Oliver House
@oliverhouse.bsky.social
Roving Archivist @senatehouselib.bsky.social
Formerly Superintendent, Special Collections Reading Rooms @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Opinions mine
Formerly Superintendent, Special Collections Reading Rooms @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Opinions mine
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Our next @bodleian.ox.ac.uk #maps blog by @stuartackland.bsky.social features the "false" map of #Oxford from 1644. Look at this and be prepared to be confused!
blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/maps/. When is north not north? And who was Anthony Wood? @bcsmaps.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @bbcoxford.bsky.social
blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/maps/. When is north not north? And who was Anthony Wood? @bcsmaps.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @bbcoxford.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Our next @bodleian.ox.ac.uk #maps blog by @stuartackland.bsky.social features the "false" map of #Oxford from 1644. Look at this and be prepared to be confused!
blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/maps/. When is north not north? And who was Anthony Wood? @bcsmaps.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @bbcoxford.bsky.social
blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/maps/. When is north not north? And who was Anthony Wood? @bcsmaps.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @bbcoxford.bsky.social
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📢 #CfP #medievalsky #Ovid
📜Teaching with Ovid: An online pedagogy symposium
📅12-13 June 2026
📃The International Ovidian Society and the Societas Ovidiana invite paper proposals on any aspect of teaching Ovid in the classroom
📲Details: shorturl.at/RiviU
⏰Submission deadline: Friday 16 January 2026‼️
📜Teaching with Ovid: An online pedagogy symposium
📅12-13 June 2026
📃The International Ovidian Society and the Societas Ovidiana invite paper proposals on any aspect of teaching Ovid in the classroom
📲Details: shorturl.at/RiviU
⏰Submission deadline: Friday 16 January 2026‼️
November 27, 2025 at 12:13 PM
📢 #CfP #medievalsky #Ovid
📜Teaching with Ovid: An online pedagogy symposium
📅12-13 June 2026
📃The International Ovidian Society and the Societas Ovidiana invite paper proposals on any aspect of teaching Ovid in the classroom
📲Details: shorturl.at/RiviU
⏰Submission deadline: Friday 16 January 2026‼️
📜Teaching with Ovid: An online pedagogy symposium
📅12-13 June 2026
📃The International Ovidian Society and the Societas Ovidiana invite paper proposals on any aspect of teaching Ovid in the classroom
📲Details: shorturl.at/RiviU
⏰Submission deadline: Friday 16 January 2026‼️
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*small embarrassed voice*
A little plug for my article on Devon book sales c. 1700, which has gone online open access. tl;dr book auctions weren't just a London/Oxbridge thing: a flourishing second-hand book market centred on Exeter included auctions from the 1680s.
doi.org/10.1093/libr...
A little plug for my article on Devon book sales c. 1700, which has gone online open access. tl;dr book auctions weren't just a London/Oxbridge thing: a flourishing second-hand book market centred on Exeter included auctions from the 1680s.
doi.org/10.1093/libr...
A Provincial Market in Second-Hand Books: Book Sales in Devon, 1688–1725
Abstract. Comparatively little is known about England’s early book-auction trade outside of London and the university towns, with few catalogues surviving
doi.org
November 27, 2025 at 9:31 AM
*small embarrassed voice*
A little plug for my article on Devon book sales c. 1700, which has gone online open access. tl;dr book auctions weren't just a London/Oxbridge thing: a flourishing second-hand book market centred on Exeter included auctions from the 1680s.
doi.org/10.1093/libr...
A little plug for my article on Devon book sales c. 1700, which has gone online open access. tl;dr book auctions weren't just a London/Oxbridge thing: a flourishing second-hand book market centred on Exeter included auctions from the 1680s.
doi.org/10.1093/libr...
See here for a call for papers for an upcoming conference @mrcwarwick.bsky.social ‘Blood is the Price of Coal: Coal Communities, Health & Welfare
in Britain & Beyond from the 19th Century to the Present’
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warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...
in Britain & Beyond from the 19th Century to the Present’
👇
warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...
Call for papers
warwick.ac.uk
November 27, 2025 at 11:57 AM
See here for a call for papers for an upcoming conference @mrcwarwick.bsky.social ‘Blood is the Price of Coal: Coal Communities, Health & Welfare
in Britain & Beyond from the 19th Century to the Present’
👇
warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...
in Britain & Beyond from the 19th Century to the Present’
👇
warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...
