Thank you to all the speakers and attendees (in-person and online) for their valuable contributions to our ‘Life After the PhD’ event today at Institute of Historical Research - it has been a very good Saturday well spent. HistoryLab HistoryLab+ ✨

Join me at Foyles on 9 May to talk about the colonial histories of the British countryside
foyles.co.uk/events/corinne…

A conjuration. If you saw this, then I've posted some comments about its magical nature in the replies.

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Dated 5/4/24, this edition of MacDonald Gill's London Underground map is what passengers would have been picking up in tube stations exactly a century ago.

Many of our collections contain fabulous #architects floorplan and elevation drawings - like this plan for #Settle Town Hall in 1832, by George Webster of #Kendal #ArchiveBuildings #Archive30

Some Welsh heraldry.

Now the University of York sounds the alarm. The situation in our universities is critical: only a tenth of them have the resources to weather the storm. We cannot wait for Labour to take power in November. Act now.

I still encounter surprise from people outside the sector when I explain there is no link nowadays between planning schools and planning homes.

Primary schools in Britain are beginning to close
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from The Economist

Many of the biggest items in our archive are posters, like this recruitment one from 1945-1952 recently worked on by our conservator. #Archive30 #SomethingBig #Conservation #Conservation Win

University of Lincoln looking to make 220 redundancies. It looks like up to half of these will come through, now closed, voluntary severance scheme, so 100+ redundancies still to come through voluntary or compulsory redundancy. What a fucking mess.

It's now a week from this excellent event. I will be talking about life in the crusader states and the ways that settler communities constructed their identities. Attendees get some great offers in return, while all profits go to MacMillan Cancer Trust. Do come!

Some more highlights of johnevigar 's tour of Lincolnshire churches. The next tour in the autumn covers Northamptonshire. Space is limited so be sure to join John's mailing list at johnevigar.com for more information, coming soon.

A pretty cool 20th first-class wicket for Zum Akhter, the sixth SACA graduate. A couple of years ago, he was working in the cellars at Lord's, transporting alcohol barrels to the bars.

I remember a time when charities simply didn’t need counter-disinformation expertise in their communications teams. It was a gentler time.

If true a classic example of why managers should be people who understand the context of the organisation and industry they are working in - not just hired guns.

Context does matter in management, no matter how much theoreticians might argue otherwise.

Pleased that the BBC, ITV, Independent, Evening Standard and others have picked up our story on the legal costs associated with the Michelle Donelan ‘extremism’ letter saga.

Total spent has passed £60k.

Here's the original story, free to read: researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-pol…