We're looking for an Associate Head of Lambeth Palace Library (Innovation and Delivery) to join the senior management team leading our world-class research library and archive, championing innovation, supporting strategic delivery, and helping expand access to our remarkable collections.

Our new book is now available to purchase at the Library! 'Lambeth Palace Library', by Giles Mandelbrote, a volume in the 'Director's Choice' series, published by Scala Arts and Heritage Publishers. Pop in to get your copy alongside some lovely postcards!

What’s your favourite thing about your local library? And what would you change? You can have your say and help shape the future of London’s libraries📚 Share your views with City Hall and London Libraries. Take the survey now⬇️ www.london.gov.uk/talk-london/...

In late 2023, the Society spent a day with Hertfordshire’s historians. We saw the quality, creativity and distinctiveness of teaching, research and engagement. We were told by a (now departed) senior manager that History was ‘a portfolio the university will guard very carefully’. bit.ly/4hLediN

Glen O'Hara@gsoh31.bsky.social · last wk.

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)

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)

Dear All. Government is reviewing how money from the National Lottery Good Causes is used in the UK. £53billion has been raised since 1994 with around £2billion awarded by Heritage Fund for land, sea and nature projects. This is your chance to have you say by 23 Sept. www.gov.uk/government/c...

National Lottery Good Causes: Fund what matters to you

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📢🚨We’re looking for an experienced Project Evaluator to work with us on the delivery of our ‘Building the Future’ redevelopment project, supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund. Click the link below for details and how to apply! ℹ️ www.ees.ac.uk/resource/we-... ⏰ 5pm on Monday 24 August

#MosaicMonday The Lady of Carthage mosaic, made of marble and glass tesserae, has been dated to the sixth century. The unidentified woman with a halo represented here is wearing purple clothing, holding a scepter, and giving a blessing. Carthage Museum, #Tunisia #art #Archaeology

‘In Germany, I learned how often young men on leave had confided hideous things they had seen to their mothers or sisters. In the last year of the war, the fear that gripped Berliners was not just of military defeat but of vengeance.’ Neal Ascherson on Berlin at war. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Neal Ascherson · Dancing on a Volcano: Wartime Berliners

As a British wartime child living near secret things and sites, I can remember easily respecting the instruction: ‘...

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The entrance to the former Bridgeton Public Library on Landressey Street in the East End of Glasgow. Designed by J.R. Rhind and built in 1903, it's now home to the Glasgow Women's Library. #glasgow #architecture #bridgeton #library #architecturephotography

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Gaza’s World Cup screenings – in pictures

Mohamed al-Wahidi died when a missile struck his taxi shortly before Egypt played Argentina in their last 16 World Cup match. He had organised the screening of World Cup games across the Gaza Strip, w...

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Spotted silhouettes darting through London’s summer skies?☀️ Swifts, swallows, house martins and sand martins are all summer visitors to the UK and each has its own tell-tale features.🐦 Here’s how to work out who’s swooping overhead. 👇 #SwiftAwarenessWeek

This week’s Guest Recipe from the #CookbookCorner archive is the gorgeous Muhammara from 'Imad’s Syrian Kitchen: A Love Letter from Damascus to London' by Imad Alarnab! www.nigella.com/recipes/gues...

Wow, that was truly amazing, the Strawberry Full Moon rising over Ely Cathedral this evening. Seen from Little Downham outside of Ely, Cambridgeshire 😍🌝 I didn’t think it was going to shine through the clouds, but it certainly did 🙏🏻🥰 #Fullmoon #strawberrymoon #ElyCathedral #amazing #Wonderful

“Axing a programme like The World Tonight will save pennies, not pounds, but the cost to disappointed listeners will be far, far greater “1/

Robin Lustig@robinlustig.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I’ve written a piece for the I paper about the axing of The World Tonight. liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/448...

I wrote about protests in Albania, Europe, development traps, oligarchic capture, and, well, hope. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Look at the protests Jared Kushner has caused in Albania. This could be a shining light for Europe | Lea Ypi

The slogan ‘Albania is not for sale’ reveals a nation that respects itself, and will not sell its soul for investment, says author and academic Lea Ypi

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Happy days.... there's a Jewel Keepers competition up on the National Book Token site and the prize includes some Edinburgh Gin. Go here to enter: www.nationalbooktokens.com/win/win-a-si...

