London friends, go see Joe talk about his fascinating and important work!

This is the oldest known family photo taken at Stonehenge. c 1865, back when you could picnic on the great sarsens themselves. The original photo is owned by Queen Guitarist Brian May! #stonehenge #wiltshire #stonecircle

I'm so grateful our project, "Voices in Slavery's Archive: Law, Place and Testimony in British Guiana," was funded! @dianapaton.bsky.social, Linsey McMillan, @juanitacox.bsky.social, @pbhellawell.bsky.social, Estherine Adams, and Jamie McLaughlin www.ed.ac.uk/news/project...

And we are hiring! We have been incredibly lucky to get this funding and are very grateful for the opportunity to work on this. Please circulate to people who would be interested in applying. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPN147/p...

There's still time to sign up for the BAAS PG Symposium next Wednesday. Don't miss out! There's so much to experience!

“When faced with greed, envy, calumny, perfidy, or lies, people […] say indulgently, ‘That's human!’ With an excuse like that, they clearly show that they are renouncing any expectations of generosity or greatness from man.” —Simone de Beauvoir In this new 🐧 📕 ed. @jonathanwebber.bsky.social 👏 👇

"[Gottlieb's "Wittgenstein"] finds clarity not through ambitious systematic claims but through careful attention to particulars." —Nikhil Krishnan, in a print issue of the New York Times Book Review.

🔔 2 DAYS TO GO! Job spec, salary details & how to apply here: buff.ly/q1SSXCM ROLE: Ski Collections Cataloguer FULL TIME: 37 hpw DURATION: Fixed Term: 5 months 🔔 CLOSING DATE: 25-Nov-25🔔 @dmu.ac.uk @icshc.bsky.social @librarydmu.bsky.social @araukie.bsky.social

2025 marks the centenary of A.N. Whitehead’s Lowell Lectures, Science and the Modern World; 2026 the centenary of the first British edition. Nick Gaskill and I are organising a panel on Whitehead, focused on SMW, for the MSA/BAMS conference in 2026, and are looking for an additional contributor.

This is good news from @britishlibrary.bsky.social and congratulations and thanks to colleagues there working so hard to bring their services back online. Bravo! #libraries #archives #BritishLibrary

‘…everyone has it inside himself, this plague, because no one in the world, no one, is immune. And I know that we must constantly keep a watch on ourselves breathing in another person’s face and infecting him…The decent man, the one who doesn’t infect anybody, is the one who concentrates most…

A birthday drink? #otd

“Some important part of every society consists of people who actively want tyranny,” French political theorist Jean-François Revel observed the year after Franco’s death: “either to exercise it themselves or – much more mysteriously – to submit to it.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Paul Helbronner was a French cartographer at the turn of the C19th and C20th century who specialized in maps of the Alps. He made a beautiful & long (over 620cm!) panoramic map of the view from Mont Blanc in 1921 and included his climb to the top, with his footprints in the snow @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

👋 Hi Bluesky! The School of Advanced Study, University of London champions the arts and humanities. Working through our renowned specialist institutes and centres of excellence, we offer a rich interdisciplinary environment for researchers to collaborate. Let's connect: 🔗 sas.ac.uk/

Bloomsbury Bear wants you to know that you have one more week to see Spineless Wonders at Senate House Library. Pass it on… www.london.ac.uk/about/servic...

More here: www.sothebys.com/en/buy/aucti...

On November 22, 1963, President and Mrs. Kennedy traveled to Dallas. As they rode through the city, shots were fired, and the motorcade rushed to the nearest hospital. At 2:38 pm EST, CBS television news anchor Walter Cronkite reported the president’s death. Learn more: jfklibrary.org/November22

Do you hold collections that relate to the Holocaust, whether that be its prehistory, its aftermath, or the role of antisemitism before, during and after WWII? The European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) are keen to hear from you... (1/3)

The UK-wide panel renewed accredited status for an additional 5 archives: Historical England Archive, Historic Environment Scotland Archive, Tameside Archives, @natlibscot.bsky.social & @suffolkarchives.bsky.social Read more: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/f... (2/2)

Congratulations to: Hackney Archives, Marx Memorial Library, Powys Archives @mediamuseum.bsky.social, @paulmelloncentr.bsky.social & @yorkminster.bsky.social Archives on achieving Archive Service Accreditation for the first time! (1/2) 📷 The Chapter of York, Photographer: Peter Li

Energy of Starlings - by Somerset artist and printmaker, Jackie Curtis More of Jackie's fabulous artwork, here: www.jcurtisart.com

An ongoing advance news story for #caturday @oxfordclarion.bsky.social #oxford #cats

It's here! Our special issue of JECS (journal of @bsecs.bsky.social), a bumper vol of cutting-edge interdisciplinary research on 18c networks, gender, sociability & manuscript, deriving from @maryhamiltonpapers.bsky.social project. I'll be skeeting today about the contributions in turn...stay tuned!

We’re launching our new catalogue on Monday 8 December. To keep our collections safe while we do this, access and ordering will be suspended for a week before launch and all requests for 8 December onwards must be made on the new system when it launches. Find out more: bit.ly/CollectionSu...

