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Bath Record Office @bathnesBRO

The Bath Record Office provides the Archives & Local Studies Service for Bath & North East Somerset. Historic documents from the 14th century to the present day

Joined June 2017
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It’s that time of year again when @EnglishBSU come to visit to see our goodies - sorry, special collections books. From Schedel to Kelmscott they get to see quite a range of material @BathSpaUni
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Are you at the @bathkidslitfest in the Guildhall? Why not stop off in the main hall (on the way to the toilet!) and check out the Children’s book display from the #RemarkableBooks exhibition in June. Let us know your favourite item… @bathnes @RomanBathsBath @VictoriaArtBath
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Sitting waiting for the staff awards to start… we have a nominee up for an award (for a change!) @bathnes #Awards
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It’s box delivery day - it must be raining 🌧️ It’s one our weird #traditions and it always seems to come true! #archives #boxes
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#RemarkableBooks is still keeping us busy as we set up a shortened online version of the exhibition- which needs a whole new set of photos! Do you recognise any of these from the cases on display? #rarebooks #bookbinding
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The Big Book has been dismantled, the movers have taken the cases back home and the books are safely back on their shelves. I enjoyed #RemarkableBooks though it’s a shame it was such a short experiment.
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Sadly it’s all now gone 😢 - our #RemarkableBooks exhibition is over. Thanks to all the staff and #volunteers who made it such a success. Ih, and the hundreds of visitors who dropped by to admire our books 🤩
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Come and find the #bugs in the #RemarkableBooks exhibition. There’s some gorgeous books as well! Bath Guildhall until 4pm today - then it’s all over…
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And we’re off for our second (and last) day of the exhibition. It’s FREE!!! Come and see #RemarkableBooks before it’s all gone (and find our bugs…)
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So far so good - it’s been a busy first hour at #RemarkableBooks - hopefully more to come!
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Can’t wait to switch on the lights and get #RemarkableBooks underway…
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My feet are aching, I just want to go to sleep and I’m blootered, but we got it all set up… #RemarkableBooks is on from 10am to 4pm Friday 27 & Sat 28 in the Guildhall. @pbfaorg @BathBookFair @bathnes #Archives @ARA #RareBooks
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The #RemarkableBooks exhibition installation is going well… thanks to @BathPresTrust for lending this case
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I think this is the first time we’ve ever had a banner on the railings. #RemarkableBooks will be worth it. See you soon…
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Busy day preparing for #RemarkableBooks on Friday - printing labels, cases arriving and building cubes. Nearly there!
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Because we’re all working so hard for the #RemarkableBooks exhibition, the office will be CLOSED for the next two weeks (Mon 23 June-Mon 7 July) We will be taking bookings for appointments Tuesday 8 July onwards. We will keep an eye on the email and the phone though. ☎️

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Thank you to @Samanthahharvey for presenting us with a copy of her Booker Prize-winning novel ‘Orbital’ for our collections. The copy will be on display as part of our selection of Women Authors celebrating female writers in with Bath. Including Jane Austen. #RemarkableBooks
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Have your heard? Our #RemarkableBooks exhibition is next weekend 27/28 June. Just two days to see some of our hidden treasures #RareBooks #Incunabula #Books #Archives #Exhibition
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12 Feb 2025
Family History Day!🌱 Join experts from @bathnesBRO and Bristol & Avon Family History Society to help you get started with researching your family history. You can also use Ancestry on the library computers. Saturday 8 March, 10.00am - 3.00pm #BNESLibraries #FamilyHistory
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Another #randomphoto from my collection. An inlaid leather binding with vellucent inset of goldfish in this Chivers #bookbinding for Sir Hector Duff who loved beautiful bindings and #heraldry
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