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I'm involved in this programme with a project on 'Forging Social Solidarities during Religious Wars', which is recruiting a Career Development Fellow and funding a PhD candidate in early modern European history – please share widely! I'm happy to chat with anyone interested in applying #earlymodern

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It’s been 10 years since my wonderful Nana Audrey passed away, and this weekend we found a small box of her things in the loft that we hadn’t noticed before. In it is this Autograph book, started in 1936 when she was 13 and ending in 1945. It is too wonderful not to share - a short 🧵 1/5

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🦠 Contagion and Contamination in the Nineteenth Century, a free and online one-day interdisciplinary workshop. Thursday 1 May, 9.00am – 5.00pm (Central European Time). For the full program and to register for the workshop, visit: cn-csi.com/event/contag...

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Is there something you needed to be checked in Paris - mostly BNF and Archives Nationales Pierrefitte? I am lucky enough to head there now, and happy to assist with reference hunting, particularly (but not only) for junior colleagues.

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First rope climb for the Little Person - proud mama moment! 🧗

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Take part in the UK’s national festival of the humanities (6–15 November 2025) and help to demonstrate and celebrate the importance of research in the humanities. Funding grants available! Find out more: https://buff.ly/4hIC1RF

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The call for applications for Being Human 2025 is now open!💥 We've got funding grants of up to £8,000 available for researchers to hold events as part of this year's national festival of the humanities. Find out more: www.beinghumanfestival.org/get-involved

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@natalieroxburgh.bsky.social and I are looking forward to hosting BritCult's 18th workshop for PhD candidates and postdocs on 9-10 May 2025 @uni-hamburg.de. This year's topic is "Assessing Illness and Health through Cultural Studies". You can find the programme here: www.britcult.de/wp-content/u...

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Thrilled to say that the Royal School of Needlework is hosting its first ever academic conference, in conjunction with @pasoldresearchfund.bsky.social! Here is the call for papers for “Stitched Together,” which will be held on 21-22 August at Hampton Court Palace. Please share!

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The @frenchhistory.bsky.social is recruiting another associate editor to join our team, with a preference for an 18th c or revolution specialist. The journal team are a wonderful intellectual community behind loads of recent exciting initiatives 🗃️ frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/associate-ed...

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Just 3 years after biologists discovered the flu virus in 1892, the horrible gravity of Man Flu was already known...

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Thursday 1st May - Save the Date Join @cncsi.bsky.social for our Spring Workshop Day on ‘Contagion and Contamination in the Nineteenth Century’! Watch this space for an impressive line up of speakers and the registration link to be announced shortly: www.dur.ac.uk/research/ins...

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I’m delighted to be on the team for this new journal as Recordings Editor - if you’d like to review any recorded media from, related to, or inspired by the global 19th century, do get in touch!

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On Cardiff’s proposals regarding the teaching of languages and cultures The global examination of culture is not possible without languages at degree level, say Wendy Ayres-Bennett, Charles Burdett and Emma Cayley www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/card...

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Theatre Studies @uofglasgow.bsky.social & Scottish Theatre Archive are piloting a Practitioner Residency! Open to self-employed artist practitioners not funded in full by another org to develop a project engaging w/ archive. Fee: £2000. Deadline: 21 Feb. Pass it on! www.gla.ac.uk/subjects/the...

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🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

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www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... The John Rylands Library is looking for a new Head of Collections. Please do share widely. I'd like a good boss 😁 @historyhannahb.bsky.social @janeydonald.bsky.social @bronterre1.bsky.social

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Job klaxon! Come and work with us as Manager of the Digital Humanities Research Hub in the School of Advanced Study, University of London @dh-researchhub.bsky.social #DigitalHumanities

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Our PhD Placement Scheme is BACK! Call for applications for 3-6 month placements at The British Library. All current PhD students registered with a UK university are eligible. Deadline 21st Feb, 5pm. For more information, & how to apply, please see our temporary website: www.bl.uk/more/researc...

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I have taken the resources that were in the budget and which you were probably saving for higher education Forgive me they were needed to feed the AI bubble and to dismantle the humanities

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Yesterday, I had a joyous morning doing groundwork for my @britishacademy.bsky.social Talent Development grant to (re)make the dresses of 3 fascinating women performers from 19th Paris. A delight somewhat tarnished by receiving the next wave of redundancy emails from Newcastle Uni…

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@serenadyer.bsky.social & I are pleased to announce a #cfp for our new edited online collection of Reflective Recreations with @bloomsburyfashion.bsky.social We seek short pieces of 1k words around recreative practice in dress & fashion history, museum studies & more! See the call & deadline below:

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💫Calling our ECR and PG members💫 Remember to submit your entry to the SDN Publication Prize 2025. The prize is awarded to a PG or ECR member of the Society for the best peer-reviewed journal article in French and Francophone nineteenth-century studies published during 2024.

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Post-Revolutionary melancholia getting you down? How about a song? Dr Annelies Andries will be telling the Music, Medicine & History Network more about how the French used 'romance' songs to combat mental illness around 1800. Weds 15th January - Zoom link & more details: musicmedicinehistory.org

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“It's amazing how pollution has dropped in #Paris in 15 years. @annehidalgo.bsky.social has filled the city with bike-lanes & not only has she reduced pollution by 40% but she’s also been re-elected.” Trading car space for green space, bike space, kid space…trading pollution for people. Good trade.

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3-year Research Fellowships at Girton College! Come & be part of this wonderful, welcoming academic environment. This year they're open in Asian & Middle Eastern Studies; Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic Studies; English; Linguistics; Modern & Medieval Languages. www.girton.cam.ac.uk/job-vacancie...

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Today, the UK government announced a proposal to change copyright law - for the benefit of AI companies - that would cause huge, irreversible harm to creators. More info below, but most importantly here's what you can do (wherever you live): 1. Email your MP. Template letter in 🧵 👇 1/10

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⛏️ Miners' Modernism: Pithead Baths They brought European architectural modernism to working communities across the country, and delivered widespread health and welfare benefits 20 years before the founding of the NHS, yet Britain’s pioneering Pithead Baths have been almost completely forgotten...🧵

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Nothing to blow away grey-day blues like writing some Lincolnshire dialect.

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Want to know more about how the classical world thought music made babies grow? Look no further! Wednesday 11th December - a free online seminar from the Music, Medicine & History Network, with guest speaker Dr Francesco Pelosi. Zoom link & more details: musicmedicinehistory.org/wednesday-se...

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🗣️Calling all students/ECRs! The London Archives are hosting Lightning Talk sessions in January for any topics on London and Londoners. Sign up and submit abstracts below ⬇️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lightning-...

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Fascinating online seminar coming up with the Music, Medicine & History Network on December 11th - 'Music and embryology in the Pythagorean tradition & the Hippocratic writings' with Francesco Pelosi (Università di Pisa) Zoom room & more details here: musicmedicinehistory.org

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Career Development Fellow in Early Modern English Literature Durham university Fixed term - full time two years Mentorship included www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/list...

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Because nothing says happy birthday baby god quite like — checks notes — a giant revolving German sausage shop.

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For any humanities scholars and professionals in the UK, this is worth looking at www.sas.ac.uk/research-eng...

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Lecturer in History of Medicine and Health (Teaching and Research) The University of Manchester - Biology, Medicine Health - Division of Medical Education - School of Medical Sciences #skystorians 🗃️ www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKQ271/l...

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