🏆 We're delighted to announce the winner of the 2026 BSHS Pickstone Prize! Congratulations to David Singerman, whose book Unrefined has been awarded this year's prize! Check out the judging panel's decision and more on our website! 🔗https://bshs.org.uk/the-bshs-pickstone-prize-2026-winner/

In unexpected good news: !!JOB!! Come and work on our new multidisciplinary programme at UCL as a 'Lecturer in Digital Culture and Society'. Permanent full-time position in London. Deadline 28 June. Specialism open. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... #dh #sts

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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New paper alert! Findings from Communities & Crowds, which explored how co-creation & action research can be combined w online crowdsourcing to enrich volunteer experiences & institutional knowledge about GLAM collections. doi.org/10.29311/mas... cc @curatorgeoff.bsky.social @animalarchaeology.com

Belated but happy to finally share: I began a professorship in Critical Heritage & Memory Studies at Uni Cologne earlier this year. Please stay tuned for future announcements — exciting things are in the works. Meanwhile, I’m very happy to say that I’m hiring: www.stellenwerk.de/koeln/resear...

News | Brighton & Hove Museums to repatriate 45 artefacts to Botswana Return of collection was requested by Khama III Memorial Museum in 2022

Brighton & Hove Museums to repatriate 45 artefacts to Botswana - Museums Association

Return of collection was requested by Khama III Memorial Museum in 2022

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Amazing achievement! Well done to the volunteers, team and researchers involved in so much of Zooniverse's success

Zooniverse@zooniverse.bsky.social · 4mo ago

3 million volunteers! Congratulations, Zooniverse! Today we have reached an extraordinary milestone: 3 million volunteers contributing to people-powered research around the world. From classifying galaxies and discovering exoplanets to tracking wildlife, transcribing historical records, and…

News | Five museums in England shortlisted for Art Fund’s #MuseumOfTheYear 🏆 The winner will be announced on 25 June – congratulations to the shortlisted museums: • Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery • The Box, Plymouth • The Fitzwilliam Museum • The National Gallery • V&A East Storehouse

Five museums in England shortlisted for Museum of the Year - Museums Association

Winner of Art Fund’s £120,000 prize to be announced on 25 June

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Fully-funded AHRC PhD scholarship at Swansea University in conjunction with Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales, examining the imperial and colonial associations of their natural sciences collections. Please share widely, and get in touch if you want to know more. Closing date 22 May.

History and Heritage Studies: AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership Studentship (Fully Funded) in History with Museum Wales (RS951) - Swansea University

We offer a wide range of funded and fully funded research scholarships in all subject areas. Explore your options and apply now.

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Fully-funded AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership project: 'Cold War Socialism, Non-Alignment and Anti-Colonialism in the Yugoslav Press, 1961-1979' - British Library & University of Exeter www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... Deadline for student applications: 5 May (noon)

Come help us shape the future of video game heritage in Scotland! New AHRC PhD opportunity for anyone interested in video game heritage and want to work with National Museums Scotland, Abertay Uni and Uni of Glasgow, apply! Applications due 11/05/2026 ce0173li.webitrent.com/ce0173li_web...

For those interested in photo history, attached is a CFP for a study day on the history photomechanical images in Italy. Proposals are due by the May 22 to cristiana.sorrentino@unifi.it & francesca.strobino@labafirenze.com The study day will be held at the University of Urbino on October 1st.

Very pleased to announce that BT Group Archives and UCL Department of Information Studies have a fully-funded PhD on offer. It's a really exciting one: to investigate how new computational methods can be used to get the most out of a digitised audiovisual collection. www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

JOB KLAXON - National Museums Scotland is looking for a Keeper of Global Arts, Cultures & Design. Amazing team & collections. If you have senior management experience and expertise in one of these areas, apply! Salary - £76,093 – 86,275 FT 35 hpw Deadline - 30/04/2026 careers.nms.ac.uk/job/856993

There are PhD studentships available for some lucky people: Collecting Space Heritage (Museum Studies) - le.ac.uk/study/resear... Humanity and space, open theme - le.ac.uk/study/resear... #STS #histSTM 📜

Contact your local candidates ahead of the Scottish Parliament election 📩 The election will be held on 7 May, and we’re encouraging all our members in Scotland to contact their local candidates to ask: what commitments are you making to support museums? Find out how in our quick guide 👇

