James Kneale

The front cover of The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Geographies, edited by Peter Merriman, Anna Secor and Shanti Sumartojo

Great to see this new Handbook of Cultural Geographies out, with chapters by Newcastle Geography’s @peterhopkins.bsky.social on Intersection, @anoop79.bsky.social &
Daniel Barwick on Black Lives, @alisonstenning.bsky.social on Playing, and @bagelwoman.bsky.social (& Noam Leshem) on Witness.

Picture of women on a beach John Leech, ‘The mermaids' haunt’. The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1854 - 1869. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs. Picture Collection, The New York Public Library.

Call for Papers: Women’s Fieldwork and the Making of Nineteenth Century Natural History Collections
We seek articles to complete a special issue on women’s field collecting, and contributions to nineteenth century natural history for Nuncius.
#Histsci #NaturalHistory #WomensHistory #Fieldwork

"In Place"--- An Archive of Displaced Headstones in London Parks & Gardens "In Place"  is an archival and research-led visual project documenting displaced headstones embedded within London’s contemporary public landscape. Before the mid-nineteenth century, many of London’s ...

Artist Timothy Yufit’s In Place project uses Layers of London to document displaced headstones embedded within London’s parks and public spaces. These fragmented historical traces remain present within the contemporary urban landscape. www.layersoflondon.org/map/collecti...

Black and white photo of mixed heritage family, children playing, parents talking, at door of house

Race, Obsolescence and the Management of
‘Surplus’ Populations in Postwar Liverpool

Free talk, all welcome, Wed 11 March, 2pm, after the society's annual general meeting, Liverpool Central Library, Fourth Floor Meeting Room

by Dr Sam Wetherell @samwetherell.bsky.social, University of York

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PANEL DISCUSSION: CITY SICKNESS - IN SEARCH OF LONDON'S HEALTH HISTORY Join us for a panel discussion on the history of health and disease in London. Ross Macfarlane is joined by Elma Brenner and Richard Barnett

Unmissable event coming up in London on 24th of March on the city’s histories of health in disease. Dream panel of Ross MacFarlane, Elma Brenner, and Richard Barnett. Details and link to tickets below. #histmed

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/panel-disc...

Women, faith, and anti-apartheid activism in late twentieth-century Britain Between 1989 and 1990 grassroots members of the Methodist women’s movement in Britain made, displayed, and exchanged an anti-apartheid ribbon. Constructed of hundreds of individual panels made by l...

Really pleased to see another part of @hannahworthen.bsky.social & my research into #Methodist #women published. This article is all about Over the Rainbow. A craft-led anti-apartheid campaign organised by Methodist women www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

My book just got passed by the final reviewer!!! Look for ‘Mortality and Measurement’ this year! If anyone would like a sneak peak, let me know. Happy to travel or zoom to hang out and discuss race, statistics, medicine, and empire.

Multispecies Mutualisms - Join Our Research Team! We’re hiring 4 Postdoctoral Research Associates (PDRAs) In this video, members of the team share insights into four exciting PDRA opportunities currently available. If you are ready to take the next s...

A rare thing: *four* three-year hums/soc-sci posts in animal studies, on the Multispecies Mutualisms project at UoSheffield - with @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social, me, Robert McKay and Alasdair Cochrane; see here for a video explainer: digitalmedia.sheffield.ac.uk/media/Multis...

New calls for research funding from the Royal Historical Society: opening in March 2026 - RHS The Society currently invites applications for the following two schemes — open to postgraduate researchers and early career historians — with closing dates of 5 June 2026. For further information on ...

Money for UK-based historians engaged in research and/or public history. #Skystorians

Growing Up in the Early Modern World, a workshop Nov 27 in Sydney exploring childhood in institutional settings, & care, discipline & education across the life course. Please submit a 200 word abstract & 3-sentence bio note by 15 July to paula.plastic@mq.edu.au. Online/hybrid participation possible.

With @olliedouglas.bsky.social of @themerl.bsky.social and my esteemed colleague Julie-Marie Strange @durhamhistory.bsky.social - in the recently restored Redhills, historic home of the Durham Miners’ Association and the Pitmen’s Parliament. 🗃️📜🐄

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PhD Funding!

University of Leeds

The School of History invites Black, Asian and other minoritised ethnic scholars who wish to pursue a PhD to apply for the Access to Research Scholarship.

Scholarship is open to those who are eligible to pay UK fees.

phd.leeds.ac.uk/funding/387-...

A photo of part of UCL Portico, showing four banners made with the new brand design. The text on the banner on the left reads 'Here, we make buildings more sustainable."

A close up of two banners. The one on the left shows Monty reading a note while Withnail looks on behind him. The text under it reads 'Here hare, here"

Confusing messaging, IMO (from an original idea by @matdisney.bsky.social)

Witchcraft and Magic in England, c. 1400–1920 Explore five centuries of English witchcraft and magic with records from leading archives, tracing trials, folklore, belief, and cultural change.