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🦃 To celebrate Thanksgiving we hosted Rachel Sayet, a Mohegan chef, anthropologist, and storyteller at our most recent Wallingford Table event. She discussed the history of indigenous cuisine in southern New England. You can learn more about Rachel and her mission on her website (rachelsayet.com)
November 27, 2025 at 11:30 AM
🦃 To celebrate Thanksgiving we hosted Rachel Sayet, a Mohegan chef, anthropologist, and storyteller at our most recent Wallingford Table event. She discussed the history of indigenous cuisine in southern New England. You can learn more about Rachel and her mission on her website (rachelsayet.com)
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#SkyStorians #History @socialhistsoc.bsky.social 50th anniversary conference CFP now live! A Lancaster, historic home of SHS, 1-3 July 2026. CFP deadline 16 Jan 2026.
socialhistory.org.uk/events/confe...
socialhistory.org.uk/events/confe...
Conference
Visit the post for more.
socialhistory.org.uk
November 27, 2025 at 10:00 AM
#SkyStorians #History @socialhistsoc.bsky.social 50th anniversary conference CFP now live! A Lancaster, historic home of SHS, 1-3 July 2026. CFP deadline 16 Jan 2026.
socialhistory.org.uk/events/confe...
socialhistory.org.uk/events/confe...
See here for Visiting Fellowships at the University of Glasgow Library👇
Applications Now Open for the University of Glasgow Library Visiting Research Fellowship scheme - supporting scholars from across academic disciplines to come to Glasgow to work on our unique research collections. Please RT or pass on:
www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...
www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...
November 27, 2025 at 10:31 AM
See here for Visiting Fellowships at the University of Glasgow Library👇
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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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#NativeAmericanHeritageMonth #SmellingTheBouquet White sage is a sacred plant for North American Indigenous tribes, used for millennia for religious & cultural purposes. Cultural appropriation of white sage by non-Native people has driven great demand of plant material, including illegal poaching.
November 26, 2025 at 8:36 PM
#NativeAmericanHeritageMonth #SmellingTheBouquet White sage is a sacred plant for North American Indigenous tribes, used for millennia for religious & cultural purposes. Cultural appropriation of white sage by non-Native people has driven great demand of plant material, including illegal poaching.
Whatever gets you through the night with @livunipress.bsky.social
🎸 Meet Paul Long, co-editor of The Journal of Beatles Studies, at TASA!
The journal publishes interdisciplinary work on the Beatles’ music, history, influence and cultural impact. Chat with Paul about your research.
📅 Thursday 27 November
⏰ 2:00pm – 4:00pm
@sociologyaustralia.bsky.social
The journal publishes interdisciplinary work on the Beatles’ music, history, influence and cultural impact. Chat with Paul about your research.
📅 Thursday 27 November
⏰ 2:00pm – 4:00pm
@sociologyaustralia.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Whatever gets you through the night with @livunipress.bsky.social
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Come along to the @ihr.bsky.social on Thursday to hear @nailyas.bsky.social talk about her 'Global Libraries' project!
Our final event of term is happening this Thursday (27 November) Dr Nailya Shamgunova @nailyas.bsky.social on 'English and Scottish Scholars at the Global Library, c. 1500-1700'. ✨📚 This talk will be in-person only at the IHR. You can sign up here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
English and Scottish Scholars at the Global Library, c. 1500-1700
This talk introduces the UKRI-funded Future Leaders project, The Global Library project.
www.history.ac.uk
November 24, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Come along to the @ihr.bsky.social on Thursday to hear @nailyas.bsky.social talk about her 'Global Libraries' project!
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Two of our volunteers spoke to the BBC about the government's announcement that The National Covid Memorial Wall will be made permanent - and of the Wall's importance in bridging institutional accountability with public grief. ❤️
The Covid tribute wall 'bridging accountability with grief'
The half-mile stretch of red hearts along the South Bank will be preserved as a permanent memorial.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Two of our volunteers spoke to the BBC about the government's announcement that The National Covid Memorial Wall will be made permanent - and of the Wall's importance in bridging institutional accountability with public grief. ❤️
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Fabulous wee Carnegie cartoon!
Andrew Carnegie’s Free Public Library Philanthropy | Libraries | Carnegie Corporation of New York
Born in Scotland, Andrew Carnegie made libraries and books available to millions of people and helped accelerate the free public library movement in America. A new comic highlights Carnegie’s library ...
www.carnegie.org
November 25, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Fabulous wee Carnegie cartoon!
