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Sadiah Qureshi @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 21h

This collaborative PhD project with the LSE and Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, on Planting Decolonization: Plantation Science and Empire in the Twentieth Century, sounds amazing.

I’m sure many of you might be interested.

#STS #HPS #HistSci

www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...

LSE Collaborative Studentship with Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

www.lse.ac.uk

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Elaine Mitchell @elaineamitchell.bsky.social · 1d

That's lovely!

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Elaine Mitchell @elaineamitchell.bsky.social · 1d

Don't know what's usually in that bed but money would be better spent on ground cover plants than herbicides! Drives me nuts.

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Clare Hickman @drhick.bsky.social · 1d

Inspired by @draflint.bsky.social's poem, 'To all Walkers' (currently on display at the Farrell Centre in Newcastle) the Farrell are running a series of masterclasses, led by poet Anna Woodford. Info and booking here: www.farrellcentre.org.uk/whats-on/cit...

Explore language and landscape in this poetry masterclass series led by poet Anna Woodford.

Join us for a poetry masterclass series inspired by the Farrell Centre’s Ideal City project. Focusing on one of the project’s exhibitions, Keep on the Grass, we will work from the urban landscape finding poetic inspiration in unsung places – from road signs to public footpaths and much more.

Over the course of four sessions, facilitator and poet Anna Woodford will guide you through a series of writing exercises, prompts and walks to expand your writing practice. Open to all levels, this four-part series will help you develop your poetic voice, try new techniques, and look at your surroundings with fresh eyes.

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Elaine Mitchell @elaineamitchell.bsky.social · 1d

Oh dear, hope that can be fixed for you. Relief to be out of cast though I’m sure. I’m evangelical about physio after injury. Well, at almost any time really!

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Dr J. M. Wall @cemeteryresearcher.bsky.social · 1d

Do I know anyone who could tell us if our roofer has replaced the lead flashing on our chimney properly or not? I'm not sure what I'm looking at TBH.

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Elaine Mitchell @elaineamitchell.bsky.social · 1d

Good prod. First coming up, second done. How are you healing up BTW?

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CILIP School Libraries Group @cilipslg.bsky.social · 5d

The Google Super Searchers training from CILIP SLG & Google is now available! Access the pre-recorded webinar and training resources to help learners search smarter, think critically, and use AI ethically.

✅ Complete the form to receive access:
forms.gle/dzpR9u2PMFJf...

@cilip.bsky.social

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Elaine Mitchell @elaineamitchell.bsky.social · 1d

Looking forward to it v. much!

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Elaine Mitchell @elaineamitchell.bsky.social · 2d

Today's off-schedule activity was booking stay at Olney. Site visit for chapter about his garden and garden writings for edited collection on William Cowper. A proper couple of days out!! Skips.

a woman wearing a tan jacket and blue jeans is walking down a sidewalk in a park

Alt: a woman wearing a tan jacket and blue jeans is walking down a sidewalk in a park

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Michael Brown @medhistoryman.bsky.social · 2d

We're super excited to be hosting Prof. Alison Bashford at @globalaffairslu.bsky.social to hear her talk about her fascinating new book on the history of reading the hand. You can imagine why we'd be interested and we are sure you will be too. Please sign up for free tickets at the link below.

The Victorian Hand @victorianhand.bsky.social · 3d

How might hands reveal an inner self – a soul, a character, an identity?

Join us on 12 November at Lancaster University to explore this question with Professor Alison Bashford (University of New South Wales) as she presents her book, Decoding the Hand.

Tickets: thevictorianhand.uk/alison-bashf...

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Elaine Mitchell @elaineamitchell.bsky.social · 2d

Stands test of time!

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Elaine Mitchell @elaineamitchell.bsky.social · 2d

Ooh, @nigella.bsky.social is making my carrot cake.🤣Well, it’s hers really but I’ve adopted it. Didn’t think anything would have me grating carrots.

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Dr Liam Sims @liamsims.bsky.social · Dec 14

My PhD thesis is now available online through the University of Leicester repository! 'Sociability, Provincial Antiquarianism and Networks of Knowledge in the Spalding Gentlemen's Society, 1710-1755'. figshare.le.ac.uk/articles/the...

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Megan King @drmeganking.bsky.social · 3d

📢Call for papers!

Benjamin Franklin House is hosting a conference, “Remember the ladies”: Women and Revolution, in London in May 2026!

Details are available here: benjaminfranklinhouse.org/event/spring...

If you have any questions, please email me at [email protected].

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Elaine Mitchell @elaineamitchell.bsky.social · 3d

So with you on this! Having a run of appointments myself at moment and it’s indeed marvellous and staff tremendous but utterly exhausting!

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Elaine Mitchell @elaineamitchell.bsky.social · 5d

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 5d

A 3,500 year-old Egyptian glass cosmetic jar with two little duck heads!

Glass was a relatively new material at that time, so this jar would have been a precious possession.

From Merit’s beauty case, found inside Theban tomb (TT8) of Merit and her husband Kha in 1906. 📷 Museo Egizio

#Archaeology

Museo Egizio Turin photo showing a small, dark-blue, core-formed, round glass jar which tapers in at the shoulders below the neck. It has yellow, white, and light blue festoon decoration trailed around the main body. There is a single yellow trail just below the neck of the jar. There is a dark-blue circular glass lid, the top of which is adorned with two dark-blue duck heads with yellow bills, a yellow trailed stripe on the top of each duck’s head, and indents for their eyes. The jar is displayed on a perspex (?) stand against a grey background. Glass jar dimensions: 7.6 cm x 9.6 cm.

Core-forming is one of the earliest glassmaking techniques. Glassmakers shaped the body of the vessel around a core, wound colored trails around it. They then let the vessel cool and removed the core.

Elaine Mitchell @elaineamitchell.bsky.social · 7d

I’ve taken the course!

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Elaine Mitchell @elaineamitchell.bsky.social · 7d

Errm, she has a name you know. Would you have put ‘man’?

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Dr Joanne Norcup @drjn.bsky.social · 7d

The annual Walter Rodney Lecture (hosted by the Yesu Persaud Centre for Caribbean Studies, University of Warwick) will be given this year by Professor David Scott (Columbia University) on the 25th November 2025. Please share. All welcome.

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Anna Cusack @annacusack.bsky.social · 7d

If anyone needs a freelance researcher in London (or across the UK), I'm your person!
I've reasonable rates, lots of archive experience & great recommendations from academics globally. I'm only teaching 1 module this term, as the job market is what it is. Therefore, I'm open to all work. DM me!

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Elaine Mitchell @elaineamitchell.bsky.social · 7d

OMG! 🥳🥳🥳🥳

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 7d

Ooh the opportunity to run the Sir Lenny Henry Centre for Media Diversity has come up. £81k. Based at Birmingham City University. Great chance to create positive change
jobs.bcu.ac.uk/en/sites/CX_...

Director of the Sir Lenny Henry Centre for Media Diversity

The Sir Lenny Henry Centre for Media Diversity (LHC) is seeking a visionary and dynamic Director to lead its mission to improve the diversity of representation and employment across contemporary Briti...

jobs.bcu.ac.uk

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Elaine Mitchell @elaineamitchell.bsky.social · 7d

Me. In a few years when I’ve got those climbers going over the pergola.😂Thanks for the suggestions BTW. Been Passifloraring all evening.

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Elaine Mitchell @elaineamitchell.bsky.social · 7d

Lovely Thursday. Having tea with @drgavin.bsky.social and hearing all about #William Morris and his plants.

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