🥬We’re thrilled to have received a Green Impact Gold award! Green Impact is a United Nations award-winning programme and over the year we completed 52 actions covering waste, energy, biodiversity, food, travel & sustainable resource use.🌿 #GreenImpact @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Join colleagues from archives, academia and research on 24 June (1pm) for the second summer seminar of the History and Archives in Practice series. This session focuses on the Preserving the Local Newspaper Archive project: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/preserving... (1/2)

#SunnyAfternoon here.

We're thrilled to have joined Bluesky 🎉 Follow us for updates on library resources, research support, open access, including LSHTM Press and highlights from our archives. We're looking forward to connecting and sharing with you here soon! 🙌

On an early trip to London as a child I was taken to see ‘Hockney Paints the Stage’ at the Hayward Gallery. I still remember gleefully and obliviously running about and exploring what was for me an “immersive” exhibition. A postcard remained stuck on my wall for many years after.

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Phantoms in the Classroom: Midwifery Training in Enlightenment Europe 18 June 2026, 1pm-2pm Join us at Wellcome Collection for our Historical Health & The Body Reading Group for PhD, ECR & interested historical researchers. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

It's exhibition launch week! To mark the 400th anniversary of his birth, and the exhibition, Louise Ryland-Epton explores the radical ideas contained in John Aubrey's long-unpublished 'Natural History of Wiltshire' in a blog for @royalsociety.org. Read more here 👉 bit.ly/4vbsIQT

Just about a week to go before Gemma and myself reflect on the Roving Archivist project placement at the Royal Veterinary College. We’ll consider the condition and status of the RVC’s historical records prior to the placement and the direction for future development of the archives. #archives

Interested in learning more about the Roving Archivist project @senatehouselib.bsky.social ? Why not join us at this @cilip.bsky.social Academic & Research Libraries Group online lunchtime webinar on 16 June. Event details and how to book are here: www.cilip.org.uk/events/Event...

Join us on 8 July (10AM) for a free online workshop where we’ll explore techniques and strategies for retaining business-critical knowledge when staff change position or leave an organisation. Ideal for archive managers! Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/succession...

Here's a picture of a nice cup of tea. The biscuits weren't around long enough to be drawn #NationalBiscuitDay You won't be surprised to hear that the MRC has the archives of the Cake and Biscuit Alliance Limited. mrc-describe.epexio.com/records/CAB/...

Good night and good luck and goodbye — CBS News Radio signs off after nearly 100 years

Born #OTD in 1859, #ArthurConanDoyle visited the #BritishMuseum reading room for the 1st time in April 1891. Here is his reader’s application & signature from when he attended. #archives #sherlockholmes

Tomorrow! “Celebrate the online 'Spineless Wonders' exhibition with presentations exploring the printing, publishing, and communities surrounding ephemera, artists' books and pamphlets.” #rarebooks #ephemera #pamphlets #artistsbooks #art #books #libraries #archives #printing #publishing

Awesome! What a wonderful opportunity to see these up close @bodleian.ox.ac.uk.

Lovely to see old colleagues from @bodleian.ox.ac.uk yesterday evening and hear Andrew’s @bibsoc.bsky.social talk on his work on English twelfth-century bindings at the Bodleian Library. 👇

A superb day yesterday at #FirstsLondon helping out at our stall and display space and talking about our library and collections. #libraries #archives #rarebooks #specialcollections

Celebrating #InternationalMuseumDay with a new Bluesky arrival! 🦕🥾 Welcome to Kendal Museum @kendalmuseum.bsky.social (and their questionable Victorian taxidermy) Looking for more museums and archives? 250+ listed at go.bsky.app/Ms7endH

Hanging out with @ies-sas.bsky.social and @bibsoc.bsky.social at Firsts today. Celebrating all things bookish. #BookHistory

One city. 9 million people. All of us Londoners. We will never be divided.

We’re here, head on through to the back room when you enter and we’re on your left!

“People are always talking about what's wrong with the country - nothing is wrong with the country, I go there every summer.” Happy 100th birthday to Eric Morecambe.

‘So it was lumped in with the rest. But it was never, even on early lists, a ‘self-portrait’. It was always a ‘portrait of Turner’. Gradually, over the years, it became an assumption that it was by him.’

Spotted this morning on my journey to @icr.ac.uk as Roving Archivist @senatehouselib.bsky.social We are the official charity partner of @abararebooks.bsky.social at #FirstsLondon this year. Starting today, you’ll find us there with examples from our collections on the theme of “Revolution!”.

