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.

'Singing, painting or visiting a gallery or museum helps people age more slowly, according to the latest study to link taking an active interest in art and culture with improved health.' Study after study after study suggests funding the arts funds good health, not that policy reflects it. 1/2

My book has a cover! 😍 Released Dec 26 and a reasonable £43 - please do buy or order for your library. Worth it, I promise. www.amazon.co.uk/Transactione...

Once again Britain is plunged into a Night of the Long Sporks

An exciting job opportunity with my team - come join us as the Science Museum Collection Archivist! 📒📚📼📜💾📔🗂️ Part time (4 days/80%), permanent, based at the Science and Innovation Park near Swindon. Happy to answer Qs/ chat about the role before you apply. ce0111li.webitrent.com/ce0111li_web...

Library reading room, Bolton, April 1938, photo by Humphrey Spender.

In the first of a new free, in-person training series for writers, sponsored by @alcs.co.uk, WGGB Organiser Eleanor Dawson is leading a workshop on copyright and contracts in London on Monday 18 May (11am to 3pm) Find out more and apply (deadline noon, 11 May) www.surveymonkey.com/r/WGGBTraini...

Might anyone kindly be able to ping me a copy of Justin Champion's, 'Enlightened Erudition and the Politics of Reading in John Toland's Circle' (2006), please? Hunting down obscure reference stragglers for final proofs! 😱

NEW SERIES OF AMANDALAND ALERT

Thank you for calling. Please listen closely, as our menu options have changed. If the old world is dying, please, press 1. For new world is struggling to be born, press 2. If now is the time of- Ok. You selected "Monsters." If it is the time of monsters please have your reservation code ready.

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 so pleased to publish Exploring Digital Cultural Heritage by Eirini Goudarouli, @amsichani.bsky.social and @jfwinters.bsky.social today🥳 Download an #OpenAccess copy, read it online via @manifoldscholar.bsky.social or buy it in print! uolpress.co.uk/book/explori... #DigitalHumanities

NEW from me: many of our universities are now in a dying fall. A new global-national-regional-local split is opening up, which could choke off progress on almost all the Government's plans. Do they have a plan? Nope, nothing, not a clue. 👇 isrf.org/blog/whats-t...

Ooh! Article on a science museum initially shaped by 1960s academic history of science #histSTM 📜

The Worker’s May-Pole, Walter Crane, 1894.

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

Now we have Catherine Whiteman (Bristol) 'Thinking about Slavery: Bristol Library Society and the Abolition of Slavery, 1773-1833'. Interesting theme around the circulation of books and archives developing in this year's Lightening Talk. 5/x

And now we have Lucy Snow (Keele University and British Library). She's researching 18th-century Knowledge Work in the BL's Harleian Collection. Today we're all agog about LLMs; in earlier times, much knowledge instead resided in private collections of manuscripts. 3/x

In the UK (and not just the UK) university sector, we're living, working, thinking and being made redundant (sic) with and by emergencies. Join Wendy Brown, Margot Finn, Eva von Redecker and Sasha Roseneil, convened by Paul Gilroy and John Sabapathy, for 'Learning in Emergency States'. 5 June. 1/2

Final panel for our Doctoral Open Day on Contemporary British and Irish Collections - with Cameron Huggett (CDP Student - Football Fanzines), Stella Wisdom (Head of CBIC) & Chloe Hemsley (Legal Deposit Publisher Liaison)

This is true for varoius forms of the beast that we're facing today: regardless of its different forms, what these new reactionary, authoritarian political movements and figures aim at is to replace the existing form of politics with a new one. This is a kind of action beyond formal persuasion.

The cyberattack on The British Library in October 2023 knocked out ebooks and almost ever other computer thing there for years. Ebooks just came back. They were knocked out everywhere using the BL’s license (legal deposit libraries I think? More libraries?) Distributed physical copies matter.

assuming everyone has already read this but if not: please be advised that the first time I read it I was at my desk at work and I had to go for a little walk halfway through because I thought I was about to die from quietly laughing

Next Friday (24th April)! Join us for our next Doctoral Open Day: 'Contemporary British & Irish Collections' - including whistle-stop tours of a range of collections, 'Meet the Curators' & reference services sessions, & a whole panel on contemporary collecting! events.bl.uk/events/docto...

Fully-funded AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership project: 'Cold War Socialism, Non-Alignment and Anti-Colonialism in the Yugoslav Press, 1961-1979' - British Library & University of Exeter www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... Deadline for student applications: 5 May (noon)

We're seeking interdisciplinary perspectives on radicalism, protest, and the political power of print, from satirical caricatures and regional newspapers to the "hidden agency" of those working within the trade. Full submission details are included in the poster 5/5

Don't miss your last chance to join us in Manchester to hear from #publishing professionals working across the industry. Our panellists will offer insight into different roles and ways into the industry. Book: https://www.writersandartists.co.uk/events-and-courses/careers-publishing-manchester

My forthcoming book has a page! No cover yet, but a page! It's really happening! press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

Just watched this talk: Resisting Dehumanization in the Age of “AI.” Absolutely worth 50 minutes of your time.

God, I love her so much. Just banger after bager. She's in it purely for the love of the game and I respect that.

Jeff Bezos has $222 billion. If he paid my wealth tax this year, we could fund insulin in America for everyone who needs it plus free school lunch for every kid in Texas—and have plenty of money left over. And Bezos would still have $215 billion dollars to spare.

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 😃

📢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...