The National Archives and @araukie.bsky.social are seeking an experienced supplier to deliver two training courses on leadership skills for early and mid-career professionals. Submit a tender by Tuesday 30 June: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-sec... (1/2)

The Council of the @churchmonuments.bsky.social offers a biennial prize of £500, to be awarded for the best essay submitted in the relevant year. For a copy of the rules and the guidelines to contributors, see churchmonumentssociety.org/get-involved...

I’ve noticed that the swift nest featured on Springwatch is crawling with swift louse flies. My question why don’t the swifts get rid of them by eating them @bbcspringwatch.bsky.social @saveourswifts.bsky.social ?! #springwatch2026 #saveourswifts #swifts

PhD funding available #skystorians #medievalsky #heritage #archaeology 🏺📜

We still have a scholarship available for History, Archaeology or Heritage (or a combination) at CCCU. Deadline 3 July. This is an open call as long as your research fits with Cultures and Communities or Material Pasts. 1/ www.canterbury.ac.uk/study-here/f...

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

JOB POST ALERT Role: Head of Stonehenge at English Heritage Location: Stonehenge Salary: Salary from £64,189 p.a. Find out more: https://museumsandheritage.com/advisor/all-jobs/english-heritage-head-of-stonehenge/

JOB POST ALERT Role: Freelance Metadata / Documentation Specialist at UK Antarctic Heritage Trust Location: Remote Contract length: 6 months Find out more: https://museumsandheritage.com/advisor/all-jobs/uk-antarctic-heritage-trust-freelance-metadata-documentation-specialist/

Looking for work experience placements? Applications now open for Sept-Nov. For people aged 15-18 who are interested in natural history, science education, or libraries and archives, we offer unpaid opportunities. Apply here: bit.ly/4ao2eDf

Historian of something cool and niche? i've got some episode slots available on the Untitled History Podcast in the coming weeks. so if you're up for coming on and talking about your area, DM me! Think In Our Time but more casual. ESPECIALLY if its non-mil stuff. (spread the word, peeps)

We have a rare and exciting opportunity to join our team as Director of Churchill Archives Centre at Churchill College. Application deadline is 9am on 29th June 2026. Please share this with people you think would be interested.

Engaging the public in humanities & social sciences feels more important than ever. So we are offering £8k grants for researchers to work with galleries, libraries, archives, museums or performing arts organisations to do this. Please help spread the word! www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...

📣 Applications open for @historylabplus.bsky.social & HistoryUK ECR Survey Fellow 2026-7, to action UK-wide survey of support & access to resources available to historical researchers post-PhD 📍 Remote 💰 Honorarium of £800 🕰️ 23:59, 14 June #Skystorians #ECRs @ihr.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.org

Excited for my #Heiresses summer tour! See you at Mercer’s Hall, London, @janeaustenshouse.bsky.social @chalkefestival.bsky.social @bradfordlitfest.bsky.social @harvingtonhall.bsky.social (where I’ll be talking #BlackTudors) or Llangwm Lit Fest… More info: www.mirandakaufmann.com/events.html

Join us on Weds 1 July for the Society's 2026 Prothero Lecture, given by Prof Rebecca Earle (Warwick) bit.ly/4eF0DMp, and followed by our summer party. Rebecca's lecture, ‘The Last Voyage of the Santiago: A Ship and its World in the Age of Revolution’, is open for booking. All welcome #Skystorians

We are looking for new Exhibitions Volunteers! Our volunteering opportunities are open to students, staff and members of the public. Find out more and apply at ➡️ libguides.exeter.ac.uk/archives/placements/volunteering #Exeter #Archives #Volunteering @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social

🚨 FLOOD IN THE ARCHIVE! 🚨 Now i've got your attention - playtest our serious tabletop game on heritage disaster response. 12th June, 1-4pm, Exeter Innovation Hub Open to anyone in heritage (paid/unpaid)/ interested in game design 🎟️ Sign up: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1990790345... Find out more ⬇️

📣 One week left to apply! We’re looking for a Customer Relationship Management Product Manager to lead on developing our Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system to help us talk (and listen) to our audiences.

Just a few days left to apply for a new professionals bursary from the Archives and Records Association to attend their fabulous conference in Glasgow, 5-7 August. A must for all new #archives and #recordsmanagement professionals: mailchi.mp/archives/bur.... Deadline: Wednesday 3 June, 17:00.

Booking is now open for the AMARC 2026 Summer Meeting and AGM: Discovering Welsh Estate Archives and Records 📜 📍Bangor 📅 15 July ⏰ 10.00-16.00 See our website for info and registration 🔗https://amarcsite.wordpress.com/meetings/forthcoming-meetings

⭐️ Our final Skills Training in Archival Research (STAR) workshop of the 2025-26 year is on 3rd June! ⭐️ Are you doing archival research for a degree or work? Or just want to learn more about how to research at TLA? Then come along! Book your place using the link 👇

We still have a few remaining tickets for our STAR workshop on Wednesday, book your ticket below 👇

Job Opportunity! Lecturer in Global Medieval History University of Leeds jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

We are recruiting for 2x Archivist posts: Archivist (Access and Engagement) - fixed-term until March 2028. Project Archivist (Setting the Record Straight) - fixed-term, 12 months. Find out more about the roles and apply on our website here: https://exploreyork.org.uk/jobs/ #archives #jobs

Interesting senior archivist role, though incredibly disappointing that - given the impact it has on equal pay and diversity - they've chosen to be secretive about the salary. www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/list...

