This past fortnight has felt like an odd dream where I am sequestered within medieval walls (literally) and every time a former colleague emails me with news from the front, it is like a gut punch of reality, of my old working life.

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Massive congratulations to @britishlibrary.bsky.social on getting rights retention in their new open access policy. The more people we have using repositories for open access, the stronger the route gets.

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I'm tuning into this today - looking forward to it! (I'm developing a paper on Aberdonian mathematician and longitudinarian Andrew Mackay) 🗃️

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Car brain depresses me

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this (from the book referenced in the article, Portrait of an Obsession) articulates why that work is needed, I think - we've been addressing difficult histories from the pov of individual collections, but when they are systemic and fragmented, you also need to take a step back

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