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Erica Wagner

@EricaWgnr

Lead Editorial Innovator, Creatd, Inc./Vocal Media. Contributing Writer, New Statesman; Consulting Literary Editor, Harper's Bazaar. Astronaut.

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Marcus Walker(@WalkerMarcus) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Remember when we did a complete modern version of the Doomsday Book and put it on the most modern version of computing known to man? Well... it's now unreadable.
theguardian.com/uk/2002/mar/03…

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Melanie Backe-Hansen(@HouseHistorian) 's Twitter Profile Photo

For those horrified (frustrated, angry, shocked) the government plans to destroy original copies of post-1800 wills (with only 'famous' wills retained) follow the link below to comment on the consultation!! gov.uk/government/con…

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Grayson Perry(@Alan_Measles) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Hi EDF 🇬🇧 I’ve been trying to speak to someone to explain how my electricity bill went from £300 a month to £39,000. Your call centre has been no help but you tried to direct debit this amount today from my account

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Erica Wagner(@EricaWgnr) 's Twitter Profile Photo

If you, like me and Richard Ovenden (to name just one) are appalled by this plan to destroy original documents, please send an email to: [email protected]
If you DM me I can suggest a simple wording.

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Erica Wagner(@EricaWgnr) 's Twitter Profile Photo

…remembering gazing helplessly at my late Dad’s five and a quarter inch disks when clearing out my folks’ apartment… 🙄

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Michael Spicer(@MrMichaelSpicer) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I’m doing a podcast called The Rest is the Rest where I talk about every subject not covered by all The Rest podcasts. So please subscribe if you want a weekly podcast about shoes, clouds, Tuesdays and otters.

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Matthew Sweet(@DrMatthewSweet) 's Twitter Profile Photo

As I understand this process will involve destroying most of the paper originals. Only those of (presently) notable figures will be retained. At the moment the British Library’s digital collections are being held to ransom in a cyberattack.

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Matthew Sweet(@DrMatthewSweet) 's Twitter Profile Photo

As I've yet to see a single professional librarian or archivist speak in favour of this plan, it'd be good to know why this Ministry of Justice video is just an employee of the digitisation company Iron Mountain Data Centers making the very contentious claim that digitisation 'preserve[s] forever'.

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Dr. Bendor Grosvenor 🇺🇦(@arthistorynews) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This is laughable, the idea that once digitised, archives will be 'preserved forever'. As I write, the British Library - its entire catalogue and digital deposit - has been hacked into oblivion.

Destroying a paper archive to save money in storage is completely irresponsible.
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The Second Shelf(@secondshelfbks) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Help! Someone need to tell the government that digitisation is an additional help and support not a replacement to archive management. Hard copies must be preserved. Guess since they've been focused on closing libraries they don't know.

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Richard Ovenden(@richove) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The headline for Roly Keating’s blog post on the British Library’s devastating cyberattack has a, ahem, ring of familiarity. Knowledge under attack (see my ) shar.es/agoZql

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Frank Cottrell-Boyce(@frankcottrell_b) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Train journey and school visit today
Here's my £1 a day survival kit
Will be fine if train not delayed. But will hve to resist the traditional staff room cake assault
Throw us a £1 or RT pls
justgiving.com/page/frank-cot…

Train journey and school visit today Here's my £1 a day survival kit Will be fine if train not delayed. But will hve to resist the traditional staff room cake assault Throw us a £1 or RT pls justgiving.com/page/frank-cot…
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Graeme Thomson(@GraemeAThomson) 's Twitter Profile Photo

How fitting that the wonderful Benjamin Zephaniah is the focus of so much love and respect at the exact same time as Sunak flounders, begs and lies trying to propel up his rancid racist policies

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