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Our next Meet the Vendors session is for Digital Asset Management Systems (DAMS)
🗓️25 Feb 10:00 AM - 12:15 PM [online]
Free to #ArchivesWM members
Open to non members for £10 per person
For more details & booking 👇
archiveswestmidlands.org.uk/…
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Dates for your diaries!
We will be having our annual Collections Week from Monday 19th January - Friday 23rd January.
We will re-open on Saturday 24th January.
#ExploreYourArchive #CollectionsWeek
Happy New Year!
A reminder for #ArchivesWM members for our free online course in carbon literacy later this month 🗓️
@ShropArchives @WarwickshireCRO @DudleyArchives @ShakespeareBT @ArchandHeritage @WolvesArchives
📣Calling #ArchiveWM members 📣
A free #online course in carbon literacy.
Mon 26th Jan (9.30- 1pm) & Tues 27th Jan (1 - 4.30pm).
Attendees should attend both days of the course.
For details and how to register👇
archiveswestmidlands.org.uk/…
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We're hiring! Part-time Natural Science Collections specialist required, here in #Warwickshire, to care for and interpret our diverse natural history and geology collections. Details here: wmjobs.co.uk/job/250490/cura…
📣Calling #ArchiveWM members 📣
A free #online course in carbon literacy.
Mon 26th Jan (9.30- 1pm) & Tues 27th Jan (1 - 4.30pm).
Attendees should attend both days of the course.
For details and how to register👇
archiveswestmidlands.org.uk/…
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On 10 December from 12.00 to 15.30, we will be switching off the public document ordering system to test manual processes.
Only onsite orders will be impacted and some services may be slower.
Thanks for helping us build stronger, more reliable services for the future.
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Come and see the exhibition, 'From Agenoria to Beeching - The First and Last Days of Steam in the Black Country', in the foyer of the Dudley Archives and Local History Centre, organised by the Black Country Society. Here until the end of December! #Rail200 #ExploreYourArchives
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This account will no longer be active or monitored but you can still reach out to us, and receive our updates, in a number of ways: nationalarchives.gov.uk/arch…
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We’re now halfway through #ExploreYourArchive Focus Week! 😮 Today’s theme is #EYAPets - we can’t wait to meet the creatures in your collections 🐶🐱🐰
Make sure to tag us and use the hashtag! 👍
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Final reminder that our next Trace Your Ancestors Monthly Club takes place on Saturday!
Join Record Office staff & local genealogist Paul Wilkins to gain advice & support in tracing your family history.
Book here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/154757027…
#History #Genealogy #FamilyHistory
📢News! @UKNatArcSector will no longer be active on this platform and will be promoting sector opportunities through Bluesky 👇
#ArchivesWM
As of November 2025, we are promoting sector opportunities through Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/uknatarcsec…
This account will no longer be active or monitored but you can still reach out to us, and receive our updates, in a number of ways: nationalarchives.gov.uk/arch…
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Gain the knowledge and skills to implement high-value fundraising in your archive!
Places are still available for this webinar led by Dr Claire Routley & 3rd Sector Mission Control.
📅 Tuesday 25 November (10am – 11.30am)
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Join our webinar on Tuesday 25 November (10am – 11.30am) to increase your knowledge and confidence in legacy fundraising!
Sign up here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/legacy-fu…
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The Community Archives and Heritage Group is seeking a freelance consultant or consortium of consultants to help develop the digital skills of community archives!
Read more and apply here by Monday 1 December 2025: communityarchives.org.uk/con…
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One of our visitors, while using the 'Buddying' service to help trace her family tree, has found eleven weddings that were held in St Thomas's between 1821 and 1884. Phone: 01384 812770 to enquire about the Buddying service. St Thomas's Church(p/1236, c. 1900).
#eyaReligion
📣Job opportunity!
Archive Assistant @WolvesArchives
#ArchivesWM
We're hiring! If you're passionate about our local history and want to join a friendly team in a thriving service, check out the details of our Archive Assistant vacancy: wmjobs.co.uk/job/246586/arch… @ArchivesWM
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Sun 8 Nov, Don't miss out on the last Extraordinary Lives Tours for this year.
Warstone Lane Cemetery- the Druid, the Town Crier & the Titanic Passenger- 12 noon.
Key Hill Cemetery -A Prayer, a Promise, a Patent & a Protest 2pm.
Book here
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#ArchivesWM is delighted that its EDIB-SAT toolkit will be embedded into the Archive Service Accreditation from Spring 2026. @UKNatArcSector are running workshops to introduce this toolkit between Dec 2025 - Feb 2026 👇
We’re running workshops (Dec 2025 – Feb 2026) to introduce the Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging Self-Assessment Toolkit.
This was developed by @ArchivesWM and will be embedded into Archive Service Accreditation assessment from Spring 2026
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The workshops, delivered over Zoom, are aimed primarily at archive services which are accredited or working towards accreditation
Each workshop will cover the same content so attendees should only book one
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ArchivesWestMidlands retweeted
We’re running workshops (Dec 2025 – Feb 2026) to introduce the Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging Self-Assessment Toolkit.
This was developed by @ArchivesWM and will be embedded into Archive Service Accreditation assessment from Spring 2026
eventbrite.com/cc/edib-self-…
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ALT From behind a reception desk, a young person wearing a staff lanyard shows an older person something on a computer monitor. Behind them stands a large shelving unit filled with books.