We're looking for a freelance conservator to survey and rehouse audio heritage as part of the Sounds of the Midlands project. For more information please email us. Deadline for applications is Monday, 12 October #LibraryofBham @uniofleicester.bsky.social

I love doing #YayAdvent so much every year - if you fancy 24 little presents to brighten up your December do sign up!

Alipy@gazpachodragon.bsky.social · 5d ago

Reminder: #yayadvent and #yayswap signups are now open!

Oh this is such sad news - she was so marvellous in everything she did but my fondest memories will definitely be Cabin Pressure www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Stephanie Cole: Tenko and Doc Martin actress dies aged 84

She was best known for playing the character Dr Beatrice Mason in the 1980s BBC wartime TV drama

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Oh blimey, here we go again. Time to vote in the National Trust AGM to keep so-called 'Restore Trust' off the council. Use the quick vote to ensure we don't split the anti-Restore vote. Or.... 1/2 www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...

Annual General Meeting

Your Annual General Meeting will take place online and in person on Saturday 7th November 2026 at the STEAM Museum, Swindon.

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They really need to make an alert that you can still read once you've made it stop screaming.

Really disappointed to see this level of cuts at yet another university history department. Please sign and share c.org/K4CqyF7Tn8

Sign the Petition

Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter

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happy International Archives Day! if you would like to make archives happy you could do worse than with some online volunteering for me – look at pictures! read 19th century minutes! very straightforward, very satisfying, no commitment necessary. www.sal.org.uk/about-us/vac... (scroll down)

So very sad to hear news of the death of Anthony Head. Such a wonderful actor. He was of course marvellous in Buffy and Merlin, but I loved him in Cabin Pressure on the radio. Sounds to have been a lovely human being too

Sunderland-born Joseph Swan, early developer of an incandescent electric light bulb, died on this day 1914. He demonstrated his lamp in 1879 to an audience of more than 700 at Newcastle’s Literary and Philosophical Society.

Repository, fonds, series, file, item, folio

madeline odent@oldenoughtosay.com · 4mo ago

what are the Six Genders? wrong answers only

Excellent news for all who have to deal with this condition - and the all-too-common medical assumption that it is “only” a reproductive concern, not a whole-body condition that can lead for example to type 2 diabetes. www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...

‘Unprecedented’ global effort gives new name to polycystic ovary syndrome – and new hope to millions of women

Decades-long campaign powered by patient perspectives results in switch from PCOS – a name that caused confusion and undue suffering – to PMOS

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GNU Terry Pratchett, whose words will echo long after we, and our children, and our children’s children have moved on thank you, as always, for making me a better person (quote from Reaper Man)

Rhianna Pratchett@rhi.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Happy birthday, Dad. Wish you were here. You’d know what to do. Or at least you’d know what to write. ❤️

Post something orange from your gallery

Ruth MacLeod@scottishruth.bsky.social · 5mo ago

If you see this post something orange from your gallery.

Durham and English Heritage are now recruiting for a fully-funded PhD on Roman Corbridge 🥳🥳🥳 This is a fantastic opportunity to work on one of our most important and understudied finds assemblages from Roman Britain. Deadline 1st June. Please share widely! www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

Archives #JobKlaxon - Curious Arts are recruiting for a north-east based Digital Archivist drive.google.com/file/d/1NHPQ...

The Arrival Of Spring In Woldgate, East Yorkshire, 2011, painting by David Hockney (b.1937).

I am doing an event at the National Archives, for crying out loud! The Love Letters exhibition, talking and signing advance copies, courtesy of Notting Hill's Saucy Books!

KJ Charles at Love Letters Late

We’re thrilled to be partnering with The National Archives for Love Letters Late — a special late-night celebration of romance, stories, and after-hours literary magic. Join us on Friday, April 10th f...

