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Malcolm Noble @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social · 17h

Do note this is hybrid!

J.D. Sargan @jdsargan.bsky.social · 17h

Your challenge for this weekend is to put in an abstract for Queer Bibliography 2026. It's what all the cool kids are doing.

The theme is Space, Place, Community (widely understood, certainly not limited to the South). CFP: shorturl.at/XAVJ0; Submit: forms.gle/XD7FgrrStp3j...

Athens GA and online

Poster reads: March 12–14, 2026; Queer Bibliography in the South: Space, Place, Community; University of Georgia, Athens, GA.

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J.D. Sargan @jdsargan.bsky.social · 17h

Your challenge for this weekend is to put in an abstract for Queer Bibliography 2026. It's what all the cool kids are doing.

The theme is Space, Place, Community (widely understood, certainly not limited to the South). CFP: shorturl.at/XAVJ0; Submit: forms.gle/XD7FgrrStp3j...

Athens GA and online

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Malcolm Noble @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social · 1d

Please write this paper!

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 1d

Letter from the advertising department at The Lady magazine, 1977

Our Ref: Sit/QC
22nd March 1977
Mrs A. Miconi,
Flat 17, Lyncourt, The Orchard,
Blackheath,
London SE3
Dear Madam,
We thank you for your letter and payment of £3.80, received on 21st March.
Before proceeding, we must whether you would agree to a slight wording amenament of the wording in order that the advertising conforms to our normal style. The words "Socialist feninist" we would prefer to read "Friendly, motherly," thereby allowing the wording to conform.
We now look forward to your further instructions, whilst advising you that our next issue is 7th April for which we close for press upon receipt of the first post Tuesday 29th March.

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Medieval and Early Modern Orients (MEMOs) @memorients.bsky.social · 2d

CONFERENCE: Always Here (SUNY Binghamton):

memorients.com/events/cfp-a...

CONFERENCE: Always Here | MEMOs

Binghamton University's Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies brings together those studying premodern non-binary gender, trans identities, & queerness

memorients.com

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CFRC-Folklore @cfrc-folklore.bsky.social · 2d

CFP! Journal of Festive Studies is inviting abstracts for an issue on TINY/giant: Playing with Scale. Themes include giant puppets, toy theatres, effigies for celebration or excoriation, miniature collectibles... Deadline 15 Nov, more info here: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

Journal of Festive Studies Issue Nine Call for Papers: TINY/giant: Playing with Scale | H-Net

TINY/giant: Playing with Scale Guest Editors: Dawn Tracey Brandes & Martha Radice, Dalhousie University Deadline for abstracts and short bios: November 15, 2025In addition to our guest-edited section ...

networks.h-net.org

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Malcolm Noble @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social · 2d

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Century-old papers saved from the bin reveal changes in Europe’s plant life

Plant inventories dating back to 1884 and nearly thrown away enable unique time-lapse study of biodiversity in Swiss meadows

www.theguardian.com

Malcolm Noble @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks so much! I obviously will need a physical copy.

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American Association of Wine Economists AAWE @wineecon.bsky.social · 3d

"No more than a liter of wine a day" - In the early 1950s, when French wine consumption was 140+ liters/capita, France launched the campaign "Santé Sobriété" to limit alcohol consumption. In 1954, Philippe Foré became the chief designer. #WineHistory`

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Malcolm Noble @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social · 3d

Why don't all libraries have this?

Richard Fallon @richardfallon.bsky.social · 3d

A literary Iguanodon at the Earth Sciences Library. Do any other libraries have dinosaurs or other antediluvian creatures carved into the furniture?

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Patricia Stoop @dr-patriciastoop.bsky.social · 3d

Great news!! My special issue on Writing for Third Parties: Commercial Manuscript Production in the Late Middle Ages (Queeste, @amsterdamupress.bsky.social) is now available in open access.

Looking much forward to your reactions!

www.aup-online.com/content/jour...

