Armagh Robinson Library is the oldest public library in Northern Ireland. It was established 250 years ago, in 1771, by Richard Robinson, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland. Along with the Library of Trinity College and Marsh’s Library, both in Dublin, it is a rare early example in Ireland of a purpose-built library which continues to fulfil its original intended purpose. […]
For this month’s theme, firsts, Tawny Whitfield from St. Helens Archive Service, writes about the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, and its impact on St. Helens. The year 1829 was a very important year for St. Helens. During the Industrial Revolution, the town became witness to a plethora of ‘firsts’, including a certain piece of machinery […]
One of the working groups set up to help with the work of the Diversity Allies has been exploring courses on equality, diversity, and inclusion -related subjects. While professional-led training may be more interactive, it is also significantly more expensive. Online courses are offered free-of-charge through platforms such as Coursera or FutureLearn, with no obligation […]
For this month’s blog, Ciara Daly, from Trinity College, Dublin, discusses the Cuala Press Collection. The Cuala Press Project has been contributing to the Explore Your Archive campaign, since its launch in November, to disseminate our unique visual-arts collection to a new and interested audience via our Twitter and Instagram accounts. The theme for Explore Your Archive in March was Business and Manufacturing and this encapsulates our project perfectly. […]
For this month’s theme Cressida Williams from Canterbury Cathedral takes us through the daily routine of the Cathedral in medieval times with some aspects being continued to this day. Daily routine has formed an important part of life at Canterbury Cathedral since its earliest days. In medieval times, the cathedral was a monastery of Benedictine monks. […]
In this month’s Diversity Allies blog Marlena Nuernberger-Walle provides an update on the what the group has been doing this month. It also provides sources and events surrounding Pride Month, Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller History Month, and UK Windrush Day What we’ve been up to The Awareness Campaigns Group is now in the final stages […]
This month’s Archive in Focus blog explores the fantastic work done by the Irish Traditional Music Archive to collect material from all over Ireland. Archivist Maeve Gebruers discusses the work undertaken in the archive and their wide-ranging collection. The Irish Traditional Music Archive (ITMA) is the national public archive and resource centre for Irish traditional […]
ARA Scotland have transformed April into the major event in the Archivist’s Diary. This month Samantha Case, Social Media Officer for ARA Scotland, gives us insight in what happens to make the event a success! April may conjure up images of spring, Easter, or maybe a particular prank-filled holiday for most people, but in the […]
In this post from ARA’s Diversity Allies, Philip Milnes-Smith, explores the work of the Diversity Allies in the context of the recent UK Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities report. The headlines from the recent report from the UK Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities, and the circumstances of its release, have both generated a […]
It is a fact that the UK and Ireland archives and records sector is not a diverse one. We can see this in archive collections that too often have centred a white, Eurocentric and elite version of history to the exclusion of many other voices. We can see this in the archives and records workforce […]