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Dr Caroline Lewis
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English teacher and historian of nineteenth-century India and Britain. PhD from Edinburgh University on Scottish and English women missionaries in North India and Bengal. London Welsh via Hong Kong. Now Edinburgh.
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eicathomefinn.bsky.social
At this AI transcription event, attendees worked with '"some of our trickiest primary sources: handwritten letters, complicated ledgers, cross-hatched documents, Spanish and Arabic texts, hand-drawn maps, and even a shoe".'

Copilot hallucinated & was scored lowest; Gemini was the 'clear winner'.
A red woman's slipper with a chunky high heal. The toe is to the right and the heal to the left. It's on a surface, waiting to be scanned. It's the 'ruby slipper' referenced in the article, donated by UVA President Teresa Sullivan after her firing and rehiring by the Board.
February 7, 2026 at 12:34 PM
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mixedlinguist.bsky.social
My course syllabi now contain a link to this document, "why Professor Holliday Doesn't Use Generative AI". Feel free to share/repurpose or just check out the links for your own reference. It won't stop some of them, but I want students to know why. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Why Professor Holliday Doesn’t Use Generative “AI”
Why Professor Holliday Doesn’t Use Generative “AI” This is a (very) incomplete list of journalistic and scholarly sources that provide information about limitations and documented drawbacks of variou...
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January 21, 2026 at 3:28 PM
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salvarmyarchive.bsky.social
It's great to see so much media coverage around Andrew Davison's new book on the built heritage of the temperance movement.

liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
January 12, 2026 at 10:49 AM
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Adam Tooze gave the inaugural 𝘓𝘙𝘉 Autumn Lecture, ‘Electrostates, Petrostates and the New Cold War’, at the New School in New York City on 27 October 2025.

Watch the lecture in full here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLnx...
Adam Tooze: Electrostates, Petrostates and the New Cold War
YouTube video by London Review of Books (LRB)
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January 16, 2026 at 3:36 PM
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ppfideas.bsky.social
What could be more Christmassy than @leaypi.bsky.social on Rosa Luxemburg?! 🎁
ppfideas.bsky.social Past Present Future Podcast @ppfideas.bsky.social · Dec 24
NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!

Today in our season of live recordings David and @leaypi.bsky.social. look at the biopic of a revolutionary: Margaretha von Trotta’s 'Rosa Luxemburg' (1986), which explores the deeply unstable relationship between the personal and the political.

Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
December 24, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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royalhistsoc.org
What does Gen AI mean for the work of the historian and the value of historical experience, skills and craft?

'The Historian in the Age of AI' by @chriscampbell1.bsky.social.

New Comment article now available in 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society' bit.ly/4atErTB #Skystorians 1/2
Front page of 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society' Comment article, title 'The Historian in the Age of AI', by Chris Campbell. Full abstract: "This comment interrogates the methods and conclusions of Working with AI, a recent report conducted under the auspices of Microsoft, which identified historians as the profession with the second-highest ‘AI applicability’. It finds that the authors’ conclusions are based on an erroneous simplification and misrepresentation of a historian’s typical professional tasks, which have been publicly amplified by extensive media coverage. This comment then offers a wider provocation about the report’s conception of a professional historian, and whether it is related to the public application of ‘historian’ to a number of different practitioners with varied training and qualifications. In particular, it seeks to highlight a paradox which the report exposes: that we cannot defend the specialist training and expertise of professional historians against the encroachment of AI without also separating the academic skills and qualifications of historians from those engaged in more popular forms of historical writing and communication. The comment questions how we might grapple with this paradox without reverting to academic elitism."
December 11, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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vpreditors.bsky.social
In VPR 58.2 @amymatthewson.bsky.social examines how ILN repurposed images of China in its 1842 coverage of the Opium War. Learn how violent textual accounts were juxtaposed with tranquil landscapes to create a cohesive narrative about British military power: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org
On left, burgundy background with text that says: Amy Matthewson, “The Past in Present Knowledge: China in The Illustrated London News of 1842,” Victorian Periodicals Review, volume 58, number 2, summer 2025. On right, color illustration titled “Portrait of Van-Ta-Zhin, a Military Mandarine (or Nobleman) of China,” from William Alexander, The Costume of China (London: W. Bulmer for W. Miller, 1805), 19. Public Domain Mark. Wellcome Collection. https://wellcomecollection.org/works/mqtz7ays.
December 10, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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eicathomefinn.bsky.social
Annual shameless Xmas or other seasonal holiday gift suggestion for those interested in any of material culture, empire or British country houses. Over 500 pages & 100 illustrations. Paperback a mere £30. (Alternatively, free to download from @uclpress.bsky.social or @jstor.bsky.social ).
The East India Company at Home, 1757-1857
The East India Company at Home, 1757-1857 explores how empire in Asia shaped British country houses, their interiors and the lives of their residents. It includes chapters from researchers based in a ...
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November 30, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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kovesi.bsky.social
Applications Now Open for the University of Glasgow Library Visiting Research Fellowship scheme - supporting scholars from across academic disciplines to come to Glasgow to work on our unique research collections. Please RT or pass on:

www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...
November 20, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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oralhistsoc.bsky.social
🎙️Kavita Puri in conversation with John Gabriel

BBC's Kavita Puri joins the OHS to discuss the challenges + controversies behind making her award-winning radio series Three Million on the 1943 Bengal Famine.

📆9 Dec 2025
⏰6-7.30pm (UK)
📍London Met Uni or Zoom

More info: ohs.org.uk/events/kavit...
ohs.org.uk
November 20, 2025 at 4:16 PM
carolinelewis1997.bsky.social
Biggest news in my classroom today. Brilliant commentary from BBC Scotland.
eddieburfi.bsky.social Eddie Burfi @eddieburfi.bsky.social · Nov 18
The BBC Scotland commentary for Kenny McLean’s halfway line goal is glorious. Stuff of dreams. 🔥

Congratulations #Scotland, see you at the World Cup.
November 19, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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davehitchcock.bsky.social
This is very good and you should read it.
historyworkshop.org.uk History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · Nov 11
"Historical analysis is fundamentally different and more complex than producing a mass of visualizations and statistics that are the lifeblood of many A.I. programmes."

Gordon McKelvie @gordonmckelvie.bsky.social on the problematic use of A.I. within historical research.
Artificial Intelligence: A Warning for History
Does A.I. have the potential to simplify, and ultimately impoverish, our study of the past? Gordon McKelvie considers the recent explosion in A.I. and what it means for historians facing the current H...
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
November 12, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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alanlester.bsky.social
The private company Restore Trust’s attempt to take over the @nationaltrust.org.uk failed again. Will they stop now? No, because they are part of the well-funded nexus of right wing activist organisations that’s determined to control national institutions.

www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
Voting results from the AGM
Read about the National Trust's 2025 Annual General Meeting and the results from the day.
www.nationaltrust.org.uk
November 9, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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chesterbeatty.bsky.social
Join your next Chester Beatty talk from anywhere in the world for just €5 - plus take part in a historian-led Q&A! 😍 ow.ly/ZMHM50XeN2g @migrationhistorian.bsky.social

#empire #ayahs #womenshistory #digitalevent
chesterbeatty.bsky.social Chester Beatty @chesterbeatty.bsky.social · Nov 5
Interested in the history of women, workers, caregivers or empire? Do we have the Zoom talk for you!

Join Dr Arunima Datta for 'Travelling Ayahs, Migration and Care Labour in the Age of Empire' on November 12 at 6pm GMT / noon CST. Book here: ow.ly/ZMHM50XeN2g

#labourhistory #migrationhistory
A detail from CBL In 12.19, an illustrated manuscript, known as 'the birth of Kamrup' produced in Murshidabad, c. 1755-60. It shows five women in total, dressed in sumptuous, patterned clothing and extensive jewellery, in various seated and standing positions. The central figure, under an ornate arch, cradles a swaddled infant (Kamrup) and gazes down at him.
November 5, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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ottoenglish.bsky.social
It's that moment again for National Trust members to vote to keep the entryists out.

Quick and easy to vote and please do so by 31st of October

Quick Vote link keeps the AstroTurfers out.

Then share. Thank you.