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Scottish History Society @scothistorysociety.bsky.social · 3d

Winter Lecture Series: Finding Women in Scottish History

Join us for a series of free, online lectures to explore sources of women's lived experience, intellectual and religious networks, and socio-political power in medieval and early modern Scotland.

scottishhistorysociety.com/shs-winter-l...

SHS Winter Lecture Series: Finding Women in Scottish History

scottishhistorysociety.com

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Malcolm Noble @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social · 3d

I had forgotten how haunted the Xavier Sabata Winterreise is. The lieder equivalent of MR James.

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Malcolm Noble @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social · 3d

Oh wonderful. We will of course toast it when we next meet!

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Laura Helton @lehelton.bsky.social · 3d

I’m sorry to have to miss the @moderniststudies.bsky.social convening this year, but I’m incredibly honored to be in such good company on this shortlist for the 2025 MSA First Book Prize!

Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 11d

Congrats to the three authors on the shortlist for the 2025 MSA First Book prize:

Laura E. Helton, Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History

Congrats @lehelton.bsky.social and @columbiaup.bsky.social

Scattered and Fugitive Things | Columbia University Press

Winner, 2025 Merle Curti Intellectual History Award, Organization of American HistoriansWinner, 2024 Arline Custer Memorial Book Award, Mid-Atlantic Regional... | CUP

cup.columbia.edu

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Malcolm Noble @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social · 3d

Rest of world - there are two options North America or Rest of World, which involves emailing Wiley distribution

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Malcolm Noble @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social · 3d

Splendid! Does it / will it work for ROW?

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Scottish History Society @scothistorysociety.bsky.social · 3d

We've joined the blue sky! Just as the skies darken for winter too

Please let your followers know that the Scottish History Society has arrived!

Find out more about memberships, the society, and events at our website: scottishhistorysociety.com

The Scottish History Society

scottishhistorysociety.com

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NewsThump @newsthump.com · 4d

NEWS! Woman whose party couldn't spell 'Britain' decides English degrees are a 'rip-off' newsthump.com/2025/10/08/w...

Woman whose party couldn’t spell ‘Britain’ decides English degrees are a ‘rip-off’

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has today announced plans to reduce student numbers taking worthless degrees ‘like English’, just 24 hours after her party spectacularly failed to spel…

newsthump.com

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LadyGiada @ladygiada.bsky.social · 4d

Call for Papers📣: Gender, Violence and the Early Moderns. Join us in Florence. We look forward to hosting you in May 2026😎☀️ @eui-history.bsky.social #skystorians #academicsky #earlymodern

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Aoife Bhreatnach @aoifeb.bsky.social · 4d

These books are medicinal!

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 4d

doomscroll break

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French Colonial Historical Society @frenchcolonial.bsky.social · 20d

Share widely!

We are now accepting paper and panel proposals for our 2026 Annual Conference in Ireland at Maynooth University taking place 25-27 June 2026!

The submission deadline is 14 November 2025, and you can read more information on our website!

frenchcolonial.org/annual-meeti...

Annual Meeting – French Colonial Historical Society

frenchcolonial.org

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Myriah Williams @myriahwilliams.bsky.social · 5d

the “dark” ages vs the “information age”

A rectangle sub-divided into four rectangles in a meme format. The upper left says “medieval” opposite the upper right which consists of a manuscript opening (The Lichfield Gospels, pp. 140-141); the lower left says “‘mid’ evil” opposite the lower right which is a screenshot of the ‘AI Overview’ that appears at the top of many Google searches.

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Laura Tisdall @lauratisdall.bsky.social · 5d

The call for papers for the @histchild.bsky.social 2026 conference at the University of Sheffield, 1-3 July, is now up on our website! Deadline 14 December www.histchild.org/pages/sheffi... #histchild #skystorians #histyouth

Fifth Biennial Conference | Children's History Society

University of Sheffield, 1-3 July 2026

www.histchild.org

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Malcolm Noble @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social · 5d

I fear it is slightly dated now, but Steve King's 'Making Sense of the Industrial Revolution: English Economy and Society, 1700–1850' (Manchester 2002) is a solid, clear primer. The structured nature makes it highly digestible.

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