Clare Stainthorp
@claregs.bsky.social
University-Policy Engagement & ARIs at UPEN/UCL ∣ Impact at the RCA ∣ Researches Victorian literature, social history, freethought periodicals ∣ Book: Constance Naden: Scientist, Philosopher, Poet ∣ she/her
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Find out more about the work I’m doing at the Universities Policy Engagement Network, plus my desert island disks!
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A few tickets still available! Don’t miss this sparkling evening of chamber music in our beautiful Library - this Friday ✨
🥂 Enjoy a glass of fizz & Schubert’s String Quintet in an intimate, historic setting.
🎟️ Support live chamber music - book now: https://bit.ly/3JSutjq
🥂 Enjoy a glass of fizz & Schubert’s String Quintet in an intimate, historic setting.
🎟️ Support live chamber music - book now: https://bit.ly/3JSutjq
November 24, 2025 at 4:15 PM
A few tickets still available! Don’t miss this sparkling evening of chamber music in our beautiful Library - this Friday ✨
🥂 Enjoy a glass of fizz & Schubert’s String Quintet in an intimate, historic setting.
🎟️ Support live chamber music - book now: https://bit.ly/3JSutjq
🥂 Enjoy a glass of fizz & Schubert’s String Quintet in an intimate, historic setting.
🎟️ Support live chamber music - book now: https://bit.ly/3JSutjq
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One week to go! 🎉 From 2-9 Dec, each donation to Conway Hall via the link below will be DOUBLED to help us fix our historic roof.
➡️ £1 becomes £2
➡️ £25 becomes £50
➡️ £50 becomes £100
Donate link: https://bit.ly/4iErqbT
#BigGive #RaiseTheRoof #DoubleTheDifference
➡️ £1 becomes £2
➡️ £25 becomes £50
➡️ £50 becomes £100
Donate link: https://bit.ly/4iErqbT
#BigGive #RaiseTheRoof #DoubleTheDifference
November 25, 2025 at 5:30 PM
One week to go! 🎉 From 2-9 Dec, each donation to Conway Hall via the link below will be DOUBLED to help us fix our historic roof.
➡️ £1 becomes £2
➡️ £25 becomes £50
➡️ £50 becomes £100
Donate link: https://bit.ly/4iErqbT
#BigGive #RaiseTheRoof #DoubleTheDifference
➡️ £1 becomes £2
➡️ £25 becomes £50
➡️ £50 becomes £100
Donate link: https://bit.ly/4iErqbT
#BigGive #RaiseTheRoof #DoubleTheDifference
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Haven't received as many contributions as usual for this year's lists--could be many things, but one aspect is surely that our ability to get this in front of people is much diminished. If you know folks whose stuff should be on here, please suggest it! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...
Publications by Non-Tenure-Track Historians
Since we began publishing in 2019, Contingent has published end-of-year lists of books and articles by non-tenure-track historians released in the past calendar year. To submit something for inclusion...
contingentmagazine.org
November 24, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Haven't received as many contributions as usual for this year's lists--could be many things, but one aspect is surely that our ability to get this in front of people is much diminished. If you know folks whose stuff should be on here, please suggest it! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...
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Same for literary studies. Non-tenure-track lit studies scholars I know you're out there and publishing articles and books. And if you're tenure-track and know NTT authors, let me know about their work! I can reach out and confirm that they're cool with being listed.
Haven't received as many contributions as usual for this year's lists--could be many things, but one aspect is surely that our ability to get this in front of people is much diminished. If you know folks whose stuff should be on here, please suggest it! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...
Publications by Non-Tenure-Track Historians
Since we began publishing in 2019, Contingent has published end-of-year lists of books and articles by non-tenure-track historians released in the past calendar year. To submit something for inclusion...
contingentmagazine.org
November 25, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Same for literary studies. Non-tenure-track lit studies scholars I know you're out there and publishing articles and books. And if you're tenure-track and know NTT authors, let me know about their work! I can reach out and confirm that they're cool with being listed.
