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Screen Daily: British Screen Forum awarded £200,000 to address data gaps in UK film industry . “The second pilot will develop a new database which captures the commercial performance of films. It will explore how to gather and analyse the lifetime commercial performance of films while respecting the commercial sensitivity of the features. This will include grouping films together into […]

The Guardian: ‘We’ve scratched the surface’: mission to digitise UK public art reaches 1m entries. “…the UK’s public art collection is a wonderful and varied thing.It is huge, as demonstrated by the charity Art UK, which has announced it has reached a million artworks on its database and appointed a new chair who said: ‘We’ve only scratched the surface.'”

British Library: The British Newspaper Archive reaches 100 million pages. “This week the British Newspaper Archive hits the milestone of 100 million digitised pages. We in the British Library news team are celebrating this achievement and our long partnership with Find My Past by picking a few highlights from the BNA.”

British Library: The UK Web Archive: continuing our work behind the scenes. “Despite recent challenges, the UK Web Archive team remains dedicated to safeguarding the nation’s online heritage. We are hoping to restore the UK Web Archive towards the middle of 2026.”

British Library: The UK Web Archive: continuing our work behind the scenes. “Despite recent challenges, the UK Web Archive team remains dedicated to safeguarding the nation’s online heritage. We are hoping to restore the UK Web Archive towards the middle of 2026.”

British Library: The UK Web Archive: continuing our work behind the scenes. “Despite recent challenges, the UK Web Archive team remains dedicated to safeguarding the nation’s online heritage. We are hoping to restore the UK Web Archive towards the middle of 2026.”

British Library: The UK Web Archive: continuing our work behind the scenes. “Despite recent challenges, the UK Web Archive team remains dedicated to safeguarding the nation’s online heritage. We are hoping to restore the UK Web Archive towards the middle of 2026.”

British Library: The UK Web Archive: continuing our work behind the scenes. “Despite recent challenges, the UK Web Archive team remains dedicated to safeguarding the nation’s online heritage. We are hoping to restore the UK Web Archive towards the middle of 2026.”

Arts Professional (UK): Cultural treasures worth more than £59m enter public collections. “This year saw museums and archives up and down the country receive cultural gifts given up in exchange for tax relief, with objects spanning an ‘impressive range’, said Arts Council chair Sir Nicholas Serota.”

BBC: Carlisle United heritage archive to go digital. “Exhibition pieces celebrating the 120-year history of Carlisle United will be digitised to ‘better share them with fans’. The Backing the Blues heritage project won a national Sporting Heritage Award earlier this month for its exhibitions, workshops and activities.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/04/bbc-carlisle-united-heritage-archive-to-go-digital/

British Library: 75 Years of the BNB (and bewitching Narnia books). “In 2025 the British National Bibliography (BNB) marks its 75th anniversary, and following a period of unavailability the database has now been fully restored to users. Read on to discover more about this service, its landmark anniversary and its restoration.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/03/british-library-75-years-of-the-bnb-and-bewitching-narnia-books/

BBC: First-time contender crowned World Conker Champion. “The new King and Queen Conker have been crowned after a closely-fought contest at the World Conker Championships. Hundreds of competitors went into battle in Northamptonshire for the event’s 60th year – which attracted increased attention after last year’s cheating scandal, prompting ‘airport-style’ security checks.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/13/bbc-first-time-contender-crowned-world-conker-champion/

BBC: First-time contender crowned World Conker Champion. “The new King and Queen Conker have been crowned after a closely-fought contest at the World Conker Championships. Hundreds of competitors went into battle in Northamptonshire for the event’s 60th year – which attracted increased attention after last year’s cheating scandal, prompting ‘airport-style’ security checks.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/13/bbc-first-time-contender-crowned-world-conker-champion/

BBC: First-time contender crowned World Conker Champion. “The new King and Queen Conker have been crowned after a closely-fought contest at the World Conker Championships. Hundreds of competitors went into battle in Northamptonshire for the event’s 60th year – which attracted increased attention after last year’s cheating scandal, prompting ‘airport-style’ security checks.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/13/bbc-first-time-contender-crowned-world-conker-champion/

