Courtauld Digitisation 🏳️‍🌈

Have you listened to the audio versions of our fabulous blog? Perfect for your daily walk! Search 'Courtauld' on Spotify, Google podcasts, Apple podcasts, or anywhere else you find podcasts! 56 short stories to listen to, with more to come, all written and voiced by volunteers.

Happy #InternationalVolunteerDay! We'd like to say a huge thank you to all our volunteers who have helped to digitise our amazing photographic collections. Everyday is a joy and we couldn't have done it without you!

My short film showing the removal of the Courtauld's Witt Photographic Collection from Somerset House for digitisation in 2024/5. Thank you @imminglogistics and @Picturae_NL for doing this so brilliantly. youtu.be/JqmBYr3uQqc?fe… @TheCourtauld @CourtauldDigi

Fabulous analogue end to @courtaulddigi for 2022 with @RobinTheFog performing a piece made in collaboration with volunteers from sounds sampled from the Conway Library. Since 2017 1,840 amazing volunteers have donated over 44 thousand hours to the project. @TheCourtauld

A super opportunity to join @UkNatArcRes @UkNatArchives as a Research Fellow and research our incredible #photography collections: civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cgi?…

Public housing posters, 1930s

🌟 We have 4(!) paid internships advertised @CourtauldDigi 🌟 see below for the range of roles. Perfect for those interested in archives + collections work. Deadline July 1 ➡️ jobs.courtauld.ac.uk

🎺opportunity alert! 📯 paid internship @CourtauldDigi apply by 1st July! Any @HistoryofDesign folk interested? instagram.com/p/CfZP7f9IHEJ/…

JOB ALERTS! PLURAL! join @CourtauldDigi and @tombilson and be the new #digitisationmanager or #volunteermanager. You've got until the 1st to apply! #digitalmedia #digitisationjobs #libraryjobs #glamjobs jobs.courtauld.ac.uk

Deadline extended to 1 July! Could you be our new Volunteer Manager or Digitisation Manager for the last 6 months of the Courtauld’s volunteer-led project to digitise our photographic collections? jobs.courtauld.ac.uk

Perhaps of interest to @CourtauldDigi - Sandy Heslop pops up a lot in the collection as a photographer! (see option to join this event online). eventbrite.co.uk/e/martindale-l…

XIII Century English Apocalypse CONB08507 Digitising Demons Looking forward to label these delightful demons dancing & cuddling at the end of the world in these illuminated pages from The Book of Revelations. If you’re interested in getting involved get in touch @CourtauldDigi

Découvrez et transcrivez des milliers d'images inédites de l'architecture française sur World Architecture Unlocked! #architecturefrançaise #bénévolat #bénévole #volontariat #musée #GLAM #crowdsourcing zooniverse.org/projects/court…

@JudeAtwood Tilda Swinton (Dakota Johnson and Luca Guadagnino) as The Courtauld's Conway Library in London. Credit: Corbis via Getty Images

TILDA SWINTON AS LIBRARIES: a thread Tilda Swinton as Texas Southern University's Library Learning Center

@DrRebeccaWade As far as I know they're back on Monday. We’ll make sure the image is ready for them to send on to you.

It was fun taking part in this - recording now available for anyone who missed it :-)

Our Conway Storytellers Gill, Alice, Christopher, and Dora spoke at "Ruin, Repair, Renewal", an online event for the @BeingHumanFest 2021! If you missed them in action, you can catch up on our YouTube channel: youtu.be/ZMPpq7wr644 Huge thanks to our inspiring Storytellers!

Photographs in the above tweet: Photo 2: by Christopher Williams Photo 3: by Christopher Williams Photo 4: by Celia Cockburn

Photographs from our Saturday @BeingHumanFest event! Conway Storytellers Gigi, Kathleen, Lisa and Bill wowed everyone with moving, informative, and fun stories, and we loved having visitors in the library again. Catch more stories online tonight at 5pm! eventbrite.co.uk/e/online-event…

If you missed last night's lecture ‘Guerrilla Art and the Politics of Punitive Literacy’ with #FayeGlessier of @IndianaUniv organised by @TomDay_Pop you can now watch online 🙌 📽️ youtu.be/o8NqozcOMtU #AmericanArt #GuerillaArt

Last chance to book! Join our Conway Storytellers tomorrow, 5pm-6:30pm on Zoom. Explore how buildings go through ruin, repair, and renewal, and the role of photography in conserving heritage. Tickets are free! Book here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/online-event… @BeingHumanFest #BeingHuman2021