"I would know by what power I am called hither... by what authority, I mean, lawful". Charles I, 20 January 1648. history.hanover.edu/courses/exce...

Learned a new word today which perfectly describes my household: Tsundoku = a Japanese term for the habit of buying books and letting them pile up unread. 📚📚📚📚📚📚📚📚 The culprit is mostly my husband 🙄. I happen to work in one of the country’s largest libraries which now lends recently published bks

Explore Charles Booth’s maps and notebooks online ✍️🏻 This is a brilliant resource for those interested in social history 🔎 booth.lse.ac.uk/map #London #History

And it’s a wrap from us @bodleian.ox.ac.uk in 2025! The library is now asleep & the library elves are here off to celebrate Christmas. 🤶 🎄 Wishing you all a joyful festive break.

L is for... Looking for a seat? #HumanitiesLibraryA-Z We know the main reading rooms can get quite full during busy periods! Luckily, we've got lots of big, quieter reading rooms that you are also free to use for study 📖🤫

Isaac Newton wants you to know that the Old Library & RadCam @bodleianlibrary.bsky.social will close at 5pm today (Gladstone Link at 4.30pm). We reopen 9am on Fri 2 Jan - see you then? 🤶🎄Merry Christmas 🎄🤶 [ed: who did that digital moustache🙄]

Advert for a Professor or Associate Professor in Contemporary Art History at the University of Oxford, closes 2 February my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

And ‘On Pedantry: A Cultural History of the Know-it-All’ will be on the History New Books Display, Upper Reading Room @bodleian.ox.ac.uk sometime next week. 😃👍

If you are interested in the history of TYPEFACES, then check out 'Fifty Typefaces That Changed the World' by JL Walters and Design Museum (London, 2013). #wokeCalibri #Rubiocoup

REF29 appears to be largely about R&D which support govt strategic priorities: Growth, Safer streets, Opportunities for all, NHS, Clean Energy and Industrial strategy. Lord Vallance. #REF29live. No mention of role or importance of Humanities. 😟

New calls for research funding: bit.ly/44d2mTb Today we open calls for the Society's next rounds of 'Early Career Fellowship Grants' and 'Open Research Grants'. These schemes offer support for post-doc and later career historians to pursue research. Closing dates: 6 March 2026 #Skystorians 1/2

😔 RIP a legend. Love his photos artistically & for the stories of everyday life they tell. @richove.bsky.social have you seen this?

Renewed! 🥰

I spy with my little eye something beginning with… C! Do you see it too? (B, E, O, P, T or X are also acceptable)

A 1958 documentary on the 10 year old NHS is fascinating #historyofmedicine. It was controversial amongst GPs, affected urban v rural GPs differently & led to a rise in surgeries with employed staff. Doctors' wives were no longer 'slaves'! #womenshistory #nhshistory www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

In anticipation of tmw's budget statement, here is some 1970s advice for the Chancellor: 'There's a hole in my budget' by Flanders and Swann. youtu.be/3ecEMxrdULQ?... 😅 The archives of 'dear eyebrows' are @bodleian.ox.ac.uk by the way...https://tinyurl.com/5n8m8ff

New project launched to uncover Wales’s forgotten herbal medicine traditions nation.cymru/news/new-pro... #History #MedicalHistory #WelshHistory

The Royal Historical Society has published a very helpful guide to its various membership categories, including the Fellowship. If you're engaged in History study, research or teaching (including in public history, journalism & GLAM) & keen to support the discipline, do have a look. #Skystorians

And good news also for those looking for UK theses: "interim, metadata-only version of EThOS (E-Theses Online Service) in early 2026" with links to repositories & further worked planned. 👍

This week we also launched a new Applied History Fellowship scheme, with @ihr.bsky.social and DC Thomson: bit.ly/4ijiuII Fellowships will support recent post-doc historians and demonstrate the appeal of historical skills for employers. £12,000 for 6 months. Closing date: 31 Jan 2026 #Skystorians

Reflecting on reflections.

This is what catalogue searches - information skills training used to be like in the 1950s. 😮 but fascinating.... "KEYS TO THE LIBRARY " 1950s EDUCATIONAL FILM CARD CATALOGS, ENCYCLOPEDIAS & DEWEY youtu.be/0Q7AwKVFd3o?...

A packed hall at Oxford Digital Festival with a focus on AI this year. Lots to explore, learn & discuss!

