Free-bee Event: Half- Term Hive Time!
Help create our new display- using recycled materials to craft and decorate a whole hive of bees! Bumble on down to create your own unique bee which will then be used in our display!
Drop in between 11am & 3pm on Thursday 30th May
#Coop180

Today is international family day. Did you go shopping with your family, write the shopping lists or stick the dividend stamps in the book?
From our photograph collections this image from the 1960s shows all the family shopping at the supermarket. #FamilyDay #CoopArchive #Coop180

Whilst most of our archive collections are paper-based, we do have some objects. These two were recently found in the Co-op Group collection and though tempting when dealing with the pile of digital material behind them, they won't be tasted!

#ArchiveObject #Archive30 #Coop180

Is the warm weather coming yet?
From our Co-operative College Collection, a group of students bask in the warm weather in the 1950s
#CoopArchives #Coop180 #CoopHeritage

#OtD : Today it's #SomethingBig for #Archive30 . What could be bigger than the co-op movement?

Leading co-operator George Jacob Holyoake was born on this day in 1817. We have letters and papers written by & to him between 1830-1906 in our archive (details on website)

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The interior of a holiday home set up in the name of Mary Macarthur - an activist, suffragist and trade unionist who worked with members of the Co-op Women's Guild. Some items from the #CoopArchive are on display at Rochdale Pioneers museum.

#Archive30 #HealthArchives #Coop180

#Archive30 today is #ArchiveCollection . We have 2 MA Library & Archive students working on collections at #CoopArchive . They are researching, rehousing and cataloguing in order to allow better access to users of Co-op Women's Guild and Worker Co-op collections. #Coop180

In our periodicals collections, we hold copies of Home magazine. They contain a mix of stories, household hints and reports of co-op movement events, but also ads like this colourful lingerie advert from 1963.

Perfect for today's #ArchiveFashion , isn't it?

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We have lots of #ArchiveAnimals in our packaging collections to choose from for today's #Archive30

Many are cute and colourful! This little bird here was printed on CWS bird seed packaging, sold when keeping small birds as pets was widely popular.

#CoopArchive #Coop180

These are our May opening hours for the Rochdale Pioneers Museum and the National Co-operative Archive. We look forward to seeing you!

#Coop180 #CoopHeritage #CoopArchive #Rochdale #PioneersMuseum

Today for @‌ARAScot #Archive30 it’s #SomethingSmall . This tiny seal was made by co-operator George Jacob Holyoake about 1834 and would have been used when sealing his letters with wax. #CoopArchive #Coop180

Thanks to generous funding, we are delivering free sessions in schools anywhere across the UK for a limited time.

These are available on a first come first served basis, so contact us quickly if you'd like to book one in!

#Coop180 #CoopHeritage #SchoolWorkshop

Don't forget to come along to our first public museum talk this Saturday!

Places are limited and can be reserved in advance on our website: co-operativeheritage.coop/Event/museum-t… We'd be excited to see many of you there!

#Coop180 #Rochdale #CoopHeritage

Superb update of a Wheatsheaf cover. You can read more about the publication on this blog post shorturl.at/dkxIP and book an appointment to view copies at the archive. See the website Co-operative Heritage Trust to find out how. #Coop180

There is currently a Trustee Vacancy Co-operative Heritage Trust
Are you interested in Co-operative history and want to support the Trust? Find out more on the website rb.gy/rvwjgo #Coop180