Matt Shaw
@matthewshaw.bsky.social
In a library. Most likely just off Queen's Lane. #PrintHistory #Time #Newspapers
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/an-inky-business-a-history-of-newspapers-from-the-english-civil-wars-to-the-american-civil-war-matthew-j-shaw/5911999?ean=9781789143867
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/an-inky-business-a-history-of-newspapers-from-the-english-civil-wars-to-the-american-civil-war-matthew-j-shaw/5911999?ean=9781789143867
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I spy a conspiracy by Big Bike
Lol congratulations to whoever briefed that the chancellor was going to axe Cycle to Work, then didn't. Whatever was going on behind the scenes, you've just done wonders for London's bike shops pre-Christmas.
If my group chats are anything to go by, Treasury briefing "we're going to end the cycle to work tax break that enables people to buy a large family-sized e-bike" has done more than any other advertising campaign to boost the uptake of family-sized e-bikes. Sales must be through the roof this week.
November 26, 2025 at 1:53 PM
I spy a conspiracy by Big Bike
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🚨 Applications are now open for the 2026–27 Koch History Centre Fellowships at Oxford!
We are seeking 12 historians (9 junior, 3 senior) for a one-year fellowship at Wadham College & the Faculty of History.
This year’s theme: “Scarcity and Abundance”
Deadline: 17 Dec 2025
Please share widely!
We are seeking 12 historians (9 junior, 3 senior) for a one-year fellowship at Wadham College & the Faculty of History.
This year’s theme: “Scarcity and Abundance”
Deadline: 17 Dec 2025
Please share widely!
November 26, 2025 at 11:57 AM
🚨 Applications are now open for the 2026–27 Koch History Centre Fellowships at Oxford!
We are seeking 12 historians (9 junior, 3 senior) for a one-year fellowship at Wadham College & the Faculty of History.
This year’s theme: “Scarcity and Abundance”
Deadline: 17 Dec 2025
Please share widely!
We are seeking 12 historians (9 junior, 3 senior) for a one-year fellowship at Wadham College & the Faculty of History.
This year’s theme: “Scarcity and Abundance”
Deadline: 17 Dec 2025
Please share widely!
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EVENTS: This Thursday we’ll be joined by Emily Gee IHBC FSA for a seminar exploring campaigns to house a new generation of working Victorian and Edwardian women, the specialised design of their buildings, and the lives transformed by this architectural movement.
Register Now:
sahgb.org.uk/whatson
Register Now:
sahgb.org.uk/whatson
November 24, 2025 at 2:59 PM
EVENTS: This Thursday we’ll be joined by Emily Gee IHBC FSA for a seminar exploring campaigns to house a new generation of working Victorian and Edwardian women, the specialised design of their buildings, and the lives transformed by this architectural movement.
Register Now:
sahgb.org.uk/whatson
Register Now:
sahgb.org.uk/whatson
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BTW some of you may know this but others won't. If you're in a place that's free WiFi is _TheCloud then it will give you unlimited credits to the BNA.
Key places are Wetherspoons (which is cheap and quiet during the day) and Cafe Nero (who don't do booze and whose coffee is good)
Key places are Wetherspoons (which is cheap and quiet during the day) and Cafe Nero (who don't do booze and whose coffee is good)
November 25, 2025 at 5:20 PM
BTW some of you may know this but others won't. If you're in a place that's free WiFi is _TheCloud then it will give you unlimited credits to the BNA.
Key places are Wetherspoons (which is cheap and quiet during the day) and Cafe Nero (who don't do booze and whose coffee is good)
Key places are Wetherspoons (which is cheap and quiet during the day) and Cafe Nero (who don't do booze and whose coffee is good)
As it’s budget week…
November 25, 2025 at 5:21 PM
As it’s budget week…
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IALS is inviting applications for a practitioner in residence for the academic year 2025-26.
We would be especially interested in proposals that respond to the building, its past and potential futures.
Full details here 👇
ials.sas.ac.uk/news/call-pr...
