Philippa Smith
@philippajs.bsky.social
Retired archivist, loves books, gardening and nature
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Have you booked our 9 Dec virtual lectures evening?
Join 3 expert speakers inspired by recent research into how we investigate the history of libraries like the collections of @rcphysicians.bsky.social.
Book👉 history.rcp.ac.uk/.../body-kno...
#BodyOfKnowledge #LibraryHistory
More details below👇
Join 3 expert speakers inspired by recent research into how we investigate the history of libraries like the collections of @rcphysicians.bsky.social.
Book👉 history.rcp.ac.uk/.../body-kno...
#BodyOfKnowledge #LibraryHistory
More details below👇
November 28, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Have you booked our 9 Dec virtual lectures evening?
Join 3 expert speakers inspired by recent research into how we investigate the history of libraries like the collections of @rcphysicians.bsky.social.
Book👉 history.rcp.ac.uk/.../body-kno...
#BodyOfKnowledge #LibraryHistory
More details below👇
Join 3 expert speakers inspired by recent research into how we investigate the history of libraries like the collections of @rcphysicians.bsky.social.
Book👉 history.rcp.ac.uk/.../body-kno...
#BodyOfKnowledge #LibraryHistory
More details below👇
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The evening will begin with a virtual tour of exhibition ‘A body of knowledge’ with rare books & special collections librarian, & lead curator of the exhibition, Katie Birkwood @girlinthe.bsky.social. Discover 500 years of book collecting at the RCP.
November 28, 2025 at 4:39 PM
The evening will begin with a virtual tour of exhibition ‘A body of knowledge’ with rare books & special collections librarian, & lead curator of the exhibition, Katie Birkwood @girlinthe.bsky.social. Discover 500 years of book collecting at the RCP.
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Dr Alice Wickenden, Early Career Fellow, University of Cambridge, will discuss 'Moving libraries: from the personal to the institutional'
How do we approach entwined histories of donations & the trade of enslaved people?
What do we owe to the past?
What does it mean to perpetuate a name?
How do we approach entwined histories of donations & the trade of enslaved people?
What do we owe to the past?
What does it mean to perpetuate a name?
November 28, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Dr Alice Wickenden, Early Career Fellow, University of Cambridge, will discuss 'Moving libraries: from the personal to the institutional'
How do we approach entwined histories of donations & the trade of enslaved people?
What do we owe to the past?
What does it mean to perpetuate a name?
How do we approach entwined histories of donations & the trade of enslaved people?
What do we owe to the past?
What does it mean to perpetuate a name?
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Equal Pay Act 1970, Sex discrimination Act 1975 and Race Relations Act 1976. Women’s Archive Wales want to understand more about the impact of these legislations on women in Wales.
Contact Ffion Fielding, by emailing [email protected], before 15th December 2025.
Contact Ffion Fielding, by emailing [email protected], before 15th December 2025.
November 23, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Equal Pay Act 1970, Sex discrimination Act 1975 and Race Relations Act 1976. Women’s Archive Wales want to understand more about the impact of these legislations on women in Wales.
Contact Ffion Fielding, by emailing [email protected], before 15th December 2025.
Contact Ffion Fielding, by emailing [email protected], before 15th December 2025.
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Our third and final issue of 2025 has now been published! A 🧵 on its contents...
The London Journal
Volume 50, Issue 3 of The London Journal
www.tandfonline.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Our third and final issue of 2025 has now been published! A 🧵 on its contents...
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We are running a free workshop at @tandfresearch.bsky.social's office in South London on 30 January 2026 to support early career scholars in developing their work into a publishable journal article. Expressions of interest due by 16 January. See here for more details (and please share widely!)
thelondonjournal.org
November 27, 2025 at 5:57 PM
We are running a free workshop at @tandfresearch.bsky.social's office in South London on 30 January 2026 to support early career scholars in developing their work into a publishable journal article. Expressions of interest due by 16 January. See here for more details (and please share widely!)
