Lorna M. Campbell

Aerial view of the University of Glasgow’s iconic Gilbert Scott Building at golden hour

Glasgow crowned the friendliest city in the UK: 2025 Readers’ Choice Awards
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Cover image of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) Diary, December 21-30, 1972. A purple and green poster-style image featuring text and a leafy plant design.

New online: The Gay Liberation Front (GLF) collection is now available on LSE Digital Library! We’ve digitised and published the GLF Diaries and the GLF newspaper Come Together. Further series from the archives will be added as digitisation continues.
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⭐ The ADS Data Catalogue is Live!⭐

Explore hundreds of thousands of archaeological resources including over 100,000 reports and 5,000 archive collections.

👉To find out more and start exploring visit buff.ly/BMulYqQ

To get a taste of what’s ahead, explore the latest #ALTC25 guest blogs, where contributors share insights, reflections, and what they’re most looking forward to at the conference. buff.ly/cD7LRIU #altc #Blogging #AI #StrongerFoundationsBroaderHorizons

ALT Annual Conference 23 - 24 Otcober 2025, Glasgow, 9 days to go

The wait is nearly over. The ALT Annual Conference 2025 is just around the corner, and excitement is building fast. The ALT Awards Gala Dinner is now fully booked, with spaces for the main conference filling up quickly too. 1-day and 2-day tickets are still available: buff.ly/UU7RLym #altc #ALTC25

🔔🔔JOB KLAXON🔔🔔🔔
Come and join the team at NMS - we're looking for a new Head of Collections Services. It's a brilliant role and a great team.

Details
Salary - £70.692-80,152
Hours - FT 35 Hours per week
Deadline - Nov 9th, 2025

careers.nms.ac.uk/job/780754

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The Maud Sulter Annual Lecture with Pratibha Parmar | Glasgow Women's Library Parmar will talk about foundational moments in dialogue with Maud Sulter’s work and their reverberations today.

The Glasgow @womenslibrary.bsky.social’s Maud Sulter Annual Lecture
31 Oct @glasgowschoolofart.bsky.social – free

@pratibha.bsky.social will discuss the vibrant Black women’s arts movement of the 1980s in dialogue with Sulter’s work & their reverberations today
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colourful illustrated poster for Herland: A Celebration of Women in Music, presented by Glasgow Women’s Library. It includes hand-drawn figures dancing and a record player illustration. Text details: Friday 24 October 2025, 7–10:30pm, £15/20, hosted by Diljeet Kaur Bhachu, with live music from R.Aggs and Katrina Lee. Venue: 23 Landressy Street, Glasgow, G40 1BP.

Herland 2025: A Celebration of Women in Music
Fri 24 Oct, 7–10.30pm
Glasgow Women’s Library

Featuring R.Aggs, Katrina Lee, and more, plus film, spoken word, food and friendship - a bold, joyful night celebrating women’s musical expression.

Book now: womenslibrary.org.uk/event/herlan...
All welcome

Flyers for "Witchcraft in the Shire of Renfrew" flyer for talk on 28 Oct for East Renfrewshire Culture and Leisure

Screenshot from my website with information on upcoming talks: https://archivisthistoryblog.wordpress.com/history-talks/

For anyone in the greater #Glasgow / Renfrewshire area, I have a few talks coming up soon. The next one is Tuesday 28 Oct at 6.30 on #witchcraft in the Shire of Renfrew
Booking info here: www.enjoyeastren.org/events/witch...
#WomensHistory
#crimeandpunishment
#earlymodern
#skyhistory
#skyhistorians

Oh I would love to see this!

Universities planning cuts to jobs and courses are not cash strapped

Jo Grady highlights hypocrisy of the University of Edinburgh as it plans to make £140 million in cuts when then have £2.7 billion in net assets

Enough is enough

#WeAreTheUniversity

A woman’s place was not in the home: New book challenges assumptions about women’s work in early modern history New research has revealed that women played a fundamental role in the development of England’s national economy before 1700. Far from being the unpaid homemakers and housewives of traditional historic...

