Good to be back from our important research trip exploring the balls of other libraries.

Gwent Archives has an exciting opportunity for an Archives Apprentice to join their team and develop a career in the archives and heritage sector.

'When images like [Lloyd] Gee’s are put in conversation with local community members, they help to weave a social-historical tapestry that celebrates individual stories and collective identities.' Julian Ehsan explores the Bengali Photo Archive.

Activism, Identity, and the Bengali Photo Archive

What can photographs tell us about anti-racist activism in twentieth-century London? Julian Ehsan on the Bengali Photo Archive.

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Are you an early career researcher in the humanities and social sciences? Join the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the British Academy Knowledge Frontiers Symposium to network with fellow researchers in an in-person symposium in Bonn, Germany. Apply now: https://bit.ly/4yL3Stm

World-class UK anthropology, archaeology, area studies, chemistry, classics, English language and literature, geography, history, history of art, modern languages and philosophy, among other subjects, are also at risk, and have been for quite some time now. You don't need a telescope to see it.

Dr Dave Clements@davecl.bsky.social · last wk.

More on the UK funding cuts to science www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

Being made redundant in this climate is awful. Being ‘spared’ = left behind to do everything with reduced and demoralised colleagues is psychologically very tough. Especially as the threat of future redundancies is real. Solidarity

Thinking through the unedifying, un-evidence-based rush to an undefined, apparently unmodelled paradigm of 'specialisation, what's being lost/threatened? Herts History was an excellent example of performing to a top standard in REF, but also much more than that. Questions to think with include: 1/4

Glen O'Hara@gsoh31.bsky.social · 3d ago

So it's farewell to the History subject area at the University of Hertfordshire, not the first nor the last to go. One of the best departments in the country, just extinguished like a snap of the fingers. Think of the waste. (1/2)

proofs! 😍

🥳 Happy to report our co-ed collection, me + @ruthdav.bsky.social & @evecolpus.bsky.social, now has 40k+ hits & is being cited a lot 🥳. Fully #OA & incl: @katebradleyhistory.bsky.social @chrismillard83.bsky.social @sarahcrook.bsky.social @jennycrane.bsky.social ++. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Call for Participants for IHR Women's History Seminar Lightning Talks to be held Friday, 20th of November 2026.

After 10 years at the helm of Irish Studies at QUB, with various ups and downs over the last decade, I’m handing over to our new leadership team from Monday. Many thanks to Peter and @siobhraaiken.bsky.social for stepping up to take forward Irish Studies in Belfast! www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...

New Irish Studies Leadership

After 10 years as Director of the Institute of Irish Studies, Prof Peter Gray is handing over to a new leadership team from the start of August 2026.

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"Details, in their singularity and idiosyncrasy, point to the capaciousness of human experience." New today in the Society's journal 'Transactions': Joe Moran 'On Detail in Historical Writing': bit.ly/44UMi8C Now available OA @joemoransblog.bsky.social @massobsarchive.bsky.social #Skystorians 1/2

The 1919 Housing Act - the Addison Act - received the royal assent on this day in 1919. 176,000 council homes were built under its terms and its standard of high quality housing set a benchmark for decades to come. A 1917 photo of Addison and housing from Newcastle, Lancaster and Winchester.

Recruitment suspended on UG environment & sustainability, mathematics and physics. At postgraduate level, suspended courses include international corporate finance, water & environmental engineering and environmental strategy. If you think your subject is safe because not Humanities, rethink. 1/2

Course closures at University of Surrey raise concerns

Science and maths programmes among those suspended in recent months, with UCU claiming decisions are being made ‘in haste’

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Another part of that project was: academic.oup.com/tcbh/article...

Moral Panic in the Industrial Town: Teenage ‘Deviancy’ and Religious Crisis in Central Scotland c. 1968–9

Abstract. This article argues that Falkirk—a medium-sized industrial town in Central Scotland—became the scene of a localized, yet typical moral panic abou

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Yes please. Most of my Scottish history project remains unpublished but I did have an article in History Today recently. www.historytoday.com/archive/feat...

The ‘Scandal’ of Scotland’s Unmarried Mothers

The high incidence of illegitimate births in rural Scotland was front-page news in the early 1950s. Within two decades, what had once seemed an aberration was increasingly becoming the norm.

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4 nations, but ultimately 1 major UK crisis.