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From Dylan Thomas’ shopping list to a note from Sylvia Plath’s doctor: newly uncovered case files reveal the hidden lives of famous writers. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
From Dylan Thomas’ shopping list to a note from Sylvia Plath’s doctor: newly uncovered case files reveal the hidden lives of famous writers
Exclusive: Hardship grant applications to the Royal Literary Fund, including unseen letters by Doris Lessing and a note from James Joyce saying that he ‘gets nothing in the way of royalties’, show aut...
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:41 PM
From Dylan Thomas’ shopping list to a note from Sylvia Plath’s doctor: newly uncovered case files reveal the hidden lives of famous writers. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
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Looking for a fully-funded three year PhD, starting in April 2026?
The University of Portsmouth and The Mary Rose Trust are looking for PHD students to undertake correlative multimodal materials analysis of the Mary Rose hull! #PHDOpportunities
Interested? - maryrose.org/about-the-tr...
The University of Portsmouth and The Mary Rose Trust are looking for PHD students to undertake correlative multimodal materials analysis of the Mary Rose hull! #PHDOpportunities
Interested? - maryrose.org/about-the-tr...
Jobs and volunteering - Mary Rose
Jobs, academic placements and volunteering opportunities at the Mary Rose Trust.
maryrose.org
November 24, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Looking for a fully-funded three year PhD, starting in April 2026?
The University of Portsmouth and The Mary Rose Trust are looking for PHD students to undertake correlative multimodal materials analysis of the Mary Rose hull! #PHDOpportunities
Interested? - maryrose.org/about-the-tr...
The University of Portsmouth and The Mary Rose Trust are looking for PHD students to undertake correlative multimodal materials analysis of the Mary Rose hull! #PHDOpportunities
Interested? - maryrose.org/about-the-tr...
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There is still time to apply for the position of Fellow Librarian at All Souls College Oxford (deadline is 5 December).
Read more: www.asc.ox.ac.uk/fellow-libra...
Please spread the word--this is a special opportunity!
Read more: www.asc.ox.ac.uk/fellow-libra...
Please spread the word--this is a special opportunity!
Fellow Librarian | All Souls College
www.asc.ox.ac.uk
November 24, 2025 at 6:37 PM
There is still time to apply for the position of Fellow Librarian at All Souls College Oxford (deadline is 5 December).
Read more: www.asc.ox.ac.uk/fellow-libra...
Please spread the word--this is a special opportunity!
Read more: www.asc.ox.ac.uk/fellow-libra...
Please spread the word--this is a special opportunity!
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Are you a PhD student & interested in using museum collections in your teaching or research?
We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.
Find out more:
collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/
We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.
Find out more:
collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/
November 25, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Are you a PhD student & interested in using museum collections in your teaching or research?
We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.
Find out more:
collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/
We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.
Find out more:
collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/
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📚 Whether you're an undergraduate, postgraduate, academic, or independent researcher, our research grants and By-Fellowships are designed to support work using our collections here at Churchill Archives Centre.
🔗 Click the link to find out more & apply: buff.ly/JGsTtHK
🔗 Click the link to find out more & apply: buff.ly/JGsTtHK
September 18, 2025 at 11:27 AM
📚 Whether you're an undergraduate, postgraduate, academic, or independent researcher, our research grants and By-Fellowships are designed to support work using our collections here at Churchill Archives Centre.
🔗 Click the link to find out more & apply: buff.ly/JGsTtHK
🔗 Click the link to find out more & apply: buff.ly/JGsTtHK
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These are just a few of our Awards winners and runners up from 2025, celebrating at our annual ceremony.
Do you know someone working in or with public #Libraries who deserves to be recognised like them?
If so, make sure you nominate them for 2026!
www.librariesconnected.org.uk/libraries-co...
Do you know someone working in or with public #Libraries who deserves to be recognised like them?