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Another call for the hive-mind of Bluesky! Can any paleography experts identify the occupation of Susannah Cowell, shown here on her student registration card? She was a student at Battersea Polytechnic in 1927, taking a course in Laundry Work. #archives #educationhistory #trickyhandwriting

www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2rh... Nicholas Brendon RIP.

Buffy - Once More, with Feeling - I'll Never Tell

YouTube video by Samantha Graff

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Discworld QOTD, from Reaper Man

Micah@rincewind.run · 6mo ago

Discworld QOTD, from Guards! Guards! "‘I believe you find life such a problem because you think that there are the good people and the bad people,’ said [Vetinari]. ‘You’re wrong, of course. There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides.’"

Only 5 weeks until the *free* Broken Bonds: The History of Divorce and Marital Breakdown conference at Northumbria University! Thanks to the ESRC, travel bursaries are available. Details in replies 👇 #LegalHistory #DivorceHistory #FamilyLaw #SocioLegalStudies #WomensHistory #ESRC #ECRHistory

Jobs! Three jobs! I am hiring three full-time, three-year postdocs to research the long history of song at Newcastle, from any disciplinary background (within reason), starting 1 October 2026. Spread the news far and wide – all details in the link below... jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastl...

🚨FIXED TERM ARCHIVE JOB KLAXON🚨 We are looking for an experienced archivist to develop and implement a scoping project to re-catalogue and make available the York Archdiocesan Archive (6 months full time, or 12 months part time). Full details at the link: jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/proj...

Seriously. Y'all NEED TO ACTUALLY READ John Hodgson's 173 page footnote in which he proves Hadrian built the Roman Wall. I CANNOT do justice to how beautiful his brain was. That he's forgotten as a historian breaks my heart.

Roland Allen has a protagonist for Chapter XVII@zibaldoni.bsky.social · 6mo ago

At this point he also shows the calculation that doing it as a footnote and saving on paper is the only way to keep the book affordable 💰🤣

bonus Discworld QOTD, from The Shepherd's Crown "FOR I CAN SEE THE BALANCE AND YOU HAVE LEFT THE WORLD MUCH BETTER THAN YOU FOUND IT, AND IF YOU ASK ME, said Death, NOBODY COULD DO ANY BETTER THAN THAT…"

Rhianna Pratchett@rhi.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Eleven years since you crossed the black sands. I wish I could say that the world is better than you left it (although it will always be better for having had you in it) but at least there is a new Young Sam to help carry on the Pratchett name and ethos. Love you always ❤️

Evening all. We've been enjoying sunshine today so have managed both a shopping expedition and a walk! Lime cordial and a new sewing project this evening. Cheers! #ConfinedCocktails

Now up on jobs.ac.uk🚨 - Collaborative Doctoral Award with Prof Annie Tindley, @drhick.bsky.social and The Ulster Folk Museum. Please spread the word �� @newcastleuni.bsky.social @hassfacultyncl.bsky.socialwww.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQT596/p...um

PhD studentship: Reawakening the Living Landscape: Integrating Heritage and Sustainability at the Ulster Folk Museum at Newcastle University

Apply for a PhD studentship: Reawakening the Living Landscape: Integrating Heritage and Sustainability at the Ulster Folk Museum. Discover a wide range of PhD opportunities at jobs.ac.uk.

jobs.ac.uk

Congratulations to @vindolandatrust.bsky.social on receiving the consortium grant worth £149,996. They will lead a partnership with @ducollections.bsky.social and @northeastmuseums.bsky.social to catalogue 5 archives relating to Hadrian’s Wall: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-rev... (2/5)

2025 - 2026 - Portals

Consortium Grants Awarded 2026 The Vindolanda Trust – £149,996 The Vindolanda Trust will lead a partnership with Durham University and North East Museums to catalogue five archives relating to Hadrian...

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Great opportunity to be involved in something new at The National Archives, based in my department but collaborating across the organisation and the wider archive sector. Regional Loans Programme Coordinator: www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cg...