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The BBC will make tens of thousands of audio-visual recordings from its archives available on the BBC Rewind website as part of the broadcasting corporation’s centennial celebrations.

BBC 100: Corporation opens archives to public to mark centenary Sir David Attenborough is among the familiar faces who will be seen among the new-look BBC Rewind.

The Atlantic has digitized its entire archive of print magazines dating back to 1857 and made them available online.

The Atlantic Releases Its Complete Archive, Newly Digitized 165 years of journalism, literature, and American history are now available online for the first time.

The Lesley Gore Archive at NYPL The New York Public Library includes scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, fan club files, family photographs, album covers, and audio and movie image recordings that document Gore’s rehearsals, performances and television appearances.

Lesley Gore’s Archive, Open to All, Arrives at the New York Public Library The collection, which includes family photos, scrapbook pages and annotated music, traces the singer’s arc from releasing bubble gum hits to creating a powerful feminist statement.

The Harley-Davidson Museum’s online exhibits on Google Arts & Culture celebrate the history of the nearly 120-year-old brand.

Harley-Davidson Museum, Milwaukee, United States - Google Arts & Culture Discover culture and history through stories and exhibits that celebrate expression, camaraderie and love for the sport at the Harley-Davidson Museum in Mi...

Over 400 pieces from the Tiffany & Co. archives are currently on display at the Saatchi Gallery in London.

London Gets a Glimpse Inside the Tiffany Archive More than 400 pieces from the jeweler, including the treasured Tiffany Diamond, are on view in a free exhibition.

The New York Times music podcast, the Popcast, delves into the archives of Bob Dylan and Lou Reed.

Digging Into Bob Dylan and Lou Reed’s Archives Attempting to uncover unknown things about very well-known people.

The Commercial Pattern Archive, maintained by the University of Rhode Island, is a collection of around 56,000 sewing patterns dating back to the 1800's, along with books, pamphlets, journals and other related material.

The archive saving home sewing history from the trash Nearly 60,000 sewing patterns preserve and document history.

Four enduring myths about Juneteenth are not based on facts As the U.S. celebrates the second federal holiday honoring Juneteenth, several myths persist about the origins and history about what happened when enslaved people were emancipated in Texas.

“Beyond 2022: Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland,” reconstructs the Public Record Office at the Four Courts in Dublin, an archive of documents and manuscripts dating back to medieval times, which was destroyed in the Irish Civil War in June of 1922.

Seven centuries of Irish archives painstakingly recreated after being destroyed in civil war Digital wizardry and academic sleuthing have helped recreate a cultural treasure severely damaged in the conflict in 1922

A new Archive of American LGBTQ Political and Legal History is being established at The College Of William & Mary - SWEM library - Special Collections. The archive will provide researchers an understanding of the political and legal advances and setbacks of LGBTQ Americans.

William & Mary Libraries announces new Archive of American LGBTQ Political and Legal History A new and unique Archive of American LGBTQ Political and Legal History is being established at Swem Library in memory of renown historian John Boswell ’69, it was announced today by Carrie Cooper, dean of University Libraries at William & Mary.

A broadside printing of the Bill of Rights, possibly one of two in existence, has joined the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the faded original Bill of Rights on display at the National Archives.

David Rubenstein lends National Archives rare Bill of Rights imprint The billionaire philanthropist has made donations and document loans to historical sites.

The University of Texas at Austin has acquired the papers of Richard Goodwin, a speechwriter to John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, and his wife Doris Kearns Goodwin, a presidential historian. The collection sheds light on decision-making at important moments in American history.

U.T. Austin Acquires Archives That Give Insight Into the 1960s The papers of Richard Goodwin, a speechwriter to John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, and his wife Doris Kearns Goodwin, a presidential historian, shed light on decision-making at crucial moments in American history.

The University of Leeds is making its archive of English dialects accessible to the public through the launch of the Dialect and Heritage Project, which shares digitized assets from the collection and seeks to update and add to it.

Still whanging? Dialect hunt aims to update prized English language archive Leeds University shares library of 1950s vernacular and launches project to preserve today’s phrases

The Brooklyn Public Library is giving teens and young adults, regardless of their location in the United States, access to the library’s entire ebook collection in response to the rising number of book bans across the country.

Brooklyn Public Library is offering free digital library cards to young adults in the US The BPL is fighting back against book removals.

Computer hard drives that were smashed up by Guardian executives to avoid handing over leaked classified documents to the government are on display in a new British Library exhibition about the media and society over the past 500 years.

Smashed Guardian hard drives feature in British Library exhibition Tech destroyed to protect Edward Snowden leaks among items that consider role of media over 500 years

Video game archivists are working to preserve older games for future generations to enjoy without the expense of maintaining aging digital infrastructure and without violating copyright law.

Inside the fight to save video game history Video game history is lost faster than we can preserve it.

