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Digital Preservation for Small-to-Large Institutions—Breakfast Panel Session with Roundtable 9:30am-12:30pm (Breakfast 9:30-10am), Tuesday the 21st of January 2025 Third Floor Suite, Stationers’ Hall, Ave Maria Lane, London, EC4M 7DD AIM25, in association with Max Communications, warmly invites you to a breakfast panel session and discussion on the theme of Digital Preservation for Small to Large Institutions.  Digital Preservation […]

The National Archives at Kew have opened their current round of applications to both the Resilience and Engagement Grants programmes. Recent Resilience Grants have been awarded to Coventry University Archives, St Ives Archives and Max Communications client Chester Zoo, while Engagement Grants have been awarded to Bedfordshire Archives, Wentworth Woodhouse Trust, York Business Improvement District, […]

Registration is now open for the School of Advanced Study’s free research training programme for 2025. These sessions are conducted on Zoom, and are available to researchers at all levels in the UK and beyond. Please note: it is essential to register in advance using the booking links provided below. SAS Research Training Programme 2025 […]

An announcement from Dr Geoff Browell, Chair of AIM25, on the death of our beloved friend and colleague, Dr Andrea Tanner. “It is with deep sadness that I have to report the death of Dr Andrea Tanner, Archivist of Fortnum & Mason, after a long illness. Andrea was a respected and much loved contributor to […]

As part of the London 2024 A&B Conference, the Old Operating Theatre & Herb Garrett is hosting a unique exhibition of international and renowned artists, who have gathered within this historic setting to explore pressing questions of the human body, it’s anatomy, and beyond. “The exhibition is a thrilling opportunity to dive deep into the […]

Max Communications—sponsors of AIM25—would like to share a Christmas appeal from our good friends and neighbours, Woolwich Service Users Project [WSUP]. WSUP is a grassroots, Woolwich-based charity that supports people who are going through, or are at risk of, poverty, homelessness, addiction and any other life challenges in Greenwich and the surrounding boroughs. A popular and […]

We are delighted to share that The National Archives has just announced the online publication of ‘A Year in Archives‘, the TNA’s much-anticipated annual publication about and for the UK archives sector. A Year in Archives celebrates and showcases the amazing work of archives though highlights and case studies. Highlights from London-based archives includes updates […]

Readers at the British Library can once again consult 100% of the printed collection, as was possible prior to he October 2023 cyber-attack, with access to hard copy newspapers now restored. The criminal attack affected almost every aspect of the British Library’s public service. “The journey to recover full access to our collection and services […]

Whitechapel Gallery is a ground-breaking arts institution located in the heart of London’s East-End. Locally embedded and globally connected, the Gallery was founded in 1901 to enrich the cultural offer for the people of East London. Today, as well as hosting exhibitions and events, Whitechapel Gallery provides access to its Historical Documents Collection and Online […]

AIM25 member Institution of Engineering and Technology, is delighted to announce a forthcoming event to celebrate the centenary of the founding of the Electrical Association for Women. We are very pleased to post the below guest blog written for AIM25 by the IET’s Archivist, Asha Gage. “One hundred years ago the Electrical Association for Women […]

In a recent blog post from the University of the Arts London, Assistant Archivist Morwenna Roche describes her experience of cataloguing the archive of AIM25 member, Camberwell College of Arts. Inaugurated in 1898 as the Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts, Camberwell delivered practical tuition in such skills as embroidery, cabinet design, stone carving, stencil […]

The Linnean Society of London, which houses the collections of renowned Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus, is the world’s oldest learned society devoted to biology and natural history, and is the birthplace of the theory of evolution. To celebrate Explore Your Archives’ Focus Week at the end of November, the Linnean Society is offering two free […]

The WDAH [World Day for AudioVisual Heritage] takes place every year. In addition to raising awareness of AV heritage collections, WDAH highlights issues around the importance of their preservation. It is also an opportunity to celebrate and enjoy the variety and richness of AudioVisual archives around the world. This year, WDAH falls on Sunday the […]

