'I love my work. I love working with my hands. When I see damage to a book, it's like the book needs a doctor – and I'm that doctor.'
Bringing books back to life – that's the magic that Roger works as one of the incredibly talented conservators in our @BL_CollCare team 📚
Our archive holds information vital to our understanding of Scotland’s historic places, including sites looked after by @welovehistory. Within it, there are around 6 million items & 15km of shelving. 🤯
Soon, it will be finding a new home. Find out more
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It's official! We're moving!
Our archives are moving to a new state-of-the-art home outside Edinburgh. 💨📦🗃📂📽🗄
We love to see buildings reused, so our Archive House project will transform an existing building in Bonnyrigg into a world-class facility ow.ly/b9qa50OMOq9
Hayley Livingstone and Zoë Miller were partnered through Icon’s Student Mentoring Programme.
They both made valuable discoveries while having different specialisms and being at different career phases: icon.org.uk/resource/curat…#VolunteersWeek
This map of a family farm in Monmouth dated 1828 arrived in the studio a little worse for wear... But after a wash and repair it is framed and ready to go back on the wall:
#paperconservation#YesIWashPaper
In honour of St. George's Day we bring to you a stained glass design by #JohnHenryDearle of St. George and the Dragon. Note Dearle's characteristic vegetation in the foreground and Morris & Co. inspired tree motifs in the back. To learn more about Dearle click the link in our bio
Consolidation of the powdery, flaking media on these large Burgess designs for #CardiffCastle (first photo adhesive applied, second photo once dried)
#WMBurges
🚨Permanent Job🚨 Due to an internal promotion we have a vacancy for a Digital Archive Officer. If you have #archive experience and an interest in #digitalpreservation this may be the job for you! Deadline 18th January, please share: bit.ly/3WyRbOh
Join us for a tour of the spectacularly Burrel Collection in Glasgow on the 10th of February. The tour will be conservation focused of the recently refurbished and reopened collections thanks to Glasgow Life.
Limited spaces so book your ticket today!
icon.org.uk/events/scotlan…
As this year marks the 25th anniversary of the #PLENDERLEITH, we’ve put together a post to tell you all about this year’s lecture.
If you think you can make it, there’s a link to purchase tickets here 🎟 bit.ly/3WQQ0uP@EdinCulture@Conservators_UK
Did you know that William Morris wrote poetry? In fact, he was best known during his life as a writer. Images of nature abound throughout his writing and designs.
Poem: 'Flora', published 1891
Image: Daisy wallpaper
#NationalPoetryDay#environment@PoetryDayUK