Alice Corble

The city of Beit Hanoun in the north east edge of Gaza is seen from above. It is completely destroyed, not a single building is standing. It is all rubble, as though the aftermath of a nuclear explosion. The city had a population of 52,000

Gaza is now single deadliest conflict for journalists in history.

This is not only an attempt to extinguish a whole people, it is also an attempt to extinguish the story of their genocide.

“One day, everyone will have always been against this.” - Egyptian-Canadian writer, Omar El Akkad.

#Gaza

Screenshot for the Social History Society’s Community Exchange blog, which says: Our Community Exchange aims to foster links across history-making spaces-from museums and archives, streets and groups, stage and screen - and to open up dialogue between the many different audiences for social history. We welcome contributions showcasing public history events, as well as think pieces on community history, co-production, or how scholarship can be transformed by conversations beyond the academy.

Have you done some fun work with museums/archives/cultural spaces (anything beyond the academy, essentially) and want to tell people about it? Please do consider writing something for @socialhistsoc.bsky.social’s Community Exchange blog! #SHSConf2025

‘Full‐Fat, Semi‐Skimmed or Skimmed?’ The Political Economy of Immigration Policy since Brexit Since the European Union referendum in 2016, UK net migration has increased to record levels. Despite the Leave campaign's promise to ‘take back control’—and a Conservative government that has adopte...

Award-winning, open access article on the absurdity of anti-immigration populism from my collage James Hampshire:

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

@leughleabhar.bsky.social - this study by @victoriarend.bsky.social should be of interest to your members would be great if you could repost - thanks!

radical online collections and archives I am very interested in the growing amount of radical literature from around the world that is being scanned and digitised. As there are so many and from many different places, I thought it would b…

New collections added, pt 1

• Afghanistan Today (English language magazine, 1987-88)
• De As (Dutch anarchism)
• The State Adversary (New Zealand)
• Variant Magazine (UK radical arts, 1980s-90s)
• Unidade e Luta (PAIGC, Cape Verde)

hatfulofhistory.wordpress.com/radical-onli...

"Thinking is difficult. That is why people prefer to judge." Jung

Out in paperback now and cannot recommend highly enough:

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

Wonderful - look forward to watching and will share with my students too (I teach collection development at UCL LIS)

never ever let someone tell you that libraries are neutral & apolitical (nor are museums, nor archives, nor art centres, nor histories..)

In this post I compiled a literature review of research about such gendered service disparities. These dynamics contributed to my resignation from a tenured full professorship last week.

I hope you are able to take some time out to recover. Sending healing wishes. 🌱

Oh wow. Solidarity and respect to you Shannon. Fuck that shit. May your next workspace horizon be nourishing and liberating.

Great thanks so much. Will subscribe to your YouTube channel.

#DragQueenStoryTime #Brighton #JubileeLibrary #LibraryLiberation #FuckTheFasch
#TransJoy

This pic and placard I made is from a few years ago when I joined the counter-protest to see off far-right transphobes targeting the fab #DragQueenStoryTime at #JubileeLibrary in #Brighton. Love and liberation won the day. Transphobic bigots will never win.

A colourful hand-drawn placard reading LIBRARIANS for Queer and Trans LIBERATION next to a tabby cat on a sofa facing the camera. Above them are some framed graphic prints reading SPEAK TRUTH TO POWER and May 1.

Here's what me and my cat #Lilliput think of this ominous storm in a #library teacup.
#TransLiberation #QueerLiberarion #LibrariesForEveryone #CatsForQueers #TruthToPower

I was sorry to miss this - was any of it recorded?

Where and What Are the Boundaries of the Archive? Abstract. In the 2020s, archives are everywhere. Archives have moved from the past into the future, from the historical into the corporate, the community,

Craven, Louise. 2023. ‘Where and What Are the Boundaries of the Archive?’ In Archives: Power, Truth, and Fiction, edited by Andrew Prescott and Alison Wiggins. Oxford University Press. doi.org/10.1093/oxfo....

This piece on Elsevier's stranglehold on academia pairs well with Sarah Lamdan's Data Cartels and Eliza Bettinger, et al's "Disrupting the Digital Status Quo: Why and How to Staff for Privacy in Academic Libraries," which we've been reading in my class this week

ecommons.cornell.edu/items/3ef46e...

@cilip.bsky.social @cilipcymru.bsky.social @cilipireland.bsky.social @cilipscotland.bsky.social @librariesconnected.bsky.social @publiclibraries.bsky.social

Groundbreaking new #LIS study on how #publiclibraries serve #multilingual and #heritagelanguage communities by @victoriarend.bsky.social. UK-based public library workers: please consider participating and circulating! #LibraryResearch #LinguisticJustice #KnowledgeEquity #IntangibleCulturalHeritage

British law firm coached universities on how to obtain sweeping protest bans Revealed: Shakespeare Martineau LLP, which helped Cardiff get year-long ban on unauthorised action, promoted court orders at webinar

Once you see clearly that many UK universities long ago ceased to be critical parts of state infrastructure, and became debt vehicles for the banks and other financial intermediaries, you see the situation a lot more clearly. Saves a lot of confusion and angst. www.theguardian.com/law/2025/jun...

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So sorry to to hrar this horrendous news. Which institution is this? Asking for a student who is researching censorship in US academic libraries.

Was this panel recorded by any chance? Would love to refer back to some of the details and to be able to cite the speakers in my own work.

These talks look great thank you! Are they in-person only or will any be hybrid/online?

SCA are hosting a workshop as part of ‘Divergent Minds in the Archive’, an EDI Caucus-funded project investigating neurodivergence and archives.

Find out more and apply to take part: www.scottisharchives.org.uk/latest/call-...

Love the notion of the library as a "transdisciplinary collider space" articluated by Jonathan Bengston in his #LKFS2025 talk on ‪@uvic.ca‬ and the #KULAacademy - some impressive 'Liberating Knowledge Partnerships' going on there.