New collection—Witchcraft and Magic in England, c. 1400–1920.

It explores the place of witchcraft in English history, as well as the influence of alchemy, astrology, herbalism, and related esoteric practices!

Learn more at britishonlinearchives.com/collections/....

Review whether students with no A levels should get loans – v-c ‘Difficult questions’ must be confronted as English funding system ‘not working for anyone’, says Birmingham’s Adam Tickell

"We’re investing so much money in people who…we are not really capable of graduating.”

Having a difficult time at school, for whatever reason, should not have to be an insurmountable obstacle to HE. This shitty idea will entrench privilege. Gross.

www.timeshighereducation.com/news/review-...

Stop Palantir taking over our public services! Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.

Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.

AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) studentship – ‘Urgent rescue curation of space heritage in a time of world crisis’ with The Science Museum Group and University College London at Universi... PhD Project - AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) studentship – ‘Urgent rescue curation of space heritage in a time of world crisis’ with The Science Museum Group and University College Lond...

We have a 4-year AHRC-funded PhD studentship on 'Rescue curation of space heritage' advertised!

Supervision by me, space scientist Lucie Green (@luciegreen.bsky.social), and curators of space and engineering at the Science Museum, Doug Millard and Ben Russell

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Does this explain why a primary school was lethally obliterated twice?

Photograph of front covers of 10 books by Terrance Dicks. Top row: Doctor Who and the Keeper of Traken; Doctor Who and the Auton Invasion; The Adventures of K9; Dalek Special; and Shakedown. Bottom row: The Adventures of David and Goliath - Sports Day; T.R. Bear Afloat; The Camden School Kids School Fair; War of the Witches; and Wereboy!

It's #WorldBookDay and while archives don't tend to be somewhere you find a lot of published books, our new Terrance Dicks Archive came with a full library of his works - and who were we to say no? Let us know if you spot an old favourite among this (very select) selection 📖

We visited pubs across the country, from the desi pubs of the West Midlands to a Rochdale Wetherspoons with pitstops at rural pubs and many more.

It includes a family story taking us from my Great-Granddad's pub in Tanzania to my Dad's pub in Southall and back to the Midlands via the Punjab.

Pubs for the People by me & Vallu is out with @manchesterup.bsky.social in October. On how the pub can be salvaged as a space for the Good Life that goes beyond boring ideas of White England.

A bargain at £18.99 in hardback (cant even get 3 pints for that!)

www.waterstones.com/book/pubs-fo...

Physical Disability and Deformity in Nineteenth-Century Britain Offering historical primary sources that outline both medical and experiential perspectives of physical disability, this book provides frequently mentioned but rarely provided material and supports re...

I have an edited primary source collection coming out on disability and deformity in c19th Britain. My hope is that you find it useful for teaching (apologies for the abstract, I did not write it! and the cost) #histmed #dishist www.routledge.com/Physical-Dis...

Assistant Professor in 18th Century Literature at Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin Discover an exciting academic career path as a Assistant Professor in 18th Century Literature at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!

Come and join us!!

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQS657/a...

Square Peg, Round Hole - The Massachusetts Review A review of Uncanny Valley Girls: Essays on Horror, Survival, and Love (Harper Perennial 2025) by Zefyr Lisowski and Scream with Me: Horror Films and the Rise of American Feminism (1968-1980) (Atria 2...

"I more than once mentally thanked Lisowski in Uncanny Valley Girls for the respect she affords films like Antichrist & The Ring merely by refraining from jamming the square peg of horror into liberal feminism’s round hole."

Me on horror + feminism, now & in the '70s: massreview.org/2026/03/03/s...

If anyone is friends with any Georgian air traffic controllers, buy them a nice bottle of wine. As guardians of pretty much the only narrow gap still available between Europe and Asia that avoids both Iran, the Gulf, Ukraine and Russia, they are under some substantial pressure.

Awesome scenes at another @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social picket line today @northumbriauni.bsky.social. We were delighted and humbled to welcome student Sam, who brought biscuits, and gave a great speech in support of staff. 🫶

Bristol academic to lead discussion on macabre Victorian phenomenon The curious phenomenon gripped the 19th-century Britain

Lovely piece on my upcoming talk in @bristol247.bsky.social by a recently graduated student from ELCE. Please share - we have seats and all proceed go to the brilliant @arnosvalecemetery.bsky.social

www.bristol247.com/student/news...

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"Diasporic culture and social media: Interpreting the cuy TikTok phenomenon"

new in cultural geographies from Martin Saps and @zuhrijames.bsky.social

was lucky to see a version of this presented at the @digicologies.bsky.social conference last month

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

18 Mar 2026, 17:00 – 19:00, at UCL in Bloomsbury. #Skystorians