Anyone interested in a one-year postdoc position for our ‘Mistranslating Deceit’ project (mis-translating-deceit.com)? We need someone with experience of media audience analysis and knowledge of Polish, Serbian or Arabic. Please share widely. Details are at: vacancies.lboro.ac.uk/jobdesc/REQ240…

Job Opportunity: Legal Advisor at ICCROM #ICCROM is seeking a Legal Advisor to provide legal support to its Governing Bodies and the Director-General. For more information, please visit our website: bit.ly/3Z3N5lZ

EU states working on fresh proposal for youth mobility scheme with UK | European Union | The Guardian - This would also open up valuable opportunities for language learning and cultural immersion. We need a return to something like Erasmus+ theguardian.com/world/article/…

Farewell John... fitting heir to Henry Guppy as champion of the Rylands for so many years. Immense debt of gratitude owed by so many academic, library, collection care and PS staff in addition to all the external readers and general public. Grazie mille e a presto!!

The Co-op News was first published #OTD in 1871 and is still going strong today Like many radical newspapers, the first page consisted of news and not adverts. You can book to research the Co-op news collection at the archive at Holyoake House. #CoopArchive #Coop180

TV piece for the BBC Six O'Clock News last night on the naming of the new 'Nicholas Winton street' in Prague. Camera/edit by Lukas Materna

So important that students - as well as their parents - understand the importance of language learning. Languages are both life-enhancing and valuable in the workplace. Talk to us for help on getting this message across in the classroom.

Lovely evening Chetham's Library welcoming Julianne Simpson as Librarian with colleagues and friends including John Hodgson Jane Donaldson. Buona fortuna Julianne!

This week in September 1852 Manchester Free Library opened in Campfield. Manchester was the first authority to establish a rate-supported public lending library. It became so busy in the first week a police officer was assigned to control the crowd around the borrowing desk

As fellow Stockport resident, also expectant and love this being led by Gwen RJ formerly of John Rylands Research Institute and Library

ESFA is to close: "All of which makes the higher education end of what is increasingly thought of as a tertiary education sector feel rather anomalous"... interesting wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/es… via @wonkhe

Lovely to finally make it down to Archive and Special Collections Bishopsgate Institute with greetings from Co-operative Heritage Trust archive in Manchester! Thanks for your help... Jane Donaldson

BBC not knowing where Romania is.

Senior leadership teams are force multipliers: effectiveness radiates from the top team throughout an organisation. Yet in a study by Center for Creative Leadership, two-thirds of the senior executives felt their top team was ineffective & only 20% felt that their team was high performing. Research

Looking forward to talking at Cross Street Chapel, home of Mancunian Unitarians, this Saturday to La Dante Manchester Italy in Manchester on Garibaldi and Manchester

First HE provider shut down under new regime: Applied Business Academy to close all higher education courses wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/ap… via @wonkhe

We've been commissioned by Department for Culture, Media and Sport to create the Government's new strategic vision for archives! We're working with BOP Consulting to consult the archives sector and its stakeholders to inform the new vision. Sign up for one of our roundtables starting 16 October below 👇 (1/2)

Proud to be a graduate of 'the world's weirdest library'! Congrats to all involved over the last couple of years and enjoy the grand re-opening School of Advanced Study, University of London The Warburg Library theguardian.com/artanddesign/2…

European Day of Languages today! Celebrating linguistic and cultural diversity across the continent (UK included...) ILCS UCFL @ucflangs.bsky.social School of Arts, Languages and Culture coe.int/en/web/portal/…

On European Languages Day, happy to celebrate working in a sector identified as responsible for mental retardation, confusion and obfuscation as recently as 1940s... we've come a long way but still some way to go in UK ALL Languages The Future of Languages UCFL @ucflangs.bsky.social