Due to our upcoming move, we will soon be suspending taking in new records. You can still deposit documents with us until the 1st of September, after which point we will temporarily be unable to take in any new documents.

Buckinghamshire Archives would like to remind all motorcyclists to wear helmets, and not to try and carry a child in the sidecar. Saying that, here's a lovely photo from a recent deposit: 'Our 1st Motor-Cycle. (1912 F.E. Triumph + Sidecar).'

We're tapping the chart again.

We're going to be making another video answering your archive questions, so what would you like to know? It can be anything, from the silly to the serious. Comment below!

Hoping everyone is doing well. We've just found the 1545 will of a guy called Thomas Boner. Thought it was important people knew.

For #MKMonday we thought we'd share this great poster from The Green Thumb Players, a Canadian theatre group. This is for two productions: 'The Windigo' and 'Hilary's Birthday', performed at Stantonbury Theatre in 1980.

We've recently taken in a new deposit of some fantastic maps, so we thought we'd share some of them! This is a map of the county from back in 1834. As an added bonus, it features an illustration of Stowe House.

Who doesn't love a bit of gossip?

Could you write a song for Milton Keynes? Something to think about this #MKMonday, thanks to this 1979 poster advertising the competition.

No matter your role, it's important to use the correct protective equipment. Here's a novelty postcard from the Second World War showing various nonsensical bits of equipment that an Air Raid Warden could use!

If England win on Saturday, Anthony Gordon (who looks like he died on an English bayonet at the Battle of Culloden) needs to buy the Book of Deer from Cambridge Library and send it to Aberdeen.

While Erling Haaland does look like he personally held off the English army at the Battle of Stamford Bridge until being speared from below, he also purchased a 16th century copy of Snorri Sturluson's writing to return it to the community so he's in our good books.

Tomorrow we'll be joining Wycombe Museum for the Chair Festival! We'll be hosting a children's design workshop where you can design your own chair, inspired by some of the historic marketing material we have in our collection. There's no need to book, just pop in from 2pm to 4pm!

All of our tours for Heritage Open Days are now fully booked! If you've missed your chance to see behind the scenes of our archive, don't despair! We're running loads more tours for Buckinghamshire History Festival in November. Head to histfestbucks.co.uk for more information.

We have a slight change in our next Saturday opening. Usually we'd open for the first Saturday of the month, but for August we'll now open for the second Saturday instead. So that's closed on the 1st, open on the 8th! This is just for August, and we'll be back to normal for September.

Also we get that you're an angel or whatever dude but you're on thin ice with those candles

The worst depiction of an archivist in media is the archivist in Minas Tirith who brings FIRE into the record store. The best depiction of an archivist in media is Brother Armbruster in A Canticle for Leibowitz, who absolutely Gets It™

All of our free tours for Heritage Open Days are booked except one! If you’d like to book one of the last few places, email us at archives@buckinghamshire.gov.uk

Thinking of these five students who were each given a rap across the hand for playing football when it was 'too hot and exhausting', 105 years ago today.

Here’s another great theatre poster for #MKMonday, this one of a 1980 production of ‘Woyzeck’ by George Büchner. This took place in the Jennie Lee Theatre in Bletchley.

We're researching a historic Milton Keynes song competition after finding a poster for it and did a quick search to try and find out more. The AI decided that what we actually wanted was an original song about Milton Keynes.

real ones know

We did have a fresh meme for you this morning but Canva is having issues with uploads, but on the bright side it has meant we've generated this dumb image from the error itself

Do you want to shape the future of archive services in Buckinghamshire? We're recruiting for a County and Diocesan Archivist to lead our service! For more information and to apply, head to the link below. jobs.buckinghamshire.gov.uk/job_detail/3...

Why does Mercia, the largest kingdom, not simply eat the rest of the heptarchy?

Don't forget! We'll be at High Wycombe Library this time tomorrow for South Asian Heritage Month! We'll be listening to your stories and discussing how you can donate your memories to our oral history collection.

Advertise your account with a Simpsons image

we've done that political compass quiz and the results are a bit problematic tbh

you're welcome xx

A very stark poster for #MKMonday, here's 'The Mother' by Bertolt Brecht, performed at the Woughton Centre Theatre in 1981.