The Religious Archive Group is a voluntary organization supporting the archives of all faith communities in the UK, including those of secularist organizations.
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Our annual conference this year is on the theme of digitisation in archives of religion and belief. It's at The London Archives @TheLdnArchives
on 2 October, booking details below:
#RAG2025
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We now have the programme finalised for our conference in October.
Join us @TheLdnArchives to hear about #archives and #digitisation from:
@ExploreWellcome
@FreethinkerMag
@UoYBorthwick
National Institute for Newman Studies
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Our annual conference this year is on the theme of digitisation in archives of religion and belief. It's at The London Archives @TheLdnArchives
on 2 October, booking details below:
#RAG2025
ticketlab.app/event/31944-Re…
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Booking now open for the Annual Conference of the Cathedrals Archives, Libraries and Collections Association (CALCA) of UK and Ireland 17th June to 19th June 2025
More details here: stdavidscathedral.org.uk/dis…
@StDavCathLib
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Happy International Women’s Day! For #IWD, why not pay a visit to the digital version of last summer’s ‘Her Booke’: Early Modern Women and their Books, celebrating the role of women in England’s devotional, intellectual & bibliographical cultures. lambethpalacelibrary.info/ex…
ALT Detail of the exhibition poster showing Elizabeth I kneeling at prayer with a prayerbook open before her.
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For our latest exhibition 'Unfolding Time: The Medieval Pocket Calendar', we borrowed seven items, including five concertina-fold almanacs from @britishlibrary. To learn more, check out Calum Cockburn's blog for @BLMedieval. blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscr…… pic.x.com/jAoEC1Ct87
ALT An opening from a concertina-fold almanac, showing a perpetual calendar. British Library Add MS 17367
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Our exhibition is currently closed whilst we install the new Treasures Gallery, opening on Saturday 5 April 2025. The centrepiece will be this magnificent item - the Bar Convent Arma Christi. Keep following us as we start to unfurl the secrets of the scroll! #York #ArmaChristi
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It's such good news we're going to say it again! We now have limited FREE student day places at the ABTAPL Conference in Belfast on 11 April. Select Friday Day option and use your University email address to book. abtapl.org.uk/spring-confere… @conulireland @NLIreland @CILIPIreland
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🎓 Fully Funded PhD Opportunities 🎓
We're looking for 3 PhD candidates to come on board at IMEMS to work on our flagship research programme, Inventing Futures.
🖌️Framing Gendered Violence
🌎 Utopia in the World
⛪️Wars of Religion
Find out more here: tinyurl.com/4w9ssbxe
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On Thursday 6 March 2025 Archivist Rebecca will be presenting an online seminar to the Historia Domus network at
10:00 GMT LONDON ● 15:30 IST GOA ● 19:00 JST TOKYO
Please register at historiadomus.net/seminars if you would like to attend.
#AskTheArchivist #BehindTheScenes
ALT Poster advertising the seminar showing a black and white photograph of men in clerical collar looking jolly and having a picnic. Details for event and registration are provided below it including a QR code for registration.
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CONFERENCE: Travellers in Ottoman Lands, places forgotten, places remembered | MEMOs #twitterstorians #earlymoderntwitter #earlymodernevents #medievaltwitter #medievalevents memorients.com/events/cfp-tr…
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Call for applications: Rothschild Foundation Hanadiv Europe's 2025 EUROPEAN JEWISH HERITAGE & JEWISH COMMUNAL LIFE grants jewish-heritage-europe.eu/20… #jewishheritage #calls #grants
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Exciting news! We’re thrilled to announce a generous £53,418 grant from The National Lottery Heritage Fund for our ‘Unfolding Time’ exhibition, which will showcase a rare and remarkable group of medieval folding calendars. A huge thanks to #NationalLottery
players #HeritageFund
ALT Flyer for the 'Unfolding Time: The medieval pocket calendar' exhibition at Lambeth Palace Library, showing one of the medieval calendars partially opened.
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Job vacancy: Jewish Collections Project Cataloguer in @UCLSpecColl. Full-time role but job-share applications considered. Fixed-term post until 1 March 2028. Closing date 24 January 2025 tinyurl.com/48m2mckj
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Reminder about this PhD opportunity with the British Jesuit Archive & the Institute of English Studies.
The project aims to reconstruct and recontextualize the Jesuit Antiquarian Book Collection at 114 Mount Street, London, highlighting its historical & cultural significance
Fully funded PhD opportunity!!
An opportunity to research our rare books, in partnership with the Institute of English studies, supervised by @michaelwdurrant @laurajcleaver and @LucyVinten
Apply 31 Jan 2025
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CFP for April 'Religion on the Ethnic Frontier' workshop now available! See below...
Full cfp for 'Religion on the Ethnic Frontier' @historyatgalway @CentreReligion with deadline of 31 Jan. for workshop on 28-29 April 2025
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With all the Christmas excitements, you may have missed the new podcast from our Director. Steven looks back over 150 years of Salvation Army history in Wales.
salvationist.org.uk/media/al…
🎧Listen to our Director on the latest
@salvationarmyuk 'All Terrain Podcast' rounding off the 150th anniversary year of The Salvation in Wales. #DymaGariad #Wales150. Steven takes a journey through the Welsh valleys and more than 150 years of history.
salvationist.org.uk/media/al…
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We have an exciting opportunity for someone to join our team
Curator of Illuminated Manuscripts
Does this sound like you? Please read the advert 👇 and apply, or tell your friends/spread the word 👍
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Closing date 9 Feb, interviews 25 Feb
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from the identification of responsibility for anonymous publications to demonstrating customer expectations. youtube.com/watch?v=KsvdIUsY…
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❗️CALL FOR PAPERS❗️
We are seeking abstracts on topics relating to early modern scandal and corruption!
Please consider submitting to present at our conference, 'Corruption and Scandal in the Early Modern World, 1500-1800', at @ihr_history on 5th and 6th June 2025!
ALT Call for Papers for the conference, 'Corruption and Scandal in the Early Modern World, 1500-1800', which will take place on 5th-6th June 2025 at the Institute of Historical Research, London. Open to scholars at any stage of education or career who work on topics relating to corruption and scandal, including in relation to religion, politics, the body, economics or legal and institutional studies. Please send abstracts of around 250 words, plus a brief bio, to [email protected] by 10th March 2025.