exterior shot of the pavilion Chehel Sotun, Isfahan
decorated ceilings of Chehel Sotun
image of destruction
image of destruction
More destruction of the cultural heritage in Iran. Chehel Sotun in Isfahan, dating back to the 17th c, a UNESCO World Heritage site sustained damage in the war.
My student created this guide about the Abbot Academy telescope built by Alvan Clark & Sons for 1874 transit of Venus.
From Lens to Legacy: Advancement of Astronomy at Abbot Academy & Phillips Academy
owhlguides.andover.edu/lens_to_legacy
#HistSci #astronomy
cc @rmathematicus.bsky.social
Registration for the SHARPIESโour totally online Book History Festivalโis now open and free for SHARP members! ๐๐ If you're not a member, it's easy to join (membership is between $55 and $100). The festival will take place July 7th-9th with events across time zones.
events.zoom.us/ev/Ap9iEZwmC...
You might consider trying @sourceryapp.bsky.social, an app built by @foundhistory.bsky.social et al for exactly this purpose: requesting copies of records at archives remotely.
sourceryapp.org #archives
For the "everything is online" crowd in the back:
Important to consider that "everything" cultural heritage related that is accessible online represents only 1% (one percent) of archives, libraries, and museum collections worldwide.
Apply to join my team by 3/16!
Be the Library of Virginia's born-digital collections coordinator, leading planning and management of electronic gov/manuscript records. We're looking for a techie archivist type who can help improve access to our born-digital wonders.
$78k-$88k in Richmond VA.
๐ข Join the @ihr.bsky.social Digital History seminar on 17 March (midday UK time) for Vincent Hiribarren on the topic 'Historian vs AI: who reads and analyses archives best'. All our seminars are live on Zoom and published after on our YouTube channel ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2025/09/tues... #dhist
JOB: Curator or Associate Curator of Maps & Geography at @bplmaps.bsky.social (Boston)
www.leventhalmap.org/about/jobs/c...
#maps #PublicHistory #geography
With the expanding campaign in the Middle East, I'm thinking once again of the importance of programs like @scholarsatrisk.bsky.social and our own At-Risk and Displaced Academics and Artists program with the Royal Society of Canada.
rsc-src.ca/en/programme...
Please join CLA Board Vice-Chair Sara Georgini on Wednesday, March 4th at 7 pm EST for "Defending Democracy in the Stacks," a fantastic conversation organized by the Ellsberg Initiative for Peace and Democracy.
Registration is free via Zoom: bit.ly/4ruKgFZ
Image shows a close-up pile of white books against a light background, the JCAS logo, and reads: "New! Leveraging Consumer-Level AI for Descriptive Metadata Creation in Archival Collections by Hope Dunbar and Ken Axford JCAS vol. 13, article 4"
Weโre pleased to announce our first publications of 2026! We have 4 new #OpenAccess articles to enjoy:
โLeveraging Consumer-Level AI for Descriptive Metadata Creation in Archival Collections," by Hope Dunbar & Ken Axford of SUNY Buffalo Libraries: elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol13/i... (1/4)
You might be interested in reading Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World by Tyson Yunkaporta.
๐ข Nominations are now open for the 2026 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History! The prize celebrates the best of digital history internationally. Anything published since ~Jan 2025 is eligible. Nominate your work or work you love. Details โก๏ธ ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2021/12/the-... #dhist
The Material Evidence in Incunabula (MEI) database by CERL tracks copy-specific evidence in 15th-century books.
Freely accessible and continually expanding through international collaboration.
๐ Explore MEI: data.cerl.org/mei/_search
Job posting: Head of Digital Collections @ Smithsonian National Museum of American History. Closing: 03/13/26; $143,910-$187,093 (GS 14). Located w/in Digital Collections team, Digital Access & Archives Dept, Public History Div. To lead NMAHโs efforts to expand te impact of its digital collections
A book entitled New Directions in Digital Textual Studies.
Look what arrived in the post, featuring an essay by yours truly.
Conference logo. All info in main text.
Registration now open for this year's #QueerBib conference. 12-13 MARCH papers (c. 2pm to 10pm GMT each day), 14 MARCH workshop.
Queer Bibliography 2026: Space, Place, Community. Online and in-person (Athens, GA). Registration free.
guides.libs.uga.edu/c.php?g=1513...
The homepage for the Canadian letters and images project. It shows soldiers posing for a photograph and there is a search bar in the centre. In the about section below, which cannot be seen in this image, it provides this information: The Canadian Letters and Images Project, created in 2000, is an online digital archive of the Canadian war experience, both home front and battlefront, from any conflict in which Canadians have participated. The focus of the project is on the personal materials of participants, such as letters and photographs, which permit us to experience the war through their eyes and their words. These are very often the stories of ordinary Canadians, largely forgotten and overlooked. Our mission is to digitally preserve and continue to make freely accessible this important part of Canadaโs heritage for this generation and future generations. The vision of the project is to continue to expand this repository of Canadian archival materials by collaborating with Canadians to preserve and share the individual and collective stories that have shaped our past Accessibility to the past is key to understanding who we are as a nation. We are committed to free access for everyone to the materials of the project.
