And @cont-brit-hist.bsky.social seminar series has another great paper lined up for Weds 11 Feb, 5.30pm (in-person) on Vivienne Westwood's Punk & Britishness 🧷. What's not to like? Do join us & book your place today 👇. @ihr.bsky.social #skystorians www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Great paper this evening given by @amyloulongmuir.bsky.social on fascinating PhD project looking at how socialist-feminists viewed value of women’s work, 1968-1992. And great chairing by @d-j-frost.bsky.social. This was for our @cont-brit-hist.bsky.social seminar series @ihr.bsky.social.

Superb discussion here on Xi Jinping, his father Xi Zhongxun, and China in the @lrb.co.uk by @tomstevenson.bsky.social

I particularly like the #LEGO brick minibuild of the raising of the Mary Rose…

What makes a good collection? 📚🏆✨ Join judges and winners for a behind-the-scenes look at book collecting prizes: how to craft a winning entry and the prizes currently on offer for students and young collectors. 📅 3 Feb, 6pm 📍 Senate House, London This event is free, booking is required

What great news for @thegibsonlibrary.bsky.social #libraries #digitisation #rarebooks #manuscripts

Library Shelfie Day is always a great excuse to show off the variety of ages, colours, shapes and sizes on the shelves of our rare book collections! 📷 Syon Abbey Library, Chris Brooks Collection, Hypatia Collection and Dodderidge Parish Library #LibraryShelfieDay #ShelfieDay #RareBooks

Happy memories of Freuds in Oxford. Glad the building will be in use again.

‘Evening…

‘A collection of letters in the Adolf Placzek and Ernst Philipp Archive at the University of London Senate House offers a rare insight into the practical difficulties and hardships faced by those seeking to escape Nazi oppression just before WW2.’ A blog by my colleague Kat Hubschmann #HMD2026

🚨NEWLY CATALOGUED COLLECTION🚨 We are delighted to announce that after a 2-year project, the Arthur Scargill Archive is now available for research in our public reading room!🎉 More info➡️ tinyurl.com/cz3s5dxk Browse the catalogue➡️ tinyurl.com/vn4xvdd6 @mrcwarwick.bsky.social @sslh.bsky.social

It's a good job you weren't with us for lunch; the ash-tray had Houses of Parliament on it, & mum says she had her eye on it.

'We cannot stay silent' #HolocaustMemorialDay #HMD2026 #LightTheDarkness From the papers of Aaron Rapoport Rollin (1885-1972), trade unionist and Jewish activist. mrc-describe.epexio.com/records/ROL/...

True…

This #HolocaustMemorialDay, 'Bridging Generations', the Holocaust Educational Trust has put together a selection of readings that invite us to consider our own obligations. You can read them here. Then, why not look for more information in your local #Library? www.het.org.uk/news-and-eve...

An exciting new acquisition for our archive, donated by the daughter of a survivor who saved hundreds of artworks by a notable Czech polymath. Peter Kien's life was cut short by the Holocaust, now his work will be preserved for future generations... @thetimes.com www.thetimes.com/uk/history/a...

Eighty-one years ago today, over 7,000 prisoners of the German Nazi camp #Auschwitz, including some 700 children, were liberated by the soldiers of the Soviet Army. 1,689 days of murder, pain, suffering, and humiliation were over. Today, we all remember. We must keep remembering.

'Bush Flowers' by Raelene Stevens, contemporary Indigenous Australian artist #WomensArt

It's #MapMonday ! This colourful 'map of the Ulster counties' is from the Hardiman Atlas collection, deposited in DRI by Trinity College Dublin. The Hardiman Atlas contains nearly 90 maps and plans and is one of the largest sets of original Tudor and early Stuart maps of Ireland surviving anywhere.

📍EVENT | @thefnl.bsky.social briefing on Acceptance in Lieu (AIL) & Cultural Gifts Scheme (CGS) 🗓 11 March, 14:00 This free virtual event by Friends of the Nations' Libraries will explain how libraries can benefit from AIL, CGS and private treaty sales. 🎟 Sign up at bit.ly/4jTnTXC

Applications for the David Murray Book Collecting Prize are now open! If you’re a student developing a collection of books or printed materials, we want to hear from you! 🧑‍🎓 📚 To find out more and apply, go to: www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li... #UofG #UofGLibrary

📢 Join us at the Library next month for the launch of the RIBA Refugee Committee online database! This new research hub details the lives and works of the more than 200 refugees from Nazi-occupied Central Europe who were assisted by the RIBA Refugee Committee Tickets:

If you have graduate students working with medieval manuscripts this free online training might be useful 👇 www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

This year's Stevenson Lecture will examine the library assembled at Auchincruive House in Ayr by Glasgow merchant Richard Oswald (c.1705–1784) — in light of Oswald’s extensive profits from the transatlantic slave trade. 📅 25 Feb, 6pm 📍 Senate House, London This event is free, booking is required.

