@LSBUArchives

LSBU Archives preserves and makes accessible more than a century's worth of London South Bank University's heritage. Contact: [email protected]

 London, United Kingdom
lsbu.ac.uk/archives
Joined June 2011
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Public guest lecture in London, UK: We are honoured to welcome Ann Powers and Eric @eweisbard, who will discuss their work at LSBU on the 25th of April! Info and tickets via this link: eventbrite.com/e/ann-powers-… @IASPM_OFFICIAL @LSBU_ACI @iaspm_uk_eire @IASPMUS @LSBUArchives @LSBU
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📢It's #InternationalWomensDay Have you seen the @LSBUArchives display? This display contains items from LSBU's Archives which show some aspects of women's history at LSBU. 📍Southwark Campus Library, Level 02, LSBU Hub
Close up of some of the items in one of the glass display cases.

ALT Close up of some of the items in one of the glass display cases.

Close up of some of the items in one of the glass display cases.

ALT Close up of some of the items in one of the glass display cases.

Photo of the LSBU Archives International Women's Day display on level 02 in the Southwark Campus Library. You can see 3 glass display cases and three posters.

ALT Photo of the LSBU Archives International Women's Day display on level 02 in the Southwark Campus Library. You can see 3 glass display cases and three posters.

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1/2 Sisters Rachel and Margaret McMillan were pioneers in health & education for young poor children, promoting physical health to achieve intellectual health and recognising children from poor families did not have access to good food, fresh air, cleanliness & medical treatment
Rachel (left) and Margaret (right) photographed around 1879 © University of Greenwich Archive: GB 2121/RM/A/5/7 From: https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/blue-plaques/margaret-mcmillan/

ALT Rachel (left) and Margaret (right) photographed around 1879 © University of Greenwich Archive: GB 2121/RM/A/5/7 From: https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/blue-plaques/margaret-mcmillan/

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We've been having a play on the @HE_Archive of aerial photos this morning - look at this 2006 photo showing our Southwark campus! Lots of changes since then: historicengland.org.uk/image…

Aerial Photo Explorer – Over 400,000 aerial photos in Historic England's digitised collections |...

Explore England's changing landscapes through historic aerial photography, showcasing the growth and transformations of urban and rural areas.

historicengland.org.uk
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Our article on LSBU's history of teaching women engineering has recently won the ALISS Quarterly article of the year! Thank you @aliss_info It's available here: alissnet.files.wordpress.com… or on LSBU's OA publications repository: openresearch.lsbu.ac.uk/item…
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Thank you! We're very pleased to have moved to being a fully Accredited service, it's a big achievement for a small service like us!
Melinda Haunton@melindahaunton26 Jul 2023
Replying to @melindahaunton
A lot of Accredited Archive Services also came in for their regular review, and a special shoutout to @LSBUArchives and @SuffolkArchives for moving from a provisional status to the full award. It's so great to see archives thriving since first Accredited.
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Come and do a funded PhD with me and @caitbeaumont on student activism and agency. Full details here: jobs.ac.uk/job/DAP168/phd-sc… Happy to have an informal chat about it. Contact details in the link above.
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Interested in how @LSBU has marked previous coronations? Then we have the perfect blog post for you! library.lsbu.ac.uk/llrblog/g…
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It includes this great photo of the Borough Road building decorated for the 1953 coronation of Queen Elizabeth - they went all out!
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The last day of #Archive30 and it’s #WhyArchives So why? Archives are the record, they help us understand what happened and why, they can be used to hold organisations to account (eg public inquiries need archives). They can also be fun - we’re definitely not always serious! – at Paddington, London
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But sometimes it can just come down to the thrill of holding a piece of history, that person’s actual writing! There’s really too many reasons #WhyArchives are great! – at Paddington, London
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#Archive30 today is #ArchiveGoals and ours is very simple - more people using our archives! This week we had a great student visit and we’d love to see more of them (and not just students!). Interested in the history of @LSBU and its campuses past and present? Come and visit! – at Poplar, London
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If you visit the Archives it's hard to miss the huge clock in the reading room - it's the biggest item in the collection! So of course we had to choose it for #SomethingBig #Archive30
Grandfather clock, which is the height of the doorframe to the right of it. On the left of the clock is a bust. White walls and a window behind.

ALT Grandfather clock, which is the height of the doorframe to the right of it. On the left of the clock is a bust. White walls and a window behind.

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One example of #HealthArchives in our collections is this "Birth Atlas", given as a gift to nurse-midwives at the Queen's Institute of District Nursing from the Maternity Center Association in New York City. It's part of our Redwood College of Health archives #Archive30
Black book with "Birth Atlas: second edition. Maternity Center Association, New York" printed on the cover. The corners of the book are quite battered and showing the card underneath the black cover.

ALT Black book with "Birth Atlas: second edition. Maternity Center Association, New York" printed on the cover. The corners of the book are quite battered and showing the card underneath the black cover.

A plate from the Birth Atlas, with three diagrams of twins in the womb and explanations of the different types of twins under each

ALT A plate from the Birth Atlas, with three diagrams of twins in the womb and explanations of the different types of twins under each

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#SomethingNew is our latest accession, the notes of Lawrence Hadley OBE who was one of the first Building Services Engineering students @LSBU and later President of @CIBSE They'll be fully catalogued and available for researchers soon! #Archive30
Notebook with a brown paper wrapper which has "Engineering Science 1st Year" written on it, on top of another almost identical notebook which has "Engineering Science 2nd Year".

ALT Notebook with a brown paper wrapper which has "Engineering Science 1st Year" written on it, on top of another almost identical notebook which has "Engineering Science 2nd Year".

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What better for #YourWorkplace than to use a photograph of the Archives Reading Room? It's up on Level 3 of the Hub - why not make an appointment to pay us a visit? #Archive30
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#FavouriteItem is too hard - is it student magazines? Is it the stories in the WW1 roll of honour? Or the records that show women breaking new ground in studying engineering? We can’t decide! What’s yours? #archive30 – at Paddington, London
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We have some great examples of #ArchiveTravel from the National Bakery School's annual trips to look at European baking! The scrapbook of their travels covers 1955-1963, and includes photos and details of the various towns and cities they visited #Archive30
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For #ArchiveMystery here is a recent one - where did David Bomberg teach? One record says room 465 in the Borough Road Building, but that’s currently a store-room! This plan has the answer, it’s the “existing art room” at the bottom of the plan before a layout change #Archive30
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This is more than just #ArchiveSustainability - the whole London Road LSBU Hub that we’re based in is a retrofitted building to be more sustainable! #Archive30
London South Bank University - LSBU@LSBU11 Apr 2023
The LSBU Hub recently won the Higher Education and Campus award at the @RetrofitAwards. Read about how the hub has transformed the student experience at LSBU on @Southwark_News 👇 #LSBUAwardSuccess southwarknews.co.uk/news/com…

London South Bank University’s (LSBU) Hub building wins award for its sustainable renovation

London South Bank University’s (LSBU) Hub building has won the Higher Education and Campus award at the Architects’ Journal Retrofit Awards.

southwarknews.co.uk
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