📢Job alert! We’re looking for 3 new full-time graduate trainee Archives & Special Collections Assistants to join our innovative, user-focused engagement team. See more details and apply: www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/archives... 🗓️Closing date: 16 April 2026

📣Out now on #firstview Michael Edwards @jesuscollegecam.bsky.social on 'Samuel Pepys, the African Companies, and the Archives of Slavery, 1660–1689' #Archives #Letters #Diary #History 17thc 🗃️ 👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

London Palaeography Summer School courses will run in person @ies-sas.bsky.social 8-12 June. Bursary deadline is 7 April. The introduction course is ideal for any thinking of doing graduate study on a medieval topic. 👇 #medievalSky palaeography.uk/study/short-...

Like the tobacco industry - and the opioid industry - Meta and YouTube repeatedly redesign their products to cause maximum addiction and harm. "jurors in the California case found Meta and YouTube acted with malice, oppression and fraud".

Fully-funded AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership project: 'The Dispersal of the Cotton Collection' - British Library & University of Birmingham www.findaphd.com/phds/project... Deadline for student applications: 10 May

Fully-funded AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership project: 'Children's reading & cultural engagement across libraries & community spaces in Leeds' - BL & Uni of Glasgow www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/soc.... Now open for student applications! Deadline: 24 April

I know we all say it a lot but it is REALLY recent that numbers like this were close to unimaginable, for a grid the size of Britain and its current level of interconnection elsewhere. This is important because pretending we can't exist without fossil fuels is a big lie designed to stop us trying

This is good. Horrifying, but important.

Job opportunity with manuscripts and early printed books! Librarian at Lincoln Cathedral – Cathedral Library £43,722 - Full time applicaiton DL: 14 April 2026 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQX901/l...

Fully-funded AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership project: 'Children's reading & cultural engagement across libraries & community spaces in Leeds' - BL & Uni of Glasgow www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/soc.... Now open for student applications! Deadline: 24 April

Fully-funded AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership project: 'Rediscovering a Woman Collector at the British Library: New Sources and Perspectives on Sarah Sophia Banks' - BL & UCL Dep of Information Studies www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit... Now open for student applications! Deadline: 14 April

breaking news: ostrich has no concern about approaching cheetah

Yes don't forget to register your works with @britishlibrary.bsky.social to receive your PLR monies as well www.bl.uk/services/plr

Got a real insight into the realities of not having a fixed office just now: a poor colleague in the tiny kitchenette with her laptop perched on the microwave because she couldn’t find anywhere quiet to attend a departmental meeting. Grim.

Happy ALCS money day to all who celebrate.

Public History in Global Perspectives Call for Presentation. Student-led online international seminar. Organised entirely by the students of the Master in Digital and Public History at the Université du Luxembourg, FOR students and WITH students. www.uni.lu/c2dh-en/news...

It's the Spring Equinox - the first astronomical day of spring! ☀️ Longer days. Lighter evenings. Sunshine warm on your skin, birds singing, blossom in the branches.

In case you're interested: here is a list of recent accessions in #HistSTM at the @uomlibrary.bsky.social Special Collections blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2026/0...

INCSA's HYBRID Satellite Conference, "Reframing the #19thC: Art, Heritage, and Knowledge-Making in the GLAM Ecosystem" is accepting submissions through 31 March 2026. 〰 Join us in Delhi or online on July 20, 2026. 〰 CfP: in-csa.com/wp-content/u... 〰 #GLAM #GALLERIES #LIBRARIES #ARCHIVES #MUSEUMS

Okay. Does anyone have any advice on monograph indexing? Is it madness to do it myself? What would I need to know to do it?

A great opportunity to work with our 17th century colleagues.

Hey everyone, a collective I'm part of is starting a radical bookshop and community space in Newcastle, a city where the last radical bookshop closed around 40 years ago. We've just launched our crowdfunder. Please take a look a share widely! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/booksfromb...

"The unexamined life is not worth living"— Socrates, 399 BC

Interested in environmental history? The IHR is offering a summer 2026 internship with the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH). Apply by 15 April 2026, 11:59 pm BST. More details at: buff.ly/Vzpz6G3.

4 national libraries join forces in €750k UK–Ireland cultural initiative

Another stunning victory for Blue Labour.

