🎙️ The Library of Lost Maps
Listen to James Cheshire, Britain’s only Professor of Cartography and Director of UCL Social Data Institute, talk about the role of maps in our histories and why they still matter.
🔗 tinyurl.com/iwejtwe
@ucl.ac.uk #maps #podcasts #libraries
Although doing this to the dead is awful, ghoulish and probably illegal, it’s the living who arguably have more at stake. For now…
This term we have launched Books and Book History at UCL Special Collections, a new MA module collaboratively designed and delivered by us and @uclhistory.bsky.social.
This thread is the first in the series of student-produced posts highlighting our book history adventures!
Post: Sabrina Wiggins
Call for applications!
We are looking for a small press to take up a temporary residency at UCL!
£5,000 to spend flexibly, an opportunity to work with outstanding collections & collaborate with brilliant students and staff!
blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll...
Maybe *Your Party* could host the multilateral talks?
Will we see a troops build-up?
Laurent Binet's 'The Seventh Function of Language' is outstanding in this regard; linguistics & theory, high farce, intrigue & '70s-'80s celebrity academics. The English translation by Sam Taylor is also excellent.
She is indeed fantastic; sorry I can't get up there...
Yep, this friction is really unhelpful
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Does @djbduncan.bsky.social know about this trend?
What's the 'public' in public space? Fantastic discussion with @katrinanavickas.bsky.social
(RSS for generic access feed.podbean.com/uncannylands...)
Thanks to all who came and discussed censorship and 'The Librarians' at UCL East Community Cinema. This powerful film is now on BBC's Storyville...
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
A really thorough and thoughtful piece of work…
Screenshot showing 557 downloads of the MORPHSS report
Our new report **Openness in the arts, humanities and social sciences: Documenting open research practices beyond STEM** has already had over 550 downloads!
If you haven't seen it yet but are interested in taking a look, you can find it here: doi.org/10.17613/jn1...
#morphss #OpenResearch #AHSS
Don’t take my word for it… 🗃️💾
You should!
😁 TFW your neighbourhood makes an appearance in present Booker-winning novel set across multiple countries; 😳 TFW when you realise living there is meant to signify how wrong the protagonist’s life has gone…
Just in time for reading week, in the Transactions of the @royalhistsoc.org: historians and our uses of data; sources, GLAM collections, newspapers, access and more...
#dh 🗃️
A pleasure thinking and writing with @ruthahnert.bsky.social and @kmcdono.bsky.social
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
@kmcdono.bsky.social @danielwilson.bsky.social and I have a new OA article out: eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A... It’s about the fragmented landscape of historical data, and what we can do about it to improve discoverability, sustainability and reuse.
Happy 200th birthday UCL. Nice piece by Georgina Brewis placing the 'Godless Students' into the history of London. www.historytoday.com/archive/feat...
So, the Thomas Frank of politics looks to have outlasted the Keir Starmer of football, but by how much?
Is there a sense in which we’re delighted when Claude does tasks-we-don’t-value, but horrified when it encroaches on terrain that defines our profession? The *we* here could be anyone. E.g. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
We don't need libraries because 'everything' is on Google Books now anyway...
JOB ALERT: Lead Curator, Modern Archives & Manuscripts (1601-1800) at The British Library - closing date: 18th Feb
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQH179/l...
Yep, which makes it even more annoying than usual when trying to prep teaching
Could I have one too, please? Curious to try this out…
This was good for any Francophones: builds on her framework for understanding how the City's split on Brexit foretold a new form of radicalised Finance. www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
3 x #dh roles at UCL; 1 week til deadline 🗃️
John and Des both post about Barwick's new album, Tragic Magic within minutes....
Did you two co-ordinate?
