British Library boss unexpectedly quits amid ongoing strike. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-c...

IHR Director Professor Claire Langhamer @clairelanghamer.bsky.social has written about today’s History Day #histday25 here at Senate House, and how it reflects the crucial work of @ihr.bsky.social in supporting historical research in all its forms. Read more here! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Our trainees Sasha and Sarah have written a blog showcasing some of the spookier and scarier books in the IHR Library’s collection - check it out! 🎃 🕸️ blog.history.ac.uk/2025/10/hall... #halloween #libraries #blog

To think that just a few weeks ago I hadn’t even heard of “Katie Lam” or seen her ridiculous Margaret Thatcher haircut

This is excellent. One reflection: the lack of ANY theoretical interest, even in the philosophy of science. Kuhn gives interesting models for paradigm change in science, and shows that ALL science is socially constructed. But no, it's all "the woke postmoderns are infecting science with IDEOLOGY!!!"

Our brand new @ihr.bsky.social Discovery Courses are designed to be accessible and engaging for all: historians and other professionals looking for training, as well as individuals looking for new learning experiences, enrichment and inspiration. Book now! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #history

Define your musical taste in eight artists. Black Sabbath Wu-Tang Clan New Order Neil Young Sleep The Fall Can Underworld

Are you using #maps in research? Want to learn about their history and use as sources? In London in late January? Sign up for @ihr.bsky.social short course, Historic Maps: Interpreting Stories of Place! #maphistory #skystorians 🗃️

For reasons, it would be v. helpful to have information from a broad range of academic and non-academic (incl. GLAM) users of the BBC Written Archives OTHER THAN historians, briefly on: 1) What you've used it for and 2) How the proposed changes would impact on your research. Reposts welcomed.

Whom amongst can truly say, hand on heart, that our close associates have not taken bribes from a hostile foreign state in order to influence domestic politics?

Haha the usual eco-fascist propaganda from the woke communists of the [reads article] Joint Intelligence Committee???

Exactly the kind of building in which you would hope to find a comptroller or indeed an ombudsman @tom.2x2.graphics

Celebration and Resistance: Explore LGBTQ+ collections and more at History Day 2025 🎉 This #HistDay25 we're partnering with @justinbengry.bsky.social to create a Queer History and Heritage Trail highlighting queer stories, figures & collections. Hear from Justin here: www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

My essay on stupidology (originally published in N+1) is in today's Guardian www.theguardian.com/news/2025/oc...

Damn RIP Ozzy, confirmation here news.sky.com/story/ozzy-o...

#JobAlert! Come and join us for 12 months in our lovely @chppc.bsky.social team @ihr.bsky.social. We're seeking a fixed-term #Lecturer in Historic Environment, who'll work on our projects, including research, publishing and digitisation. Closing date 29 August. Please share! #Skystorians

Shook Ones Pt. II into Incarcerated Scarfaces is all time, and the Erick Sermon freestyle is 🔥 too.

I highly recommend the 'Interviews with Historians' exhibition @ihr.bsky.social, launching the wonderful resource www.history.ac.uk/library-digi.... Fascinating insights into how #historians do #history + some gorgeous media archaeology! Congrats to @ihrlibrary.bsky.social colleagues & all involved.

At a time of crisis for the History departments across the UK @ihr.bsky.social has made available a unique archive of interviews with leading post-war British historians. They point to the importance of history & the urgent need to defend the profession. historyandpolicy.org/opinion-arti...

@bho.bsky.social we are not alone!

The end of a long digitisation project! It’s great to get these interviews out into the world once again

Even historians have a history. @lisapine.bsky.social launches her new @ihr.bsky.social podcast A Historian's Life, where historians talk about the histories they’ve explored and the lives they’ve lived. Listen to series 1 now. www.history.ac.uk/podcasts/a-h...

Listening to Meat is Murder by The Smiths, and damn, that rhythm section! M0rr1sey and Marr get all the props but without Joyce and Rourke (RIP) the band would have been entirely different (worse)

RIP Brian Wilson. “Genius” is an overused word but if any popular musician deserved to be called that, it would be him.

