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James Kneale

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Cultural/historical geographer at ucl working on drink/temperance, insurance, literary geographies, sf/fantastic/horror, &c. He/him. Journal of Victorian Culture co-editor @jofvictculture.bsky.social Drinking Studies Network starter pack gardener

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James Kneale @jameskneale.bsky.social · Nov 10

Inevitably, I've made a Drinking Studies Network starter pack based on the DSN's members list (drinkingstudies.wordpress.com/members-2/) If you don't want to be included, or if you see people I've missed and could add, please let me know!
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James Kneale @jameskneale.bsky.social · 12h

I may have just shouted 'ave it!' at the 14.52 mark of 'The People Matter' on @warringtonruncorn.com's brilliant new album 'Public works and utilities'.

The cover of the album Public Works and Utilities, showing an office with lots of files on shelves and some people at a table

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Sarah Dempster @dempster2000.bsky.social · 13h

7 reasons why The Thing (1982) is a Christmas film:

1) snow
2) bearded men concealing surprises
3) compulsory party games
4) introverts shunning group activities
5) digestive issues
6) revellers bursting open to reveal partially assimilated canine lifeforms
7) knitwear

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Cultural Geography Specialty Group @culturalgeogsg.bsky.social · 16h

Email CGSG Awards Director ([email protected]) with questions!

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e. kinkaid (they/them) @queergeog.bsky.social · 29d

New pub alert! Check out our reflections on how to reach the history of geography in more critical and inclusive ways! An all-star cast of commentators! Conceptual reorientations and practical strategies! www.tandfonline.com/eprint/C7HMD...

Whose Geography, Whose History? Reimagining How We Teach the History of Geography

In this roundtable, we share our reflections on how to teach more critical histories of geography in Anglo-American institutions. Ashutosh offers a contrapuntal reading of the history of geography,...

www.tandfonline.com

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James Kneale @jameskneale.bsky.social · 1d

Ignore the naff contemporary title and the 7 minute running time, this 1976 Nationwide film about a crofter cycling 22 miles offroad over the Cairngorms to his local is both charming and terrifying. Like much of the 1970s, really. youtu.be/cZk2jV5gJbM

1976: BIG JIM's Big BOOZY Bike Trip to Braemar | Nationwide | Weird and Wonderful | BBC Archive

YouTube video by BBC Archive

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 1d

UK Universities cut 12,000 jobs, more on the way.

40% of Unis in financial crisis.

Major exporter destroyed by successive govts

Obstacles for foreign students.
Low fees in England, lack of govt funding.
£267bn student debt.
Home student numbers down.

How will the UK compete with other nations?

Thousands more university jobs cut as financial crisis deepens

University workers will vote on national strike action this month over a 1.4% pay offer made in the summer.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Dr Claire Markham @culturalclare.bsky.social · 4d

It was great to be part of this podcast

Has the price of a pint become unaffordable? www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/Article/2025...

Has the price of a pint become unaffordable?

The Lock In podcast explores the escalating price of a pint and asks the questions - has the pint become unaffordable?

www.morningadvertiser.co.uk

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James Kneale @jameskneale.bsky.social · 1d

...and then there's @ruthslatter.bsky.social and Edward Brookes' introduction to the @areajournal.bsky.social 'Participatory historical geographies' special section, which I am very much looking forward to reading rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... (1/2)

Area | RGS Geography Journal | Wiley Online Library

Over the past two decades, historical geographers have increasingly embraced participatory methods to challenge dominant narratives and engage communities in the production of historical knowledge. T...

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James Kneale @jameskneale.bsky.social · 1d

Some great historical geography papers on @areajournal.bsky.social's early view pages - Ben Newman's paper 'Making geography move: The Royal Geographical Society and the exchange of periodical knowledge, 1830–1900' for one... rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... ... (1/2)

Area | RGS Geography Journal | Wiley Online Library

This paper examines how the Royal Geographical Society's (RGS's) Library and Map Committee disciplined the exchange of the first English-language geographical journal in the nineteenth century. The p...

