Lizzy Baker
@lizzybarchivist.bsky.social
Reposted by Lizzy Baker
We're looking for a freelance conservator to survey and rehouse audio heritage as part of the Sounds of the Midlands project. For more information please email us. Deadline for applications is Monday, 12 October #LibraryofBham @uniofleicester.bsky.social
September 21, 2026 at 3:00 PM
We're looking for a freelance conservator to survey and rehouse audio heritage as part of the Sounds of the Midlands project. For more information please email us. Deadline for applications is Monday, 12 October #LibraryofBham @uniofleicester.bsky.social
I love doing #YayAdvent so much every year - if you fancy 24 little presents to brighten up your December do sign up!
Reminder: #yayadvent and #yayswap signups are now open!
September 19, 2026 at 7:02 PM
I love doing #YayAdvent so much every year - if you fancy 24 little presents to brighten up your December do sign up!
Oh this is such sad news - she was so marvellous in everything she did but my fondest memories will definitely be Cabin Pressure
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Stephanie Cole: Tenko and Doc Martin actress dies aged 84
She was best known for playing the character Dr Beatrice Mason in the 1980s BBC wartime TV drama
www.bbc.co.uk
September 18, 2026 at 3:38 PM
Oh this is such sad news - she was so marvellous in everything she did but my fondest memories will definitely be Cabin Pressure
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Reposted by Lizzy Baker
Oh blimey, here we go again. Time to vote in the National Trust AGM to keep so-called 'Restore Trust' off the council. Use the quick vote to ensure we don't split the anti-Restore vote. Or.... 1/2 www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
Annual General Meeting
Your Annual General Meeting will take place online and in person on Saturday 7th November 2026 at the STEAM Museum, Swindon.
www.nationaltrust.org.uk
September 11, 2026 at 4:20 PM
Oh blimey, here we go again. Time to vote in the National Trust AGM to keep so-called 'Restore Trust' off the council. Use the quick vote to ensure we don't split the anti-Restore vote. Or.... 1/2 www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
Reposted by Lizzy Baker
They really need to make an alert that you can still read once you've made it stop screaming.
August 14, 2026 at 6:02 PM
They really need to make an alert that you can still read once you've made it stop screaming.
Really disappointed to see this level of cuts at yet another university history department. Please sign and share c.org/K4CqyF7Tn8
Sign the Petition
Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter
c.org
June 25, 2026 at 8:16 PM
Really disappointed to see this level of cuts at yet another university history department. Please sign and share c.org/K4CqyF7Tn8
Reposted by Lizzy Baker
happy International Archives Day!
if you would like to make archives happy you could do worse than with some online volunteering for me – look at pictures! read 19th century minutes! very straightforward, very satisfying, no commitment necessary.
www.sal.org.uk/about-us/vac... (scroll down)
if you would like to make archives happy you could do worse than with some online volunteering for me – look at pictures! read 19th century minutes! very straightforward, very satisfying, no commitment necessary.
www.sal.org.uk/about-us/vac... (scroll down)
June 9, 2026 at 9:07 AM
happy International Archives Day!
if you would like to make archives happy you could do worse than with some online volunteering for me – look at pictures! read 19th century minutes! very straightforward, very satisfying, no commitment necessary.
www.sal.org.uk/about-us/vac... (scroll down)
if you would like to make archives happy you could do worse than with some online volunteering for me – look at pictures! read 19th century minutes! very straightforward, very satisfying, no commitment necessary.
www.sal.org.uk/about-us/vac... (scroll down)
So very sad to hear news of the death of Anthony Head. Such a wonderful actor. He was of course marvellous in Buffy and Merlin, but I loved him in Cabin Pressure on the radio. Sounds to have been a lovely human being too
June 5, 2026 at 7:58 PM
So very sad to hear news of the death of Anthony Head. Such a wonderful actor. He was of course marvellous in Buffy and Merlin, but I loved him in Cabin Pressure on the radio. Sounds to have been a lovely human being too
Reposted by Lizzy Baker
Sunderland-born Joseph Swan, early developer of an incandescent electric light bulb, died on this day 1914. He demonstrated his lamp in 1879 to an audience of more than 700 at Newcastle’s Literary and Philosophical Society.
May 27, 2026 at 6:59 AM
Sunderland-born Joseph Swan, early developer of an incandescent electric light bulb, died on this day 1914. He demonstrated his lamp in 1879 to an audience of more than 700 at Newcastle’s Literary and Philosophical Society.
