This little guy wandered into the house earlier

If you’re working on digital cultural heritage and have an idea for a short-form monograph, we’d love to hear from you. The series is diamond open access too!

The sound of swifts on a (very) warm spring evening brings me joy.

Postdoctoral position at @uni.lu ‼️ My colleague Marten Düring is hiring for a postdoctoral position in Digital History. The candidate will contribute to the fantastic Impresso — Media Monitoring of the Past project. Apply before July 1 www.uni.lu/en/jobs/post...

Have you ever wondered how digital technologies could help with the analysis of texts? Our free 'Digital Approaches to Textual Analysis' course on RESHAPED offers a practical introduction. Access the course: https://bit.ly/43qhA6h Explore training opportunities at SAS: https://bit.ly/45tYbAI

Womble the baby aardvark is adorable. A much needed nice story today.

Just 1 week left until in-person registration for our Annual Event closes. Be sure to get your tickets while you can! #DH #digitalhumanities #digitalheritage #digitalculture

We have our office copies of Exploring Digital Cultural Heritage: Access, Use, Value and Sustainability and we love it. Concise, practical, accessible: uolpress.co.uk/book/explori... 👏 Amazing work @amsichani.bsky.social, @jfwinters.bsky.social and Eirini! #OpenAccess @dh-researchhub.bsky.social

It’s time for Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences and STEMM staff to talk and stand together. We are actually all on the same ship. Stronger and better together.

The UK–Ireland DH Association @ukiedh.bsky.social is calling for new Community Interest Groups (CIGs) – a great opportunity to build a community around shared interests. Deadline: 29 June digitalhumanities-uk-ie.org/2026/05/14/c... #DigitalHumanities

I don’t really have the words to describe the generational damage that is happening in UK universities - so much lost potential.

‘Exploring Digital Cultural Heritage’ is now out in the wild! You can download an open-access copy (PDF) or read the free digital edition on Manifold uolpress.co.uk/book/explori.... Loved working on this with Eirini Goudarouli, @amsichani.bsky.social & the @uolpress.bsky.social team.

At last! The archived British Library blogs are viewable online. Check the index of blogs at blogs-archive.bl.uk and the hundreds of posts on the Digital Scholarship blog going back to 2013 blogs-archive.bl.uk#digital-scho...

‘Exploring Digital Cultural Heritage’ is now out in the wild! You can download an open-access copy (PDF) or read the free digital edition on Manifold uolpress.co.uk/book/explori.... Loved working on this with Eirini Goudarouli, @amsichani.bsky.social & the @uolpress.bsky.social team.

Why would we want to learn from our pasts, or ponder the power of the written and spoken word, or explore the deep questions of humanity? According to the University of Hertfordshire, we wouldn't. They've just cut all of our undergrad Humanities programmes

Devastated for friends and colleagues at Herts. It’s my local university and this is also closing off so many opportunities for young people in the county.

It’s open access and I have copies to give to family, but my amazing sister has already ordered a copy because pre-orders are where it’s at 😀

Counting down to publication day on Thursday uolpress.co.uk/book/explori...

Dubrovnik cats

Our pilot Small Grants Scheme for early career DH researchers and GLAM practitioners is now OPEN! Up to £ 3,000 / € 3,449.26 to support collaborative projects between researchers & GLAM institutions. Deadline: 19 June Details digitalhumanities-uk-ie.org/2026/05/01/2... #DH #digitalheritage

The Open Library of Humanities Open Access Award 2026. Applications for OLH funding of up to £500 are welcomed from individuals or organisations and may be used to help fund events, projects or activities on OA or with an open access component. Deadline 30/06:

Following recent debates about drinking in Parliament, @emmapeplow.bsky.social has delved into the oral history archive to find out what former MPs thought of Westminster's drinking culture, and how it has changed since the 1960s. historyofparliament.com/2026/04/28/d...

'Protecting what matters': a new government policy paper identifies history as central to social cohesion. At the same time, history teaching and research, in our schools and universities, is at risk as never before. To ensure cohesion, we must protect what matters: bit.ly/3QyZQCO #skystorians

These scam book club emails are getting more and more desperate. Apparently there’s a whole community of readers who *really* want to engage with a book I co-edited in 2009. Or alternatively one that’s not even published yet.

