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Dr Rita J. Dashwood @rjdashwood.bsky.social · Oct 20

Please share! 🙂

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QMUL Centre for 19C & Legacies @c19qmul.bsky.social · Nov 27

This is a week today, and we can't wait 🎵🎄🍷
All are welcome, please share widely!

QMUL Centre for 19C & Legacies @c19qmul.bsky.social · Nov 21

This December our Carols in Context event returns! Join us for a free concert in QMUL's beautiful Octagon room and learn about the 19th-century history of festive tunes - sign up here: www.tickettailor.com/events/qmul1...

Poster for Victorian Christmas Carols in Context. Secular and sacred carols with singing, mulled wine, mince pies & good cheer (optional fancy dress... Mon 4th December, 6-8pm. Octagon, Queen's Building. Please register (free). Red poster with Victorian illustrations of a holly wreath and a girl carrying a small snow laden Christmas tree.

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Clare Stainthorp @claregs.bsky.social · Dec 4

Looking forward to introducing another Victorian secularist song as part of the this evening's @c19qmul.bsky.social Carols in Context event. Alongside more familiar pieces, we'll be singing 'Sympathy.' Two verses received Gladstone's own tick of approval in his copy held at @gladlib.bsky.social

Slide with two scanned pages: title page of 'The Secularist's Manual of Songs and Ceremonies' edited by Austin Holyoake and Charles Watts (1871); page with two songs 'Sympathy' and 'Benevolence', each has 4 quatrains. A line with a tick highlights:

Go, bid the hungry orphan be
With thine abundance bless'd;
Invite the wand'rer to thy gate,
And spread the couch of rest.

Let him who pines with piercing cold
By thee be warm'd and clad;
Be thine the blissful task, to make
The downcast mourner glad.

WEG/G 43/HOL Gladstone’s Library (Hawarden)

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Dr McInnes’s Monster @drbeard79.bsky.social · Jan 17

Cracking out my Captain Haddock meme ahead of the start of our semester 2 next week:

Captain Haddock, looking wrecked: What a semester, huh?
Tintin, concerned: Captain, it starts on Monday!
Snowy: *drinks beer*

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Event 2024 @event2024.bsky.social · Jan 18

Live annotation for the Vcologies panel has begun in COVE Conferences! If you’ve registered, check your email for login info and instructions. For help using COVE, go to EVENT2024.org/frequently-asked-questions.

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · Feb 13

holy shit i get to do a talk in london on march 5, will anybody be there?

Poster for NH talk "Action w/o Hope" at King's College, London, 3/5 @ 6 pm -- can you come???

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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · Mar 15

Every research report: Humanities majors have great career prospects!

Every research university: Here's why sadly we must restructure the humanities,

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Christopher Pittard @christopherpittard.bsky.social · Jan 21

Among everything else, I forgot to congratulate @anniechapman.bsky.social for winning the Arthur Conan Doyle society's award for the year's best academic work on Doyle, for her article on Doyle, medical authority, and *The Idler*. I was on the panel and it was a very tough competition.

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Dr Anne Chapman @anniechapman.bsky.social · Jan 28

Delighted to receive this award! Thanks to the panel and @acdsociety.bsky.social

Christopher Pittard @christopherpittard.bsky.social · Jan 21

Among everything else, I forgot to congratulate @anniechapman.bsky.social for winning the Arthur Conan Doyle society's award for the year's best academic work on Doyle, for her article on Doyle, medical authority, and *The Idler*. I was on the panel and it was a very tough competition.

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Dr Anne Chapman @anniechapman.bsky.social · Jan 28

Thank you! I have only just seen your post. I was delighted!

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Dr Anne Chapman @anniechapman.bsky.social · Jun 10

Thanks so much for sharing Nissa- have been looking for something like this!

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Dr Anne Chapman @anniechapman.bsky.social · May 7

Happy birthday!