A new exhibition, “Jean-Michel Basquiat: King Pleasure©,” was organized by the late artist’s sisters and stepmother and includes 200 never-before-seen or rarely shown paintings, drawings, and objects from the family’s archives.

A Massive New Basquiat Exhibit Gets Told by the People That Knew Him Best Jean-Michel Basquiat’s sisters take us inside the new New York showcase with more than 200 rarely shown paintings, drawings, and objects from the family’s archives

A team of digital humanities experts and volunteers have formed a group, SUCHO, dedicated to saving Ukrainian cultural heritage online. Quinn Dombrowski, one of the group’s founders, is teaching children how to archive Ukrainian cultural websites as part of the efforts.

The Berkeley archivist on a mission to save Ukrainian digital history Quinn Dombrowski co-founded an emergency data rescue organization. Now, they are teaching kids to archive Ukrainian cultural websites.

Handwritten lyrics by Joy Division's Ian Curtis and records documenting British television history are among the first items in a new British Pop Archive housed in Manchester's John Rylands Library.

Joy Division and Coronation Street treasures launch British Pop Archive Handwritten lyrics by Joy Division's Ian Curtis and Granada TV's entire archive are among the items.

The National Archives has digitized the 1950 US Census records and made them available to the public via a free searchable database.

How to search the 1950 US Census A free, searchable database of 1950 US Census records is now available to the public.

"An assignment created in the Teaching with Primary Sources workshop proved that playing with failure and be fruitful, fascinating, and fun."

How Playing With Failure Led Students to Archival Exploration An assignment created in the Teaching with Primary Sources workshop proved that playing with failure and be fruitful, fascinating, and fun

In late 1905, 15 stones were set down in Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx by the New York Central Railroad in an effort to see how the samples would fare in the open air before choosing which would be used for the new Grand Central Terminal.

These nearly forgotten stone pillars in the Bronx are part of Grand Central Terminal’s history The 13 stone pillars have been sitting in what is now Van Cortlandt Park since 1905.

A new initiative, Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online (SUCHO), has been working to preserve the websites and digital archives of Ukraine’s museums and libraries, which are at risk as Russia continues its military invasion.

How Tech Experts in the West Are Rushing to Save the Digital Archives of Ukraine's Museums | Artnet News Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online is backing up and preserving the websites and digital archives of Ukrainian museums and libraries.

Google Arts & Culture’s "Mali Magic" project digitally captures, curates, and shares Mali’s heritage with the world, including the digitization and translation of more than 40,000 endangered manuscript pages.

Mali Magic - Google Arts & Culture Google Arts & Culture features content from over 2000 leading museums and archives who have partnered with the Google Cultural Institute to bring the world's treasures online.

The Women Art Dealers Digital Archives (WADDA) is a new project to examine and elevate women art dealers’ contributions to today’s art world and the larger art-history canon.

This digital archive brings women art dealers back into the story of Modern art The Women Art Dealers Digital Archives explores the role of historical women gallerists as powerful forces in once-niche markets that have since become major sectors of the art world

Howard University has received a $2 million grant to digitize The Black Press Archives, a collection of over 2,000 newspaper titles from the U.S. and countries in Africa and the Caribbean.

Howard gets $2M grant to digitize Black newspaper archive Howard University has received a $2 million donation to digitize a major collection of Black newspaper archives in hopes of making it more broadly available to researchers and the general public

Maya Cade, founder of the Black Film Archive, discusses a film she loves from each decade from the 1920s through the 1970s.

Six Highlights From the Black Film Archive Maya Cade, who founded the archive in August 2021, discusses a film she loves from each decade from the 1920s through the 1970s.

The Federal Archive Building in Manhattan’s West Village has had many lives over its 123-year history— the building originally housed the operations and storage of the United States Customs Service, then during the Great Depression was converted into offices for the National Archives and Records Administration thus earning its name. Finally, in the 1980s, the building was bought by New York State’s Urban Development Corporation and converted into luxury residential lofts.

The Storied Past of NYC's Federal Archive Building - Untapped New York The Federal Archive Building is a ten story Romanesque Revival-style red brick building in Manhattan’s West Village.

The Library of Congress Coronavirus Web Archive contains representative web-based content that documents the impact and response to the Covid-19 pandemic on communities across the United States and the world.

About this Collection  | Coronavirus Web Archive  | Digital Collections  | Library of Congress The Coronavirus Web Archive contains representative web-based content that documents the impact and response to the Covid-19 pandemic on communities across the United States and the world. This collection was curated by subject specialists from across the Library in order to present a multidisciplin...

The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, built in 1972, underwent a remodel that kept the historic exterior but redesigned the inside to meet 21st century needs.

It may be 50 years old, but this dazzling D.C. library was 2021’s Building of the Year The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library underwent a remodel that kept the historic exterior but completely reimagined the inside.