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Megan Gooch @agneatha.bsky.social · 14d

Do you want to look up old train timetables published in the UK? Here you go: solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/discovery/se...

solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Megan Gooch @agneatha.bsky.social · 14d

30 mins of quiet ensued and he’d tracked down timetables on the library catalogue. “Off site storage too”, he exclaimed, cos he knows I love visiting our book & collections storage facility.

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Megan Gooch @agneatha.bsky.social · 14d

My husband is now in his Trains Era and whilst watching a documentary about the Beeching Railway cuts lamented he couldn’t see old timetables from our train station. “Were the timetables published?” I ask. Cos you know I work in a legal deposit library.

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Digital Scholarship at Oxford @discoxford.bsky.social · 23d

The Centre for Digital Scholarship at the Bodleian Libraries invites library professionals to take part in a survey on AI Applications in Libraries. Participation takes 10–15 minutes and responses are anonymised:

AI in Libraries - Horizon Scanning Bodleian Libraries

app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk

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Megan Gooch @agneatha.bsky.social · 26d

I loved the Is it Treasure? Interactive game (as well as all the Viking bling)

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Megan Gooch @agneatha.bsky.social · 28d

But the Mint outgrew its home again - and in the run up the decimalisation it moved to Llantrisant in South Wales where it is today. Leaving its old building in the news re. A Chinese embassy

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Megan Gooch @agneatha.bsky.social · 28d

The Mint grew too big for the narrow walls of the Tower and moved to a shiny new purpose built factory on nearby Tower Hill

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Megan Gooch @agneatha.bsky.social · 28d

There was a Roman mint somewhere in London, but the medieval Mint was based in the Tower of London from the C13th to 1810

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Megan Gooch @agneatha.bsky.social · 28d

An unexpectedly numismatic news story - a new role for the old Royal Ming building on Tower Hill www.bbc.com/news/article...

Approving China 'mega' embassy would be unlawful, UK government told

Opponents are battling China's plan for a mega embassy in London's historic Royal Mint Court.

www.bbc.com

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Clare Downham @downham.bsky.social · Sep 2

Writing England’s origins in the middle of a flag fetish is hitting a nerve which hopefully inspires more reading & thought. The review of David Woodman’s book (posted yesterday) has amassed c. 12,000 views. Here is my earlier take on origins #medievalsky theconversation.com/its-a-myth-t...

It’s a myth that England was created on the battlefield – most of it happened at the negotiating table

Not a simple tale of English kings overcoming Vikings, the creation of England involved far more bureaucracy than the epic legends let on

theconversation.com

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dhoxss.bsky.social @dhoxss.bsky.social · Aug 8

Shout out to our amazing online team and participants!

@david.deroure.org
@jarona7.bsky.social
@williamjnixon.bsky.social
@andrewcusworth.bsky.social
@discoxford.bsky.social

#IntroDH
#AILibraries

#DHOxSS2025

David De Roure @david.deroure.org · Aug 8

Day 4 at #DHOxSS2025 (yesterday...) I took this shot in the online strand studio. Convenors William and Andrew, ops Daisy and Ayla (right to left). And just to add, the online participants have been fab!

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William J Nixon @williamjnixon.bsky.social · Aug 8

It felt like the Radio 4 Today studio! Really great range of talks in our #DHOxSS2025 @rluk.ac.uk #AILibraries strand and a pleasure and privilege to be part of Team DHOxSS this week. Thanks to our online participants and all our fabulous speakers.

David De Roure @david.deroure.org · Aug 8

Day 4 at #DHOxSS2025 (yesterday...) I took this shot in the online strand studio. Convenors William and Andrew, ops Daisy and Ayla (right to left). And just to add, the online participants have been fab!

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dhoxss.bsky.social @dhoxss.bsky.social · Aug 7

Day 4 is flying by! ⏳ Another great day of ideas, connection & collab, online and in person, and tomorrow’s closing keynote with Dr Katherine McDonough to look forward to🎤
Thanks for the photo competition entries, keep 'em coming!

#DHOxSS2025
#digitalhumanities

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Megan Gooch @agneatha.bsky.social · Aug 7

@tostig1066.bsky.social Bayeux fever is mounting!

