Change ringer. I will mostly tweet about work (digital preservation) + on occasion about bellringing, birds and the city of Bath (not necessarily in that order)

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Joined January 2009
Blog post from @BL_Music_Colls about the bells of St Paul’s Cathedral blogs.bl.uk/music/2024/11/a-…
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The call for papers for Discovering Communities, Discovering Collections 2025, our conference with @UkNatArchives and @Jisc, closes soon! Submit your proposal by 14 October to present your work with peers from the GLAM and academic sectors: bit.ly/BL-DCDC-CfP2025
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The staff entrance @britishlibrary in St Pancras has a memorial tablet commemorating 142 librarians who died during the First World War. It was unveiled at the British Museum 100 years ago this month. blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/2024…
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Today we've added four major digitised manuscripts to our website. The Moutier-Grandval Bible, Codex Sinaiticus, Chronicle of the Kings of Mann and the Isles; John of Salisbury, Entheticus in Policraticum etc., and the Lindisfarne Gospels are available to view at bit.ly/BLDigitisedManuscript…
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Warm congratulations to alumna Dr Eleanor Jackson on her current exhibition @britishlibrary! Eleanor is lead curator of Medieval Women: In Their Own Words which runs until 2 Mar 2025👏🌟 @EEJackson999 theguardian.com/books/2024/o…
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📜 The journey continues! Check out the second part of our series celebrating 10 years of the QDL. Join us for a look back at some of our most special materials blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/2024…
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Our Medieval Women exhibition opens next Friday. This blogpost tells you how to get involved and (shhhh) shows you a few of the items that will be on display. blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscr…
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Michael Day retweeted
Have you seen our latest TechWatch Guidance note? It's about Preserving Digital Art, authored by @PatriciaMFalcao! It's on general release as of TODAY, so dive in👀and join our #DPClinic on this topic on Oct 24👉 dpconline.org/news/twgn-pres… #digitalpreservation #dpc #digipres #art
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Our CEO Sir Roly Keating shares a new blog about services we’ve recently restored, and our plans for the next phase of recovery from last October’s cyber-attack: bit.ly/BLCyberBlogOctober
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We’ve restored access to our hard copy newspaper collection, which you can now consult in our Newsroom in London, and Boston Spa in Yorkshire 📰 Search for what you need in our catalogue, and place your request using our new online form: bl.uk/research
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We're in the final stages of installation and everything's coming together! Just over 2 weeks to go till the opening of our exhibition Medieval Women: In Their Own Words 😀😀
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We’ve now released 1,000 of our digitised manuscripts, including the Sherborne Missal, My Ladye Nevells Booke, and Octateuch, Four Gospels and Synodicon. This is an interim resource and we'll be improving and adding to it as soon as we can: bit.ly/BLDigitisedManuscript…
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🚨 Big news! 🚨 We are thrilled to announce we have won £1.3m from @UKRI_News to upgrade our conservation lab facilities and create a centre of excellence for heritage science. But what is heritage science at The National Archives? And why is it important? A thread 🧵 (1/7)
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Michael Day retweeted
🔬 Exciting News! We're thrilled to announce the launch of the Heritage Science Data Service! 🎉 HSDS will provide digital research services for data preservation and re-use of UK heritage science data. Learn more 👉 ow.ly/k5Rg50TzlSg #HeritageScience #DigitalPreservation
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Do you have #Newfoundland relatives? Are you interested in the connection between #Dorset and the Canadian province? Our blog explains the connections between the two places and what records we hold that might help you: orlo.uk/UNe8f @BCPCouncil @DorsetCouncilUK
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Michael Day retweeted
Today's the day #digipres!! 🎉It's the start of the @iPRES_conf 2024 AND the #DigitalPreservation #Awards #DPA2024 ceremony! We'll see you there in person at 1700 CET if you're an #iPres2024 delegate and online at 1500 UTC on the livestream if you're not! bit.ly/DPAwards2024
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AHRC will lead the fourth phase of funding for the Software Sustainability Institute. A £10.2 million investment will enable @SoftwareSaved to continue its vital work improving software in research. Find out more: orlo.uk/GIQHX
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Something very, very exciting is happening @britishlibrary Medieval Women: In Their Own Words, our new major exhibition, opens on 25 October Get your tickets now, they're cheaper than #Oasis and more chance of encountering Margery Kempe 😉 blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscr…
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