Pam Lock
@pamplemoussepam.bsky.social
Sen Lecturer, Eng Lit, Bristol Uni & Dir. of MA in Eng Lit. I research alcohol in 19th Century. Co-Dir. Drinking Studies Network (https://drinkingstudies.wordpress.com/).
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Pam Lock
@pamplemoussepam.bsky.social
· Nov 29
My brilliant friend, Jules, created this video for me if my @britishlibrary.bsky.social book, Dead Drunk, in their bookshop last year and I had to share it on here
Only 3 spaces left on our public 8-week Detective and Crime fiction course - tell your friends to sign up now: www.bristol.ac.uk/english/stud...
Detective and Crime Fiction | Department of English | University of Bristol
8 week short course on detective and crime fiction
www.bristol.ac.uk
January 12, 2026 at 4:15 PM
Only 3 spaces left on our public 8-week Detective and Crime fiction course - tell your friends to sign up now: www.bristol.ac.uk/english/stud...
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And for the people fleeing wannabe space wanker and his racist hordes there is also this starter pack for women in history …
January 11, 2026 at 8:06 PM
And for the people fleeing wannabe space wanker and his racist hordes there is also this starter pack for women in history …
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Reminder: deadline for submitted applications is 12 Jan!!
BARS 2026 First Book Prize: Calls for Nominations
Awarded biennially for the best first monograph in Romantic Studies, this prize is open to first monographs published between 1 January 2023 and 31 December 2025.
Deadline: 12th January 2026.
More info: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6174
Awarded biennially for the best first monograph in Romantic Studies, this prize is open to first monographs published between 1 January 2023 and 31 December 2025.
Deadline: 12th January 2026.
More info: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6174
January 10, 2026 at 11:23 AM
Reminder: deadline for submitted applications is 12 Jan!!
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We would like to welcome Dr Christina Wade @braciatrix.bsky.social on to the editorial board of Brewery History.
January 6, 2026 at 11:37 AM
We would like to welcome Dr Christina Wade @braciatrix.bsky.social on to the editorial board of Brewery History.
Overindulge a little this festive season? Fear not! Dunkeld Total Abstinence Association have the soiree for you.
This event was held on the 3rd of January 1840, maybe we are a little bit late advertising it...
This event was held on the 3rd of January 1840, maybe we are a little bit late advertising it...
January 5, 2026 at 10:47 AM
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Overindulge a little this festive season? Fear not! Dunkeld Total Abstinence Association have the soiree for you.
This event was held on the 3rd of January 1840, maybe we are a little bit late advertising it...
This event was held on the 3rd of January 1840, maybe we are a little bit late advertising it...
January 5, 2026 at 10:42 AM
Overindulge a little this festive season? Fear not! Dunkeld Total Abstinence Association have the soiree for you.
This event was held on the 3rd of January 1840, maybe we are a little bit late advertising it...
This event was held on the 3rd of January 1840, maybe we are a little bit late advertising it...
Wow this database looks so useful and interesting!
As we welcome in the #NewYear2026, a reminder about the Railway Work, Life & Death project.
Looking at accidents to British & Irish railway staff before 1939, last year we added 69,000 more records to our free project database!
More here:
Looking at accidents to British & Irish railway staff before 1939, last year we added 69,000 more records to our free project database!
More here:
69,000 railway company records released! - Railway Work, Life & Death
An introduction to our new data release - railway staff accident records produced by English & Welsh railway companies, 1855-1929.
www.railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk
January 1, 2026 at 7:43 PM
Wow this database looks so useful and interesting!
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We are running our short course on Crime Fiction again in 2026. 8 weeks of evening classes @bristoluni.bsky.social. Join 8 university tutors sharing some of their favourite cold cases in detective fiction in an accessible but intellectually stimulating way:
www.bristol.ac.uk/.../detectiv...
www.bristol.ac.uk/.../detectiv...
www.bristol.ac.uk
December 17, 2025 at 11:55 AM
We are running our short course on Crime Fiction again in 2026. 8 weeks of evening classes @bristoluni.bsky.social. Join 8 university tutors sharing some of their favourite cold cases in detective fiction in an accessible but intellectually stimulating way:
www.bristol.ac.uk/.../detectiv...
www.bristol.ac.uk/.../detectiv...
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I'm keen to speak with any creatives who have lost work because of generative AI, for something I'm writing.
If this is you, please DM me. Thank you!
If this is you, please DM me. Thank you!
December 17, 2025 at 10:29 AM
I'm keen to speak with any creatives who have lost work because of generative AI, for something I'm writing.
If this is you, please DM me. Thank you!
If this is you, please DM me. Thank you!
We are running our short course on Crime Fiction again in 2026. 8 weeks of evening classes @bristoluni.bsky.social. Join 8 university tutors sharing some of their favourite cold cases in detective fiction in an accessible but intellectually stimulating way:
www.bristol.ac.uk/.../detectiv...
www.bristol.ac.uk/.../detectiv...
www.bristol.ac.uk
December 17, 2025 at 11:55 AM
We are running our short course on Crime Fiction again in 2026. 8 weeks of evening classes @bristoluni.bsky.social. Join 8 university tutors sharing some of their favourite cold cases in detective fiction in an accessible but intellectually stimulating way:
www.bristol.ac.uk/.../detectiv...
www.bristol.ac.uk/.../detectiv...
