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Medieval Women @britishlibrary.bsky.social is fantastic! So many stunning 📚 but as a material girl my highlight was the Fishpool Hoard, 1464 - with 1237 🪙 & 223 of them newly minted & jewels, it was stunning & likely Margaret of Anjou's, to support Lancastrians in War of 🌹 ... Great exhibition!!!

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Up in the Gods! Cannot wait to hear them belting out 'Oom Pah Pah' etc. 🎭

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Yay! Day off! Smoke, here I come 🚆, with a lovely itinerary of treats, posh afternoon tea 🍰, Oliver! 🎭 in the west end, & Medieval Women 👭 exhibition at the BL tomorrow ... with maybe a couple of 🍸thrown in ... #London ❤️

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Excited to see the cover reveal for the latest @englishassociation.bsky.social monograph, The Life of Rachel Speght, by Helen Stringer liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.... Out on 28 March 2025 but available to preorder now from @livunipress.bsky.social

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Looking forward to talking about 'The Gloucester - Story of a Royal Wreck' next week at Great Yarmouth u3a monthly talk - further details here - 2pm, 6 March, 2025, Christchurch, King Street gtyarmouth.u3asite.uk/monthly-meet...

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Just a few days left to submit an entry for Hakluyt Society ECR Essay Prize! Worth doing - 1st prize is £1250 & in the 2024 competition, there were only 10 entries (though they were all high quality) ... for details of how to enter (by 1/3/25) see www.hakluyt.com/category/hak... & Good luck! ⚓🏆⚓🏆⚓🏆

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Read this: it really captures the reality of mass redundancies in the university sector, which will only snowball from here. voice.cymru/two-weeks-in...

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Word discovery of the day is ‘yoke-devil’ (17th century): an accomplice in a villainous or immoral undertaking.

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Apparently it's International Margarita Day tomorrow (who knew? But it would be rude not to have some, wouldn't it?) ... Here's a recipe - supposedly for 4 🍸 (?! hmmm ...) - for frozen jalapeño margarita ... chin, chin, All 🍸🍸🍸🍸

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Hamlet review – RSC’s bold seaborne concept really pushes the boat out www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/f... Look forward to seeing this next month ... 🎭🌊

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Sad news, our oldest 🐔 has died aged 8! Lovely big grey - here she is as a slip of girl, with her back to camera on 1st day at Jowitt Towers, 29 April 2017 ... super hen, hasn't laid an 🥚 for years, eating her head off! RIP

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Join me 17 Feb @ 7pm GMT for my online talk on: “The Queens’ Dressing Room: Caring for the Queens’ Body & Clothing at the Stuart Courts” I’ll be talking about the dressing rooms, wardrobe spaces & attendants that I discuss in my forthcoming book. Sign up: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sarah-bend...

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London Custom House, all mid c18 ... lots of hustle & bustle ... maphouse.co.uk/antique-prin... ⚓💷⚓💷⚓

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ATTENTION ECRS! 📢DEADLINE FOR SUBMITTING ESSAYS FOR HAKLUYT SOCIETY ESSAY PRIZE IS 1/3/25! £1250 1st prize ... do think about submitting an entry ... www.hakluyt.com/hakluyt-soci... www.hakluyt.com/previous-win... Please share widely!

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Go, litel boke, go... Okay, so it's not Chaucer, but it's online to read all the same... #Shakespeare #Restoration #Repertory www.cambridge.org/core/element...

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Many thanks Claire and Rohan - it was a true pleasure to have the opportunity to discuss the work with you both! (And to reiterate my own thanks to Richard and @thegozfather.bsky.social, as well as all other supervisors, friends, & faculty, for their support!)

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Congratulations @mooregraham.bsky.social on a successful viva yesterday! @rohandroy.bsky.social & I very much enjoyed discussing your #pirate thesis. & congrats to supervisors Richard Blakemore & TNA ... well done Dr Moore ... 👏👏👏

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The mood in Higher Education as it faces up to the end of the traditional teaching model: disbelief, anger, rage, sadness, depression, acceptance. www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/uks-re...

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We are in a war on knowledge, a war on facts, and a war on truth. The atrocious sacking of the 11th Archivist of the United States, Colleen Shogan (which she announced on her LinkedIn account last night) heralds a new era of burning of the books. www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...

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Delighted to be talking about the Gloucester wreck in 1682 to Great Yarmouth u3a group on 6 March 2025 - for details see: gtyarmouth.u3asite.uk/monthly-meet...