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The Canadian Letters & Images Project is an online digital archive of Canadiansโ experience during wartime at home & in battle. It contains thousands of personal letters & photos that reveal peopleโs experience through their own words & eyes.
www.canadianletters.ca/content/abou...
A person stands at a podium in a room with several seated attendees. A large screen displays the title "The UVA Archival AI Protocol: A standard for control" with a tagline "No access without control" and a smaller image titled "UVA Archival AI Protocol, 1st Edition." The setting is the University of Virginia Library.
"Information without origin is a liability."
Introducing the UVA Archival AI Protocol, an AI training and access standard for archival organizations.
Read more: https://library.virginia.edu/news/2026/protecting-what-remains-introducing-uva-archival-ai-protocol
#AI #Archives #EthicalAI
It's possible to do a non-reactionary critique of the current landscape of humanities research funding: www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
The CERL Provenance Working Group has just published its annual newsletter, with reports on projects and ongoing research, case studies, internships and fellowships, events and publications, contributed by colleagues all over Europe.
www.cerl.org/collaboratio...
Julia Margaret Cameron (British, 1815โ1879), Ch. Darwin, 1868. Albumen print, 28.5 x 22.7 cm. Gernsheim Collection, Harry Ransom Center.
Letter from Charles Darwin to Sir John Herschel, dated November 11, 1859. The letter was tucked inside a signed first edition of Darwinโs โOrigin of Species.โ
"I have taken the liberty of directing Murray to send you a copy of my book on the Origin of species..." -Charles #Darwin to John Herschel (Nov. 11, 1859)
(Today you can consult Herschel's copy of the Origin here @ransomcenter.bsky.social!)
sites.utexas.edu/ransomcenter...
#histSTM #DarwinDay ๐๏ธ๐
1/ Important new article by Dr. Tara Inniss that discusses the "chronic underfunding, aging infrastructure, and climatic threats" of Caribbean archives, compounded by vulnerabilities and policy gaps.
Thread w recent examples of destruction of collections by fire:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Welcome to CRRJ on @bsky.app!
Launched in 2007 by @nusl.bsky.social Professor Margaret Burnham, CRRJ is the premier academic program in the U.S. examining current racial inequities through the lens of history, investigating racially motivated violence and seeking reparative justice. crrj.org/about/
Content Authenticity and Provenance in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: A Call-to-Action for the LAMs Community
drive.google.com/file/d/1VMkN...
by Kate Murray and Joshua Sternfeld
#archives #museums #ai
Photo of a smiling man in a red apron carefully placing a large sheet of paper onto a wooden hand press. From G-20: Printed Books to 1800: Description & Analysis, 2026 (Photo by Andrew Shurtleff). Text below the image reads, โFIRST-ROUND APPLICATION DEADLINE: 17 FEBRUARY. Rare Book School 2026. rarebookschool.org/schedule.โ
Rare Book School is accepting applications for our summer 2026 coursesโincluding new course offerings & partner locations in the U.S. and U.K.!
Details: rarebookschool.org/schedule
The first-round deadline is ๐ญ๐ณ ๐๐ฒ๐ฏ๐ฟ๐๐ฎ๐ฟ๐. Applications received after that date will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
THE RED MAN'S REBUKE. BY SIMON POKAGON Pottawattamie Chief.
Now online and accepting applications. The 2026 AAS Summer Seminar in the History of the Bookโ โPaper Relations: Hisrories and Futures of Indigenous Print Culturesโ Led by Katie Walkiewicz and Kelly Wisecup. Deadline to apply is April 3!
Since taking office, the Trump administration has launched a full-scale assault on #AmericanHistory, the latest in a centuries-old attempt at revisionist history.
Access the SPLC's new #Hatewatch timeline outlining the attacks and putting them in historical context ๐: https://bit.ly/4rAb6Mp
Pie chart showing percentages of current nominations to DHAwards
The categories for the open DH Awards 2025 are: BEST USE OF DH FOR FUN (e.g. something that uses DH for purposes of enjoyment) BEST DH DATA VISUALIZATION (e.g. a visualization of DH data) BEST EXPLORATION OF DH FAILURE/LIMITATIONS (e.g. a report on why a project failed, or problems with DH) BEST DH SHORT PUBLICATION (e.g. blog, article, video, on DH) BEST DH TOOL OR SUITE OF TOOLS (e.g. something used to build a DH resource) BEST DH DATASET OR MODEL (e.g. a corpus of texts, table of data, model, or similar used for DH research) BEST DH TRAINING MATERIALS (e.g. talks, slides, exercises, videos or how-to guides in any form) BEST DH RESOURCE (e.g. digital scholarly edition, archive, or repository for DH)
Don't forget to nominate any #DH resources for DH Awards 2025 so they get on the ballot!
Deadline coming up soon!
dhawards.org/dhawards2025...
The current distribution of votes per category is a tad uneven and you can probably guess which categories are which!
