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Malcolm Noble @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social · 7h

I am still getting my head around the fact he was in NY for the North American première of DG, flogging libretti, as I only learned this when I read his memoirs not so long ago.

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Malcolm Noble @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social · 10h

I thought of Dürer's Rhino - had any of them been to a five-star hotel? It has seen better days, but staff working v. hard to make it special. Full of people having a seaside holiday of an Edwardian type, and I could feel myself being seduced like Castorp. Going in January is probably dead cheap...

Malcolm Noble @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social · 11h

Ooh

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Malcolm Noble @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social · 11h

I stayed there – in a much more modest room – for a Glyndebourne visit this summer. Apparently, the first five-star star seaside hotel, it has an offbeat, charming, slightly fawlty-towers vibe. One of the best room service breakfasts I've ever had and definitely the most beautifully presented.

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John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 13h

Morten Høi Jensen (@mortenhoijensen.bsky.social), The Master of Contradictions: Thomas Mann and the Making of "The Magic Mountain" (@yalepress.bsky.social, 2025; #skystorians) yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

The Master of Contradictions

The arresting story of how Thomas Mann wrote The Magic Mountain as a defeated Germany descended into political chaos Like many writers of his generation, ...

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 1d

We should be asking this
c o n s t a n t l y.

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50 Jenna Ipcar Fans Can’t Be Wrong! @ipcar.bsky.social · Nov 26

At the bank I was told "pick your four digit pincode but it can't be a year." "Aren't they all years?" I asked. We sat in silence for a bit.

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Malcolm Noble @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social · 2d

Do note this is hybrid!

J.D. Sargan @jdsargan.bsky.social · 2d

Your challenge for this weekend is to put in an abstract for Queer Bibliography 2026. It's what all the cool kids are doing.

The theme is Space, Place, Community (widely understood, certainly not limited to the South). CFP: shorturl.at/XAVJ0; Submit: forms.gle/XD7FgrrStp3j...

Athens GA and online

Poster reads: March 12–14, 2026; Queer Bibliography in the South: Space, Place, Community; University of Georgia, Athens, GA.

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J.D. Sargan @jdsargan.bsky.social · 2d

Your challenge for this weekend is to put in an abstract for Queer Bibliography 2026. It's what all the cool kids are doing.

The theme is Space, Place, Community (widely understood, certainly not limited to the South). CFP: shorturl.at/XAVJ0; Submit: forms.gle/XD7FgrrStp3j...

Athens GA and online

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Malcolm Noble @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social · 2d

Please write this paper!

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 2d

Letter from the advertising department at The Lady magazine, 1977

Our Ref: Sit/QC
22nd March 1977
Mrs A. Miconi,
Flat 17, Lyncourt, The Orchard,
Blackheath,
London SE3
Dear Madam,
We thank you for your letter and payment of £3.80, received on 21st March.
Before proceeding, we must whether you would agree to a slight wording amenament of the wording in order that the advertising conforms to our normal style. The words "Socialist feninist" we would prefer to read "Friendly, motherly," thereby allowing the wording to conform.
We now look forward to your further instructions, whilst advising you that our next issue is 7th April for which we close for press upon receipt of the first post Tuesday 29th March.

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Medieval and Early Modern Orients (MEMOs) @memorients.bsky.social · 3d

CONFERENCE: Always Here (SUNY Binghamton):

memorients.com/events/cfp-a...

CONFERENCE: Always Here | MEMOs

Binghamton University's Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies brings together those studying premodern non-binary gender, trans identities, & queerness

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CFRC-Folklore @cfrc-folklore.bsky.social · 4d

CFP! Journal of Festive Studies is inviting abstracts for an issue on TINY/giant: Playing with Scale. Themes include giant puppets, toy theatres, effigies for celebration or excoriation, miniature collectibles... Deadline 15 Nov, more info here: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

Journal of Festive Studies Issue Nine Call for Papers: TINY/giant: Playing with Scale | H-Net

TINY/giant: Playing with Scale Guest Editors: Dawn Tracey Brandes & Martha Radice, Dalhousie University Deadline for abstracts and short bios: November 15, 2025In addition to our guest-edited section ...

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Malcolm Noble @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social · 4d

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Century-old papers saved from the bin reveal changes in Europe’s plant life

Plant inventories dating back to 1884 and nearly thrown away enable unique time-lapse study of biodiversity in Swiss meadows

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Malcolm Noble @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks so much! I obviously will need a physical copy.

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American Association of Wine Economists AAWE @wineecon.bsky.social · 4d

"No more than a liter of wine a day" - In the early 1950s, when French wine consumption was 140+ liters/capita, France launched the campaign "Santé Sobriété" to limit alcohol consumption. In 1954, Philippe Foré became the chief designer. #WineHistory`

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Malcolm Noble @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social · 4d

Why don't all libraries have this?

Richard Fallon @richardfallon.bsky.social · 4d

A literary Iguanodon at the Earth Sciences Library. Do any other libraries have dinosaurs or other antediluvian creatures carved into the furniture?

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Patricia Stoop @dr-patriciastoop.bsky.social · 5d

Great news!! My special issue on Writing for Third Parties: Commercial Manuscript Production in the Late Middle Ages (Queeste, @amsterdamupress.bsky.social) is now available in open access.

Looking much forward to your reactions!

www.aup-online.com/content/jour...

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Scottish History Society @scothistorysociety.bsky.social · 5d

Winter Lecture Series: Finding Women in Scottish History

Join us for a series of free, online lectures to explore sources of women's lived experience, intellectual and religious networks, and socio-political power in medieval and early modern Scotland.

scottishhistorysociety.com/shs-winter-l...

SHS Winter Lecture Series: Finding Women in Scottish History

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Malcolm Noble @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social · 5d

I had forgotten how haunted the Xavier Sabata Winterreise is. The lieder equivalent of MR James.

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Malcolm Noble @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social · 5d

Oh wonderful. We will of course toast it when we next meet!

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Laura Helton @lehelton.bsky.social · 5d

I’m sorry to have to miss the @moderniststudies.bsky.social convening this year, but I’m incredibly honored to be in such good company on this shortlist for the 2025 MSA First Book Prize!

Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 13d

Congrats to the three authors on the shortlist for the 2025 MSA First Book prize:

Laura E. Helton, Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History

Congrats @lehelton.bsky.social and @columbiaup.bsky.social

Scattered and Fugitive Things | Columbia University Press

Winner, 2025 Merle Curti Intellectual History Award, Organization of American HistoriansWinner, 2024 Arline Custer Memorial Book Award, Mid-Atlantic Regional... | CUP

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Malcolm Noble @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social · 5d

Rest of world - there are two options North America or Rest of World, which involves emailing Wiley distribution

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Malcolm Noble @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social · 5d

Splendid! Does it / will it work for ROW?

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Scottish History Society @scothistorysociety.bsky.social · 5d

We've joined the blue sky! Just as the skies darken for winter too

Please let your followers know that the Scottish History Society has arrived!

Find out more about memberships, the society, and events at our website: scottishhistorysociety.com

The Scottish History Society

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