Win a signed copy of The Jewel Keepers by Sara Sheridan and two flavours of Edinburgh Gin

10 runners-up will each receive a signed copy of the book.

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I’m delighted to be in conversation with Christopher Eccleston, this coming Saturday, 30th May, as part of Hornsey Library’s Celebration Day. More details here: hornseylibraryfriends.org.uk/project/in-c...

Very good, if extremely depressing, piece by Stefan Collini to explain what has been and is being done to this country’s universities. If interested to find out, I recommend reading it.

Stefan Collini · Squadrons of Pigs: Bonfire of the Universities

The problems with Britain’s universities are systemic and deep-rooted, not just local or contingent. Yet political and...

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The Victorian Society is looking for an Evaluation Consultant to support the monitoring and impact evaluation of our project funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund. Read more and apply: bit.ly/49Nh1qU #heritage #amenitysociety #hiring Photo right: Morgan Ellis Leah

Well here we go. End of Humanities provision at an institution that championed the value of Humanities even when it was a 1950s Tech College. CP Snow was a fan and wrote in his famous "Two Cultures" (1959) that "the intellectual life of the whole of western society" rested on Science and Humanities.

University of Hertfordshire UCU@uhertfordshireucu.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Today staff in the School of Creative Arts, including the Humanities department, were called to a redundancy consultation meeting. We were informed that 23 posts were to go by August this year, with further redundancies as the Humanities programmes are taught out over 2 years.

Today staff in the School of Creative Arts, including the Humanities department, were called to a redundancy consultation meeting. We were informed that 23 posts were to go by August this year, with further redundancies as the Humanities programmes are taught out over 2 years.

At University of Hertfordshire Heritage Connections event today. The University plans to axe its History dept. inc. the Heritage Hub and 16 years of innovative and inspiring co-creation with communities. Madness. @katrinanavickas.bsky.social @odavies9.bsky.social

"Spring Night" Artist- Akseli Gallen-Kallela (1865–1931).

Film review: 'Fatherland'. Hanns Zischler stars as Thomas Mann on his 1949 tour of Germany, contending with political barbs, personal tragedy and his daughter, played by an extraordinary Sandra Hüller www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma... via @theguardian.com @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social

Fatherland review – Sandra Hüller brings a bayonet of intelligence to Paweł Pawlikowski’s taut return

Cannes film festival: Hanns Zischler stars as Thomas Mann on his 1949 tour of Germany, contending with political barbs, personal tragedy and his daughter, played by an extraordinary Hüller

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If you enjoyed this, read ‘The Pages’, a wonderful novel by Irish author Hugo Hamilton giving Roth’s ‘Rebellion’ its own voice. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/678947...

The Pages by Hugo Hamilton: 9780593320662 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

An entirely original novel in which a book—Joseph Roth's masterpiece Rebellion—narrates its own astonishing life story, from 1930s Germany to the present day, at the heart of a gripping mystery....

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German at Portsmouth@germanatportsmouth.bsky.social · 3mo ago

'In our Time: Joseph Roth'. Listen to Misha Glenny and guests discussing one of the great writers on Central Europe after the First World War and on the dying of the old orders with the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian empire. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Please sign to try and save our department

Chris Lloyd@cilloyd.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Hey Bluesky folks. If you’re in education or just follow for my thirst traps, would you please sign this if you can, and share far and wide? c.org/dCKk9vjqxY It’s much appreciated. My university is cancelling all UG humanities degrees. We need support and love right now x

London Craft Week is here! The festival brings together over 1000 established and emerging makers, designers, brands and galleries from around the world🎨 Check out the programme⬇️ londoncraftweek.com

It's #NationalStationeryWeek, which seems like a good enough reason to talk about cards. There are now over 80 card designs in my shop. £3 each or 5 for £12. www.gailmyerscough.co.uk/greeting-cards

Looked up by chance while walking along Oxford Street this afternoon. No 219 with gorgeous reliefs by David Trussler #FestivalOfBritain