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Got weekend plans? Cancel them to read my chapter, 'Working-Class Writing in Victorian Britain' in the absolutely stellar Routledge Companion to Working-Class Literature!

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Matthew Stephens @c19thnewshound.bsky.social argues that short-lived newspapers, often overlooked as the expected casualties of a developing industry, were actually a significant proportion of the 19th century’s press. Read it in VPR 57.1-2: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.bsky.social

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🚀📈 Making Victorian visual culture searchable: Introducing an open-access and AI-powered dataset of 72,000 illustrations from the Illustrated London News (1842-1890). (w. Bethany Warner, @pfyfe.bsky.social and @bcgl.bsky.social) openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/articles/10....

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So pleased my article on geo-coding addresses of 121 million + people in British censuses 1851-1911 is now out with Historical Methods! #openaccess - map any census info (ages, occupations, birthplaces etc) by address - link census to other spatial datasets Get the code and data 👇

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This is both an incredibly niche thing but I think it should be more of a thing. Caffè Nero subscribes to the British Newspaper Archive so it’s all free on their wifi. There. I said it.

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Disco was discovered in 18th century Wales by Erthwynn Dann-Fyre

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Hi everyone, can you help one of my students with her MA dissertation? Amy is exploring the motivations, influences & ambitions of those who practice history (from professionals to amateurs, paid to hobbyist). Fill in her survey to add your experience (& please share): forms.office.com/e/mFNv6tAqxn

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Oxford University Press will be awarding as many as 10 ECRs the opportunity to publish their first book in fully open access as well as in hardback. Today the website was revised to make clear that independent/unaffiliated scholars are eligible. Deadline March 3. academic.oup.com/pages/early-...

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‼️NEW EPISODE ALERT!🚨 You’re Dead To Me tackles the Arts & Crafts Movement, featuring the wonderful Cariad Lloyd & needlework expert Dr Isabella Rosner. It’s a very fun, big vibes one! Listen first on BBC Sounds! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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Just found out that as of today that History as a whole is being notified that we’re at risk of redundancy. This’ll be the second time I’ve had to reapply for my own job in under 5 years! Our sector is at breaking point.

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Advertising quack medicines in early 20th century Edinburgh – you can get an idea of their wares by the signs saying ‘Men! Men!’, ‘Hygienic Appliances’ and ‘Private side door entrance’

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For any scholar working on the 19th-c. press, a Curran Fellowship can be a big help. Everybody is eligible, and the application is blessedly straightforward. This year's deadline is next week: Wednesday, January 15. Recommendation letters due Jan 22. rs4vp.org/awards/curra... #19th-c

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A true #Housegawp - I gasped out loud.

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Newspaper-seller at Ludgate Circus in the 1880s, traffic clattering past her

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Just an incredible opportunity from 1935

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my students in the last decade have become teachers, barristers, lawyers, civil servants, midwives, ICU nurses, journalists, accountants, academics, advertising execs, museum curators, TV producers… because we give them broad skills. If I had to train them to do a job they’d all be historians.

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Found this sweet New Year's resolution from virtuoso violinist Marie Hall on @digivictorian.bsky.social's tw*tter feed: "Never despair, no matter how black the future may appear to be." From Answers magazine, 1909

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Something lovely for the weekend! Marvellous clay pots with octopus decoration made by artisans from Bronze Age Crete about 3,500 years ago! 🐙❤️ Heraklion Archaeological Museum. 📷 by me #Archaeology

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So, it turns out that the New Year is a terrible time to launch a new series, because all the journalists and publicity people are off work... BUT WE'RE DOING IT ANYWAY! BBC You're Dead To Me, series 9, starts January 3rd. Shorter radio edits every saturday morning at 10am on BBC Radio 4

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Every time you share a "The Conversation" post I want to remind you that they have a multi-million dollar annual budget and pay writers zero dollars, including adjuncts and grad students. We cannot rely on exploited labor to achieve a better public humanities. www.patreon.com/posts/better...

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Friends don’t let friends write for the Conversation! (Not least because they will take your unpaid contribution and franchise it out to the Daily Mail.)

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Today's #MastheadMonday features the Railway Bell (1844-1846), one of a number of short-lived newspapers launched at the height of the 'Railway Mania' of the mid-1840s. This was digitised by the British Library and is free to view on the BNA: www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/titles/railw...

