Ginny Dawe-Woodings

Devastated that I have no qualifications for this other than that I was obsessed with Mr Blobby as a child, and I still am. I thought he spoke to me through the tele.

council employee: oh hey you guys are back early archivist: archive's haunted council employee: what? archivist: *loading a pistol and getting back in the strongroom* archive's haunted

Archive services are receiving an increased amount of enquiries and requests that have been generated using AI. In response to this we have put together a statement. We are grateful to other archive services that have already created guidance, we have used this to shape our statement.

I'm writing a quiz for some new parents and want to include some questions about the history/traditions of birth and parenthood. Does anybody have anything they want to share? So far I've got questions about Mary Toft, Valetina Vassilyev, and Queen Victoria.

I find it very annoying when people say that if you don’t use LLMs you’re “not engaging with the issue and sticking your head in the sand”. Making an informed rejection of something is very much not “sticking your head in the sand”. It’s just saying no.

Tis Lincolnshire Day today. It commemorates the Lincolnshire uprising of 1536 when catholics in the north of the county revolted against Henry VIIIs reforms. Didn’t affect the south of the county, so 🤷🏼‍♀️ Eat sausages! Probably best not to start a revolution today

Yeah but it had the archivist character wearing white gloves so it's a no from me

This reminds me of the Dara Ó Briain standup about 'fear of zombies' being at all time high, whilst attacks by zombies being at an all time low. These people are 'terrified' of a problem which, where it does exist, has been dramatised and hyperbolised by grifters.

In Year 6 we stopped singing hymns in morning assembly for an entire term and just sang the soundtrack to Grease and I still have no idea why

Do you work with historic medical images? Join the launch of the new Ethics of Medical Photography Toolkit, a new resource for researchers, GLAM professionals, and anyone thinking about the challenges of working with historical medical photography

Disgraceful that the RNLI have to say this today, but here we are 😞. If you would like to donate👇🏻. rnli.org/support-us/g... #RNLI #RNLISavesLives

I do love receiving rude veg in the post

Look what's washed up in the #archives! Our new display, 'Rinse and Repeat' focuses on the vital work of our hospital's laundries. Learn how many million items were laundered each year and find out about Big Bertha next time you visit!

Interested in 'Transplantation of the Teeth'? What about 'Fur on the tongue'? Or do you want to find out about a 'singular injury' caused by a marble? You can now find case reports on these and many more listed on our catalogue. Find out more in our new blog post shorturl.at/moaAI

I was not prepared for how hard the logo for the Basque anti-ableist group Bordillo Aplastao goes

Give 'em ye olde razzle dazzle

Absolutely LOVED this book!

I love photos from the Finsen Light Department. The nurses always look so cool!

I'm so jealous that our stacking isn't this dangerous

I need some help with this Arabic (?) word in this RAF navigator's 1941 diary. He writes that he was told it was a universal Arabic greeting for "Good morning" or "Good day" but I'm struggling to find something similar online. Thank you so much if anyone can help

Really gutted to hear that Lincoln's historic Ellis Mill is at risk. I went on many school trips where we milled our own flour and learned about the agricultural heritage of our county. I'd be so sad to see it go! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

What’s your sign?

Want to use archives for your research but don't know where to start? Book one of our hands-on archive skills sessions to help take your research further! Last Friday, @lhbt.bsky.social brought their Community Researchers for a skills session focused on property records, including some fab plans

📢 Once more for the people in the back: - Most [more than 95%] of archives have not been digitized. - Most of humanity's knowledge and memory is *not* reachable by LLMs. - Believing that AI can provid you with comprehensive, definitive, "intelligent" results is folly.

I’m still on the biggest high from seeing My Chemical Romance on Friday. Twenty years on from my mam driving me and two friends to Birmingham for the first Black Parade tour 💀👁️🖤 #LongLiveTheBlackParade

Not to sound like a C18 botanist but I have just discovered Celosia Cristata and declare them to be the most wondrously beautiful flowers I have ever seen

MAGALOGIC Losing your job to immigrants? Get rid of immigrants Losing your job to AI? Get with the program

OH MY GOD MAYBE WIDOW CULLENS WELL IN LINCOLN CAN REOPEN NOW

I'm going back over the charter granted by Henry I to St Bartholomew's, albeit an early 20th century transcription of the 1133 copy, and I just cannot understand what "it shall have socc and sacc, and thol and theme, and infogheneteof" could possibly mean

Find somebody who loves you the way that @ermerlindaj.bsky.social loves early modern public sanitation projects 💧

So we discussed this at book club last night and even my two non-archivist best friends agreed this was a lazy portrayal. It's a shame because the rest of the book was really interesting! If you're interested in reading it it's May We Feed the King - Rebecca Perry.

In my eyes if it comes out of the freezer and is a portable desert it's an ice lolly. Middle right girlie

I love a ‘we have angered the gods’ kind of storm ⛈️⛈️

We can't wait to welcome groups from the @ihr.bsky.social Summer School next week - if ever a theme was made for our collections, it is 'Sickness and Health'! We have lots of fascinating material to share with them on Monday

I'm a pine marten - puffin - bumblebee kinda gal.

Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes

Sweltering in the UK heatwave?? Why not visit your Local Archival Repository! Low temperatures and humidity GUARANTEED* And we throw in the history for free😍 *by regulatory standard BS4971:2017 Archives - Where the records are cool and so are you.

On the tube

I'm fast becoming a single issue voter and that vote is letting trans people live their lives

trans toilet bans are pro-rape legislation by pro-rape politicians

Collections policies exist for a reason. We've had lots of people trying to give us documents, even when we've been at events across the county and have no way of safely taking the documents back to the archive. Sadly we have to turn these people away, but this is for the benefit of the documents.

Incredible, once again Spain has outdone themselves on heritage conservation. I've never seen colonoscopy used as a verb! english.elpais.com/culture/2026...