As today marks the opening of the 2026 Winter Olympics, we are sharing this late 18th century coin featuring an ice skater on the reverse. It is a private 1/2 penny token struck by Gamaliel Skidmore (c.1775–1822).

The bursary application form is now live! Apply before noon (GMT) Monday 9 February: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/oxford/dig... @discoxford.bsky.social @bodleian.ox.ac.uk @david.deroure.org @agneatha.bsky.social @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social @aadh.bsky.social #digitalhumanities

Numismatics in the news today www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Looking up in the Weston Library. 🆙 (You always spot a new detail)

The Digital Humanities @ Oxford Summer School is seeking feedback from its alumni. Participation takes 10–15 minutes and responses are anonymised. app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/oxford/dho... @david.deroure.org @agneatha.bsky.social @jarona7.bsky.social @andrewcusworth.bsky.social

Gotta love a new story about the Government Indemnity Scheme - a boring but vital part of museum work that allows museums to borrow objects and artworks with the UK government (not an individual museum) doing the insurance: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

As we ramp up to #REF, there’s now REF-branded hair care to get you through the drama and anxiety (spotted in my local nail salon) #researchexcellenceframework #ukacademia #academiclife

We will invite bursary applications in January. In the meantime, here are some top tips for writing a competitive bursary application: tinyurl.com/2ru62afc Have a great festive season and happy reading! @agneatha.bsky.social @david.deroure.org @discoxford.bsky.social @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

📣Alumni survey: new deadline 12 January! If you attended #DHOxSS in previous years, please take part in our survey! Thank you 🫶 @agneatha.bsky.social @david.deroure.org @jarona7.bsky.social @williamjnixon.bsky.social @andrewcusworth.bsky.social @fedenanni.bsky.social @mcollardanuy.bsky.social

Appearance of the Comet, 1618-1619 19 Nov 1618 (Rijksmuseum)

We're offering to host a Visiting Fellow for policy professionals who want to know more about how and why the BodleianLibraries, Oxford is working on AI (hint: we collect, curate and preserve trustworthy information) 🎓 Policy Visiting Fellowships ⏱️ Deadline: 21st Nov 🔗 www.ox.ac.uk/research/usi...

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

My husband is now in his Trains Era and whilst watching a documentary about the Beeching Railway cuts lamented he couldn’t see old timetables from our train station. “Were the timetables published?” I ask. Cos you know I work in a legal deposit library.

The Centre for Digital Scholarship at the Bodleian Libraries invites library professionals to take part in a survey on AI Applications in Libraries. Participation takes 10–15 minutes and responses are anonymised:

An unexpectedly numismatic news story - a new role for the old Royal Ming building on Tower Hill www.bbc.com/news/article...

Writing England’s origins in the middle of a flag fetish is hitting a nerve which hopefully inspires more reading & thought. The review of David Woodman’s book (posted yesterday) has amassed c. 12,000 views. Here is my earlier take on origins #medievalsky theconversation.com/its-a-myth-t...

Shout out to our amazing online team and participants! @david.deroure.org @jarona7.bsky.social @williamjnixon.bsky.social @andrewcusworth.bsky.social @discoxford.bsky.social #IntroDH #AILibraries #DHOxSS2025

It felt like the Radio 4 Today studio! Really great range of talks in our #DHOxSS2025 @rluk.ac.uk #AILibraries strand and a pleasure and privilege to be part of Team DHOxSS this week. Thanks to our online participants and all our fabulous speakers.

Day 4 is flying by! ⏳ Another great day of ideas, connection & collab, online and in person, and tomorrow’s closing keynote with Dr Katherine McDonough to look forward to🎤 Thanks for the photo competition entries, keep 'em coming! #DHOxSS2025 #digitalhumanities

@tostig1066.bsky.social Bayeux fever is mounting!

High score in Chuckie Egg (briefly) on a BBC Micro (though I was Team C64) at fantastic demo of retro games and the challenges of gaming digital preservation - & had a ZX81 with 16K RAM pack! Chance to reflect on 80s home PC culture. Fascinating to see younger attendees try the BBC Micro #DHOxSS2025

A great walking tour with #DHOxSS2025 colleagues earlier this evening with blue skies and for librarians, a very library focused tour taking in various Bodleian library buildings including the Weston, Radcliffe Camera, Duke Humfrey’s library and the Tower of the Five Orders

Thanks for joining us @masudk.com a fantastic keynote and launch for the AI in Research strand, looking forward to the rest of the week and more discussions and engagement #DHOxSS2025

Day 2 at #DHOxSS2025 and this is a view from the live-streaming room in @oxforderesearch.bsky.social Which one is real?