How do you bring a MakerSpace to a Festival of Social History? Here's our try 🙂 @socialhistsoc.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social www.sas.ac.uk/about-us/ins...

I’ve written on how our recent genAI policy was made at @openlibhums.org Many open access publishers are waiting for clear global standards to be devised for the appropriate use and declaration of genAI in scholarly research and publishing. We’ve aimed to provide a flexible and extensible start.

Some things are constant. Two kids knocked on my door today asking for their ball back. They’d kicked it into the garden on Friday apparently and had clearly been steeling themselves to ask ever since. They really looked like they would rather be anywhere else.

Dracula 1933 Irish translation cover

In advance of tomorrow's release here is a short piece on the historical Irish censuses based on my past and ongoing research #spéirgorm theconversation.com/80-million-p...

The Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) seeks a new Editor in Chief as well as an institutional host for @dhquarterly.bsky.social (DHQ). Initial expressions of interest are due by August 30th. See the CFP for more details: buff.ly/qpiypXq

Hungary election live: Viktor Orbán concedes defeat in Hungarian election after 16 years in power

On 10 April 1998, the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement was signed, a major development in the Northern Ireland peace process. One of the crucial figures in the agreement was Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Mo Mowlam. Read Dr Emma Peplow's article for more on Mowlam's impact.

Our online course on Born-Digital Research is nominated for the DH Awards: dhawards.org/dhawards2025.... You can access our course for free on RESHAPED: reshaped.sas.ac.uk/course/view.... @sas-news.bsky.social @jfwinters.bsky.social @beatricecannelli.bsky.social @caiomellodh.bsky.social

🌍 New from DPC: the draft Carbon Footprint Toolkit is now open for comment and testing! Read it, try it, and share your feedback: buff.ly/Bd7ccCb #DigitalPreservation #Coalition #community #digipres #carbonfootprint

Pop Leo asked if he should put on gloves to turn pages in the gorgeous Renaissance Bible and the librarian explained why it’s better to do so with bare hands. Glorious reaction. Every rare books librarian & archivist feeling very seen, I gather. www.instagram.com/reel/DUcpEBY... #BookHistory

On Thursday I will be chairing our online session on writing history aimed at a wider audience with guests Elliot Prior and Sabhbh Curran from Curtis Brown Literary Agency. All welcome - sign up here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

🏆️ The Digital Preservation Awards are back for 2026🏆️#DPA2026 celebrates great #digitalpreservation work from every corner of the world & from every sector. Nominate the project or initiative you believe should win an award👇🏽https://www.dpconline.org/news/digital-preservation-awards-launched-for-2026

The third seminar in this year’s @dh-researchhub.bsky.social series on ‘The Fragile Record’ is concerned with ‘Cultural heritage under attack: saving cultural data in times of crisis’, 31 March, 16.00-17.30 BST. Free to attend online, but you’ll need to register.

Delighted to welcome the School of Advanced Study, University of London as our newest Library Supporter! The UK's national centre for humanities research, backing scholar-led, non-commercial diamond open access book publishing - what could be a better fit? 📚 #OpenAccess #DiamondOA

Obviously I would have loved Ireland to win the Six Nations, but I’m *so* pleased France beat England.

I love that Fabien Galthié took the French rugby team to the ballet (Romeo and Juliet) to help them move on from their loss to Scotland.

Triple Crown winners 🎉🎉

I spent two hours today writing around 1500 words of recommendation for someone brilliant. I could have outsourced this to AI but it would have meant nothing.

The @uolpress.bsky.social is pleased to take part in the London Open Science & Scholarship Festival @ucl.ac.uk. @paulakennedy.bsky.social, Head of Publishing, will chair: Open Access Publishing in Practice: Author experiences and insights 🗓️ 23 April 📍 Online 🕙 10 –11.15am 🎟️ https://bit.ly/4rSLLxA

The British Library’s Medieval MSS team now have a presence on Bluesky @blmedieval.bsky.social Follow for updates as we restore more of our digitised content online!

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...

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.

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.