On eve of #IWD2026 am delighted to share project webpage for #womensgrassrootsactivism & link to download #Activism100+ Toolkit ahead of launch on Tuesday 10 March, 5.30pm via Zoom. Take a look to find out more. @whaireland.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social
learn.lsbu.ac.uk/womens-grass...
I’ve had such Friday feelings today. I feel betrayed by Thursday!
Help us test the “Whose Bias? Ways of Seeing” pilot, a new community-led approach to handling outdated and biased language in collections:
17 March, 13.30 – 14.30: https://bit.ly/3OD48bi
24 March, 13.30 – 14.30: https://bit.ly/4r58mFX
@dh-researchhub.bsky.social @warburginstitute.bsky.social
I know we’ve had a whole two days of early spring sunshine, but I was not expecting the ice cream van to arrive outside this evening! And there was a queue as well.
Congratulations - that’s brilliant news!
Loved the Design Museum - gorgeous garden cafe too.
Poster in turquoise w purple writing saying Inaugural lecture. Professor Helle Strandgaard Jensen. Picture of woman w red hair. QR code. "Whither Digital History"
Will I see you IRL or online for my inaugural lecture?
17 April, 15:15-16:00 CET.
Sign-up here: event.au.dk/events/tiltr...
Nominations for the 2026 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History are now open ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2021/12/the-... (closing date 31 May). You can submit your own work or recommend a book or article by someone else that you’ve loved reading.
Kelpie illustration by Philip Longson. A horse-like monster with a scaly body and serpentine tail instead of hind legs towers over two children who are waist-deep in the water.
You can bring a horse to water, but what it does next is its own business. Scotland kelpies - horse-like beings that lure the unwary with the promise of a ride on the most beautiful steed ever seen. Once astride, the victim sticks to the kelpie's back & is dragged under the water to be eaten. 1/3
Jobs!
Senate House Library is embarking on an ambitious project to transform access to one of the UK’s largest and richest collections of queer literature —the remarkable Haud Nominandum Collection, donated by activist, bookseller and co-founder of Gay’s the Word bookshop, Jonathan Cutbill.
The 1st book in an exciting brand new #OpenAccess series on #DigitalCulture, Exploring Digital Cultural Heritage by Eirini Goudarouli from @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy, @amsichani.bsky.social and @jfwinters.bsky.social from @sas-news.bsky.social, May 2026:
uolpress.co.uk/book/explori...
Oh, I’d missed this. Congratulations, Andrew!!
She was amazing! Also loved Alysa Liu,
The standard of the women’s free skating at the Olympics is extraordinary. What a competition.
Cray 1 supercomputer. A cylindrical structure with an opening at the front showing an inner core. The structure appears painted red and looks a little like a top hat.
Do folklore and digital tech seem like odd bedfellows? 'Father of the supercomputer' Seymour Cray attributed some of his success to advice he received from elves while digging a tunnel (if you don't stumble across an entrance to a subterranean otherworld, home-made is fine). 1/3
On ransomware and under-funded GLAMs: 'At no point was the British Library particularly negligent or unprepared. Instead, it was hindered by vulnerabilities shared by the majority of cultural institutions. ...the attack [is] a warning to the whole sector.' informationsecuritybuzz.com/the-cyberatt...
@kmcdono.bsky.social @danielwilson.bsky.social and I have a new OA article out: eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A... It’s about the fragmented landscape of historical data, and what we can do about it to improve discoverability, sustainability and reuse.
Doing a history careers panel with a teacher, financial planner, higher ed program director, and librarian for a state agency. All our alumni.
Once again I want to say historians get jobs and do interesting things.
Me too! My sister and I had to ask an older lady in an M&S cafe of all places not to play videos at top volume on her phone. She genuinely seemed surprised.
Two grant schemes from the School of Advanced Study are now open for applications: Being Human Festival 2026 and the Centre for Public Engagement Practice in Arts and Humanities’ new Collaboration and Innovation Grant.
Go to bit.ly/3ZoolUq for details on how to apply
Please do share this doctoral opportunity with MA/MSt students - four years of AHRC funding to work on the history of children's play in Wales, supervised by me and the lovely and brilliant Dr Jacky Tyrie. Any questions get in touch! www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate...
In the MORPHSS report **Openness in the arts, humanities and social sciences: Documenting open research practices beyond STEM**, we explore the narrow focus of existing frameworks of open research & propose more inclusive ways of accommodating the diversity of open practice across all disciplines.
1960s silkscreen print by Clifford Richards https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O141057/owls-print-richards-clifford/
Wittie, a Steiff owl (soft toy), made in 1963 https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O37086/wittie-soft-toy-margarete-steiff-gmbh/
Drawing by French artist Leon Gischi (1965) https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O117475/drawing-gischia-leon/
Cartier brooch, 1950-60 https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O142209/brooch-cartier/
Celebrating #SuperbOwl day with some lovely owls from the Victoria & Albert Museum. Details and links in the alt text.
This lecture was amazing. Thank you, Elif Shafak.
Graduates stand on a staircase below strings of fairy lights
🎓That's a wrap!
Congratulations to the School of Advanced Study Class of 2025! It was a pleasure to welcome you today at Senate House and to celebrate your achievements. Whatever comes next, we wish you every success.
A wonderful graduation ceremony at @sas-news.bsky.social today. A reminder of why we do what we do and why studying the arts and humanities is more important than ever.
‘What happens when a city loses its university?’ And 52% of students at Essex’s Southend campus on health and social care courses are local.
Gorgeous cover!
Wonderful news from Birkbeck's School of Historical Studies. We're hiring not one but TWO open-ended, full-time roles: Medieval Studies, and History of Art! cis7.bbk.ac.uk/home.html#fi...
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
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