A nice handful of Stevenson bottle stoppers for the collection. Fun wee Donoghue v Stevenson case (AKA the Paisley Snail) related items!

If you're interested in reading and readers, you might enjoy the Festival of Politics event "The collapse of reading and its consequences" festivalofpolitics.citizenticket.co.uk/events/the-f...

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What are the implications of a less literate and less reflective public unable to devote deep, sustained focus on reading? Does it make them more vulnerable to misinformation and less capable of meani...

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Join our team! Glasgow Women's Library is hiring: womenslibrary.org.uk/2026/08/05/j...

Job Vacancy: Archivist (Parental Leave Cover)

We are seeking a full-time, temporary Archivist to join our dynamic team. This is a post that will cover a period of parental leave. This post holds a central role [...]

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Generative AI is catnip to the men who miss female sycophants katemanne.substack.com/p/a-culture-...

A Culture Hooked on Generative AI is a Culture that Misses Female Sycophants

And we have missed a central reason why AI is a feminist issue

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I would really like it if people stopped assuming that gavels are currently, or have ever been, used in Scottish courts. Or any court in the UK, in fact.

🚨 BREAKING We are supporting a legal challenge to the Code of Practice. And we need your help. Join us in fighting back 👇

We’re supporting a legal challenge against the code of practice | Good Law Project

The government’s transphobic statutory guidance is now up and running – we’re fighting back

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I kind of find Bloomsbury's commitment to making their ebook platform as awful as possible quite impressive. Want to be able to actually find an ebook? Want an author to go with the book title? Want an edition number? Want an ISBN? All apparently outrageous and illogical demands to make.

Shea Whitney: At This Point, It's Getting Ridiculous

ALT: Shea Whitney: At This Point, It's Getting Ridiculous

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@edinburghcouncil.bsky.social where have the bus shelters gone on South Bridge on the West side? Is it part of an approach to reduce pavement congestion during the Festival, or is it a planned shelter replacement programme?

Ah yes, thanks Word, for helping me out with the well known issues of...which persecution.

Ah yes, women getting to have equal rights with men has absolutely led to the complete collapse of society now. Clearly. *sigh* Source: Edinburgh Evening News, 17 March 1950, 6

In things I wish I hadn't seen, but now I have and you will too... New research published in the Journal of the Institute of Conservation recommends PPE for handling all red rot because of the risk of heavy metal contamination (lead, arsenic, cadmium). #GLAMS 📚 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I enjoy when I come across snippets about historical judiciary that show they were just normal folks too. Like the Lord President who had an illegitimate son while he was Solicitor General for Scotland. Son never inherited his father's Baronetcy as he was not "lawfully begotten.”

I'm just a girl, standing in front of Trove's website (again), asking it to explain to why me trying to search it to research the site of the old Inverness court and prison was such an outrageous thing?

Good news - Karen's Bricks & Bones meticulously-made model of the lost Union Corner has been bought by Network Rail, and will be displayed in Glasgow Central Station. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Miniature model of Glasgow landmark destroyed by fire goes on display

The model - which depicts the businesses affected by the blaze - can now be seen by the public at Glasgow Central Station.

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The main improvement I'd want from the British Newspaper Archive is for the search within bookmarked articles to search your notes on the articles, not the article text. The OCR on the original may be rubbish, it's my notes that make it make sense! blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/2026/07/14/t...

The new British Newspaper Archive arrives on 28 July

We're delighted to announce that the new British Newspaper Archive will launch on Tuesday 28 July 2026, with a range of brand new features.

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Another event where I was successfully socially awkward and managed to appear mostly incoherent in at least 3 separate conversations. You'd think I'd know how to do conversations by now but the later the event the stronger the introversion.

It's BOOK LAUNCH TIME!!

Look! @ashleydouglas.bsky.social fabulous new book about Scotland's 16th century Sappho, Marie Maitland! If you want some Scots political and social history, some Scots-language romance and some heartbreak, she's got ya covered!

NB cyber attack was October 2023 if you were wondering if you should be protecting important digital infrastructure at all

Digital Scholarship @ British Library@bldigischol.bsky.social · last mo.

EThOS platform restored! 'Following restoration work, all metadata records previously available on EThOS have now been restored, along with an additional 14,000 records added since the service was taken offline' - more to come www.bl.uk/stories/news...

Playing peek-a-boo with St Giles.

Not only do they make delicious baked goods, Tunnocks also sponsor a prize for postgraduate students and early career researchers using Scottish archives and archives holding Scottish materials. www.scottisharchives.org.uk/latest/the-t...

The Tunnock Prize 2026 now open! - Scottish Council on Archives

29 June 2026

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I think the guy who was outside work last week smoking the world's most potent weed is back again, cos my window is open and my office reeks.

Unexpected job title of the day: "an advocate and sometime kelp-agent."

[To the tune of Eleanor Rigby] Buckinghamshire Archives Finds in a box an old thing that nobody has seen Turns into a meme

It’s paperback day for #StoryofaMurder ! In honour of that, let’s answer a few questions about the Crippen murder… hop aboard…

Just found the most egregiously racist language in a text from 1882. Putting a note on the catalogue record so that nobody comes across that language without warning. Yeesh.

Jamie Kellett (Heida Reed) Says 'No Need For That'

ALT: Jamie Kellett (Heida Reed) Says 'No Need For That'

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Maybe one day Trove will grasp that in between commercial, educational body and private use there's also generally the option of non-commercial use, or some understanding of the existence of not-for-profit/public sector bodies who want to use historic images for public education.

"It has been held more recently that calling a sports administrator a “dictator” might fall within the defence, as the phrase no longer had the connotation of murder associated with Hitler or Stalin" Well, that's...good to know?

Im so exhausted by this pattern. Historians spend years in the archives to write detailed accounts of the past. Only for journalists, doctors, podcasters, and now cartoonists, to swoop in and get paid a lot of money to trot out the same work, "uncovering hidden histories" that are not at all hidden.

Rachel Hope Cleves@rachelcleves.bsky.social · last mo.

An open letter, to readers, about Charity and Sylvia. I am very pained to feel the need to write this. #queerhistory #pride

Things that will stick in your mind and haunt you: seeing a judge of the UK Supreme Court running past you, wearing double denim.