"We searched the entyre internet!" What archivists heare: "We searched the entyre small airport bookeshoppe!"

'change rarely came from above. The support services, legal protections and opportunities available today were not simply gifts from an increasingly enlightened society. They were won through campaigns, protests and persistent challenges to exclusion.'

The Conversation UK@uk.theconversation.com · yesterday

From Tudor welfare claims to modern PIP assessments, disabled people have long faced suspicion and bureaucracy.

Anyone near St Luke's Church, at Haslar Hospital, Gosport, Hampshire? Wall tablet there to an RN officer I'm interested in. The text is on the Maritime Monuments Database, which is great, but without a photo of the tablet. Have emailed the Haslar society, but just in case... #MaritimeHistory

Here a compilation of stupid things library consultants have said to me in solidarity with library pals at Lambeth Libraries where genius consultants has decided that a qualified head of library service post isn't really essential.

Absolutely this! When doing my LGBT London history talk the moral panic from 1708 to 1726 resulted in so many arrests and too many deaths. But it passed and 10 years later a mollie was accepted by her community and took someone else to court. Not fearing for her life. Despite still being “illegal”

Patrick Ness@patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 19h ago

Nice line from Jessicaoutofthecloset on instagram: “Moral panics end, queer community doesn’t.” Survive. Fight and survive.

“The tragic implication of Plümper and Neumayer’s analysis is not that individual scientists are unusually dishonest, but that a system designed to incentivise truth-seeking has been incrementally transformed into one that often rewards its distortion” blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofb...

Is publication, not truth, now the driving pursuit of science? - LSE Review of Books

The Credibility Crisis in Science by Thomas Plümper and Eric Neumayer explores how researcher incentives and publication bias distort scientific knowledge

blogs.lse.ac.uk

This is simply wonderful news for the Migration Museum and its ongoing project to create the UK's first permanent museum exploring migration to and from the UK. The new Museum will be in the City of London, but is already working with collaborators outside London and outside England. 1/3

The Wolfson Foundation commits £600,000 to the UK’s ‘Missing Museum’

The Migration Museum is delighted to announce that The Wolfson Foundation has become a Founding Partner of the UK’s first permanent museum dedicated to exploring how the movement of people to and from...

migrationmuseum.org

When they said “there will be no toilet police” they were always just saying so we need You 🫵 to be a toilet vigilante and sniff out the gender deviants

flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · 19h ago

This is what they expected and wanted to happen: that members of the public, shown the cops would take their side if they kicked off and went mental at anyone they suspected of being a transgender, would then start going apeshit en masse and enforce their wacko ideas for them.

I really hope that someone from the Leverhulme Trust (which funds this project) has had words with Exeter’s management

The Material Culture of Wills Project@materialwills.bsky.social · 18h ago

📢PROJECT UPDATE📢 You may have seen the news that the University of Exeter, home of the wills project, has placed 500 academics at risk of redundancy. The project leader Prof. Jane Whittle & project co-investigator Dr Laura Sangha are both at risk, alongside almost all of the History department. 1/

Our volunteers have started the work of transcribing items from the #Penrhyn Archive (Jamaica), from @archpbu.bsky.social They give an uncomfortable insight into daily life on sugar plantations in #Jamaica, and the lives of #African and Afro-Caribbean slaves who were working there.

Our colleague Alana Harris's work with Horton Cemetery has been shortlisted for an 'Everyday Histories' award! You can even vote for her project. Have a look! www.findmypast.co.uk/c/everyday-h...

Do we have a "made without genAI" badge or digital sticker that science communicators and artists can use so people know that our work is for humans by humans?

Interesting to learn that @kentarchives.bsky.social Kent Archives have been cataloguing records relating to Maidstone and Canterbury prisons. We have entries on both at KMO - see www.kent-maps.online/19c/19c-conv... for Ben Bethell's work on Maidstone Convict Prison.

Maidstone Convict Prison

Maidstone convict prison, opened in 1909 beside the town’s older jail, became a distinctive English penal site for first-offence star class prisoners serving long sentences. Its concentration of white...

kent-maps.online

This has given me to wonder whether male academics are wont to treat male archivists as being in the capacity of their research assistants in the same way as they (Not All Male Academics) were, in my experience, wont to treat female archivists. Too important to look things up in catalogue, etc.