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 1d

Many congratulations to my colleagues in the Forms of Labour project team on the publication of their new monograph! 🗃️👏🎉

Brilliantly, The Experience of Work in #EarlyModern England is available open access:

www.cambridge.org/core/books/e...

news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...

A woman’s place was not in the home: New book challenges assumptions about women’s work in early modern history

New research has revealed that women played a fundamental role in the development of England’s national economy before 1700. Far from being the unpaid homemakers and housewives of traditional historic...

news.exeter.ac.uk

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James Kneale @jameskneale.bsky.social · 3d

The Abba holograms will soundtrack the heat death of the universe

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 3d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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James Kneale @jameskneale.bsky.social · 3d

We heard about smoking rooms and smoking jackets...

James Kneale @jameskneale.bsky.social · 3d

Enjoyed Ivan Marković's seminar on the 'atmospheric politics of smoking in modern Britain' at today's @lghgseminar.bsky.social seminar, the first in this term's 'Bad Habits' series. Three stories from his book, prompting many questions & thoughtful answers www.bloomsbury.com/uk/atmospher...

An Atmospheric History of Smoking in Modern Britain

This book studies the historiography of smoking in modern Britain, with a focus on the social, cultural, and emotional aspects of the practice.Centring on four…

www.bloomsbury.com

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Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social · 3d

Think While You Drink on Thurs features Local Archaeologist & Brewer Nick Fitzgerald and Heritage Brewer @beernouveau.co.uk. Together, they'll explore what early (pre-historic) beers might have tasted like, and what flavours are still used today.

goodchemistrybrewing.co.uk/pages/think-...

Think While You Drink

Join Good Chemistry and Drinking Studies Network for a series of free talks designed to make you THINK WHILE YOU DRINK! Bringing interesting talks on beers, brewing, pubs, the industry and wider drink...

goodchemistrybrewing.co.uk

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Ben Mechen @benmechen.bsky.social · 5d

On Weds we welcome @katrinanavickas.bsky.social to IHR @cont-brit-hist.bsky.social seminar

Katrina will talk abt "Public space + popular protest in 20thC England: enclosure, resistance + commoning"

In-person/hybrid. All welcome, register here!
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

@ihr.bsky.social

Public space and popular protest in 20th century England: enclosure, resistance and commoning

This session draws from the book, Contested Commons: a History of Protest and Public Space in England

www.history.ac.uk

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Colm Murphy @colmpm.bsky.social · 3d

*Calling PhD students of modern British and imperial history in London*

The @ihrbritainseminar.bsky.social's first session this Thursday (9 Oct.) is dedicated to PhDs, at any stage, for elevator pitches and meet-and-greet. Do come along! Details in the link.

www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

New PhD Student Session

For the first session of term we will be hosting a meet and greet at the IHR for all PhD students in modern British and imperial history.

www.history.ac.uk

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James Kneale @jameskneale.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks Pam!

James Kneale @jameskneale.bsky.social · 3d

Another fantastic online seminar from the Women and Alcohol cluster of the @drinkingstudies.bsky.social coming up in November!

Women & Alcohol (DSN Research Cluster) @womenandalcohol.bsky.social · 4d

Our next online seminar will take place on 6 November at 12.00 midday. Louisa Niesen, European University Institute will speak on 'Alcohol Consumption among Women Tourists, 1880-1914'. This event is online. More information and how to get the zoom link here:

www.womenandalcohol.net/2025/10/onli...

Online seminar - Alcohol Consumption among Women Tourists, 1880-1914

Project: Between the drunken ‘mother of destruction’ and the sober ‘angel of the house’.

www.womenandalcohol.net

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The Geographical Journal @thegj.bsky.social · 15d

Special Section in The GJ:

'Legacies of Austerity', edited by @smhall.bsky.social & @sanvanlan.bsky.social

This #OpenAccess collection explores how the lens of legacies can be applied to understand austerity's effects in Europe. Available here⬇️

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A blue tile with a quote from the editorial introduction to the 'Legacies of Austerity' Special Section by S. van Lanen & S.M. Hall (2025): "As political discourse transforms and the period of fierce austerity implementation moves into history, we believe critical geographers should remain attentive to its traces in everyday practices, policy realities and material conditions. To imagine alternative futures, austerity's legacies should not be forgotten".

