Gwent Archives has an exciting opportunity for an Archives Apprentice to join their team and develop a career in the archives and heritage sector.
Hannah K. Smyth 🍉
@smythh.bsky.social
Lecturer in Archives and Records Management at University College London. Views my own. Shligo woman. Sí / í. https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/61791-hannah-k-smyth
Behind the bewildering transformation of British universities, are management consultants being paid millions Really proud to have this vital piece on our unis are being gutted from the inside by @jheathershaw.bsky.social on Democracy for Sale. Do read democracyforsale.substack.com/p/inside-bri...
Inside Britain's university crisis
As teaching staff face job loss, their bosses have netted pay rises and bought advice from a “vampiric” management consultancy, writes Prof. John Heathershaw of the University of Exeter
democracyforsale.substack.com
Presented at #AERI2026 last week at UBC Vancouver. Such a lush campus with some leafy brutalist buildings. I think this is what the TCD Arts Block was supposed to look like 🥲
A problem for primary schools now, secondary schools in the next few years, and universities a few years after that.
Josiah Mortimer@josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 3w agoWow. The Department for Education has just published new projections which estimate that the number of pupils in state-funded schools in England will plummet by more than 9% by 2031 amid falling birth rates And yet this issue receives probably 1,000th of the coverage the immigration debate receives
📢 Applications are open for the National Library of Ireland’s 2026–2027 Studentships! ⭐ Library ⭐ Archival ⭐ Research A great opportunity to gain hands-on experience and develop your career. Learn more, and apply by 3pm, 17 July 2026: https://www.nli.ie/about-us/working-national-library-ireland
Society for Renaissance Studies: Two scholarships of £4,000 each, to contribute to the costs of postgraduate study. rensoc.org.uk/apply/schola...
For this week’s #MapMonday we are in our final atlas of the North-West in #Sligo. Irish Historic Towns Atlas no. 24, Sligo by Fióna Gallagher and Marie-Louise Legg was published by the @ria.ie in 2012. 1/7 #IHTA #Sligo
Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should
"if students [in 1974] fully appreciated what continuous assessment entailed most of them would react in favour of the existing exam system “which allows so much leeway for periods of self-discovery, disordered reading, friendship and general loafing”. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...
Diarmaid Ferriter: The best exam essay I read this year was an angry - and refreshingly human - one
There’s a fatuous assumption that linking thinking and writing is some sort of inefficiency
irishtimes.com
The Society's President and Council have released the following statement on the proposed closure of undergraduate degrees at the University of Hertfordshire, in #History and the wider humanities bit.ly/4dmV5oO This comes at a time of further bad news from Essex and Nottingham #Skystorians
History and the humanities at the University of Hertfordshire – a statement from the Royal Historical Society - RHS
Even for those familiar with bleak times, this has been a particularly bad few weeks in UK higher education. Confirmed job losses at the University of Essex were followed by further bad news from Hert...
bit.ly
"There are testimonies of how people were forced to flee in 1948, where they came from, where their property was, what was destroyed. Two hundred thousand came to Gaza in between 1948 and 1949, from all over Palestine" www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
The secret mission to rescue the UN’s vital Palestinian refugee archive
Millions of documents chronicling generations of trauma saved from Gaza and East Jerusalem in 10-month Unrwa operation
theguardian.com
📣 Please share! The UCL Department of Information Studies is pleased to invite applications for the 2026 Widening Participation in Archives & Records Management Summer School from 6–9 July. www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
Widening Participation in Archives and Records Management Summer School
Date: 6-9 July 2026 Time: 10am - 4pm Location: UCL Bloomsbury Campus
ucl.ac.uk
Mulling the editorial direction of Renaissance Studies, and thinking it might be time to open the journal up to articles by humanities scholars who have a very shaky grasp of how science works but fancy having a go
Congratulations to Stephen O’Neill — a former NEH Fellow of the Keough-Naughton Institute — on the publication of his book, “Irish Culture and Partition, 1920-1955.” The room was packed last night at Notre Dame Dublin for the book launch. @oneillsb.bsky.social @livunipress.bsky.social
New in Irish Studies | @oneillsb.bsky.social's Irish Culture and Partition, 1920-1955, is the first book dedicated to examining culture and partition in Ireland. Discover more here ⬇️ www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
I think this means it's out, so it only remains to say yeooooo
Liverpool University Press@livunipress.bsky.social · 4mo agoNew in Irish Studies | @oneillsb.bsky.social's Irish Culture and Partition, 1920-1955, is the first book dedicated to examining culture and partition in Ireland. Discover more here ⬇️ www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
ICYMI: 11 days left to apply for this fully funded PhD at UCL with me and @jameselder.bsky.social working on BT's extraordinary film collection – which records the birth of the information society. For details and how to apply: www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
Happy (liturgical) 110th Anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising. Here is my back catalogue of publications concerning its commemoration which may be of interest 10 years on from the big roundy in 2016:
📢Job alert! We’re looking for 3 new full-time graduate trainee Archives & Special Collections Assistants to join our innovative, user-focused engagement team. See more details and apply: www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/archives... 🗓️Closing date: 16 April 2026
We are pleased to launch today a new funding programme for Fellows & Associate Fellows of the Society resident outside the UK & Ireland bit.ly/3PtDQZu Grants support research in UK / Irish archives for our international historians. Deadline 8 May to enable research from summer 2026 #Skystorians 1/2
Society launches new funding programme for International Fellows and Associate Fellows - RHS
The Royal Historical Society is pleased to launch a new programme, from today, to support the work of International Fellows and Associate Fellows. Recipients will be members of the Society, resident o...
bit.ly
This PhD post looks amazing and the kind of thing I'd love to do if I didn't already have a PhD. So much British and Irish medieval history is conditioned by the decisions made then and the early PRO publications.
Prof Kevin Linch@kevinlinch.bsky.social · 4mo agoFully-funded #PhD opportunity on the early history of the Public Records Office starting this October phd.leeds.ac.uk/project/2475... with @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy @universityofleeds.bsky.social Available full or part-time. #archives #skystorians
📣 Opportunity: Oral History PhD Research Project w/t Imperial War Museums & University of Strathclyde. An #oralhistory of women paramilitaries during ‘The Troubles’ in Ireland and Britain. For more information visit: www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/... #Postgraduate #NorthernIreland #TheTroubles
Love this. History 101. Always check the original source.
The Conversation UK@uk.theconversation.com · 5mo agoOnce I had spotted a 200-year-old error, I was able to join the dots.
It's giving "tobacco company research shows health benefits of smoking"
Irish Independent@independent.ie · 5mo agoThe research, which was commissioned by the Collison brothers, appears to support a position that individual 'geniuses' are the key drivers of innovation, rather than structural factors like education, capital formation and the rule of law
We have an incredible new PhD placement opportunity to help support the development and curation of our major exhibition on the Norman Conquest, opening in October 2027. Learn more and apply through the link below! www.bl.uk/services/res...
'Courtesy of the Trust, a bursary of £4,000 is available to scholars at any career stage. It is intended to support a period of archival research leading to a publication or completion of a doctoral thesis.' #Skystorians
The Huguenot Bursary for Historical Research 2026
The purpose of the award is to facilitate the research of the recipient, for example to cover research trips etc.
history.ac.uk
The third seminar in this year’s @dh-researchhub.bsky.social series on ‘The Fragile Record’ is concerned with ‘Cultural heritage under attack: saving cultural data in times of crisis’, 31 March, 16.00-17.30 BST. Free to attend online, but you’ll need to register.
Cultural Heritage Under Attack: Saving Cultural Data in Times of Crisis
sas.ac.uk