter from novelist Maria Edgeworth (1802-1869) in 1844 @bodleian.ox.ac.uk, writing about Faraday’s Xmas lectures on electricity - pretty solid likenesses to be honest!
October 21, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Nice little break from transcribing letters: found these doodles of Faraday @rigb.org and Herschel in a letter from novelist Maria Edgeworth (1802-1869) in 1844 @bodleian.ox.ac.uk, writing about Faraday’s Xmas lectures on electricity - pretty solid likenesses to be honest!
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London museum identifies black Waterloo veteran in rare 1821 painting
London museum identifies black Waterloo veteran in rare 1821 painting
‘Honourable’ bandsman Thomas James will feature in display at National Army Museum highlighting service of black soldiers in Napoleonic wars
He fought in the Napoleonic wars and is one of only nine Black soldiers known to have received the Waterloo Medal, the first British medal awarded to soldiers regardless of their rank.
Yet the story of Pte Thomas James has been overlooked for centuries. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 21, 2025 at 4:15 AM
London museum identifies black Waterloo veteran in rare 1821 painting
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BBC News - Four WW1 soldiers found during hospital build
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Four WW1 Grimsby soldiers found during hospital build
Privates Arthur Cook, Robert Cullum, John Fraser and William London were found during building work.
www.bbc.com
October 20, 2025 at 9:17 PM
BBC News - Four WW1 soldiers found during hospital build
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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🎓Join us for our Careers Open Day - a chance to explore exciting roles, meet the team and discover how to enter these professions.
📅What's on📅
👤Chat with staff!
📚Book a Library tour!
🕰Enjoy our collections!
🤝Meet professional bodies and learn about the wider sector!
🎶Explore our current exhibition
📅What's on📅
👤Chat with staff!
📚Book a Library tour!
🕰Enjoy our collections!
🤝Meet professional bodies and learn about the wider sector!
🎶Explore our current exhibition
October 8, 2025 at 7:35 AM
🎓Join us for our Careers Open Day - a chance to explore exciting roles, meet the team and discover how to enter these professions.
📅What's on📅
👤Chat with staff!
📚Book a Library tour!
🕰Enjoy our collections!
🤝Meet professional bodies and learn about the wider sector!
🎶Explore our current exhibition
📅What's on📅
👤Chat with staff!
📚Book a Library tour!
🕰Enjoy our collections!
🤝Meet professional bodies and learn about the wider sector!
🎶Explore our current exhibition
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If you weren't able to join the #ArchivesAccreditn launch webinar, you can see the updated standard, guidance and application form online*: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-sec...
Guidance - Archives sector
Find out more about the Archive Service Accreditation standard and read supporting guidance.
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
October 6, 2025 at 11:40 AM
If you weren't able to join the #ArchivesAccreditn launch webinar, you can see the updated standard, guidance and application form online*: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-sec...
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www.thelondonarchives.org/whats-on/mag...
Get your tickets whilst they last! Selling fast! @thelondonarchives.bsky.social #MagicLantern
Get your tickets whilst they last! Selling fast! @thelondonarchives.bsky.social #MagicLantern
Magic Lantern Show and Exhibition Late View
Join us at The London Archives for an evening of Victorian magic and entertainment with Jeremy and Carolyn Brooker from the Magic Lantern Society.
www.thelondonarchives.org
October 3, 2025 at 2:09 PM
www.thelondonarchives.org/whats-on/mag...
Get your tickets whilst they last! Selling fast! @thelondonarchives.bsky.social #MagicLantern
Get your tickets whilst they last! Selling fast! @thelondonarchives.bsky.social #MagicLantern
My dad has unearthed and sent me a copy of my undergrad dissertation (submitted 2006), which, aside from the nostalgia, has made me realise that next year it will 20 years since I graduated and 20 years since I started working in archives. What should I do to celebrate?
October 1, 2025 at 7:19 AM
My dad has unearthed and sent me a copy of my undergrad dissertation (submitted 2006), which, aside from the nostalgia, has made me realise that next year it will 20 years since I graduated and 20 years since I started working in archives. What should I do to celebrate?
