Digital Scholarship @ British Library

If anyone has questions about this role, I'm happy to answer them! I've really enjoyed supporting the digital humanities as ADHO Exec Board Secretary

ADHO @adho-org.bsky.social, the umbrella group for digital humanities organisations, has a bunch of volunteer positions open! All designed as 'deputy' posts that step up into the full role as Chair, Secretary, Treasurer and Conference Officer.

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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

We’re delighted to share that A History of the British Museum Library, 1753–1973 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

Tuesday 17 March 2026 - Vincent Hiribarren (KCL): Historian vs AI: who reads and analyses archives best - Digital History Seminar This seminar is 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm GMT live on Zoom at https://zoom.us/j/97943434361, later posted to our YouTube channel. Session chair: TBC Abstract: This paper compares how a historian and AI appro...

📢 Join the @ihr.bsky.social Digital History seminar on 17 March (midday UK time) for Vincent Hiribarren on the topic 'Historian vs AI: who reads and analyses archives best'. All our seminars are live on Zoom and published after on our YouTube channel ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2025/09/tues... #dhist

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Calling all technologists, artists and other creative visionaries:

The Library of Congress has opened the call for the next Innovator in Residence!

Apply by 2pm ET April 10

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February issue of our Scholarly Communications Newsletter is out! Lots to read and catch up again incl. #MORPHSS catalogue, #UKrepo report, recent #AI guidelines, PRC model and more. mailchi.mp/f0f2902feb46...

We’re hiring a Social Media Manager at the British Library.

Join our Digital Engagement team and help connect audiences with the stories, collections and ideas of the UK’s national library.

📍 St Pancras
Apply by 15 March 2026
More details here: link.bl.uk/rkj

Call for Bursaries: DH2026  – Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations To encourage new contributions to scholarship in the digital humanities, the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) offers bursaries to students and early career scholars whose…

📢 ADHO Bursaries for DH2026 are open!
💰 Online: registration covered
💰 In-person: up to €550 (+€300 intercontinental)
🗓 Deadline: April 1, 2026
👉 adho.org/2026/03/02/c...
#DH2026 #ADHO

📢 Call for Bursaries: DH2026

To encourage new contributions to scholarship in the digital humanities, ADHO offers bursaries to students and early career scholars whose submissions have been accepted for presentation at DH2026.
Submission deadline: April 1, 2026
More info: adho.org/awards/confe...

Get in touch to tell us how your heritage sector organisation is already using, or would like to use, AI. We’re seeking contributions of 300-500 words.

Express interest to our Newsletter Editors, Katherine (k.a.krick@gmail.com) and Jane (j.m.gallagher@leeds.ac.uk) by 6th March.

Masthead for the Bee-Hive, featuring an image of a beehive and representations of various trades and industry.

It's #MastheadMonday again, & today we're featuring The Bee-Hive (1861-1878), an important trades-union publication. It fought for improved workers rights, but became embroiled in the fractious politics of the trades-union movement. Free to view here: www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/titles/beehive

LIBER Launches a Webinar Series on Artificial Intelligence: AI Pulse - LIBER Europe LIBER (Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche – Association of European Research Libraries) is the voice of Europe’s research library community.

The LIBER AI Taskforce has launched a series of short seminars! Friday's first seminar is very much a listening exercise to learn where European research libraries are with AI in libraries from participants libereurope.eu/article/libe...

#AI4LAM

Does your Friday need a burst of inspiration? Try @arnicas.bsky.social's 'Image Prompt Inspiration: 3 random nouns and CC images from Flickr (British Library scans as default)' (yay for open access images!)

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Our Flickr images live on, still creating delight and wonder!

Curling stones on an ice rink. Image by Felix from Canada, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons.

The 2026 Winter Olympics are underway in Italy where 2,900 athletes from 92 National Olympic Committees will take part in Alpine skiing, curling, ice hockey and more. Find out how you can help preserve web content for this historic event here: link.bl.uk/7yj

#Olympics @netpreserve.bsky.social

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Is your research related to Asia or Africa?

Join us on Friday 27 February for an open day exploring our Asian and African collections as well as those of @soasuni.bsky.social , @sas-news.bsky.social and @senatehouselib.bsky.social

Book your place here: link.bl.uk/ctf

The UK Web Archive: continuing our work behind the scenes We are hoping to restore the UK Web Archive towards the middle of 2026.

