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2025 marks the 60th anniversary of UCL's Small Press collections. UCL has collected widely in this area of independent radical publishing to preserve the outputs of these activities. The collections comprise 4,500 periodicals and 20,000 pamphlets. Watch a new celebratory video at lnkd.in/eAhT7M6t.
November 4, 2025 at 9:11 AM
2025 marks the 60th anniversary of UCL's Small Press collections. UCL has collected widely in this area of independent radical publishing to preserve the outputs of these activities. The collections comprise 4,500 periodicals and 20,000 pamphlets. Watch a new celebratory video at lnkd.in/eAhT7M6t.
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Are you a UCL student or staff member curious about Wikidata?
Join us on 3 Dec for a fun, hands-on workshop where you’ll explore what Wikidata is and make your first edits using data from UCL’s Ethnography Collections.
Come start your Wikidata journey with us!
Join us on 3 Dec for a fun, hands-on workshop where you’ll explore what Wikidata is and make your first edits using data from UCL’s Ethnography Collections.
Come start your Wikidata journey with us!
November 17, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Are you a UCL student or staff member curious about Wikidata?
Join us on 3 Dec for a fun, hands-on workshop where you’ll explore what Wikidata is and make your first edits using data from UCL’s Ethnography Collections.
Come start your Wikidata journey with us!
Join us on 3 Dec for a fun, hands-on workshop where you’ll explore what Wikidata is and make your first edits using data from UCL’s Ethnography Collections.
Come start your Wikidata journey with us!
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Join us tomorrow for a very special night @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social as a part of @ucl.ac.uk MultiCOP supporting COP30. www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-coll...
Decolonising the Zoology Museum: A Conservation Ritual
Join the Grant Museum of Zoology for a very special after hours event celebrating our continued collaboration with Guarani and Kaiowá indigenous elders.
www.ucl.ac.uk
November 18, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Join us tomorrow for a very special night @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social as a part of @ucl.ac.uk MultiCOP supporting COP30. www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-coll...
OK #ConfinedCocktails, finishing off the weekend with a Suburban. All I can say is it's a good job I've already made dinner...
November 9, 2025 at 6:07 PM
OK #ConfinedCocktails, finishing off the weekend with a Suburban. All I can say is it's a good job I've already made dinner...
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The Orwell Society Prize for Dystopian Fiction 2026 is now open for submissions from people studying at a UK university: orwellsociety.com/charitable-a...
If you work in UK HE, please publicize widely!
I’ve been a judge since the prize’s inception; it’s such a privilege to read the submissions.
If you work in UK HE, please publicize widely!
I’ve been a judge since the prize’s inception; it’s such a privilege to read the submissions.
Dystopian Fiction Prize
The Orwell Society organises an annual short story competition for current students (both BA and MA) at British universities. We look for dystopian narratives of 3,000 words, following the dedicated t...
orwellsociety.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:32 PM
The Orwell Society Prize for Dystopian Fiction 2026 is now open for submissions from people studying at a UK university: orwellsociety.com/charitable-a...
If you work in UK HE, please publicize widely!
I’ve been a judge since the prize’s inception; it’s such a privilege to read the submissions.
If you work in UK HE, please publicize widely!
I’ve been a judge since the prize’s inception; it’s such a privilege to read the submissions.
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Please just let me type in the year I was born. No more scrolling. We don’t have to keep doing this to each other.
November 2, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Please just let me type in the year I was born. No more scrolling. We don’t have to keep doing this to each other.
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fuck I forgot I washed my sheets and now have to interrupt the soothing peacefulness of the post bath state to put the fucking sheets back on
life sucks again, cheers
life sucks again, cheers
October 26, 2025 at 9:23 PM
fuck I forgot I washed my sheets and now have to interrupt the soothing peacefulness of the post bath state to put the fucking sheets back on
life sucks again, cheers
life sucks again, cheers
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I think I could run for election on the single issue of removing the calories from the menus of restaurants. Sir, I am hungover. I do not want to know this delivery could feed an adult puma for a week.
October 26, 2025 at 6:49 PM
I think I could run for election on the single issue of removing the calories from the menus of restaurants. Sir, I am hungover. I do not want to know this delivery could feed an adult puma for a week.
Making up for a sober Saturday and getting into the Halloween vibe with a Satan's Whiskers #ConfinedCocktails
October 26, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Making up for a sober Saturday and getting into the Halloween vibe with a Satan's Whiskers #ConfinedCocktails
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Your (my) #FridayCocktail is a fruity highball. Calvados, peach liqueur, lemon juice, syrup, soda.
