Hannah K. Smyth 🍉

“Around six months after the cyber incident I talked to the then chair of the science select committee, who was not aware of this incident” w o w

“Labeling the nearly 250,000 people currently trapped in #Gaza City & the north as “terrorists or terror supporters” by the Government of #Israel is a statement suggesting planned large-scale massacres”

— UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini

www.unrwa.org/newsroom/off...

Heartbreaking

Good

When saving becomes loss: Archival memory in the digital age Explore archival memory, data loss, and attempts to preserve the past in the digital age at this year’s Annual Digital Lecture.

Join us on 20 November for the Annual Digital Lecture, a partnership between The National Archives, UK and the School of Advanced Study. The wonderful @nannathylstrup.bsky.social will be speaking about ‘When saving becomes loss: archival memory in the digital age’. Free to register!

Westlife’s fans across Africa: ‘I listen to them every day’ The Irish boyband is incredibly popular across Africa - so why have they never toured there?

Amid everything else, I just found out that Westlife is marking their 25th anniversary & the Irish postal service is releasing a commemorative stamp.
So it's also time to reshare this article & my campaign for them to tour Africa: www.irishtimes.com/culture/musi...

It's always the ones you most expect

86% of the world’s genocide experts have declared that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.

Israel made its genocidal intent clear from day one.

It then committed genocide in full view of the world.

Nobody with power or influence can say they didn’t know at the time.

Sally Hayden: Israel’s targeting of journalists is an attack on truth and history Journalists’ lives are not more important than those of other civilians, but when you attack journalists you stop the world from learning about what is happening

Powerful article by Sally Hayden on apartheid Israel's unprecedented murder of Palestinian journalists, and the complicity of their western peers. #GazaGenocide
Israel’s targeting of journalists is an attack on truth and history
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Records Specialist - Early Modern Parliament at The National Archives Start your UK & international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top...

The National Archives is looking for an Early Modern Parliamentary Records Specialist. Pros: you'll get to work in the same department as me. Cons: you'll have to work in the same department as me. Details via the link. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOD893/r...

UCL – University College London UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

📣 Job Klaxon: come work with me at UCL on the Information in Society Programme!

🔹 Lecturer (Teaching) Publishing, Knowledge Production, Platforms and Society
🔹 Full time, open ended contract
🔹 London
🔹 £54,931

Closes 8 September.

www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

UCL – University College London UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

Job Advert to join my team at UCL

💭Lecturer in Humanities Data Science
💭£54,931 - £57,979
💭Open Ended Contract
💭Great interdisciplinary team

Closes 15 September 2025

www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Screenshot of the first two questions in the survey - there's only six to answer. #SpéirGorm #SpéirGhorm #Ireland #Art

There's a REALLY quick and easy survey for the public consultation on the Basic Income for the Arts scheme - it only takes a few seconds, anyone can fill it in, and it could make a huge difference to arts workers in Ireland. Take a few ticks to places a few ticks here: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...

With many thanks to @degruyterbrill.bsky.social and all our contributing authors

Public History in Global Perspective Where should public history sit within the matrix of global, international, (trans-)national, and more local histories? Since its emergence in the 1970s, Public History has typically been read as comm...

🔊 Very pleased our book about public history is out and gold open access: Public History in Global Perspective
Inquiry, Exchange and Practice. @ciaranon.bsky.social @geolug.bsky.social @richardlegay.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/mafs2wrx

Section of a watermelon for Palestinian solidarity on a blue wall. A reference to a Repeal the 8th mural removed from the project arts centre in 2018.

Dublin 💚🇵🇸

Palestinian self-determination is an inalienable right, not a bargaining chip.

While children starve to death, Keir Starmer refuses to expel the Israeli ambassador, impose full trade sanctions, enforce a full arms embargo or end surveillance flights.

It’s Labour’s genocide too.

En route to Dublin, many audible sighs as the pilot announced mid-flight the score of the All Ireland @aerlingus1.bsky.social

Starvation in Gaza is destroying communities – and will leave generational scars Health and societal ramifications of extreme hunger will reverberate long after the war is over

Starvation in Gaza is destroying communities – and will leave generational scars Starvation in Gaza is destroying communities – and will leave generational scars www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

📢 Just announced! The programme & booking is now live for our Annual Conference 2025.

🗓️ Join us online & free on 4–5 Sept for Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums & Personal Collections.

🔗 womenshistorynetwork.org/the-womens-h...
#WHN2025 #WomensHistory #Archives #Heritage