Applications for the Spaces, Places, and Belonging Community Hub Seed Corn Grants are open until 28 November. This new UK-wide programme, run by The National Archives and funded by the AHRC, offers grants, training, and digital tools to help you explore, share, and celebrate your community’s stories. It is funded until December 2027. Seed Corn Grants offer between £500…
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Goole Museum Looking for Memories of Town’s Shipbuilding Past
East Riding of Yorkshire Council’s Goole Museum is looking for memories, photographs, and objects that tell the story of an East Yorkshire town’s shipbuilding history. The Goole-Built exhibition hopes to feature photographs of shipyard workers and show artefacts such as tools, apprenticeship indentures, and union cards. The exhibition is planned to run from 10 January…
Historic England Snapshot Survey on the Collection of Developer-Funded Archaeological Archives Published
Historic England’s Snapshot Survey on the Collection of Developer-Funded Archaeological Archives has now been published as a Historic England Research Report. Conducted as part of the Future for Archaeological Archives Programme, the survey gathered data on whether repositories were collecting, as well as capacity and collecting limitations. The results were also mapped to identify trends…
Mills Archive Trust ‘Caring for Your Collections’ Webinars in May & June
Do you have old records that need looking after? Then, the Mills Archive Trust’s ‘Caring for your collection’ webinars are designed to help anyone look after archival documents, from photographs and papers, to digital files. The cost is £50 for the two seminars. Part 1: Overview, Arrangement, Description – Sat 24 May 2025, 2:00-4:00 pm…
90,000 Records of London Archaeology Published on New Platform Includes Industrial Sites
Historic England and Getty have collaborated to produce the Greater London Historic Environment Record (GLHER), which consists of 90,000 entries collected over the course of 40 years, and will be available for anyone interested in learning more about archaeological sites, historical buildings, industrial sites, national parks, and more in the Greater London Area. Visitors to…
Museum Data Services Launches
Funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies and the UKRI Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), the Museum Data Service (MDS) officially launched this September 2024. It brings together over 100 million object records from 1,750 accredited museums and other collections across the UK, unlocking an invaluable resource for researchers, educators, curators, and content developers. The MDS is…
Historic England Digitise Air Pictures Portleven Collection
Historic England has published (October 2024) the Air Pictures Portleven Collection – a unique collection of interwar aerial images taken by little known aerial photographer, Arthur William Hobart, which has been newly digitised by the Historic England Archive. The collection features 242 black and white aerial images showing the national landmarks, towns, industrial sites, construction…
British Newspaper Archive Add More Free to View Newspaper Pages
The British Newspaper Archive, in partnership with the British Library, have made available another one million pages to view online free, meaning that over four million newspaper pages are now freely accessible for researchers to explore. Newspapers form an important source of data for researching historic industries and the people who worked in them during the…
Industrial Heritage Support 