Catherine Frieman@cjfrieman.bsky.social · yesterday

I am not that old. In the early years of my career before i comprehensively put my foot down i would regularly find books in my work mailbox with notes from male colleagues instructing me to copy this chapter or that for them

A 🧵with an update on the wills project: #EarlyModern 🗃️

The Material Culture of Wills Project@materialwills.bsky.social · 18h ago

📢PROJECT UPDATE📢 You may have seen the news that the University of Exeter, home of the wills project, has placed 500 academics at risk of redundancy. The project leader Prof. Jane Whittle & project co-investigator Dr Laura Sangha are both at risk, alongside almost all of the History department. 1/

@indyhistnetwork.bsky.social The Modern British Studies Association is seeking a representative for independent scholars on our Steering Committee - please do consider joining us. Further details via this link: modbritstud.org.uk/join/

Lucy Delap@lucydelap.bsky.social · yesterday

Great discussion at the 'crisis in UK history' meeting hosted by @ihr.bsky.social, @royalhistsoc.org, @histassoc.bsky.social and History UK. Horror stories of closures and redundancies, balanced by new resources. Check out for ex. the new Independent Historians Network independenthistorians.org

i saw someone essentially asking 'why are people more willing to donate to ngos and charities than directly to vulnerable people's gofundmes' and i have to be real here i suspect the answer is 'because they don't know you'

SSHM has been asked to share a call for submissions for a special issue for Black Histories: Dialogues journal Editors Simon Buck and Ogundiran Soumonni Abstracts by 1 September with manuscripts due by 31 January 2027 All details 👇 #histmed #histSTM @eahmh.bsky.social

A useful resource for our research today has been Queen Victoria's journals, which are free to access online: www.proquest.com/qvj?accounti...

does anyone know of any work that’s been done on career trajectories of (UK humanities) academics who have been made redundant? eg information about how many go into school teaching, early retirement, independent research? appreciate this is complex, sensitive and much data is too recent

A hardcopy of each volume published by Urania Manuscripts is sent free to ONE Archives (University of Southern California) and to the Magnus Hirschfeld Society, Berlin, to ensure that at least two copies exist. #LGBTQhistory #MagnusHirschfeld #KarlUlrichs www.amazon.com/author/lomba...

Michael Lombardi-Nash: books, biography, latest update

Follow Michael Lombardi-Nash and explore their bibliography from Amazon's Michael Lombardi-Nash Author Page.

amazon.com

This just in: more than four thousand sexual assault lawsuits.

Uber’s Strategy for Fighting Sexual Assault Suits: ‘What Were You Wearing?’

The ride-hailing giant promised to handle legal claims “in a way that is best for the survivor.” Its lawyers are pursuing a far more aggressive strategy.

nytimes.com

'Mummy, where do the facts come from?' 'Ssssh, darling, it's better not to ask'

Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 2d ago

"History involves sorting and organizing hundreds of thousands of facts" I remain astounded by how loud and wrong people are about what history actually is.

There are half as many health visitors as there were in 2010...

The real reason child vaccination rates are falling

As child immunisation rates fall across the UK, one clinic in west Yorkshire is taking aggressive steps to boost immunisations

bbc.co.uk

People need to stop saying at least Andy Burnham will stem the rise of fascism even if he's very bad on race and immigration, civil liberties, and higher education. You know how you hollow out institutions to prime them for fascism? Be very bad on race and immigration, civil liberties, and higher ed

The Times, one of the leading voices when it comes to 'protecting women and girls' calling a man who assaulted his young pregnant girlfriend, said he would rape the kids if he was a teacher and called for child sex abuse porn to be legal, 'brilliant'

Its quite hard to know what, exactly, will actually lose someone their licence if 59 points, driving while disqualified and no insurance doesn't. Its not juat dangerous - its clear contempt for the law. We should treat car crime like any other crime

Jon Owen@anotherjon.bsky.social · 2d ago

"I'm getting fed up with getting pulled by you guys, so this one will result in a complaint," says the driver with 59 points on his licence. 59 points, and still driving, and he didn't go to prison. The system is broken. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Oops. www.publictechnology.net/2026/08/03/h...

NHS apologises and admits Palantir engineers have access to identifiable patient data

The central health service body has acknowledged the inaccuracy of claims previously made in a transparency document which indicated that only NHS staff were able to see such sensitive information ...

publictechnology.net

We’ve got a great grants programme to help support your #Hampshire #Archives #LocalHistory projects 🥳 We have small grants and main grants that can support your project, and we’re happy to talk to you more about these. Learn more below ⬇️ hampshirearchivestrust.co.uk/grants

Grants - Hampshire Archive Trust

The primary purposes for which the Hampshire Archives Trust is established are to promote the conservation and preservation of archives for the benefit of the

hampshirearchivestrust.co.uk

If we spend money supporting research, education and practice in areas we're actually good at, there might not be enough money to throw at the long shot of being 'world leaders" in AI.

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 6d ago

Creative & performing arts subjects received £16.8 million SPG 2024-25; £12.9 million in 2025-26; £ O million in 2026-27. The University of Creative Arts will thus lose half of its government funding this year; Art University Bournmouth 40.7%, Norwich U of Arts 40.4% and Leeds Arts U 30.3%. 1/2