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Brunel University Special Collections

@BrunelSpecColl

This account is no longer monitored, please come on over to @BruUniArch_SC #railwayhistory #workingclass #autobiographies

 London, UK
brunel.ac.uk/special-collections
Joined December 2012
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📢New* Archives Exhibition! Come and see the history of Brunel and its ancestors back to 1804. Library ground floor (straight ahead after you swipe in). (* there may have been a tiny bit of recycling** involved...) (**we just moved the entire archive, people). @Bruneluni
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Colour photo of display case full of items such as photos, newspapers etc from Brunel's archives.

ALT Colour photo of display case full of items such as photos, newspapers etc from Brunel's archives.

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#movingthearchives Lorry booked - check. Bubble wrapped all artefacts - check. Parking spaces booked out the back - check. Thought of everything. Everything is under control. Oh. @BrunelSpecColl @Bruneluni @brunelalumni #Archives
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Congratulations to our Records and Archives assistant Sarah @trimSarah , who today virtually graduated from the PGDip in Archives and Records Management from the University of Dundee. @Bruneluni @BrunelSpecColl @Brunel_Library cont -
Colour photo of Sarah in a graduation gown, next to three mannequins

ALT Colour photo of Sarah in a graduation gown, next to three mannequins

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As we are in the middle of moving the archives, @TrimSarah very kindly worked through her virtual graduation ceremony, but we did manage a 5min break for a photoshoot in a graduation gown, with her besties 😎 @Bruneluni @Brunel_Library @BrunelSpecColl
Colour photo of Sarah in a graduation gown next to three mannequins

ALT Colour photo of Sarah in a graduation gown next to three mannequins

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📢 We're sorry to announce that the Archives are being moved out of our building by the end of Aug 2021. Our Reading Room remains closed. Our remote research service will cease on 7/7/21, until Oct 2021. We are really sorry for the short notice - it was a shock for us too.
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Brunel University Special Collections retweeted
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Writing Lives@Writing__Lives17 May 2021
Entry on Lucy Luck in the Bibliography of Working Class Autobiography edited by Burnett, Vincent and Mayall. The copy of her memoir is held by @BrunelSpecColl writinglives.org/biographica…
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Writing Lives@Writing__Lives20 May 2021
Frank William Bealey, Prof of Politics at LSE asked his secretary to type out his mother Nora's memoir! Those were the days 😜 @BrunelSpecColl @emilymcuming @DrLauraKing @EmmaGriffinHist @JBHist @JuliaLaite @JMUEnglish
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Helen Rogers@Conviction19c12 Apr 2021
Poor Law Institutions through Working-Class Eyes: Autobiography, Emotion, and Family Context, 1834–1914 | Journal of British Studies I read this article by ⁦@AlannahTomkins⁩ last week. It’s a great read ⁦@BrunelSpecColl⁩ #twitterstorians cambridge.org/core/journals/…
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Brunel University Archives & Special Collections@BruUniArch_SC7 Apr 2021
#ArchiveFoodAndDrink #Archive30 Food and drink is a big part of enjoying being together - and alumni reunions are no different. Here's the 1908 Borough Road College year group meeting up in the late 1940s [1948?], and the 1954 BRC year group meeting up in 2004. @brunelalumni
Black and white photo showing long tables of men, all alumni of Borough Road College, circa late 1940s - about 40 years after they graduated.

ALT Black and white photo showing long tables of men, all alumni of Borough Road College, circa late 1940s - about 40 years after they graduated.

Colour photo of alumni of Borough Road College in 2004, 60 years after they graduated. In a function room with long tables and cups of tea.

ALT Colour photo of alumni of Borough Road College in 2004, 60 years after they graduated. In a function room with long tables and cups of tea.

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Oops, didn't realise it was cropped so severely! Here's the full version, with the text for learning to read.
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This is one of a set of reading cards dating to 1925, recently discovered in the Saffron Walden [Teacher Training] College Archives here at Brunel. Not yet catalogued or properly digitised - but as soon as I'm back in the Archives I'm on it!
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Today's tweet is for @ProfWLeahy who has been doing a fantastic job keeping up morale amongst the Brunel community. Thank you Bill, we really appreciate it 😊. Sorry it's not "monkey tennis", but best I could do! #fromthearchives @Bruneluni
Photo of reading aid card showing two chimpanzees drinking tea at a table. From Saffron Walden College Archives, 1925

ALT Photo of reading aid card showing two chimpanzees drinking tea at a table. From Saffron Walden College Archives, 1925

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#ThrowbackThursday #FromTheArchives Two different student common rooms today. Brunel Uni's in the 1970s, and #Saffron Walden College's c.1919. Were the 1970s really that brown? @Bruneluni @brunelalumni @BrunelSpecColl @brunelstudents
Colour photo of the interior of the common room, Brunel University, Uxbridge, 1970s. Lots of browns, greens and beige.