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Welcome to the National Trust 2025 voting website, hosted by independent voting service provider Civica Election Services.
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October 25, 2025 at 10:11 AM
carolinelewis1997.bsky.social
My great-great grandfather, Evan Roberts, was elected as a Labour councillor in Llanelli after WW1. These local elections were a seismic shift to the Labour Party in Wales and he unseated an independent candidate in 1919. Today's victory for Plaid really is the end of the road for Labour in Wales.
Evan Roberts (rugby union) - Wikipedia
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October 24, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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eicathomefinn.bsky.social
Great 12-month opportunity for an historian. Salary: £36,799 (Grade 5: Development Worker grade). Edinburgh/hybrid. Closing date 21 October.
Vacancy: Legacy of Slavery Research Project Officer - The Scottish Episcopal Church
Salary: £36,799 (Grade 5: Development Worker grade)Contract: Fixed term for 12 months Hours: Fulltime, 35 hours a week (.8 FTE or 28 hours will also be considered). Some occasional evening or weekend ...
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October 22, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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ardenpublisher.bsky.social
Now in its second edition, 'Essential Shakespeare: The Arden Guide to Text and Interpretation' by Pamela Bickley & @drjennyst-hann.bsky.social is the go-to guide to help undergraduates navigate their way through university Shakespeare, examining 16 key plays.

https://bit.ly/46sx506
October 16, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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bestforbritain.org
👏 "We've lived here all our lives. And I have never felt so unwelcome in my own hometown as I do since your party came into Caerphilly."

"With all the rhetoric that you bring in, I have to say to my sons, please don't go there. Please don't do this."

"I blame you for that."
October 16, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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royalhistsoc.org
RHS funding opportunity: David Berry Fellowship in the History of Scotland and the Scottish People.

The Society's Fellowship, for up to £2500, supports research by historians of Scotland at any career stage: bit.ly/4ns6LJj

Closing date for the 2026 Fellowship: 6 March 2026
David Berry Fellowship in the History of Scotland and the Scottish People - RHS
Launched in 2023, the David Berry Fellowship provides an annual award of up to £2,500 to undertake research on the history of Scotland and the Scottish people worldwide. Applications for the 2026 Fell...
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October 1, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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oldedinburghclub.bsky.social
BOOK LAUNCH. This looks interesting - tomorrow night at the Georgian House, Charlotte Square, Edinburgh.

eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...
October 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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ihreurope1500.bsky.social Europe & the World at the IHR @ihreurope1500.bsky.social · Sep 27
NEW PROGRAMME! What an exciting one it is!
We're looking forward to thinking with @eicathomefinn.bsky.social, Sari Nauman, @rogerleejesus.bsky.social & @araujohistorian.bsky.social

Mondays, 17:30 @ihr.bsky.social & zoom. All very welcome! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians
Europe and the world, 1500-1800, IHR seminar, Mondays, 17:30. 6 October: Margot Finn: At the Cusp of the Modern? Tipu Sultan, the Family & East India Company Rule 10 November: Sari Nauman: Between Categories: Migration, War, and Refuge in the Early Modern Baltic Sea 17 November Roger Lee Jesus: Colonialism and Land: Rethinking Imperial and Local Agency in the Portuguese Empire in Asia 1 December: Ana Lucia Araujo: Dahomey: A West African Kingdom in the Centre of the World During the Eighteenth Century
September 27, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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eicathomefinn.bsky.social
History curious? You don't need to be in London (or the UK) to attend many Institute of Historical Research seminars, although if you're in Bloomsbury you'll enjoy doing so. Most are hybrid (online/in person). They're free, usually fortnightly and open to the public.

Starting this week:
Events
Stay up to date with the upcoming events organised or hosted by the Institute of Historical Research
www.history.ac.uk
September 22, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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royalhistsoc.org
Join us, at 6.30pm on Friday 12 September, for our next RHS Lecture: Professor Yasmin Khan on 'Mars and Britannia: the British Imperial Way of Warfare' bit.ly/3Hv2jK8

Booking for in-person and online attendance is now open. All are very welcome #Skystorians
‘Mars and Britannia: the British Imperial Way of Warfare’: in-person event
‘Mars and Britannia: the British Imperial Way of Warfare’, a Royal Historical Society Lecture with Professor Yasmin Khan, 12 September 2025
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September 2, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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⏰ Don’t miss out! Registration for the Women’s History Scotland Conference closes Friday 5 September!

Join us for a fascinating day! 👉 www.tickettailor.com/events/women...
Buy tickets – Women’s History Scotland Conference: New Directions in Women’s and Gender History in Scotland – Kinning Park Complex, Glasgow
Women’s History Scotland are delighted to announce their one-day conference is taking place on Saturday 13 September 2025 at th...
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September 1, 2025 at 9:13 PM