Despite recent challenges, our UK Web Archive team remains dedicated to safeguarding the nation’s online heritage.

Find out more about UK Web Archive recovery in this latest blog post here: link.bl.uk/aaq

The British Newspaper Archive reaches 100 million pages We celebrate this milestone and our long partnership with Find My Past by picking a few highlights from the BNA.

To celebrate the BNA reaching 100 million pages, my colleague Claire O'Halloran has written a blog sharing some of our highlights. A huge achievement-well done to everyone involved at @britishlibrary.bsky.social & @findmypast.bsky.social Here’s to the next 100 million! www.bl.uk/stories/blog...

💠 Meet our #RLUK26 Keynote 🎙️

Dr Carla Hayden was 14th Librarian of Congress, 1st woman & African American to lead LoC. Dr Hayden is currently Senior Fellow @mellon.org advising on opportunities to support + advance libraries & archives

#RLUK26 is a virtual event on 25-26 March

ℹ️ 🎟 bit.ly/RLUKconf

A colour block banner with the words 'International Fellowships 2026' written on the left-hand side.

There are only three weeks left to apply for the International Fellowships 2026 programme. The scheme allows early career, international researchers to collaborate on a project with a UK partner.

Learn more and apply now: https://bit.ly/3LaMIBC

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A 1914 competition map: Changing the map of Europe

8 years ago, at the British Library, I first saw this map: an FT reader competition to predict the boundaries of Europe after WW1. I made a note to find out more one day - which ultimately led me last month to this tomb in West Norwood cemetery. You can read more here: www.ft.com/content/79a4...

Highly illustrated masthead for Illustrated London Life. It’s issue number 2, March 18th 1843 and was priced at three pence.

#MastheadMonday is back with the Illustrated London Life, which lasted only 23 issues (Apr-Aug 1843). It was 1 of many attempts to capitalise on the success of the Illustrated London News (1842-2003). Digitised by the British Library & free-to-view: www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/titles/illus...

Celebrating 100 Million Newspaper Pages on The Archive In this special blog, we celebrate reaching the landmark of 100 million pages on The Archive, with insights from our users and tips for searching our papers.

Today the British Newspaer Archive reached 100 million pages! What an epic achievement! So many interesting pages to explore. And we’re not stopping there the BL & FMP will continue to digitise, so here’s to the next 100 million!
blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/2026/02/16/c...

Paul Ayris obituary Other lives: Library leader at UCL committed to the movement for open science

Touching tribute to Paul Ayris. The UK open research community owes him a great debt.

www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f...

Remote Capture: Digitising Documentary Heritage in Challenging Locations This is a must-read how-to guide if you are planning to embark on a scholarly digitisation project. Tailored to the specifications of the British Library’s EAP (Endangered Archives Programme) projects...

1/ The Endangered Archives Programme out of British Library provides guidelines that contain "hints, advice and experiences from people who have completed projects everywhere around the globe from Latin America to Africa to Asia."

www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...

ATBL making our Bluesky debut to say: JOIN US March 9th and support @britishlibrary.bsky.social! #medievalmanuscripts, scholarly presentations, community, & more, @nysoclib.bsky.social. Tickets are $150 and will help digitize BL #medieval manuscripts. @bldigischol.bsky.social RSVP: tinyurl.com/44

I'm co-supervising a PhD placement on 'War Poetry in the Manuscript Collections: Cataloguing, Discovery and Outreach'. Please have a look at the project profiles and share this with any PhD students who may be interested in applying (by 27 February).

The front page of the Daily Graphic newspaper published Saturday 25 August, 1917, featuring portraits of 'Women in the Order of the British Empire', including Lady Byron, the honourable Mrs Alfred Lyttelton, Her Majesty the Queen.

Apply for our PhD placement scheme to get involved in extraordinary research at the Library. There are eight available placements exploring a variety of themes including war poetry, 21st-century digital tools, illustrated newspapers and decarbonisation.

Find out more: link.bl.uk/PhDPlacements

New year, new postdoctoral fellowship!

Be our next Visiting Research Fellow in Sustainability & Environment (£10k bursary, P/T, flexible, Apr-Oct 26). Applications invited from arts and humanities researchers within 10yr of PhD. Deadline 9 Feb noon.

For more information: www.bl.uk/services/res...

'Elgar's letters and digital tools'

3 month (or p/t equivalent) PhD Placement opportunity at the British Library, deadline 27 Feb:

www.bl.uk/services/res...

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