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Garden Snowdrops. 📷 #photography #ClassicMono

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Not just 'unfairly penalised' but also excluded from some essential services for disability reasons (or forced to pay, eg. for paper copies of utility bills). Accessibility 101 @jowolff.bsky.social?

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Exciting! I wonder where they will be on show... www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

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Good news!

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For those stymied by the withdrawal of the online resource of #WilliamGodwin’s diary, there is now a temporary site available, courtesy of the University of Warwick, at the Bodleian’s holding page (with some constraints on functionality): godwindiary.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

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1. Thanks for the kind words, likes and reposts. I’m turning this into a short thread about Volume 4 of the OUP edition of Godwin’s letters.

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Indispensable resource for many researchers - the temporary site will be well used.

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For those stymied by the withdrawal of the online resource of #WilliamGodwin’s diary, there is now a temporary site available, courtesy of the University of Warwick, at the Bodleian’s holding page (with some constraints on functionality): godwindiary.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

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Around 400,000 people work in universities across the UK, and more then 200,000 of them are academics. The closures and job losses we’re seeing in the sector just now are a major industrial crises affecting the key workplaces and economic drivers of hundreds of towns and cities.

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16th February 2025 07.28

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A very helpful guide to digitised C19th letters. But the loss of the Disraeli letters site and the Hansard at Huddersfield site, in particular, is immense: a warning of how ephemeral online resources can be.

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What did the radical polymath #WilliamGodwin do on #Valentine’sDay, 1793? He published his love letter to humanity, An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, in which he denounced government corruption & envisaged a new society based on justice, equality, tolerance, & mutual moral accountability. 1/2

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What did the radical polymath #WilliamGodwin do on #Valentine’sDay, 1793? He published his love letter to humanity, An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, in which he denounced government corruption & envisaged a new society based on justice, equality, tolerance, & mutual moral accountability. 1/2

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The Dr Williams Library is relocating to the John Rylands Library in Manchester! This is absolutely fabulous news! The Rylands already has incredible archival riches, but this is going to consolidate it as a major centre of nonconformist writing 🌟 dwl.ac.uk

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The 1818 General Election: my piece on #WilliamGodwin’s report on the intensely fought metropolitan contest is now online [no pay wall] ecppec.ncl.ac.uk/features/the...

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Groundbreaking botanical discoveries on Captain Cook voyage were thanks to Indigenous people

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For anyone interested in #c18th political or electoral history & for students researching EPQs, special subjects &/or final year dissertations, do check out the wealth of data & information available on our Political Participation & Electoral Culture (ECPPEC) website #skystorians 🗃️ecppec.ncl.ac.uk

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cherwell.org/2025/02/03/o...

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#Imbolc is a Gaelic festival marking the beginning of spring, held on 1 February. A time of celebration and ritual, often honouring Brighid, the goddess of the hearth Mary Delany, Galanthus Nivalis, Snowdrop, 1777 #WomensArt

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Something lovely for the weekend! A stunning 2,000 year-old Roman emerald green glass bowl 💚 📷 The Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti... #Archaeology

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This month’s blogpost claims that Thomas Spence’s methods of disseminating political information are still being used today. rachelhammersley.com/new-blog/202...

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Welcome to the National Library of Scotland's Bluesky account! We're chuffed to be joining you all here 🦋 Lets run through some introductions!

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My book manuscript has officially been sent to production with @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social, expected in August 2025. Finalised blurb below, looking forward to having you read this thing!

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Thanks, @sel1500to1900.bsky.social for promoting my essay!

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Some good news in time for Burns Night. We’ve just announced a new funded PHD as part of wider research into Robert Burns and the Environment. Watch this space. @glasgowburns.bsky.social

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Oidhche Bhlas Burns - Happy Burns Night. In 1930, the Royal Academician Norman Wilkinson painted this poster for the London, Midland & Scottish and London & North Eastern Railways, showing the birthplace of Robert Burns. #BurnsNight2025

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The Castlebridge colliery banner exemplifies the place Burns has occupied in the Scottish labour movement as a people's poet. Burns in this image is a lasting, powerful and emotive figure whose words convey an enduring democratic and egalitarian message.

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Enjoy these delicate but vibrant chromolithographs by H. Isabel Adams, from her Wild Flowers of the British Isles (1907) ~ wood spurge /common box/dog’s mercury ■ crocus and iris ■ poppies www.panteek.com/Adams/pages/...

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We are delighted to announce our #CfP for 'Plants and People: the cultivation and propagation of botanical knowledge among non-professional communities, c.1600–1800'! Please email your abstracts (300 words) and bios to @zarakesterton.bsky.social @lucyjhavard.bsky.social, by 14 March 🪴

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In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times. Bertolt Brecht

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Enchanting Roman wall fresco of a lush garden, rich in plant and bird life. From a reception room at the House of the Golden Bracelet, Pompeii. 1st century BC - 1st century AD 📷 by me #FrescoFriday #Archaeology

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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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If you are a PGR student working on any aspect of 18th-Century Studies, then you should definitely consider submitting an application to the York Centre for 18th-Century Studies PG conference. CFP dealine 31 Jan. #18c #BSECS2025

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The 1818 General Election: my piece on #WilliamGodwin’s report on the intensely fought metropolitan contest is now online [no pay wall] ecppec.ncl.ac.uk/features/the...

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"[It] may be right to view with a certain irony those [who work as] dispassionate analysts standing above the battle. What the historical record strongly suggests is that no one is above the battle, because the battle is all there is" - Quentin Skinner, Visions (2002), I, p. 7

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#StainedGlassSunday Arts & Crafts window by J Edgar Mitchell fills entry staircase of Newcastle's Laing Art Gallery. Designed for 1904 opening to celebrate coming together of painting, sculpture, decorative + other arts, w cIty coat of arms at top. In storage for years until restored for centenary.

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Easy like Sunday evenings used to be. Piano performance by Peter Fagerlind. Stunning photography. youtu.be/poQEG2DSANE?...

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In 1958 British artist S R Badmin was commissioned to produce a series of 12 illustrations for the Shell Guide to Trees and Shrubs. Here's January www.google.com/search?sca_e...

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