'History and Archives in Practice' 2027: call for participation now open for our annual gathering of historians and archivists, co-hosted with @ihr.bsky.social and TNA. HAP27's theme is connecting past and future with sessions on advocacy, value and applied history bit.ly/3RGHbWy #Skystorians

'History and Archives in Practice' (HAP), 2027. Call for participation now open - RHS

History and Archives in Practice (HAP) is an annual partnership event, co-hosted by the Royal Historical Society, The National Archives, and the Institute of Historical Research. Now in its fifth year...

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“If we can hit that bullseye, their house of cards will fall like a row of dominoes… checkmate”

Chris Vannini@chrisvannini.com · 2w ago

What's a Futurama line that lives forever in your head? Mine is, "Oh, a lesson in not changing history from Mr. I'm My Own Grandpa."

A thoughtful and illuminating thread from our colleague @adamchapman.bsky.social

Victoria County History@vch-home.bsky.social · 3w ago

You might be wondering how this decline in the number of people entering academic disciplines in the humanities affects something like a project devoted to researching, writing, and publishing histories of place (or local histories)? These early career researchers are essential to our work. 🗃️ 1/5

Just letting readers know about our August opening hours. Throughout August we will be closed on Saturday and from Monday to Friday we will be open from 09.00 to 18.30. Our regular hours will resume from the 1st September. www.history.ac.uk/about-us/ope...

Daniel Hannan has written an entire column earnestly arguing with a satirical candidate’s deliberately absurd manifesto.

Setting up a new local council account as they have upgraded their systems, and am being passed between at least four different web domains, exactly the kind of fraud flags that e.g. our work info security awareness teaches us to look out for and report 🤷‍♂️

Seems an odd move for Pink Floyd to rename on of their most famous albums, but here we are www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The dark side of the Brazilian butt lift boom

The aesthetics industry is worth billions but campaigners say there have been numerous cases of serious harm.

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I didn’t know he spent some time at the @warburginstitute.bsky.social

The Guardian@theguardian.com · last mo.

Carlo Ginzburg obituary

I'm leading this new @ihr.bsky.social Discovery Course: 'Writing and Pitching Your #Trade Non-Fiction #Book'. Two days, with experienced writers + agent Elliot Prior (Curtis Brown), plus an optional add-on 'writing retreat' with expert advice @ihrlibrary.bsky.social www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Writing and Pitching Your Trade Non-Fiction Book

Discovery Course (PAID)

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Join the ICS! We are now recruiting a Project Conservator to work on the Ventris Papers: an archive of correspondence, papers, drawings, photographs,as well as selected offprints and newspaper cuttings relating to the decipherment of Linear B by Michael Ventris. Full details here: shorturl.at/3uE5G

Project Conservator:Warburg Institute

The University of London

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yes, this needs to be said and grateful to our UCU branch for saying it

Pompous, shallow, idiotic recycling of American right-wing culture war talking points by the so-called "paper of record", an absolute disgrace and more proof, were it needed, that the British media in its current form should be razed to the ground

The Times and Sunday Times@thetimes.com · 2mo ago

Henry Nowak and the corrosive effect of DEI on policing

This collaboration allows participants to access the Making History collection in full. Making History was a successor project to our re-launched Interviews with Historians collection www.history.ac.uk/resources/di... & feature eminent historians reflecting on their lives and professional practices

Interviews with Historians

Interviews with Historians was a landmark series of interviews between prominent historians. This page introduces the collection and gives access to the interviews.

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Institute of Historical Research@ihr.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We are collaborating with the Uni of Portsmouth on a project to assess the value of digital cultural heritage. The project gives you access to our Making History collection of oral histories. Best of all, you are offered a cash incentive! The project’s website is here: tinyurl.com/makinghistor...

📣 Applications open for @historylabplus.bsky.social & HistoryUK ECR Survey Fellow 2026-7, to action UK-wide survey of support & access to resources available to historical researchers post-PhD 📍 Remote 💰 Honorarium of £800 🕰️ 23:59, 14 June #Skystorians #ECRs @ihr.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.org

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About | Events | Meet us | Contact | Join Opportunities Links to research posts, post docs and other opportunities. VACANCY: HistoryLab+ and HistoryUK ECR Survey Fellow * [ENDING SOON – JUNE …

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Recent @ihr.bsky.social MA student and Library Services Manager @ihrlibrary.bsky.social, @katewilcox.bsky.social, has won the Phil Batman Family History Prize (Centre for Regional & Local History, University of Leicester). Discover her powerful and moving project: blog.history.ac.uk/2026/06/crea...

