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The Golden Thread with Michelle Rodrigues – The National Archives

The Golden Thread with Michelle Rodrigues As part of Outreach’s developing programme of work around archives and emotions this summer we hosted a weekend, July 13 and 14, that drew on arts-based approaches led by the artist and integrative arts counsellor, Michelle Rodrigues.
Working with a ...

The Golden Thread with Michelle Rodrigues – The National Archives

Find Case Law: Building trust with the Open Justice Licence Legal judgments are important. In the UK they tell us both what the law is and lay bare the details of a case to show us how disputes are resolved fairly.
Find Case Law (FCL) is a service launched in 2022 ...

The Golden Thread with Michelle Rodrigues – The National Archives

Language and empire: Encountering records to write audio drama In previous blogs we’ve explored how audio drama is perfectly suited to time travel and how our new audio dramas, Being and Not Being, were inspired by records from the Second World War in Swahili and Hindustani.
In this final blog ...

The Golden Thread with Michelle Rodrigues – The National Archives

Sensing the Archives: A workshop for visually impaired students How can you explore archival records without relying on sight?
This is what the Education & Outreach department at The National Archives explored in a new workshop designed specifically for blind and partially sighted students. The workshop, and research leading up ...

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Risk, culture, and control Some people think the world is wildly unpredictable, and are glad insurance can handle the risk and uncertainty they face. Other people believe their destiny is written in the stars, and consult a daily horoscope to reveal what is in ...

The Golden Thread with Michelle Rodrigues – The National Archives

Second World War records in Swahili and Hindustani – in audio drama Our audio drama project Being and Not Being was born from exploratory conversations about Second World War records in Swahili and Hindustani here at The National Archives.
The presence of these records in our collection speaks to the Second World War ...

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Join our User Advisory Group Would you like to represent the views of archive users and help to improve The National Archives’ services? If you are a regular archive user, then we would love to hear from you.
We are seeking new voluntary representatives to join ...

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School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences welcomes nine new faculty Dean Agustín Rayo and the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences recently welcomed nine new professors to the MIT community. They arrive with diverse backgrounds and vast knowledge in their areas of research.Sonya Atalay joins the Anthropology Section as ...

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Newly accredited archive service Following a recent Archive Service Accreditation panel, the UK Archive Service Accreditation Committee is pleased to announce that Christ Church Archives, Oxford, has been awarded accredited status for the first time.
All accredited archive services must apply again for accreditation six ...

The Golden Thread with Michelle Rodrigues – The National Archives

Reimagining Ceylon’s tea plantation photography through sound and video games Content note: This blog contains descriptions of abject working conditions faced by tea plantation workers in Sri Lanka.
Cassie Layton is a Sri Lankan British artist who works under the moniker Toulip Wonder, and currently a PhD student in an AHRC-funded ...

The Golden Thread with Michelle Rodrigues – The National Archives

Studying away from home: British Council scholarship students 1937–1948 The National Archives has a fascinating collection of documents relating to over 1,400 people that came to study in the UK from all over the world. The collection covers a relatively short time period – just ten academic years – ...

The Golden Thread with Michelle Rodrigues – The National Archives

Making archives fun for visually impaired students In this second blog from Research Libraries UK and The National Archives’ Professional Fellowship Scheme, The National Archives’ Ellen Oredsson shares her research into how to make archive material not just accessible but fun for visually impaired students.
She introduces the toolkit ...

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Q&A: “As long as you have a future, you can still change it” Tristan Brown is the S.C. Fang Chinese Language and Culture Career Development Professor at MIT. He specializes in law, science, environment and religion of late imperial China, a period running from the 16th through early 20th centuries.In this Q&A, Brown ...

The Golden Thread with Michelle Rodrigues – The National Archives

‘Perfectly suited to time travel’: Audio drama at The National Archives We’re often faced with the challenge of bringing the stories behind our records to life. In recent times, we’ve hit upon a powerful approach: making audio plays, in collaboration with the team at Applied Stories.
In this short series of blogs ...

The Golden Thread with Michelle Rodrigues – The National Archives

‘Visualising the medieval manor’: Extracting data to explore medieval women’s lives Research Libraries UK and The National Archives offer a Professional Fellowship Scheme, allowing staff the time and resources to focus on a research project with the support of knowledgeable mentors across both organisations.
Fellows explore a professional practice question, develop new ...

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Major National Lottery investment to unlock UK’s archives
A £5m investment into the archives sector will unlock collections across the UK and build the skills and resilience needed to care for them into the future.
The National Archives, the Pilgrim Trust and the Wolfson Foundation are delighted to announce ...

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Investigating the past to see technology’s future The MIT Program in Science, Technology, and Society (STS) recently organized and hosted a two-day symposium, The History of Technology: Past, Present, and Future.The symposium was held June 7-8 at MIT’s Wong Auditorium, and featured scholars from a variety of ...

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The unexpected origins of a modern finance tool In the early 1600s, the officials running Durham Cathedral, in England, had serious financial problems. Soaring prices had raised expenses. Most cathedral income came from renting land to tenant farmers, who had long leases so officials could not easily raise ...

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Q&A: The power of tiny gardens and their role in addressing climate change To address the climate crisis, one must understand environmental history. MIT Professor Kate Brown’s research has typically focused on environmental catastrophes. More recently, Brown has been exploring a more hopeful topic: tiny gardens.Brown is the Thomas M. Siebel Distinguished Professor ...

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Forging her own path Turning a problem upside down comes naturally to senior Amber Velez. She’d trained in trapeze and aerial circus arts for several years, but buying her own circular aerial hoop, called a lyra, was prohibitively expensive.
Instead, as a sophomore, Velez decided ...