New open access British Academy Monograph ‘On the Edges of Christendom’ explores the life and thought of Bishop Maurice of Burgos, and through him, what it meant to live on the border between the Latin West and Islamic al-Andalus in the thirteenth century. 👇 https://bit.ly/4gOHerD

With only three weeks until Open Access Week 2025, we're getting excited ✨ Have a read of our latest blog post to find out how we'll be joining this year's conversation, including a webinar with UCL experts in Copyright, Rights Retention, Research Integrity and Citizen Science 💻

Remembering Errol Lawrence 1 Oct 4:30–8:00 pm This event will be of interest to all who are writing, creating and working on the politics of housing and its effects upon communities in societies today. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

People with learning difficulties are treated disgracefully in the UK – and it needs to change, says one Big Issue reader.

What do you do when your media org is captured? You start your own. Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week. Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊

In case you missed this: The choice of what is neutral is itself political. stanforddaily.com/2025/02/20/u...

Maps can inspire discovery – or fuel division. Prof James Cheshire’s Library of Lost Maps explores both sides. Hear his talk at the @rgsibg.bsky.social Monday Night Lecture, 6 Oct. Book now: tinyurl.com/ucl-llm #UCLGeography #MapsMatter #LibraryOfLostMaps

Autumn is officially in the air, and so is copyright 🍂©️ Whatever way you are using text and images this term, UCL copyright team has a session to support you 💻 Take a look at the programme and register for a session 👉 buff.ly/o1y0g15 (Image AI-generated from Microsoft Copilot)

'Amid increasing attacks on EDI in the UK and across the Atlantic, the thinktank More in Common, along with researchers from the University of Oxford and UCL set out to discover whether attitudes among the public had changed since a similar study was published in March 2024.' 1/3

Digital Archives as Spaces for Collaborative Research Practices in the Humanities and Social Sciences. International Workshop (2025) INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP 26.09.2025, 9:00h-13:00h (Graz local time) Link: Digital Archives as Spaces for Collaborative Research Practices in the Humanities and Social…

“People have a right to peaceful protest. It is core to our country’s values,” the prime minister said" Unless, of course, you are peacefully protesting against Israel's actions in Gaza Total and utter hypocrisy from Starmer www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

A new blog on the increasingly urgent distinction between serious historical research on colonialism and right wing historical propaganda: alanlester.co.uk/blog/accusat...

Just a reminder that in the midst of waves of anti-migrant, anti-refugee and anti-asylum-seeker rhetoric and activism, there are also many charities working quietly, stoically and hard to fuel a better conversation and a better future. Actively supporting them makes a difference.

Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:

"... I defy you to find other footage of a Prime Minister [Stanley Baldwin] being towed in a car by students acting as horses. This was a different age". See www.britishpathe.com/asset/50380/ #ConservativeParty

As book banning sweeps across the U.S. at an unprecedented rate, brave librarians emerge as first responders in the fight for democracy. A film by Kim A. Snyder. Opens UK 9/26 @berthadochouse.bsky.social, US 10/03 @filmforumnyc.bsky.social, rollout to follow. Tix: TheLibrariansFilm.com/screenings

One of first of the #1930s digitised #theses, 'The Problem of Individuality and its Implications for Modern #Idealism' by Chakradhar Dharnidhar Deshmukh, reflects the tension between individuality ascertained thru intelligence tests & child-centred education. #ProgressiveEducation

Retraction Watch: the gift that keeps on giving. Thanks to Mahmood Anwar's investigative work, this case of a hijacked journal makes a perfect study example for my #IOE-IDL course. retractionwatch.com/2025/09/03/g... #predatorypublishing #researchintegrity

Teachers are so often a glue that holds society together.

"Margaret Atwood is taking aim at Alberta's controversial ban on school library books containing sexual content with a new, satirical short story after the famed author's novel" www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Deadline 2 October 2025.

📣 Call for participants 📣 Have you ever used any History Workshop Journal articles in your teaching practice? If so, we would love to hear from you! Please let us know by sending an email or feel free to DM.

Absolutely delighted that Dan Briggs, son of the BBC's first official historian Asa Briggs, has written to The Observer supporting the need for on-request vetting to re-instated at the BBC Written Archives Centre (p.29; not I think online). Letter's wording is in the .alt element. #waccampaign

“The argument for mass deportations and for refusing to process asylum claims is that ‘we have to look after our own, not the rest of the world’. The trouble is, ‘our own’ will also suffer from the kind of policy Farage proposes.” My ‪@theobserveruk.bsky.social column: observer.co.uk/news/columni...

📢 We're hiring! UCL is looking for a Senior Communications Manager to lead comms for our research strategy — from REF to UCL Public Policy. Apply by 1 Sept 🔗 https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/search-ucl-jobs/details?jobId=37265&jobTitle=Senior+Communications+Manager+%28Research%29+

This: She saved everything, including... a letter she received from a woman scientist after the publication of Volume One. “I greatly enjoyed your work,” the woman wrote. “I have spent a lot of money on psychotherapy because people kept telling me I was maladjusted.” #MargaretRossiter

If you love women's history, sign up for the Women's History Network ‪@womenshistnet.bsky.social‬ annual conference. Running over 4-5 Sept, it's free, online, & packed with great panels on activism, archives, the arts and fashion, economic life, sexualities womenshistorynetwork.org/the-womens-h...