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He's hiring a ship He's packing his cloak He's moving to England To follow some bloke Dracula is coming to town

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On Monday we began a Starter Pack of societies and organisations (UK and international) for historians. Thanks to your recommendations and help, we've added another 40 societies and networks to the listing this week bsky.app/starter-pack... #Skystorians

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This is what's so baffling about so many suggestions for AI in the humanities classroom: they mistake the product for the point. Writing outlines and essays is important not because you need to make outlines and essays but because that's how you learn to think with/through complex ideas.

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Hey folks I’m currently pouring through @pfyfe.bsky.social's excellent book yet again preparing for our chat on Thursday—if you're interested in DH, Victorian studies, nineteenth-century media, periodicals, distant reading, AI, or anything in between you should join us!

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We've created a Starter Pack of #History societies and groups working to support promote our disciple and historians, in higher education and related professions go.bsky.app/68FsvjY Mainly UK but also international, with selected societies from related humanities subjects. Please share #Skystorians

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Sarah Manguso should be in charge of everything:

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This poem by Mary Robinson, published in The Morning Post in 1800, addressed to that newspaper's "Type," really must be the only poem about a typeface (as well as in a typeface) written in the #19thc. (But, gosh, I would be happy to hear of others.) Here are the first 2 stanzas. #BookHistory

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Looking for radical histories on Bluesky? We've made a two Starter Packs of people & organisations who stretch our idea of what history is, who it is made by & what it is for. Please share and let us know if you'd like to be added. 🗃️ Here's Part II: go.bsky.app/9N31SS8

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The settings on the new Christmas lights we’ve just got have the makings of a classic shoegaze album🎅

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that sound you just heard was every historian in the country just screaming with frustration

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📢 Job Klaxon: Lecturer in Cultural Analytics and Knowledge Systems (UCL) Looking for someone who studies text at scale, with humanities applications. To work with me on a new programme in London Permanent role £51-60k 19 Dec deadline www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

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I pulled off a real coup when I won ‘Dove Imitator Of The Year’.

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The scene in The Pickwick Papers which is forever lodged in my brain:

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Over on another platform, @realjimshady.bsky.social made a joke about Sun Tzu’s "The Art of the War on Christmas," so of course I needed to know what that book might sound like. I turned to GPT & here are some plum excerpts: +

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A large number of History posts at Britain's universities have already gone, and many more are under threat. In my view we could lose nearly a third of posts. The @royalhistsoc.bsky.social has prepared a toolkit for colleagues at risk, which is here: blog.royalhistsoc.org/2022/05/24/s...

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It's #Christmas shopping season, we're all sick of #BlackFriday emails, so here's a thread of the most fashionable gift ideas from the late #C19th & early 20th centuries. What would you pick? (Personally I'm not sure I'd thank someone for 'a pomade for itching, burning face spots'!?) 1/- 🧵

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Upon graduating medical school in 1881, Arthur Conan Doyle did a little doodle of himself waving his diploma over his head. The caption reads: "Licensed to Kill." My next book, SLEUTH-HOUND, is about Conan Doyle's professor, Joseph Bell - the real-life Sherlock Holmes. #skystorians #histmed

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If you’ve got young kids and need a cheap Xmas gift, please permit me to wave my children’s books in your face! They’re funny, factual history books for kids aged 7-12, and have hilarious illustrations. They’re dead cheap, and I do personally signed copies through @foxlanebooks.bsky.social 🙏👍😁🎁🎄

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Isn’t this beautiful? Finding my family (a trick cycle troupe) on Music Hall posters was just so formative for me as a baby historian, tracing their national and international tours for my BA.

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Everyone’s all about the weird Victorian Christmas cards, BUT may I interest you in Weird Victorian Christmas TATTOOS?!

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Happened on this while going through some old files. Jane Carlyle to her mother, Grace Welsh, 17 May 1839, about Thomas's final lecture in the series on "Modern Revolutions." Don't know what a "pluister" is, but I find TC's self-torment entirely relatable.

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Just because I miss some good images on here. Entry to The Strand from Charing Cross, plate twenty from Original Views of London as It Is (1842) - Thomas Shotter Boys (English, 1803-1874). Art Institute Chicago

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