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In the second episode of 'Materials of State', David Cannadine will be exploring the importance of the Sword of State, which you can listen to at 1:45pm today on BBC Radio 4.
Looking through our archive we have highlighted some of our favourite ways the Sword of State has appeared in our research 🧵
Looking through our archive we have highlighted some of our favourite ways the Sword of State has appeared in our research 🧵
November 25, 2025 at 9:15 AM
In the second episode of 'Materials of State', David Cannadine will be exploring the importance of the Sword of State, which you can listen to at 1:45pm today on BBC Radio 4.
Looking through our archive we have highlighted some of our favourite ways the Sword of State has appeared in our research 🧵
Looking through our archive we have highlighted some of our favourite ways the Sword of State has appeared in our research 🧵
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Spaces are still available for this Introductory webinar on Major Gift Fundraising for archives!
Together, we’ll walk through every stage of the donor journey, from first engagement to making the ask...
🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/introducti...
Together, we’ll walk through every stage of the donor journey, from first engagement to making the ask...
🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/introducti...
November 25, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Spaces are still available for this Introductory webinar on Major Gift Fundraising for archives!
Together, we’ll walk through every stage of the donor journey, from first engagement to making the ask...
🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/introducti...
Together, we’ll walk through every stage of the donor journey, from first engagement to making the ask...
🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/introducti...
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The Lancashire Road Plan was a 30-year vision to fix a network designed for stagecoaches and turnpikes — not millions of daily vehicles. It analysed traffic, population, industry, topography… then redesigned the whole system from scratch.
November 24, 2025 at 8:54 PM
The Lancashire Road Plan was a 30-year vision to fix a network designed for stagecoaches and turnpikes — not millions of daily vehicles. It analysed traffic, population, industry, topography… then redesigned the whole system from scratch.
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London friends, go see Joe talk about his fascinating and important work!
Hello London, next Monday 1 Dec I'll be speaking at Senate House about how the histories of slavery and books in the ancient Mediterranean intersect in Rome. Book historians, slavery scholars, classicists, there will be something for everyone. ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
ics.sas.ac.uk
November 24, 2025 at 10:52 AM
London friends, go see Joe talk about his fascinating and important work!
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This is the oldest known family photo taken at Stonehenge. c 1865, back when you could picnic on the great sarsens themselves.
The original photo is owned by Queen Guitarist Brian May!
#stonehenge #wiltshire #stonecircle
The original photo is owned by Queen Guitarist Brian May!
#stonehenge #wiltshire #stonecircle
November 23, 2025 at 5:55 PM
This is the oldest known family photo taken at Stonehenge. c 1865, back when you could picnic on the great sarsens themselves.
The original photo is owned by Queen Guitarist Brian May!
#stonehenge #wiltshire #stonecircle
The original photo is owned by Queen Guitarist Brian May!
#stonehenge #wiltshire #stonecircle
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I'm so grateful our project, "Voices in Slavery's Archive: Law, Place and Testimony in British Guiana," was funded! @dianapaton.bsky.social, Linsey McMillan, @juanitacox.bsky.social, @pbhellawell.bsky.social, Estherine Adams, and Jamie McLaughlin
www.ed.ac.uk/news/project...
www.ed.ac.uk/news/project...
Project to map enslaved people’s testimony | News | The University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh historians will investigate slavery and the law in British Guiana, now Guyana, in a new three year-long project.
www.ed.ac.uk
November 24, 2025 at 10:48 AM
I'm so grateful our project, "Voices in Slavery's Archive: Law, Place and Testimony in British Guiana," was funded! @dianapaton.bsky.social, Linsey McMillan, @juanitacox.bsky.social, @pbhellawell.bsky.social, Estherine Adams, and Jamie McLaughlin
www.ed.ac.uk/news/project...
www.ed.ac.uk/news/project...
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And we are hiring! We have been incredibly lucky to get this funding and are very grateful for the opportunity to work on this. Please circulate to people who would be interested in applying. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPN147/p...
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at The University of Edinburgh
Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on jobs.ac.uk!
www.jobs.ac.uk
November 24, 2025 at 10:48 AM
And we are hiring! We have been incredibly lucky to get this funding and are very grateful for the opportunity to work on this. Please circulate to people who would be interested in applying. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPN147/p...
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There's still time to sign up for the BAAS PG Symposium next Wednesday.
Don't miss out! There's so much to experience!
Don't miss out! There's so much to experience!
⚠️ There are now less than 2 weeks until our 2025 Postgraduate Symposium ⚠️
The event, titled '"The people favored and the people oppressed": The Unequal Struggle for Equality and Rights in America', will take place on 26th November in Middlesbrough & online.