Essentially a health cordial, 3 of your 5-a-day*
[*not binding health or legal advice]
Essentially a health cordial, 3 of your 5-a-day*
[*not binding health or legal advice]
October 24, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Your (my) #FridayCocktail is a fruity highball. Calvados, peach liqueur, lemon juice, syrup, soda.
Essentially a health cordial, 3 of your 5-a-day*
[*not binding health or legal advice]
Essentially a health cordial, 3 of your 5-a-day*
[*not binding health or legal advice]
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Scrolling through my 5,000 photos on my phone, trying to organise them into albums, and stumbled on this important piece of journalism from 2022 🤣🤣🤣
![It's all downhill for philosophy!
HISTORIAN Greg Jenner had a useful suggestion for utilitarian
philosopher Jeremy Bentham's preserved body. "I asked [its curator] whether it'd allow for maximum happiness if we could put Bentham in a bobsleigh and push him down the hill at the Winter Olympics," Jenner tells us, as Bentham argued for maximising happiness for the most people. But Jenner, host of the You're Dead to Me podcast, says his suggestion was met by
"disappointment and genuine alarm".
Happiness minimised.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:knlwbyvg36keh64h6awokbqx/bafkreieb4ejxbjcnu72il754xrnw4w66tsnbcifjptfg447jyvh7pkttde@jpeg)
October 22, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Scrolling through my 5,000 photos on my phone, trying to organise them into albums, and stumbled on this important piece of journalism from 2022 🤣🤣🤣
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i see you're doing something online that you have effortlessly done 100,000 times. would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? w
October 20, 2025 at 2:38 PM
i see you're doing something online that you have effortlessly done 100,000 times. would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? w
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Supporters of male primogeniture during the Anarchy of the 12th century:
From the Merrimack Valley Horror Festival today:
October 18, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Supporters of male primogeniture during the Anarchy of the 12th century:
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if you put enough olive oil in a dish it stops being unhealthy and actually becomes healthier because the olive oil now counts as one of your five a day
Public Health England doesn't want you to know this
Public Health England doesn't want you to know this
October 18, 2025 at 6:20 PM
if you put enough olive oil in a dish it stops being unhealthy and actually becomes healthier because the olive oil now counts as one of your five a day
Public Health England doesn't want you to know this
Public Health England doesn't want you to know this
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There are a lot of reeeeaaaallly cool things going on @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social World Anatomy Day this Saturday - don’t miss it! 11am - 2pm Oct 18. 🩻🐊🦴
Take part in activities celebrating World Anatomy Day! Join us on 18 October and find out how our museum is used for cutting-edge approaches to study ecology, evolution and skeletal anatomy.
Family Event: Amazing Anatomy
The Grant Museum has a takeover day in partnership with UCL Centre for Integrative Anatomy. Pre-book for 11:00, drop-in 12:00 - 14:00
www.eventbrite.co.uk
October 17, 2025 at 7:24 PM
There are a lot of reeeeaaaallly cool things going on @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social World Anatomy Day this Saturday - don’t miss it! 11am - 2pm Oct 18. 🩻🐊🦴
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In 2025 UCL Special Collections celebrates 60 years of collecting small press. This year also marks 50 years of publishing by Coracle Press @coracle.bsky.social
Join us for a birthday bash!
12 November
17:00 - 20:00
Free & open to all / booking essential.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/we-continu...
Join us for a birthday bash!
12 November
17:00 - 20:00
Free & open to all / booking essential.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/we-continu...
We continue to wave a small handkerchief at the world: Coracle Press @ 50
Join us to celebrate 50 years of Coracle Press!
www.eventbrite.co.uk
October 16, 2025 at 3:55 PM
In 2025 UCL Special Collections celebrates 60 years of collecting small press. This year also marks 50 years of publishing by Coracle Press @coracle.bsky.social
Join us for a birthday bash!
12 November
17:00 - 20:00
Free & open to all / booking essential.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/we-continu...
Join us for a birthday bash!
12 November
17:00 - 20:00
Free & open to all / booking essential.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/we-continu...
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Universities, archives and heritage groups unite for £1.5m Tudor Domesday project - Museums + Heritage share.google/uuXzitJgMK0r...
