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Does digital library things at Oxford, likes coins a bit too much, visits castles cos they’re cool.
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Jack Orchard
9 days ago
Random question - if you were gonna list 3 games that support the 'games are good at building empathy' argument - which ones would you pick? *I know this is a controversial topic, so I'd be extra interested in cases where people know the issues, but have games they still think fit the bill
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Names on currency is a power move seen throughout history. My research shows Viking kings of York (C10th) stamped their place in history by issuing coins with their names. Some of those kings are unknown except from the coins. Trump's signature to appear on US dollars
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Trump's signature to appear on US bank notes in first for sitting president
The US president's signature will appear on new paper currency alongside Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz0el909yp3o
20 days ago
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21 days ago
📢Registration is now open for
#DHOxSS2026
! Book your place here:
dhoxss.net
With Oxford Uni top of QS World University Rankings in four subjects, and named overall top for Humanities, it is the perfect place to start your
#digitalhumanities
journey!
@agneatha.bsky.social
@david.deroure.org
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about 1 month ago
DHOxSS Information Sessions for different time zones! Join us: 24 March 17:00 GMT -
tinyurl.com/yb7fk9xb
25 March 08:00 GMT -
tinyurl.com/3aw8c354
@amlibraryassoc.bsky.social
@libereurope.bsky.social
@aadh.bsky.social
@nationalcollection.bsky.social
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Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
2 months ago
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).
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3 months ago
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
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Numismatics in the news today
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Gloucestershire coin thief jailed a year after going on the run
Clinton Brown disappeared during his trial for the theft of £500,000 of rare coins from a dealer.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce8e339jxj0o
3 months ago
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Bodleian Libraries
3 months ago
Looking up in the Weston Library. 🆙 (You always spot a new detail)
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3 months ago
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...
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@jarona7.bsky.social
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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...
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Treasury to cover Bayeux Tapestry loan to UK for estimated £800m
The huge embroidery will be covered under the government's indemnity scheme when it travels to the UK.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c79x21wdlgeo
4 months ago
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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
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4 months ago
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
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4 months ago
📣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
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@mcollardanuy.bsky.social
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John McCafferty
5 months ago
Appearance of the Comet, 1618-1619 19 Nov 1618 (Rijksmuseum)
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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...
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OPEN Visiting Fellowships | University of Oxford
The OPEN Visiting Fellowship is a mutual learning and development opportunity for research and policy professionals. As Visiting Fellows, policy professionals have the opportunity to explore policy
https://www.ox.ac.uk/research/using-research-engage/policy-engagement/oxford-policy-engagement-network-OPEN/open-visiting-fellowships
5 months ago
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WeRateDogs
6 months ago
Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!
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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.
7 months ago
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Digital Scholarship at Oxford
7 months ago
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:
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AI in Libraries - Horizon Scanning Bodleian Libraries
https://app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/oxford/horizon-scanning-ai-in-libraries
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An unexpectedly numismatic news story - a new role for the old Royal Ming building on Tower Hill
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Approving China 'mega' embassy would be unlawful, UK government told
Opponents are battling China's plan for a mega embassy in London's historic Royal Mint Court.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c864w2942vdo
7 months ago
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Clare Downham
8 months ago
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...
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It’s a myth that England was created on the battlefield – most of it happened at the negotiating table
Not a simple tale of English kings overcoming Vikings, the creation of England involved far more bureaucracy than the epic legends let on
https://theconversation.com/its-a-myth-that-england-was-created-on-the-battlefield-most-of-it-happened-at-the-negotiating-table-206882
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8 months ago
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
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William J Nixon
8 months ago
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.
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8 months ago
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
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@tostig1066.bsky.social
Bayeux fever is mounting!
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8 months ago
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William J Nixon
8 months ago
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
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William J Nixon
8 months ago
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
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William J Nixon
8 months ago
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
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David De Roure
8 months ago
Day 2 at
#DHOxSS2025
and this is a view from the live-streaming room in
@oxforderesearch.bsky.social
Which one is real?
