Humanity has long been captivated by rainbows - this collage contains over 1000 years of curiosity and wonder from all over the world! bit.ly/CamDigLib-Ra... This universal fascination is one reason 🌈 symbolise inclusion and a reason to have #Pride in the wonderful diversity of the world!

CFP alert: We are thrilled to announce the Call for Presenters for a hybrid event in collaboration with @britishlibrary.bsky.social! This will be taking place on 27th November 2026, with presentations happening both in-person and online. Deadline to submit your ideas is: 31st July 2026! #DisHist

The @nationalcollection.bsky.social team have got a new tender out to deliver an ethics framework to recognise, assess, operationalise and act upon value-led approaches to data, people, processes & tech. #DH #Digitalheritage Info here: www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/...

DH2026 is getting closer! 🔸 To benefit from a reduced registration rate for members of ADHO Constituent Organizations, contact your local DH association for the specific registration code (different from membership number). 🔗 More info: dh2026.adho.org/conference-r...

✨ Inspire creativity and support every child! Join the ‘Keeping Your Curriculum Broad and Balanced’ conference for inspiring keynotes, practical workshops and thoughtful discussion on arts and humanities in action. 📅 19 Nov | 📍 British Library | In-person www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2...

📚 Our Language/s: Multilingualism in the Balkans This event will explore the #Balkan diaspora’s linguistic landscape, focusing on how non-standardised and marginalised languages shape social difference and discrimination. 🗓️ 11 June at 4pm 📍 British Library events.bl.uk/events/balka...

Attend: Multispectral Gaze: New Approaches to the Cotton Genesis, In memory of John Lowden, British Library, June 19, 2026. Advance booking required maryjahariscenter.org/blog/multisp...

The P45 Data Collective Tabular Data Style Guide is now live! If you are a researcher, student, librarian, or instructor working with cultural data, this style guide is for you. data.post45.org/style-guide....

Dig into our digital archives and discover the potential of collections metadata as a resource for your research at our open day on Friday 29 May. You’ll also learn about our digitisation work and approach to AI in research. Book your place: link.bl.uk/doddcr

Tickets are now on sale for Agatha Christie: A World of Mystery, opening this autumn 🕵️ From crossing continents by train to navigating archaeological digs, explore how Christie’s adventures sparked unforgettable stories, ideas and characters. Book now at link.bl.uk/ubb

Are you an artist interested in working with our collection? Apply for a funded creative fellowship with the Eccles Institute to explore one of two expansive areas of our Americas collection. Find out more 👇

Dive into our sound archive and respond to our collection of Black music from across the Americas in our funded creative fellowship with the Eccles Institute. Apply by 2 June: link.bl.uk/uo8

Develop your practice through a funded, creative fellowship examining art, climate and the Amazon through our expansive Americas collections, with the Eccles Institute. Apply by 2 June: link.bl.uk/6wp

There'll be quite a few Digital Curators and friends from our team at the Doctoral Open Day at @britishlibrary.bsky.social on June 29

Join us at the British Library for the final Doctoral Open Day in the series (Friday 29th June). Sessions on digital archives, digitization, collections metadata & AI in digital humanities! Also a chance to talk to curators & reference specialists about your research. events.bl.uk/events/docto...

Calling all teachers, educators, learners – and anyone who wants to engage with themes of migration sensitively and with confidence: We are delighted to share our new Teaching Migration History Toolkit, co-produced with @britishlibrary.bsky.social.

Registration is open for our 2026 Annual Event (15–16 June, University of Southampton and online). This year’s theme is 🥬 Sustainability 🥬. In‑person fees £35 (£20 students and unwaged); online is free. Register & find out more: digitalhumanities-uk-ie.org/2026-annual-... #DH #Sustainability

If you want a different option for exploring old @bldigischol.bsky.social blog posts I uploaded the archive as PDFs to NotebookLM a while ago (when testing RAG-style sites) notebooklm.google.com/notebook/545...

On Monday Rosie Hicks, Chief Executive of the Australian Research Data Commons, will give a lunchtime talk on providing national data infrastructure in an AI-enabled world 📍UCD James Joyce Library, Link 3 📆Mon, 11 May 1-2pm A light lunch will be provided Register at docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

‘Exploring Digital Cultural Heritage’ is now out in the wild! You can download an open-access copy (PDF) or read the free digital edition on Manifold uolpress.co.uk/book/explori.... Loved working on this with Eirini Goudarouli, @amsichani.bsky.social & the @uolpress.bsky.social team.

At last! The archived British Library blogs are viewable online. Check the index of blogs at blogs-archive.bl.uk and the hundreds of posts on the Digital Scholarship blog going back to 2013 blogs-archive.bl.uk#digital-scho...

We’re looking for a mid-career professional from Overseas Territories in the Atlantic and Caribbean to help shape how we collect, preserve and represent this region in our collection, as part of the Chevening Fellowship programme. Find out more and apply by 15 May: link.bl.uk/16y

Applications now open for a fully-funded PhD studentship exploring Yugoslavia’s multifaceted role during the Cold War, co-supervised with @exeter.ac.uk . This is one of a number of studentships available as part of AHRC’s Collaborative Doctoral Partnership scheme. Find out more: link.bl.uk/q95

CFP: The Journal of Open Humanities Data: Weathering the Storm: Opportunities and Challenges in Data Rescue and Safeguarding ← dh+lib

Doctoral open day - digital collections and resources - at @britishlibrary.bsky.social events.bl.uk/events/docto...