Sign up now:
The event, titled '"The people favored and the people oppressed": The Unequal Struggle for Equality and Rights in America', will take place on 26th November in Middlesbrough & online.
Sign up now:
BAAS Postgraduate Symposium 2025
‘The people favored and the people oppressed’: The Unequal Struggle for Equality and Rights in America
buff.ly
November 21, 2025 at 5:09 PM
There's still time to sign up for the BAAS PG Symposium next Wednesday.
Don't miss out! There's so much to experience!
Don't miss out! There's so much to experience!
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“When faced with greed, envy, calumny, perfidy, or lies, people […] say indulgently, ‘That's human!’ With an excuse like that, they clearly show that they are renouncing any expectations of generosity or greatness from man.”
—Simone de Beauvoir
In this new 🐧 📕 ed. @jonathanwebber.bsky.social 👏 👇
—Simone de Beauvoir
In this new 🐧 📕 ed. @jonathanwebber.bsky.social 👏 👇
November 15, 2025 at 4:15 PM
“When faced with greed, envy, calumny, perfidy, or lies, people […] say indulgently, ‘That's human!’ With an excuse like that, they clearly show that they are renouncing any expectations of generosity or greatness from man.”
—Simone de Beauvoir
In this new 🐧 📕 ed. @jonathanwebber.bsky.social 👏 👇
—Simone de Beauvoir
In this new 🐧 📕 ed. @jonathanwebber.bsky.social 👏 👇
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"[Gottlieb's "Wittgenstein"] finds clarity not through ambitious systematic claims but through careful attention to particulars." —Nikhil Krishnan, in a print issue of the New York Times Book Review.
Wittgenstein’s Philosophy Is Daunting. This Biography Makes Him Human.
A brisk new portrait by Anthony Gottlieb emphasizes the philosopher’s restless, ambivalent mind and Viennese family background.
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:02 PM
"[Gottlieb's "Wittgenstein"] finds clarity not through ambitious systematic claims but through careful attention to particulars." —Nikhil Krishnan, in a print issue of the New York Times Book Review.
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🔔 2 DAYS TO GO! Job spec, salary details & how to apply here: buff.ly/q1SSXCM
ROLE: Ski Collections Cataloguer
FULL TIME: 37 hpw
DURATION: Fixed Term: 5 months
🔔 CLOSING DATE: 25-Nov-25🔔
@dmu.ac.uk @icshc.bsky.social @librarydmu.bsky.social @araukie.bsky.social
ROLE: Ski Collections Cataloguer
FULL TIME: 37 hpw
DURATION: Fixed Term: 5 months
🔔 CLOSING DATE: 25-Nov-25🔔
@dmu.ac.uk @icshc.bsky.social @librarydmu.bsky.social @araukie.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 9:00 AM
🔔 2 DAYS TO GO! Job spec, salary details & how to apply here: buff.ly/q1SSXCM
ROLE: Ski Collections Cataloguer
FULL TIME: 37 hpw
DURATION: Fixed Term: 5 months
🔔 CLOSING DATE: 25-Nov-25🔔
@dmu.ac.uk @icshc.bsky.social @librarydmu.bsky.social @araukie.bsky.social
ROLE: Ski Collections Cataloguer
FULL TIME: 37 hpw
DURATION: Fixed Term: 5 months
🔔 CLOSING DATE: 25-Nov-25🔔
@dmu.ac.uk @icshc.bsky.social @librarydmu.bsky.social @araukie.bsky.social
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2025 marks the centenary of A.N. Whitehead’s Lowell Lectures, Science and the Modern World; 2026 the centenary of the first British edition.
Nick Gaskill and I are organising a panel on Whitehead, focused on SMW, for the MSA/BAMS conference in 2026, and are looking for an additional contributor.
Nick Gaskill and I are organising a panel on Whitehead, focused on SMW, for the MSA/BAMS conference in 2026, and are looking for an additional contributor.
November 18, 2025 at 2:26 PM
2025 marks the centenary of A.N. Whitehead’s Lowell Lectures, Science and the Modern World; 2026 the centenary of the first British edition.
Nick Gaskill and I are organising a panel on Whitehead, focused on SMW, for the MSA/BAMS conference in 2026, and are looking for an additional contributor.
Nick Gaskill and I are organising a panel on Whitehead, focused on SMW, for the MSA/BAMS conference in 2026, and are looking for an additional contributor.