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‘Medical misogyny’ leaving women in pain - good to see widespread coverage of this Select Committee report www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

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Off to York archives today to see some documents recently affected with mould - now treated but I have to wear PPE to read them. Wish me luck! 🗃️

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Off to York archives today to see some documents recently affected with mould - now treated but I have to wear PPE to read them. Wish me luck!

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Columbia cancelled her course on "Race, Media and International Affairs 101." So she decided to teach it over the summer— online.

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Sir John Elliott Junior Research Fellowship in History 1500-1800 University of Oxford - Oriel College #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMT630/s...

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If you know, you know

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8.30am on Easter Sunday and already 30% chocolate

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I'm gripped by the ever-increasing bling in Trump’s Oval Office. What does it mean? Yes, Trump has bad taste. But also something else. Here’s an art historical view. 🧵 1/

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The Trump regime is now using US Attorneys to intimidate academic journals by sending them letters demanding they explain how they ensure ‘viewpoint diversity.’ Journal editors should be public about this and coordinate to refuse to comply with these fascist tactics.

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13 Blackfriars St, Edinburgh—currently eight flats (after modernisation); probably more in the 1870s, when it was built as working-class housing to replace the "rotten, ruinous old buildings" and the "congeries of dark and wretched lanes" of the area. Former residents include:

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On Tuesday, the Texas Senate passed SB 37, which removes faculty oversight of the core curriculum, particularly humanities and social science courses (particularly History courses) AND strips university faculty senates of any real input in shared governance. www.texastribune.org/2025/04/10/t...

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Great opportunity if you have community engagement experience to work on this UK women’s history project with the fab Lyndsey Jenkins (you don’t need a degree). Well paid and opportunities to work remotely.

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Unlocking the secrets of the universe 🌌 Scientists have made a landmark discovery, uncovering the first clear evidence that matter particles - known as baryons - behave differently from their antimatter counterparts. Uncover the full story now 👇

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Nasty work. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/m...

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Read this fascinating interview by our very own @historyhannahb.bsky.social about her new co-authored book 'Faith in the Town: Lay Religion in Northern Towns, 1740-1830', which is hot off the press with Oxford University Press: sites.manchester.ac.uk/bodies-emoti...

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I’ve been interviewed about our new book by the bodies, emotions and material culture collective @bemccollective.bsky.social @kategibson.bsky.social

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A 450-yo oak is felled without permission by a Toby Carvery (don’t eat there), who falsely claimed it was "dead". A tree alive when The Gunpowder Plot was hatched, which supports a web of 2000+ species, is in pieces. Legal protection for heritage trees needed. enfielddispatch.co.uk/toby-carvery...

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We're hosting a workshop on 'South Asian Women's Activism and Agency' on Thursday 8th May (draft programme below). We're delighted to have a brilliant group of speakers joining us. Our keynotes will be Amrit Wilson and Samita Sen. If you would like to join us, please get in touch to register.

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How is the crisis in higher education impacting history and historians in the UK? Lucy Noakes on the scale of cuts and closures, and how the Royal Historical Society (@royalhistsoc.org) can advocate for our discipline. www.historyworkshop....

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Looking for a colleague! #EconSky Interested in becoming a Professor of Business Psychology (with a focus on Quantitative Methods) in Germany? No German skills required! Please share with your network —more details from me below. stellen.reutlingen-university.de/jobposting/3...

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”Because it is the day of Palms, Carry a palm for me, Carry a palm in Santa Chiara, And I will watch the sea…” Palm Sunday, Arthur Symons Entry into Jerusalem, Fresco c. 1320 by Pietro Lorenzetti, San Francesco, Assisi #PalmSunday

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This week we were delighted to publish 'Reading Gender and Identity in Seventeenth-Century England', by Hannah Jeans bit.ly/4c7Oufy Hannah's is the 22nd title in the 'New Historical Perspectives' book series with @ihr.bsky.social and @uolpress.bsky.social #Skystorians 1/2

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The UK car industry contributes £22bn to the economy and employs c 35k people. Universities contribute £265bn and employ nearly 400k, over 10x as much. Yet he seems ok to let that sector implode.

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New history book timeline cleanse 🗃️

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New book arrival timeline cleanse (if that’s not a thing it should be)

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University of Derby faces mass job cuts as management plans to make half of senior academics redundant. Please spread the word. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1398...

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Enjoying reading some of Anne Lister’s correspondence today

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This remains totally outrageous. The National Library of Australia ought to be totally ashamed. And every Australian librarian should be writing to them in protest. updates.timsherratt.org/2025/04/11/u...

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Reminder that Exeter are currently advertising a 1 year post for an #EarlyModern #History lecturer to cover teaching while my colleague and I are on research leave during year 3 of our Leverhulme project:

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OK folks - will you please help me spread this far and wide. A really exciting opportunity to be the new Director of Comms at @britishacademy.bsky.social - the national academy for humanities and social sciences. £100k. Lovely team. Reports directly to me micro.green-park.co.uk/thebritishac...

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Sir William Beechey, portrait of a young Kenneth Dixon playing shuttlecock (c1790), SMK, Copenhagen #c18th #c18 #18thc

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Hi! Are you a US researcher who spent time thinking about humans? Then your work is in danger of censorship and loss. I'm here to walk you through basic self-archiving. Maybe you think I am being hyperbolic. You only worked on bacteria! Not your problem. Do me a favor and join me anyway.

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Reminder: New MA Scholarship in Maritime History at @ueahistory.bsky.social starting in 2025, funded by the generosity of @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social alumni Dominic Christian. ⚓⚓⚓ For details & eligibility see: uea.ac.uk/study/fees-a... Apply by 2/5/2025

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'Material masculinities: men and goods in eighteenth-century England' is out with @manchesterup.bsky.social today! A book on the materiality of men's lives 1660-1832 covering the significant changes in what it meant to be a man & what it meant to own 'things' during the time. Thanks to follow below:

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New today from our GENDER IN HISTORY series 📣 Material Masculinities by @benltjackson.bsky.social explores how material objects were integral for men in forming their identities and shaping experiences in the eighteenth-century. Endorsed by @historymatt.bsky.social #GenderinHistory #18thCentury

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I realise your minds are elsewhere but this is a good FT editorial on the US administration’s destructive approach to science and research on.ft.com/3DYLOoa

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Delighted to see this excellent new book from Ben Jackson out this week from the Gender in History series at @manchesterup.bsky.social. Historians of the 18thc, Britain, or masclinity or material culture, here's one for you!

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If the world feels too much today, why not head off to the 18th century (it’s free)

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This is high art

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