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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 7d

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Hannah Scott @drhannahlscott.bsky.social · 8d

And a personal favourite - Zola in a frock and bonnet going to do 'research' at the ladies' department store.

Reminds me of something...

Caricature of Zola - 'Cherchant des documents!' in Au Bonheur des Dames

Well-known 'Sickos' meme, with a man looking lasciviously through a glass window saying 'yes...hahaha...YES!'

Hannah Scott @drhannahlscott.bsky.social · 8d

A programme from the Folies-Bergere - someone trying to note down a particularly catchy ditty

Hand-written musical notes on a stave on the back of a paper Folies-Bergere programme from c. 1900

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Hannah Scott @drhannahlscott.bsky.social · 8d

Samplers from a young Simone Vernerey in the 1920s, and her 1st prize for promptness, good conduct, lessons, homework, reading, spelling, sciences, history, geography and calculus, and 2nd prize for sewing.

A special magic finding these 100-year-old pieces of a young girl's handiwork.

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Hannah Scott @drhannahlscott.bsky.social · 8d

Fancy a cheeky night at the theatre, despite Paris being under siege?

How about a crowd-funder gig for a canon or machine gun to fight those rascal Prussians?

Small pink flier from during the Franco-Prussian siege of Paris.
Reads: Theatre de Belleville, le lundi 7 Novembre 1870, Soiree musicale et dramatique donne par le 80eme bataillon de la garde nationale sedentaire pour l'achat d'un canon ou d'une mitrailleuse

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Hannah Scott @drhannahlscott.bsky.social · 8d

Outrageously loud tartan silk ribbons from 1837-1840 - from a book of *6300* samples

Samples of loud coloured tartan silk ribbons pasted in a large paper album

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Hannah Scott @drhannahlscott.bsky.social · 8d

Six days, five libraries, 92 documents…

Some of my favourite things to have stumbled on in the Paris archives this week:

Saucy goings-on at the Moulin-Rouge - radiology and ultrasound live show, come see your heart beating, stomach working, and bones moving about in their joints!

Moulin-Rouge flier reading: Tous les soirs au bal du Moulin-Rouge: les dernieres decouvertes du siecle: Radiologie, Haute Frequence pour la premiere fois en public, demonstrations scientifiques de la production et de l'utilisation des Rayons X et des Courants de Haute frequence. Chacun peut voir le coeur battre, l'estomac fonctionner, les os jouer dans les articulations. 50 centimes

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Madeleine Sugden @madlinsudn.bsky.social · 10d

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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End Sexism In Schools @endsexisminschools.bsky.social · 15d

We’re launching the results of our research into gender balance in the History curriculum today.

The report - The Great History Heist: Reclaiming Women’s Place in the History Curriculum - found only 12% of History lessons feature women as their main focus. 59% featured no women at all.

Sexism in the History Curriculum - End Sexism in Schools

End Sexism In School’s second crowd research project is looking into the History curriculum taught at KS3 (years 7-9) in England and Wales.

endsexisminschools.org.uk

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Hannah Scott @drhannahlscott.bsky.social · 20d

Well I am shocked. Shocked, I tell you.

Steve Senior @stevensenior.bsky.social · 20d

AI medical tools downplay symptoms in women and ethnic minorities - on.ft.com/3IuZ5qz via @FT

AI medical tools downplay symptoms in women and ethnic minorities

Large language models reflect biases that can lead to inferior healthcare advice to female, Black and Asian patients

on.ft.com

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 21d

Sutton Trust report: 'Only three categories were below the national average – male professional footballers at 5%, female professional footballers at 4% and the Northern Ireland assembly, where nobody attended a fee-paying school.' 1/2

Privately educated still have ‘vice-like grip’ on most powerful UK jobs

Those in top roles are five times as likely to have been to private school than general population, study finds

www.theguardian.com

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will o’the wisp pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 22d

“Cataclysmically bad”

This new series of ECR blog posts on the French History Network makes for grim reading, perhaps grimmer even than some in UK #FrenchHistory might have realised.

1st post, anon ECRs in French History on what it’s like right now out there:

frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6691/

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ECR in 2025: Part One- What is it like? – SSFH

frenchhistorysociety.co.uk

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Dr. Heather Dichter @hdichter.bsky.social · 28d

PhD students working on diplomatic history - if you need more language training, apply for the Hogan Fellowship from @shafrhistorians.bsky.social

I’m a previous winner & thrilled to be chairing the committee this year! ⬇️

#skystorians 🗃️ #diplohistory

SHAFR @shafrhistorians.bsky.social · Sep 8

🚨 Reminder: SHAFR January awards deadline is Oct 15! Apply now for the Bernath Lecture Prize, Williams Emerging Scholar Grant, Hogan Language Fellowship & grad dissertation grants. Details: tinyurl.com/5n6e6h8z

#SHAFR #HistoryAwards #AcademicSky #skystorians

October 15 Deadline - Apply for SHAFR Awards

www.shafr.org

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Dr Anna Jamieson @annafranjam.bsky.social · Sep 9

Delighted to share our Call for Papers for the workshop *Object Stories in Health and Medicine 1700-1900*. Taking place online on 5 December. Pls share and consider submitting an object story! @rebeccawhiteley.bsky.social @unibirmingham.bsky.social

www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...

Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900 - University of Birmingham

x9artsandlaw-event,x9history-event,x9historycultures-event,x9clemt-event

www.birmingham.ac.uk

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Institute of English Studies @ies-sas.bsky.social · Sep 8

📣Only one week left to apply for the Senate House Library Visiting Fellowships 📣

In 2025-6 up to two awards of £1500 will be allocated to support a fellowship of up to two weeks.

Deadline: 15 September 2025

More info 👇
https://tinyurl.com/ykudv9tn

Senate House Library announces relaunch of Visiting Research Fellowship

Senate House Library and the Friends of Senate House Library are delighted to report that the Visiting Research Fellowships programme has been relaunched.

tinyurl.com

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Hannah Scott @drhannahlscott.bsky.social · Sep 5

If Nige is attacking us, reckon that means we’re doing something right…

Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · Sep 5

Nigel Farage has hit out at universities for “poisoning the minds” of students with what he said was a “twisted interpretation of history” in his speech on the opening day of the Reform UK conference, reports @patrickjack.bsky.social
#academicsky #ReformUK

Universities ‘poisoning student minds’, says Farage

Populist leader takes aim at higher education in speech on first day of the Reform UK conference in Birmingham

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social · Sep 3

🎉📣 Announcing the IHR Research Training Courses for October - December 2025.

Visit the IHR website to register and find detailed information on each course: www.history.ac.uk/study-traini...

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Hannah Scott @drhannahlscott.bsky.social · Sep 2

Calling the #arthistory hive mind ☎️I’m supervising a UG dissertation on late 19th-c French art this year, especially images of public spaces.

It’s a while since I worked on this material; I’d love to hear recommendations of fab recentish studies.

Link me your book/article! Brag for your friends!

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · Aug 29

Exciting news! @bavs-uk.bsky.social are hiring an ECR/Postgrad Rep to work alongside me to develop early career professional development and networking opportunities. 10th Sept deadline, details below ⬇️ DM me with any queries 🎉

BAVS @bavs-uk.bsky.social · Aug 21

Do you want to join the BAVS Executive Committee? We have a vacancy for an ECR/Postdoctoral Representative (x 3-year term), and we'd love to hear from you if so! The deadline for applying is 10th September. More info here: bavs.ac.uk/executive-co...

» BAVS Executive Committee VacanciesBAVSBAVS Executive Committee Vacancies | BAVS

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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · Aug 27

There are tons of graphic novels, academic papers, film and TV scripts, & prose novels/nonfiction on the LibGen list Anthropic used.

As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how

Part 1: is your work in Libgen?

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

www.theatlantic.com

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Ruth EJ Booth (she/they) @ruthejbooth.bsky.social · Aug 14

"If your books were uploaded to LibGen/fed into the LLMs, add your name to the potential class action lawsuit by tomorrow." Details:

LibDem database: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Attorney form: www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...

(This information comes via a reliable Discord source.)

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

www.theatlantic.com

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Hannah Scott @drhannahlscott.bsky.social · Aug 14

My first attempt at making a set of mid-nineteenth century undies and corset.

Step aside Marks and Spencer.

Selfie in front of the mirror wearing my first attempt at making 19th century drawers, chemise and corset.

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Venus Bivar @vbivar.bsky.social · Aug 14

For all of the educators trying to deal with AI, I did a deep dive in early June and these are the four articles I decided to assign to my students.

1. This is the longest of the bunch, but so wonderfully comprehensive.

www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...

We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard.

The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next.

www.technologyreview.com

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · Aug 13

What I'm seeing more and more is that AI is somehow worse for the people who use it frequently than I could have anticipated earlier this year, and one of the strongest arguments I can think of against it is what it does to them

The more I see of AI’s effect on society, the more I’m convinced the word to describe its effects is “corrosive”. AI corrodes your skills, it corrodes your ability to think, and through that, it corrodes your humanity. You can use it as a tool, but you have to recognize how dangerous of a tool it can be, because it uses language — it seems like us. But it fundamentally isn’t. It’s seductive to think that life can be easier. It’s easy to believe that you can let a wondrous machine do the hard thinking for you. It’s appealing to feel like you can skip the uncomfortable introspection that creates growth.

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Hannah Scott @drhannahlscott.bsky.social · Aug 1

Wicked witch over the wood,
I spy Robin Hood.

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