Glen O'Hara@gsoh31.bsky.social · 6d ago

The terrible, stupid waste of UK universities policy continues. Your cash down the drain. www.irishnews.com/news/norther...

The Society's lecture programme resumes in September when we welcome speakers @gsoh31.bsky.social, Meleisa Ono-George and @sathnam.bsky.social, among others. We also hope to welcome you to these public events, in-person or online. Further details of our autumn events bit.ly/3RIOJrQ #Skystorians

Forthcoming lectures from the Royal Historical Society - RHS

The Society takes a break from public events in August before resuming its lecture programme in September. Booking is now available for the next three lectures in our autumn season, with these events ...

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The Leverhulme Trust, as part of its major (£100 million) centenary investment in UK research, has announced 3 new partnerships designed to enhance opportunities for underrepresented groups at the early stages of research careers. @leverhulme.ac.uk Terrifically good news, and sorely needed. 1/3

The terrible, stupid waste of UK universities policy continues. Your cash down the drain. www.irishnews.com/news/norther...

New Ulster University buildings will ‘sit gathering dust’ if job cuts go ahead, council told

Over 400 positions are set to go from April 2027 at Ulster University as it tackles £25m deficit

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🧵1/6. #changes. After 28 years working at/for LSBU this is my last week. Social Sciences has been closed & I am redundant. Feeling sad as was proud to work for somewhere that embodied widening participation (since 1892) & research re social justice. Worked with some great colleagues & fab students.

The sec of state who has seen at least 15000 academics lose their jobs just said this. Out loud. Mercy me. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

‘It hurts to lose a job you love’: Starmer loyalist Bridget Phillipson fights on despite cabinet demotion

Exclusive: The former education secretary on her new role as Labour chair and continuing as the minister for women and equalities

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Incredibly grateful to @gillianmurphy.bsky.social for inviting Grace to write this blog for 💯 years of Women’s Library & for all the support & guidance given by staff at the @lselibrary.bsky.social to Grace during her time working on the @womensinstitute.bsky.social archives. 🙏❤️.

Gillian Murphy@gillianmurphy.bsky.social · 7d ago

New blog for The Women's Library at 100 by Grace Parker, student at LSBU on environmental activism and the Women's Institutes. Thank you Grace! blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsehistory/2...

So proud of Grace who did work experience with me. We worked together finding out more about @womensinstitute.bsky.social involvement in environmental activism. & icing on cake was Grace discovering her great grandmother was in her local WI. @womenshistnet.bsky.social #womensgrassrootsactivism

Gillian Murphy@gillianmurphy.bsky.social · 7d ago

New blog for The Women's Library at 100 by Grace Parker, student at LSBU on environmental activism and the Women's Institutes. Thank you Grace! blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsehistory/2...

New blog for The Women's Library at 100 by Grace Parker, student at LSBU on environmental activism and the Women's Institutes. Thank you Grace! blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsehistory/2...

Women and environmental activism: the National Federation of Women’s Institutes - LSE History

The WI is the UK's largest women's organisation, and has been campaigning to protect the environment since the 1920s. Grace Parker explored its archives at The Women's Library, to find out more.

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Graduation-ready! How many of these can I smuggle in the sleeves of my gown… Thanks SO much for the supply, @royalhistsoc.org! They’ll look splendid on our newly-minted historians!

#OtD 29 Jul 1911 Bolivian anarchist union organiser Petronila Infantes, known as Doña Peta, was born in La Paz, Bolivia. Becoming a cook at a young age, at 24 she helped found the Culinary Union, which was part of the anarchist Women Workers’ Federation

OPEN ACCESS In this new TSQ article, Katie Mueller examines how college-aged feminists carefully consider their audiences and weigh potential consequences before deploying feminist identity. Read more at bit.ly/4x7Rd1Y

A new policy paper by Clarisse Berthezène, Julie V. Gottlieb & Michal Shapira argues that policies aimed at reducing female suicide rates should take into account the long history of debates around mental health, self-harm and assisted dying. historyandpolicy.org/policy-paper...

🧵A small section of those who took part in the Women's Social & Political Union's Procession to Woodhouse Moor, Leeds where a huge rally was held OTD 28 July in 1908. Thousands of people, both men and women, gathered to listen to the various speakers from the 10 platforms including Adela