John-Erik : you need one of these. (I've got one, and yes, students loved it). PS : you need to build it first.....
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John-Erik : you need one of these. (I've got one, and yes, students loved it). PS : you need to build it first.....
www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/...
Farewell Country Joe MacDonald.
He mercilessly excoriated Nixon and Vietnam.
We need another like him now.
Give me an ‘F’…
youtube.com/watch?v=ft0v...
Are you studying, researching or teaching the histories of gender? Try using the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH). It contains 670,000+ resources from 55 BCE to today! Find out how to use BBIH buff.ly/yD11954 @brepols.net
WORKSHOP: A Friendly Introduction to Palaeography!
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15 April | 2pm-4:30pm
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Many thanks to Dr Daniel Starza Smith for a brilliantly engaging workshop today on letterlocking. We all hugely enjoyed learning how to fold, tuck and adhere our own letters.
Thank you Prof. Julia Crick and @drdavidrundle.bsky.social for organising and @leverhulme.ac.uk for making this possible!
Just a reminder... Tomorrow, 5 March, 5.30 pm ✨ Sue Wiseman, Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social ,
and Michael Powell Davies @mdpowelldavies.bsky.social speaking on "Written Worlds: Non-Elite Writers in Early Modern England" Sign-up in person & online: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
The main function of punctuation is to resolve ambiguities. There is no ambiguity here, as far as I can see.
Men studying a dragon
ENDOWED PROFESSORSHIP IN HISTORY OF SCIENCE
My home department at Uppsala University is advertising an endowed professorship in the history of science. This is the best position in the field in Sweden, and probably in all of Scandinavia. Apply before 30 April 2026. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
Thread: imagine you're a historian surveying 16th century copies of the world's most famous ancient astronomy book, and you see one where somebody with handwriting VERY similar to GALILEO (!?) has transcribed... a psalm.
"Galileo, a prayer? That's something that doesn't work," Ivan Malara thought.
The UK Green Party stormed to victory in Thursday's by-election in the Labour stronghold of Gorton and Denton, bagging over 40 percent of the vote.
The result deals a serious blow for PM Keir Starmer.
Read the full story: www.politico.eu/article/uk-g...
Hi #HistSTM #MaterialCulture #VisualCulture #ECR ,
Please submit you unpublished articles for the 2026 Nuncius Prize.
We would love to see your article published.
I think there's a clue in the term 'Parliamentary' monarchy. They've been changing the rules of succession since 1701
Brainwashing, 2026 edition. This paper shows how X's algorithmic feed shifts people's views rightwards. It's a sophisticated, highly effective form of reorientation. And it is utterly chilling.
If you're still on that platform, unhook yourself now.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
OBS / Lincoln College research associate position!
We invite early career / grad scholars to apply to our new 2-week research associate position @lincoln.ox.ac.uk. Any interesting projects that will benefit from 2 weeks at Lincoln -- £500, accommodation and meals. Deadline 27th March
This sounds absolutely amazing!
I hope not!
Permanent post in the history of the Middle East after 1800 at York!
Plus three fixed term posts
1) Medieval History 1100-1450
2) Modern China
3) Britain/Public History
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US Supreme Court rules Trump’s sweeping tariffs are illegal.
If you have graduate students working with medieval manuscripts this free online training might be useful 👇
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L: Private Eye front cover, yesterday.
R: News headline, today.
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The SAES (Société des Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur), the main society for academics in the English studies field in France, left X in December 2024
Epstein saw Brexit as incredible opportunity: "Descent into “tribalism”, as he called it, would open the door to millions of back door deals among the wealthy who would be the only remaining bidders in the fire sale of the UK’s collapsing assets"
georgetsakraklides.substack.com/p/power-mone...
Jobs: Dutch, French, Indonesian; Computational Linguistics, Phonetics, Phonology, Sociolinguistics: Language Annotation Expert - Bahasa Indonesia, Canadian French (preferably), Dutch, Rime Labs
University of Illinois Press Ready to Launch Your Career? Internship Opportunity UIP invites applications for an assistant to the director 8-12 hours/week for the full calendar year ideal for grad students hybrid position pay rate is $20/hour For full consideration, applications should be received by February 13. Apply Now
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Position: Assistant to the Director
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#jobfairy this is an intriguing one - 18 month research fellowship for an object-focused historian, museums studies person or similar at Chatsworth House! £48k + £11k travel, outreach etc #skystorians
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQK358/d...
BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors
🚨History Job: Assistant Professor in Early Modern British History (Permanent) 🗃️
Come work with us at Warwick! You will join a group of excellent early-modernists and one of the nicest bunches of historians around!
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@uni-of-warwick.bsky.social
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The North East’s Green Super Port: 18 months on, the opportunity remains vast
The next step is decisive action. Done right, the Green Super Port will not just coordinate ports and airports - it will transform the North East economy
northeastbylines.co.uk/news/environ...
Graphic showing Peter Thiel - chair of Palantir Technologies - and some of the powerful figures in his network including Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Larry Ellison, Peter Mandelson, Steve Bannon
What’s happening in America is technofascism. It could happen here
Peter Thiel's data company is powering ICE operations in the US. In part 2 of the Nerve’s Palantir series, @carolecadwalla.bsky.social argues that the UK will be next - and we map Thiel’s network🧵
www.thenerve.news/p/technofasc...
Larry the Cat spot on as usual