The BBC is about to shut its Written Archives to the public. Writers and researchers rely on these archives. They belong to the licence payers. Please sign and share this open letter.

This post by Mike Olsen is essential reading for LIS students and practitioners. Independent organisation of knowledge is essential to a civil society. The record of humankind should not be blithely handed over to AI or for profit entities. Nobody should control your view of the catalogue.

Rilke’s 'Das Marien‑Leben' has seen few English translations and none in the UK since 1960. @simon-beattie.bsky.social has the full cycle and set parts to music. A truly beautiful rendition of this poetic masterpiece - links at simonbeattie.co.uk/blog/archive...

Publishing isn’t 'delight'; it’s relief, exhaustion, and it's when imposter syndrome kicks in. A celebratory post hides the mental and emotional labour that goes into publishing. Why do we keep pretending? @patthomson.bsky.social patthomson.net/2025/08/21/i... #AcademicWriting #Publishing #IOEIDL

“The problem with universities is that, over 30 years, we’ve lacked appropriate humility.” Michael Spence of @ucl.ac.uk tells me why he thinks HE is unable to shake off the negativity (and also chats free speech, international students, and toilets) www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/michae...

🔊 Calling UCL staff and students - nominations and applications for the UCL Open Science & Scholarship Awards are still open ✨ 🗓️ Deadline: 5pm Friday 22 August Read more or start an application/nomination today 👉 buff.ly/7w7bNG3

Have a research project that requires analysing microscopy data? Master the skills you need in our upcoming ‘Introduction to image analysis’ technical training course. 📅 27-28 October 📍 The Francis Crick Institute For more info and to apply 👇 www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/int...

'Stop Censoring Palestine: A Public Call for Accountability at the Harvard Education Publishing Group'. You can still sign the open letter at academicaccountability.com/2025/08/08/l... www.theguardian.com/education/20... #AcademicAccountability #Palestine #Censorship

ICYMI: Fascism, Rivers of Blood, and today’s political and media elite mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/08/fasc... Since Heath sacked Powell in 1968, society has become more tolerant and less racist. So why has today's elite failed to call out current hate speech for what it is?

Happy #NationalLibrariansDay and Happy 133rd Birthday to the Godfather of #LibraryScience #SRRanganathan ! #LibrariesAreMadeofPeople #LibraryWorkers #TheLibraryIsAGrowingOrganism www.isibang.ac.in/~library/por...

“GPT-5 ... feels like talking to an expert in any topic, like a PhD-level expert” - Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI. AI produces an inordinate amount of inaccurate and garbled information. It's creative application vests entirely with humans! theconversation.com/gpt-5-has-ai... #IOEIDL

"I urge you not to let chains silence you, nor borders restrain you. Be bridges toward the liberation of the land and its people, until the sun of dignity and freedom rises over our stolen homeland." open.substack.com/pub/jairofun...

Anas Al-Sharif was one of the most remarkable reporters of his generation. For 673 days, he defied Israeli threats to kill him. Al Jazeera now confirm their crew in Gaza City have all been assassinated: RIP reporters Anas Al-Sharif & Mohammed Qareqea and cameramen Ibrahim Zaher & Mohammed Nofal

Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all: “If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.” Israel just killed him.

Prepare to be surprised and delighted by this wonderful exhibition, now running until mid-October. You will walk away with a sense of hope. And today, we need that hope more than ever.

Are you an early-career humanities and social sciences researcher seeking a permanent academic role? Our Postdoctoral Fellowships can support you in strengthening your research profile and gaining teaching experience in a university setting. Apply now: buff.ly/McS8lRk

Interesting, thought provoking article. Thank you Sally Tomlinson and Schools Week. (Though I would have liked to see mention of The Warnock Report and the Salamanca Statement.) 1/2 The SEND system is not 'broken' and does not need 'fixing' schoolsweek.co.uk/the-send-sys...

If you want to know more about Citizen Science platforms in research, this post by my colleague Sheetal Saujani, Citizen Science Coordinator in the Office for Open Science & Scholarship, is worth reading blogs.ucl.ac.uk/open-access/... #CitizenScience

The exhibition,'The Purpose of Light', showcasing Misan Harriman’s protest photography is currently on show at the Hope 93 gallery in London til 18/09. Includes photographs from #Justice4Grenfell, #BlackLivesMatter, #ExtinctionRebellion & #PalestineSolidarity protests. observer.co.uk/culture/phot...

If you're in Aberdeen on 17 September don't miss my colleague Professor Matt Smith's lecture on 'Twice Removed: Slavery, Big Data, and the Cultures of Caribbean Ancestral Histories'. Digital history both opens up new vistas and obscures 'the knotted histories of empire'. #Skystorians

The retraction watch database lists retracted articles and is also worth knowing about retractiondatabase.org/RetractionSe... #EduSky #ScholarlyDissemination #Publishing #ResearchIntegrity

The list of hijacked journals is worth checking: retractionwatch.com/the-retracti...

Harvard Educational Review cancelled a special issue on Palestine. www.theguardian.com/education/20...