Call For Papers: Teaching With Ovid. Any aspect of teaching Ovid in the classroom, for a 2-day symposium on 12-13 June 2026. Classicist teaching Ovid? Medievalist teaching the Ovide moralise? Librarian/archivist with historic copies of Ovid to share? Take a look: shorturl.at/RiviU Deadline 16 Jan.

#BannedBooksWeek: Knitting without Prejudice Workshop + Listening #SouthsideLibrary Wed Oct 8 2–5pm Please join Santa Fe Art Institute’s artist-in-residence Vagner Mendonça Whitehead for a 3-hr workshop that combines #LoomKnitting while listening to a #BBC performance of 1984.

At the Battle of Cable Street on 4 October 1936, at least 100,000 people, including Jewish residents, Irish dock workers, Communists and Labour Party members prevented a march by Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists (BUF) from passing through the East End...

“Exploratory rather than explanatory” - a great online exhibition, with digital images, of Accent, a journal edited and published by students of Leeds College of Art (now Leeds Arts University), 1958-1964 www.leeds-art.ac.uk/whats-happen...

Our full conference schedule is now available to view on our website! Check it out here: memrnchase.wordpress.com/memrn-winter... And if you'd like to register to join us virtually, registrations for virtual attendance are now open via Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1559240072...

Archives, memory, representation & empowerment - and the gaps in the records... We really enjoyed taking part in this event at @rshc.bsky.social, sharing stories around labour movement collections & records of resistance - from the MRC's origins to the NUM archives via the Spanish Civil War & Chile

Are there people writing online diaries today, about their daily experiences? Or has Instsgram, X etc scooped up this material? I'm looking to find compelling online diarists -- suggestions gratefully received.

What happens when a historian gets curious in the archive? Well, records like this Uni of Melb Women's Admission documents (1869-1887) come into view. This collection includes correspondence and documents regarding admissions and matriculation policy and lists of women attendees and graduates.

"Herald of a Restless World is the best introduction I know of to Bergson’s life and thought, in either English or French. It is also the most delightful book I’ve read about him, written with clarity, joy, humor, and narrative drive" 💅💅💅

Whilst looking through documents for our Crime and Punishment course- which starts on Thursday- we came across these lovely sketches in the petty sessions minute book. We think the minute taker must have been bored.

Our team has been hard at work setting up the library, putting the books in place, connecting the PCs, and arranging our Mr Tolkien bust! We won't share any pictures yet. You'll have to wait for the grand opening for that! We're looking forward to welcoming you all on Monday! 🤩✨🥁 #HumsLibraryMove

Are you a #school #teacher introducing students to #Chaucer? Come along to this amazing #free #event on Saturday 4 October, to discover resources & share expertise. From tackling the #medieval language to creative methods. I'll be there! ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... Please share! Booking info 👇

There's a shady character on Queen Street. Twice in the year, at the vernal and autumnal equinoxes, the dawn light shines right along Ingram Street, turning the Iron Duke, his steed, Copenhagen, and even his traffic cone hat, into a shadowy work of art. Picture: u/Hoyerman68

Reading looking striking this morning.

Volume IV of the OUP edition of William Godwin’s letters, now at press, includes an extensive description of his 1816 visit to Abbotsford, together with four letters to Sir Walter Scott (d. OTD 1832), all written in 1824, the same year that Edwin Landseer painted this portrait of Scott at home.

Intriguing to read in Koestler’s Darkness at Noon that during a purge of a library and the removal and reissuing of texts that “one time Rubashov joked to Orlova that the only thing left was to take daily newspapers from years gone by and print new and improved editions.” #GeorgeOrwell

The #BlueSky today is magnificent. Happy Friday!

Worrying news from the US of budgetary threats and cuts to archives, records management centres and historical records repositories - “we must substantially reinvest in our public archives, libraries, and historical institutions.” #archives #libraries @saa-official.bsky.social

Budgetary threats to state and territorial archives, records management centers, and historical records repositories are increasing across the United States. These cuts risk long-term harm to our states' archives, libraries, and historical societies.

Sign up for this great-looking conference here! #AngelaLansbury angelalansbury100.wordpress.com

Digitization alert! We recently digitized materials by and about Irish patriot and suffragist Maud Gonne. The materials include correspondence, photo, articles, Women's Prisoners' Defence League records, and more. Check them out: https://findingaids.bc.edu/repositories/2/resources/254/digitized

Recently joined the RCN? Come along to our next 'Introduction to RCN Library services' event and find out about the resources and support on offer. 📅Tuesday 30 September, 2 – 2:45pm 🖥️Online https://bit.ly/46CVpMJ

Hello Bluesky! We are an independent group of Friends that support The Women's Library at LSE through fundraising, donations, publicity, advice, and activities. Find out more about our history and our work here: friendsofthewomenslibrary.org.uk

How extraordinary to have the first vial of the vaccine. Interesting, too, that the collecting project began in early March 2020, before the lockdown began. A swift and far-sighted response. Thank you!

