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waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 1d

Job occupations, from an 1881 census. Every one of these sounds like something a sorely provoked Captain Haddock would should at someone in times of heavy stress.

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Carve Her Name @carvehername.bsky.social · 45m

#OnThisDay, 13 Oct 1978, around 5,000 women march through Dublin protesting against rape and all forms of sexual assault.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #IrishHistory 🗃️

Partial scan of a photo of the march in the "news shorts" section of Spare Rib. The report outlines the march took place and what it was calling for.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 37m

'An idea all but guaranteed to founder on the rock of imperfect data, legal challenge, and the adverse consequences of institutions entering quality/funding death spirals all the way to disorderly market exit.' @wonkhe.bsky.social 's Monday Briefing succinctly anatomises proposal to tie fees to TEF.

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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 33m

📣 OPPORTUNITY: the Stuart Hall Essay Prize competition invites young academics, journalists, students and other writers based in the UK to reflect on Stuart Hall's groundbreaking ideas in an original critique of contemporary society.

📅 Deadline 3 November.
👇 Details below!

Stuart Hall Foundation @stuarthallfdn.bsky.social · 3d

Just a few days remain to enter this year's Stuart Hall Essay Prize, open until 5pm GMT on Monday November 3, 2025.

Open to submissions from UK-based entrants aged 18 to 30 inclusive, the prize invites new and unpublished writing that connects with Hall’s ideas and impacts broad public discourse.

The Stuart Hall Essay Prize.

25 days left to enter.

Open to UK-based entrants aged 18-30, the Stuart Hall Essay Prize awards £2,000 to a selected writer whose essay best offers an original, radical critique of contemporary society.

Welcoming academic, journalistic and creative essays that resonate with the lines of political, cultural and educational inquiry which Hall pursued.

Inviting new and unpublished essays of 4500-5000 words connecting with Hall’s interests and his concern to address the current ‘conjuncture’.

Submissions due by November 3, 2025.

Stuart Hall Foundation | 10 Years.

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The Wynter in Black 🎃🐈‍⬛ @rebeccawynter.bsky.social · 25m

Want to profile your own work on the 'Meet the Researcher' page? Open to all, but especially useful to those in between jobs, in precarity, and new researchers.

Get in touch with me, @stinaface.bsky.social or Cheryl McGeachan.

#MentalHealthHumanities #MHHums #MedHums #Interdisciplinary

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The Wynter in Black 🎃🐈‍⬛ @rebeccawynter.bsky.social · 30m

✨️New 'Meet the Researcher' on the #MentalHealth Humanities Researcher Network site✨️

✨️Dr Amy Wigelsworth✨️

Catch up and meet Dr Grace Lucas (City St George's) @viva-victoria.bsky.social & @joannemccuaig.bsky.social

#MHHRN #MHHums #MedHums #Interdisciplinary

Meet the Researcher: Amy Wigelsworth – Mental Health Humanities Researcher Network

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British History Online @bho.bsky.social · 28m

At Bristol Central Library:

Fugitives in the Archive

"Featuring original newspapers, maps, and memoirs by c18th & c19th Black writers, this exhibition assembles the possible lives of these runaways before their bid for freedom."

bristol.events.mylibrary.digital/event?id=242...

#History

Fugitives in the Archive : Exhibition

During the 18th century, British newspapers published advertisements for runaway enslaved people with rewards for their capture; for the hundreds of Black and Asian people brought to Britain through t...

bristol.events.mylibrary.digital

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historianmemory.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social · 1h

'I don’t think it’s ever a good idea to deny history. I think it’s always really important to face your own history honestly ...'

Toppling statues is an act of protest. It's about contesting a collective memory. NEVER about denying history.
observer.co.uk/culture/inte...

Nicholas Cullinan: ‘I don’t think it’s ever a good idea t...

The British Museum director on toppling statues, the Parthenon marbles and hosting London’s new star-studded answer to the Met Gala

observer.co.uk

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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 18h

There are so few academic jobs, and thousands of excellent scholars are all trying to move at the same time due to location.

‘Fear and hopelessness’: study finds one in four professors consider leaving US south

Survey by American Association of Professors shows nearly quarter of respondents are switching due to states’s politics

www.theguardian.com

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Michael @buccifolio.bsky.social · 11h

Hekate, guardian of the crossroads. For @classicstober.bsky.social

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Jeannine Baker @nenieb.bsky.social · 1d

Fantastic piece by Kate Murphy responding to the devastating change of policy at the @BBC Written Archives Centre, which will make it impossible to undertake new independent research using the collection. cstonline.net/defending-th... #mediahistory

DEFENDING THE WAC: RECOVERING THE INVISIBLE WOMEN OF THE BBC by Kate Murphy

My first visit to the BBC’s Written Archives Centre was in 2002. I was working as a producer on Woman’s Hourand had applied for a three-month attachment to what was then the Diversity Centre…

cstonline.net

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👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 20h

I still maintain a very loose presence on Twitter solely because there are professional connections there that I want to still be able to easily contact, but exactly this: it’s an unusable site. scrolling is a mess of ads and ppl I don’t follow and authentic engagement has tanked. it’s now a bad app

Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 23h

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.

