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Elaine Mitchell @elaineamitchell.bsky.social · 17h

Stands test of time!

Elaine Mitchell @elaineamitchell.bsky.social · 19h

Ooh, @nigella.bsky.social is making my carrot cake.🤣Well, it’s hers really but I’ve adopted it. Didn’t think anything would have me grating carrots.

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Dr Liam Sims @liamsims.bsky.social · Dec 14

My PhD thesis is now available online through the University of Leicester repository! 'Sociability, Provincial Antiquarianism and Networks of Knowledge in the Spalding Gentlemen's Society, 1710-1755'. figshare.le.ac.uk/articles/the...

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Megan King @drmeganking.bsky.social · 1d

📢Call for papers!

Benjamin Franklin House is hosting a conference, “Remember the ladies”: Women and Revolution, in London in May 2026!

Details are available here: benjaminfranklinhouse.org/event/spring...

If you have any questions, please email me at [email protected].

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Elaine Mitchell @elaineamitchell.bsky.social · 1d

So with you on this! Having a run of appointments myself at moment and it’s indeed marvellous and staff tremendous but utterly exhausting!

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Elaine Mitchell @elaineamitchell.bsky.social · 2d

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 3d

A 3,500 year-old Egyptian glass cosmetic jar with two little duck heads!

Glass was a relatively new material at that time, so this jar would have been a precious possession.

From Merit’s beauty case, found inside Theban tomb (TT8) of Merit and her husband Kha in 1906. 📷 Museo Egizio

#Archaeology

Museo Egizio Turin photo showing a small, dark-blue, core-formed, round glass jar which tapers in at the shoulders below the neck. It has yellow, white, and light blue festoon decoration trailed around the main body. There is a single yellow trail just below the neck of the jar. There is a dark-blue circular glass lid, the top of which is adorned with two dark-blue duck heads with yellow bills, a yellow trailed stripe on the top of each duck’s head, and indents for their eyes. The jar is displayed on a perspex (?) stand against a grey background. Glass jar dimensions: 7.6 cm x 9.6 cm.

Core-forming is one of the earliest glassmaking techniques. Glassmakers shaped the body of the vessel around a core, wound colored trails around it. They then let the vessel cool and removed the core.

Elaine Mitchell @elaineamitchell.bsky.social · 5d

I’ve taken the course!

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Elaine Mitchell @elaineamitchell.bsky.social · 5d

Errm, she has a name you know. Would you have put ‘man’?

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Dr Joanne Norcup @drjn.bsky.social · 5d

The annual Walter Rodney Lecture (hosted by the Yesu Persaud Centre for Caribbean Studies, University of Warwick) will be given this year by Professor David Scott (Columbia University) on the 25th November 2025. Please share. All welcome.

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Anna Cusack @annacusack.bsky.social · 5d

If anyone needs a freelance researcher in London (or across the UK), I'm your person!
I've reasonable rates, lots of archive experience & great recommendations from academics globally. I'm only teaching 1 module this term, as the job market is what it is. Therefore, I'm open to all work. DM me!

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Elaine Mitchell @elaineamitchell.bsky.social · 5d

OMG! 🥳🥳🥳🥳

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 5d

Ooh the opportunity to run the Sir Lenny Henry Centre for Media Diversity has come up. £81k. Based at Birmingham City University. Great chance to create positive change
jobs.bcu.ac.uk/en/sites/CX_...

Director of the Sir Lenny Henry Centre for Media Diversity

The Sir Lenny Henry Centre for Media Diversity (LHC) is seeking a visionary and dynamic Director to lead its mission to improve the diversity of representation and employment across contemporary Briti...

jobs.bcu.ac.uk

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Elaine Mitchell @elaineamitchell.bsky.social · 5d

Me. In a few years when I’ve got those climbers going over the pergola.😂Thanks for the suggestions BTW. Been Passifloraring all evening.

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Elaine Mitchell @elaineamitchell.bsky.social · 5d

Lovely Thursday. Having tea with @drgavin.bsky.social and hearing all about #William Morris and his plants.

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Elaine Mitchell @elaineamitchell.bsky.social · 6d

@municipaldreams.bsky.social in Wolverhampton this morning.

