Hannah K. Smyth 🍉
@smythh.bsky.social
Lecturer in Archives and Records Management at University College London. Shligo woman. Sí / í.
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Hannah K. Smyth 🍉
@smythh.bsky.social
· Aug 11
Public History in Global Perspective
Where should public history sit within the matrix of global, international, (trans-)national, and more local histories? Since its emergence in the 1970s, Public History has typically been read as comm...
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🔊 Very pleased our book about public history is out and gold open access: Public History in Global Perspective
Inquiry, Exchange and Practice. @ciaranon.bsky.social @geolug.bsky.social @richardlegay.bsky.social
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Inquiry, Exchange and Practice. @ciaranon.bsky.social @geolug.bsky.social @richardlegay.bsky.social
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“Around six months after the cyber incident I talked to the then chair of the science select committee, who was not aware of this incident” w o w
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 1:13 PM
“Around six months after the cyber incident I talked to the then chair of the science select committee, who was not aware of this incident” w o w
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“Labeling the nearly 250,000 people currently trapped in #Gaza City & the north as “terrorists or terror supporters” by the Government of #Israel is a statement suggesting planned large-scale massacres”
— UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini
www.unrwa.org/newsroom/off...
— UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini
www.unrwa.org/newsroom/off...
October 2, 2025 at 5:15 PM
“Labeling the nearly 250,000 people currently trapped in #Gaza City & the north as “terrorists or terror supporters” by the Government of #Israel is a statement suggesting planned large-scale massacres”
— UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini
www.unrwa.org/newsroom/off...
— UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini
www.unrwa.org/newsroom/off...
Heartbreaking
October 3, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Heartbreaking
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UK government wins £122m pandemic case against Michelle Mone-linked firm over faulty PPE
UK government wins £122m pandemic case against Michelle Mone-linked firm over faulty PPE
Trial heard 25m surgical gowns supplied by PPE Medpro to protect NHS staff were unusable and could ‘seriously harm or kill patients’
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VIP lanes and 25m faulty gowns: what PPE Medro trial reveals about Tory response to Covid
The government has won its legal claim against a company linked to the Conservative peer Michelle Mone for the return of millions of pounds paid for personal protective equipment during the Covid pandemic.
The Department of Health and Social Care sued the company, PPE Medpro, in December 2022, arguing that it had not complied with PPE laws to ensure that 25m surgical gowns it provided under a June 2020 government contract were sterile. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 1, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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Join us on 20 November for the Annual Digital Lecture, a partnership between The National Archives, UK and the School of Advanced Study. The wonderful @nannathylstrup.bsky.social will be speaking about ‘When saving becomes loss: archival memory in the digital age’. Free to register!
When saving becomes loss: Archival memory in the digital age
Explore archival memory, data loss, and attempts to preserve the past in the digital age at this year’s Annual Digital Lecture.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
September 30, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Join us on 20 November for the Annual Digital Lecture, a partnership between The National Archives, UK and the School of Advanced Study. The wonderful @nannathylstrup.bsky.social will be speaking about ‘When saving becomes loss: archival memory in the digital age’. Free to register!
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Amid everything else, I just found out that Westlife is marking their 25th anniversary & the Irish postal service is releasing a commemorative stamp.
So it's also time to reshare this article & my campaign for them to tour Africa: www.irishtimes.com/culture/musi...
So it's also time to reshare this article & my campaign for them to tour Africa: www.irishtimes.com/culture/musi...
Westlife’s fans across Africa: ‘I listen to them every day’
The Irish boyband is incredibly popular across Africa - so why have they never toured there?
www.irishtimes.com
September 11, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Amid everything else, I just found out that Westlife is marking their 25th anniversary & the Irish postal service is releasing a commemorative stamp.
So it's also time to reshare this article & my campaign for them to tour Africa: www.irishtimes.com/culture/musi...
So it's also time to reshare this article & my campaign for them to tour Africa: www.irishtimes.com/culture/musi...