Many congratulations to my colleagues in the Forms of Labour project team on the publication of their new monograph! 🗃️👏🎉

Brilliantly, The Experience of Work in #EarlyModern England is available open access:

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Job! Postdoc in Digital Cultural Heritage: Data Ethics & Software Ecosystems, on new EU funded grant. 3.5 years, @designinf.bsky.social, Edinburgh. Design ethical processes, & evaluate open source tools for Digital Cultural Heritage Objects, with me! elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

This image has a white background with a rainbow and an illustration of a hand holding a phone. The black text reads: World Mental Health Day, LGBT+ Help and support services.

This image has a white background. The black and purple text reads: African Queer and Creative africanqueerandcreative.org Dedicated to empowering and uplifting queer Africans in the diaspora through the transformative power of creativity. African Rainbow Family africanrainbowfamily.org Grassroots LGBTIQ+ charity that campaigns for and supports LGBTIQ+ refugees and people seeking asylum of African heritage and the Global Majority in the UK. AKT (Albert Kennedy Trust) akt.org.uk The National LGBTQ+ youth homelessness charity Black Trans Foundation linktr.ee/blacktransfoundation Resources for Black trans people Black Trans Hub UK www.blacktranshub.co.uk Resource for global majority* transgender people who are struggling to access information about transgender healthcare. Birmingham LGBT blgbt.org We offer a range of services for the LGBT Community in Birmingham and beyond, including sexual health, domestic violence, counselling, wellbeing support and more.

This image has a white background. The black and purple text reads: Brighton & Hove Switchboard www.switchboard.org.uk Switchboard is a charity for LGBTQ+ people looking for a sense of community, support or information. Cara-Friend cara-friend.org.uk Supporting and empowering the LGBTQI+ community in Northern Ireland. The Clare Project clareproject.org.uk Supporting trans, non-binary and intersex adults in Sussex. CliniQ is a trans-led sexual health service in London, which provides STI & HIV testing, PrEP and PEP, mental wellbeing support, and more, for all trans, nonbinary and gender diverse people. elop elop.org A holistic LGBTQ+ centre offering various support services to LGBTQ+ communities. Galop galop.org.uk National Helpline for LGBT+ Victims and Survivors of Abuse and Violence. Helpline: 0800 999 5428 Email: help@galop.org.uk

This image has a white background. The black and purple text reads: Imaan LGBTI+ Muslim Support imaanlondon.wordpress.com Supporting LGBTIQ+ Muslims and provides an online forum where people can share experiences and ask for help. Intercom Trust www.intercomtrust.org.uk We are an LGBT+ led charity, proudly working with 1000’s of people each year to improve wellbeing and inclusion across the region. Helpline: 0800 612 3010 Open: 9:00 - 4:00pm, Monday to Friday Lancashire LGBT lancslgbt.org.uk We are the LGBTQ+ charity for all of Lancashire, supporting LGBTQ+ mental health and wellbeing since 2009. Leicestershire LGBTQ+ Centre www.leicestershirelgbtqcentre.org Our centre is a vibrant and inclusive space dedicated to celebrating diversity, fostering community, and providing support to LGBTQ+ individuals in Leicester, Leicestershire, and Rutland. LGBT Foundation lgbt.foundation We are a national charity with LGBTQ+ health and wellbeing at the heart of everything we do. We celebrate and empower LGBTQ+ individuals and our diverse communities to realise their full potential, every day. Helpline: 0345 3 30 30 30 helpline@lgbt.foundation

Today is World Mental Health Day!

LGBT+ communities face unique mental health challenges, and our member organisations across the UK work every day to provide vital and affirming support.

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Digital Sustainability These three videos on Digital Sustainability, each under 5 minutes long, were created out of the Green Digital Design internships with the Website and Communications digital and design service. Ove...

These three videos on Digital Sustainability, each under 5 minutes long, were created out of the Green Digital Design and Green Web Estate internships with the Website and Communications digital and design service.
#OER #Sustainability #TechnicalDebt #TechSky

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Race and the Scottish Enlightenment: Book Launch and Discussion Join authors Bruce Buchan and Linda Andersson Burnett to celebrate "Race and the Scottish Enlightenment: A Colonial History 1750-1820".