A wonderful blog from last year on #BBC Written Archive Centre descriptions in The Location Register of English Literary Manuscripts and Letters @uniofreading.bsky.social @uorspeccoll.bsky.social #archives #manuscripts #letters

The @warmwelcomeuk.bsky.social Awards are now open for nominations! #Libraries - here is your chance to show the impact you have made to the Warm Welcome initiative. #WarmWelcomeWeek

‘What sort of people would we be if we didn’t go into the Library?’ #libraries

In February 2026 @senatehouselib.bsky.social is seeking to appoint a Printer in Residence. This is to be an important part of the public engagement programme for the upcoming exhibition ‘The English Print Revolution: Caxton and Beyond’, and to provide a contemporary response to it in print. 1/3

‘Hedgehogs roam side by side with foxes in our gardens’ - I wonder what Isaiah Berlin would have made of this?

#otd 1961

It's Penguin Appreciation day today, here's one of the earliest we can find on a map, from John Senex's 'South America corrected from the observations comunicated to the Royal Society’s of London & Paris', 1710. More on the map here blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/maps/2019/02... @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Want to support Warm Welcome Week? ❤️💜🩷🧡 Join us by making the 100% Pledge for All this Warm Welcome Week and support Warm Welcome spaces offering warmth, connection and belonging close to home. warmwelcome.uk/100-pledge #WarmWelcomeWeek #WarmWelcomeSpaces

Applications are open for Scoping Grants worth £3000! Apply by 19 February to have an independent consultant produce an expert collections report on a full or partial archival collection. Apply here: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-rev... (1/2)

#BlueMonday indeed…

Gordon Forster Essay Prize 2026 Deadline: 1 May 2026 Open to postgraduate students and ECRs, the winner receives £200 and their essay will be considered for publication. Essays should fit within the journal’s aims & scope, and be between 7000-10000 words (inc. footnotes). Please repost.

This #WarmWelcomeWeek Download our #WarmSpaces guide for public libraries (or any space such as a museum or place of worship) to learn how to transform your community space into a Warm Space👇 www.cilip.org.uk/page/warmspa...

It is #WarmWelcomeWeek! Public #Libraries are central to the @warmwelcomeuk.bsky.social campaign and will be busy this week. Sutton Central Library, for example, is hosting a cosy board game morning on Thursday. sutton.events.mylibrary.digital/event?id=264...

Has your archive successfully generated income using practical and creative initiatives? Apply to be a speaker in our fundraising webinar series by 31 January: www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/EJERFR/ This is a fantastic way to showcase your brilliant work and share best practice with the wider sector!

Some really engaging looking papers already in and a programme starting to shape up nicely! With a closing date this Sunday, there's one more week to stake your claim to a place on the bill...

The Goddess Bastet in Her form of sacred cat playing with her kitten ❤ Date: c. 664-332 BC. Collection: Louvre Museum Photographer: Rama via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 #Caturday

The Warneford Hospital is marking 200 years since it was founded as the Radcliffe Asylum with a year-long touring exhibition. 'Warneford 200' opened yesterday in the Museum of Oxford (free until 24 Jan) before visiting Abingdon, Banbury, Cowley, Didcot, Wantage and Woodstock. warneford200.co.uk

“Turn again Whittington, thrice Lord Mayor of London!" Spotted in the wild this morning atop the Whittington Stone #Caturday

Congratulations to Misha Glenny, @simontillotson.bsky.social and all involved with In Our Time. A timely (or timeless?) discussion of JS Mill and Harriet Taylor Mill “On Liberty”.

‘To read a book openly is its own act of advocacy’ nice idea here to #MakeBooksVisible from @thebookseller.com #books #reading

Event: 'Votes for Women in Halifax and West Yorkshire' sslh.org.uk/2026/01/15/v...

‘A little while later, however, a bullet shot past my ear with a vicious crack…Alas! I ducked. All my life I had sworn that I would not duck the first time a bullet passed over me; but the movement appears to be instinctive, and almost everybody does it at least once.’ #GeorgeOrwell

Wonderful end to a great day celebrating 💯 #WomensLibrary at @lselibrary.bsky.social @fotwl.bsky.social with Sally Alexander & Mary Evans reflecting on their interactions with its collections & archivists. It shaped their scholarship & feminism & this in turn influenced those coming in their wake.

Always remember: clean, dry hands are best when handling rare books, manuscripts and archives!

The Institute of Philosophy in the University of London is 20 years old! A celebration next week: philosophy.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...