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John Sabapathy

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Professor of history @uclhistory.bsky.social + co-convenor @anthropoceneucl.bsky.social. Editor at @enghistrev.bsky.social. Institutions, rationalities, environments, mostly medieval. https://tinyurl.com/2p8r9yeh + https://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropocene/.

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John Sabapathy @jwwsabapathy.bsky.social · Feb 3

I'm delighted & proud to join @enghistrev.bsky.social as an editor and am very excited to play a role in its life at a literal milestone in its work.

UCL History @uclhistory.bsky.social · Feb 3

Exciting news! 🎉

Prof John Sabapathy joins The English Historical Review (EHR) as an editor! As the oldest journal of historical scholarship in the English-speaking world, EHR has shaped the field since 1886, recently celebrating its 600th issue.

Congratulations @jwwsabapathy.bsky.social ! 👏📖

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John Sabapathy @jwwsabapathy.bsky.social · 18h

Bottom fridge drawer for soft salad, upper drawer for hard salad (cucumbers) is what seems to work here?

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CRASSH @crasshlive.bsky.social · 1d

Reading group 📚
Portals to Possible Futures: How to craft an archive of response in the face of polycrises

Join LEAP Lab & Cambridge Posthuman Network in exploring climate and environmental research through posthuman and new materialist epistemologies
16 Oct 4-6pm, CRASSH
https://bit.ly/46ZaQOa

Portals to Possible Futures: How to craft an archive of response in the face of polycrises - CRASSH

Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 1d

'How well do particular groups of students perform against the three standard OfS outcomes measures (continuation, completion, progression) plus another (attainment) that is very much in direct control of individual providers?'

OfS characteristics dashboards, 2025 release

What does the sector look like in 2025, in terms of the chances that groups of students can get in or get on? David Kernohan paints a picture using the latest OfS data

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Paulo Drinot @paulodrinot.bsky.social · 1d

They’re here!

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 1d

Don't miss this year's Holden Lecture by Prof Jason Peacey at Senate House Library, University of London, 30 October at 6PM. It's inspired by Senate House Library's Spineless Wonders Exhibition. 1/2 @uclhistory.bsky.social

Holden Lecture: Tickets and trifles: ephemeral print and Restoration England

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John Sabapathy @jwwsabapathy.bsky.social · 1d

A super start to my day in Warrington-Runcorn.

Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan @warringtonruncorn.com · 1d

And we are go! warrington-runcorn-cis.bandcamp.com/album/public...

Public Works and Utilities, by Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan

6 track album

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John Sabapathy @jwwsabapathy.bsky.social · 1d

Amidst much junk about employability & 'rip-off' degrees, this @jburnmurdoch.ft.com article on.ft.com/47i1Bdo (sharing link) is excellent. Excellent further detail from @britishacademy.bsky.social at www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/policy-and-r....

What the graduate unemployment story gets wrong

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

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John Sabapathy @jwwsabapathy.bsky.social · 1d

A lovely evening talking with Georgina Endfield & @wanderinggaia.bsky.social about history and environmental change last night @britishacademy.bsky.social starting a great season of 'living with the planet': www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/seasons/livi... #Anthropocene, #medievalsky

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John Sabapathy @jwwsabapathy.bsky.social · 1d

You wouldn’t believe how my children laugh at such behaviour…..

John Sabapathy @jwwsabapathy.bsky.social · 1d

Henrietta Leyser & the much missed Jinty Nelson's editors' preface for the series has not dated, despite Brexit, Ukraine, or indeed, the Middle East.

Jinty Nelson & Henrietta Leyser's general editors' preface for the Oxford History of Medieval Europe series.

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John Sabapathy @jwwsabapathy.bsky.social · 1d

Table of contents for Charles West's Europe in the Eleventh Century

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John Sabapathy @jwwsabapathy.bsky.social · 1d

Chapeau to @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social for his wonderful new book which has just arrived, an amazingly global and ecumenical volume, in all senses! Beautifully produced by OUP (and before publication day!?).

A spur to others!

Front cover of Charles West's Europe in the Eleventh Century

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John Sabapathy @jwwsabapathy.bsky.social · 3d

Ouch.

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Institute of Historical Research Wohl Library @ihrlibrary.bsky.social · 4d

We've updated our new books displays on the 1st and 2nd floors. There's a wide range of subjects spanning from the medieval to the 21st century.

If this interests you and you're not a member, membership to the library is open and free to everyone - www.history.ac.uk/library-digi...