#LawAndCreativity
We would be especially interested in proposals that respond to the building, its past and potential futures.
Full details here 👇
ials.sas.ac.uk/news/call-pr...
#LawAndCreativity
Call for Practitioner in Residence 2026
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November 20, 2025 at 12:10 PM
IALS is inviting applications for a practitioner in residence for the academic year 2025-26.
We would be especially interested in proposals that respond to the building, its past and potential futures.
Full details here 👇
ials.sas.ac.uk/news/call-pr...
#LawAndCreativity
We would be especially interested in proposals that respond to the building, its past and potential futures.
Full details here 👇
ials.sas.ac.uk/news/call-pr...
#LawAndCreativity
zooming in to watch the sold-out GLAM Environmental Impact of Digital event live from the Weston. Now feel slightly bad about the Co2 footprint of this. And this skeet...
November 25, 2025 at 11:16 AM
zooming in to watch the sold-out GLAM Environmental Impact of Digital event live from the Weston. Now feel slightly bad about the Co2 footprint of this. And this skeet...
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Somewhat notoriously, Dad loved all sorts of pens, including the Parker Rollerball.
To this day I have no idea why he taped the cap on the end.
To this day I have no idea why he taped the cap on the end.
November 25, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Somewhat notoriously, Dad loved all sorts of pens, including the Parker Rollerball.
To this day I have no idea why he taped the cap on the end.
To this day I have no idea why he taped the cap on the end.
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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.
It was in the online edition a couple of weeks ago, but you may want to know that Gillian Tindall's obituary is in the print version of the Guardian today.
November 24, 2025 at 1:26 PM
It was in the online edition a couple of weeks ago, but you may want to know that Gillian Tindall's obituary is in the print version of the Guardian today.
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We're so pleased that our friends @balhnews.bsky.social have chosen to highlight the work of our friend and colleague Sarah Rose and VCH Cumbria - do take a look!
In one of our latest blogs, Dr Sarah Rose of the Victoria County History reflects on the publication of the first VCH volume to cover Cumbria - it's also the 250th in the "Big Red Book" series!
Learn more: www.balh.org.uk/blog-bringin...
#WeAreLocalHistory
@vch-home.bsky.social
Learn more: www.balh.org.uk/blog-bringin...
#WeAreLocalHistory
@vch-home.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
We're so pleased that our friends @balhnews.bsky.social have chosen to highlight the work of our friend and colleague Sarah Rose and VCH Cumbria - do take a look!
yeah, but red rot +chilly upper library means tweed/old town is genuine workwear www.theguardian.com/fashion/2025...
‘It’s an acceptance of where my body is now’ – the modern-day appeal of workwear
Its popularity is as enduring as its fabrics – and it allows men to age stylishly without worrying about their waistlines. One collector delves into the reasons the ordinary clothes of workers past li...
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:12 AM
yeah, but red rot +chilly upper library means tweed/old town is genuine workwear www.theguardian.com/fashion/2025...
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What was ChatGPT? Now nearly three years old, we can look at OpenAI's LLM as a product of its time, optimized ever since to its earliest uses. While this period of deep disorientation and social isolation has been obscured from public memory, it remains embedded within the interface.
What Was ChatGPT?
A Chatbot Optimized for Social Distance
Three years after the launch of ChatGPT, we can finally speak in hindsight about what it was and how it came to be. Its meteoric rise shocked the world, gather...
mail.cyberneticforests.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:37 PM
What was ChatGPT? Now nearly three years old, we can look at OpenAI's LLM as a product of its time, optimized ever since to its earliest uses. While this period of deep disorientation and social isolation has been obscured from public memory, it remains embedded within the interface.
