
Digital Preservation Officer @MRCWarwick digital preservation,archives, public engagement. Views own unless a repost. Over there as https://teapawt.org/t.co/P9ejvbYxPb
West Midlands, England
Joined December 2011
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Rachel MacGregor retweeted
Don't erase history - preserve it! And we can't do that without archivists, digital preservation specialists, archive assistants, conservators and the all important depositors - so today's tweet is dedicated to them all. Below: our free 'Don't Erase History' rubbers 😁#archives
Rachel MacGregor retweeted
Our first 50 years in podcast form!
Find out more about the MRC's 50th anniversary celebrations at warwick.ac.uk/services/libra… , including symposium & seminar recordings, & online exhibition featuring highlights from the archive collections
New Episode:
Reflecting on the Modern Record Centre’s First Half Century: In Conversation with Pierre Botcherby & Rachel MacGregor
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#mrc #podcast #exchanges
You can hear me and my colleague Pierre chat about
@MRCWarwick 's 50th Anniversary, both the Symposium and Exchanges Journal Special Issue: exchanges.warwick.ac.uk/inde…
New Episode:
Reflecting on the Modern Record Centre’s First Half Century: In Conversation with Pierre Botcherby & Rachel MacGregor
spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e…
#mrc #podcast #exchanges
Rachel MacGregor retweeted
Happy 50th anniversary to @warwickarts Here are a few images selected by the @uniofwarwick Archivist from a recent deposit 😍#WarwickArtsCentre #UniversityofWarwick More celebrations here: warwickartscentre.co.uk/rebe…
Rachel MacGregor retweeted
The Metropolitan Coloured Peoples Housing Association was a Black led Housing Assocation set up in 1957 to tackle the lack of affordable and quality housing for the Windrush generation. Explore more sources for post WW2 migration here: warwick.ac.uk/services/libra… #BlackHistoryMonth
"Fascist car"👇👇👇
OTD in 1936 the Battle of #CableStreet took place in London as anti-fascist activists clashed with the Met Police. Read eye witness accounts from the Independent Labour Party leaflet commemorating this historic event: mrc-catalogue.warwick.ac.uk/…
Rachel MacGregor retweeted
Our MRC 50th Anniversary special edition of the Exchanges Journal @ExchangesIAS is now published! This special edition contains papers from our research symposium last year, all featuring our varied collections. Read it online here: doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v11i4
Rachel MacGregor retweeted
A training workshop to enable delegates to start to develop a business case proposal for digital preservation
🗓️Weds 13 November 1:15 to 4:30pm @LibraryofBham
Free to #ArchivesWM member services (fee for non-members)
For full booking details 👇
archiveswestmidlands.org.uk/…
Rachel MacGregor retweeted
🌟New Blog 🌟Ashleigh Coffey @KeeleLibrary, recipient of an #ArchivesWM bursary to attend the 2024 @ARAUK_IE Conference, shares her experience of the conference and why attending was so beneficial.
archiveswestmidlands.org.uk/…
Rachel MacGregor retweeted
Here's me contributing to the @ExchangesIAS special issue celebrating 50 years of @MRCWarwick following the #mrc50 conference.
On my perpetual use of the @BASW_UK archives, and what it means for @SocWkHistory and the history of the welfare state.
exchanges.warwick.ac.uk/inde…
Rachel MacGregor retweeted
Join us @AstonHistory @AstonUniversity in #Birmingham (2 Oct, 5:30 pm) for this unique opportunity to discuss with @ChrisEvansMP how we can shape the future of History (discipline and practice within and outside universities) for the benefit of all.
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For anyone interested in #digipres and related matters I blogged here about #iPres2024 conference with a few take aways here: anoldhanddigital.wordpress.c… These days you can mostly find me on Bluesky and Mastodon (@[email protected])
Rachel MacGregor retweeted
We're delighted to announce that catalogues for 5 collections relating to early mining unions are now available online, the first to be available as part of our 3 year project to conserve & catalogue the NUM archives!
Find out more at warwick.ac.uk/services/libra…
Rachel MacGregor retweeted
My article based on the PROS archive @MRCWarwick first presented at the MRC@50 day conference is finally published 🥳
If you'd like to have a read, follow the link in the post below (entirely open access!), and scroll all the way down to page 124.
ICYMI: The new issue of Exchanges arrived yesterday - why not give us a read as we celebrate 50 years of the Modern Records Centre research archive.
Free and fully open access here:
exchanges.warwick.ac.uk/inde…
These are fantastic awards highlighting some of the brilliant work going on in #digipres - I've had a look through the nominees and already got several piv]ces of work I want to follow up (@bishbashbackup and @mopennock looking at you both for example!). #DPA2024 #ipres2024
If you can't wait until later today... here's a sneaky peek 👀at the #iPres2024 and #DigitalPreservation #Awards #DPA2024 venue, where we'll hold the ceremony at 1500 UTC / 1700 CET! 🎉🎉🎉
See you sooooon...
bit.ly/DPAwards2024
Rachel MacGregor retweeted
The University's Special Collections includes some wonderful publications including this 1587 edition of Boccaccio's Decameron. More here: warwick.ac.uk/services/libra… #FiftyObjectsFriday
I wrote up my experiences at the recent @ARAconf conference with a focus on environmental sustainability #ARA2024 here: anoldhanddigital.wordpress.c… Lots of homework for me!
I missed it so yes please!
Rachel MacGregor retweeted
The whole @uniofwarwick community was saddened to hear of the death of our former Chancellor Sir "Sonny" Ramphal who served in office from 1989-2002. You can read about his achievements here: warwick.ac.uk/insite/news/in… Our sympathy to his family and friends.






