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Sadiah Qureshi @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 1d

Walking through Birmingham city centre yesterday and there was a huge noisy group of far right protestors. A marked difference from the usual performers and preachers from many different faiths. Even the elderly white couple I was with felt intimidated by the aggression and hatred on show.

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Andre Keil @andrekeil.bsky.social · 1d

Turns out university graduates are still faring better than non-graduates. The problem is that the job market is generally not great for young people.

What the graduate unemployment story gets wrong

People with a degree are faring better, not worse than their non-graduate counterparts

on.ft.com

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tamquarterly.bsky.social @tamquarterly.bsky.social · Jun 3

Historian @hectorlinares.bsky.social‬ traces Antón’s story through letters as well as legal and administrative records, showing how some Afro-descendants navigated colonial institutions to claim honor, status, and citizenship. 📝 Read more in Vol 81, Issue 4: bit.ly/3DXIucs

Antón Zape, “Un Negro de mucho Precio”: Seeking freedom and honor through royal service in sixteenth-century Panama | The Americas | Cambridge Core

Antón Zape, “Un Negro de mucho Precio”: Seeking freedom and honor through royal service in sixteenth-century Panama - Volume 81 Issue 4

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 1d

What drives me nuts about this dialogue: diversity and inclusion training was a corporate response to the statutory requirements civil rights laws. None of these laws have been repealed by Congress. Congress can pass the laws under Section 5 of the 14th Amendment, which has also not been repealed.

Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · 1d

lol gentle reminder that DEI is not illegal. Supporting marginalized groups is not illegal. Anyone reneging on support is making a CHOICE to do so.

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Daniel Grey @djrgrey.bsky.social · 1d

Really sorry to hear this, Marie.

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Social History Society @socialhistsoc.bsky.social · 4d

CFP: Gender, Violence and the Early Moderns

🗓️ 22 May 2026
📍 European University Institute, Florence
👩‍🏫 Organiser: Dr Giada Pizzoni
🎤 Keynote: Dr Jonathan Davies (Warwick)

Submit abstracts (≤300 words) by 20 Dec 2025 👉

socialhistory.org.uk/shs_event/ge...

Gender, Violence and the Early Moderns

Call for Papers Gender, Violence and the Early Moderns European University Institute, Florence 22 May 2026 Organiser: Dr Giada Pizzoni Keynote Speaker: Dr Jonathan Davies (Warwick) Violence puts th…

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James Chalmers @jameschalmers.bsky.social · 1d

The Fahrenheit Thermometer in Gdańsk, in honour of the scale’s inventor, features two important design choices:

- What did Daniel Fahrenheit look like? We don’t know but we’re guessing “ripped”

- look we have to put Celsius on the scale as well or people won’t understand it otherwise

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 1d

The year withers. Dead paths across the ghost soil are revealed. Colder magics rise. Our boots are muddied, we begin to breath like dragons. Our witcheries turn with the season and our ancestors talk a little louder. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky

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Dominic Dean @drdominicdean.bsky.social · 1d

I note the paperback is available online at an unusually reasonable price for an academic book, thanks to the @sunypress.bsky.social approach to marketing and pricing its books!

Dominic Dean @drdominicdean.bsky.social · 3d

Killing Children in British Fiction has now been out in the world for one whole year! Very grateful to everyone who has bought it, read it, reviewed it, or shared their responses to it.

Dominic Dean @drdominicdean.bsky.social · Jan 21

My book, Killing Children in British Fiction: Thatcherism to Brexit, is now out from @sunypress.bsky.social.

'An authoritative, acute, and insightful book...makes a powerful case for child killing as an index of our times' - @bobeaglestone.bsky.social.

sunypress.edu/Books/K/Kill...

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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · 2d

*FIFTEEN THOUSAND JOBS LOST*.
If this were in a sector in which the PM could go and do a photoshoot looking like One Of The People, we’d have had a government intervention by now.

LopaLeach @lopa.bsky.social · 2d

Cuts equivalent to 15,000 jobs planned at UK universities – UCU www.timeshighereducation.com/news/cuts-eq...

Cuts equivalent to 15,000 jobs planned at UK universities – UCU

Proposed job losses almost triple since March as unions prepare to vote on nationwide industrial action

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Daniel Grey @djrgrey.bsky.social · 1d

Delighted that latest article from forthcoming Special Issue of @genderandhistory.bsky.social is now available, co-edited by @writinghelena.bsky.social, Lisa Hellman, Rachel Jean-Baptiste & me! Elisabetta Iob explores purdah & resistance in 1950s Pakistan 🌟

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The Girls Are in Town: Purdah, Emotions and Everyday Resistance in Urban Pakistan

Pakistan, mid-1950s. Many upper-class women had already left or were about to leave purdah (or its remnants). This article investigates how these women challenged seclusion, redefining relations of p...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 4d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 4d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Ceri Houlbrook @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social · 2d

Ronald Hutton called it 'The best overall view of the subject... It not only covers the traditional remit of folklore but extends it into many less conventional areas'. And you can't argue with Ronald Hutton 😁 You can buy #Folklore in bookshops & here manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526180377/

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