I think this might be my favourite appearance of the University of London Senate House in popular culture - the video for Depeche Mode’s Strangelove m.youtube.com/watch?v=MHRa...

Depeche Mode - Strangelove (Official Video)

YouTube video by DepecheModeVEVO

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As the school summer holiday season is almost upon us here's a #FlashbackFriday look back to 1898 and the family summer holiday of the Trevelyan family of Wallington, who visited Seaview on the Isle of Wight for their summer break. Photos are from our Trevelyan family photo albums. [Ref. CPT/PA/28]

NEW on Wonkhe: This week’s card from Hugh Jones’ postbag invites us to party on, dude! buff.ly/oWWdhFc

EHRI-UK is live! At the end of November we welcomed distinguished guests from Higher Education Institutions, archives, museums & other interested organisations. Building on the success of 14 yrs of @ehri-project.eu we are keen to develop more services in the UK & beyond @uk.diplo.de www.ehri-uk.org

Off to the @mrcwarwick.bsky.social for today's 'Blood is the price of coal' conference. Should be really interesting! More here:

Conference programme

This free one day conference aims to bring together researchers from higher education, libraries, archives, museums and community and campaign groups to explore the history of health and welfare in…

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In the #AHRSyllabus module “Unpacking the History of Higher Education,” authors use college and university digital archives to capture the rich histories of women’s sports, LGBTQ+ student experiences, and Hispanic-Serving Institutions. 🗃️

Unpacking the History of Higher Education

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If you're near Bradford tomorrow you can catch a screening of Letters From Baghdad as part of Bradford Literature Festival. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion featuring our very own Gertrude Bell archivist Valentina Flex. Find out more: www.bradfordlitfest.co.uk/event/screen...

Screening: Letters from Baghdad + Q&A | Bradford Literature Festival

Voiced and executive produced by Academy Award winner Tilda Swinton and directed by Zeva Oelbaum and Sabine Krayenbühl, this acclaimed documentary explores Gertrude Bell’s extraordinary life as a…

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A scrapbook donated to our Royal Commonwealth Society collection - about schoolboys' tours into the British empire - tells us much about the interconnected themes of colonialism & public education, emigration, class, & gender in the empire. Learn more: specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk?p=32144

Today is National Swimming Pool Day, so we thought it was a great chance to share some beautiful items relating to Jubilee Pool from the archives here at Kresen Kernow! #JubileePool #Penzance #CornwallHistory #Archives #ArtDeco #CornwallHeritage #Journeys @nationaltoday_ #NationalSwimmingPoolDay

Last week on Wonkhe: This week’s card from Hugh Jones’ postbag takes us to an Oxford fixture

Higher education postcard: the Radcliffe Camera

This week’s card from Hugh Jones’ postbag takes us to an Oxford fixture This week’s card from Hugh Jones’ postbag takes us to an Oxford fixture

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Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @kent.ac.uk Founded in 1965, in 2025 the creation of the London and South East University Group - comprising Kent and Greenwich - was announced If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm

An excellent evening and lovely to welcome people to Senate House and show some of our amazing collections ahead of the Firsts Rare Book Fair in May. Really looking forward to the fair now - and engaging even more people with Senate House Library collections!

Senate House Library@senatehouselib.bsky.social · 4mo ago

A big thank you to everyone who joined us for the Firsts Rare Book Fair VIP preview last night. We can’t wait for the main event!

A big thank you to everyone who joined us for the Firsts Rare Book Fair VIP preview last night. We can’t wait for the main event!

A new collection catalogued and now available from the Archives at @senatehouselib.bsky.social! The Marisa Rueda papers - a fascinating collection about this important Argentinian artist and her role in the Montonero Peronista movement - are now available for research.

Senate House Library@senatehouselib.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The Marisa Rueda papers are now available to view at Senate House Library Find out more here and in the video below: archives.libraries.london.ac.uk/Details/arch...

New exhibition at Senate House Library! The English Print Revolution: Caxton and Beyond! Free to enter - so pop in and see it 😍📖

Senate House Library@senatehouselib.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Our new exhibition The English Print Revolution: Caxton and Beyond is now open! Co-curated by Karen Attar (SHL) and @michaelwdurrant.bsky.social (IES, SAS) the display celebrates the 550th anniversary of William Caxton’s first printing press!

Thank goodness for archives! I’m sure this is one of many written documents out there on this topic.

Anne-Grethe Jensen@daneanne.bsky.social · 2y ago

Document in the Danish National Archives from 1916 stating that: "the Government of the United States of America will not object to the Danish Government extending their political and economic interests to the whole of Greenland".

Interesting report with overlaps for all archives - from science and medicine to arts and humanities. So much research potential in the UK’s archives - and it would be amazing to be able to get more of it out there being used! #archives #research #goldmine

Wellcome Trust@wellcometrust.bsky.social · 9mo ago

From hospital records to family papers, collections give unique insights into health across time and place. But they don’t just have historical value. Collections have incredible potential for discovery research – and we need to unlock it. Learn more in our report: wellcome.org/insights/rep...

Spooky goings on at Senate House Library!!

Senate House Library@senatehouselib.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Want to see something spooky for Halloween? Here’s…a hand in a box 🎃

We’re delighted to see a familiar object featured in the Guardian’s coverage of Ghosts: Visualising the Supernatural at Kunstmuseum Basel: a ghost-hunting kit once owned by Eric Dingwall, who left a bulk of his work with the University of London Library. www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Today I delivered some tours of the Library as part of #OpenHouse which is a lovely way to end my first two months at Senate House Library! A slight baptism of fire but it was good to rapidly learn all the library facts! #Tours #SenateHouseLibrary #Books #RareBooks #Archives

After 80 years, Senate House Library has reunited a rare 14th-century manuscript looted in WWII with the Chandon family. Thanks to expert detective work, MS541 will remain accessible for study, preserving its history for future generations. www.london.ac.uk/senate-house...