Archivist at RAF Museum Archive & Library. All views my own
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2 Oct 2021
A former colleague shared this photograph of me from six years ago when I was working at Montrose Air Station Heritage Centre. Clearly I love posing with museum dummies!
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6 Sep 2024
I have had my five minutes of fame on Women on the Frontline. Bear in my mind I am beginner to this. It was a lot of fun filming and showing off some archival material, even if didn’t all appear in the final edit.
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6 Sep 2024
Trying to channel my inner @SpitfireFilly of course 😊. The fact mum liked it, is good enough for me.
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6 Sep 2024
Had a great time at the #RAFMConference 2024! Well done to all of the speakers and to @MeganEKelleher for organising. Had a go at chairing a panel for the first time, and it was great to see colleagues present their research. Thank you all! 😊
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Lucia Wallbank retweeted
12 Aug 2024
The @IntBCC newsletter is out. Scroll to the bottom to read the bit from the Digital Archive team folks! us15.campaign-archive.com/?u…
@stevedarlow @LydiaJane13 @LuciaConstance @BrazierMary @SpinandSparkle @HeatherHughes14 @knchimbiri @RASmithPSL @SarahLouMiller
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12 May 2024
Thoroughly enjoyed attending the ‘Writing the Air War’ conference this weekend with my colleague. Thank you to IBCC for the welcome. Met many lovely people who shared fascinating research, and of course I took lots of notes.
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10 May 2024
The Society is thrilled to launch the latest in our Occasional Series - A Jamaican in Lincolnshire: From the Wartime RAF to a Life in Boston by Ralph Ottey - @IntBCC Writing the Air War conference. Here's Ralph with editor, Prof Heather Hughes. Buy here: boydellandbrewer.com/9781910….
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23 Mar 2024
Neil Flanigan MBE, has passed away, at 99 years old. We interviewed him in 2019 for our film.
Neil was the 39th person from Jamaica to volunteer for the RAF. He trained as ground crew & worked on aircraft taking part in Operation Market-Garden. He'll be much missed. RIP Neil.
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23 Mar 2024
I have been on a relaxing break and it was also great to meet a Twitter person, @morningwatson in real life 🙂
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23 Mar 2024
Selective mutism is a condition which affects one in 140 children in the UK.
It’s great to see awareness-raising articles like this as I once had selective mutism. In my two decades of youth volunteering, I have only come across one child with it.
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15 Mar 2024
Today we have an archival mystery photograph for you (Ref: Acc 5179). Sadly, we don't know who and where this female pilot is. We think that the flight gear dates to the early 1910s/1920s. Anyone have any ideas as to who she might be?
#FemalePilots #WomensHistoryMonth #Aviation
ALT Black and white photograph of a woman in a leather flying suit stood next to the nose of an aircraft with half an RAF roundel showing.
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9 Mar 2024
I missed the posts for #InternationalWomensDay but of course I salute the historians I follow (too many to name) and wonderful colleagues who inspire me, not all are on Twitter, but include @MeganEKelleher.
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Lucia Wallbank retweeted
5 Mar 2024
In 1807, the ship Anne Marie was captured by the British Navy while sailing from the Faroe Islands to Denmark. Five packages and two hundred letters were confiscated from the ship and survived, still sealed, in the Prize Papers. What’s inside? Read below to find out. /1
ALT Two still-sealed packages (but you can see a glimpse of red coloured wool in one corner), black background. Credits: Prize Papers Project, National Archives, ref. HCA 32/952, Images reproduced by permission of The National Archives, UK, Photographer: Maria Cardamone.
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27 Feb 2024
Great to get a little insight into why aviation records have ended up in particular places. Availability of records is not always what the public hope or expect. For example, few passenger lists were retained and personnel records if they survive mainly document pilots.
27 Feb 2024
Adrian Constable’s talk about British Airways archive has been really interesting. He discussed what they have and what they don’t and things that many archivists can relate to in keeping archives and running a museum. #AeroArchives24
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27 Feb 2024
Really interesting to learn about the process of surveying archives of UK airline operators. The team have been studying online catalogues, receiving submissions, and following up with physical visits. Great work improving public understanding of these dispersed collections.
27 Feb 2024
@LucyArchivist wrapping up by discussing the guide to be launched very soon for Uk airline operator archives. Bravo to her for all the work she has clearly put into this guide to help make airline records more accessible. #AeroArchives24
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27 Feb 2024
I really enjoyed Dr Smith's talk on how BOAC presented itself to the nation through its advertising and the political context, particularly during decolonisation. I imagine he trawled through quite a few brochures during his research!
27 Feb 2024
@LewisChSmith wrapping up a really interesting presentation on the impact of BOAC making great points I hadn’t known much about, looking forward to his article on the topic #AeroArchives24
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27 Feb 2024
I really enjoyed Alice Millard’s presentation which mentioned the approach taken to cataloguing the Freddie Laker archive. More about the collection here: blog.archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/…
27 Feb 2024
@WestSussexRO Alice Millard’s presentation on Freddie Laker’s Archive giving an interesting behind the scenes look at acquisition, appraisal, and cataloging of the collection. #AeroArchives24
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Lucia Wallbank retweeted
27 Feb 2024
Spiffing day at #AeroArchives24 learning about BOAC, the Laker archive, airline #advertising, small British #airlines in the 1930s, and the BA archive. Good also to catch up with a number of friends and colleagues.
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27 Feb 2024
Excellent keynote at #AeroArchives24 from Allan Winn, Chairman of Aviation Heritage UK. He discussed the challenges of preserving aviation records, sharing his experiences with Brooklands and Flight Intl.
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27 Feb 2024
A display at the British Airways Speedbird Centre featuring stewards commended for their bravery. 22 year old Barbara Jane Harrison received a posthumous George Cross for evacuating passengers from a burning aircraft in 1968. 1/2 #AeroArchives24
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27 Feb 2024
Stewards Arthur Bradbury and Joanna Toff survived the 1985 Manchester Airport Disaster; each awarded the Queen’s Gallantry Medal for ‘outstanding courage and devotion to study’. Two other attendants, Sharon Ford and Jacqui received the same award posthumously. 2/2 #AeroArchives24
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