Interested in studying Dutch language, literature, history & contemporary society at @UCL, the oldest department of #DutchStudies in the Anglophone world? Visit us during our Open Day on 15 November. Tot ziens! @UCLSELCS @ArtsHumsUCL @NLinUK @FlandersUK

De Commissie voor Schone Letteren heeft de Debutantenprijs 2026 van de MdNL, voorheen de Lucy B. en C.W. van der Hoogtprijs, toegekend aan Maria Kager voor haar prozadebuut 'De buitengewoon geslaagde opvoeding van Frida Wolf' (Arbeiderspers, 2024): mdnl.nl/?p=20002

Quiz Time: How well do you know UCL's history? 🏛️ The latest Library, Culture, Collections and Open Science newsletter is out, and it features the ultimate history challenge! Can you chronologically reorder iconic milestones from our past? Take the quiz: bit.ly/4eaF4kQ

Join our team at UCL Arts and Humanities ✨ We’re looking for a creative, detail-driven Website & Digital Content Officer to help shape how we tell our stories online. 📅 Apply by: 23 June 2026 buff.ly/NKpkhnk #UCLJobs #HigherEdJobs #DigitalContent

Baroness Jean Coussins presented the @CIOL_Linguists Awards yesterday to the top-scoring candidates in CIOL's qualifications, along with the David Crystal Award and Threlford Cup awards recognising outstanding contributions to languages. ciol.org.uk/ciol-awards-2026

The facade of the Glassmaker’s House in Brussels, Belgium, designed by architect Ernest Delune in 1902.

Before New York was New York, it was New Amsterdam, a Dutch colony built on pluralism, capitalism, and a radical idea that tolerance could be a competitive advantage. Russell Shorto (@RussellShorto) joins me on Open Book to tell the story of how a bloodless standoff in 1664 didn't just transfer a city from one empire to another; it set the genetic code for everything New York, and really America, would become. Watch on X, YouTube, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Timestamps 0:00 Russell Shorto Introduction 1:33 What drew Russell to writing about NYC history? 4:35 The 12,000 pages of Dutch records that changed everything 6:17 What was pioneered in NYC: pluralism, capitalism, and the stock exchange 10:50 New York's deep-water geography and the Hudson-Mohawk highway into the continent 14:34 How unusual was religious and ethnic diversity in 17th-century Europe? 16:08 Anthony "NYC is the land of opportunity." 17:44 The paradoxes of early New York: tolerance alongside slavery and Native displacement 22:15 Liberalism, tolerance, and capitalism as core topics 24:37 If Nicholls and Stuyvesant toured modern Manhattan, what would they think? 26:22 Five Words

Are you interested in studying at UCL Arts & Humanities? 🎓 There’s still time to join us at our undergraduate Open Days this June! Book your place now: buff.ly/2txHAPH @UCLArtsSciences @GrandLat @UCLDIS @UCLSELCS @UCLPhilosophy @UCLSSEES #UCL #OpenDay

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Join us for an evening of readings on 8 June - Bernhard Malkmus and translator Marielle Sutherland present Flight Paths / Himmelsstriche (2025), a memoir & ecological reflection on life between the Northumbrian coast and the Scottish mountains. buff.ly/NekwY8b @UCLSELCS

How can we embed wellbeing and inclusion in language teaching? Join the e-Expert Seminar Series (9th Edition) on 22 June to explore mental health, neurodiversity and innovation in translation and language education. Free, hybrid event: buff.ly/bIDJCeM @UCLSELCS

"It is a myth that we Brits are inherently poor at languages. Where we have the right policies in place, we can be among the best in the world" - Baroness Coussins and Philip Harding-Esch writing for @duolingoUK call for language policy coherence blog.englishtest.duolingo.co…

Next week marks the UCL200 Summer Festival, hosted by Students’ Union UCL 🎉 With the Great Debate, Film Festival, UCL Proms and the Bicentenary Ball, there’s something for everyone to enjoy. UCL Arts and Humanities students, get involved: buff.ly/xEbUF4F

As part of the UCL200 bicentenary celebrations UCL Anthropocene will hold a series of lectures, discussions, seminars, and doctoral workshops on ‘Emergence|Emergency’. ‘What emerges in emergencies?’ is the key question galvanizing this agenda. Book now: buff.ly/Y1Q3fon

How are we rethinking teaching in the humanities? Join the Centre for Humanities Education Showcase 2026 on 1 June to hear from colleagues sharing innovative projects, fresh ideas and examples of best practice in action. buff.ly/CFZYooC

On Choosing an Academic Career … what it takes, what it offers, and what it demands profserious.substack.com/p/o… by @profserious #AcademicTwitter

🎉In case you missed it: The APPG hosted the 2026 @duolingoUK Westminster Language Challenge prize giving ceremony! Congratulations to @alexlmayer , @drcarolinej and @mikejwood the Top 3 parliamentarians (out of over 250 who took part!) Read more here: thepienews.com/mps-and-unive…

Gratitude, pride, and a lot of hard work. 🎓 Our graduates thank those who helped them get here: friends, family, professors… and themselves. buff.ly/AerPyUn #UCLGrad #Graduation #PostgraduateStudy @UCL @UCLAlumni

"In the coming weeks, as politicians debate how to drive growth, I predict universities will go unmentioned. I challenge them to prove me wrong." A must-read from @profgeraintrees , Vice-Provost of @ucl, in The Times yesterday, making the case that universities aren't just knowledge producers. They're generating high-growth companies, anchoring innovation ecosystems, and turning publicly funded research into real economic impact. In short, they're at the heart of Britain's growth story. Politicians serious about growth need to back universities to go further and faster. We're delighted to support UCL in continuing to champion that case where it matters most. 👇 thetimes.com/article/5aaaceb…

The more things change: Digital Humanities in a tumultuous world @UCLDH welcomes Melissa Terras (University of Edinburgh) for the 2026 Susan Hockey Lecture to talk about the role of community, and the importance of data and software sovereignty. buff.ly/76fK8fH @UCLDIS

We’re hiring! We are recruiting for a Lectureship in Global History of Science to join our Department from September 2026. For more info and to apply, please visit: bit.ly/3R94V58 Closing Date: 9th June 2026 #WeAreSTS #Science #Historyofscience #Globalscience