Check out the Stuart Hall Archive Project! Amazing resource that includes not only digitisation, but tools and teaching resources too!
You can access the archive here: stuarthalldigital.bham.ac.uk
And this news article is a great intro read!
www.theguardian.com/society/2026....

5400 articles published between 1835 and 1920 from over British 20 newspaper titles with metadata, crowdsourced labels (annotations) and fresh OCR doi.org/10.23636/xrk...

Described at livingwithmachines.ac.uk/the-how-did-...

My latest blog post about Cree geographic knowledge in 17th-century cartography is now live with the British Library’s blog, focusing on some research that I completed this summer at the library as a 2026 Eccles Fellow.

www.bl.uk/stories/blog...

And an example of its potential - similarity search in action zldyu46n7tab6m3loyi66triau0dckhk.lambda-url.us-west-2.on.aws/record/metmu...

ICYMI, ace work from @thisisaaronland.bsky.social on shared vector embeddings for images as 'an exercise in practicing agency in our work [,] in producing tangible and reusable artifacts which have a longer shelf life' www.aaronland.info/weblog/2026/...

We’re delighted to announce Dr Paul Bate as the British Library’s new Chief Executive

Joining us from the UK Space Agency, Paul brings experience supporting world-class research communities.
We look forward to welcoming his expertise at the Library.

Read the full announcement here
link.bl.uk/fc6

🎉 We're excited to welcome 6 new Community Interest Groups to the UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association!

From #webarchives, #pedagogy, and #openknowledge, our CIG network now includes 10 active groups.

🔗 digitalhumanities-uk-ie.org/2026/09/21/2... #DH #DigitalHumanities

The Humanities and Data Science (HaDS, or H&DS), formerly known as Turing's Humanities and Data Science group, is delighted to be among the new UK-IE DH groups!

Find out more, join, at our work in progress site: had-uk.github.io

#GreenLibraries Week 2026 is one month away! Look at this incredibly rich programme coordinated by Head of Sustainability, Catherine Ross @britishlibrary.bsky.social lnkd.in/eqSjUiF4
I'm contributing to a session on setting up a staff sustainability network: lnkd.in/efEMPV83 -- free registration!

Have you explored Sak Supple's BL Playbills site lately? Check out the visualisations! https://blplaybills.org/

If you're going to be at the Fantastic Futures 2026 conference in DC next week, keep an eye out for Nora, Neil and Adi from our team!

The #FF2026 programme is packed - online places still available https://www.conftool.org/fantastic-futures-2026/index.php?page=browseSessions

I love that this includes 'What is Benchmarking and Why Should You Care?'

RISE-UNIBAS/humanities_data_benchmark: LLM Benchmark Suite for Humanities Data github.com/RISE-UNIBAS/...

#AI4LAM

It's been gratifying to see the response to this project since we officially put it out into the world last week: www.bpl.org/news/boston-... #AI4LAM

A New AI Ethics Framework for Zooniverse

This post was written by Hillary Burgess and Sam Blickhan. In June 2025, we announced an initiative to develop a set of recommendations for running AI/ML-engaged projects on the Zooniverse platform. After a year of collaboration and discussion with…

Today we launch our new @zooniverse.bsky.social AI Ethics Framework: www.zooniverse.org/about/ai-eth...

It includes Key Principles, Internal Actions taken by Zooniverse, and Recommendations for Project Teams that will guide the use of AI/ML on the platform moving forward.

🧵 The Environmental Dimensions of Place Service (EDOPS) v0.4 is live: edops.computingplace.org

Give it a place (settlement, historical polity) & get a structured "environmental signature" of the drainage basin(s) it occupies: hydrology, climate, terrain, etc. + climate & land use over time

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Young people want to connect in person, but often have nowhere to go. A new report from @ippr.org highlights the need for free, welcoming “third spaces”. Libraries can be part of the answer — giving young people somewhere to meet and take part in local life.
www.ippr.org/articles/the...