Creative historical practice: an eighty-year family journey - On History

Kate Wilcox, Library Services Manager at the IHR, recently completed the IHR’s MA in History, Place and Community. Here, she shares her experiences of developing a critical-creative research project.

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Still wondering about joining us @ihr.bsky.social for this year's London Summer School (22-26 June)? Bookings close on 12 June. Our 2026 theme is 'Sickness and Health', with our usual focus on #London #history. View the full schedule of lectures, trips etc: www.history.ac.uk/study-traini...

Daily Schedule

IHR Summer School Schedule 2026.

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New Order Live at Wembley Arena, London, England on 1987-12-10 https://archive.org/details/ajc03199_neworder_1987-12-10

New Order Live at Wembley Arena, London, England on 1987-12-10 : New Order : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

New Order - Wembley Arena, London, England - 1987-12-10 - Aiwa CM-30A Stereo Mic > Marantz PMD 420 > Cassette (M)

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This exhibition is NOW ON and curated by our colleagues at @senatehouselib.bsky.social, I would highly recommend it!

London Review of Books@lrb.co.uk · 3mo ago

‘Caxton was a visionary, in the same way that all successful ad men are visionaries. He was the first person in England to understand that he was selling not just print, but novelty.’ @tomlukejohnson.bsky.social on the story of the English printing press. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

‘Caxton was a visionary, in the same way that all successful ad men are visionaries. He was the first person in England to understand that he was selling not just print, but novelty.’ @tomlukejohnson.bsky.social on the story of the English printing press. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Tom Johnson · At Senate House Library: Caxton’s Print Revolution

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Jesus Lizard, Monkey Trick Raekwon, Incarcerated Scarfaces New Order, 1963 Motörhead, (We Are) The Roadcrew Smog, Cold Blooded Old Times Galaxy 2 Galaxy, Jupiter Jazz Black Sabbath, Symptom of the Universe Public Enemy, She Watch Channel Zero Happy Mondays, Wrote For Luck Palace, West Palm Beach

Biley B Hopkins@badfuckinpodcasts.com · 4mo ago

Dont think too hard. Top ten songs of all time for you

Hurray for the University of Sussex. Not so hurray for OfS. 'Sussex University has overturned a £585,000 fine by England’s higher education watchdog after the high court rejected claims the university had breached free speech regulations involving its former professor Kathleen Stock.'

Sussex University overturns £585,000 fine as high court rejects free speech breach claim

Ruling is blow to Office for Students after it issued record fine for allegations over professor’s trans rights views

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On protecting what matters. @ihr.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.org @histassoc.bsky.social History UK www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Protecting What Matters: A joint statement by the Historical Association, History UK, Royal Historical Society and the IHR

Protecting what matters: A joint statement by the Historical Association, History UK, Royal Historical Society and the IHR

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The Open Research team at Cambridge is looking for an Open Access Service Manager. Please share! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRI653/o...

Open Access Service Manager at University of Cambridge

Looking for a professional services job in higher education? Apply now for the Open Access Service Manager position on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board.

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I'm reminded of the quote wrongly attributed to Einstein, "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 3mo ago

'The south-east London university, known for its teaching of the creative arts, has announced plans to cut a further £22 million from its budget, the third major restructure since 2019.' Student numbers have dropped by more than 25% in the past 5 years. Great work external consultants! 1/2

The Tubs making Metallica’s Fade To Black sound all Tubs-y. #janglethrash @mergerecords.bsky.social thetubs.bandcamp.com/album/fade-t...

Fade to Black, by The Tubs

1 track album

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Great to see tis volume available @bho.bsky.social. It includes my favourite editorial intervention (to date), which was to ask the editor to gloss what the 'Chipping Norton Set' is/was. Remember that? The point is that the volume covers this area from the earliest times to the 21st century. 🗃️

Victoria County History@vch-home.bsky.social · 4mo ago

New digital resource: we're pleased to announce that volume XIX of @vch-oxon.bsky.social's series, 'Wychwood Forest and Environs' is now available in full and for free @bho.bsky.social. It covers the history of Wychwood Forest, broken up only in the 19th century and nearby villages. #Skystorians

At History & Archives in Practice #HAP26 at the University of Sheffield. First session is on "Navigating the Politics of/within the Archive". This first paper is on Oswald Mosley and the archive of the British Union of Fascists.

Counter-point: a) this is terrible writing and b) why on earth should librarians be singled out for being less physically able, than, for example, newspaper columnists?

Hetan Shah@hetanshah.bsky.social · 5mo ago

You can’t deny, the boy can write www.ft.com/content/ba5f...