New, and very interesting, #OpenAccess article on Early English Books Online: Opening the black box of EEBO academic.oup.com/dsh/advance-... #History 🗃️

Huge congrats to Prof Lyndal Roper @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social for winning the 2025 Cundill History Prize. "Summer of fire and blood : the German Peasants' War" is an epic & definitive history of the C16 uprising that revolutionised Europe. Several copies in @bodleian.ox.ac.uk tinyurl.com/mrxxby97

"Higher education generated £24bn in export earnings for the UK in 2022-23, far above aircraft manufacturing with £12bn, legal services with £9.5bn and telecoms with £8.8bn." #HigherEd www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Hear hear!!

There is still time to apply for one of our 50+ Visiting Fellowships @bodleian.ox.ac.uk for the 2026-27 academic year! A vibrant interdisciplinary research centre in the heart of one of the world’s great libraries!

ARCHIVAL FUNDING: Ann Ball Bodley Visiting Fellowship in Women’s History, to use Bodleian Libraries collections to advance scholarship in women’s history, of any geographical area and historical period. Deadline 28th Nov. www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowsh...

You said, we did! • Gate entry noises (except alarms)=off on both floors! • Height-adjustable Quick Search machine=available! • Shelf-ends for books=progressing! • Two sets of piano headphones=in place! • Monitors spread out=done! Please keep the post-its and opinions coming; it really helps!

@kathryneccles.bsky.social congratulations! 👏

My favourite view at Harcourt Arboretum. Truly stunning.

Thrilled to announce there are now more than 8,000 biographies in the Infinite Women database, across all different fields, from around the world and throughout history! Check them out at www.infinite-women.com

When Open Scienes collides with Blake Morgan’s Polaris (sung by Voves 8). All I can hear now is Paul Ayris! 😆 @ucylpay.bsky.social it’s probably a bit too modern for you…

Am so lucky to work here.. 🥰

Do you want a ✨library tour?✨ We're hosting tours for returning* students and staff every day this week at 11:30am and 2pm. No need to book, just turn up! *New students and staff also welcome, if you missed our introductory tours last week!

The October updates include, for example, 162 titles about the history of Wales, 229 records re histories of African nations, 359 publications re Scottish history, 448 records discuss the histories of the Americas and Atlantic Ocean, 468 publications focusing on Irish history, and much more.

We’re honoured to be welcoming Lord Simon Woolley as our speaker for this year’s Black History Month Lecture: “In a climate of fear of ‘the other’, new leaders must emerge.” 📅 30th Oct, 5:00pm 📍 Garden Quad Auditorium, St John’s College ➡️ Register now for a free ticket ow.ly/ueMI50X9KxE

Hello BlueSky! Starting this account to showcase the ever growing list of radical online archives and collections. Nearly 1000 collections from the around the world are listed at the link below. Please follow for updates and collection highlights! hatfulofhistory.com/radical-onli...

The Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) has recently been updated with 5000+ new references. Discover further details about this update in this On History blog blog.history.ac.uk/2025/10/bibl... @brepols.net

October’s ODNB update has four new articles on historic figures in Britain of African or part-African descent, including Yorke, Lecesne, Lewis, and Durham. Plus a survey of the sitters in the painting of the 1840 Anti-Slavery Convention. Read the stories on #ODNB: oxford.ly/46VduWJ

Das Protokoll dieses wie auch aller anderen Parteitage bis 1959 könnt ihr auf unserem Portal abrufen: library.fes.de/parte...

The Medieval Masterpiece, the Book of Kells, Is Now Digitized and Available Online

Oh, this is just wonderful! 😂 #libraryhistory

The archive was opened to researchers in 2007. It includes: ➡️ Documents on incarceration in concentration camps, ghettos and prisons ➡️ Documents on forced labour ➡️ Documents on Displaced Persons camps and emigration ➡️ Documents on Jewish and other victims of Nazi persecution

We’re proud to be the sole point of access in the UK to the International Tracing Service – a remarkable archive of over 30m pages of Holocaust-era documents relating to the experiences of 17.5m people 📸 The ITS Archive Manager, Elise, supports attendees of a recent AJR event 🔗 buff.ly/2sw8UE9

A is for Accessibility! The Humanities Library has: 🛗 Step-free access 🪑 Ergonomic chairs & height-adjustable desks ✍️ 6 study rooms 📖 Bookstands 🎨 Coloured acetate sheets 🤫 Earplugs 🔎 Magnifiers And more! Speak to a member of staff or see our webstie for more information: tinyurl.com/3sekr7am