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American Historian & Lecturer/FRHistS/British Online Archives Academic Liaison Manager/Associate Editor http://irishamericancivilwar.com / “Irish American Civil War Songs” LSU Press out now! https://lsupress.org/books/detail/irish-american-civil-war-songs/
Dear everyone,
As per the post from the Bodleian librarian below, AI bots and scrapers are putting just about every website under great pressure, British History Online included.
A lot of excellent tech staff are working hard to keep everything working, but outages and siruptions are inevitable.
Richard III at Bosworth in 1485:
Are you working on an essay, dissertation, research project or conference proposal? Check out our videos on using the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) buff.ly/yD11954 @brepols.net
Developing and Writing Funding Applications for Early Career Researchers - FREE online training 18 March 2-3pm. Explore some of the pitfalls, opportunities and challenges you can expect to face as you put together your funding application.
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Right wing media: DEFUND THE BBC.
Right wing media: why can’t the BBC now afford to show the thing I like?
We're proud to have asked our members to add their names to this empty book, protesting the use of their works without permission. In our house, copyright still matters!
#DontStealThisBook
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‼️ BAAS and the Journal of American Studies are pleased to announce that they will be recruiting for the following roles at JAS in Summer 2026, for start dates of 2 January 2027.
Learn more about the roles here:
And they're back! Readers can oncemore access our range of collection guides which give overviews to our collections as well as introductions to themes which run through them.
Follow the link to start browsing: www.history.ac.uk/library/coll...
Even more will be added in the coming weeks.
Up there with the great quotes of US military history… 🙄
Artist Timothy Yufit’s In Place project uses Layers of London to document displaced headstones embedded within London’s parks and public spaces. These fragmented historical traces remain present within the contemporary urban landscape. www.layersoflondon.org/map/collecti...
Our latest “Document of the Week” was chosen by our Editorial Assistant, Chloe Haney. It is an article published in The Illustrated London News on 15 December 1877 exploring Alexander Graham Bell’s revolutionary invention: the telephone.
Read the full post here: buff.ly/GkkQLPp
In this blog post, @rachelpeacock.bsky.social and Jenny Lelkes-Rarugal discuss how the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) can be used to research and teach the histories of medicine and health
Trump told me that the Ayatollah was close to collecting all the infinity stones and had to be stopped.
There is a very real difference between asking people to make a sacrifice for what you say is a good cause and telling people that the sacrifice they are currently making without their choice is for a good cause.
Gorgeous hellebores today - my favourite winter flower #WildflowerHour
We are thrilled that Montgomery Square is now open. This space is dedicated to the Montgomery decade that changed the world. From 1955 to 1965, Black people with extraordinary courage sparked a movement in Montgomery that transformed our country and world.
Absolutely obsessed with this Tudor-era musical and gaming table inlay!
Stunning Hardwick Hall - I knew Bess of Hardwick was impressive but she was a seriously clever lady. A good historical discovery on International Women’s Day weekend!
The Opera and Ballet Communities Haven’t Taken Those Timothée Chalamet Comments Well: “We Should Be Trying to Uplift These Art Forms”
Reverend Jesse Jackson called on each of us to be heralds of change, to be messengers of hope; to step forward and say “Send me” wherever we have a chance to make an impact.
How fortunate we were that Jesse Jackson answered that call. What a great debt we owe to him.
There is literally no way to find a real life fox that attractive and that’s sort of the dealbreaker for folks, most real life foxes just want to eat chickens and not be sexy
Pretty darn cool seeing an advert for my book “The Republican House Divided” in the most recent edition of the Times Literary Supplement! 📚🗞️🗃️
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Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem has been fired. Please keep all dogs at least 15 feet away from her.
This has been a public service announcement from Otis.
New collection—Witchcraft and Magic in England, c. 1400–1920.
It explores the place of witchcraft in English history, as well as the influence of alchemy, astrology, herbalism, and related esoteric practices!
Learn more at britishonlinearchives.com/collections/....
This is a basic and crucial point for any discussion of LLMs’ use in teaching research or writing. Whether it can ape us, fool us, or get facts right or wrong is, in the end, irrelevant. The LLM is not the thinker we are trying to encourage; the LLM is not the writer that we are trying to improve.
Just one day to go until my online talk to the London POTUS Group about the Republican Party and Civil War memory.
You can still register to attend (for free) here us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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The IHR Library 2026 survey is now open and closes Friday 10 April! 😊
Do you have any feedback, comments or suggestions about the IHR Library? If so, please fill out our annual survey here: forms.office.com/e/BjwVZYhsc5.
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Gallup will no longer measure presidential approval after 88 years thehill.com/homenews/med...
Universities pay copyright fees. Libraries pay copyright fees. Theaters pay to perform copyrighted work. Artists and authors pay licence fees to quote others in their own work, usually out of pocket.
