That feeling when you *find* a Chancery Court case vs that feeling when you realize you have to *read* said Chancery Court case #notabadproblemtohave #archivelife 🗃️
June 16, 2025 at 10:30 AM
That feeling when you *find* a Chancery Court case vs that feeling when you realize you have to *read* said Chancery Court case #notabadproblemtohave #archivelife 🗃️
📜 From the Archives
Deciphering 17th-century manuscripts, reading original records, and unearthing primary sources...
For a historian, this is where the real thrill of discovery happens.
#HistorianOnTheRock #ArchiveLife #PrimarySources #Manuscripts #History
Deciphering 17th-century manuscripts, reading original records, and unearthing primary sources...
For a historian, this is where the real thrill of discovery happens.
#HistorianOnTheRock #ArchiveLife #PrimarySources #Manuscripts #History
September 4, 2026 at 2:42 AM
📜 From the Archives
Deciphering 17th-century manuscripts, reading original records, and unearthing primary sources...
For a historian, this is where the real thrill of discovery happens.
#HistorianOnTheRock #ArchiveLife #PrimarySources #Manuscripts #History
Deciphering 17th-century manuscripts, reading original records, and unearthing primary sources...
For a historian, this is where the real thrill of discovery happens.
#HistorianOnTheRock #ArchiveLife #PrimarySources #Manuscripts #History
Haven't gotten mss by email lately, but I got a little group of John Garfield letters from a library today. He didn't leave a big set of papers so I'm always hunting.
Unfortunately, they're mostly an org hitting him up for $$ - & him being like, people I can't give any more! 😆😭 #ArchiveLife 🗃️
Unfortunately, they're mostly an org hitting him up for $$ - & him being like, people I can't give any more! 😆😭 #ArchiveLife 🗃️
September 14, 2026 at 6:55 PM
Haven't gotten mss by email lately, but I got a little group of John Garfield letters from a library today. He didn't leave a big set of papers so I'm always hunting.
Unfortunately, they're mostly an org hitting him up for $$ - & him being like, people I can't give any more! 😆😭 #ArchiveLife 🗃️
Unfortunately, they're mostly an org hitting him up for $$ - & him being like, people I can't give any more! 😆😭 #ArchiveLife 🗃️
Not sure what it says about me that I feel a sense of calm walking into this place, but I do! (it helps that i found what i was looking for) #archivelife 🗃️
June 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Not sure what it says about me that I feel a sense of calm walking into this place, but I do! (it helps that i found what i was looking for) #archivelife 🗃️
No you spent 2 hours dating theater programs! #librarylife #archivelife
January 15, 2025 at 4:41 AM
No you spent 2 hours dating theater programs! #librarylife #archivelife
Today's #Archive30 is #ArchivesBuildings so we're sharing some images of the RBA. In this pic we have the exterior, the searchroom, a strongroom - where we store the archives - and stairs. We couldn't function without our stairs - or our lift! 😉 #ArchivalProduction #ArchiveLife
April 28, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Today's #Archive30 is #ArchivesBuildings so we're sharing some images of the RBA. In this pic we have the exterior, the searchroom, a strongroom - where we store the archives - and stairs. We couldn't function without our stairs - or our lift! 😉 #ArchivalProduction #ArchiveLife
Archival awesomeness, 19th cent. books with marbled edges. Just municipal admistration, but in such pretty covers ❤️
#archivistsofbsky #archivelife #oldbooks
#archivistsofbsky #archivelife #oldbooks
February 11, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Archival awesomeness, 19th cent. books with marbled edges. Just municipal admistration, but in such pretty covers ❤️
#archivistsofbsky #archivelife #oldbooks
#archivistsofbsky #archivelife #oldbooks
today I found a moth, acetate negatives and x-rays, so pretty normal archivist day tbf #archivelife
November 15, 2023 at 4:23 AM
today I found a moth, acetate negatives and x-rays, so pretty normal archivist day tbf #archivelife
Spend 10 minutes describing something only for it to turn out to not belong to the collection your doing description for #archivelife
February 2, 2024 at 1:58 AM
Spend 10 minutes describing something only for it to turn out to not belong to the collection your doing description for #archivelife
And from the appropriate name for your job department #librarylife #archivelife
June 18, 2025 at 5:33 AM
And from the appropriate name for your job department #librarylife #archivelife
A varied day to wrap up the week: morning, meeting of the EGAD development team to discuss the RiC-O ontology (and my first GitHub pull request for 8 years). Afternoon, rationalising and weeding to make space in the stacks, and booking a trip to the tip to get rid of all the cardboard. #ArchiveLife
May 29, 2026 at 10:44 PM
A varied day to wrap up the week: morning, meeting of the EGAD development team to discuss the RiC-O ontology (and my first GitHub pull request for 8 years). Afternoon, rationalising and weeding to make space in the stacks, and booking a trip to the tip to get rid of all the cardboard. #ArchiveLife
Its always weird seeing adverts for stuff that we now ban and know is very dangerous. Mercolized wax, Asbestos, Opium, etc. #librarylife #archivelife
June 13, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Its always weird seeing adverts for stuff that we now ban and know is very dangerous. Mercolized wax, Asbestos, Opium, etc. #librarylife #archivelife
Railway ephemera is quickly becoming my favourite, mainly as they put dates on. #librarylife #archivelife
October 23, 2023 at 12:29 AM
Railway ephemera is quickly becoming my favourite, mainly as they put dates on. #librarylife #archivelife
You know sometimes you have to process a collection that seems to have been touched by a elderich beasts tender love? This is one of THOSE. Collections. #librarylife #archivelife
March 13, 2025 at 1:44 AM
You know sometimes you have to process a collection that seems to have been touched by a elderich beasts tender love? This is one of THOSE. Collections. #librarylife #archivelife
Quality archival start to the week, try and find something you did in 2021 to this collection that's now missing. #archivelife
January 8, 2024 at 5:15 AM
Quality archival start to the week, try and find something you did in 2021 to this collection that's now missing. #archivelife
Requested some documents in the archive, now just waiting while a cat sleeps beside me. Couldn’t ask for better company. #ArchiveLife #CatsOfArchives #🐈
August 24, 2024 at 5:24 PM
Requested some documents in the archive, now just waiting while a cat sleeps beside me. Couldn’t ask for better company. #ArchiveLife #CatsOfArchives #🐈
When the request comes in and it’s deep in the archive ❄️📼 20,000+ movies. A storage unit. Snow on the ground.
