Philippa Smith
@philippajs.bsky.social
Retired archivist, loves books, gardening and nature
Though it has been written about elsewhere eg bsky.app/profile/rich...
The vicious cyberattack on the British Library is a national outrage – posing huge challenges for our national library. I argue in this Opinion piece in the Evening Standars that government should be properly funding their complex recovery programme.
The British Library hack is a national outrage – the Government must pay to save it
It is a national outrage that the British Library has been unable to fulfil its function over the past three months following a savage cyberattack – and that its functioning is likely to be severely...
www.standard.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Though it has been written about elsewhere eg bsky.app/profile/rich...
Reposted by Philippa Smith
Something I mention in today’s piece is the wider pressure and undervaluing of libraries and archives. Even less well known than the issues facing the British Library are the worrying proposals for the BBC Written Archives Centre. More here observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
November 18, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Something I mention in today’s piece is the wider pressure and undervaluing of libraries and archives. Even less well known than the issues facing the British Library are the worrying proposals for the BBC Written Archives Centre. More here observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Reposted by Philippa Smith
EHRI-UK (@ehri-uk.bsky.social) are seeking to map the network of archives in the UK which have collections that relate to the Holocaust in their holdings.
Please contact [email protected] by Friday 21 November letting them know your archive name and a rough estimate of the collections you hold (2/3)
Please contact [email protected] by Friday 21 November letting them know your archive name and a rough estimate of the collections you hold (2/3)
November 11, 2025 at 12:47 PM
EHRI-UK (@ehri-uk.bsky.social) are seeking to map the network of archives in the UK which have collections that relate to the Holocaust in their holdings.
Please contact [email protected] by Friday 21 November letting them know your archive name and a rough estimate of the collections you hold (2/3)
Please contact [email protected] by Friday 21 November letting them know your archive name and a rough estimate of the collections you hold (2/3)
Thank you! I’d had a look, but nothing particularly appealed. I have since come across a project at Kew transcribing Joseph Hooker’s letters which I’m going to look into.
October 31, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Thank you! I’d had a look, but nothing particularly appealed. I have since come across a project at Kew transcribing Joseph Hooker’s letters which I’m going to look into.