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Just out of interest... Who among those of you researching and writing about beer and pubs has a talk or two in your arsenal? We've got our 30-minute bit on the 20th century pubs of Bristol, for example.
December 13, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Just out of interest... Who among those of you researching and writing about beer and pubs has a talk or two in your arsenal? We've got our 30-minute bit on the 20th century pubs of Bristol, for example.
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JOB KLAXON!
CHAIR IN CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN HISTORY AT @ox.ac.uk: please publicize!
Eleanor Rathbone Professor of Contemporary European History
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
CHAIR IN CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN HISTORY AT @ox.ac.uk: please publicize!
Eleanor Rathbone Professor of Contemporary European History
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
Job Details
my.corehr.com
December 8, 2025 at 5:20 PM
JOB KLAXON!
CHAIR IN CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN HISTORY AT @ox.ac.uk: please publicize!
Eleanor Rathbone Professor of Contemporary European History
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
CHAIR IN CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN HISTORY AT @ox.ac.uk: please publicize!
Eleanor Rathbone Professor of Contemporary European History
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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If you teach histories of British slavery, don't miss this Thursday's book launch and talk: Teaching Slavery: New Approaches to Britain's Colonial Past, IHR, London 11 December & on Zoom. 5:30pm. Registration details are below and a link to the open access book in post 2/2. This post is 1/2.
Book talk: Teaching Slavery: New Approaches to Britain’s Colonial Past
www.history.ac.uk
December 9, 2025 at 10:27 AM
If you teach histories of British slavery, don't miss this Thursday's book launch and talk: Teaching Slavery: New Approaches to Britain's Colonial Past, IHR, London 11 December & on Zoom. 5:30pm. Registration details are below and a link to the open access book in post 2/2. This post is 1/2.
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Tomorrow we make our final Visit of 2025: to historians
@lshtm.bsky.social and @ioe.bsky.social.
Our focus is on working as a historian outside 'traditional' history departments - something that's increasingly common. The RHS welcomes historians to join us, wherever they work bit.ly/3KBcnTy 1/2
@lshtm.bsky.social and @ioe.bsky.social.
Our focus is on working as a historian outside 'traditional' history departments - something that's increasingly common. The RHS welcomes historians to join us, wherever they work bit.ly/3KBcnTy 1/2
December 9, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Tomorrow we make our final Visit of 2025: to historians
@lshtm.bsky.social and @ioe.bsky.social.
Our focus is on working as a historian outside 'traditional' history departments - something that's increasingly common. The RHS welcomes historians to join us, wherever they work bit.ly/3KBcnTy 1/2
@lshtm.bsky.social and @ioe.bsky.social.
Our focus is on working as a historian outside 'traditional' history departments - something that's increasingly common. The RHS welcomes historians to join us, wherever they work bit.ly/3KBcnTy 1/2
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I have already been quoted and referenced with hallucinated literature, and you all will be too. It’s a growing mess.
“AI models not only point some users to false sources but also cause problems for researchers and librarians, who end up wasting their time looking for requested nonexistent records…”
AI Slop Is Spurring Record Requests for Imaginary Journals
The International Committee of the Red Cross warned that artificial intelligence models are making up research papers, journals and archives
www.scientificamerican.com
December 9, 2025 at 7:28 AM
I have already been quoted and referenced with hallucinated literature, and you all will be too. It’s a growing mess.
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CFP: Clio Reframed: Women Writing History, 1500–1750
Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, 18th–19th June 2026. Deadline: 28 February 2026
Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, 18th–19th June 2026. Deadline: 28 February 2026
December 6, 2025 at 1:50 PM
CFP: Clio Reframed: Women Writing History, 1500–1750
Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, 18th–19th June 2026. Deadline: 28 February 2026
Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, 18th–19th June 2026. Deadline: 28 February 2026
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What looks like an alien starship visiting a small country estate in eighteenth-century Germany is in fact, *checks notes* a giant pomelo. So nothing to see here, #skystorians
December 5, 2025 at 11:32 AM
What looks like an alien starship visiting a small country estate in eighteenth-century Germany is in fact, *checks notes* a giant pomelo. So nothing to see here, #skystorians
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
I'm talking about spontaneous human combustion again next year, this time at the wonderful and atmospheric @arnosvalecemetery.bsky.social . Join us on 18 March if you want to learn more about what the victorian's thought about this phenomenon and what it taught them
arnosvale.org.uk/spontaneous-...
arnosvale.org.uk/spontaneous-...