CONGRATULATIONS 🎉 to the winner of our Digital Prize 2026: Eighteenth-Century Libraries Online (ECLO). The project is the result of a 5yr AHRC-funded project on the role of books in social, cultural & political change across the #18thC Atlantic. www.liverpool.ac.uk/history/rese... #skystorians 🗃️

Trump's defects in policy and personality are one and the same, and it's time to kill off any squeamishness about calling out the planet's Mad King. www.newstatesman.com/world/americ...

£37,694 - £46,049 a year (pro-rata for part-time working). Deadline 10 April.

Are you a researcher looking for best practice advice and practical tips for running engagement activities with the public? Our Public Engagement Hub on RESHAPED supports researchers in developing knowledge and skills in public engagement with humanities research. Learn more: https://bit.ly/4bu4zhx

Call for Papers New Left Histories and Historiographies: Mapping a Renewed Research Field Workshop to assess the current state of research on the New Left. Cfp for an event to be held in November at QMUL. Info here www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event... @bbkhistorical.bsky.social @qmul.bsky.social

Next month I'll be running a workshop at the University of Vienna on jobs for historians outside universities, drawing on my own experiences. The course is almost fully booked but I would be happy to run this same workshop at other universities.

Just a reminder to Arts, Humanities & Social Science postdocs with 10 years of the PhD that membership in the British Academy's Early Career Researcher Network is free and available across the UK. Independent researchers welcome; if employed at an, you do not need to be in a research position. 1/2

[Sade voice 🎵]

This is hard to watch but so revealing. This is toxic mediocracy: a cis white man in his twenties with zero relevant expertise attempting to defend his ignorant, illiterate, sociopathic cancellation of grants awarded by PhD-holding committees to PhD-holding researchers. Share with apolitical folks.

London is also beating the car. I really can’t say that Paris is any more hospitable for cyclists than London is. All we need to do now is get more parked cars on streets into car parks, reclaim more parking spaces and pedestrianise Soho in the summer.

Haz the feeling that Andrew O'Hagan's essay on Andrew Windsor and Sarah Ferguson in the @lrb.co.uk is going to prompt some live-posting. 1/

Totally superb and fearless writing here from Susan Pedersen. “…any man shocked by the Epstein story has been working over time at shutting his eyes” www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Dear everyone, As per the post from the Bodleian librarian below, AI bots and scrapers are putting just about every website under great pressure, British History Online included. A lot of excellent tech staff are working hard to keep everything working, but outages and siruptions are inevitable.

AI scraping breaks libraries 📚📜

I've got a new article out @parlhistjournal.bsky.social 💥 It's about late 19thC socialist caravan tours & the production of everyday forms of cross-cultural connection & provincial internationalisms that were vital for the development of socialist ideas in this period

Developing and Writing Funding Applications for Early Career Researchers - FREE online training 18 March 2-3pm. Explore some of the pitfalls, opportunities and challenges you can expect to face as you put together your funding application. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

For every pound spent on net zero, the benefits would outweigh the cost by between 2.2 and 4.1 times says @thecccuk.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/d163...

How lovely to see mine & Sharon Macdonald’s article on “degrowing museum collections” in the top 10 most read of all time articles in the International Journal of Heritage Studies. No. 8! www.tandfonline.com/action/showM...

Explore our modern British collections from 1800–1950 including manuscripts, archives, printed collections and maps at our next open day on Friday 27 March. You’ll also get to pick the brains of our expert curators and reference specialists. link.bl.uk/dod

Fully-funded AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership project: 'Rediscovering a Woman Collector at the British Library: New Sources and Perspectives on Sarah Sophia Banks' - BL & UCL Dep of Information Studies www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit... Now open for student applications! Deadline: 14 April

Puddle, Manchester, 2021, photo by Ruxx Naqvi.

Calling all History PhD students and postdocs: join us for ‘How to Publish Your Research: a workshop for Early Career Researchers’ with Profs Stephen Legg, Elisabeth Leake, Matthew Hilton & Erez Manela 18 March, Birkbeck, Bloomsbury Info www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event... @jessicareinisch.bsky.social

Research Professional Futures Project (ARMA) arma.ac.uk/summary-of-t...