City&Shire Archives

Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire Archives is the gateway to the written history of the North East of Scotland, with records dating from c.1179.

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Our FREE exhibition 'Gunpowder Tattoos and Transportation: Aberdeen's Inked Convicts' is NOW OPEN at the Music Hall until 25th Feb 📷

Tickets for the talk are here: https://t.co/9VhkCSPkA4

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📷 Tickets are now on sale for our Granite Noir talk on 'Gunpowder, Tattoos and Transportation: Aberdeen's Inked Convicts' at the Cowdray Hall, Sun 25th Feb: https://t.co/CyJnHpBYQ3
Our exhibition of the same name will be at the Music Hall, running from 20th-25th Feb.

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Tickets are now on sale for our Granite Noir talk on 'Gunpowder, Tattoos and Transportation: Aberdeen's Inked Convicts' at the Cowdray Hall, Sun 25th Feb: https://t.co/CyJnHpBYQ3
The talk complements our exhibition of the same name in the Music Hall which opens 20th-25th Feb.

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Closure also applies to Fri 20th Oct ❗️☔️

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☔️❗️WEATHER UPDATE:❗️☔️ Please note that due to the severity of storm Babet we have taken the precaution of closing the Town House this afternoon. Please direct enquiries to our team inbox at [email protected].

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☔️❗️WEATHER UPDATE:❗️☔️ Please note that due to the severity of storm Babet we have taken the precaution of closing the Town House this afternoon. Please direct enquiries to our team inbox at [email protected].

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Our Old Aberdeen House search room ready for researchers this morning 😍We are pretty much full here today🥳

#Archives #ExploreYourArchives #ArchiveResearch #HarbourRecords #AberdeenHarbourBoard #Aberdeenshire #AberdeenCity

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Our Archives team thoroughly enjoyed welcoming visitors to our Old Aberdeen House site for Doors Open Day on Saturday! Thank you to everyone who came and we hope you enjoyed seeing behind the scenes and some of our collections! 😍

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Last chance to book onto our tours for Aberdeen's Doors Open Day 2023! We're looking forward to welcoming everyone to our Old Aberdeen House Archives site for tours tomorrow, Saturday 2nd September. Have you booked? https://t.co/YjLMThvblb

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Are you interested in adventuring behind the scenes of an Archive?

We're opening up our Old Aberdeen House Archives on Sat 2 Sept 2023 for Aberdeen Doors Open Day! Book here:
https://t.co/YjLMThvblb.

(Old Aberdeen House is located on Dunbar Street, Old Aberdeen AB24 3UJ).

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Our Archives annual report has been published and is available on our website here:

https://t.co/gBbKjHrsfJ

Find out what our team has achieved in the last year, including improving our collections' information through cataloguing, outreach and volunteer initiatives 🥳

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A free family day of creative & media-based activities that celebrate the past, present, & future of Woodside! Come & join us https://t.co/Ihk9dmchmK
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Check out our latest blog post about two albums of postcards and photographs of the Cruden Bay area (reference DD3325), written by our volunteer Olivia!

https://t.co/m1S2vwzqQ3

😍

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Check out our blog post on a recently catalogued business collection we hold - the records of Richard Irvin & Sons, trawler owners and fish sellers (DD2865)

📚https://t.co/8NKJQTPJ9A

#Archives #ExploreYourArchive #FishingArchives #BusinessArchives

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🧵👇 As we approach the 75th Anniversary of the #NHS, NHS Grampian will be taking a nostalgic look back through its archives to acknowledge our proud history whilst recognising how healthcare has transformed over the decades... #NHSScot75

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#MonthlyMystery Not seasonal but helping to cool us down from the hot weather! This man cuts a cold and solitary figure in the snow in an unknown location. We're unsure of the date but are the buildings still recognisable? If you know where this is, we'd love to hear from you.

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A commemorative plaque to Dr Laura Sandeman (1862-1929), GP and social welfare pioneer, has been unveiled at 22 Waverley Place in Aberdeen, the location of Dr Sandeman’s former home and GP practice.

📰 click to read the full press release https://t.co/ihkwYDy9f6

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[Images show just a small selection of archive formats within our collections!]
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Happy International Archives Day from our Aberdeen City & Aberdeenshire Archives team 📷📷📷
9 June commemorates the day the International Council on Archives was set up in 1948.

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Our webpage has additional information on some of our collections and some fantastic indexes and transcriptions as well: https://t.co/O2fo8MUVEi...