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Jessica Smith

@JessicaSmithCAA

Creative Arts Archivist at the Rylands. Views are my own. She/her.

Katılım Ekim 2012
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Jessica Smith
Jessica Smith@JessicaSmithCAA·
because Ignotus’ story is so fascinating. An archivist's role is to be a keeper of stories. It remains an honour to help keep a small part of this one. See y’all in the new year! Read all about Paul Ignotus here: rylandscollections.com/2016/09/29/pau…
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entirely the wrong place in the Guardian archive. Regardless, when trying to classify and describe them, I fell down something of a research rabbit hole (when I should absolutely have been doing something more relevant to what I’d been hired for)
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Jessica Smith@JessicaSmithCAA·
Today is my last day of work before maternity leave, and by happenstance, I received an enquiry about a blog post that I wrote in 2016 about Hungarian political writer, Paul Ignotus. I wrote it during my first job at the Rylands, cataloguing the editorial correspondence (thread)
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Jessica Smith@JessicaSmithCAA·
There's a very real chance that I'm going to spend the duration of my employment at the Rylands trying and failing to capture to sparkles in the windows when the light fades. I'm completely fine with this. @TheJohnRylands
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Jessica Smith@JessicaSmithCAA·
@HorrexKatherine That sounds awful. Is there an option to vote for seethe internally and vow to exact vengeance?
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