Rachel MacGregor
@anoldhand
Digital Preservation Officer at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick. Interested in digital preservation, archives and public engagement. Also random public transport content. Views my own unless a repost. She/her.
Anyway off to Slough with Derby County fans. I should have been doing this last night but TfL had different ideas. New day new ticket. And happily Coffee Corner at Lichfield Trent Valley was open to keep me caffeinated (and caked)
Ugh - whose idea was it to go to Glasgow and then get caught up in suboptimal delays on the way home? And then have to be in the office the next day 🥱
Final session from Joseph Armstrong from the FCDO talking about sensitivity reviews on transfer of public records #ARA2026
Next up Anne Grzybowski from Heriot Watt University talking about legacy record keeping systems - a lot of very familiar issues here… #ARA2026
Fascinating paper from Emily Edwards from @rcnhistory.bsky.social talking about the risks of human behaviour on the authentic record #ARA2026
Short break for lunch and then it’s back into the archival fray #ARA2026
Fantastic to hear about Jackie Kay’s archive held at @natlibscot.bsky.social - I’m a huge Jackie Kay fan 😍#ARA2026
Amina Shah from @natlibscot.bsky.social talks about the lethargy in the face of threats to libraries and dismissal of their role #ARA2026
Delighted to catch up with folks at #ARA2026 and looking forward to the sessions today. @scottishruth.bsky.social welcomes us to the conference and introduces the theme of authenticity
Have been roaming around Dungeness and now settled back in Folkestone for some Kentish ale #ConfinedCocktails
Finally made it to @phm.org.uk to see the #GeneralStrike100 exhibition and it included some fantastic artefacts and archives. Catch it while you can (on til 2nd November)
I would second both of those and there’s the lido and can recommend Knead Pizza in the historic old town and the wonderful market for browsing
Belated #ConfinedCocktails entry - me drowning my sorrows at the end of a holiday in The Minerva in Plymouth which has been around long enough to have served Francis Drake a pint. Not sure what he would have made of the karaoke…
It’s vin rouge and a new furry pal holidaying in southern Brittany where it is cool and tranquil - hallelujah! #ConfinedCocktails
G&T here after a hard day’s shopping (bought lovely sourdough, hyper local gooseberries, nice cheese and green nail varnish amongst other things). Now relaxing with a Gavi (not pictured) #ConfinedCocktails
Too much to put here but brilliant to hear about the women in mining communities and pit head baths from @lucyjameson.bsky.social #BloodIsThePriceOfCoal Conference
Very excited to be attending today’s Blood is the Price of Coal Conference here @mrcwarwick.bsky.social warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...
You know you work on the right place when your colleague buys this
My #ConfinedCocktail was a glass of Travelodge red wine after taking 4 teenagers to the Lego store on Leicester Square. I reckon I earned it.
G&T on the patio for us after a successful weeding and mowing session in the garden (we actually spent much of lockdown in this very spot) #ConfinedCocktails
Guntons is celebrating its 90th anniversary and we are doing our level best to see it to 100. The staff in there have all been utterly delightful and we will be staggering home under the weight of our purchases. Ate some too obvs…