Buzzing after a day of presentations about potentialities of AI & cultural heritage by AI for Cultural Heritage Hub (ArCH), a collaborative project led by @theul.bsky.social Research Institute and other partners. Especially enjoyed hearing about decolonial efforts @scottpolar.bsky.social

More destruction of the cultural heritage in Iran. Chehel Sotun in Isfahan, dating back to the 17th c, a UNESCO World Heritage site sustained damage in the war.

My student created this guide about the Abbot Academy telescope built by Alvan Clark & Sons for 1874 transit of Venus. From Lens to Legacy: Advancement of Astronomy at Abbot Academy & Phillips Academy owhlguides.andover.edu/lens_to_legacy #HistSci #astronomy cc @rmathematicus.bsky.social

Registration for the SHARPIES—our totally online Book History Festival—is now open and free for SHARP members! 📚😀 If you're not a member, it's easy to join (membership is between $55 and $100). The festival will take place July 7th-9th with events across time zones. events.zoom.us/ev/Ap9iEZwmC...

Check it out: museums.fivecolleges.edu

For the "everything is online" crowd in the back: Important to consider that "everything" cultural heritage related that is accessible online represents only 1% (one percent) of archives, libraries, and museum collections worldwide.

📢 Join the @ihr.bsky.social Digital History seminar on 17 March (midday UK time) for Vincent Hiribarren on the topic 'Historian vs AI: who reads and analyses archives best'. All our seminars are live on Zoom and published after on our YouTube channel ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2025/09/tues... #dhist

JOB: Curator or Associate Curator of Maps & Geography at @bplmaps.bsky.social (Boston) www.leventhalmap.org/about/jobs/c... #maps #PublicHistory #geography

With the expanding campaign in the Middle East, I'm thinking once again of the importance of programs like @scholarsatrisk.bsky.social and our own At-Risk and Displaced Academics and Artists program with the Royal Society of Canada. rsc-src.ca/en/programme...

Please join CLA Board Vice-Chair Sara Georgini on Wednesday, March 4th at 7 pm EST for "Defending Democracy in the Stacks," a fantastic conversation organized by the Ellsberg Initiative for Peace and Democracy. Registration is free via Zoom: bit.ly/4ruKgFZ

We’re pleased to announce our first publications of 2026! We have 4 new #OpenAccess articles to enjoy: “Leveraging Consumer-Level AI for Descriptive Metadata Creation in Archival Collections," by Hope Dunbar & Ken Axford of SUNY Buffalo Libraries: elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol13/i... (1/4)

📢 Nominations are now open for the 2026 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History! The prize celebrates the best of digital history internationally. Anything published since ~Jan 2025 is eligible. Nominate your work or work you love. Details ➡️ ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2021/12/the-... #dhist

The Material Evidence in Incunabula (MEI) database by CERL tracks copy-specific evidence in 15th-century books. Freely accessible and continually expanding through international collaboration. 🔎 Explore MEI: data.cerl.org/mei/_search

Job posting: Head of Digital Collections @ Smithsonian National Museum of American History. Closing: 03/13/26; $143,910-$187,093 (GS 14). Located w/in Digital Collections team, Digital Access & Archives Dept, Public History Div. To lead NMAH’s efforts to expand te impact of its digital collections

Look what arrived in the post, featuring an essay by yours truly.

Registration now open for this year's #QueerBib conference. 12-13 MARCH papers (c. 2pm to 10pm GMT each day), 14 MARCH workshop. Queer Bibliography 2026: Space, Place, Community. Online and in-person (Athens, GA). Registration free. guides.libs.uga.edu/c.php?g=1513...

PLEASE REPOST 🥺🙏 The Canadian Letters & Images Project is an online digital archive of Canadians’ experience during wartime at home & in battle. It contains thousands of personal letters & photos that reveal people’s experience through their own words & eyes. www.canadianletters.ca/content/abou...

"Information without origin is a liability." Introducing the UVA Archival AI Protocol, an AI training and access standard for archival organizations. Read more: https://library.virginia.edu/news/2026/protecting-what-remains-introducing-uva-archival-ai-protocol #AI #Archives #EthicalAI

It's possible to do a non-reactionary critique of the current landscape of humanities research funding: www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

The CERL Provenance Working Group has just published its annual newsletter, with reports on projects and ongoing research, case studies, internships and fellowships, events and publications, contributed by colleagues all over Europe. www.cerl.org/collaboratio...

"I have taken the liberty of directing Murray to send you a copy of my book on the Origin of species..." -Charles #Darwin to John Herschel (Nov. 11, 1859) (Today you can consult Herschel's copy of the Origin here @ransomcenter.bsky.social!) sites.utexas.edu/ransomcenter... #histSTM #DarwinDay 🗃️📜

1/ Important new article by Dr. Tara Inniss that discusses the "chronic underfunding, aging infrastructure, and climatic threats" of Caribbean archives, compounded by vulnerabilities and policy gaps. Thread w recent examples of destruction of collections by fire: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Welcome to CRRJ on @bsky.app! Launched in 2007 by @nusl.bsky.social Professor Margaret Burnham, CRRJ is the premier academic program in the U.S. examining current racial inequities through the lens of history, investigating racially motivated violence and seeking reparative justice. crrj.org/about/

Content Authenticity and Provenance in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: A Call-to-Action for the LAMs Community drive.google.com/file/d/1VMkN... by Kate Murray and Joshua Sternfeld #archives #museums #ai

Rare Book School is accepting applications for our summer 2026 courses—including new course offerings & partner locations in the U.S. and U.K.! Details: rarebookschool.org/schedule The first-round deadline is 𝟭𝟳 𝗙𝗲𝗯𝗿𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆. Applications received after that date will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

Now online and accepting applications. The 2026 AAS Summer Seminar in the History of the Book— “Paper Relations: Hisrories and Futures of Indigenous Print Cultures” Led by Katie Walkiewicz and Kelly Wisecup. Deadline to apply is April 3!