ALT Colour photo of the interior of the common room, Brunel University, Uxbridge, 1970s. Lots of browns, greens and beige.

Black and white photo of the student common room, Saffron Walden College c. 1919. Pictures, ornaments, straight-backed chairs, aspidestra plant. Very refined.

ALT Black and white photo of the student common room, Saffron Walden College c. 1919. Pictures, ornaments, straight-backed chairs, aspidestra plant. Very refined.

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#throwbackthursday #fromthearchives #OTD 18th March 1971. The student newspaper ISAM announced the retirement of its editorial team - presumably all final year students. And also the start of Brunel Radio. @brunelradio @brunelalumni @Bruneluni @thebruneltimes
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It's #ThrowbackThursday & today we are looking back at something which happened actually in the Archives two years ago today, now know as Day of the Arm... Long term followers have seen this image before #sorrynotsorry @BrunelSpecColl @Bruneluni @brunelalumni @explorearchives
A plastic false arm in a Records Management box, 2019.

ALT A plastic false arm in a Records Management box, 2019.

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Strong room days are GOOD days! Even if I do seem to have lost my ninja ability to go straight to the correct bay without looking at the location list. Hopefully it will return! @BrunelSpecColl @Bruneluni @brunelalumni @BFSSCharity @PolHistBrunel @explorearchives
Archivist in Strong Room wearing face mask

ALT Archivist in Strong Room wearing face mask

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#Writinglives@olivialjmu8 Mar 2021
"I liked Miss Eccles and like you see, she did give better lessons because like she was better educated and that"- ‘Mrs Yates: Before My Time’ Burnett Archive of Working Class Autobiographies, University of Brunel Library, Special Collection. @Writing__Lives #IWD2021
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Brunel University Archives & Special Collections@BruUniArch_SC8 Mar 2021
We've been working for years now to address the imbalance we inherited. In our catalogue and on our website you will find MANY stories of female students and staff from Brunel and its predecessor colleges. We'd love you to take a look today #IWD2021 brunel.ac.uk/about/Archives
Extract from commonplace book of Sarah Barber, student 1877 "Woman was made...to be equal with him".

ALT Extract from commonplace book of Sarah Barber, student 1877 "Woman was made...to be equal with him".

Brunel physio student during Covid crisis, 2020.

ALT Brunel physio student during Covid crisis, 2020.

Students in boats on lake, college trip to Lake District 1913

ALT Students in boats on lake, college trip to Lake District 1913

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Brunel University Archives & Special Collections@BruUniArch_SC8 Mar 2021
#IWD International Women’s Day is a time to reflect and celebrate the achievements of women and challenge for change. Until the early 21st C, you would have been excused for thinking that women didn't exist in our history or our Archives ... Well they do! cont ➡️
Maria Grey College students 1905 - 1907

ALT Maria Grey College students 1905 - 1907

Students cycling, 1905.

ALT Students cycling, 1905.

Brunel students wearing the first UK uni official kit sports hijabs.

ALT Brunel students wearing the first UK uni official kit sports hijabs.

Brunel archivists, Dr Inge Dornan and Prof David Olusoga at Brunel Archives exhibition 2019

ALT Brunel archivists, Dr Inge Dornan and Prof David Olusoga at Brunel Archives exhibition 2019

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Brunel English@EnglishatBrunel10 Feb 2021
Timely retweet by @BritishAcademy_ of Brunel English's Nick Hubble's blog even as the session on @BrunelSpecColl and @MassObsArchive in EN5603 Literary Decade: The 1930s was taking place for students on the #MAEnglishLiterature.
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"Ordinary Mass Observers were able to become the authors of their own lives in a way that hadn’t been open to them before." – Dr Nick Hubble (@Contempislesfic) on the @MassObsArchive: thebritishacademy.ac.uk/blog…
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