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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 5h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 23h

Now open access: BJRL back archive, including special issue on ‘Medical History in Manchester: Health and Healing in an Industrial City, 1750–2005’. Check it out.

Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 1d

This week, Professor Carsten Timmermann writes on Bulletin 87:1, ‘Medical History in Manchester: Health and Healing in an Industrial City, 1750–2005’.

Read the blog post: bit.ly/3KYQL39

BJRL Goes Open Access: Professor Carsten Timmermann on Manchester's Medical History - Manchester University Press

BJRL 87:1 is now Open Access on Manchesterhive.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 3d

happy sunday, remember that you are completely expendable to your employer and that when you die they will forget you ever existed within weeks and easily replace you

Work really hard and one day this can be you (followed by graffiti of a headstone that says “RIP worked really hard” on it

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Alice Marples @alicemarples.bsky.social · 4d

I have just moved and am similarly Not Unpacking Today

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 4d

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How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More - Consumer Reports

AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.

www.consumerreports.org

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Alice Marples @alicemarples.bsky.social · 5d

Congratulations, Matthew! That's great news!

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Alice Marples @alicemarples.bsky.social · 5d

RIP to the most wonderful and loved comedy actor. Kitty in particular has always made me cry laughing.

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Kitty 2 - With Patricia Routledge - BBC

YouTube video by maxinebendix

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British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social · 6d

Hwæt! 🐉

Ever wondered what the epic poem Beowulf sounds like spoken in Old English?

#NationalPoetryDay

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 6d

Martin Degville of Sigue Sigue Sputnik having breakfast in a Newcastle B&B, 1986, photo by Homer Sykes.

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 16d

I'm very pleased to announce that the call for proposed Special Issues of the Historical Journal is now live, with a deadline of 12th December. Please do spread widely among your networks — @saracaputo.bsky.social and I look forward to reading your submissions! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Historical Journal Call for Special Issues

Welcome to Cambridge Core

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Alice Marples @alicemarples.bsky.social · 7d

New & aspiring MA/PhD students! Join us to learn how we can help you with your research at the first of our Doctoral Open Days 2025:

16 Oct - 'Getting Started at The British Library' (online)
31 Oct - 'Music, Sound and Vision' (in person)

More info, events & tickets: events.bl.uk/whats-on/doc...

Doctoral Open Days | British Library

oin one of our Doctoral Open Days for an introduction into the areas of our collection which may be relevant to you, alongside practical tips for using the

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 7d

RHS Funding opportunity: Postgraduate and Early Career Research Support Grants.

Grants of up to £1000 for graduate and early career historians to undertake research projects bit.ly/4nWLNlI

Closing date for the next round: 5 December 2025

Calls for research funding from the Royal Historical Society: current programmes - RHS

The Society currently invites applications for the following three schemes — open to historians across a range of career stages and backgrounds — with closing dates from 5 December 2025 onwards. For f...

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Madeleine Sugden @madlinsudn.bsky.social · 9d

The Boring Fund will be open for applications in November.

If your small UK charity needs (up to) £200 to cover something boring like insurance or web hosting, take a look.

They welcome donations too.

The Boring Fund - Open Collective

We support small non-profit organisations (UK) by only funding the really boring (but essential) stuff like insurance, accountancy or admin

opencollective.com

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Dr. Katie Sagal @aksagal.bsky.social · 22d

Hello #academicsky! I'm sharing a cfp for an edited collection on "Naming & Classifying," pulled together by me, Kristin Girten, & @aaronrhanlon.com . We'd love to see your work! Please also circulate to anyone you think might be interested. Deadline 10/31. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Naming and Classifying cfp final

CFP: Naming and Classifying in the Long Eighteenth Century Whereas “the nineteenth century can be seen as the century of counting and measuring,” the eighteenth century can be seen as the century of ...

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Alice Marples @alicemarples.bsky.social · 26d

Our current Visiting Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Sustainability & Climate, Dr Kathy Davies, will be giving a public lecture on 'SMOG STORIES: A Lived History of Air Pollution in Britain'

Please join us on Wednesday 29 October at 6.30pm - more info and booking page: events.bl.uk/events/smog-...