A blue tile sharing the titles of 8 open access papers within the 'Legacies of Austerity' Special Section:
1) 'Legacies of Austerity: Editorial Introduction' by Sander van Lanen & Sarah Marie Hall
2) 'Family Hubs and the vulnerable care ecologies of child and family welfare in austerity' by Tom Disney et al.
3) 'Relational legacies and relative experiences: Austerity, inequality and access to special educational needs and disability (SEND) support in London, England' by Rosalie Warnock
4) 'Lived experiences of utilities-based indebtedness in Greece: Tracing the afterlives of austerity' by Aliki Koutlou
5) 'Grassroots temporary urbanism as a challenge to the city of austerity? Lessons from a self-organised park in Thessaloniki, Greece' by Matina Kapsali
6) 'De-municipalisation? Legacies of austerity for England's urban parks' by Andrew Smith et al.
7) 'Austerity's afterlives? The case of community asset transfer in the UK' by Neil Turnbull
8) 'Austere futures: From hardship to hope?' by Julie MacLeavy

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IrishBeerHistory @beerfoodtravel.bsky.social · 4d

This is an excellent piece - it really is. It reminded me too that I've been hoarding information on the seasonal migration of Irish hop pickers into England in the 19th century that I really need to write up ...

Brian Alberts @brewedculture.org · 4d

It's easy to love fresh hop beer season in the Pacific Northwest, but a bit harder to see the labor and communities that make it happen.

For @vinepair.com, I offer a taste of the multicultural history that roots PNW hops, and the mistakes we can't seem to learn from.

vinepair.com/articles/wor...

Beneath the Bines: The Multicultural Roots of the Pacific Northwest Hop Harvest

”My dad gave me advice 60 years ago: The day that you think you’re any better than the lowest man on the job is the day you start going backwards.” Bill Coleman represents the fifth of seven generatio...

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Health Humanities Research Group @healthhumslboro.bsky.social · 4d

🔈📚🕰️🩺 Join us for a Loughborough Health Humanities x Cultural Currents event on Weds 29 October, 16:15. Taking place in a hybrid format - DM us (or DM @culturalcurrents.bsky.social) for link and details. See post below for more info on our wonderful speakers👇

culturalcurrents.bsky.social @culturalcurrents.bsky.social · 4d

On Wed 29 Oct, 16.15, join us for our first event of 2025-26, feat. two @lboroenglish.bsky.social legends:

1/1 Dr Anne-Marie Beller @braddonite.bsky.social
"We regret to learn that Miss Braddon is out of her mind": Insanity and the Lunatic Asylum in Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Life and Fiction

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James Kneale @jameskneale.bsky.social · 4d

I would definitely be there if I could be in two places at once! Looking forward to seeing the book

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James Kneale @jameskneale.bsky.social · 4d

Recommended - I would go myself, but I am giving a seminar at the IHR. Tickets for my seminar will be... room temperature rather than hot 🙂

Matt Houlbrook @tricksterprince.bsky.social · 4d

Three tickets left - if you're interested in #sevendials #London or #20s30s culture they might be the hottest ones in town.

Matt Houlbrook @tricksterprince.bsky.social · 24d

The launch of my new @manchesterup.bsky.social book Songs of Seven Dials will be at 6pm, Tues 21 Oct, at Waterstones Covent Garden. I'll be in conversation with the wonderful @julialaite.bsky.social.

Please do come along. Free tickets, but register in advance

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/songs-of-s...

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Katie Mather @katiematherkm.bsky.social · 4d

Here I am in DR talking about real ale's newest fans - the youth

drinksretailingnews.co.uk/real-ale-fin...

Real ale finds favour with younger crowd - Drinks Retailing

Katie Mather discovers why a new generation of drinkers are choosing cask beer Beer is hard to predict. In an industry where trends have been a major driver for change and growth, consumer desire for ...

drinksretailingnews.co.uk

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James Kneale @jameskneale.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks - looks like I can't get to the rest of the story, but that is helpful. Thank you