Rachel MacGregor

@anoldhand.bsky.social

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Digital Preservation Officer at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick. Interested in digital preservation, archives and public engagement. Also random public transport content. Views my own unless a repost. She/her.

A room displaying with posters, photographs and archives with a headline « Crossing the line » on the wall.
Historic Prysten House - a fifteenth ce yurt stone building with a courtyard in front
Middle aged woman in glasses taking a selfie in front of a stone wall and a map of Plymouth harbour
A view of the river Vilaine with the moon shining down on the water from my room
Gin and tonic in a short tumbler with a slice of lemon on a green patterned table cloth
Young woman in a white top presents in a lecture hall in front of a slide entitled “The Purpose of Pit baths”
Lecture theatre showing a slide opening the Blood of the Price of Coal with University Librarian Anna O’Neill giving an opening address
Display box of 24 Tunnocks tea cakes. Someone has eaten one so now there are only 23…
Robin perched on a fence looking hopeful
A wine glass with lager in it next to a small can of M&S beer on the table in a curry house.
Man in a sun hat exploring a Roman gateway with well defined brick work
Two glasses of red wine on a table in a Travelodge
A table in the garden with crisps, olives, two short tumblers with G&T and a slice of lemon and a paper napkin saying “wine lovers workout … and repeat” with pictures of an “Evangelical corkscrew” (that’s what I call them) with its arms down, to the side and up, mirroring an exercise class.
Stile over the Essex Way near White Notley, Essex
A selection of grocery goods including bread, biscuits, cheese and jam all purchased at Guntons of Colchester
Two carved Roman altars in the medieval castle that is Colchester Museum
A pint of beer on a pub table with a cushion depicting a racehorse in the background
Kir royale at Groobarbs in High Leigh for a 60th. Glass of fizzy wine next to another glass of fizzy wine.
Slice of Victoria sponge and a glass of Tanners* champagne (*other champagnes are available)
Front cover of a copy of the book Clash by Ellen Wilkinson
Stile in a stone wall with a view of the Lake District
Close up of my shoulder and my purple ribbon which stands for International Workers Memorial Day. I’m wearing a black and grey checked dress and the wall behind me is a lurid contrasting green.
Small green mug featuring the drawings of Tove Jansson
A glass of red vermouth with ice and a slice of lemon on a set table
Canal bank with heron
A laid table with a cheeseboard in the foreground including Red Leicester, a goats cheese and two blue cheese with a couple of water biscuits and a few dried figs. In the background a half bottle of sweet Monbazillac wine, a glass, butter dish, candles, trivet etc
A train seat fold down table with a flask of coffee, a dark chocolate Tunnocks tea cake and a copy of The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad.
Glass of red wine from a small bottle labelled Healy and Gray on a table with pizza, salad and coleslaw
A stile with concrete steps set into a dry stone wall with pasture land, a lane and some daffodils in the background. A finger post stands above it against a bright blue sky.
Black and white cat sat not on a mat but on a pub chair recently vacated by a drinker
Portion of a gravestone which reads: “Here lieth the Body of Eustace Beard of this parish Trowman Who departed this life October 28th 1761 Aged 61 Years. From rocks and sands the Lord deliverd me And many times from danger set me free.” The gravestone is decorated with broken anchors held by ropes to indicate Eustace plied his trade as a boatman on a trow (cargo boat) on the River Severn.
A martini filled with a blood orange margarita on a dining room table.
Mervyn the miniature schnauzer looking at the camera sitting on a patio with a cup of coffee in the background.
A sandwich sitting in its wrapper, a mini bottle of wine, an unopened tub of M&S grapes and a plastic Moomin cup with wine in it, all on the folding table on the back of the seat (is there a word for that in English? I bet there is in German) on a train.
Small glass of grappa in low lighting in a restaurant
An aperol spritz with a jaunty striped straw
Glass of red wine in front of a bottle of French vin rouge with a pasty in the foreground
Thin crepe style pancakes served on plates on a table
The Thames at Eton which is where you go on a nice day if you are in Slough
Crocheted pit box topper featuring a crocheted tea pot, tea cup and various cakes
White haired woman standing by a fence in a green and lush hilly scene overlooking a bay with the hint of a white sandy beach
Glass of gin and tonic in front of a bottle of Barra gin.
Railway station platform showing a darkening sky but with daylight still visible
Olives, crisps, a glass of wine on a laid table with candles and a bottle of M&S Found range wine in the background
Glass of white wine in a French bistro glass with a crochet blanket (made by my mum) in the background
Cup of coffee, with a decorative tea spoon, cardamom bun and a copy of R C Sherriff’s Fortnight in September
Rustic tumbler of red wine with a bottle of Saperavi in the background
Slightly blurry shot of a bottle of tawny port
Long haired tabby giving the side eye, beautifully painted by Joseph Southall
Ford Madox Brown’s painting of Hampstead Heath with a impressionistic brown dog
Two glasses of Prosecco on a table with some candles in the background
Moomin mug of cocoa with a spoon sticking out
Takeaway cup of tea in a Greggs cup on the fold down bit of a train seat
Mug of tea balanced on the arm of a sofa bed with clothes draped over an office chair in the background
The Arrival of the Jarrow Marchers in London, Viewed from an Interior Painting of two well dressed people smoking one of whom - wearing a silver dress and leaning out of the window looks out at a crowd Thomas Cantrell Dugdale (1880–1952) Museum of the Home
Two passionfruit martinis
Close up of pea fritter with fork for scale
A half of blonde and a half of bitter on a Split Chimp beermat
Black and white cat sat on a pub chair
Photograph of a fruit cake on a cooling rack