Image showing some new acquisitions to the Institute of Historical Research Library - October 2025

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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 4d

Should anyone find themselves in central London on Weds 19 November, consider yourself invited to a book launch! @earliermiddleages.bsky.social www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Book Launch: Local Priests in the Latin West, 900-1050

Earlier Middle Ages Seminar- Session 3

www.history.ac.uk

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Richard Ovenden @richove.bsky.social · 4d

MLGB is back!! Delighted that Medieval Libraries of Great Britain @bodleian.ox.ac.uk is now back online. We are also working had on plans for the next phase of the resource, enhancing & adding data & functionality. HUGE thanks to my colleagues for their hard & clever work mlgb.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

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will o’the wisp pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 4d

The night is dark and full of terrors! As the days grow shorter+ the darkness creeps in, grab yourself some pilfered firewood, slaughter a sheep, and read more about seasonal work patterns from @markhailwood.bsky.social +others’ new book on experiences of work
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manyheadedmonster.com/2025/10/07/t...

The Experience of Work in Early Modern England I: Winter is Coming

This post is part of a series that marks the publication of The Experience of Work in Early Modern England. The book is co-authored by monster head Mark Hailwood, along with Jane Whittle, Hannah Ro…

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Dr Lynton Lees @lyntonlees.bsky.social · 4d

In case you missed it — our cold spots research was covered in a panel discussion on Radio 4’s Front Row programme yesterday! Listen here: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 4d

'Whatever the cause, deregulated competition has created a tragedy of the commons, whereby individual universities pursue short-term gains while the sector as a whole bears the cost when international confidence is shaken.'

The UCL admissions chaos will damage UK HE’s global reputation

Future crises can be averted if government and universities share data and plans in a more timely and transparent fashion, says Doug Sprecht

www.timeshighereducation.com

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IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar @earliermiddleages.bsky.social · 5d

THIS WEEK: Please join us and @uclioabmmedieval.bsky.social for the Sir David Wilson lecture, with @rorynaismith.bsky.social on 'From Mesoamerica to Early Medieval England: Money, Materiality and Society'. Weds 8 Oct, 6.15pm, Archaeology Lecture Theatre G6. All welcome! www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

The Sir David Wilson Lecture in Medieval Studies 2025

The Sir David Wilson Lecture, the first event in the 2025-26 UCL Institute of Archaeology/British Museum Medieval Seminar Series, will be given by Rory Naismith (University of Cambridge) on 8 October.

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 8d

“I think it’s bananas,” Anthony Finkelstein, president of City St George’s University...told Research Professional News. Adding that the policy is “thoughtless, ill coordinated, poorly aligned to the government’s missions and intent, and a serious blow to the sector when it wasn’t needed”. 1/2

Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 8d

‘It’s bananas’: why student fee levy spells trouble for research.

Funding maintenance grants through money raised from international fees leaves universities facing “awkward questions”.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...

‘It’s bananas’: why student fee levy spells trouble for research - Research Professional News

Funding maintenance grants through money raised from international fees leaves universities facing “awkward questions”

www.researchprofessionalnews.com

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 15d

We need an associate lecturer in history of modern science @stsucl.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

www.ucl.ac.uk

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British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social · 9d

Hwæt! 🐉

Ever wondered what the epic poem Beowulf sounds like spoken in Old English?

#NationalPoetryDay

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 9d

Dame Janet Nelson was the first female President @royalhistsoc.org (2000-04) and is the subject of 'Jinty Nelson in Thirteen Articles', also edited by Alice Rio, and published in 'Transactions of the RHS' earlier this year.

Available Open Access bit.ly/4nyYx2k #Skystorians

First page of the journal article: 'Jinty Nelson in Thirteen Articles' with full abstract: "This collection gathers thirteen contributions by a number of historians, friends, colleagues and/or students of Jinty’s, who were asked to pick their favourite article by her and say a few words about it for an event held in her memory on 15 January 2025 at King’s College London. We offer this collection in print now for a wider audience not so much because it has any claim to be exhaustive or authoritative, but because taken all together these pieces seemed to add up to a useful retrospective on Jinty’s work, its wider context, and its impact on the
field over the decades. We hope that, for those who know her work well already, this may be an opportunity to remember some of her classic (and a few less classic) articles, while at the same time serving as an accessible introduction to her research for anyone who knew her without necessarily knowing about her field, as well as for a new and younger generation of readers."

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