Great to re-visit the ‘Activating the Archive Project: Using Museum Collections to Understand Colonial Legacies of African Environmental Histories’ Featuring York-based Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity and more of their brilliant interdisciplinary work. 📺 youtube.com/watch?v=MyXfmt…

Just 2 weeks now! Our 2025 conference in Oxford on June 30th is rapidly approaching. Take a look at our 3rd 2023 Conference panel to get a flavour of what it will be like! YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=qaGH8s… Register today: eventbrite.com/e/through-the-…

📚🧑‍🏫🧑🏿‍🏫It is Conference Season in the Northern Hemisphere! Are you looking for a home for your paper? Consider African Studies African Studies! Scope below and our webpage at: tandfonline.com/journals/cast2…

Exciting news! The latest volume of Africa Bibliography, Research and Documentation, Vol 4, Issue 1, is now available. Explore the latest research and resources on African studies. Check it out here: cup.org/3ZzTbdb #AfricanStudies #AfricaBibliography #SCOLMA #ECAS2025

The Canterbury and York Society series ‘playlist’ is 🔥. This one is a real Bangor. Great to see a Welsh diocese and episcopal acta in the series.

📜 Just launched: 175,000 new historical records are now available on the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland, including 60,000 names for family historians to explore in the new Population Portal. Read more: tcd.ie/news_events/to… #DigitalArchives #VRTI #TrinityResearch

"Through the Generations: Youth, Ageing and African Studies Collections” formed part of the SCOLMA 2025 Conference (UK Libraries & Archives Group on Africa) at Bodleian Libraries on Monday. Archives and libraries documenting the continent’s past must empower growing youth population.

Last week we celebrated the start of building work at our Collections Storage Facility in Swindon. The expansion will create 3 more aisles of storage (we currently have 31), 4 on-site visitor rooms, a Digitisation room, a Conservation Laboratory & a specialised metal object store

Library staff, Moss Side, Manchester, 1925 (Manchester Libraries).

The unknown Manchester lady who funded a Hogwarts-style library - BBC News share.google/Wvr2LyIFtrk4FW…

Day 1 | #AUSS-SA Keynote 🎤 Prof. Shose Kessi spoke on “The Role of African Universities in Advancing Social Justice." “Universities must be spaces of resistance, healing, and co-created knowledge that amplifies African voices.” #AfricanPeacebuilding

There are so many unprecedented actions happening right now. But this feels like another hugely significant turning point. Finding & publishing ‘unauthorised information’ is the very definition of journalism. And banning it is the first step towards an ever deepening darkness

The stories of six South African women who travelled to fight for workers and for women’s rights, and risked it all. theconversation.com/travel-as-acti… 💻 Janet Remmington, University of York #ArtsCultureAndSociety

If true, suggestions that Number 10 has blocked this vital report because they don’t want to admit, and face, the UK’s vulnerability to the growing climate & nature crises would be unforgivable. Risks don’t go away if you ignore them. They get worse. theguardian.com/environment/20…

BREAKING: The earth has reached its first catastrophic tipping point linked to greenhouse gas emissions, with warm water coral reefs now facing a long-term decline and risking the livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people, according to a new report. The report from

Fountains Abbey 🍁

Excited for this year’s Canterbury and York Society Annual Lecture. Join us in the amazing The Parker Library to hear Professor Chris Given-Wilson on ‘𝗔𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗯𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽, 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝗿, 𝗞𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿: 𝗧𝗵𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘀 𝗔𝗿𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗹, 1353-1414’ 5 November 2025, 3:30pm

It was a real thrill to be asked to speak at the 60th anniversary of Langwith & Derwent College last night. Huge thanks to the current Langwith JCRC for inviting me. York looked amazing, so did Ron Clayton & it was great to represent the Old Gold & Black one last time.

Oof, this hits hard.

60 Years of Derwent and Langwith Colleges: An Archival Exhibition On now in the Norman Rae Gallery on campus, curated by an amazing team of students, and rich with rarely seen archives, this exhibition celebrates college pride, legacy, student life, creativity and connection