Applications are open for our Resilience Grants funding programme! Resilience Grants, worth up to £20,000, support archives to respond to change and develop sustainable solutions to any challenges they face. Apply by Monday 6 July 2026: nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-sec...

Registration is now open for the 2026 AUAC Conference "Who is Responsible for the Archives? An Interdisciplinary Approach to Ethics in a Digital Age" (Aston University and online), with participants from all over the world. Details here: www.aston.ac.uk/research/bss...

Nominations are open for the ARA Excellence Awards - read why you should be nominating someone (or a recordkeeping service) for these awards: www.archives.org.uk/news/ara-exc...

Want to get involved with our work? Apply to be our new Chair! This voluntary role for ARA members is open for applications until 1 June 2026 - just send a short statement of interest to [email protected]. See the latest Training and CPD Bulletin from ARA for more details

This looks like it will be a great conference on 'Maritime Histories from the Margins, 1500-present. The call for papers is here: CALL FOR PAPERS www.rmg.co.uk/call-papers-...

Conference on 'Filth and health': hygiene &sanitation in the Middle Ages Friday, 26 Jun 2026, 1100-1830, Great Hall, St Bartholomew the Great, EC1A 7BE Fundraising campaign for new loos & in memory of Prof Peter Fergusson, a great architectural historian greatstbarts.churchsuite.com/events/mytyw...

As NION Women, we care about being a society that leaves no one behind, where everyone can feel safe and fully participate. That includes trans+ people, who have been increasingly blamed for problems they didn't cause - and who have faced growing hostility for the best part of a decade.

Join us at the London Archaeologist AGM and Annual Lecture, 21 May 2026, 7pm Institute of Archaeology, London or on Zoom. This year's Annual Lecture: Discoveries from 50 Fenchurch Street including Roman Pottery findings Jessica Bryan, Vincenzo Castaldo and Isabelle Diggle

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...

Here’s our regular reminder of upcoming events with spaces still available! These events cover public records, how archives support the rights of beneficiaries, surveying as a tool for relationship building and preservation, and more… Sign up here: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-sec...

Applications are open for Scoping Grants worth £3000! Apply by 18 June to have an independent consultant produce an expert collections report on a full or partial archival collection. Apply here: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-rev... (1/2)

🚨We are hiring🚨 We are recruiting for 2x Archivist posts: Archivist (Access and Engagement) - fixed-term until March 2028. Project Archivist (Setting the Record Straight) - fixed-term, 12 months. To find out more about the roles and apply take a look at our website⬇️. #archives #jobs

On Wednesday we're delighted to host Chris Sheridan from @araukie.bsky.social discussing continuing professional development for new #archivists #recordsmanagers and #conservators. Join us online - register here now today! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ara-sfnp-c...

Fellowship and Membership applications are welcome at anytime from those working with history, across all career stages and sectors: bit.ly/43bmMLe Our newly elected Fellows teach and research in 16 countries; our new Postgraduate Members are studying in 61 universities in 13 countries 2/2

One more signature for the petition to save Humanities at Hertfordshire to hit 2,500! Please take a minute to sign and share. #UCU www.change.org/p/save-the-h...

We’re appointing a writer-in-residence! Join us to respond to our holdings related to the Bloomsbury Group (including the archives of Leonard and Virginia Woolf’s Hogarth Press) ahead of a major exhibition in 2027. Applications close 19 May. Best of luck! collections.reading.ac.uk/news-and-vie...

Sign up for the next Major Archives Projects Learning Exchange (MAPLE) event at Staffordshire History Centre (16 June): www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/maple-staf... This in-person event will give an overview of the project and partnership to redevelop the centre following its reopening in 2025. (1/2)

Brilliant Woolfy writing opportunity but not long to apply!

How can surveying be an effective tool for relationship building and the preservation of collections? Join us on Friday 12 June (10am) for an online webinar on the importance of surveying in charity and business archives: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/surveying-...

📢 JOB ALERT! The DH Lab is hiring a GBP Digital Humanities Assistant Technician 🎓 Open to recent grads 🛠️ Training in photogrammetry, RTI, A/V & 3D printing 🏛️ Great foundation for Heritage, Archives, or Research admin careers 📅 Apply by 4 June 2026! 👇Apply here careers.exeter.ac.uk/vacancies/84...

Spaces still available for my in-person records workshop on 17 June at The National Archives. I can promise treason records, witchcraft cases, and chunky plea rolls. What more could you want.

🌟Join the team🌟Archives West Midlands will have three trustee vacancies from September 2026. Get involved with this ambitious, friendly network and help to shape the future direction of #ArchivesWM, supporting #archive services across the West Midlands! Find out more 👇

Join us on 28 May (1pm) for a refresher on the responsibilities of Places of Deposit (PODs) in relation to the Public Records Act 1958: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/refresher-... This webinar is ideal for staff at PODs but open to all recordkeepers who may be responsible for public records in the future!

Tomorrow is View Day at St Bartholomew's Hospital, which also means it's our next #Archives Open Day! 📖👀🥳 Drop in between 11am-3pm tomorrow, Wednesday 13 May to see original records and objects, including some featured in #OurHospitalThroughTime, and find out more about our collections

📣 Calling all Shetland writers! We are seeking applications for our Scots Scriever residency - and this year, the focus is on Shetland. This is a unique opportunity for a writer to create original work in Shaetlan while championing the language across communities.