Kat @kaffarin.bsky.social · Jul 30

🧶 bayeux tapestry jumper is finished, blocked and sewn up! Please don’t ask me about weaving in ends I don’t want to talk about that right now. Probably my favourite thing I’ve ever knitted ever #showmeyourknits #knitsky #knitting

Beige jumper on a white background, the front panel shows harold holding a spear under an archway (scenes from bayeux tapestry)

Beige jumper on a white background, the focus is a sleeve with an image of a tower and halleys comet overhead in blue, gold and red

Beige jumper on a white background, a tree motif on a sleeve in blue, gold and red

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William J Nixon @williamjnixon.bsky.social · Aug 5

High score in Chuckie Egg (briefly) on a BBC Micro (though I was Team C64) at fantastic demo of retro games and the challenges of gaming digital preservation - & had a ZX81 with 16K RAM pack! Chance to reflect on 80s home PC culture. Fascinating to see younger attendees try the BBC Micro #DHOxSS2025

Game preservation Key Themes Urgency, Responsibility and Transmediality

Old CRT monitor displaying high scores for Chuckie Egg

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William J Nixon @williamjnixon.bsky.social · Aug 5

A great walking tour with #DHOxSS2025 colleagues earlier this evening with blue skies and for librarians, a very library focused tour taking in various Bodleian library buildings including the Weston, Radcliffe Camera, Duke Humfrey’s library and the Tower of the Five Orders

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William J Nixon @williamjnixon.bsky.social · Aug 6

Thanks for joining us @masudk.com a fantastic keynote and launch for the AI in Research strand, looking forward to the rest of the week and more discussions and engagement #DHOxSS2025

Masud Khokhar @masudk.com · Aug 6

I was delighted to open the #DHOxSS2025 #AILibraries workshop stream today with a keynote on AI and Research Libraries. Really engaging conversations with colleagues in the summer school and lots of learning. Thank you for the invitation @dhoxss.bsky.social.

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David De Roure @david.deroure.org · Aug 5

Day 2 at #DHOxSS2025 and this is a view from the live-streaming room in @oxforderesearch.bsky.social Which one is real?

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William J Nixon @williamjnixon.bsky.social · Aug 6

Mission Control for the #DHOxSS2025 #AILibraries strand with Andrew Cusworth after a fantastic opening keynote from @masudk.com

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Megan Gooch @agneatha.bsky.social · Aug 3

Another year, another Digital Humanities @ Oxford Summer School full of fantastic speakers and enthusiastic learner!

dhoxss.bsky.social @dhoxss.bsky.social · Aug 2

#DHOxSS2025 is just around the corner… 🎉📚
We can’t wait to see you all there!

#HumDat
#ADA
#Text2tech
#TEI
#IntroDH
#AILibraries

@discoxford.bsky.social
@bodleian.ox.ac.uk
@stannescollege.bsky.social
@david.deroure.org
@agneatha.bsky.social

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Rare Book School @rarebookschool.bsky.social · Jul 18

Christopher N. Warren will give a free public talk on “What is Computational Bibliography?” at 5:30 p.m. ET on Wednesday 30 July, in UVA’s Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library Auditorium or via Zoom.

Details: rarebookschool.org/programs/lectures

#BookSky #DigitalHumanities

A vertically oriented rectangular graphic features macro photos of the capital letter “A” from various printed texts, repeated over and over in rows across the page. Each “A” shows minor variations in how it was printed. The bottom of the graphic contains red and black text against white with information about Christopher Warren's lecture.

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James O’Sullivan @jamesosullivan.bsky.social · Jul 7

One for #DigitalHumanities colleagues!

Applications are invited for the position of Post-Doctoral Researcher with expertise in digital and spatial humanities (11 months, whole-time).

Successful candidate will work under supervision of @claireconnolly.bsky.social.

See ore.ucc.ie (Job ID: 088233)

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Megan Gooch @agneatha.bsky.social · Jun 17

Me too! It’s the Oxford traffic vortex 🌀

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Daniel van Strien @danielvanstrien.bsky.social · Jun 16

Institutional Books: Massive Historical Text Corpus

- 983K books, 242B tokens, 386M pages
- 19th-20th century texts in 254 languages
- Refined OCR with quality scores & metadata
- Noncommercial early-access release

huggingface.co/datasets/ins...

institutional/institutional-books-1.0 · Datasets at Hugging Face

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

huggingface.co

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dhoxss.bsky.social @dhoxss.bsky.social · Jun 11

Due to popular demand we have extended the deadline for poster submissions until Monday 16 June!

The posters will be displayed in a welcome reception.

Apply here: tinyurl.com/mtnakcyt

@discoxford.bsky.social
@bodleianlibraries.bsky.social
@ox.ac.uk
@david.deroure.org
@agneatha.bsky.social

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