Wrap up warm. This drawing (GOW/A/2/2), by J. D. Beazley of himself, A. S. F. Gow, and A. F. Scholfield, Paris, 1912, is part of a new display in the Wren library looking at the correspondence of Trinity Fellow, A.S.F Gow. archives.trin.cam.ac.uk/index.php/pa... #exhibition #archive

Why did Samuel Palmer and William Blake paint landscape but hate nature? Find out more in this new story 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/why-did-samuel-palmer-and-william-blake-paint-landscape-but-hate-nature 'The Harvest Moon' by Samuel Palmer (1805–1881) 📷 Yale Center for British Art

On the 80th anniversary of the opening of the Nuremberg Trials Harvard Law School Library releases the first set of digitised records. hls.harvard.edu/today/harvar...

The History of Parliament is excited to announce this year's Annual Lecture! On 16 December in Portcullis House, Rt Hon. Nick Thomas-Symonds will be speaking on 'Clement Attlee’s Labour Governments of 1945-51: A Reappraisal'. Tickets are FREE and can be found in the link below:

A dramatic looking @stpaulscathedral.bsky.social this evening.

Enter the happy world of MS digitization & other technologies that have allowed libraries around the world to share their MS treasures online. About 2 years ago, it was announced that old photographs of the Breslau Codex survived. The negatives were digitized & can now be studied on Berlin servers.

Calling all French language and literature enthusiasts!🥐📚 Visit @mfoxford.bsky.social this Friday for an exciting one-day conference: 'Languages and literatures of the Francophone world in libraries and archives' Full details here: mfo.web.ox.ac.uk/event/study-...

Help! @frenchhistory.bsky.social really wanted this for journal cover next year (we’ve got exciting things coming on quantitative and computational methods) but it’s a challenge finding higher res versions/rights holder. Do YOU have suggestions to track these down OR alternative, similar images? 🙏🏻 🗃️

More than half (51%) of published novelists in the UK believe AI is likely to end up replacing their work, says a new survey of 258 authors from the University of Cambridge 👇 #BookSky

21.00 and #BBCiplayer Turner painted the world like no-one else, yet his life remains a mystery. Tracey Emin, Timothy Spall and Ronnie Wood explore his personal sketches to reveal the man behind the art.

And that's why you can't have ink in the reading room! Historic damage to a 1647 pamphlet on infant baptism by John Cotton #readers

📣 Happening Tomorrow! 📣 OHNI's final FREE virtual oral history meet-up of 2025, Oral History Reflections. 📆 Thursday 20 November 2025 🕖 7-9pm. 💻 Via Zoom All welcome! oralhistorynetworkireland.ie/event/online... #OralHistory #Ireland #IrishResearch #OHNI #OralHistoryProject #Reflections

It’s #HillfortsWednesday! Did you know that there are more than 150 hillforts, hilltop and hillslope enclosures recorded on land cared for by the National Trust? They're amazing archaeological sites, but also real havens for nature. 🧵

It was a beautiful #sunrise this morning.

Not just a pretty building. Inside, you notice the details: soft light, worn steps, carved railings. It wasn’t built to impress, it was built to welcome. This place has held leaflets, love letters, manifestos and more. It looks historic because it is. Come in. What’s your favourite corner?

POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success

It’s publication day! Spread the word. The perfect Christmas gift for the pessimist in your life.

"In these books, transformation is thrust upon the protagonist which forces a irrevocable change, and not always for the better. These stories ask us to reflect on natural and organic change versus the consequences of forced transformation." bookedsolidinsantafe.wordpress.com/2025/11/17/s...

CFP: www.northampton.ac.uk/research-blo... Nostalgia and Radical Politics, Past and Present, a 2 day workshop (15-16 June 2026) 🗃️Please share - and submit an abstract!

New issue of Manuscript Studies: A Journal of the @sims-mss.bsky.social Vol. 10, No. 2 (2025) muse.jhu.edu/issue/55895 #openaccess @pennpress.bsky.social @projectmuse.bsky.social @lisafdavis.bsky.social @borizzle.bsky.social @teachingcodex.bsky.social

Happy International Students’ Day! 🎓🌍 We're celebrating 8000+ international students in 157 countries currently studying with us. 💙 To all the students daring to dream and learn, your journey inspires us! 🤩 #InternationalStudentsDay

CALLING ALL #CAMBRIDGE MUSEUM & NATURAL HISTORY NERDS! This Thursday, the fabulous @sedgwickmuseum.bsky.social opens late for "Behind the Scenes Uncovered" - alongside a bunch of cool activities, I'll be doing an "in-conversation" about my book #NaturesMemory. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sedgwick-m...

Read 'Mary Shelley and the Scottish Gothic Tradition' > www.nls.uk/collections/... #MaryShelley #Scottish #Gothic #Dundee #Frankenstein #NLS100

#CFP: "Poetry's Environments" June 9-11, 2026 (University of Leeds, UK) Keynote speaker: Simon Armitage Deadline for proposal: December 5th 2025 Info: conferences.leeds.ac.uk/poetryenviro... #envhum #envhist #ecolit #environment #poetry #ecocriticism