Contact your local candidates ahead of the Scottish Parliament election - Museums Association

Ask your candidates about their commitments to support museums

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A week left to reply for this fantastic role. Closes 15 March

Dr Katy Barrett FSA@spoonsontrays.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I'm now recruiting for a crucial post in my team - Curator: Parliamentary Art Collection. A rare chance to work with a wonderful collection in a unique setting. Please do share, and feel free to get in touch with any questions

🔔JOB ALERT🔔 12 month Project Conservator, Aviation @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social. If you have experience in engineering conservation, this job could be for you. Salary - £39,754 to £43,188 Full time - Fixed Term 12 months Location - NMoF Deadline - 15.3.26 careers.nms.ac.uk/job/841751

Donning my purple gloves to say happy birthday to our 1000-year-old astrolabe #histsci 📜 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Ancient brass instrument used to interpret the heavens turns 1,000 years old

National Museums Scotland said it was one of the rarest scientific instruments in its collection.

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Come join the team at @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social! Great role helping us take care of the Library and Archive! Closing date - 16/02/26 Salary - £42,765-£46,051 Hours - 35 pw

Rebekah Higgitt@rhiggitt.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Exciting job opening @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social Library and Archives Manager. Details here careers.nms.ac.uk/job/827960 #museumjobs #libraryjobs 📜

We're delighted to announce the CFP for our #PHRC26 annual conference on "Photography's Tacit Knowledge". As in the past few years, it'll be a hybrid conference, online and in Leicester, o 15-16 June. Send your abstracts by 9 January! photographichistory.wordpress.com/annual-confe... #photohist

Annual Conference 2026

Photography’s Tacit Knowledge Image: A reproduction photographer at work. 1934 (Deutsche Fotothek). Photographic History Research Centre, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK When: 15-16 June 2026…

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Great job in a great department

Cyrus Mody@ccmmody.bsky.social · 7mo ago

we're hiring in STS @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social! deadline coming up soon (February 8). focus is the social science-y corners of STS preferably w/ some interest in sustainability & environment - but interpreted broadly. vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...

Want to level up your library career this year? We’re looking for international mid-career library and archive professionals to join us this summer at our International Library Leaders Programme. Learn more link.bl.uk/ILLP2026

The Science Museum Group is looking for a Systems and E-Resources Librarian, FT permanent post based at one of our sites in #Bradford #London #Manchester #Wroughton (nr Swindon) or #York #LISjobs #LibraryJobs #MuseumJobs ce0111li.webitrent.com/ce0111li_web...

JOB ALERT! 3-year postdoc at @girtoncollege.bsky.social - research anything you like in History, Archaeology or Anthropology in a wonderful, welcoming scholarly community. PLEASE SHARE! Closes 12 January www.girton.cam.ac.uk/job-vacancie...

Special issue (OA) of British Art Studies on James VI & I, including a multi-authored section on the Ramsay-Kerr watch @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social main--britishartstudies-29.netlify.app/issues/29/ (see also www.nms.ac.uk/discover-cat...)

A watch for King James VI and I's favourite | National Museums Scotland

In around 1615, James VI and I presented his favourite courtier, Robert Kerr, Earl of Somerset, with an elaborate pendant watch. Within a year, Kerr had sp

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What if there was a way to link museum collections based on the way an object looks? Kaspar Beelen and I have a paper out now talking about 'Heritage Weaver,' a project that used multimodal AI to link and explore museum data across collections: doi.org/10.63744/txx...

This is the best kind of use of the Internet.

Mar Hicks@histoftech.bsky.social · 2y ago

Thus begins the #dadjoke thread for 2025 bsky.app/profile/hist...

2026 photo research fellowships now open. Come to Toronto to work with the amazing collections at TMU’s Image Centre! theimagecentre.ca/fellowship/

Are you a scholar in Games Studies, Museum Studies and/or Digital Humanities and want to help NMS develop research in Collecting Video Game Heritage? Come and apply to be an IASH Fellow at the University of Edinburgh! Applications Opens - Dec 25 Closes - April 26 www.iash.ed.ac.uk/iash-nationa...

I know it often feels like yelling into the void, but at least you can yell loudly here and with occasional free text boxes if you are horrified by the proposed immigration changes.

Beth Fuller@bee79.bsky.social · 9mo ago

If, like me, this utter betrayal by Labour is making your blood boil, can I ask you let them know your feelings here www.gov.uk/government/c...