This image shows Independent Newspapers' newsroom diary entry on Monday 24 April, 1916 - the date on which the Easter Rising began. The note written across the length of the page reads 'Revolution breaks out in City between 11 and 12 noon'. #ActionArchives #ExploreYourArchive
Get in on all the action with #ActionArchives for #ExploreYourArchive Launch Week Day 5!
What do you think of when you think of #ActionArchives ?!
#ExploreYourArchive #ActionArchives is a bit tricky for a Museum, but these (not great!) images from our archive (1980s?) might do!: #bluebird going on show in British Museum. They had some difficulty getting it in thru the front doors! Berkeley Speed British Motor Museum #BritishMuseum
Today’s theme for #ExploreYourArchive week is #ActionArchives . To mark this we found two photos of 'action men' at Clonmacnoise monastic site (bit.ly/2QWGSFc). Offaly Heritage @OffalyHistory @DeptAHG
ESB men in #action , erecting the first pole of Rural Electrification, 5th November 1946, Killsallaghan, Co, Dublin. #ActionArchives
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These lovely figures appear on one of our mid-1960s’ plans for the Slems Squash court. After several years of wrangling a #Squashcourt was built on the back of the present site, where there was once a builders’ yard. #ActionArchives #Slemshistory
Day 5 of #ExploreyourArchives and a big shout out to all the unsung archive employees whose actions in hauling, cleaning, cataloguing and presenting make primary research possible! #ActionArchives Masks and gloves and dust coats!!!
For #ActionArchives , here’s a photograph from the Dan McDonald collection showing an action shot of fishing nets being cast out aboard the drifter ‘Rose Valley’. The image was taken in 1938 near Castlebay on the Isle of Barra. #ExploreYourArchive
Lights, camera, ACTION! Original shooting script used on the set of 'The Quiet Man', 30 April 1951 📽️🎞️ #ActionArchives #ExploreYourArchive ARA Ireland Glucksman Library
Some real daring #ActionArchives shown in today’s #ExploreYourArchive . Here we have the ‘Amazing Derriers’ performing a high wire act at the English Electric Works Gala Day at Dunchurch Lodge in Rugby, 1959. Image courtesy of Warwickshire County Record Office, CR4031/3/244.
For #exploreyourarchives fm Archives and Records Association (UK & Ireland), archive on tiny island of #Canna , looks aftr memory of #BattleofWaterloo Fm Neill Campbell #archives a cockade belonging 2 Bonapartes bodyguard & splinter fm window of field hospital at Mont St Jean #ActionArchives National Trust for Scotland - Collections Bodleian Libraries
Some engineering students of the 1920s would have been taught elements of engine design using cardboard working models such as this one which demonstrates the #diesel oil #engine .
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It's all go here at DHC, as we fill our new oversized shelving! Hopefully everyone ate their weetabix... 💪
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Insightful & inspiring day talking to Stuart Hilton Stuart Hilton about his work, archives, memory, documentary animation. Animation Archive UCA Farnham. Memories of 6 weeks in June. Archives are important part of our cultural history, memory and future. #Archives #ActionArchives #UCA
In this hectic scene full of action, a summer excursion train from Tralee has disgorged holidaymakers (and their prams) onto the beach adjacent to Fenit Station, Co. Kerry, August 1959☀️⛱️, a sight alas nowadays consigned to the archives. #ActionArchives #ExploreYourArchive
Railways were a big part of life in #Donegal though sadly not anymore. #ActionArchives #archives #history #IrishHistory #archives 20
Some games for today's #ExploreYourArchive
theme, #ActionArchives ! Please enjoy Potatoe Relay, Frying the Kipper, and Obstacle Relay, courtesy of the Chambers Boy Scout Collection held by Rare Books & Special Collections
Today's daily hashtag is Lights, Camera #ActionArchives ! This is the Cosy Cinema which was situated on Burton Street in the town of Dawley, near Telford. Built in 1921, in Tudor Revival style with a tin roof, it showed films for over 30 years before its closure (PH/D/1/5/49)
I’ve posted this before but felt it had to come out of the filing cabinet one more time for #ActionArchives #ExploreYourArchive #gymnastics #amazing #schooldays