12 May is Mass Observation Day in the UK! If you want to be part of this cool ongoing social history project, read more here - massobs.org.uk/12th-may/

New exhibition open: When Britain Stood Still: The General Strike at 100 Explore how workers, politicians & trade unionists responded to the 1926 General Strike & how opposition was organised against it www.ncl.ac.uk/library/special-collections/exhibitions/when-britain-stood-still #GeneralStrike100

As thousands march opposing antisemitism today, we reaffirm London’s values. We will continue to stand in solidarity with our Jewish neighbours in the fight against antisemitism.

Sylvia Townsend Warner Fundraising Appeal - Dorset Archives Trust is leading a fundraising appeal to bring the Archive of #SylviaTownsendWarner (1893-1978) into the public domain through the creation of a full catalogue. Donations are being accepted until the end of June 2026. Full details here 👇

José Luis Rey Vila’s powerful sketches of street battles and wearied soldiers brought the conflict to the world. A new show in Barcelona celebrates his overlooked legacy. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

‘Beginning the journey’: a reflection on the Roving Archivist project @senatehouselib.bsky.social and the first placement at the Royal Academy of Music. #archives

A century and a half of history encased in more than 1,500 archive boxes After three years, conservation and cataloguing of the archives of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) has been completed...

Really inspiring project @uclalibrary.bsky.social to survey and document their audiovisual collections. #archives

#OTD in 1517, rioters ran through the streets of London on Evil May Day, targeting immigrant workers. It’s a familiar story: nativist rioters felt that "strangers" (immigrants) were stealing their jobs. The riot itself was mild but the royal reaction was severe, resulting in many executions. 🧵 1/11

We're excited to announce our new exhibition: The Birds of America by JJ Audubon: A World Treasure at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/free-exhib...

A glimpse of everyday life in ancient #Greece: a terracotta figurine group depicting a barber cutting a man's hair. From Tanagra, Greece, dating early 5th century BC. On display at Altes Museum, Berlin 📷 me 🏺

In Oxford for one day between two trips - which is a little stressful. But glad I picked the moment when the wisteria and the lilac are doing their thing along Queen’s Lane. Sorry I can’t share the scent…

ilab.org/article/caxt... A nice overview of the current Caxton exhibition @senatehouselib.bsky.social from the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers. Open until 1 July 2026, so do pop by if you’re in Bloomsbury. It’s free!

🐢 The gigantic land tortoises of the Galapagos Archipelago San Francisco, Britton & Rey, 1914. [Source]

My book comes out next month and I'd love to talk to your research group/seminar series/PGRs about it! Potential talk topics: Why do we think natural history museums are for kids? How public are our public museums? Truth and fiction in the museum Looting: empire in the museum...

Day 29: #ArchiveFuture #Archive30 Like many archives worldwide, we are increasingly receiving material born in digital formats. Future plans will involve building expertise and resources to manage and preserve these materials. @arascot.bsky.social @falklandsinuk.bsky.social

What a glorious day! And happy graduation to those at #Birkbeck celebrating today.

Today is International Dance Day! We love this photograph from our University Archive of students dancing the night away at a Valentine's pyjama hop in February 1959! 📷 EUL UA/P/3h #InternationalDanceDay #UniOfExeterArchive #Archives

Great radio here on the death and life of “Shakespeare’s Master” Christopher Marlowe.

Last week, Our Digital Director John Sheridan visited Marx Memorial Library to present their staff, volunteers and trustees with the archive’s first accreditation certificate! Congratulations to the team at Marx Memorial Library!

📢 Kafka events this term! ⏰ 8 May, 5.30pm - Kafka’s Dreams: A Fragile Legacy (Isolde Schiffermüller) 📍 Taylorian, Oxford or online ⏰4 June, 4pm - The Silent Songs of Josefine (Can Bilir) 🎼 📍 Holywell Music Room, Oxford Book your free place now: tinyurl.com/497z58aj #franzkafka

My PhD student Peter Wood wrote a brilliant dissertation on postwar homelessness policy that massively changed my understanding of the issues. He'll be speaking about it with other historians of homelessness at @rshc.bsky.social 22 May. Do sign up! homelessnessinpostwarbritain.eventbrite.co.uk

The Anatomy Uncovered event is now only a couple of days away so this is the final call to book your place. A completely unique opportunity to see a specially curated collection of historic anatomy books and enjoy expert talks to help contextualise the viewing experience go.glam.ox.ac.uk/anato