Our #EYASurprise for August was to discover we had missed July’s theme of #EYAArchitecture with a great offering after a visit from the @barnardos.org.uk Archives to view this plan of the Church in the Girl’s Village Home, Barkingside, 1892. @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social

A throwback to February 1933 to help everyone cool off: snow drifts at Fox House and at the “Surprise” Rocks between Fox House and Hathersage reached a massive 15 feet deep! An incredible Peak District winter scene. #EYASurprise #snow #1930s

Example of mail art by Hassan Musa. These small-scale works are sent through the regular mail as “free art” to surprise friends and all persons who glimpse at them along the way and afterwards #EYASurprise #https://archives.soas.ac.uk/records/MS_381333

✨New month, new theme! ✨ For August, the theme is #EYASurprise ! What surprises do you have in your collections? Make sure to tag us and use the hashtag! #ExploreYourArchive

The Explore Your Archive theme for Lúnasa | August is #EYAIontas | #EYASurprise 🎊 Get involved and remember to tag 🏷️ @araireland.bsky.social & @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social in your posts! #ExploreYourArchive #CuardaighDoChartlann

For #PhotoFriday, these are the Derby Assembly Rooms on the Market Place in the 1930s. A well-known sight until it was damaged by fire in 1963. The façade was preserved and now stands at Crich National Tramway Museum. #EYAArchitecture #Derby

A view of Mount Fuji from under Mannen Bridge by Hokusai Katsushika, c. 1830 #EYAArchitecture https://ow.ly/i0Wo50ZriBe

For #EYAArchitecture, we thought we would share this plan of the precinct of Ravenswood Village, Crowthorne which shows all the individual rooms and their uses. This plan is part of a collection of plans that are currently being catalogued. Which room do you think you would spend the most time in?

In his book ‘The Rogue Goths’ Edmund Harris presents an overview of the works of 3 distinctly different 19th century architects who caused a stir with their flamboyant designs for municipal and religious buildings. Includes St Tomas’s, Pear Tree, in Derby. Now in our #LocalStudies. #EYAArchitecture

💫 Exciting announcement 🥳 EYA Focus Week is back, taking place 21st-29th November this year! Each day has a different theme, so it’s the perfect time to showcase your collections 🔍 Time to start preparing, we can’t wait to see your posts! #ExploreYourArchive

Chinese post office at Nanning photographed early C20th by Reginald Follett Codrington Hedgeland, officer in the Chinese Maritime Customs Service. #EYAArchitecture https://ow.ly/4bb850ZriiQ

🤖 In 2017 Google’s researchers published "Attention Is All You Need", introducing the Transformer, a revolutionary AI architecture using attention mechanisms. Learn more AI history in Dr Andrew Rogoyski's interview: archivesit.org.uk/interviews/d... #EYAArchitecture @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social

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Dr Andrew Rogoyski is Innovation and Partnership Director of the AI Institute at the University of Surrey. He has experienced several winters where interest in AI has nearly evaporated but is excited…

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Our #ArchiveOfTheWeek is a 1953 plan of Ernest Bailey Grammar School—which is now Derbyshire Record Office! Former students still visit us to use our collections and share their memories of learning here. And the sycamore tree in the yard? Still going strong! 🌳 #EYAArchitecture

Nyatapol temple is one of the few traditional buildings in Bhaktapur that survived the 2015 earthquake intact. Photo by cIRcle, Uni of British Columbia Library, 2018 as part of a project to document the aftermath of the earthquake. #EYAArchitecture

A glimpse of Derbyshire in the European Architectural Heritage Year of 1975. This programme of events shows how the county’s historic buildings and landscapes were celebrated that year. Did you go to any? #EYAArchitecture #1970s

Photograph of the Augustus Bridge and Dresden cathedral, Dresden, Germany taken by tea merchant, John C Oswald in 1887. #EYAArchitecture

A birds-eye view of an example of modern architecture. This is Chesterfield Courthouse with its interesting double fan shape. Built 1963-65 in reinforced concrete, with decorative stone cladding, its timber roof is clad with copper sheeting. #PhotoFriday #EYAArchitecture #1960s

Whether it’s cottages, rectories, schools or churches; chimneys, gargoyles, roofs or gates – the 1898 book 'Architectural examples in brick, stone, wood and iron' by William Fullerton in our #LocalStudies library will show you beautiful drawings of them. #EYAArchitecture.

Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Hong Kong. Photograph taken by Herny Rue c. 1910-1913 #EYAArchitecture #https://digital.soas.ac.uk/Documents/Detail/r.c.-cathedral-hong-kong/204650

For #EYAArchitecture, we’re sharing some images of the building of Cardiff University’s ASSL (Arts and Social Sciences Library). Designed by Harry Faulkner-Brown in the Brutalist style, it cost a cool £1.1 million (around £12m today) and won an award for its innovative use of concrete!

💫 New blog for the July theme #EYAArchitecture ! This blog is from the Worcestershire Archives and Archaeology Services 🔍 ⬇️ Follow the link to discover more about New Towns, churches, public buildings or stories of the architects themselves! 👀 www.exploreyourarchive.org/wonderful-wo...

Wonderful Worcestershire Architecture — Explore Your Archive

#EYAarchitecture, so we thought that it was a great time to focus on some of Worcestershire Archives' marvellous collections

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In 2013 Mandy Chessell at IBM created the Data Reservoir Architecture, later the Data Lake Architecture, showing how to manage 'big data' with governance. More about her ground breaking work with Egeria in this oral history youtu.be/1d-fTVsydDM?... #EYAArchitecture @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social

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Mandy Chessell's Second Interview with Richard Sharpe for Archives of IT

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The dome of the Royal Devonshire Hospital in Buxton was built in 1880 by architect Robert Rippon Duke. Measuring over 150 feet in diameter, it was then the largest unsupported dome of its type in the world and remains the largest in Europe. #PhotoFriday #EYAArchitecture

This month we are celebrating #EYAArchitecture and what a great way to highlight all the fascinating plans we hold in our Archive collection. It wouldn't be a Kew plan without a 'Pine and Strawberry House' or a 'Fruit Room'. #EYA @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social #KewLA

💫 Check out this new #EYAArchitecture blog from the National Fairground and Circus Archive at @uoscollections.bsky.social ! 🎪 Read to discover the evolution of fairground architecture through their fascinating collections 🎡🎪 exploreyourarchive.org/the-evolutio... #ExploreYourArchive

The Evolution of Fairground Architecture — Explore Your Archive

From the National Fairground and Circus Archive take us on a rollercoaster ride through the evolution of fairground architecture.

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This months #ExploreYourArchive theme is #EYAArchitecture. The RCN Archive has a rich collection of postcards documenting hospital architecture. We've picked out this charming illustrated scene of Guy's Hospital from 1920. 🏛️ Explore the digital archive: https://bit.ly/3pePUx7 #HistNursing BM/17/53

#EYAArchitecture The archives of St David’s University College have this wonderful architect’s model of the new library extension which opened in 1984. I love that they included shrubbery, people and model cars! #UWTSDlib #SpecialCollections

Plans by W. Deans Cowan showing front view and pulpit of church at Ambalavao, pulpit of church at Antranobrika, pulpit of church at Ivohidahy. A note on reverse of plan reads "The roofs are at present thatch, but we hope to have tiles. The walls are brick." #EYAArchitecture

Come to see our exhibition on the history of the Colleges, an integral part of Lancaster since we open in 1964. Using items from our University Archives alongside items on loan from the Colleges, the display takes you through how our campus has developed. #universitylife #EYAArchitecture #lancaster

We're looking at Architecture then and now and these are images of Senate House on our Stag Hill campus from the 1970s, and today. #EYAArchitecture