Focus Week: #EYABeards
Beards in the Archives As part of Explore Your Archive’s Focus Week, Helen Palmer has researched through the archives at Ceredigion for […]
Category: News
News and updates about the Explore Your Archive campaign and the record keeping sector as a whole.
The Zoological Society of London
Ever wondered where the animals from the London Zoo came from? Find out their interesting background.
Explore Your Archive Campaign 2021 was a #Success!
The launch of the Explore Your Archive campaign 2021 took place over nine days from 20th to 28th November. Each day was […]
Explore Your Archive Week: 20th-28th November 2021
EYA Coordinator Rosie joins us on the blog to introduce 2021’s Explore Your Archive Week and explain how you can get involved! […]
Introducing the new EYA team for 2021
In December Explore Your Archive put out a call for volunteers to help expand their campaign and build on previous successes. We […]
Historic property listing for I’m a Celebrity castle uncovered as part of Explore Your Archive week
A historic property listing for Gwrych Castle, made famous by this year’s series of I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! […]
Business Archives Council Scotland Supporting Scottish businesses for 60 years.
2020 marks the 60th anniversary of the Business Archives Council of Scotland (BACS). In 1977 the BACS Executive Committee, matching funding from […]
Taking History Day online – Creating a digital fair to discover history collections
Since 2014, History Day has brought together students, researchers and history enthusiasts with professionals from archives, libraries, publishers and other organisations with history collections. Past […]
Bridging the Digital Gap Traineeships Bring New Skills into Archives
Today’s documentary evidence is recorded as a series of 0s and 1s and stored on hard drives and servers. Therefore, archives need technical people and new approaches to capture and preserve these digital records today to ensure […]
ArchI’ve Discovered – Manage Your Collections
I will never forget my very first experience of working in an archive and feeling the excitement at cataloguing a small collection […]