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Sherry o'clock! Huzzah! Chin, chin, All ... need this ... 🥂

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'“Even with the recent increase to fees [to £9,535], our modelling of ‘holding tariff’ v ‘maxing volume’ scenarios found that there is no longer financial benefit to taking more of this category of student. Put simply, higher volumes necessitate greater on-costs.”' 1/4

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The humanities risk becoming “ornaments” on science-focused university course portfolios as they take a “disproportionate” hit from the UK sector funding crisis, public historian @davidolusoga.bsky.social has warned. @julietterowsell.bsky.social reports #highered #EduSky

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Rare map chart of the English channel, 1641, with compass rose rhumb lines emblems of France & British Isles. From Johann Angelius Werdenhagen 'De Rebuspublicis Hanseaticis Tractatus', cartographer Matthäus Merian der Ältere 🗺️ maphouse.co.uk/antique-maps...

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The Royal Navy’s Naval Historical Branch is recruiting a full-time, permanent Historical Researcher! Details here: www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cg...

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'It took a collapse on a bus to show me how wrong our work-life balance is' timeshighereducation.com/depth/it-too... via @timeshighered.bsky.social A cautionary tale by Joan Taylor for academics' health as our workloads increase across the sector due to the current redundancy crisis ...

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Norfolk, almost spring ... #tinyjoys

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This lazy lump of gorgeouness hasn't moved all morning .... 🐶💤 #sundaymorning

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📢📢📢📢📢 ONE MONTH TO DEADLINE!!!! For details on how to apply see: hakluyt.com/downloadable... £1250 1st prize!!!!

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Nice to catch up with Sir Charles Scarburgh this week at Barber-Surgeons' Hall ... he was on the Gloucester in 1682 & survived by clinging to the wreckage & allegedly ousting DoYs 🐶 Mumper from it to survive ... here he is (in red) in 1651, delivering an anatomy lesson 🔪💀 #shipwreck

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'Across 103 universities to have posted financial accounts so far this year with relevant figures, £210 million was spent on compensation for loss of office last year. This was a 67 per cent increase on...2022-23. The severance payments...affected about 10,300 employees'. 1/4

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Fascinating project - looking forward to seeing this underway! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Utterly exquisite Tudor surgical instrument case c1525 at Barber Surgeons Hall. Thought to be a gift from Henry 8 to an unknown surgeon. Silver, parcel gilt & enamel ... (instruments = replicas)🩺

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One of the biggest thrills I have working on the Gloucester Project is when a relative of someone on board who experienced the wreck in 1682, gets in touch to talk about what actually happened to their ancestor ... never fails to give me goosebumps #historymatters www.gloucestershipwreck.co.uk

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I am writing about shipwreck today & I love these poignant & haunting images, but all I can think about is friends near & far facing uncertain futures because HEI 'pilots' & governments have navigated the whole sector onto the rocks #solidarity

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Lovely to read what the authors of @englishassociation.bsky.social monographs think about the process of publishing in the English at the Interface series. Want to join them? Do get in touch with @christabelscaife.bsky.social or moi! 📚 www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/topic/book-s...

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This 🐈‍⬛️ speaks to me! Isn't it gorgeous?! It's a feline effigy jar from Ecuador c800-1500 on display at Sainsbury Centre 😻

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For anyone who cares… Simon Schaffer’s ‘Mechanical Marvels’ documentary is on Youtube: m.youtube.com/watch?v=YAg6...

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Today's goal ... looking forward to a yoga mini retreat this am & have a chum going too! This will be us by noon, effortlessssly ... huzzah! 🧘‍♀️🧘‍♀️

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About 6 weeks to deadline for Hakluyt Society ECR essay submission! Enter by 1/3/25 ⚓🖊️📓🖨️🥇 💷 www.hakluyt.com/downloadable...

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A selection of c17 #delft hares ... c1640, 1630 (looks a bit mousey 🐭?), 1630 (absolute unit), 1650 (orange & rabbity!), 🐇🐇🐇🐇 ... catch them & other friends at www.regtsdelfttiles.com

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After yesterday's news of a strike ballot at Newcastle, now it's UEA in Norwich going down the same road. It's going to be a long old year. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/univers...

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Wet Wednesday? Here, to cheer us all up is a hippopotamus walking, from Egypt, Dynasty XII, so nearly 4000 years old ... simply stunning 🦛🦛🦛 Come meet him www.sainsburycentre.ac.uk

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Congratulations to Lewis Wade (@wadehistory.bsky.social), winner of the Society for the Study of French History First Book Prize for Privilege, Economy and State in Old Regime France – announced at the SSFH (@frenchhistory.bsky.social) Douglas Johnson Lecture yesterday

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