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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 22d

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

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Mo Moulton @momoulton.bsky.social · 25d

Some big news: the University of Birmingham is launching a new MA in Gender & Sexuality. It's interdisciplinary, with a focus on combining theory & practice. It's going to be amazing. I'm convening it: message or email with questions. www.birmingham.ac.uk/study/postgr... @unibirmingham.bsky.social

Gender and Sexuality MA - University of Birmingham

Course information for prospective postgraduate students on our MA History taught masters degree programme at the University of Birmingham.

www.birmingham.ac.uk

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Nora J. Williams @norajw.bsky.social · 25d

One of the most important things I have learned in my life is that how someone attempts to insult you says an awful lot about them.

This weekend, someone in my local community tried to insult me by saying I must be "an illegal" - that is, an undocumented immigrant.

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Claire Turner @claireturner.bsky.social · Sep 4

My profile is now viewable on the Rylands Institute website: www.library.manchester.ac.uk/rylands/abou...

I'll be based at the Rylands from December (2025) to May (2026) undertaking research on sensory experiences and perceptions of cancer. If you're in Manchester during that time, let me know!

Claire Turner (The University of Manchester Library)

www.library.manchester.ac.uk

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Jonathan Willis @drjpw.bsky.social · Sep 2

Are you curious about the potential for archival practices to shape the study of emotion; why there are letters in the English State Papers labelled 'mad'; or how the culture & politics of Elizabethan England shaped people's experience of distress? Find out here! doi.org/10.1017/S008... #earlymodern

‘your poore distressed suppliant’: ‘Madness’, Emotion and the Archive in Early Modern England | Transactions of the Royal Historical Society | Cambridge Core

‘your poore distressed suppliant’: ‘Madness’, Emotion and the Archive in Early Modern England

doi.org

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Lucy Holehouse @lucyholehouse.bsky.social · Sep 1

Thank you!! ☺️

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Edmond Smith @edmond-smith.bsky.social · Aug 13

One of my RAs landed a permanent job in Madrid (which is awesome!) so I'm now advertising for a new one!

It's to work on my INTRECCI project on global histories of capitalism.

Please share with anyone interested and happy to answer questions.

www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Research Associate in Early Modern Global History:Oxford Road

www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk

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Lucy Holehouse @lucyholehouse.bsky.social · Aug 14

Thank you! I'll get to teach Fletcher 😱

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Lucy Holehouse @lucyholehouse.bsky.social · Aug 14

Thank you! 😊

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Claire Turner @claireturner.bsky.social · Aug 6

I'm chuffed to announce that I've just signed a contract with Manchester University Press to publish my book 'Plague and the Senses in Early Modern London'.

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Lucy Holehouse @lucyholehouse.bsky.social · Aug 13

we will hang out in this time we simply must

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Lucy Holehouse @lucyholehouse.bsky.social · Aug 13

❤️❤️🥹

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Lucy Holehouse @lucyholehouse.bsky.social · Aug 13

So so excited to announce that I'll be staying on @royalholloway.bsky.social for the next two years as a Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Early Modern Studies! ☺️🤸‍♀️

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Lucy Holehouse @lucyholehouse.bsky.social · Aug 13

BOOK OF THE YEARRRRR!!!!

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Society for Iberian Global Art @siga.spainculture.us · Aug 11

✨ CFP: The Odorous Object ✨
Perfumed letters, scented ceramics, fragrant glass vases — from the visible vessel to the invisible scent, olfactory objects carry histories of art, science, power, and imagination.
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Hester L-J @starcrossed2018.bsky.social · Aug 5

Stop doing this! Whoever is paying @timeshighered.bsky.social‬ for story after story is also funding environmental vandalism on a catastrophic scale. This isn't journalism, it's naive ethical bankruptcy - and intellectually and pedagogically obtuse.

Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · Aug 5

#GenAI is not just for students. Isabel Fischer outlines draft principles to help assessors use AI responsibly in #marking and feedback.

www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/how-s...

How should assessors use AI for marking and feedback?

While much attention has focused on students’ use of GenAI, its potential to support assessors has mostly been overlooked. Here, Isabel Fischer shares draft principles co-created at a cross-institutio...

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Lucy Holehouse @lucyholehouse.bsky.social · Aug 5

Spending some time working on the 'doublet with a satten forepart and a Canvas back’ in Middleton's Hengist today, and the more I think about it the more I realise just how ridiculous it would have looked. Wondering if it was made specifically for this play...

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Polly Hember @pollyhember.bsky.social · Aug 4

I'm currently looking for visiting lecturing/tutoring work for the autumn 💛 I've worked in English, Media Arts and Liberal Arts departments, and have taught poetry, literature, film, television and critical theory. If you know of any vacancies, or anyone that might be looking, please let me know 😊

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Lucy Holehouse @lucyholehouse.bsky.social · Jul 30

yes

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Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social · Jul 24

#EarlyModern history PhD students around London: the 'Society, Culture and Belief, 1500-1800' seminar
@ihrscb.bsky.social at @ihr.bsky.social is looking for a postgrad convenor for 2025/26. Stipend of £300/yr and a chance to get involved in a great seminar!

The ‘Society, Culture and Belief, 1500-1800’ seminar at the Institute for Historical Research would like to appoint a doctoral student as a stipendiary postgraduate seminar convenor for 2025/26. You would be an active member of our lively, friendly seminar. Your main responsibilities would be to contribute to our social media presence, encourage other postgrads to attend the seminar, and occasionally assist with minor administrative tasks to help the seminar run smoothly. The expectation would be that you would come to the seminar as often as possible.

We normally host nine seminar talks over the course of the academic year. In 2024/25, we hosted talks by Rachel Winchcombe (Manchester), Fara Dabhoiwala (Princeton), Will Tullet (York), Tiéphaine Thomason (Cambridge), Nikki Clarke (Birkbeck), and Juliet Atkinson (Leeds).

The Institute will provide you with a stipend of £300 (£100/term) and will cover the cost of your meals if you attend post-seminar dinners.

The current convenors are Holly Fletcher (UCL), Laura Gowing (KCL), Kate Hodgkin (East London), Eva Johanna Holmberg (Queen Mary), Tiéphaine Thomason (Cambridge), Emily Vine (Exeter), Brodie Waddell (Birkbeck) and Roisin Watson (Open University).

To apply, please send a cover letter (max one page) indicating why this opportunity is of interest and a CV (1-2 pages) to b.waddell@bbk.ac.uk by September 1st.

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Lucy Holehouse @lucyholehouse.bsky.social · Jul 25

These are all amazing - thank you so much, Laurie!

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Lucy Holehouse @lucyholehouse.bsky.social · Jul 25

Legend legend legend!!!! So proud of you <3

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Lucy Holehouse @lucyholehouse.bsky.social · Jul 25

Material culture folk and dress historians: do we know anything about what a 'Fool's Coat' may have looked like in late C16th to early C17th England?

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Lucy Holehouse @lucyholehouse.bsky.social · Jul 24

Anything for a Quiet Life!! 😍 Is there materials of disguise discussion to look forward to?

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