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Author Phil Harris on his retirement with a view of the Round Reading Room of 1857. Photo: BL Corporate Archive, PH 034/342
Weβre delighted to share that A History of the British Museum Library, 1753β1973 by P. R.
Harris is now digitised and freely available to all interested in the history of the Museum and librarianship.
Find out more here: link.bl.uk/vvx
you are not prepared for the soundtrack
The model of unpaid academic labor required good jobs with ample unstructured time.
Great news - Govt has just announced new public library strategy is coming later this year - we've been campaigning on this for years at #CILIP! Also Β£150k funding boost for 72 areas of deprivation during National Year of Reading. www.gov.uk/government/n... #NYR2026
Regret to announce that weβve reached Wrong Coat season. Every coat you wear from now til mid April will be The Wrong Coat for the weather
Call for applications!
We are looking for a small press to take up a temporary residency at UCL!
Β£5,000 to spend flexibly, an opportunity to work with outstanding collections & collaborate with brilliant students and staff!
blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll...
Farage and Nuttall in Oldham a decade ago. UKIP went for an overnight message of voting fraud, then declined to make a complaint when asked to produce the evidence.
www.politics.co.uk/blogs/2015/1...
After winning narrowly in Runcorn last year, this time around Reform tasted the bitter wine of narrow defeat.
Greens got 41% of the vote #BBC, Reform got 29%. I wouldnβt call that a narrow defeat.
Hannah Spencer walking into Westminster, sucking her teeth, tutting, and muttering "tell you what, you've had some cowboys in here."
In other news, migration policies look to hurt our public finances
www.ft.com/content/7408...
"traiditonal Labour supporters want to see progressive values robustly defended against the far-right, not gleefully abandoned."
This guy gets it
ik we're all enjoying labour having a terrible day but it's also great bcos hannah spencer is a legit person. a proper, local, working class woman and she beat out all the slick political pricks.
local candidates are just always gonna be better and we need to return to that kind of politics.
So the candidate who left school at 16 with no A-Levels and who's spent her whole adult life vocational, manual jobs beat the ivory tower academic turned cushy media pundit, but you can be sure we'll still get plenty more casual description of the latter as "white working class".
Was going to do a joke post about Chris Mason saying "a historic night for Reform as they finish ahead of Labour, what does this teach us about the white working class in the north? Also, the Greens won" but too many of you would, sensibly, assume it was real.
What we have seen in Gorton and Denton is what we saw in Caerphilly in October.
A lot of people really donβt want the hateful politics of Reform and will work hard and smart to try and keep them out.
Labour must now listen to this and stop the grim attempts to mimic Farage.
Not just a gain, a stonking gain! π
History PhD students and postdocs: join us for βHow to Publish Your Research: a workshop for Early Career Researchersβ
with Profs Stephen Legg, Elisabeth Leake, Matthew Hilton & Erez Manela
18 March, Birkbeck, Bloomsbury
More info here www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
@jessicareinisch.bsky.social
Reform UK once promised to nationalise utilities π§π‘
But we've just downgraded them on our party scorecard as their position has changed π
Reform voters overwhelmingly back public ownership (87% for water, 75% for energy) so they deserve to know
weownit.org.uk/news/reform-...
I think it's worth celebrating the fact that the Green Party has gone from "gets invited onto Question Time a few times each decade" to "unhinged front page scaremongering in the Daily Mail" in the space of a year.
π‘ On Monday night, Channel 4 is airing πππ₯π§π¬ ππ¨π¦ππ‘ππ¦π¦.
It's the long overdue real-life drama of the victims of Englandβs sewage crisis and the greed of water companies.
Together with Surfers Against Sewage, weβll be bringing actions to channel the anger. Stay tuned.
We have more Skills Training in Archival Research (STAR) workshops coming up!
Join staff at The London Archives for a hands-on workshop designed to help postgrad students and researchers make the most of archival collections.
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1 April + 3 June
ποΈ 1-4:30pm
"If I was to use ChatGPT for my designs rather than our designer Sean, that's taking money out of the local area into the hands of a multibillionaire ... removing value from the local community and local artists [and] into the hands of some of the richest people in the world."
#AIslop #refuseresist
βItβs all Bourdieu?β
βAlways has been.β
My friends got me a print of this when I left Glasgow, and it has made me smile in every flat, house and city I've lived in ever since.
Game ONNNN
Once again feel the need to share βthe happy stoneβ, a rock I picked up from Lulworth Cove on a school trip in 1990 because of its face and which currently lives with my Mum in Salisbury
three million years ago somebody picked up a rock because it looked like a little face and held onto it
This is older than any god this is who we truly are
Boring as the subject might first seem - a research reporting portal closing - this is actually a great piece about academic audit culture, platform business models, and infrastructure breakdown all in one.