Mission Control for the #DHOxSS2025 #AILibraries strand with Andrew Cusworth after a fantastic opening keynote from @masudk.com

Another year, another Digital Humanities @ Oxford Summer School full of fantastic speakers and enthusiastic learner!

Christopher N. Warren will give a free public talk on “What is Computational Bibliography?” at 5:30 p.m. ET on Wednesday 30 July, in UVA’s Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library Auditorium or via Zoom. Details: rarebookschool.org/programs/lectures #BookSky #DigitalHumanities

One for #DigitalHumanities colleagues! Applications are invited for the position of Post-Doctoral Researcher with expertise in digital and spatial humanities (11 months, whole-time). Successful candidate will work under supervision of @claireconnolly.bsky.social. See ore.ucc.ie (Job ID: 088233)

Institutional Books: Massive Historical Text Corpus - 983K books, 242B tokens, 386M pages - 19th-20th century texts in 254 languages - Refined OCR with quality scores & metadata - Noncommercial early-access release huggingface.co/datasets/ins...

Due to popular demand we have extended the deadline for poster submissions until Monday 16 June! The posters will be displayed in a welcome reception. Apply here: tinyurl.com/mtnakcyt @discoxford.bsky.social @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @david.deroure.org @agneatha.bsky.social

We are looking forward to hosting a Knowledge Futures Symposium at the @universityofleeds.bsky.social on 27th June conferences.leeds.ac.uk/knowledgefut.... Come along to listen to great panels and discuss this critical topic, more info on the website ⬇️

I am so proud of this brilliant project by our University Collections team - now in testing to share with the sector soon. It's interdisciplinarity at its best, that we hope will make a real difference. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

#DigitalHumanities folk in Ireland and the UK, please consider completing this UK-Ireland DH Association survey on advocacy within and for DH. Your responses will help to shape Association policy and practice in the future. Thank you!

Icepops, call for contributions closes in 1 week from today and bookings are now open including applications for a fully funded bursary place: copyrightliteracy.org/upcoming-eve...

Our amazing keynote speakers: Professor Caroline Bassett (University of Cambridge) Dr Katherine McDonough (Alan Turing Institute) More details: tinyurl.com/2wvwrkvb @discoxford.bsky.social @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @david.deroure.org @agneatha.bsky.social @uniofcam.bsky.social

Call for Papers! Very happy to be speaking at this event and excited to learn more about research in this area www.uis.no/nb/arkeologi... #medievalsky #academia

It’s beautiful. And it’s deadly. This delicate Victorian baby feeder, also known as a pap boat, is decorated with charming blue flowers, birds and fruit. It looks like it belongs on a shelf, not in a nursery.

Exciting news - we have 5 fully funded bursaries to attend #icepops25 in September at John Rylands library, University of Manchester copyrightliteracy.org/2025/05/15/i...

The magna carta talks about eel nets and fishing rights, and I'm never going to let you forget it

We're pleased to launch the #DHOXSS2025 poster competition! Share your #digitalhumanities research at our poster session: tinyurl.com/5n7pkfc9 Apply by 9 June: tinyurl.com/mtnakcyt @discoxford.bsky.social @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @david.deroure.org @agneatha.bsky.social

Interested in oral history? I'll be running an introductory seminar in Sydney on 17 May for Oral History NSW - we'll cover all the basics and have time for a chat about your projects, ideas and questions. Details here: www.oralhistorynsw.org.au/events/2025/...

Fabulous project, about the exploration of emotion within the heritage sector. 👇

I can turn anything numismatic - so happy Maundy Thursday everyone! A day when the monarch traditionally hands out coins and washes the feet of those in need (the foot washing bit stopped a few hundred years ago). Maundy coins are some of my faves. These Charles II coins from Royal Mint Museum:

Not Just Language Analysis – Our New Summer School “Large Language Models for Digital Humanities Research” #call #llm #summerschool #dh texperimentales.hypotheses.org/5826

Oooh if I didn’t already have a PhD in numismatics, this would sorely tempt me!

Thank you - this is the digital preservation x knitting content my life needed right now.

A swift visit to the British Museum yesterday whilst at a conference at Senste House & a chance to visit some old faves - testaments to the power of international trade, travel and the flow of ideas in early medieval Europe

Interested in studying a MSc Heritage? This Wednesday I’ll be at the University of Stirling PGT Open Day with my Course Director hat on. Come visit our stunning campus (spring flowers are out!) & have a chat to me about the degree if you are curious www.stir.ac.uk/study/visit-...