Mari Takayanagi, Senior Archivist, highlights the stories of suffragettes and suffragists from within the UK Parliamentry Archives. Listen in to find out why Jeremy Corbyn was tiptoeing through parliament with an electric drill and how you get a banner through a metal grill!

You can find out more about the Parliamentary Archives here.

Project Archivist, Alex Cowan, gives us an overview of the disability arts movement and how the archive tells the stories of the inspirational people who have been involved in it over the years.

You can find out more about those people and their stories here https://the-ndaca.org/

The archive can be visited by appointment – please contact [email protected] the first instance with any enquires.

If you thought that live streaming theatre performances came in with the internet then you are in for a surprise! Natasha Kitcher has been researching the Electrophone – the first UK based theatre (and church service) streaming device from the late 19th century. Its history is kept in the BT archive and Anne Archer (Head of BT Group Archives) and Natasha tell the story of this and some other early tech.

The BT archive is not open to the public on a regular basis but you can visit the BT Museum by appointment. 

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JoJo Kirtley, Founder & Co-Artistic Director of Workie Ticket Theatre tells the story of how, over the course of several lockdowns she worked with the communities of North Tyneside to ensure that their voices and their stories of the COVID-19 pandemic would be part of the future history of our times. Listen in to find out how she did it and why Workie Ticket Theatre won the Community Archives and Heritage Group overall award for 2022.

You can find out more about Workie Ticket Theatre here

You can listen to the Womxn Up? podcast here.

You can find out more about the CAHG Awards here.

A podcast about archives and the wonders they contain coming this Friday.

Join us this Friday, December 2nd  2022, for our first episode as Zoe Reid, Keeper of the National Archives in Ireland, tells the story of how the Public Record Office was destroyed in 1922, and how one hundred years later the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland has recreated a significant part of the lost records. 

Outside the Box is part of the Archives and Records Association’s Explore Your Archive campaign.

You can find out about the Explore Your Archive campaign here.

You can find out about the Archives and Records Association here

Zoe Reid, Keeper of the National Archives in Ireland, tells the story of how the Public Record Office was destroyed in 1922 and how in 2022 the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland has recreated a significant part of the lost records – some through conservation, some through obtaining digital copies of records held by other organisations around the world.

You can visit the Virtual Record Treasury here.

Rabbit hole warning – browse to your hearts content in this virtual reality reading room but it may take over your life!