Five off the top of my head… Television- Marquee Moon Ramones - Ramones Nas - Illmatic Shellac - At Action Park Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children

Join us on the 26 June to celebrate the online publication of Interviews with Historians and a new podcast: A Historian’s Life. The event will be followed by the opening of the Interviews exhibition in the IHR Common Room. www.history.ac.uk/events/speak...

A headline that could have been true any time in the last 30yrs, amirite

A free Welsh History Postgrad conference in Cardiff 3-4 June. Everyone welcome!

If you missed the webinar/tutorial for getting to grips with the new interface of @ihr.bsky.social 's online Bibliography of British & Irish History, you can catch up with this recording. Of interest to anyone researching British or British colonial/imperial history from the Roman era to today.

I mentioned we would be hiring. Here we go. Two great roles at the DPC - Head of Good Practice and Head of Workforce Development - each owning a strategic objective on behalf of our members: www.dpconline.org/news/job-vac... Spread the word! #dpc #digitalpreservation #digipres #jobs

British steel industry: DrakeThumbsUp.jpg UK university sector: DrakeNoThanks.jpg

"More product, less process" seems like a good lesson to take away for many areas of library, archive and cultural heritage work, not just the born digital #bdcam25

Just learned that the Dutch for "the future" is "toekomst". What a language! #BDCAM25

PhD Studentship available! @ihr.bsky.social and Historic Royal Palaces AHRC CDP project on the Tower of London and Londoners, late medieval and Tudor. Focus on looking at everyday people supplying the Tower, especially migrants, also global commodities. Full fees + stipend - UK or international

Oopsie! #RLUK25

Colin Burrow makes some extremely disobliging remarks about librarians in this article, claiming we are as a breed a grumpy lot. This grumpiness probably arises from having to deal with the Colin Burrows of this world, and this post probably goes some way to confirming his generalisation

At the #RLUK25 Conference in sunny Liverpool. This session is "The library as a trusted steward" but I'm pretty sure I heard "trusted Stewart" in Wendy White's introduction

We’ve launched our new look LSE Digital Library! Take a look digital.library.lse.ac.uk

We’re in Cambridge for the Cambridge Archives and Collections Fair, with a wide variety of fellow stall holders @ihrlibrary.bsky.social

Got a minute? Please complete our annual library survey. We'd love to hear what you think! buff.ly/euZHYnA

We are hiring at St John's! We have an opening for an Early Career Librarian post, 3 year fixed term, salary £27,786, and as part of the role the College will pay the successful candidate's fees and give them day release to undertake a Masters' degree in Librarianship. www.joh.cam.ac.uk/vacancies

The 2025 @ihr.bsky.social paid internships are now open for applications! There’s one with #Reviewsinhistory & one with #BBIH. These internships are brilliant opportunities for people looking to develop careers in history making in all contexts www.history.ac.uk/funding/ihr-... Deadline 31.03.25.

Supporters Praise Trump For Upholding Traditional American Value Of Supporting Murderous Dictators For Political Gain

🚨BREAKING - Steve Reed has just launched the biggest review into the water sector since privatisation. But wait…..he says the commission can’t even consider public ownership. 🤯 We need to act quickly to change his mind. ⏰ Sign our petition now ✍️ weownit.org.uk/act-now/stev...

‘More than ever, history and historians need a collaborative and co-ordinated approach' bit.ly/4iddCU8 In advocacy, the Royal Historical Society works closely with fellow #history organisations. Today we release a statement with @histassoc.bsky.social, @ihr.bsky.social and History UK. #skystorians

Does the Royal Society perhaps have the contact details of one of its Fellows who might know something about the source of these recent attacks on science?

We watched The Bikeriders yesterday, which for a film about a motorcycle gang featured surprisingly little actual motorbiking. I enjoyed Tom Hardy’s comedy accent, but Austin Butler is a real charisma vacuum

I had no idea that paintings of Napoleon's grave on St Helena commonly contained optical illusions with the great man's ghostly outline. Image grabbed from www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollecti...

Job klaxon! Come and work with us as Manager of the Digital Humanities Research Hub in the School of Advanced Study, University of London @dh-researchhub.bsky.social #DigitalHumanities

It’s now live! I’m so excited about this post – I’m recruiting to the new role of Head of Student Library Experience at @lselibrary.bsky.social. Interested? jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...