When anyone who is a member of the Reform party or supports them bemoans the loss of British culture, show them this.
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When anyone who is a member of the Reform party or supports them bemoans the loss of British culture, show them this.
📢 Join the @ihr.bsky.social Digital History seminar on 17 March (midday UK time) for Vincent Hiribarren on the topic 'Historian vs AI: who reads and analyses archives best'. All our seminars are live on Zoom and published after on our YouTube channel ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2025/09/tues... #dhist
📢 Join the @ihr.bsky.social Digital History seminar on 17 March (midday UK time) for Vincent Hiribarren on the topic 'Historian vs AI: who reads and analyses archives best'. All our seminars are live on Zoom and published after on our YouTube channel ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2025/09/tues... #dhist
You can stop talking about Matt Goodwin now! Perhaps instead talk about Hannah Spencer, the person who actually won.
Today we’re celebrating #NationalRetroDay! 🎮
Discover a world of old-generation consoles and relive the history of gaming.
Old-school games for new memories – book your tickets now: https://bit.ly/3OywLXa
Waking up delighted to find that there is another Green MP in the UK. There is hope.
i keep saying they're essentially an attack on shared context, flattening and destroying information about sources that was present in the training data
Ta. I like recommendations!
Today is one of those days when my brain adores Boards of Canada (1999 Peel Session, to be specific).
Job losses at UK research-intensive universities double in two years.
Exclusive: Scale of redundancies branded a “disaster”.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
📢 Nominations are now open for the 2026 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History! The prize celebrates the best of digital history internationally. Anything published since ~Jan 2025 is eligible. Nominate your work or work you love. Details ➡️ ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2021/12/the-... #dhist
News: we're thrilled to have received £80,000 of funding from the BFI to help us digitise a remarkable archive of agricultural films and make them available to the public!
Read more on the @uniofreading.bsky.social website:
www.reading.ac.uk/news/2026/Un...
Happily the ESRC Digital Good network seems to like joy driven research - this THE piece is related to a project led by my colleague Lexi digitalgood.net/research/que...
.. acting like they know everything. It might look like a queer nerd sharing what they love with a room full of people, and freely exploring ideas as they come to mind."
💖 "A student once said to me (Madeleine), 'Seeing you as a lecturer made me realise anyone can be one.' While to this day we don’t know if that was a compliment, at least one student has learned that academia doesn’t have to look like stuffy, posh men.. www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/joy-d...
📢 For those who missed S. Wright Kennedy on 'Separate but Dead: Mapping Disease & Segregation in New Orleans, 1880-1915', the recording is now on the @ihr.bsky.social Digital History seminar youtube channel youtu.be/-pfATKVLxU0?... #dhist
¡Felicidades @jenniferisasi.bsky.social! ✨
We're so proud to see one of our longest-serving editors achieve this fantastic career milestone.
Thank you for all you have given, and continue to give, to our project.
Your contributions to Programming Historian are nothing short of inspirational 💫
UK Research and Innovation Arts and Humanities Research Council Executive Chair Candidate Prospectus January 2026
Important! AHRC is looking for a new Executive Chair. A critical role for arts and humanities. £160k - £170k. Please share widely to help get the best possible field!
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UCU elections 2026: recommended votes. All information is available at https://ucucommons.org/election26/
From tomorrow, Friday 30 January, ballot papers will start to arrive by post for VP (HE and FE), and several key positions on our NEC.
We're supporting our own @markpendleton.bsky.social for VP (HE) and independent @suzitoole.bsky.social for VP (FE) & lots of other great people. Please share! #UCU
This month the @ihr.bsky.social Digital History Seminar welcomes S. Wright Kennedy to talk about 'Separate but Dead: Mapping Disease & Segregation in New Orleans, 1880-1915'. Join us 17 Feb, on Zoom, at midday (UK-time) ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2025/09/tues... #dhist
This month the @ihr.bsky.social Digital History Seminar welcomes S. Wright Kennedy to talk about 'Separate but Dead: Mapping Disease & Segregation in New Orleans, 1880-1915'. Join us 17 Feb, on Zoom, at midday (UK-time) ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2025/09/tues... #dhist
Great to present our work (w. @melvinwevers.bsky.social) on applying "basic" ML to study historical visual culture at the @ihr.bsky.social Digital History Seminar!
#dhist If you missed @thomassmits.bsky.social & @melvinwevers.bsky.social speaking at the @ihr.bsky.social Digital History on Orientalist pixels, colonial colour palettes, and machine learning - plus the fab discussion that followed - the recording is now on our youtube channel youtu.be/kDTJToRCEHQ
Hoffers Bakery is closing 😭 If you live in my bit of Southampton, you know what that means.
Recorded my first mini-lecture for our new Text as Data module. Hopefully starting it by telling them that the module - and our weekly labs - will be apologetically code, software, and data focused will be seen as a welcome challenge.
⬇️ Tomorrow lunchtime ⬇️
That feeling when you spy that a new Dominion expansion is coming out then your thoughts turn immediately to the lack of space in your board game cupboard.
#dhist Join the @ihr.bsky.social Digital History seminar 20 Jan midday GMT (on Zoom) for @thomassmits.bsky.social & @melvinwevers.bsky.social on 'Orientalist pixels: How machine learning reveals the colonial color palette of early photography'. Details ⬇️ ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2025/09/tues...
And then tomorrow it all begins again!