Universities, archives and heritage groups unite for £1.5m Tudor Domesday project - Museums + Heritage
share.google
October 16, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Universities, archives and heritage groups unite for £1.5m Tudor Domesday project - Museums + Heritage share.google/uuXzitJgMK0r...
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For reasons, it would be v. helpful to have information from a broad range of academic and non-academic (incl. GLAM) users of the BBC Written Archives OTHER THAN historians, briefly on: 1) What you've used it for and 2) How the proposed changes would impact on your research.
Reposts welcomed.
Reposts welcomed.
Historians dismayed by ‘scandal’ of BBC cutting access to...
Critics say new limit to trove of information sounds knell for independent research
observer.co.uk
October 14, 2025 at 9:09 AM
For reasons, it would be v. helpful to have information from a broad range of academic and non-academic (incl. GLAM) users of the BBC Written Archives OTHER THAN historians, briefly on: 1) What you've used it for and 2) How the proposed changes would impact on your research.
Reposts welcomed.
Reposts welcomed.
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Being a nosey parker is my favourite pastime. But I dress it up as being a historian.
#archives #romantic
www.debbiechallis.com/post/what-s-...
#archives #romantic
www.debbiechallis.com/post/what-s-...
What's in the Box? Rummaging in the Archives
One of my favourite pastimes is rummaging in archives, even in my own, and finding old things. I have pretensions to be a historian and writer, but really I'm just nosey.
www.debbiechallis.com
October 4, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Being a nosey parker is my favourite pastime. But I dress it up as being a historian.
#archives #romantic
www.debbiechallis.com/post/what-s-...
#archives #romantic
www.debbiechallis.com/post/what-s-...
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Somewhere free, quiet, and right next to Liverpool Street? 👀
Whether you’ve got a deadline looming, are polishing off a chapter on your lunch break, or hunting for a calm spot to do some work, our new Reading Room is open to you.
👋 https://www.bishopsgate.org.uk/whats-on/activity/reading-room/
Whether you’ve got a deadline looming, are polishing off a chapter on your lunch break, or hunting for a calm spot to do some work, our new Reading Room is open to you.
👋 https://www.bishopsgate.org.uk/whats-on/activity/reading-room/
Reading Room | Bishopsgate Institute
The Reading Room is separate to the Researchers’ Service, so if you’d like to look at our special collections and archives, you’ll need this instead https:
www.bishopsgate.org.uk
October 3, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Somewhere free, quiet, and right next to Liverpool Street? 👀
Whether you’ve got a deadline looming, are polishing off a chapter on your lunch break, or hunting for a calm spot to do some work, our new Reading Room is open to you.
👋 https://www.bishopsgate.org.uk/whats-on/activity/reading-room/
Whether you’ve got a deadline looming, are polishing off a chapter on your lunch break, or hunting for a calm spot to do some work, our new Reading Room is open to you.
👋 https://www.bishopsgate.org.uk/whats-on/activity/reading-room/
Ending the week with a martini #ConfinedCocktails. Feels like a bit of sunshine while watching the rain!
October 3, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Ending the week with a martini #ConfinedCocktails. Feels like a bit of sunshine while watching the rain!
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It’s been quite a week (+month, year etc), so here’s a little #FindsFriday / #FlintFriday treat for your timelines: a gorgeous little Mesolithic ‘mèche de foret’ (drill bit) from my desk. Retouched edges abraded to a smooth sheen by repeated use. 🏺🏛️
September 19, 2025 at 4:08 PM
It’s been quite a week (+month, year etc), so here’s a little #FindsFriday / #FlintFriday treat for your timelines: a gorgeous little Mesolithic ‘mèche de foret’ (drill bit) from my desk. Retouched edges abraded to a smooth sheen by repeated use. 🏺🏛️
Regrouping after a week of sadmin with a very strong 5:1 Martini #ConfinedCocktails. Not sure about this adulting lark, but it is soothing to sit in the garden and get (a tiny) bit of sun.
September 19, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Regrouping after a week of sadmin with a very strong 5:1 Martini #ConfinedCocktails. Not sure about this adulting lark, but it is soothing to sit in the garden and get (a tiny) bit of sun.
Sunday #ConfinedCocktails with an Orange Martini. Bracing for a return to work after three weeks spent in and out of hospitals...
September 14, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Sunday #ConfinedCocktails with an Orange Martini. Bracing for a return to work after three weeks spent in and out of hospitals...