We are offering two great initiatives for humanities and social sciences researchers interested in applying to Horizon Europe. On 1st June we are holding an ERC Reading Day where you can read previously successful ERC grant proposals from a selection of 50 www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/projects/eur...

New Head of Service for Museum Data Service 📣 We are delighted to announce that Dr Mia Ridge @miaout.bsky.social will become Head of Service for Museum Data Service, the transformative initiative which is connecting all the object records across the UK’s museums 👉 artuk.org/discover/sto...

The Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) seeks a new Editor in Chief as well as an institutional host for @dhquarterly.bsky.social (DHQ). Initial expressions of interest are due by August 30th. See the CFP for more details: buff.ly/qpiypXq

You can now access electronic legal deposit journal issues, journal articles and books catalogued before October 2023 using the PCs in our Reading Rooms. Find out more about what content is available and how to access it here: link.bl.uk/9kt

Check out this blog post by Jeanette Croen who was a PhD placement student with us at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social @bldigischol.bsky.social exploring computational analysis on early printed book descriptions: www.bl.uk/stories/blog...

New resources from our Digital Humanities Climate Coalition (DHCC) group: 📘 UKRI environmental sustainability guidance for DH 🛠 DHCC Project Self-Assessment Tool Supporting climate conscious DH research. digitalhumanities-uk-ie.org/2026/04/13/n... #DigitalHumanities #EnvironmentalSustainability

Registration for RSECon26 is officially open! Join us in person in Sheffield or attend remotely to take part in the 10th anniversary conference. Society members get a 10% discount. Secure your spot today: rsecon26.society-rse.org/registration... #RSECon26

📘 Now Available: Book of Abstracts – ADHO Digital Humanities Conference (DH2025, Lisbon, NOVA FCSH) We are pleased to share that the Book of Abstracts for the ADHO Digital Humanities Conference 2025 is now available online. 🔗 Read the full volume here: zenodo.org/records/1949...

Já está disponível o Livro de Resumos da conferência ADHO Digital Humanities 2025, realizada na NOVA FCSH / The Book of Abstracts for the ADHO Digital Humanities 2025 conference, held at NOVA FCSH, is now available. zenodo.org/records/1949...

Today's #MastheadMonday is The Standard of Freedom (1848-51). It was published by John Cassell as a family newspaper aimed at those with a reformist mindset, advocating 'Political, Commercial & Religious Freedom'. Digitised by the BL & free-to-view: www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/titles/stand...

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We @pelagios.bsky.social are looking to evolve Peripleo, a browser-based tool for the mapping of things related to place github.com/britishlibra..., to make it easier to use by historians and archaeologists as a research tool. Let me know if you're interested.

The amazing, detailed Ordnance Survey 25-inch 1st edition mapping for Lanarkshire is now available as a georeferenced layer. maps.nls.uk/additions/#197 This allows you compare the 1850s maps with later editions in our Side by Side viewer. maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/... Now on to the next county...

‘Culture as Security: How Culture Protects Us’ with Mariam Naiem, Yassmin Abdel-Magied, Charlotte Higgins and Kirsty Lang, organised by the Ukrainian Institute London and the British Library - www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Bcg...

Here for Easter, the magnificent Rabbit Fish - 14th century, British Library, Add. MS 11390, f. 59r

This one includes work with our team!

Four PhD studentships are now open for applications. As part of AHRC’s Collaborative Doctoral Partnership Scheme, these studentships are co-supervised by Library staff and academics based at UK universities. Find out more about the projects 😃

Lots of great links on open cultural data, AI in GLAMs, publishing, etc

Looking for something to read over the Easter break? @susan-librarian.bsky.social has just published our latest #Scholcomm newsletter featuring great selection of news, announcements, readings, events. Lots to catch up again - have a look #openresearch #openscholarship mailchi.mp/0945df75792c...

📢 Share your perspective on cultural heritage reuse and management! Do you manage or reuse cultural heritage collections in your work? Take the #InfinityEccch survey to share your experiences and insights, and contribute to the future of the digital creative economy in Europe! ➡️ bit.ly/4t3C2EQ

Want to learn more with your peers in libraries, archives and museums? Join the AI4LAM Slack join.slack.com/t/ai4lam/sha...  Submit a proposal to FF2026 by April 6! ai4lam.org/fantastic-fu... #FF2026 #FF2025 #AI4LAM

Registration for the 2026 #IIIF Annual Conference and Showcase closes on May 14, 2026. Space for some workshops is filling up fast, so claim your spot by registering: www.conftool.org/iiif2026

The doggy in the bottom margin of Ms. Codex 724 f. 324r, a 13th century illuminated Bible, doesn't have a name as far as we know, but he's definitely a Good Boy who deserves all the love! 14/10 h/t @weratedogs.com 🔗: https://bit.ly/4lzFtAO

Calling all brave heroes, clever creatures and little adventurers: Fairy Tales opens today! Explore a magical world full of your favourite stories 🐉✨ Book now at bl.uk/fairytales Supported by @waylandgames.bsky.social

A recent acquisition of letters of Dorothy Bussy, translator and novelist, and of her daughter, the artist Janie Bussy, has now been catalogued. New @britishlibrary.bsky.social blog post by Dominic Newman: www.bl.uk/stories/blog...