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · Apr 28

A free streaming service curated by extremely chill experts who will order whatever you want and give excellent recommendations in a super chill, comfortable building connected to all of your community resources.

Impossible to overstate how amazing libraries are.

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Dr Anne Chapman @anniechapman.bsky.social · Apr 28

So much to love about London Tide. The staging and particularly the lighting design were brilliant. What they chose to include/exclude worked well. That said if you don’t like PJ Harvey you might struggle with it!

View of the stage from the back of the stalls during the interval of London Tide at the National Theatre. The white overhead lighting silhouettes the three band members preparing to the right of the stage

Dr Anne Chapman @anniechapman.bsky.social · Apr 26

I’m not going to finish rereading Our Mutual Friend before I see London Tide tomorrow am I…

First page of book the second chapter 5 of Our Mutual Friend.

Dr McInnes’s Monster @drbeard79.bsky.social · Apr 25

Super proud of our Edge Hill English and Creative Arts students for responding with a mixture of righteous fury, love, and care to news of redundancies threatening our department! Please share and sign their petition(s)!

Sign the Petition

Our university experience is shaped by our tutors. Their tireless work ethic, their genuine care for students, and the invaluable contributions they make to our learning experiences cannot be overlook...

www.change.org

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Dr Anne Chapman @anniechapman.bsky.social · Apr 22

Thanks! I love it!

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Dr Anne Chapman @anniechapman.bsky.social · Apr 22

Where can I get one?!

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Dr Anne Chapman @anniechapman.bsky.social · Apr 21

Said hello to the Gloucester Candlestick yesterday. Somehow it’s about 11 years since I was thinking about it during my MA. I loved the freedom to think that course afforded me. Happy times

Close up of part of the base of the 12th century Gloucester Candlestick. Its intricate, gilded metalwork human figures and beasts are intertwined. Find it in the V&A

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Dr Anne Chapman @anniechapman.bsky.social · Apr 19

Thanks Caroline! I’m going to have a look and see if it’s on EThOS

Dr Anne Chapman @anniechapman.bsky.social · Mar 25

Glad to help!

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Dr Anne Chapman @anniechapman.bsky.social · Mar 25

Hathi Trust has it hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.334...

Conversations on political economy : in which the elements of that science are familiarly explained / by the author of

hdl.handle.net

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Dr Anne Chapman @anniechapman.bsky.social · Mar 15

I remember how excited I was by all the options as an undergrad delivered by so many experts, and I wonder what options will be left for my history-loving teen when he gets to that stage

Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · Mar 15

Every research report: Humanities majors have great career prospects!

Every research university: Here's why sadly we must restructure the humanities,

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Dr Anne Chapman @anniechapman.bsky.social · Mar 6

This was great! I’m looking forward to the book.

Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · Feb 13

holy shit i get to do a talk in london on march 5, will anybody be there?

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Dr Anne Chapman @anniechapman.bsky.social · Feb 29

Definitely cost. And when my child was younger, childcare was sometimes an issue

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Dr Anne Chapman @anniechapman.bsky.social · Feb 15

Absolutely delighted that the wonderful Caroline Arscott is here at last! Hi @carscott.bsky.social

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Dr Anne Chapman @anniechapman.bsky.social · Feb 5

I am here for a good Guts full of life!

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Dr Anne Chapman @anniechapman.bsky.social · Jan 26

Thank you!! That’s just made my day

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Dr Anne Chapman @anniechapman.bsky.social · Jan 25

I enjoyed your article on cocaine and the ideal medical man so am very much looking forward to reading this

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Dr Anne Chapman @anniechapman.bsky.social · Jan 25

Have had such an enjoyable evening reading the papers and annotations for this panel. Eagerly awaiting the discussion the discussion tomorrow.

Event 2024 @event2024.bsky.social · Jan 18

Live annotation for the Vcologies panel has begun in COVE Conferences! If you’ve registered, check your email for login info and instructions. For help using COVE, go to EVENT2024.org/frequently-asked-questions.