Here I am! 🤗 - what is the point of #digitalhumanities in a world which is on fire? and how has DH changed over the past 20 years? My personal take:

An unexpected treat of DH Benelux was a chance to close to the women's and men's pro peletons at De Ridderronde Maastricht!

So here we are in 2026 and for a lot of us working in the sector, advocating for some systemic changes to protect and preserve it for *years on end*, it is more than a little rich to see a HEPI report sail in and discover a problem that has been visible for almost a decade.

I'm still kinda baffled - in a good way, I've got tickets! - that Anna von Hausswolff is coming to Southampton.

Great news, we've reached 50% of our year 1 funding target! But we need the support of more libraries to support community-owned diamond open access journals. Please come and join us! Message us, visit openjournalscollective.org or email [email protected]

TODAY 🎉

Full Statement: prideinstem.org/2026/05/26/s...

📢 Just over two weeks left to nominate your work or work you love for the 2026 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2021/12/the-richard-deswarte-prize-in-digital-history/ #dhist

Another excellent Great Escape. Highlights this year (in order we saw them): Annie Dog, THEATRE, Westside Cowboy, PISS, Twat Union, SLAG, Girl Tones, The Orchestra (For Now), Alice Costelloe, Pollyfromthedirt, Lemonsuckr, Shtëpi, Y, Home Counties, Bitterfly.

The latest issue of History Workshop Journal is out now, and it marks two exciting milestones: 50 years and 100 issues of innovative radical history. You can read the journal on the HWJ website through the link below! academic.oup.com/hwj...

Bitterfly. No festival is complete without a semi-naked drummer.

Pollyfromthedirt. His live shows are a treat.

SLAG. Big fan. Terrific band.

THEATRE. Good band.* *At Great Escape. May post bands.

Oh yes Boards of Canada. Oh yes. open.spotify.com/track/4gYaI1...

this really does make me despair. this is a woman who has just got elected as a Reform councillor. she works for the NHS and wants to know “where the money is going”. it’s going on social care, babe

In light of closures of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences courses and departments across the UK in the past 2 years, what does that commitment mean? The University of Hertfordshire's announced closures of Humanities offer a case study for hard-edged reflection. 2/9 @victoria-collins.bsky.social

We are dismayed by news regarding UG History, and other subjects, at Hertfordshire. This follows recent job losses at Essex and elsewhere, and makes clear the crisis in UK HE. The Society is in touch and working with historians at UoH. As ever, we invite contact from others affected #Skystorians

Why would we want to learn from our pasts, or ponder the power of the written and spoken word, or explore the deep questions of humanity? According to the University of Hertfordshire, we wouldn't. They've just cut all of our undergrad Humanities programmes

On Friday afternoon before the Bank Holiday, colleagues in the Humanities department were called to a meeting on Tuesday. They were informed that the University Portfolio Review had decided that English Language, English Literature, Philosophy, History & Creative Writing UG degrees would close

Hertfordshire runs wonderful history programs & are especially strong on heritage, public and local history, which is exactly what this country needs more of. What's being allowed to happen to humanities in the UK HE sector is going to have dire consequences for generations to come.

2014 REF: 2026: closing UG History

University of Hertfordshire closes a swathe of Humanities courses, accelerating the sweeping tide against Human-centred disciples in the UK. Because understanding humans is so yesterday today. With such happy consequences, as we see when we look around us.

Devastated for friends and colleagues at Herts. It’s my local university and this is also closing off so many opportunities for young people in the county.

Love a good clap at Southampton Marathon (far far from the busiest shot I could have taken: the entrants and crowds felt noticeably bigger this year)

Dead! Dead! Dead! are playing a one-off gig in Southampton this Sunday, roughly 20 years after I last saw them, when they were regulars on the local scene. It is sold out. This should be a lot of fun.

🥳 _Advertising Pornography, 1822-1870_ is now available on Nineteenth Century Data Collective! This is a package of two complementary datasets derived from advertising material issued by major figures in the early Victorian pornography trade. One draws on sales catalogues, one on periodical ads +

⏰ Just over a month remaining to submit your nominations for the Deswarte Prize in Digital History, the prize that celebrates the best of digital history internationally. Full info here: ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2021/12/the-... #dhist

Yes, I've ordered a copy of the new Boards of Canada record.

Of course I'm now listening to *a lot* of Boards of Canada.

📢The 2026 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History is open for nominations until the end of May. Nominate your work or a work you love published since Jan 2026. All formats welcome. Help us celebrate the best of digital history internationally. Details ➡️ ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2021/12/the-...

What the REF is happening with books?! We join the @hiddenref.bsky.social team to unpack the challenges of 🔓️ defining openness 💰️ funding models beyond BPCs 🪢 the tension between flexibility and REF policy! Listen to Ep 18. now! 🎧️

"Some of your favs are not going to be competing at the Olympics because of this bullshit" [Counter Pressed with Flo Lloyd-Hughes and Friends] Fifa’s new coaching rule, Bay Collective and gender testing podcastaddict.com/counter-pres...

If you are a Boards of Canada fan and aren't on the Boards of Canada Reddit, you need to take a look. The breadcrumbs being left and the new album hype it is generating is really something.

📢 If you missed Vincent Hiribarren's recent @ihr.bsky.social Digital History seminar 'Historian vs AI: who reads and analyses archives best', the talk is now on our YouTube channel youtu.be/VO26YAK1mu0 #dhist

📢 If you missed Vincent Hiribarren's recent @ihr.bsky.social Digital History seminar 'Historian vs AI: who reads and analyses archives best', the talk is now on our YouTube channel youtu.be/VO26YAK1mu0 #dhist

✨ Nominations for the Deswarte Prize in Digital History are open until 31 May. Details on how to nominate and what is in scope are found ⤵️

When anyone who is a member of the Reform party or supports them bemoans the loss of British culture, show them this.

📢 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

📢 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

You can stop talking about Matt Goodwin now! Perhaps instead talk about Hannah Spencer, the person who actually won.

Today we’re celebrating #NationalRetroDay! 🎮 Discover a world of old-generation consoles and relive the history of gaming. Old-school games for new memories – book your tickets now: https://bit.ly/3OywLXa

Waking up delighted to find that there is another Green MP in the UK. There is hope.

i keep saying they're essentially an attack on shared context, flattening and destroying information about sources that was present in the training data

Today is one of those days when my brain adores Boards of Canada (1999 Peel Session, to be specific).

Job losses at UK research-intensive universities double in two years. Exclusive: Scale of redundancies branded a “disaster”. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

📢 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

It's the economy, stupid. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

News: we're thrilled to have received £80,000 of funding from the BFI to help us digitise a remarkable archive of agricultural films and make them available to the public! Read more on the @uniofreading.bsky.social website: www.reading.ac.uk/news/2026/Un...

💖 "A student once said to me (Madeleine), 'Seeing you as a lecturer made me realise anyone can be one.' While to this day we don’t know if that was a compliment, at least one student has learned that academia doesn’t have to look like stuffy, posh men.. www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/joy-d...