Beyond the easel: Rediscovering Dagenham’s forgotten artist, which opened in July 2024 at Valence House Museum in Dagenham, can still be seen until the 30th of November 2024. The exhibition explores the life and work of Henry Gillard Glindoni, who spent the last 20 years of his life living and painting in Chadwell Heath, just […]

In September 2024, The National Archives opened applications for Round 1 of the the Archives Revealed programme. This is the only grant programme in the United Kingdom dedicated to the cataloguing and unlocking of archival collections, making them accessible to researchers and to the public. Archives Revealed has been significantly expanded with a new partnership […]

Following a cyber attack in October 2023, the British Library is launching a new system to request collection items. This means that, for the first time in nearly a year, users will once again be able to request items online before visiting the library. You can request items remotely from Monday the 30th of September […]

This fascinating blog post from the Region of Peel Archives in Brompton, Ontario, illustrates how archivists in North America and the UK package typical records differently. Comparing notes with Tyne & Wear Archives and the West Yorkshire Archive Service, Region of Peel’s Senior Archivist Samantha Thompson PhD MLIS explores key differences in the boxing of […]

After 13 months’ preparation, The London Archives presents its new exhibition, The Taste of Memory. The exhibition highlights the transformative influence of regional food on today’s British culinary landscape, beginning with London’s first Chinatown (which emerged around Limehouse). From there, visitors will take on an emotional journey to uncover the often-underrepresented voices of British-Chinese community since 1880s. Whether walking in or sitting in a dining room, visitors will navigate 19 chefs’ transgenerational memories of living, struggling, coping and integrating into British society.

A Celebration of the Archive of the Association of Ukrainian Women in Great Britain. Thanks to a grant from the National Lottery Heritage Fund (NLHF), the Association of Ukrainian Women in Great Britain (AUW) have relocated theirarchive from Leicester Ukrainian Club to the University of East LondonArchive, home of the Living Refugee Archive. The AUW […]

Hosted by the King’s College London Archives and Special Collections, the Maughan Library is pleased to present a special in-person exhibition of handwritten diaries. For the past 40 years artist Dylan Jonas Stone has amasses a unique collection of over 200 personal diaries acquired at flea markets, car boot sales and online. The diaries range […]

AIM25 is pleased to announce that membership to the AIM25 platform will be free form 2025 onward, thanks to sponsorship from MAX Communications. This means that member institutions will be able to continue modifying and adding to their AIM25-held records without worrying about paying an annual subscription fee, and new members will be able to […]

On Monday the 5th of August 2024, the second largest archive service in the UK (and member of AIM25) will change its name in order to attract new visitors and clarify the nature of its extensive collections. London Metropolitan Archives, which is owned and managed by the City of London Corporation, will drop ‘Metropolitan’ from […]

The British Library recently published an interim report on the major cyber incident that closed its services in October 2023. As at May 2024, the Library’s digital services – including the catalogues and UK Web Archive – are still either off-line or have minimal functionality. Ransomware attackers removed some 600 GB of files including user […]

The second XRchiving conference took place at King’s College London on 20 April 2024. The event brought together archivists, town planners, architects, and software designers to discuss the use of Extended Reality by the Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAM) sector. Extended Reality technologies include virtual reality and augmented reality, in which virtual experiences are […]

AIM25 is a major partner in the ongoing Yerusha Project, which launched after the Covid pandemic. Funded by the Rothschild Foundation, it comprises a research engine to cross-search descriptions of archives across Europe relating to Jewish history and culture. AIM25 contributed more than 700 catalogues to the search portal from members including UCL, the Imperial […]

Member Institutions are invited to check their collection level data (imported from the old site) to check for data requiring updates. If you don’t have a login contact info@maxcommunications.co.uk. For OAI PMH data harvesting to work (for inclusion on the Archives Hub site) institutions need to fill in the minimum ISAD(g) fields for the Institution.