Book launch: "Race and the Scottish Enlightenment: A Colonial History, 1750-1820" (Yale UP)

Wed 29 Oct, 16:45-20:00, including drinks

Featuring a host of IASH alumni, this event celebrates the new volume by Linda Andersson Burnett & Bruce Buchan.

raceandthescottishenlightenment.eventbrite.co.uk

Street sign for Frances Gordon Road in Perth, Scotland.

Out for a walk today and passed Frances Gordon Road, one of the few Perth streets named for a woman. Frances was a militant suffragette who was force-fed in Perth Prison. She's one of our #PerthWomenOnWikipedia - we added the street sign to her article!
#Scotland
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Why are women missing from school history? The extent to which history lessons ignore female figures has been revealed by new research. Here, teachers share the changes they are making to address this gender imbalance

History lessons are just as short of female representation in the national curriculum as STEM, says End Sexism in Schools (ESIS) report. We need to find ways o make all lessons more respresentative of society (then and now). www.tes.com/magazine/tea...

A poster with bronze and purple graphics, saying Take One Action Film Festivals 2025, Real Utopias, Edinburgh 17-21 September, Glasgow 25-28 September, Inverness 10-12 October, Dundee 7-8 November

Inverness pals! Our Real Utopias festival is starting tomorrow and there's so much going on.

The festival will feature films from Mexico to the UK, Kenya and Japan, exploring ideas from community responses to climate change to the power of libraries, tenants’ rights and trans identity and thriving.

This is a really troubling story from an open knowledge, maritime history, and human rights perspective. The 3D scans from the Scottish Maritime Museum, used by the IDF, were shared as CC0 models. When content is shared openly, what if anything, can be done to counter bad faith re-use?

Open educational resources should be central to the public mission of universities - Impact of Social Sciences Why open educational resources should form a central part of university strategies for public engagement.

In this new article from @lseimpactblog.bsky.social, @niamhtumelty.bsky.social Managing Director of LSE Press, and @heroicendeavour.bsky.social discuss open educational resources in the context of higher education.

Read the full post:
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Näkineid ja kaheksajalg (Mermaid and Octopus) sündmuse kommentaar: Merineitsi kaheksajala haarmeis.

Enjoy these neat representations of octopuses / octopodes / octopi from the @europeana.bsky.social digital collection.
As art.
#WorldOctopusDay #OER
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Black History Month UK 2025 – Resources Black History Month UK is an annual event that celebrates the achievements of black Britons and people of colour throughout history. In order to highlight this history we've curated a selection of o...

For UK Black History Month we’ve curated a selection of some excellent open educational resources created by our staff and students on Black History in the UK.
Go and check them out!
#OER #BHM #BHM25 #BlackHistoryMonth #ScottishHistory #BritishHistory #AcademicSky
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Great to see the OER Service @openededinburgh.bsky.social featuring in this report from University of Edinburgh!

Scotland has long been a hub for edtech innovation, & this return to Glasgow reflects ALT’s commitment to regional engagement & sector-wide impact. Whether you’re a first-time attendee or a seasoned ALT member, #ALTC25 is your chance to connect, learn, & shape the future of #edtech. buff.ly/vNZ3doY

UK Universities in Crisis? Time to Transform Higher Ed Finance by Rob Hawkes and Scott Ferguson Universities in the UK are in crisis. Job cuts in the sector are reaching ‘cataclysmic’ levels, with an estimated 10,000 already lost and many more at risk. Just da…

As more of my valued colleagues face the threat of redundancy, here’s a quick reminder that it takes years and years of public investment to train an academic. Cutting someone with this wealth of experience loose isn’t “saving” anything. It is a massive waste of our collective resources.

Rare medieval remains uncovered in Glasgow An archaeology team uncovers pottery and well-preserved wooden posts and fencing at a site in the Gallowgate area.

Rediscovered Glasgow...

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Look after each other.

Digging for dinosaurs, unearthing the impact of Women in Archaeology, Building equity in Engineering, showing resilience & determination in Comp Science after fleeing a war-torn home & more!
Come celebrate the amazing achievements of Women in STEM this Ada Lovelace Day
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