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So I'm editing the Edinburgh Edition of Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World. Relatedly, if you're in the UK and you or your library possess the deluxe large paper British edition (1912 or 1914 versions), please let me know. It's the version with Iguanodon footprints on the cover.
November 25, 2025 at 8:02 AM
So I'm editing the Edinburgh Edition of Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World. Relatedly, if you're in the UK and you or your library possess the deluxe large paper British edition (1912 or 1914 versions), please let me know. It's the version with Iguanodon footprints on the cover.
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No :) I don’t need to do that right now :)
I’ll remember it
I'll remember it because it's important :)
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I’ll remember it
I'll remember it because it's important :)
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What It Feels Like to Not Have to Write Something Down
No :) I don’t need to do that right now :)
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November 24, 2025 at 7:52 PM
No :) I don’t need to do that right now :)
I’ll remember it
I'll remember it because it's important :)
www.thechatner.com/p/what-it-fe...
I’ll remember it
I'll remember it because it's important :)
www.thechatner.com/p/what-it-fe...
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📽️ The recording from our widely popular #RSVPDigiEvent "How to Get Published in an Academic Journal" is now live. We had a record-breaking 101 registrants for this panel! Since we did not quite hit that number in attendance, we know many will be interested to watch/re-watch: youtu.be/sP5Y1iicKJ0
How to Get Published in Academic Journal
YouTube video by Research Society for Victorian Periodicals
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November 24, 2025 at 7:37 PM
📽️ The recording from our widely popular #RSVPDigiEvent "How to Get Published in an Academic Journal" is now live. We had a record-breaking 101 registrants for this panel! Since we did not quite hit that number in attendance, we know many will be interested to watch/re-watch: youtu.be/sP5Y1iicKJ0
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'The [Vitae] survey of over 13,000 staff from 53 institutions found that while 94 per cent of research and teaching staff hold permanent contracts, only 46 per cent agree that their future is secure. 1/2
Universities ‘struggling to support staff’ amid funding pressures.
Survey finds most staff feel uncertain about their future as institutions battle financial headwinds.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-c...
Survey finds most staff feel uncertain about their future as institutions battle financial headwinds.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-c...
November 21, 2025 at 9:00 AM
'The [Vitae] survey of over 13,000 staff from 53 institutions found that while 94 per cent of research and teaching staff hold permanent contracts, only 46 per cent agree that their future is secure. 1/2
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If you know of a great book that analyzes the periodical press of 19th c Britain/empire (long 19th c), mosey along to the link and nominate it!
📖 Colby Book Prize nominations open today! We're accepting nominations from now until 31 Jan. 2026. The Colby Prize recognizes original book-length scholarship published in 2025 that most advances our understanding of the long #19thC British press. More info: buff.ly/LIi76WJ
The Robert and Vineta Colby Scholarly Book Prize – RSVP
The Colby Book Prize was endowed in 2006 in memory of Robert Colby by his wife, Vineta Colby, distinguished scholars and long-time members of RSVP. In 2011, following Vineta’s death, the Board of…
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November 18, 2025 at 4:33 AM
If you know of a great book that analyzes the periodical press of 19th c Britain/empire (long 19th c), mosey along to the link and nominate it!
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periodic reminder of the existence of Atkinson Hyperlegible, a free font available from the Braille Institute designed to improve readability for people with low vision
I use it in talks because it's pretty and also because, as an audience member, I am perpetually squinting at people's slides
I use it in talks because it's pretty and also because, as an audience member, I am perpetually squinting at people's slides
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November 17, 2025 at 4:19 AM
periodic reminder of the existence of Atkinson Hyperlegible, a free font available from the Braille Institute designed to improve readability for people with low vision
I use it in talks because it's pretty and also because, as an audience member, I am perpetually squinting at people's slides
I use it in talks because it's pretty and also because, as an audience member, I am perpetually squinting at people's slides
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Next week @conwayhall.bsky.social is hosting what is sure to be a brilliant conversation between Daisy Dunn and Hetta Howes about the Lives of Ancient & Medieval Women. Looking forward to chairing! Join us in person or online 6:30 Wed 19 Nov. Details & tickets www.conwayhall.org.uk/whats-on/eve...