Municipal Dreams @municipaldreams.bsky.social · 6d

1/ My current posts on the Low Hill Estate (see thread below) coincide with Wolverhampton Libraries' special centenary exhibition on history of the estate in Low Hill Library:
www.wolverhampton.gov.uk/news/low-hil...

Low Hill centenary celebrated with special exhibition | City Of Wolverhampton Council

A special exhibition will go on show next month to celebrate the centenary of Low Hill Estate.

www.wolverhampton.gov.uk

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Elaine Mitchell @elaineamitchell.bsky.social · 6d

Oops! Hope you can cope.🛌

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Rebecca Wynter @rebeccawynter.bsky.social · 9d

📢New online event!💥

Roll-up, roll-up! Come for @sshmedicine.bsky.social's AGM, stay for The SSHM Lecture 2025: Prof. Jeremy Greene, 'Wasted medicines & medical wastes: Notes from the trash-heap of medical history'

6 Oct, 4-5:30pm BST. Deets & free registration 👇

#histmed #histSTM #matcult

SSHM AGM & The SSHM Lecture 2025

Monday 6 October [Online] 4:00 – 5:30pm (UK time) As required, the Society gives notice to members that the Annual General Meeting to formally accept the accounts for 2024 and for…

sshm.org

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Archives & Collections, Library of Birmingham @theironroom.bsky.social · 6d

For this week’s blog, Archivist Nicola opens the page on the work she has been doing to safely move the archives and local studies collections from Sutton Coldfield Library to the Library of Birmingham - theironroom.wordpress.com/2025/09/29/s... Image Ref: BCU/13 #LibraryofBham #RoyalSutColTC

A page of a book. The writing is from left to right across the page. The words are written in ink. The page appears to have been subject to some time of erosion due to the passage of time as the book is of some considerable age.

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Elaine Mitchell @elaineamitchell.bsky.social · 7d

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Lendwithcare @lendwithcare.bsky.social · 7d

Right now, there are several loans that are almost fully funded on our website. If we can fully fund them before the end of the month, we’ll be able to send funding to our local partners even sooner.

If you can, take a moment to support one of these loans today 👇
bit.ly/4pPdApZ

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Women's History Network @womenshistnet.bsky.social · 8d

Women's History Today, the journal of the Women's History Network, is looking for new editorial team members.

Academics/independent scholars/PhD students with an interest in taking on a voluntary role, should contact Kate Murphy, Lead Editor, for more information: [email protected]

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Elaine Mitchell @elaineamitchell.bsky.social · 8d

Looking at this just this morning Shakespeare Institute Library!

Georgina Wilson @georginaemw.bsky.social · 8d

Today is publication day for PAPER AND THE MAKING OF EARLY MODERN LITERATURE! Available in paper or digital form www.pennpress.org/978151282744... @pennpress.bsky.social

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Lukas Large @lukaslarge.bsky.social · 8d

Stone collected all sorts of things, and we have his herbarium and bird collection in the Birmingham Museums collection

Lapworth Museum of Geology @lapworthmuseum.bsky.social · 8d

The Vesey Club was founded as a literary and scientific society in Birmingham by Benjamin Stone (1838–1914), a good friend of Charles Lapworth (1842–1920). Lapworth was a member, and took part in the 1890 visit to Norway where he was responsible for the geological excursions!

Image by Greg Milner.

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SHNH @sochistnathist.bsky.social · 26d

📢 Call for Papers! 📢

We're excited to announce that in 2026 we will again be hosting an Early Career Researcher Symposium, and that this time it will be a partnership with @linneansociety.bsky.social!🙌🏻

We'd love to hear from all ECRs, so find how to submit a proposal 👇🏻
shnh.org.uk/news/cfp-ear...

A deep green background with white lettering that reads "The society for the History of Natural History Call for Papers" surrounded by historic illustrations of different types od seaweed.

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Dunblane Museum @dunblanemuseum.bsky.social · 10d

Today is #WorldRiversDay #RiversDay. The Allan Water is river which runs through Dunblane, & through centuries has been source of power for many mills in Dunblane. In 1600 there were 7 corn mills & 3 waulk mills. By 1800 most mills were spinning & weaving yarn & wool…/👇

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