Since taking office, the Trump administration has launched a full-scale assault on #AmericanHistory, the latest in a centuries-old attempt at revisionist history. Access the SPLC's new #Hatewatch timeline outlining the attacks and putting them in historical context 🔗: https://bit.ly/4rAb6Mp

Don't forget to nominate any #DH resources for DH Awards 2025 so they get on the ballot! Deadline coming up soon! dhawards.org/dhawards2025... The current distribution of votes per category is a tad uneven and you can probably guess which categories are which!

Digitization in countries beyond Europe and North America is often a fine balance between standards and realities on the ground. Several institutions provide digitization guidelines (and grants) that have been developed for projects in such locations. Here I point to some:

Ben and Sara Brumfield of From The Page are approaching AI in the context of transcription in a very thoughtful way. I've just made a new list of manuscripts (diaries, account books, correspondence) to digitize & transcribe. #archives cc @scottbot.bsky.social

One month from today, I will be discussing my book Canal Dreamers at @amantiquarian.bsky.social in Worcester, MA. It is a hybrid event so distant folks can join the fun! March 5, 7-8 PM. Here's the registration link: www.americanantiquarian.org/programs-eve... @uncpress.bsky.social #skystorians 🗃️

If you are doing @douglassday.bsky.social with various history and digital humanities classes across the country, there is an info session to learn more this Friday, February 6, 2026, at 12 PM EST. Remember to register and come help us put our knowledge of cursive to good use! douglassday.org

I can finally share the happy news 🚀 liiive.now — my tool for real-time collaborative annotation of #IIIF images — is going open source! First code is available here: github.com/rsimon/liiive Self-hosted setup coming by end of February. #OpenSource #DigitalHumanities

Fantastic public history gigs for 2 postdocs at Brown! #PublicHistory cc @ncph.bsky.social

CFP: Colonial Hinter-Seas: A Conference on Subaquatic Resources and Waterside Lives from the Early Modern to the Contemporary, August 2026, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

True story! The @jcblibrary.bsky.social is hosting a (nearly) year long series of events about History & Journalism -- there's never been a better year to think about this. Beginning w 4 online events in February, interviews with 3 amazing journalists, and then a panel with 3 amazing historians.

📚 La bibliothèque de l’École est heureuse d’annoncer l’ouverture de sa nouvelle bibliothèque numérique patrimoniale. Elle donne accès à plus de 12 000 documents issus des collections de la bibliothèque. ➡ Visiter la bibliothèque numérique : urls.fr/65m5hJ

Democracy, Civic Education, and the American Archive symposium April 8-9 at Beinecke, Yale schedule.yale.edu/calendar/BRB... #archives

Reminder–the #Ethics, #AI, and the Public Humanities Series, presented in partnership with @usaconservation.bsky.social, begins on Jan. 29 with Defining and Demystifying “AI” and “MachineLearning.” https://ncph.org/conference/ethics-ai-and-the-public-humanities/

🎈 @jenguiliano.bsky.social & I are happy to share the January 2026 issue of #ReviewsInDH! This is a special issue on Electronic Literature. Thank you to our guest editors, Samya Brata Roy, Reham Hosny, and Leah Henrickson, for an exciting issue. reviewsindh.pubpub.org/v7-n1

Now that my PhD in History of Medicine & Ritual Studies is near, I am looking for career options. I would love to continue doing research at an interesting University with love for Antiquity, Middle Ages, religion, ritual and medicine. Can you help me? Do you know a great job? Let me know!

These strange color decisions of the 1560s do have a background story. A short 🧵 for #bookhistory.

Have you heard? 🚨 TIAA-Divest! is escalating. After years of pressure, we’re calling on participants to pledge to move their money unless TIAA acts by Sept 2026: divest from fossil fuels, end harmful land grabs, disclose emissions, and meet impacted communities. Take the pledge.

#BookHistory friends, take note! @printinghistory.bsky.social is holding its annual meeting tomorrow, and you can participate virtually. I'm particularly excited for a speech by this year's APHA individual laureate Elizabeth Savage. Details: printinghistory.org/apha-annual-... #booksky 🗃️📜📚

Upcoming deadline (1/31): submit your proposals for 2026 New England Quarterly symposium on Environmental Histories of New England, 1600-2025. #envhist #newengland #cfp

The Routledge Companion to Libraries, Archives, and the Digital Humanities edited by Isabel Galina and Glenn Lane-Worthey www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1... free Editors' Intro www.book2look.com/book/hpV4zdn... #archives #DH

Locked in a quasi-permanent war over resources, Yucatán and Honduras became a hotspot of empire, trade, and indigo in 1779. Learn more in our online lecture with Prof. Milagrosa Romero Samper, “Mad about the blue,” on 19 Jan, 1pm. #earlymodern #history Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/ships-seaf...

In 2022, for the first time, the names of Black men and women military heroes replaced those of Confederates on army bases. In 2025, the current administration reversed these changes, restoring the names of the Confederates who fought to preserve slavery.

"What kinds of histories and stories might be useful for radical social movements and political struggles today, to overcome the enormous challenges that we face?" Current and former History Workshop editors reflect on the 50th anniversary of the History Workshop collective.