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Congratulations to: Hackney Archives, Marx Memorial Library, Powys Archives @mediamuseum.bsky.social, @paulmelloncentr.bsky.social & @yorkminster.bsky.social Archives on achieving Archive Service Accreditation for the first time! (1/2)
📷 The Chapter of York, Photographer: Peter Li
📷 The Chapter of York, Photographer: Peter Li
November 20, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Congratulations to: Hackney Archives, Marx Memorial Library, Powys Archives @mediamuseum.bsky.social, @paulmelloncentr.bsky.social & @yorkminster.bsky.social Archives on achieving Archive Service Accreditation for the first time! (1/2)
📷 The Chapter of York, Photographer: Peter Li
📷 The Chapter of York, Photographer: Peter Li
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As I was having a final chat with one of the MFA crew - he was finishing his weeklong shift and would not return before my departure - we talked about the fate of the war. I offered my thoughts that Ukraine could win. He responded, "we have to, or we die." I didn't meet a single person in the...
November 21, 2025 at 5:36 PM
As I was having a final chat with one of the MFA crew - he was finishing his weeklong shift and would not return before my departure - we talked about the fate of the war. I offered my thoughts that Ukraine could win. He responded, "we have to, or we die." I didn't meet a single person in the...
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NEW PUBLICATION
Our @historians.org American Historical Review article presents a pathbreaking methodology to analyse the invisible biochemical traces that #earlymodern users left behind on the surface of paper recipes
doi.org/10.1093/ahr/...
Our @historians.org American Historical Review article presents a pathbreaking methodology to analyse the invisible biochemical traces that #earlymodern users left behind on the surface of paper recipes
doi.org/10.1093/ahr/...
The Scientific Analysis of Renaissance Recipes: Proteomics, Medicine, and the Body in the Material Renaissance
Abstract. Collaborations between the humanities and sciences allow for novel insights into the material world of Renaissance recipe cultures, and in partic
doi.org
November 21, 2025 at 12:24 PM
NEW PUBLICATION
Our @historians.org American Historical Review article presents a pathbreaking methodology to analyse the invisible biochemical traces that #earlymodern users left behind on the surface of paper recipes
doi.org/10.1093/ahr/...
Our @historians.org American Historical Review article presents a pathbreaking methodology to analyse the invisible biochemical traces that #earlymodern users left behind on the surface of paper recipes
doi.org/10.1093/ahr/...
Bob Mould talks politics
November 20, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Bob Mould talks politics
RIP Mani. I had to ask him to turn the noise down once (joys of Camden shared ownership)
November 20, 2025 at 6:02 PM
RIP Mani. I had to ask him to turn the noise down once (joys of Camden shared ownership)
hang a minute weather, on it's still brumaire, not frimaire
November 20, 2025 at 3:05 PM
hang a minute weather, on it's still brumaire, not frimaire
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I started reading this book this afternoon and it is so effing good, I hope never to stop.
We’re pleased to announce that Richard Marson’s long-awaited history of BBC Children’s TV will be published on November 17 in trade paperback and a collector’s hardback, limited to 300 copies.
Order Box of Delights: The Story of BBC Children’s Television now from tenacrefilms.bigcartel.com
Order Box of Delights: The Story of BBC Children’s Television now from tenacrefilms.bigcartel.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:46 PM
I started reading this book this afternoon and it is so effing good, I hope never to stop.
Marks & Spencer’s was infused with the smell of mint and chocolate. Immediately transported back to night shifts at Terry’s of York. (No I wasn’t allowed on the chocolate orange line)
November 19, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Marks & Spencer’s was infused with the smell of mint and chocolate. Immediately transported back to night shifts at Terry’s of York. (No I wasn’t allowed on the chocolate orange line)
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This - the Wheatley Census - has been at the center of my research life for the last year (and a half, honestly)! Proud to finally share the first iteration of it publicly. Take a look. Poke around. And send me your info about copies you work with!
Pleased to announce the Wheatley Census is ready for 1.0 public release! As detailed a census as possible (right now) of the first six editions - those printed in the 18th century - of Phillis Wheatley’s Poems on Various Subjects, is available here: www.wheatleycensus.org.
Wheatley Census
www.wheatleycensus.org
November 17, 2025 at 4:47 PM
This - the Wheatley Census - has been at the center of my research life for the last year (and a half, honestly)! Proud to finally share the first iteration of it publicly. Take a look. Poke around. And send me your info about copies you work with!