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Explore Your Archive launch week is here

  • 17th November 2018

Today marks the start of the 2018 Explore Your Archive launch week (17th-25th November). Explore Your Archive is a campaign delivered by the Archives and Records Association (UK & Ireland) that showcases the best of archives and archive services in the UK and Ireland.  Over the coming days we will seek to highlight some of the stories, facts, places and people that can be discovered in our archives. We will be featuring archive related blog posts every day, so remember to follow us so you don’t miss out!

 

Explore Your Archive campaign message

Explore Your Archive campaign message

 

You can also follow us on Twitter, where we will be continuing the theme with details about interesting items from our collections. Remember to check out our #ArchiveSelfie competition to join in with the fun and be in with a chance to see yourself on the big screen at The Hive!

We are delighted to be hosting the England launch of the campaign this year. Come and join us on November 24th for a fantastic day celebrating archives and what they mean to us. You can find out more about our plans here. The day is completely free to attend and all are welcome.

 

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