Katherine Ibbett
@eparpillee.bsky.social
Early modern France, eating. Compassion's Edge (2018); now writing on 17thc rivers. I also like cats. Oxford mostly, Cévennes when I can. Trans-inclusive feminist, she/her.
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Happy St Katherine's Day to all scholars, librarians, and Katherines. May you win an argument against an annoying man today, in the true spirit of Katherine herself.
November 25, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Happy St Katherine's Day to all scholars, librarians, and Katherines. May you win an argument against an annoying man today, in the true spirit of Katherine herself.
No better view: the Ruth Park ferry! The Bridge!
November 25, 2025 at 5:57 AM
No better view: the Ruth Park ferry! The Bridge!
Leaving Brisbane with a heavy heart after rich family time and also river exchanges with scholars and strangers. My teenage cousin said kindly it was easy to have me in the house: I’m just one of them with a posher voice. Taking my vowels down to Sydney now.
November 24, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Leaving Brisbane with a heavy heart after rich family time and also river exchanges with scholars and strangers. My teenage cousin said kindly it was easy to have me in the house: I’m just one of them with a posher voice. Taking my vowels down to Sydney now.
None of you told me Tony Abbott wrote a history book! 🤮🤮🤮
November 24, 2025 at 9:58 PM
None of you told me Tony Abbott wrote a history book! 🤮🤮🤮
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We are running a search for an Associate Professorship (or Professorship) in Modern Middle Eastern History 1830-1970, with expertise in across key regions, including Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Palestine, Syria, Turkey, Egypt, and the Maghreb.
www.trinity.ox.ac.uk/vacancies
www.trinity.ox.ac.uk/vacancies
November 20, 2025 at 2:57 PM
We are running a search for an Associate Professorship (or Professorship) in Modern Middle Eastern History 1830-1970, with expertise in across key regions, including Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Palestine, Syria, Turkey, Egypt, and the Maghreb.
www.trinity.ox.ac.uk/vacancies
www.trinity.ox.ac.uk/vacancies
Worse places to be stuck: I’m in a museum while a Brisbane storm rages. (I have an appointment but the nice lady in the shop wouldn’t let me leave.)
November 24, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Worse places to be stuck: I’m in a museum while a Brisbane storm rages. (I have an appointment but the nice lady in the shop wouldn’t let me leave.)
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ICYMI 😺
Walter de Staplecat, Simpkin IV, Teabag, Balthasar and Benny D Cat take the stage as we meet the college cats of Oxford. And, of course, Magdalen’s Ozymandias. Read on for our photo special. (Includes a cat map.) oxfordclarion.uk/college-cats...
College cats of Oxford
Once upon a time, we featured an image of Magdalen's kitten, Ozymandias, in our newsletter. We figured it might be a gentle contrast to our regular diet of planning and local politics.
The grey ball ...
oxfordclarion.uk
November 21, 2025 at 6:53 AM
ICYMI 😺
Watching the cricket live as I come in to land in Brisbane 😍
November 21, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Watching the cricket live as I come in to land in Brisbane 😍
This bit always makes me cry. Finally over the good red earth with only four hours to go!
November 21, 2025 at 3:16 AM
This bit always makes me cry. Finally over the good red earth with only four hours to go!
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La Pascaline's sale halted: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Paris court blocks auction of earliest-known calculator
The court blocked La Pascaline, a 400-year-old calculating machine, from being exported from France.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 8:30 AM
La Pascaline's sale halted: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Bertie is very keen on Ghost Stations, the new book from @padrig.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Bertie is very keen on Ghost Stations, the new book from @padrig.bsky.social
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Appel à communications | «Je le vis, je rougis, je pâlis à sa vue». Les couleurs fugaces du visage dans la littérature française du XVIe au XVIIIe s.
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cornucopia16.com/blog/event/j...
