One of my MLitt students is doing their thesis on potential applications for AI based noise reduction of archival recordings of speech. If this is your area of interest, there is a survey here they’d be grateful for contributions to app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/dundee/sou...
#archives #oralhistory
Our Partners at the Thames Festival Trust are advertising for a Heritage Project Manager. Could this be you? thamesfestivaltrust.org/about-us/joi...
Research funding for historians: the Society currently invites applications for 5 grant programmes: to support individual and project-based research by historians across a range of career stages bit.ly/4vzzNeB.
Closing dates for eligible applicants fall between 8 May and 5 June 2026 #Skystorians
Fancy doing a funded PhD in the Business History field?
We are looking for someone to work on some business archives donated to the @uoyborthwick.bsky.social by the #Fairtrade pioneer Robin Murray. More details below!
www.york.ac.uk/business-soc...
4 PhD funded positions at Swansea University on history, heritage, archives and museums.
#PublicHistory #Museums #Archives #Heritage
www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate...
Packaging pedant here, but shouldn’t those bows be on the edges to facilitate boxing/shelving etc? Wouldn’t make them look so festive though!
We did a similar thing @thelondonarchives.bsky.social way back in 2016 when my contribution was this pineapple upside down steamed pudding!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... No mention of the wealth of recipes to be found in archive collections and the tradition of #archivebakeoffs most recently at #cambridgeshirearchives
We had a couple of bespoke ones made for Guildhall Library Manuscripts which were wonderfully easy to manoeuvre and also doubled as cataloguing stations with space for tape etc Loved those trolleys!
Dream positions: 3 (!!) PhD placements at the Prize Papers with emphasis on finding students with the following language skills: French, Spanish, Dutch, and Scandinavian languages. (Of course, I emphasize the Dutch language!)
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/professional...
📢 Paid student summer placement opportunity (London area)🔊 @wienerlibrary.bsky.social is hosting a 150-hours work placement. This would suit a student of Library and Information Studies with some volunteering experience in libraries. ⏳ Apply by Sunday 19 April 2026 ❗ www.ehri-uk.org/ehri-uk-plac...
Honoured to be a co-editor of this new series with Katrina who has led its development. We’ve got some great titles in progress already but we are keen to receive more proposals which address the series’ broad remit. Feel free to get in touch with me if you have an early modern project in mind.
Through research on key documents held @thelondonarchives.bsky.social and @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy
Fantastic PhD studentship opportunity - Spitting Image: political satire in Britain in the 20th and 21st centuries.
Working across @exeter.ac.uk and @theul.bsky.social in partnership with the @camglamresearch.bsky.social and drawing on the Roger Law archive.
#PhDsky
ARCHIVES OPEN DAY 11am-3pm, WEDNESDAY 13 MAY 2026 Drop in to see items from the St Bartholomew’s Hospital collection used during the Channel 5 series, ‘Our Hospital Through Time’, and other items from our collections spanning nine centuries. Come and find out more about the work of Barts Health NHS Trust Archives! Where? Trust Archives, Kenton and Lucas Block (Entrance C), St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London EC1A
It's one month until View Day at St Bartholomew's Hospital, which means one month till our next #Archives Open Day!
Drop in between 11am-3pm on Wednesday 13 May to see original records and objects, including some featured in #OurHospitalThroughTime, and find out more about our collections
Moulded pot from Corbridge showing a smith (god?) at work
View of the site at Corbridge, with the museum building in the background
Durham and English Heritage are now recruiting for a fully-funded PhD on Roman Corbridge 🥳🥳🥳
This is a fantastic opportunity to work on one of our most important and understudied finds assemblages from Roman Britain. Deadline 1st June. Please share widely!
www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
The Brunels couldn't've built the Thames Tunnel on their own...⛏️👷
From this Friday, discover the hundreds of intrepid men who built the Thames Tunnel in our new Engine House display.
📆 17 April-30 August
🎟️ Included with admission
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Social History Curator's Group Conference Friday 10th July at The People's History Museum, Manchester @phm.org.uk
‘The Long March – Strikes, Protests and Riots Through History’. Tickets will be on sale soon at the link below, with Early Bird Tickets available until the 12th May:
15-20 people gathered around a long table in a large library/study space, listening to a presentation being delivered. A large pull-up screen displays a presentation.
Just 20 tickets left for our Leadership skills event next month! If you’re travelling from outside the host city of Birmingham, this week is your last chance to apply for a travel bursary!
📆 Tuesday 5 May (10am-2.30pm)
Book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/leadership... (1/2)
Black History Walks have campaigned and received permission to have a blue plaque installed on the National Gallery in Central London for Molineaux and Richmond. It's not cheap, and fundraising isn't quite there yet. Every little bit helps, thank you:
www.gofundme.com/f/blue-plaqu...
We're in a big auditorium at UCL on Weds for Champion Black Boxers and Businessmen in 1800s London - talk, film, panel, about Bill Richmond, Tom Molineaux, Bridgerton, A Thousand Blows!
Join Tony Warner, Roberto Nigro, Luke G. Williams, S. I. Martin & me:
FREE: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/champion-b...
We're currently recruiting for five (yes five!) Collaborative Doctoral Partnership awards at IWM See the full list of projects and partners here, with further details of how to apply: www.iwm.org.uk/research/doc...
Job news!! We're looking for an archaeological chemist to join us on the ReNEW project: on waste management during the transition to the Neolithic. This role will be to carry out organic residue analysis.
The PDRA position is for 2 years: jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/post...
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We're hiring! 🤝
We are looking for an experienced Community Engagement Officer to lead on the development and delivery of engagement activities for the Coast-to-Coast Nature Trail Project. More 👇
www.yorkshiredales.org.uk/park-authority/vacancies...
#YorkshireDales #Jobs
Just got to wait for my bad back to improve now - something to look forward to!
Aha! I didn’t know about the garden centre which I see has a big car park. Makes a trip more do-able. I’ve wanted to go there for ages, but have been put off by the ridiculous time it takes on public transport from home; car will take 30 minutes!
A woman sits smiling in front of a computer in an office setting.
BALH are recruiting!
Are you passionate about Local History? Join our team as a freelance Projects Manager!
Find out more: www.balh.org.uk/projects-man...
#WeAreLocalHistory #LocalHistoryForAll
✨Speech/less in the Early Modern World✨
Research Workshop, 23-24 April 2026
Emmanuel College, Cambridge
Places limited. Please register as an attendee by 12 April: forms.gle/k9Xnz4gVFhe2Syez9
Thank you event sponsors! @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social @camhistory.bsky.social @socialhistsoc.bsky.social
📢 Great news for South West writers...
Applications are now open for our 2026 Ronald Duncan Stipends! 🎉
If exploring archives sparks ideas for your writing, this might be the opportunity for you 📖
✍️ For more info and to apply, please visit our LibGuide ⬇️
#WritingCommunity #AmWriting #Archives
