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

Test the use of local AI in improving access and interpretation of born-digital archives in this funded fellowship Apply by 15 July link.bl.uk/4j9

Help widen the knowledge and understanding of newspapers in our collection from Commonwealth countries in this funded fellowship Apply by 15 July link.bl.uk/jy5

Come and spend the next academic year embedded in our curatorial teams Two exciting fellowships are open to postdoctoral, early-career researchers which can be undertaken over 12-months full-time or part-time equivalent, as part of the Joanna and Graham Barker Fellowship Scheme Find out more👇

The front door of think tanks all over SW1 this morning.

🥳The National Trust's fourth Annual Research Report is here! Learn all about how our research is helping us Restore Nature, End Unequal Access, and Inspire Millions. You can download the report from our Research Repository ⬇️ nt.iro.bl.uk/concern/repo...

For the morning crowd. The Hope Projects is an amazing little organisation and its clients need all the help they can get. It’s been an expensive year for me too.

The KLF always get there first.

I see we’ve reached this stage in Shabana Mahmood’s career.

The Cotton Genesis (Cotton MS Otho B VI, 5th century) was one of the tragic victims of the Ashburnham House fire in 1731. Today, we’re delighted to release new multispectral imaging of the manuscript, allowing us to read its texts for the first time in hundreds of years. www.bl.uk/stories/blog...

Sending marketing emails with the subject ‘Embrace the warm weather’ is both terrible marketing and an astounding way to describe a dangerous and record breaking heatwave.

"Burnham’s allies point to Thames Water, grappling with a near £20 billion in debt, as a potential Railtrack moment for the sector." YES. Railtrack was brought into public ownership through special administration. Sign the petition for a publicly owned Thames Water 👇

If you want a sense of how the heatwave in the UK is going, part of the motorway near me is closed because one of the lanes has melted. 👍

Organized by my friend and colleague John McEwan, cosponsored by @kulibraries.bsky.social, @bodleian.ox.ac.uk, and the @bibsocamer.bsky.social ! A good confluence indeed. 📜 #libsky #rarebooks #booksky

I'm enjoying the chapter on 'The Flowering of the Biosphere', covering Lovelock and his Gaia hypothesis; I may have to reintroduce this into my lecture on ecology. I wasn't aware of the story of the love affair between Lovelock and Hitchcock. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The MORPHSS project @morphss.bsky.social "Materialising Open Research Practices in the Humanities and Social Sciences" morphss.hcommons.org #ALN26

'Ginzburg’s death...means that one of the last living links with a remarkable postwar generation of historians has gone....As the rise of 21st-century authoritarianism creates new generations of scapegoats and misfits, the approach of one of Italy’s greatest scholars speaks directly to our times.'

Fellowships run from September 26 to August 27. Deadline 15 July. Please RT and get in touch with any questions!

Cambridge experts recreate 336-year-old garden to commemorate ‘father of natural history’

'Hope is not a nice-to-have, it's an essential aspect of leading.' Also applies to large organisations, including universities.

‘Act now to stop university crisis eroding UK research’. Latest report from #ARMA2026. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

"we've been forced to make difficult decisions about canaries, but we're confident that those decisions will benefit the long term financial sustainability of the mine"

Lots of conversations about how to collaborate to build communities and positive policies to adapt to and advocate within this ongoing nightmare - research, researchers and research professionals can actively work together to address challenges at all levels #ARMA2026

Lizzie Ranson at Durham Uni shared the EDI Toolkit for the application process for funding and projects. #ARMA2026 #DEI #EDI editoolkit.webspace.durham.ac.uk

Now with the current job description! It's a permanent role, and no, the salary isn't amazing but the people are, and you can really make a difference to how people access digital collections at the British Library

New IHR Research Training: Media and Memory: Interdisciplinary Perspectives 17 June, 14:00 - 15:00 (Zoom) Join Dr Fransiska Louwagie & Dr Hans Hönes (University of Aberdeen) to explore how media shapes identity and collective memory. Free - booking essential: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

I’ve seen more people in Burgess Park on a sunny day.

Fellowships run from September 26 to August 27. Deadline 15 July. Please RT and get in touch with any questions!

We have two new 12-month postdoctoral fellowship opportunities at the British Library! Applications open soon to co-design projects in the following areas: - Colonial Deposit and our Newspaper Collection - Local Large Language Models and Personal Born-Digital Archives www.bl.uk/services/res...

'The bathing ponds at Hampstead Heath in north-west London will remain trans-inclusive after a public consultation overwhelmingly favoured its existing rules.' Good news. 86% of 38,000 respondents in favour of retaining trans-inclusive policies.

JOB ALERT: Early Career Fellow in Covid Commemoration Oral Histories (21 months, The British Library) ce0752li.webitrent.com/ce0752li_web...

London has published its Areas of Research Interest. A global city, with dozens of universities, many world-leading — the GLA only has five questions for the tens of thousands of London academics and policy wonks, but it's a start! www.london.gov.uk/programmes-s...

'[It's] a transition from being a market economy to being a market society... a move away from conceiving of people as citizens, members of a community who collectively share the burdens & opportunities of life... [to] a series of individuals who pay for what they want & don’t pay for anything else'

Now available to read online. Here's my chapter, on Shadow Libraries and Pirate Infrastructures. dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/read/critica...

This piece looks at what AI did to other universities in California. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/m...

Join DJ Paulette for an intimate chat with musician, author @johnrobbofficial.bsky.social about the influences she received from books and libraries throughout her life journey. Part of the @mcrcityoflit.bsky.social Festival of Libraries. Tickets:

Yes. Using a computer now feels like this at all times.

JOB ALERT - Curator: Modern Archives and Manuscripts (1601-1950) at the British Library - full-time, permanent www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRR461/c...

This week I wrote about illness, art, the Romney Marshes and Fay Godwin. Part of my PhD research - beachcombing the rising tide. On how ongoing illness can influence and impact on creative practice. #NatureWriting

One of our wonderful collaborative PhD students has just published an article based on their work at the Library - now available to read open access via our Shared Research Repository! doi.org/10.1111/rec3...

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

From the brilliant @asherperlman.bsky.social Doesn't resonate with me at all, of course....

Lunchtime talk on wonderful exhibition from a collaboration between the British Library, Uni of Bristol, Al-Furat publishers in Beirut and artist Dia Al-Azzawi (AHRC): 'Decolonising the Page: The Visual Politics and Poetics of Postcolonial Arabic Publications' www.decolonizingthepage.com/en

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...

Lots of people wearing several institutional/interdisciplinary hats at this conference in Leeds - nice to have this celebrated in a fittingly Yorkshire fashion #PGDIVERSITYSUMMIT26

Burnham, disembarking Avanti West Coast

Large Livestock Museum

I’m not saying that someone should preorder this and then start thinking about a long Sloaney review of our two books together. But I’m not *not* saying that.

At the PGR Diversity Summit in Leeds - Jessica Corner from Research England: evidence proves partnerships and collaborative working actively improves student diversity, sense of belonging and ongoing networks through communities of practice.