brodiewaddell.bsky.social
Early Modern History at Birkbeck, University of London | Likes: archives, fatherhood, footnotes, the seaside. | Dislikes: Henry VIII, cars, inequity. My research: https://www.bbk.ac.uk/our-staff/profile/8004317/brodie-waddell
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With a jaunty hat!
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And if you want to get a sense of the scale of redundancies going on right now, @qmucu.bsky.social keeps track of the almost daily announcements: qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...
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A collector of 'nightsoil'... 🤢
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Well it may not be very historically accurate, but I think 'The Petition Mongers' could be a great name for band.
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👆 Great to see articles in the new issue from Joshua Rushton (Manchester), @elenamary.bsky.social (Oxford), Sean Cham (@bbkhistorical.bsky.social), Ina Lindblom (Umeå), Stephen Heathorn (McMaster) and Greg T. Smith (@umanitoba.bsky.social), and Catherine Ladds (Hong Kong Baptist University)!
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Never too young to learn about tyrannicide! But, yes, I suppose my interpretation might be ever so slightly idiosyncratic...
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... And today the great Yertle, that Marvelous he,
Is King of the Mud. That is all he can see.
And the turtles, of course... all the turtles are free
As turtles and, maybe, all creatures should be.
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sounds about right!
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Maybe one day there'll be a publication, but for the moment it's just an MA module that I'm running at Birkbeck: www.bbk.ac.uk/courses/modu...
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So nice to read - thanks, Aidan!
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It'll be the online application portal equivalent of all the international students who arrive at Warwick train station every September looking for the university.
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That's amazing. So there will be University of Lancashire, a Lancaster University, a University of Manchester, and a University of Greater Manchester. I know it's small beans compared to the binfire of the sector as a whole, but it feels like the OfS might not be entirely on the ball with this one.