@Jdcrawf @BBCRadio4 Delighted to read this. Well done! Look forward to hearing broadcast.
English
Lesley Ferguson
509 posts
Lesley Ferguson
@elmfer17
Head of Archives, Historic Environment Scotland. Collector; creator; historic photography; archives; Scotland. Views my own.
Edinburgh, Scotland Katılım Aralık 2017
104 Takip Edilen310 Takipçiler
Some news! Dream job alert… V excited to be working on ‘Take Four Books’ on @BBCRadio4, coming very soon
The Bookseller@thebookseller
.@BBCRadio4 is launching a new books show “Take Four Books” presented by James Crawford 👇 #Echobox=1731416126" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">thebookseller.com/news/bbc-radio…
English
Lesley Ferguson retweetledi
🌍Dive into the flurry of #digipres blogs for World Digital Preservation Day🌍
#DPCblogs Preserving Community Heritage through the SCRAN Transfer Project ift.tt/qo83uBU #WDPD2024 #digitalpreservation #awareness #blog-a-thon
English
Lesley Ferguson retweetledi
Lovely to welcome @karly_kehoe, @AndrewRNicoll , Domhnall Uilleam Stiùbhart (@SabhalMorOstaig), and students from #Canada to #Lochaber Archive Centre to look at documents to do with the Isle of Eigg & emigration!
Fort William, Scotland 🇬🇧 English
Lesley Ferguson retweetledi
Next up in the Conservation stream we have a pair of papers from @HistEnvScot: 'Creating a 'Move Ready' Mould Remediation and Access Strategy for HES Archive Collections' & 'Innovative Approach to Auld Problems, the Remedial Treatment of Mould Damaged Drawings of Auldbar Castle'!
English
Lesley Ferguson retweetledi
Lesley Ferguson retweetledi
Lesley Ferguson retweetledi
Delighted to share that the new Carbon Literacy for Archives, Records and Special Collections has been accredited by @Carbon_Literacy!
Developed for @UkNatArchives, by Lorraine Finch, with input from @ARAEnvironment. We’ll discuss the what, why, and how at #ARA2024.
English
Lesley Ferguson retweetledi
Session on Lessons Learnt from Transforming an Existing Building into an archive provoked lively discussion on the priorities for archive buildings #ARA2024
English
Lesley Ferguson retweetledi
Great start to the conference - our chair, Andrew Nicoll says "talk, debate, learn, be nice to each other" and encourages the recordkeeping sector by telling them "you are the indispensable cogs in the green machinery of society" Onwards! #ARA2024
English
I first came to @edbookfest when I was a teenager at school… It was an inspiration then and it still is now. Both surreal and hugely exciting to be the new Chair! 📚
Edinburgh International Book Festival@edbookfest
🎉 We are thrilled to announce that the new Chair of The Edinburgh International Book Festival's Board will be writer, broadcaster, and publisher James Crawford! (1/)
English
@DSM888 Archive sector on the case to make sure any records are safe.
English
sad to hear this - they started as decorative metalworkers and bronze founders of high quality - many memorial plaques we know were made by them. heraldscotland.com/news/24448170.…
English
Lesley Ferguson retweetledi
Emma Bulcholz of @HistEnvScot will be talking about 'Creating a 'Move Ready' Mould Remediation and Access Strategy for HES Archive Collections' as part of our conservation programme! Book your place today: openingdoors.eventsair.com/ara2024/
English
Lesley Ferguson retweetledi
@karly_kehoe @smuhalifax @HistorySmu Congrats also to the project's co-applicant Andrew Nicoll of @HistEnvScot, fellow @HistorySmu colleague Dr. Kirrily Freeman and other collaborators from @NS_Museum, @highlandv, @HLHsocial, @ThinkUHI and @stfxuniversity!
English
Lesley Ferguson retweetledi
We’re thrilled to invite you to our latest exhibition, The Photography of Erskine Beveridge 🎞️
In partnership with Historic Environment Scotland, we're proud to present an exclusive collection featuring photographs from the Erskine Beveridge archive.
Available until June 11th!
English
Lesley Ferguson retweetledi
We are hiring! Join NCAP as a Collections Assistant (ACIU Project) Help us with the enormous task of digitising our historic collection of over 30 million images (photographic prints & film), including WW2 reconnaissance photography & survey imagery.
applications.historicenvironment.scot/pages/Job_Sear…
English
Great to see that colleagues in NCAP have been nominated. It is quite amazing to witness the robots at work!
Historic Environment Scotland@HistEnvScot
The National Collection of Aerial Photography has been shortlisted for #MandHAwards2024 Innovator of the Year! NCAP use specialist collaborative robots – or cobots - to scan and digitise tens of thousands of historic photographs every week. Vote here 👉 ow.ly/hvEX50QVPI5
English