If so, make sure you nominate them for 2026!
www.librariesconnected.org.uk/libraries-co...
November 25, 2025 at 12:59 PM
These are just a few of our Awards winners and runners up from 2025, celebrating at our annual ceremony.
Do you know someone working in or with public #Libraries who deserves to be recognised like them?
If so, make sure you nominate them for 2026!
www.librariesconnected.org.uk/libraries-co...
Do you know someone working in or with public #Libraries who deserves to be recognised like them?
If so, make sure you nominate them for 2026!
www.librariesconnected.org.uk/libraries-co...
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Applications for scholarships for @ox.ac.uk students to spend a year at graduate / postdoc level at Germany (Hanseatic and Theodor Heuss) now open www.ox.ac.uk/students/fee...
German Scholarships | University of Oxford
The Hanseatic Scholarships, the Theodor Heuss Research Fellowship and the Michael Foster Memorial Scholarship were all established to promote closer Anglo-German links within a European context.
www.ox.ac.uk
November 24, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Applications for scholarships for @ox.ac.uk students to spend a year at graduate / postdoc level at Germany (Hanseatic and Theodor Heuss) now open www.ox.ac.uk/students/fee...
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Come and apply to be the Professor of Bibliography & Modern Book History @engfacoutreach.bsky.social & @jesusoxford.bsky.social (and work closely with us @bodleian.ox.ac.uk). Following a long line of great scholars: Don McKenzie, Kathryn Sutherland, & Dirk van Hulle ... my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
my.corehr.com
November 23, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Come and apply to be the Professor of Bibliography & Modern Book History @engfacoutreach.bsky.social & @jesusoxford.bsky.social (and work closely with us @bodleian.ox.ac.uk). Following a long line of great scholars: Don McKenzie, Kathryn Sutherland, & Dirk van Hulle ... my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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We’re launching our new catalogue on Monday 8 December.
To keep our collections safe while we do this, access and ordering will be suspended for a week before launch and all requests for 8 December onwards must be made on the new system when it launches.
Find out more: bit.ly/CollectionSu...
To keep our collections safe while we do this, access and ordering will be suspended for a week before launch and all requests for 8 December onwards must be made on the new system when it launches.
Find out more: bit.ly/CollectionSu...
November 11, 2025 at 12:54 PM
We’re launching our new catalogue on Monday 8 December.
To keep our collections safe while we do this, access and ordering will be suspended for a week before launch and all requests for 8 December onwards must be made on the new system when it launches.
Find out more: bit.ly/CollectionSu...
To keep our collections safe while we do this, access and ordering will be suspended for a week before launch and all requests for 8 December onwards must be made on the new system when it launches.
Find out more: bit.ly/CollectionSu...
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Are you a community group with a passion for heritage? Or a museum, library, gallery or archive with a bold idea for community-led research?
The Spaces, Places and Belonging Community Hub is accepting applications for seed corn grants: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/community-hu... (1/2)
The Spaces, Places and Belonging Community Hub is accepting applications for seed corn grants: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/community-hu... (1/2)
November 20, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Are you a community group with a passion for heritage? Or a museum, library, gallery or archive with a bold idea for community-led research?
The Spaces, Places and Belonging Community Hub is accepting applications for seed corn grants: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/community-hu... (1/2)
The Spaces, Places and Belonging Community Hub is accepting applications for seed corn grants: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/community-hu... (1/2)
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The Second Call for EHRI-UK National Research Fellowships is live 📅 Apply by 30 Nov 2025
Find out more 👇
www.ehri-uk.org/ehri-uk-fell...
@wienerlibrary.bsky.social @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy @hgrporg.bsky.social @holocaustnorth.bsky.social @biahs1.bsky.social @parkesinstitute.bsky.social
Find out more 👇
www.ehri-uk.org/ehri-uk-fell...