Reposted by Lizzy Baker
Repository, fonds, series, file, item, folio
what are the Six Genders? wrong answers only
May 15, 2026 at 2:36 PM
Repository, fonds, series, file, item, folio
Reposted by Lizzy Baker
Excellent news for all who have to deal with this condition - and the all-too-common medical assumption that it is “only” a reproductive concern, not a whole-body condition that can lead for example to type 2 diabetes.
www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...
‘Unprecedented’ global effort gives new name to polycystic ovary syndrome – and new hope to millions of women
Decades-long campaign powered by patient perspectives results in switch from PCOS – a name that caused confusion and undue suffering – to PMOS
www.theguardian.com
May 12, 2026 at 6:20 PM
Excellent news for all who have to deal with this condition - and the all-too-common medical assumption that it is “only” a reproductive concern, not a whole-body condition that can lead for example to type 2 diabetes.
www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...
Reposted by Lizzy Baker
GNU Terry Pratchett, whose words will echo long after we, and our children, and our children’s children have moved on
thank you, as always, for making me a better person
(quote from Reaper Man)
thank you, as always, for making me a better person
(quote from Reaper Man)
April 28, 2026 at 3:14 PM
GNU Terry Pratchett, whose words will echo long after we, and our children, and our children’s children have moved on
thank you, as always, for making me a better person
(quote from Reaper Man)
thank you, as always, for making me a better person
(quote from Reaper Man)
Post something orange from your gallery
April 26, 2026 at 6:36 PM
Post something orange from your gallery
Reposted by Lizzy Baker
Durham and English Heritage are now recruiting for a fully-funded PhD on Roman Corbridge 🥳🥳🥳
This is a fantastic opportunity to work on one of our most important and understudied finds assemblages from Roman Britain. Deadline 1st June. Please share widely!
www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
This is a fantastic opportunity to work on one of our most important and understudied finds assemblages from Roman Britain. Deadline 1st June. Please share widely!
www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
April 14, 2026 at 11:22 AM
Durham and English Heritage are now recruiting for a fully-funded PhD on Roman Corbridge 🥳🥳🥳
This is a fantastic opportunity to work on one of our most important and understudied finds assemblages from Roman Britain. Deadline 1st June. Please share widely!
www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
This is a fantastic opportunity to work on one of our most important and understudied finds assemblages from Roman Britain. Deadline 1st June. Please share widely!
www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
Reposted by Lizzy Baker
Archives #JobKlaxon - Curious Arts are recruiting for a north-east based Digital Archivist drive.google.com/file/d/1NHPQ...
Digital Archivist Job pack (3).pdf
drive.google.com
April 13, 2026 at 5:46 PM
Archives #JobKlaxon - Curious Arts are recruiting for a north-east based Digital Archivist drive.google.com/file/d/1NHPQ...
Reposted by Lizzy Baker
The Arrival Of Spring In Woldgate, East Yorkshire, 2011, painting by David Hockney (b.1937).
April 6, 2026 at 7:42 AM
The Arrival Of Spring In Woldgate, East Yorkshire, 2011, painting by David Hockney (b.1937).
Reposted by Lizzy Baker
I am doing an event at the National Archives, for crying out loud! The Love Letters exhibition, talking and signing advance copies, courtesy of Notting Hill's Saucy Books!
KJ Charles at Love Letters Late
We’re thrilled to be partnering with The National Archives for Love Letters Late — a special late-night celebration of romance, stories, and after-hours literary magic. Join us on Friday, April 10th f...
www.saucybooks.com
April 3, 2026 at 5:55 AM
I am doing an event at the National Archives, for crying out loud! The Love Letters exhibition, talking and signing advance copies, courtesy of Notting Hill's Saucy Books!
Reposted by Lizzy Baker
Another call for the hive-mind of Bluesky!
Can any paleography experts identify the occupation of Susannah Cowell, shown here on her student registration card? She was a student at Battersea Polytechnic in 1927, taking a course in Laundry Work.
#archives #educationhistory #trickyhandwriting
Can any paleography experts identify the occupation of Susannah Cowell, shown here on her student registration card? She was a student at Battersea Polytechnic in 1927, taking a course in Laundry Work.
#archives #educationhistory #trickyhandwriting
March 24, 2026 at 4:12 PM
Another call for the hive-mind of Bluesky!
Can any paleography experts identify the occupation of Susannah Cowell, shown here on her student registration card? She was a student at Battersea Polytechnic in 1927, taking a course in Laundry Work.