SMOG STORIES: A Lived History of Air Pollution in Britain | British Library

In December 1952 a thick fog caused by high levels of air pollution descended on London and killed up to 12,000 people. The Great London Smog was a human a

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 28d

Hot off the press, the British Academy's Cold Spots: Mapping Inequality in SHAPE Provision in UK Higher Education report. Read it if you care about universities or access to the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences for the rising generation. 1/5

Cold spots: Mapping inequality in SHAPE provision in UK higher education

This British Academy report reveals that many parts of the UK are becoming subject cold spots – areas with no provision in a subject within a commutable distance. These are often in rural, coastal or ...

www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk

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Alice Marples @alicemarples.bsky.social · 26d

Simply can't be arsed.

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Alice Marples @alicemarples.bsky.social · 27d

All arts and humanities approaches welcome!

- 'Dispersal of Manuscripts From the Cotton Library'
- 'Libraries, Literacy, and Learning in Leeds'
- 'New Sources & Perspectives on Sarah Sophia Banks'
- 'Cold-War Socialism, Non-Alignment & Anti-Colonialism in Yugoslav Press, 1961-1979'

Alice Marples @alicemarples.bsky.social · 28d

Absolutely delighted to invite applications from prospective HEI supervisors for four Collaborative Doctoral Partnership opportunities, to start October 2026.

Deadline for applications Fri 28th Nov, 5pm.

Further details below and here: www.bl.uk/services/res...

Collaborative Doctoral Partnerships

The Collaborative Doctoral Partnerships scheme offers PhD studentships fully funded by the AHRC and supervised jointly by a university and the British Library.

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Prof. Anna Catherine Hickey-Moody @annahm.bsky.social · 28d

Are you a cultural theorist who is looking for postdoctoral research project? Research Ireland have a funding scheme opening.

If you are interested in the politics of popular culture and intersectional theory, drop me an email at [email protected]

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Alice Marples @alicemarples.bsky.social · 28d

Julian's forthcoming PhD opportunity (Oct 26 start) has just gone live - take a look! #BuiltWithBooks

We are looking for HEI supervisors to collaborate on 'The Dispersal of Manuscripts from the Cotton Library'

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laurajcleaver.bsky.social @laurajcleaver.bsky.social · 28d

Next up, Julian Harrison on Robert Cotton and his networks. #BuiltWithBooks. Hoping for lots of medieval mss in this one 😍

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Alice Marples @alicemarples.bsky.social · 28d

Research theme 4:
'Cold-War Socialism, Non-Alignment and Anti-Colonialism in the Yugoslav Press, 1961–1979'

British Library co-supervisors: Milan Grba (South East European) and Savka Andic (Acquisitions South)

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Collaborative Doctoral Partnerships research theme 4

Research theme 4 for the Collaborative Doctoral Partnerships 2026/27 cohort: Cold War Socialism, Non-Alignment and Anti-Colonialism in the Yugoslav Press, 1961-1979

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Alice Marples @alicemarples.bsky.social · 28d

Research theme 3:
'Rediscovering a Woman Collector at the British Library: New Sources and Perspectives on Sarah Sophia Banks'

British Library co-supervisors: Felicity Myrone (Western Prints and Drawings), Maddy Smith (Printed Heritage 1600-1900), and me!

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Collaborative Doctoral Partnerships research theme 3

Research theme 3 for the CDP 2026/27 cohort is Rediscovering a Woman Collector at the British Library: New Sources and Perspectives on Sarah Sophia Banks

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Alice Marples @alicemarples.bsky.social · 28d

Research theme 2:
'Libraries, Literacy, and Learning in Leeds'

British Library co-supervisor: Elvie Thompson (Learning North)

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Alice Marples @alicemarples.bsky.social · 28d

Research theme 1:
'The Dispersal of Manuscripts From the Cotton Library'

British Library co-supervisors: Julian Harrison (Medieval Historical and Literary Manuscripts) and Dr Andrea Clarke (Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts)

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Alice Marples @alicemarples.bsky.social · 28d

Absolutely delighted to invite applications from prospective HEI supervisors for four Collaborative Doctoral Partnership opportunities, to start October 2026.

Deadline for applications Fri 28th Nov, 5pm.

Further details below and here: www.bl.uk/services/res...

Collaborative Doctoral Partnerships

The Collaborative Doctoral Partnerships scheme offers PhD studentships fully funded by the AHRC and supervised jointly by a university and the British Library.

www.bl.uk

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