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25 May 1871. The Bank Holiday Act gained Royal Assent. It created new statutory rights to public holidays in England, Wales and Ireland. These were: Easter Monday, Whit Monday, the 1st Monday in August and Boxing Day. Christmas Day and Good Friday were already public holidays.

🇳🇴 Norway took its oil wealth and built the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund — investing in pensions, healthcare, and the future. 🇬🇧 Britain sold ours off in the 1980s, handed control to private corporations, and spent the revenues on short-term tax cuts. 🔴 Today,

Dentistry and medicine evolved as separate professions, creating educational and institutional silos that left oral health seen as specialised but not integral to overall health or health systems. This Editorial looks at why this is a problem bmj.com/content/389/bm…

27 May 1679. English Parliament passed the landmark Habeas Corpus Act. It made it illegal to hold anyone in prison without trial and required a court of law to examine the lawfulness of a prisoner’s detention and thus prevent unlawful or arbitrary imprisonment.

Delighted to be welcoming Civica To CILIP Conference this year. Civica is a market leader in software for public services, supporting libraries across the UK and internationally. #CILIPConf25 Civica cilipconference.org.uk

Find out more about KM Chartership through CILIP here: cilip.org.uk/page/Professio… #KM #KnowledgeManagement @CILIPK

28 May 1936. Alan Turing submitted his research paper “On Computable Numbers” for publication. It was published in 2 issues of the Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society on 30 November and 23 December 1936. It proposed the creation of a universal (computer) machine.

The Observer, 1967: “The Magic Roundabout is aimed at under-fives, but when the BBC tried to put it on at an earlier time [4.55 pm] last autumn there was such an outcry from adults who couldn’t get home in time to see it that they had to restore it to its old slot [5.45 pm].”

Summary of findings tables present the key results of a systematic review. The latest article in the the Core GRADE series outlines how you should approach these summary of findings tables bmj.com/content/389/bm…

You can now access a beta version of the English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC). A bibliography of about 500,000 records, the ESTC aims to record every distinct letterpress item produced before 1801 in the English-speaking world. Explore the catalogue: datb.cerl.org/estc/

Congratulations on being selected to be part of the #CILIP #GreenLibrary Hubs project - powering climate action in our local communities. 💚

In Science Magazine today, my essay on predicting and preventing Alzheimer's disease (open-access) science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

The war medals of WWII heroine Nancy Wake. Utterly incredible.

USA No.1 on this day in 1970: Ray Stevens - Everything Is Beautiful youtu.be/qHyxBq1PYO8?si… via YouTube

It's time for Misinformation to be UnMASKED. Check out this new checklist. Gr8 job Ruth Carlyle PhD & Joanne Naughton of the national NHS Knowledge & Library Services team at NHS England Workforce, Training and Education working with South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust. CILIP Libraries Connected library.nhs.uk/wp-content/upl…

#Misinformation is everywhere and its dangerous! The only way to expose it is for misinformation to be UnMASKED.Such important work. Thanks to South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust Ruth Carlyle PhD Joanne Naughton CILIP South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust Please RT: Libraries Connected CILIP Arts Council England youtube.com/watch?v=bEhz-l…

Focused on leadership in the information, KM and library sector #CILIPConference 2025 will bring together senior leaders & decision-makers from 20+ sectors; a chance to network with like-minded professionals & learn from industry experts. CILIP cilipconference.org.uk/why-attend/

I don't know if there is a more appropriate goodbye to Loretta Swit, than her last scene in MASH in the series finale. Loretta won two Emmy's for her role as Major Houlihan.

31 May 1669. Samuel Pepys (aged 36) wrote the final entry in his diary. His 1st entry was on 1 January 1660. He feared that writing in dim light was damaging his eyes. His fears were unjustified as he lived another 34 years without going blind. He never resumed his diary.