Today as part of Explore Your Archive week we’re asking you to create and share your archive self-portraits and maybe even live broadcast your research – #archiveselfie and #archiveslive.
During last year’s Explore your Archive week it was great to see so many selfies, so we’ve brought #archiveselfie back for another year! If you’ve been proudly wearing your Explore Your Archive badge, take a photo and share it with us! Get your colleagues and visitors to share their pictures, and let’s see who can create the biggest #archiveselfie.
Or maybe you’ve found an historic selfie in an archive collection. As this gallery shows, the ‘selfie’ is not as modern a phenomenon as we may think!
We raided our collection and found these great images which reminded us of selfies:
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- Cameramen of the army, 1939-1945 (catalogue reference INF 2/45 (65))
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- Charles Darwin 1879 (catalogue reference COPY 1/56 (767))
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- Women’s Land Army parade, Second World War (catalogue reference MAF 59/146)
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- Cotton mill workers, Manchester, 1905 (catalogue reference COPY 1/492)
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- Children being evacuated to New Zealand, 1940-41 (catalogue reference DO 131/15)
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