It's always the ones you most expect
Revealed: how Boris Johnson traded PM contacts for global business deals
Revealed: how Boris Johnson traded PM contacts for global business deals
Exclusive: Leak exposes how former leader has used publicly subsidised office to manage commercial interests
www.theguardian.com
September 9, 2025 at 10:03 AM
It's always the ones you most expect
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86% of the world’s genocide experts have declared that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.
Israel made its genocidal intent clear from day one.
It then committed genocide in full view of the world.
Nobody with power or influence can say they didn’t know at the time.
Israel made its genocidal intent clear from day one.
It then committed genocide in full view of the world.
Nobody with power or influence can say they didn’t know at the time.
September 2, 2025 at 5:36 AM
86% of the world’s genocide experts have declared that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.
Israel made its genocidal intent clear from day one.
It then committed genocide in full view of the world.
Nobody with power or influence can say they didn’t know at the time.
Israel made its genocidal intent clear from day one.
It then committed genocide in full view of the world.
Nobody with power or influence can say they didn’t know at the time.
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Powerful article by Sally Hayden on apartheid Israel's unprecedented murder of Palestinian journalists, and the complicity of their western peers. #GazaGenocide
Israel’s targeting of journalists is an attack on truth and history
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
Israel’s targeting of journalists is an attack on truth and history
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
Sally Hayden: Israel’s targeting of journalists is an attack on truth and history
Journalists’ lives are not more important than those of other civilians, but when you attack journalists you stop the world from learning about what is happening
www.irishtimes.com
August 27, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Powerful article by Sally Hayden on apartheid Israel's unprecedented murder of Palestinian journalists, and the complicity of their western peers. #GazaGenocide
Israel’s targeting of journalists is an attack on truth and history
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
Israel’s targeting of journalists is an attack on truth and history
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
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The National Archives is looking for an Early Modern Parliamentary Records Specialist. Pros: you'll get to work in the same department as me. Cons: you'll have to work in the same department as me. Details via the link. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOD893/r...
Records Specialist - Early Modern Parliament at The National Archives
Start your UK & international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top...
www.jobs.ac.uk
August 15, 2025 at 6:44 AM
The National Archives is looking for an Early Modern Parliamentary Records Specialist. Pros: you'll get to work in the same department as me. Cons: you'll have to work in the same department as me. Details via the link. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOD893/r...
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📣 Job Klaxon: come work with me at UCL on the Information in Society Programme!
🔹 Lecturer (Teaching) Publishing, Knowledge Production, Platforms and Society
🔹 Full time, open ended contract
🔹 London
🔹 £54,931
Closes 8 September.
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
🔹 Lecturer (Teaching) Publishing, Knowledge Production, Platforms and Society
🔹 Full time, open ended contract
🔹 London
🔹 £54,931
Closes 8 September.
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
www.ucl.ac.uk
August 14, 2025 at 12:48 PM
📣 Job Klaxon: come work with me at UCL on the Information in Society Programme!
🔹 Lecturer (Teaching) Publishing, Knowledge Production, Platforms and Society
🔹 Full time, open ended contract
🔹 London
🔹 £54,931
Closes 8 September.
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
🔹 Lecturer (Teaching) Publishing, Knowledge Production, Platforms and Society
🔹 Full time, open ended contract
🔹 London
🔹 £54,931
Closes 8 September.
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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Job Advert to join my team at UCL
💭Lecturer in Humanities Data Science
💭£54,931 - £57,979
💭Open Ended Contract
💭Great interdisciplinary team
Closes 15 September 2025
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
💭Lecturer in Humanities Data Science
💭£54,931 - £57,979
💭Open Ended Contract
💭Great interdisciplinary team
Closes 15 September 2025
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
www.ucl.ac.uk
August 14, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Job Advert to join my team at UCL
💭Lecturer in Humanities Data Science
💭£54,931 - £57,979
💭Open Ended Contract
💭Great interdisciplinary team
Closes 15 September 2025
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
💭Lecturer in Humanities Data Science
💭£54,931 - £57,979
💭Open Ended Contract
💭Great interdisciplinary team
Closes 15 September 2025
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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There's a REALLY quick and easy survey for the public consultation on the Basic Income for the Arts scheme - it only takes a few seconds, anyone can fill it in, and it could make a huge difference to arts workers in Ireland. Take a few ticks to places a few ticks here: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...