November 15, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Next week @conwayhall.bsky.social is hosting what is sure to be a brilliant conversation between Daisy Dunn and Hetta Howes about the Lives of Ancient & Medieval Women. Looking forward to chairing! Join us in person or online 6:30 Wed 19 Nov. Details & tickets www.conwayhall.org.uk/whats-on/eve...
Next week @conwayhall.bsky.social is hosting what is sure to be a brilliant conversation between Daisy Dunn and Hetta Howes about the Lives of Ancient & Medieval Women. Looking forward to chairing! Join us in person or online 6:30 Wed 19 Nov. Details & tickets www.conwayhall.org.uk/whats-on/eve...
November 15, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Next week @conwayhall.bsky.social is hosting what is sure to be a brilliant conversation between Daisy Dunn and Hetta Howes about the Lives of Ancient & Medieval Women. Looking forward to chairing! Join us in person or online 6:30 Wed 19 Nov. Details & tickets www.conwayhall.org.uk/whats-on/eve...
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What's lost when we lose staff, departments, programmes and faculties in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, and what's that got to do with organ donation?
Amid the looming losses faced by Cardiff, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Leicester and Nottingham (among many others), here's a worked example. 1/8
Amid the looming losses faced by Cardiff, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Leicester and Nottingham (among many others), here's a worked example. 1/8
The organ donation ‘opt-out’ has been a fatal failure | The Observer
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November 10, 2025 at 10:10 AM
What's lost when we lose staff, departments, programmes and faculties in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, and what's that got to do with organ donation?
Amid the looming losses faced by Cardiff, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Leicester and Nottingham (among many others), here's a worked example. 1/8
Amid the looming losses faced by Cardiff, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Leicester and Nottingham (among many others), here's a worked example. 1/8
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I skipped this article for a while because I figured I'd read enough about the NYT's Mamdani coverage. I don't want to say the headline does the article a disservice - it is also very much about that - but goes well beyond as well
This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 9, 2025 at 3:13 AM
I skipped this article for a while because I figured I'd read enough about the NYT's Mamdani coverage. I don't want to say the headline does the article a disservice - it is also very much about that - but goes well beyond as well
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This is most revealing part of @matthewcobb.bsky.social's piece on Rosalind Franklin: "Franklin did not succeed, partly because she was working on her own without a peer with whom to swap ideas. She was also excluded from the world of informal exchanges in which Watson and Crick were immersed."
If you believe either that Franklin discovered the double helix, and / or Watson and Crick stole her data, ask yourself how you know this. Then take a read of this article.
If I see one more stupid Rosalind Franklin take I'm going to lose my mind. Thank god for @matthewcobb.bsky.social and @nccomfort.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
November 8, 2025 at 12:23 PM
This is most revealing part of @matthewcobb.bsky.social's piece on Rosalind Franklin: "Franklin did not succeed, partly because she was working on her own without a peer with whom to swap ideas. She was also excluded from the world of informal exchanges in which Watson and Crick were immersed."
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Someone at a Russell Group university was moved to almost-poetry by their Faculty Meeting… Can anyone do better?
November 7, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Someone at a Russell Group university was moved to almost-poetry by their Faculty Meeting… Can anyone do better?
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Remember guys, @pcsunion.bsky.social staff at the BL are on strike for the next two weeks. Please don't cross the picket line to go to reading rooms, attend exhibitions or anything else. They've endured so much on low pay since the cyberattack in 2023 and the least we can do is have their backs now.
