DOS & ACIU Projects: Historic Aerial Photography

Sheila at the DOS & WWII ACIU projects at the National Collection of Aerial Photography (part of Historic Environment Scotland). All opinions are my own.

[DOS & ACIU Projects: Historic Aerial Photography @AerialSheila]

Today we remember all of the service men and women who were involved in the D-Day Landings on 6 June 1944.
#DDay80 #DDay

[Barnsley Archives & Local Studies @BarnsArchives]

#OnThisDay in 1838: Flooding at the Huskar Pit in Silkstone killed 26 children. It was a catalyst for a change in employment law, which stopped women and children working underground across Britain's collieries.

[SCRAN @Scranlife]

#ArchiveIsles - Eigg, Inverness-shire, c. 1905.
A woman leads a horse carrying willow creels of dried peats on a bright summer day. Fresh cut peats needed to be dried before transportation, so were taken to a level drying area first. 🐴
📷 @NtlMuseumsScot https://t.co/e4pg7zoPVE

[Mapping Women's Suffrage @mappingsuffrage]

The vote is ‘a symbol of freedom, a symbol of citizenship, a symbol of liberty. It is a safeguard of all those liberties which it symbolises’. So wrote Mrs #Pankhurst. Do use your hard-won #vote at the #GeneralElections2024 tomorrow

[Glasgow Women's Library - follow us on Bluesky @womenslibrary]

This #HungerStrikeMedal belonged to Maud Joachim who was arrested, imprisoned & force-fed for campaigning for votes for women. Don't forget to use your hard-won vote tomorrow - so many have fought for this right! #GeneralElections2024 #VotesForWomen

[DPC Chatter @dpc_chat]

This week, we'll continue to present our amazing finalists for the #DigitalPreservation #Awards of 2024!

#DPC Members: cast your votes by 15 July for your favourite #digipres project on https://t.co/ucp8xPos4G

#DPA2024 #finalists #awards #celebrations #VoteNow

[clare mulley @claremulley]

Went for a walk in the woods, & found this beautiful abandoned train carriage on the remains of a branch line cut by Mr Beeching…
Beeching cut 6000 miles of rural & industrial rail lines in the 1960s, but somehow this was left behind.

[The Govan Stones 🛡👑 @GovanStones]

Would you be so kind and help the early medieval @GovanStones?

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[Carl Bovis @CarlBovisNature]

To cheer everyone up, here's a little Puffin going for a little walk. 😊😍🐦❤️

[Dr Sarah-Louise Miller 🇺🇦 @SarahLouMiller]

80 years ago, WAAF Jeanne Adams watched as the sky filled with rumbling aircraft and the smell of petrol. Jeanne had made models of the Normandy beaches to assist in briefings for the landings. "I shall never, ever, forget", she says. Neither must we.

[The Engine Shed @HESEngineShed]

Large quantities of cast iron railings in Scotland were removed for reuse during the Second World War.

But did you know that Stornoway in the Western Isles was unaffected by this practice? [1/3] 🧵

#IronworkThursday

[clare mulley @claremulley]

Congratulations to #Wren veteran #ChristianLamb, who created the detailed maps for the #Normandy landing craft crews 80 yrs ago, awarded the Légion d’honneur by President Macron today. #DDay80.

[The Living Memory Association @ThelmaScotland]

Today’s picture shows a woman standing at the entrance to a converted Tram Caravan at a #holiday park c.1965 in an unknown location. Any ideas where this might have been? #1960s #memories

[DPC Chatter @dpc_chat]

📢 New job alert!📢

#DPCjobs Vacancy for Senior Digital Archivist (Transfer Lead) at The National Archives (UK) https://t.co/7mEVcDtZVc #digipres #digitalpreservation

[DPC Chatter @dpc_chat]

It's International Archives Week! The #DPC is hosting a #IAW2024 webinar on the past, present and futures of #CyberArchives. Let's step back into 1999 and listen to @WilliamKilbride & @Sarah_DPC talk about securing our digital legacy to future generations: https://t.co/YcBELGOpdB

[DPC Chatter @dpc_chat]

📢 New job alert!📢

#DPCjobs Vacancy for Project Archivists at University of Bristol https://t.co/NxZMQ1FZRi #digipres #digitalpreservation

[clare mulley @claremulley]

These 2 women are recorded on the #NormandyMemorial. Nursing sisters #MollyEvershed & #DorothyField.
When their hospital ship struck a mine on #Juno, they brought 75 stretcher cases up & over the rail into lifeboats. Last seen going down w the ship. #DDay80
Pic @jordanacostahq

[LOCMaps @LOCMaps]

Our 12th Army Group Situation Map collection provides insight into WWII US Army operations from the June 6, 1944 Allied landings in Normandy through July 1945, reflecting the information available to Gen. Omar Bradley.

Explore the full collection here: https://t.co/Z18P7wbL91

[Paul Embery @PaulEmbery]

A picture really can speak a thousand words.

[clare mulley @claremulley]

Wonderful talking with some of the veterans at today’s #dday80 commemoration at Portsmouth.
Pic 1) This is Christian Lamb, the Wren who worked in a tiny office under the stairs in Whitehall, creating the detailed maps that would guide the landing craft to shore. 1/3