August 13, 2025 at 11:15 AM
There's a REALLY quick and easy survey for the public consultation on the Basic Income for the Arts scheme - it only takes a few seconds, anyone can fill it in, and it could make a huge difference to arts workers in Ireland. Take a few ticks to places a few ticks here: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...
🔊 Very pleased our book about public history is out and gold open access: Public History in Global Perspective
Inquiry, Exchange and Practice. @ciaranon.bsky.social @geolug.bsky.social @richardlegay.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/mafs2wrx
Inquiry, Exchange and Practice. @ciaranon.bsky.social @geolug.bsky.social @richardlegay.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/mafs2wrx
Public History in Global Perspective
Where should public history sit within the matrix of global, international, (trans-)national, and more local histories? Since its emergence in the 1970s, Public History has typically been read as comm...
tinyurl.com
August 11, 2025 at 3:13 PM
🔊 Very pleased our book about public history is out and gold open access: Public History in Global Perspective
Inquiry, Exchange and Practice. @ciaranon.bsky.social @geolug.bsky.social @richardlegay.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/mafs2wrx
Inquiry, Exchange and Practice. @ciaranon.bsky.social @geolug.bsky.social @richardlegay.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/mafs2wrx
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Palestinian self-determination is an inalienable right, not a bargaining chip.
While children starve to death, Keir Starmer refuses to expel the Israeli ambassador, impose full trade sanctions, enforce a full arms embargo or end surveillance flights.
It’s Labour’s genocide too.
While children starve to death, Keir Starmer refuses to expel the Israeli ambassador, impose full trade sanctions, enforce a full arms embargo or end surveillance flights.
It’s Labour’s genocide too.
July 29, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Palestinian self-determination is an inalienable right, not a bargaining chip.
While children starve to death, Keir Starmer refuses to expel the Israeli ambassador, impose full trade sanctions, enforce a full arms embargo or end surveillance flights.
It’s Labour’s genocide too.
While children starve to death, Keir Starmer refuses to expel the Israeli ambassador, impose full trade sanctions, enforce a full arms embargo or end surveillance flights.
It’s Labour’s genocide too.
En route to Dublin, many audible sighs as the pilot announced mid-flight the score of the All Ireland @aerlingus1.bsky.social
July 27, 2025 at 5:54 PM
En route to Dublin, many audible sighs as the pilot announced mid-flight the score of the All Ireland @aerlingus1.bsky.social
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Starvation in Gaza is destroying communities – and will leave generational scars Starvation in Gaza is destroying communities – and will leave generational scars www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Starvation in Gaza is destroying communities – and will leave generational scars
Health and societal ramifications of extreme hunger will reverberate long after the war is over
www.theguardian.com
July 25, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Starvation in Gaza is destroying communities – and will leave generational scars Starvation in Gaza is destroying communities – and will leave generational scars www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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📢 Just announced! The programme & booking is now live for our Annual Conference 2025.
🗓️ Join us online & free on 4–5 Sept for Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums & Personal Collections.
🔗 womenshistorynetwork.org/the-womens-h...
#WHN2025 #WomensHistory #Archives #Heritage
🗓️ Join us online & free on 4–5 Sept for Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums & Personal Collections.
🔗 womenshistorynetwork.org/the-womens-h...
#WHN2025 #WomensHistory #Archives #Heritage
July 7, 2025 at 8:54 AM
📢 Just announced! The programme & booking is now live for our Annual Conference 2025.
🗓️ Join us online & free on 4–5 Sept for Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums & Personal Collections.
🔗 womenshistorynetwork.org/the-womens-h...
#WHN2025 #WomensHistory #Archives #Heritage
🗓️ Join us online & free on 4–5 Sept for Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums & Personal Collections.
🔗 womenshistorynetwork.org/the-womens-h...
#WHN2025 #WomensHistory #Archives #Heritage