Nice trip down to Nymans NT in Sussex this morning for a walk and a look around the Oliver Messel exhibition
September 27, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Nice trip down to Nymans NT in Sussex this morning for a walk and a look around the Oliver Messel exhibition
Yesterday I walked the Thames Bridges Trek in memory of much-missed former colleague and dear friend Rachel Cosgrave. Rachel loved London and walking so it seemed very apt.
September 14, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Yesterday I walked the Thames Bridges Trek in memory of much-missed former colleague and dear friend Rachel Cosgrave. Rachel loved London and walking so it seemed very apt.
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🔍 Did you know that we have a searchable dataset that draws on records of Londoners of African, Caribbean, Asian and Indigenous heritage in our parish registers from 1561-1840?
The project started in 2000 and, thanks to our staff and volunteers, now has records of 2600 Londoners!
#SwitchingTheLens
The project started in 2000 and, thanks to our staff and volunteers, now has records of 2600 Londoners!
#SwitchingTheLens
August 21, 2025 at 8:30 AM
🔍 Did you know that we have a searchable dataset that draws on records of Londoners of African, Caribbean, Asian and Indigenous heritage in our parish registers from 1561-1840?
The project started in 2000 and, thanks to our staff and volunteers, now has records of 2600 Londoners!
#SwitchingTheLens
The project started in 2000 and, thanks to our staff and volunteers, now has records of 2600 Londoners!
#SwitchingTheLens
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Bye forever, WeTransfer.
July 14, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Bye forever, WeTransfer.
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Many in the UK record-keeping sector will remember Rachel Cosgrave who was lately Senior Archivist at Lambeth Palace Library. Her recent, sudden death has been a shock to the community. If you would like to help her family raise funds in her memory, click this link www.justgiving.com/team/running...
Running for Rachel
Help Talitha Wachtelborn raise money to support Mind
www.justgiving.com
July 14, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Many in the UK record-keeping sector will remember Rachel Cosgrave who was lately Senior Archivist at Lambeth Palace Library. Her recent, sudden death has been a shock to the community. If you would like to help her family raise funds in her memory, click this link www.justgiving.com/team/running...
I have vivid memories of visiting the Mary Rose as a child in the early 90s, walking up those metal stairs and looking out at a vast expanse of damp, dark timber and the constant drip-dripping of water.
You know it's hot when you start envying a Tudor warship in the 1980s...
July 1, 2025 at 10:18 AM
I have vivid memories of visiting the Mary Rose as a child in the early 90s, walking up those metal stairs and looking out at a vast expanse of damp, dark timber and the constant drip-dripping of water.
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📢Attention Cathedrals!📢
Lambeth is opening a new programme to offer free cathedrals visits from our expert collections care team, to advise on a range of preservation issues.📚
More details here:
www.lambethpalacelibrary.info/cathedral-li...
@englishcathedrals.co.uk
Lambeth is opening a new programme to offer free cathedrals visits from our expert collections care team, to advise on a range of preservation issues.📚
More details here:
www.lambethpalacelibrary.info/cathedral-li...
@englishcathedrals.co.uk
June 27, 2025 at 11:55 AM
📢Attention Cathedrals!📢
Lambeth is opening a new programme to offer free cathedrals visits from our expert collections care team, to advise on a range of preservation issues.📚
More details here:
www.lambethpalacelibrary.info/cathedral-li...
@englishcathedrals.co.uk
Lambeth is opening a new programme to offer free cathedrals visits from our expert collections care team, to advise on a range of preservation issues.📚
More details here:
www.lambethpalacelibrary.info/cathedral-li...
@englishcathedrals.co.uk
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Welcome to the archives.
June 10, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Welcome to the archives.
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Job klaxon!
📢 Hiring Now - Project Archivist!
Project: 'Jean Stone Collection: celebrating influential women in the Paralympic Movement' ♿
🗓️ Contract Date: Jun 2025 – Jan 2026 (8 months)
📝 Closing Date: Fri 30th May 2025
#MuseumEd
💻 For details & to apply, visit: www.paralympicheritage.org.uk/news/project...
Project: 'Jean Stone Collection: celebrating influential women in the Paralympic Movement' ♿
🗓️ Contract Date: Jun 2025 – Jan 2026 (8 months)
📝 Closing Date: Fri 30th May 2025
#MuseumEd
💻 For details & to apply, visit: www.paralympicheritage.org.uk/news/project...
May 19, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Job klaxon!