November 2nd is World Digital Preservation Day 2023 – raising awareness of the need to preserve our born-digital cultural heritage, and celebrating the work carried out by heritage professionals around the world to achieve this goal. To mark the occasion, our Archivist Simon Mackley has written about our digital archive collections at the University of […]
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One of the many privileges of working with archive collections is having the opportunity to trace the stories of the diverse individuals that feature in the records, especially when the impact and influence of their life can be found across the varied collections we hold. For this year’s Black History Month, we are going to […]
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Part 5: The importance of the box In our fifth and final ‘What’s In The Box?’ blog for this year’s Heritage Open Days Festival instead of looking in the box we are considering the importance of the box! Collections care and preventative conservation are integral to everything we do and something as simple as storing […]
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Part 4: E. H. Shepard’s Paint Box In our fourth ‘What’s In The Box?’ blog for this year’s Heritage Open Days Festival, we are continuing the theme of ‘Creativity Unwrapped’ and taking a look at the wooden paint box which belonged to the illustrator E. H. Shepard (Ref: ST/9/2). If you were lucky enough to […]
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Part 3: Mr Elf In our third ‘What’s In The Box?’ blog for this year’s Heritage Open Days Festival, we are continuing the theme of ‘Creativity Unwrapped’ and looking at the last of the featured items from our Natural Movement Archive. Mr Elf (Ref: NM/O/3) was used by Madge Atkinson (the founder of Natural Movement) […]
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Part 2: Theatrical script book and autograph book In our second ‘What’s In The Box?’ blog for this year’s Heritage Open Days Festival, we are continuing the theme of ‘Creativity Unwrapped’ and looking at some of items that belonged to actor James H. Atkinson. James was the father of Madge Atkinson, whose costumes we looked […]
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