@wienerlibrary.bsky.social @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy @hgrporg.bsky.social @holocaustnorth.bsky.social @biahs1.bsky.social @parkesinstitute.bsky.social
EHRI-UK Fellowships | EHRI-UK
www.ehri-uk.org
October 27, 2025 at 4:55 PM
The Second Call for EHRI-UK National Research Fellowships is live 📅 Apply by 30 Nov 2025
Find out more 👇
www.ehri-uk.org/ehri-uk-fell...
@wienerlibrary.bsky.social @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy @hgrporg.bsky.social @holocaustnorth.bsky.social @biahs1.bsky.social @parkesinstitute.bsky.social
Find out more 👇
www.ehri-uk.org/ehri-uk-fell...
@wienerlibrary.bsky.social @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy @hgrporg.bsky.social @holocaustnorth.bsky.social @biahs1.bsky.social @parkesinstitute.bsky.social
Some medieval peasants enjoyed a range of sick and other leave benefits theconversation.com/medieval-pea...
Medieval peasants enjoyed a surprising range of sick, annual and bereavement leave benefits
Some peasants were entitled to up to a year and a day of leave if they were sick.
theconversation.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Some medieval peasants enjoyed a range of sick and other leave benefits theconversation.com/medieval-pea...
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Grant applications for Academic Jewish Studies from the Rothschild Foundation Hanadiv Europe are now open rothschildfoundation.eu/grants-page/...
Academic Jewish Studies - Rothschild
rothschildfoundation.eu
November 11, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Grant applications for Academic Jewish Studies from the Rothschild Foundation Hanadiv Europe are now open rothschildfoundation.eu/grants-page/...
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Rothschild Foundation Hanadiv Europe have introduced a Collaborative Fellowship in Jewish Heritage for universities and heritage institutions to jointly recruit a PhD student or postdoctoral fellow. Application deadline 13 Jan 2026.
rothschildfoundation.eu/grants-page/...
rothschildfoundation.eu/grants-page/...
November 21, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Rothschild Foundation Hanadiv Europe have introduced a Collaborative Fellowship in Jewish Heritage for universities and heritage institutions to jointly recruit a PhD student or postdoctoral fellow. Application deadline 13 Jan 2026.
rothschildfoundation.eu/grants-page/...
rothschildfoundation.eu/grants-page/...
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Come & work with me! We’re looking for a project manager to oversee digitisation of the National Farm Survey & other grant-funded projects. Fixed-term until March 2027. £39.5k-48.4k. Apply by 3 Dec 2025. www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi...
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Alt: A cartoon of a panda typing at a laptop and a bear walking back and forth talking. Caption: “applying to jobs”.
media.tenor.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Come & work with me! We’re looking for a project manager to oversee digitisation of the National Farm Survey & other grant-funded projects. Fixed-term until March 2027. £39.5k-48.4k. Apply by 3 Dec 2025. www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi...
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FREE talk next week, plus you'll get to see some of the most fascinating livery company mss and a couple of pageant books 🤩 (remote attendance is also an option)
To book, go to www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/things-to-do...
To book, go to www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/things-to-do...
November 19, 2025 at 2:18 PM
FREE talk next week, plus you'll get to see some of the most fascinating livery company mss and a couple of pageant books 🤩 (remote attendance is also an option)
To book, go to www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/things-to-do...
To book, go to www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/things-to-do...
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Something I mention in today’s piece is the wider pressure and undervaluing of libraries and archives. Even less well known than the issues facing the British Library are the worrying proposals for the BBC Written Archives Centre. More here observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
November 18, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Something I mention in today’s piece is the wider pressure and undervaluing of libraries and archives. Even less well known than the issues facing the British Library are the worrying proposals for the BBC Written Archives Centre. More here observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:27 AM
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
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Important reminder of the national obliviousness to the crises at the British Library and why it should concern policymakers. www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Important reminder of the national obliviousness to the crises at the British Library and why it should concern policymakers. www.cityam.com/the-british-...