Secret Maps opens today! 🤫 🗺️
From medieval manuscripts to Cold War espionage, our new exhibition explores how maps have hidden as much as they revealed for over 600 years.
Book now: bit.ly/BLSecretMaps
From medieval manuscripts to Cold War espionage, our new exhibition explores how maps have hidden as much as they revealed for over 600 years.
Book now: bit.ly/BLSecretMaps
October 26, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Remember guys, @pcsunion.bsky.social staff at the BL are on strike for the next two weeks. Please don't cross the picket line to go to reading rooms, attend exhibitions or anything else. They've endured so much on low pay since the cyberattack in 2023 and the least we can do is have their backs now.
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I'm excited to share my piece in Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social, which examines OpenAI's claims about ChatGPT's creative writing skills, Big Tech's weaponisation of grief and nostalgia, and the collapse of the academic humanities. lareviewofbooks.org/article/lite...
Literature Is Not a Vibe: On ChatGPT and the Humanities | Los Angeles Review of Books
Rachele Dini discusses OpenAI’s “A Machine-Shaped Hand” and an academic sector in crisis.
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October 31, 2025 at 5:11 PM
I'm excited to share my piece in Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social, which examines OpenAI's claims about ChatGPT's creative writing skills, Big Tech's weaponisation of grief and nostalgia, and the collapse of the academic humanities. lareviewofbooks.org/article/lite...
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Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
October 27, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
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October 31, 2025 at 11:30 AM
I want to book £20k’s worth of projects for my team between now and mid December—that’s actually only 10 projects at our average-ish spend of £2k per project, which gets you high-quality, research-specialist transcription support for 14 x 1-hour 1-2-1 interviews.
Qualitative researchers, say hi 👋🏻
Qualitative researchers, say hi 👋🏻
Happening this evening - there’s still time to sign up and join us for what promises to be a fascinating conversation!
Join us on Wednesday for another "Nonreligion Past and Present" webinar, this time on nonreligion and science. In cooperation with @nonreligioncf.bsky.social. As always we have great scholars in the panel. Do not forget to register to get the zoom link: uottawa-ca.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
October 29, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Happening this evening - there’s still time to sign up and join us for what promises to be a fascinating conversation!
Find out more about the work I’m doing at the Universities Policy Engagement Network, plus my desert island disks!
upen.ac.uk/news/meet-th...
upen.ac.uk/news/meet-th...
October 29, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Find out more about the work I’m doing at the Universities Policy Engagement Network, plus my desert island disks!
upen.ac.uk/news/meet-th...
upen.ac.uk/news/meet-th...
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Should we just give cash to homeless people? I wrote about what the evidence shows--and a London-based charity called Greater Change that has a simple, innovative way of making a difference:
Should we just give cash to the homeless?
A new charity is tackling homelessness with a simple approach. Does it work?
www.forkingpaths.co
October 29, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Should we just give cash to homeless people? I wrote about what the evidence shows--and a London-based charity called Greater Change that has a simple, innovative way of making a difference:
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A really good @loisbeckett.bsky.social article about a remarkable and heartening exhibition
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Breathtaking, unsettling, healing: how US artist Kara Walker transformed a Confederate monument
The sweeping exhibition Monuments, which features 19 contemporary artists, opens in LA on 23 October
www.theguardian.com
October 18, 2025 at 6:51 AM
A really good @loisbeckett.bsky.social article about a remarkable and heartening exhibition
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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A great conversation about two new books on the histories and future of disability rights and dignities. Highly recommend seeking out both Rachel Charlton-Dailey’s ‘Ramping Up Rights’ and Stephen Unwin’s ‘Beautiful Lives’ 📚 @conwayhall.bsky.social
October 15, 2025 at 6:31 PM
A great conversation about two new books on the histories and future of disability rights and dignities. Highly recommend seeking out both Rachel Charlton-Dailey’s ‘Ramping Up Rights’ and Stephen Unwin’s ‘Beautiful Lives’ 📚 @conwayhall.bsky.social