Both in-person and online booking are available for this special @ihr.bsky.social event in Senate House at 2.00pm BST on Wednesday 29 April marking the 100th anniversary of the General Strike. Register here: www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
How much ill grace and stupidity do we have to keep rejecting the hands held out to us?
It's PG-13 but The Three Fugitives?
I once accidentally woke up Michael Foot
What historians (and other scholars do) is create knowledge. We should use that phrase more and talk about what it means. I think we don't, and it's part of why AI enthusiasts are confused when we don't readily agree that our work can be replicated/replaced by their products.
It will surprise nobody that the cataloguing system that is slopwashing like this turns out to be Primo.
(If you're not sure what system your university library uses: have you ever searched for a book and been offered three pages of links to reviews instead? That was Primo too.)
Foggy early morning looking down Cedars Road, Colchester
Foggy early start
Project link uhgi.org
Sunrise over countryside near Marks Tey
Moon over the River Colne in Colchester
Early morning commutes aren't all bad
Faire entrer Maryse Condé au Panthéon !
"Depuis le décès de l'autrice guadeloupéenne en avril 2024, Tressy Angelo s'engage pour panthéoniser Maryse Condé. Une procédure longue et fastidieuse qui passe d'abord par une pétition en ligne. "
la1ere.franceinfo.fr/une-petition...
Winter sunset looking up Store Street with West Central London beyond
Winter sunset over Store Street looking west
Landscape looking from Bloomsbury over to south London and the Shard
Autumn leaves and rain in London November 2025
View of Russell Square and Kimpton Fitzroy (Hotel Russell)
Autumn in #London
Grok's response to the question, 'Should there be trillionaires?' Asked 9/11/2025
And Grok's response 1 day later to the same question
![Text from Grok in response to the question, Should there be trillionaires? [8/11/2025]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6u4j2qgukjiordvyvxqxcgai/bafkreibkehqvrmoyqlczhkees4ydnbqbnsr2wac7hl3sdncjtf7kmicqee)
Text from Grok in response to the question, Should there be trillionaires? [8/11/2025]
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Text from Grok in response to the question, Should there be trillionaires? [8/11/2025]
Just curious to see what Grok thought (at the moment) about trillionaires. Unfortunately the response was a bit too long to compress in 4 images.
A view of one of the corridors at the UoL book depository in Egham
Autumn leaves from window at the Egham Book Store
Latticed metal floor at Egham Book Store
Bakelite telephone at Egham Book Store
Productive day out, and good to see the off-site collections again.
⭐ Ahead of History Day 2025, why not take a moment to read our blog on LGBTQ+ books in the IHR Library? The blog highlights some of our more recent titles, uncovering hidden stories, challenging narratives and celebrating queer history 🏳️🌈
👉 Read here: blog.history.ac.uk/2025/04/new-...
#HistDay25
New blog from @ihrlibrary.bsky.social trainees, Sasha Pond and Sarah Snelling, highlighting new titles in which reflect the diversification of our collections across Black history.#BlackHistoryMonth blog.history.ac.uk/2025/10/blac...
Very much this. The IHR really is open to everyone and this includes our common room and our library as well as our wonderful seminars. All free, all welcome!
Those 5 espressos during the day made the walk between stations...brief
Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
Copies of Catherine Clarke's 'A History of England in 25 Poems' at Waterstones Piccadilly
A History of England in 25 Poems bookmark
@cathamclarke.bsky.social Spotted in the Piccadilly Waterstones last night, and - huge announcement - comes with a complimentary bookmark
Well, that was a week
The power of the response "I don't know" is really underrated. It's not only a display of humility that resonates with others, but it's also the necessary basis for curiosity about the world around us, which is fundamental to being human.
Meme showing Lucifer from Dante's divine comedy saying how he finds the library management software Alma tricky to use
Part of a lost canto from the Inferno
One of the Highgate Cemetery foxes taken at Swain's Lane
The Karl Marx memorial in Highgate East Cemetery
Catacombs in Highgate West Cemetery
Funerary monument in Highgate West Cemetery
Interesting tour of the west cemetery today, and wandering around the east, retracing mum's leisurely root to school in the 50s from Waterlow Park to Brookfield
#DailyHaikuPrompt
You are still on mute
Start awkward interjections
Dante would love this
www.tamupress.com/book/9780890...
This definitely worth a read too.
Keys
Finally
UK academia’s lack of language skills ‘imperils research integrity’ www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-c...
In celebration of Women's History Month, Graduate Trainee Library Assistant Sarah Admans has written a blog showcasing a selection of the wide range of sources that can be found in the @ihrlibrary.bsky.social focusing on women and their lived experience. blog.history.ac.uk/2025/03/wome...