What a wonderful achievement! #archives

I wonder what other lockdown projects were undertaken by archivists and librarians?

I wish there were more attention and support for projects that have been trying for over a decade to address this problem

For one day only! The Book Game on Kindle for just 99p!

In the archive this morning for our free exhibition as part of Heritage Open Days at the Red House: focus on the modern architecture commissioned by Britten, Pears, and their circle. Open today and also both days next weekend!

A library card is more than access to books; it’s your key to opportunity. With it, you can explore free digital tools, stream movies and music, get job search support, and save money on everything from learning resources to entertainment.

World Book Club: Arthur Conan Doyle – The Hound of the Baskervilles On BBC Sounds: Harriet Gilbert, @damedenisemina.bsky.social & @drmjones.bsky.social – co-host of @doingsofdoyle.com – discuss Sherlock Holmes’s lasting influence on crime & detective fiction 💙📚 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

See here for details of an upcoming symposium on Stefan Collini’s History of English Studies in Britain with @stuartjones.bsky.social and others @ies-sas.bsky.social @uolondon.bsky.social

We now have the programme finalised for our conference in October Join us @thelondonarchives.bsky.social ‬to hear about #archives and #digitisation from @thefreethinkermag.bsky.social @uoyborthwick.bsky.social @wellcomecollection.bsky.social National Institute for Newman Studies t.co/Eu14sJM99C

Such a great looking symposium! Sorry I couldn’t attend and best wishes to all.

Long shot, but do any of my medievally inclined Blooskers happen to have access to the 1991 vol of Essays in Medieval Studies?? I desperately need to read one of its articles!!

This is very much “my” Orwell biography: it came out when I was first discovering his works and I read it as a young teenager. Will be intrigued to re-read it again now, all these years later. #GeorgeOrwell

Greatly looking forward to the Lucian Freud: Drawing into Painting exhibition at #NationalPortraitGallery www.npg.org.uk/whatson/exhi...

A reminder that Anneliese Dodds, who resigned from Starmer's government, is giving the Rita Hinden memorial lecture for @renewaljournal.bsky.social on Tuesday. With the government in obvious distress and a deputy leadership contest imminent, I am intrigued about what she will say.

This is great (reading it on my phone on a train…)

Of all the theories for the sinking of the Mary Rose, "It was overladen with sausages" is certainly in the top five weirdest... Shame they got the year wrong... www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

We're taking our Portsmouth Area Railway Pasts exhibition to the Hampshire Genealogical Society conference day, tomorrow! Delighted to showcase the exhibition - strong #LocalHistory & #FamilyHistory links! More on the project that produced it: www.railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk/portsmouth-a...

On #PublicationDay for A History of England in 25 Poems, @senatehouselib.bsky.social have published this blog post I wrote about how treasures in the collection inspired and informed the #book. A series of short films coming up, too! #library #rarebooks #archive www.london.ac.uk/senate-house...

A little taster for our MA students’ degree show at @uwebristolofficial.bsky.social Spike Island City Campus. Private View tomorrow - Thurs 4th Sept 5pm - 8pm, all welcome! Open daily from Friday 5th to Weds 10th September, 12-5pm. City Campus, Spike Island, 133 Cumberland Road, Bristol BS1 6UX.

Released 76 years ago today. The large central axis of Vienna's giant Ferris Wheel – 10.9 meters long, 0.5 meters in diameter, 16.3 tons in weight – was supplied by the steelworks W. Beardmore & Co of Glasgow. More to us than the cuckoo clock... www.youtube.com/watch?v=21h0...

Anybody out there working on the history of East Anglia who recognises this?

🧨EXPLORE our Public Sculpture of Britain biographies! Browse the full A–Z here: pssauk.org/public-sculp... ‘R’ is for Gerda Rubinstein (1931–2022) — Dutch sculptor shaped by war and hope, known for figurative, bird, and animal forms. Her public works feature across the UK, notably Harlow.

Extraordinary sky here…

"Photographer Jason Fulford, a friend and recipient of [Jason] Polan’s mail art, has edited The Post Office (Printed Matter), a collection of saved letters, cards and other ephemera from Polan’s fans and friends and the artist too."

Welcome to our friends at @bodhumslib.bsky.social! We know a lot of hard work is going into this book move, so why not follow along?

‘An England that stayed asleep, wandering in a dream and forgetting what decency is and why it matters, is the world inherited by Winston Smith.’ Thorougly enjoyed this fine book by Nathan Waddell on #GeorgeOrwell and the everyday, quotidian ordinariness that fill all our lives and bring such joys.