Archives are full of love stories. So let´s share them for Valentine’s Day!
We can find romantic stuff about deep and eternal feelings. Some may involve famous people and some convey the emotions of the everyday man or woman, others could be documents about love, that has gone bad. And the documents probably comes from all parts of society, high and low alike.
When we examine the collections, some of the greatest stories of love may not even involve a man and a woman. “Love” could also be the love of ones children, parents, God, siblings – or the love of a cause, that brings passion and great emontions into the life of an individual.
We believe, that YOUR archive has a lot of amazing stories about one of the most amazing human feelings in its collections. And we encourage you to share them on February 14th.
Put some of your documents of love on Flickr or Picasa, make a video for YouTube, create an album on Facebook… use any platform you like, just tweet about it, using the hashtag #loveheritage.
We hope you will play along – for the love of archives – and invite our colleagues in museums and libraries to join as well. We bet, that they have collections full of love as well!
If you´re joining us and want to share a romatic find or loving item from your collection please use the comment box to write the name and country of your institution, as well as your Twitterhandle:
The Netherlands, Zeeuws Archief, Middelburg, @zeeuwsarchief
The Netherlands, Noord-Hollands Archief, Haarlem, @nharchief
Germany, City of Speyer Archives/Stadtarchiv Speyer, @Speyer_Archiv
UK, Wolverhampton Archives and Local Studies, @wolvesarchives
Denmark, Aalborg City Archives / Aalborg Stadsarkiv, @aalb_stadsarkiv
North Carolina State Archives, United States / Ashley Yandle, @webarchivist
Germany, Linz am Rhein City Archives / Stadtarchiv Linz am Rhein, @Archiv_LinzRh
We wll be taking part! It sounds like a great inititive!
Thanks!
@karentoittoit for
SABC Radio Archives in South Africa:
@SABCRadioArc
UK, Norfolk Record Office and Norfolk Heritage Centre, @NorfolkRO
Ireland, National Library of Ireland, @NLIreland
UK, The National Archives, @UkNatArchives
UK, University of Exeter Heritage Collections, @UoEHeritageColl
Danish State Archives @StatensArkiver – looking forward to Valentines Day 2012 – and to share love from the archives!
We will do our best! Might be tough in a government archive but we love a challenge!
@PRO_Vic
@LMBourke
@TManallack
Got a few love letters that we’ll be sharing on Flickr
Tyne & Wear Archives, north east England, UK @TWArchives
We’ll be sharing love – Riksarkivet, Landsarkivet i Göteborg @ra_arkivgatan9
We’re happy to take part in this timely initiative,
UK Society of Genealogists archives contains some beautiful touching love letters from one of our founders to his wife. Beautiful insight into a loving Edwardian marriage and the work of a record agent in archives abt 1890. Couple separated by his travels about country from archive to archive
Else Churchill
Genealogist
Society of Genealogists
We love to share love
The Netherlands, Brabants Historisch Informatie Centrum, Den Bosch @bhicarchief
UK. John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
@jjcollephemera
The Swedish National Heritage Board is in, @raa_se
Cheers.
Spreading the love…Strathclyde University Archives, Glasgow, Scotland @StrathArchives
Svenskt visarkiv (from Sweden) will be taking part! @Visarkivet
West Yorkshire Archive Service will be taking part @wyorksarchives
We will be taking part on @postalheritage
@ArkivKronoberg (Kronobergs läns arkivförbund) – hoping to find love in archives i Kronoberg county, Sweden!
Glamorgan Archives will be there! @GlamArchives
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@hsubib Helmut-Schmidt-University / University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg – University Library
Deseronto Archives (@DeserontoArch) will be sharing a couple of things!
What a nice idea. W’re in! Our organisation is called Erfgoedcentrum DiEP. W’re from Dordrecht, the Netherlands. Our Twittername is @erfgoeddiep
Count us in! CODA (museum + archives+public library) in Apeldoorn, The Netherlands.
@CODAapeldoorn
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learnaboutarchives.ie hopes to share some grá on Tuesday. Twittername – @archivesireland
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We’re in! Openbare Bibliotheek Amsterdam (OBA), @obamsterdam from Amsterdam – The Netherlands,
We’ll be there! Indiana University Archives – @iubarchives
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NIOD it’s in too! Wish you all a lovely Valentine’s Day
NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies
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NIOD is in too! Wish you all a lovely Valentine’s Day
NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
@NIODamsterdam
Great idea!
British Universities Film & Video Council @bufvc
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We are participating too! World Bank @WorldBank
What a great idea! US National Archives @archivesnews
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