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?
27.02.2026 12:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0Will we see a troops build-up?
27.02.2026 09:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Laurent 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.
26.02.2026 11:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0She is indeed fantastic; sorry I can't get up there...
26.02.2026 10:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Yep, this friction is really unhelpful
25.02.2026 16:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0👋
21.02.2026 08:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Does @djbduncan.bsky.social know about this trend?
21.02.2026 08:15 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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…
18.02.2026 12:46 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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… 🗃️💾
16.02.2026 22:57 — 👍 11 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0You should!
16.02.2026 22:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0😁 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…
14.02.2026 15:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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.
13.02.2026 12:33 — 👍 47 🔁 28 💬 1 📌 5
Happy 200th birthday UCL. Nice piece by Georgina Brewis placing the 'Godless Students' into the history of London. www.historytoday.com/archive/feat...
13.02.2026 11:04 — 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 3So, the Thomas Frank of politics looks to have outlasted the Keir Starmer of football, but by how much?
11.02.2026 16:21 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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...
03.02.2026 16:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0We don't need libraries because 'everything' is on Google Books now anyway...
03.02.2026 14:19 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
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
27.01.2026 16:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Could I have one too, please? Curious to try this out…
25.01.2026 23:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This 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...
16.01.2026 13:27 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 03 x #dh roles at UCL; 1 week til deadline 🗃️
16.01.2026 12:39 — 👍 1 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
John and Des both post about Barwick's new album, Tragic Magic within minutes....
Did you two co-ordinate?
16.01.2026 11:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0We’re hiring a two-year DH postdoc for our HAVI project, to work on a new type of knowledge graph architecture for the humanities (and beyond). Deadline soon (18 Jan)! www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
13.01.2026 10:14 — 👍 16 🔁 30 💬 0 📌 2
Want to study the history of science and/or technology? We invite applications for fully-funded MA+PhD (1-3 years) or PhD-only (3 years) Hans Rausing scholarships.
Deadline is 17 April 2026 (we advise to check @kingshistory.bsky.social application deadlines)
Find out more: tinyurl.com/mw84w7py