Did Victorians believe heavy drinking caused Spontaneous Human Combustion? Online and in-person talk - Arnos Vale
Dr. Pam Lock from the University of Bristol will share insights on Victorian beliefs about spontaneous human combustion.
arnosvale.org.uk
December 3, 2025 at 10:24 AM
I'm talking about spontaneous human combustion again next year, this time at the wonderful and atmospheric @arnosvalecemetery.bsky.social . Join us on 18 March if you want to learn more about what the victorian's thought about this phenomenon and what it taught them
arnosvale.org.uk/spontaneous-...
arnosvale.org.uk/spontaneous-...
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The Victorian Commons team are looking forward to hearing this paper and congratulating Dr Wilson on her recent PhD!
Tonight Helen Wilson will speak at a joint session of the IHR’s Parliaments, Politics and People and British History in the Long 18th Century seminars, discussing her paper on 'Reconstructing Black Participation in British Politics, 1750-1850'.
You can attend online or in-person:
You can attend online or in-person:
Black and Political: Reconstructing Black Participation in British Politics, 1750-1850
Please enable JavaScript in your web browser to get the best experience.
www.history.ac.uk
December 3, 2025 at 10:12 AM
The Victorian Commons team are looking forward to hearing this paper and congratulating Dr Wilson on her recent PhD!
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Last week I went on a 'research walk', a new thing for me. I was attempting to 'beat the bounds' of the parish of Portishead, which is the central case study in my current book project about everyday life in 17th century villages. A good start; it was a dry day... 🧵
December 2, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Last week I went on a 'research walk', a new thing for me. I was attempting to 'beat the bounds' of the parish of Portishead, which is the central case study in my current book project about everyday life in 17th century villages. A good start; it was a dry day... 🧵
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*goes to a natural history museum and holds up a bouquet to an Allosaurus skeleton so they can finally see some flowers*
I don’t know a lot.
But I know a lot about dinosaurs.
Now we all know dinosaurs lived for millions of years right?
But does you mind actually wrap around how long they dominated for?
Lets get a little perspective.
Did you know Allosaurus never saw flowers but T.rex did?
But I know a lot about dinosaurs.
Now we all know dinosaurs lived for millions of years right?
But does you mind actually wrap around how long they dominated for?
Lets get a little perspective.
Did you know Allosaurus never saw flowers but T.rex did?
November 29, 2025 at 11:28 PM
*goes to a natural history museum and holds up a bouquet to an Allosaurus skeleton so they can finally see some flowers*
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The Deansgate Temperance Hotel in Manchester opened at the end of 1895 and survived until 1940, when it was destroyed by enemy action.
It features in 'Temperance Lives: Life Assurance, Drink and Medicine in Britain, 1840–1918' (Bloomsbury, 2025) as part of a tour of temperance Manchester... 1/4
It features in 'Temperance Lives: Life Assurance, Drink and Medicine in Britain, 1840–1918' (Bloomsbury, 2025) as part of a tour of temperance Manchester... 1/4
November 27, 2025 at 4:16 PM
The Deansgate Temperance Hotel in Manchester opened at the end of 1895 and survived until 1940, when it was destroyed by enemy action.
It features in 'Temperance Lives: Life Assurance, Drink and Medicine in Britain, 1840–1918' (Bloomsbury, 2025) as part of a tour of temperance Manchester... 1/4
It features in 'Temperance Lives: Life Assurance, Drink and Medicine in Britain, 1840–1918' (Bloomsbury, 2025) as part of a tour of temperance Manchester... 1/4
Lovely retreat today of the new ND PGR group at Bristol. Thanks to Kat Nelms for the invitation and hope to do more soon.
a cartoon cat is sitting at a desk with a computer and a clock
Alt: Blue cat typing in a happy bouncy way
media.tenor.com
November 27, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Lovely retreat today of the new ND PGR group at Bristol. Thanks to Kat Nelms for the invitation and hope to do more soon.
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*small embarrassed voice*
A little plug for my article on Devon book sales c. 1700, which has gone online open access. tl;dr book auctions weren't just a London/Oxbridge thing: a flourishing second-hand book market centred on Exeter included auctions from the 1680s.
doi.org/10.1093/libr...
A little plug for my article on Devon book sales c. 1700, which has gone online open access. tl;dr book auctions weren't just a London/Oxbridge thing: a flourishing second-hand book market centred on Exeter included auctions from the 1680s.
doi.org/10.1093/libr...
A Provincial Market in Second-Hand Books: Book Sales in Devon, 1688–1725
Abstract. Comparatively little is known about England’s early book-auction trade outside of London and the university towns, with few catalogues surviving
doi.org
November 27, 2025 at 9:31 AM
*small embarrassed voice*
A little plug for my article on Devon book sales c. 1700, which has gone online open access. tl;dr book auctions weren't just a London/Oxbridge thing: a flourishing second-hand book market centred on Exeter included auctions from the 1680s.
doi.org/10.1093/libr...
A little plug for my article on Devon book sales c. 1700, which has gone online open access. tl;dr book auctions weren't just a London/Oxbridge thing: a flourishing second-hand book market centred on Exeter included auctions from the 1680s.
doi.org/10.1093/libr...