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Alice Wickenden

@awickenden.bsky.social

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Leverhulme ECF at Cambridge: named early modern library collections, politics of book provenance, science & lit. Volunteer for Abortion Support Network; sometime poet. Forthcoming: Hans Sloane’s Library Collection and the Production of Knowledge (CUP)

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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · Jun 30

hello. if you work at a university please ask your library to buy my book. it is all about books and libraries and also plants, museums, the Royal Society, and the ways we learn. I think it will be interesting to lots of people, hopefully. thank you www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

Hans Sloane's Library Collection and the Production of Knowledge | Cambridge University Press & Assessment

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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 13h

Ooooooooh YES I can’t wait to read this!! Hooray and congrats!

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J.D. Sargan @jdsargan.bsky.social · 21h

It's true: I wrote a book. And what's more, the book is done and soon you'll be able to own a copy. And what's more more, if you want a hard copy you can order one for 50% off now, with the code SAR50. And if you want it digitally, it'll be open access!

www.arc-humanities.org/978180270163...

Trans Histories of the Medieval Book - Arc Humanities Press

Archival collections are political spaces: the decisions that govern whose histories are preserved, when, and by whom are not neutral. They reflect the commu...

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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 23h

please share! For this week, donations to Abortion Support Network are matched by the Big Give. Give £5, we receive £10, and so on... donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...

We Fund Abortions – Big Give

Access to abortion care is a fundamental human right, but across Europe, millions of people can’t access care. ASN helps those people access a safe abortion by funding the costs of travelling to a cli...

donate.biggive.org

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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 23h

This work is almost all done by volunteers, working in shifts, networking with partner organisations and reliable hosts and clinics. We talk people through the logistics of accessing abortions and help them make it happen.

Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 23h

The increase in access to at-home abortion via pills is fantastic, but it means that charities like ours are seeing a higher proportion of later and more complex cases, which are also often more expensive. Add this to the increased cost of living and our average grant last year was £924.

Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 23h

The majority of our clients currently come from Ireland and Poland. Due to various things (Brexit; visa restrictions; different countries having different abortion limits) we need to work with each client's individual situation to come up with a plan: where to go and how to get there.

Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 23h

please share! For this week, donations to Abortion Support Network are matched by the Big Give. Give £5, we receive £10, and so on... donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...

We Fund Abortions – Big Give

donate.biggive.org

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Barbara Franchi @barbarafranchi.bsky.social · 1d

Delighted to announce that my co-edited special issue, Material Feminism and Posthumanism, is out today with Contemporary Women’s Writing @oxfordunipress.bsky.social!
Featuring articles on Vinciane Despret, Mary-Jo Bangs, Larissa Lai, V.H. Leslie, Erín Moure, and Sarah Moss. doi.org/10.1093/cww/...

Introduction: Material Feminisms and Posthumanism in Contemporary Women’s Writing

The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report from 2023 (IPCC, Synthesis)1 on adverse impacts from human-caused climate crisis has once again

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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 3d

It might be tempting to do some compromising ‘both sides’ work by saying yes to the suggestion that the pools are ‘biological’ at certain times, or that there are segregated bathrooms. Don’t. Don’t give *any* credence to the idea that trans people are inherently threatening or dangerous.

👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 4d

This also isn’t true!!! There is a public consultation NOW OPEN and you can go have your say. Obviously they want to present it as a done deal but it’s not.

hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.is/en-GB/

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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 3d

final thing I will say on this topic but I truly believe Taylor Swift has accidentally conflated Ophelia and the Lady of Shalott and no-one has corrected her

Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 4d

Two very cute readers 😍

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Dr Rachel White @renaissancerach.bsky.social · 14d

I was very excited to come home to find the author copies of my book had arrived!

Though one young reviewer is disappointed that there are no tractors in it, if you are interested in early modern poetry and the occult, you can order below 👇

www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...

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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 4d

Do!! I’m halfway through and just read such a great chapter.

Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 4d

Imagine me dodging having to teach Heart of Darkness like this for the past eight years only to discover he’s actually a good writer

a screenshot of a video game with a score of 200 points

ALT: a screenshot of a video game with a score of 200 points

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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 4d

Hacking never read any Conrad before, I’m reading The Secret Agent and……… to my shock, he could really write

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JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk · 4d

Please go to the consultation and tell them that the only people unwelcome at Hampstead ponds are bigots: hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.is/en-GB/propos...

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 5d

So there's an EU-funded campaign to get millenials to eat potatoes and - I swear to Jesus I'm not making this up - it's slogan is: "Europe's favourite since 1536."

A screenshot of a website that says "DISCOVER THE TASTY VERSATILITY OF POTATOES! Europe's favourite since 1536." banner ads say "funded by the european union" and "enjoy - it's from europe."

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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 6d

Trying to put together a Stephen Greenblatt joke about Taylor Swift singing ‘and if you’d never come for me / I might have lingered in purgatory’ on a song called ‘The Fate of Ophelia’ but am defeated by the album’s own apathy

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DJ (obligatory Spooky Month name change) Tahoe @djtahoe.bsky.social · 6d

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Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 6d

Brb, travelling back in time to explain the words 'INFUSED WITH HELLMAN'S GARLIC AIOLI' to Aldus Manutius.

Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 6d

no no the publishing industry is doing fine, why do you ask

A screenshot from Publisher's Lunch:
Jennifer L. Armentrout and Hellmann's
In a promotion designed for BookTok enjoyment, Jennifer L. Armentrout’s just-published THE PRIMAL OF BLOOD AND BONE is available in a special, limited-edition "garlic-scented copy, infused with Hellmann’s Garlic Aioli to create a one-of-a-kind, Craven-proof book." They explain: "This exclusive edition is printed with garlic-infused ink, designed to ward off Armentrout’s bloodthirsty monsters, the Craven. While humans may dread garlic breath, Hellmann’s has cleverly transformed this social faux pas into an unexpected – and delicious – form of supernatural protection."

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Dylan Lewis @iamdylanlewis.bsky.social · 8d

I am teaching some of the reignited Mainz Catholicon printing debates to German print history students, and I realized others might also be interested in using these debates as a way to teach analytical bibliography, print hist, etc... so I made a teaching resource!

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

The printing of the Mainz Catholicon: context and a short bibliography

The printing of the Mainz Catholicon: context and a short bibliography of the academic discourse The Catholicon is a Latin dictionary and encyclopedia compiled by Giovanni Balbi (also known as Johann...

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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 8d

night two! particularly excited for the world’s best use of ‘effervescently’ in a song!

Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 9d

About to see the Magnetic Fields play an undisclosed number of love songs

Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 9d

I’m so excited!

Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 9d

About to see the Magnetic Fields play an undisclosed number of love songs

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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 9d

Hugely enjoying this Elizabethan wood panelling / fireplace combo in Bristol

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