#archives #educationhistory #trickyhandwriting
Can any paleography experts identify the occupation of Susannah Cowell, shown here on her student registration card? She was a student at Battersea Polytechnic in 1927, taking a course in Laundry Work.
#archives #educationhistory #trickyhandwriting
Reposted by Lizzy Baker
www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2rh...
Nicholas Brendon RIP.
Nicholas Brendon RIP.
Buffy - Once More, with Feeling - I'll Never Tell
YouTube video by Samantha Graff
www.youtube.com
March 21, 2026 at 12:53 AM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2rh...
Nicholas Brendon RIP.
Nicholas Brendon RIP.
Reposted by Lizzy Baker
Discworld QOTD, from Reaper Man
March 17, 2026 at 6:19 PM
Discworld QOTD, from Reaper Man
Reposted by Lizzy Baker
Only 5 weeks until the *free* Broken Bonds: The History of Divorce and Marital Breakdown conference at Northumbria University! Thanks to the ESRC, travel bursaries are available. Details in replies 👇
#LegalHistory #DivorceHistory #FamilyLaw #SocioLegalStudies #WomensHistory #ESRC #ECRHistory
#LegalHistory #DivorceHistory #FamilyLaw #SocioLegalStudies #WomensHistory #ESRC #ECRHistory
March 16, 2026 at 3:12 PM
Only 5 weeks until the *free* Broken Bonds: The History of Divorce and Marital Breakdown conference at Northumbria University! Thanks to the ESRC, travel bursaries are available. Details in replies 👇
#LegalHistory #DivorceHistory #FamilyLaw #SocioLegalStudies #WomensHistory #ESRC #ECRHistory
#LegalHistory #DivorceHistory #FamilyLaw #SocioLegalStudies #WomensHistory #ESRC #ECRHistory
Reposted by Lizzy Baker
Jobs! Three jobs! I am hiring three full-time, three-year postdocs to research the long history of song at Newcastle, from any disciplinary background (within reason), starting 1 October 2026. Spread the news far and wide – all details in the link below...
jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastl...
jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastl...
Research Assistant/Associate: Mainstream Song, Class, and Culture 1520-2020
Research Assistant/Associate: Mainstream Song, Class, and Culture 1520-2020
jobs.ncl.ac.uk
March 16, 2026 at 5:02 PM
Jobs! Three jobs! I am hiring three full-time, three-year postdocs to research the long history of song at Newcastle, from any disciplinary background (within reason), starting 1 October 2026. Spread the news far and wide – all details in the link below...
jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastl...
jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastl...
Reposted by Lizzy Baker
🚨FIXED TERM ARCHIVE JOB KLAXON🚨
We are looking for an experienced archivist to develop and implement a scoping project to re-catalogue and make available the York Archdiocesan Archive (6 months full time, or 12 months part time).
Full details at the link:
jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/proj...
We are looking for an experienced archivist to develop and implement a scoping project to re-catalogue and make available the York Archdiocesan Archive (6 months full time, or 12 months part time).
Full details at the link:
jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/proj...
March 16, 2026 at 10:16 AM
🚨FIXED TERM ARCHIVE JOB KLAXON🚨
We are looking for an experienced archivist to develop and implement a scoping project to re-catalogue and make available the York Archdiocesan Archive (6 months full time, or 12 months part time).
Full details at the link:
jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/proj...
We are looking for an experienced archivist to develop and implement a scoping project to re-catalogue and make available the York Archdiocesan Archive (6 months full time, or 12 months part time).
Full details at the link:
jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/proj...
Reposted by Lizzy Baker
Seriously. Y'all NEED TO ACTUALLY READ John Hodgson's 173 page footnote in which he proves Hadrian built the Roman Wall.
I CANNOT do justice to how beautiful his brain was.
That he's forgotten as a historian breaks my heart.
I CANNOT do justice to how beautiful his brain was.
That he's forgotten as a historian breaks my heart.
At this point he also shows the calculation that doing it as a footnote and saving on paper is the only way to keep the book affordable 💰🤣
March 13, 2026 at 6:23 PM
Seriously. Y'all NEED TO ACTUALLY READ John Hodgson's 173 page footnote in which he proves Hadrian built the Roman Wall.
I CANNOT do justice to how beautiful his brain was.
That he's forgotten as a historian breaks my heart.
I CANNOT do justice to how beautiful his brain was.
That he's forgotten as a historian breaks my heart.