« Je le vis, je rougis, je pâlis à sa vue ». Les couleurs fugaces du visage dans la littérature française du XVIe au XVIIIe siècle.
Site de recherche universitaire consacré au XVIe siècle
cornucopia16.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Appel à communications | «Je le vis, je rougis, je pâlis à sa vue». Les couleurs fugaces du visage dans la littérature française du XVIe au XVIIIe s.
cornucopia16.com/blog/event/j...
cornucopia16.com/blog/event/j...
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'Nottingham will be the only Russell Group university not to teach modern foreign languages degrees if it approves plans to close a swath of courses including Spanish and French as well as music and dozens of others.' 1/3
University of Nottingham considers axing language and music degrees
Total of 48 degrees could disappear from Russell Group institution, with falling revenues and rising costs blamed
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:01 PM
'Nottingham will be the only Russell Group university not to teach modern foreign languages degrees if it approves plans to close a swath of courses including Spanish and French as well as music and dozens of others.' 1/3
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Indentured servitude as government policy? Great! Great news!!
Watching the Mahmood announcement and debate. Tory backbencher (Karen Bradley) suggests putting refugees into debt and making them repay during the rest of their lives. Mahmood says she’ll think about it.
November 17, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Indentured servitude as government policy? Great! Great news!!
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Thinking about Larry Summers and then thinking again about Claudine Gay.
November 17, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Thinking about Larry Summers and then thinking again about Claudine Gay.
My dad, who thinks about history largely in relation to cricket, just described someone as being from the Dennis Lillee era. It turns out this means being an impressionable teenager when DL was at his peak
November 17, 2025 at 6:28 PM
My dad, who thinks about history largely in relation to cricket, just described someone as being from the Dennis Lillee era. It turns out this means being an impressionable teenager when DL was at his peak
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Imagine writing a policy that required you to be explicit that you would not forcibly confiscate refugees’ wedding rings
Ministers now appear to be confirming in broadcast interviews that they would audit and could confiscate assets (including jewellery) excepting wedding rings from the jewellery that they could confiscate.
November 17, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Imagine writing a policy that required you to be explicit that you would not forcibly confiscate refugees’ wedding rings
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events.teams.microsoft.com/event/e2549b... Would you like to study for a graduate degree in Modern Languages at Oxford (or do you know someone who would)? We have an online Open Day coming up on 19/11 and you can register for it here.
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November 17, 2025 at 12:39 PM
events.teams.microsoft.com/event/e2549b... Would you like to study for a graduate degree in Modern Languages at Oxford (or do you know someone who would)? We have an online Open Day coming up on 19/11 and you can register for it here.
Today is Foresight Sunday: the pudding is steaming, and next up there will be planting of tulips.
November 16, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Today is Foresight Sunday: the pudding is steaming, and next up there will be planting of tulips.
Please read this: it’s a joy
Everything about this story is awesome. Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/s...
A Farmer, a Designer and a Dating App Unite to Save Some ‘Gay Sheep’
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Please read this: it’s a joy
Does anyone now watch Bugsy Malone? I'm suddenly remembering how in my childhood it was on TV nonstop. (Admittedly it was made in my childhood, too.) Is it as super creepy as I remember?
November 15, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Does anyone now watch Bugsy Malone? I'm suddenly remembering how in my childhood it was on TV nonstop. (Admittedly it was made in my childhood, too.) Is it as super creepy as I remember?
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I did the same re the plans to close music. Please do likewise, bluesky friends
November 15, 2025 at 3:28 PM
I did the same re the plans to close music. Please do likewise, bluesky friends
I wrote this morning to the VC and Deputy VC of Nottingham to urge them to rethink the plans for closing languages. You can too, addresses here. www.savemlcatnotts.org.uk
November 15, 2025 at 9:53 AM
I wrote this morning to the VC and Deputy VC of Nottingham to urge them to rethink the plans for closing languages. You can too, addresses here. www.savemlcatnotts.org.uk