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William J Nixon
8 months ago
Mission Control for the
#DHOxSS2025
#AILibraries
strand with Andrew Cusworth after a fantastic opening keynote from
@masudk.com
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Another year, another Digital Humanities @ Oxford Summer School full of fantastic speakers and enthusiastic learner!
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9 months ago
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Rare Book School
9 months ago
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
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James O’Sullivan
9 months ago
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)
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Daniel van Strien
10 months ago
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...
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institutional/institutional-books-1.0 · Datasets at Hugging Face
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
https://huggingface.co/datasets/institutional/institutional-books-1.0
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10 months ago
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
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@bodleianlibraries.bsky.social
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Claire Knowles
10 months ago
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 ⬇️
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Knowledge Futures Symposium
https://conferences.leeds.ac.uk/knowledgefutures/
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Dr Katie Eagleton
10 months ago
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...
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Tool to identify poisonous books developed by University of St Andrews
Arsenic was historically mixed with copper to create a vivid green for book covers, which can irritate modern day readers
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jun/06/tool-to-identify-poisonous-books-developed-by-university-of-st-andrews?fbclid=IwY2xjawKwBgtleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHpTZpKZtHBHSOYE13Enuk-hYBm1VBro3TMp4wUx-X7dQD3SWaGmDSzCrLZeu_aem_ZU_Hzfo828-yLbXqdHrRjw
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Jane Winters
11 months ago
#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!
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UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association Advocacy Survey
Take this survey powered by surveymonkey.com. Create your own surveys for free.
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ukiedha
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Dr Jane Secker
11 months ago
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...
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International Copyright-Literacy Event with Playful Opportunities for Practitioners and Scholars (Icepops)
Icepops 2025 Icepops is the International Copyright-Literacy Event with Playful Opportunities for Practitioners and Scholars. The sixth edition of Icepops (Icepops 2025) is taking place at the John…
https://copyrightliteracy.org/upcoming-events/icepops-international-copyright-literacy-event-with-playful-opportunities-for-practitioners-and-scholars/
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11 months ago
Our amazing keynote speakers: Professor Caroline Bassett (University of Cambridge) Dr Katherine McDonough (Alan Turing Institute) More details:
tinyurl.com/2wvwrkvb
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Clare Downham
11 months ago
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
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Conference on Landscapes of War and Fear
Conference on Landscapes of War and Fear (AD 600-1350) in Oslo, 4th to 5th November.
https://www.uis.no/nb/arkeologisk-museum/forskning/arrangementer/conference-on-landscapes-of-war-and-fear
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Colchester Museums
11 months ago
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.
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Dr Jane Secker
11 months ago
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...
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Icepops 2025: bursaries available
We are delighted to offer 5 full funded bursary places for this year’s Icepops conference, thanks to the generosity of the Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA) and the CILIP Information Literacy …
http://copyrightliteracy.org/2025/05/15/icepops-2025-bursaries-available/
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD
11 months ago
The magna carta talks about eel nets and fishing rights, and I'm never going to let you forget it
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12 months ago
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
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Eureka Henrich
12 months ago
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/...
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An Introduction to Oral History: Key Principles Everyone Should Know - 17 May 2025 — ORAL HISTORY NSW
In this introductory seminar, Oral History NSW committee member Dr Eureka Henrich will explore some of the key ideas behind oral history as a research methodology and will outline important steps in p...
https://www.oralhistorynsw.org.au/events/2025/05022introduction-seminar#!event-register/2025/5/17/an-introduction-to-oral-history-key-principles-everyone-should-know
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Tamsin C Russell
12 months ago
Fabulous project, about the exploration of emotion within the heritage sector. 👇
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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:
12 months ago
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Institut für Digital Humanities
12 months ago
Not Just Language Analysis – Our New Summer School “Large Language Models for Digital Humanities Research”
#call
#llm
#summerschool
#dh
texperimentales.hypotheses.org/5826
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Not Just Language Analysis – Our New Summer School “Large Language Models for Digital Humanities Research”
Since 2018, the University of Cologne has been hosting a regular summer school dedicated to machine learning – which means I’ve had the pleasure of being part of the organizing team and its academic c...
https://texperimentales.hypotheses.org/5826
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Oooh if I didn’t already have a PhD in numismatics, this would sorely tempt me!
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