Still worth it—because somewhere in there is your movie.
#ArchiveLife #BeKindRewind #VideoStoreVibes #MovieHunt
Still worth it—because somewhere in there is your movie.
#ArchiveLife #BeKindRewind #VideoStoreVibes #MovieHunt
January 4, 2026 at 11:42 PM
When the request comes in and it’s deep in the archive ❄️📼 20,000+ movies. A storage unit. Snow on the ground.
Still worth it—because somewhere in there is your movie.
#ArchiveLife #BeKindRewind #VideoStoreVibes #MovieHunt
Still worth it—because somewhere in there is your movie.
#ArchiveLife #BeKindRewind #VideoStoreVibes #MovieHunt
The first ephemera item I have in hand today stars John Hurt. Yes that John Hurt. #librarylife #archivelife I am trying to contain my fangirling to a sensible librarian minimum.
October 2, 2024 at 12:01 AM
The first ephemera item I have in hand today stars John Hurt. Yes that John Hurt. #librarylife #archivelife I am trying to contain my fangirling to a sensible librarian minimum.
I have a travel brochure in my hand advertising travel in Europe in 1938. Nothing could happen in Europe in 1938, right? RIGHT!?... #archivelife #librarylife
October 29, 2023 at 10:58 PM
I have a travel brochure in my hand advertising travel in Europe in 1938. Nothing could happen in Europe in 1938, right? RIGHT!?... #archivelife #librarylife
Does anyone know an easy way to import a large quantity of bibliographic data into a website that then will display that data in a useful way, I want to be able to add to it and such with as little effort as possible #librarylife #archivelife
January 15, 2024 at 1:12 AM
Does anyone know an easy way to import a large quantity of bibliographic data into a website that then will display that data in a useful way, I want to be able to add to it and such with as little effort as possible #librarylife #archivelife
Before algorithms… there was 800-VIDEO-411 ☎️📼
You literally called someone to ask what to rent.
Sunday mornings = digitizing the proof that this world once existed. More in our YT archive.
Get IN PERSON help renting at our shop!
#VideoVisions #VHSCommunity #PhysicalMedia #RetroCulture #ArchiveLife
You literally called someone to ask what to rent.
Sunday mornings = digitizing the proof that this world once existed. More in our YT archive.
Get IN PERSON help renting at our shop!
#VideoVisions #VHSCommunity #PhysicalMedia #RetroCulture #ArchiveLife
February 15, 2026 at 1:02 PM
Before algorithms… there was 800-VIDEO-411 ☎️📼
You literally called someone to ask what to rent.
Sunday mornings = digitizing the proof that this world once existed. More in our YT archive.
Get IN PERSON help renting at our shop!
#VideoVisions #VHSCommunity #PhysicalMedia #RetroCulture #ArchiveLife
You literally called someone to ask what to rent.
Sunday mornings = digitizing the proof that this world once existed. More in our YT archive.
Get IN PERSON help renting at our shop!
#VideoVisions #VHSCommunity #PhysicalMedia #RetroCulture #ArchiveLife
Still digging through the archive 📼
Box by box, making sure our members always have the freshest picks waiting. Sometimes it’s a holiday classic, sometimes it’s something wonderfully unexpected. That’s the fun of it. ✨
#SleepoverTrading #VideoClub #ArchiveLife #VHSDigging #BeKindRewind
Box by box, making sure our members always have the freshest picks waiting. Sometimes it’s a holiday classic, sometimes it’s something wonderfully unexpected. That’s the fun of it. ✨
#SleepoverTrading #VideoClub #ArchiveLife #VHSDigging #BeKindRewind
December 23, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Still digging through the archive 📼
Box by box, making sure our members always have the freshest picks waiting. Sometimes it’s a holiday classic, sometimes it’s something wonderfully unexpected. That’s the fun of it. ✨
#SleepoverTrading #VideoClub #ArchiveLife #VHSDigging #BeKindRewind
Box by box, making sure our members always have the freshest picks waiting. Sometimes it’s a holiday classic, sometimes it’s something wonderfully unexpected. That’s the fun of it. ✨
#SleepoverTrading #VideoClub #ArchiveLife #VHSDigging #BeKindRewind