BBC: First-time contender crowned World Conker Champion. “The new King and Queen Conker have been crowned after a closely-fought contest at the World Conker Championships. Hundreds of competitors went into battle in Northamptonshire for the event’s 60th year – which attracted increased attention after last year’s cheating scandal, prompting ‘airport-style’ security checks.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/13/bbc-first-time-contender-crowned-world-conker-champion/

BBC: First-time contender crowned World Conker Champion. “The new King and Queen Conker have been crowned after a closely-fought contest at the World Conker Championships. Hundreds of competitors went into battle in Northamptonshire for the event’s 60th year – which attracted increased attention after last year’s cheating scandal, prompting ‘airport-style’ security checks.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/13/bbc-first-time-contender-crowned-world-conker-champion/

Associated Press: Britain’s Royal Mail celebrates Monty Python with stamps featuring iconic sketches and characters. “And now for something completely different: Britain’s Royal Mail has issued stamps celebrating the absurdist comedy of Monty Python. The 10-stamp series announced on Thursday celebrates some of the troupe’s most iconic characters and catchphrases, from ‘Nudge, nudge’ to […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/07/associated-press-britains-royal-mail-celebrates-monty-python-with-stamps-featuring-iconic-sketches-and-characters/

The Bank of England is currently asking the UK public for its views on potential themes for the next series of banknotes.

You can vote for up to three of these six themes:

- notable historical figures
- nature
- architecture and landmarks
- arts, culture and sport
- noteworthy milestones
- innovation

I chose "nature". Who wouldn't want to see a hedgehog on a banknote?

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/help-us-design-our-next-series-of-banknotes

#BankOfEngland #Banknotes #Currency #UKCulture #ArtAndDesign #PublicArt

Derbyshire Times: New online archive shares Peak District village carnival traditions worldwide – thanks to £64,233 in funding. “The Winster Wakes Archive is now available to the world online after more than a year’s work to curate a collection of resources from residents past and present over more than a century. The Wakes began as holidays run by parish churches and linked to the feast […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/06/derbyshire-times-new-online-archive-shares-peak-district-village-carnival-traditions-worldwide-thanks-to-64233-in-funding/

Google Blog: Unveiling royal style: A digital journey through five centuries of fashion. “Among [Historic Royal Palaces’] most remarkable collections is the Royal Ceremonial Dress Collection (RCDC), an extraordinary archive of fashion, history and craftsmanship. Now, in collaboration with Google Arts & Culture, we are bringing this collection to a global audience, offering an unprecedented […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/15/unveiling-royal-style-a-digital-journey-through-five-centuries-of-fashion-google-blog/

InPublishing: Classic & Sports Car launches digital archive. “The legacy of British classic car magazine, Classic & Sports Car, stretches back to 1982, and its full archive can now be accessed by readers through publishing services platform Exact Editions. Both individual and institutional subscribers can browse and search more than four decades of issues, including special collectors’ […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/13/inpublishing-classic-sports-car-launches-digital-archive/

University of St Andrews: New partnership will broaden understanding of UK’s public art collection. “The University of St Andrews’ School of Art History is teaming up with education charity Art UK on an pioneering project to research and tell stories about the art collection owned by the UK public.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/11/university-of-st-andrews-new-partnership-will-broaden-understanding-of-uks-public-art-collection/

>>Why not pay for the statue of the Queen using money from the Sovereign Grant, an annual taxpayer-funded settlement that’s the main source income for the British monarchy? The grant for 2024–25 is £86.3 million, the vast majority of which is spent on the upkeep of properties and staff costs. Why doesn’t the royal family live more frugally for a few months and pay for the statue itself?<<

UK Government is Spending £46 M. on a Statue Despite State of Arts

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/opinion/why-is-uk-government-spending-46-m-on-a-statue-of-a-dead-monarch-when-the-culture-sector-is-on-its-knees-1234729101/

#UKPolitics #UKCulture #UKArts #QueenElizabethMemorial #RoyalFamily

#Introduction

Hi Mastodon Crew!

I'm Emma, CEO of #Trinity #Bristol, UK. it's a community arts centre and independent #grassroots music venue. I've been with Trinity since 2007 and my background is in the #charitysector #heritage and #visualarts.

Interests: #localism #EDI #everydayactivism #inclusion #socialjustice #opensource #ukculture #saveourvenues #community #FreeSpeech #Bristol #politics #dogs