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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 19h

free shipping on bookshop! the perfect time to get a book! and do I have one for you! weird medieval guys, gender™️, cannibalism, living beehives, illustrations, and big monster ladies

The West Passage

Check out The West Passage - THE LADIES REIGN. THE PALACE ROTS. THE BEAST RISES. Five starred reviews from Kirkus, Booklist, BookPage, Library Journal, and...

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Dr Hannah J. Elizabeth @sexhistorian.bsky.social · 1d

Really looking forward to the @cshhh.bsky.social 20th Anniversary later this month, with Tracey Loughran and @joannabourke.bsky.social giving public lectures to help us celebrate! #HistSex #HistRepro #HistMed

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d

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IG newberlinlibrary

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Gavin Miller @drgavinmiller.bsky.social · 8d

Delighted to see this latest book in the Series now in print, and with a great endorsement from @literarti.bsky.social: 'As compassionate as it is razor-sharp, Writing Contested Illness will reshape our understanding of what illness narratives can be and achieve.'

Emily Sharp @emilysharp.bsky.social · 8d

NEW in our Contemporary Cultural Studies in Illness, Health and Medicine series (edited by @drgavinmiller.bsky.social): Chloe R. Green examines how women’s experimental illness narratives are driving new conceptions of contested illness. Learn more at: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-writing...

Writing Contested Illness

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Arts Matter Bristol @uobartsmatter.bsky.social · 8d

✈️ Our PGR internship series returns, as PhD @uobrishistory.bsky.social candidate Jenny Hutton tells us about working with Dr @smawdsley.bsky.social to examine the history of aircraft cabin air contamination

Read more about this important research with global reach 👉 bit.ly/3IHyV47

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Thùy Vy T Nguyễn @thuyvytnguyen.bsky.social · 8d

I find the focus on social media as a scapegoat simplistic and short-sighted. There are pushes and pulls in behavior. Young people are pulled toward social media, but what pushes them away?

Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 12d

Social media is one the least meaningful things we do; spending time with family is one of the most.

Yet we are spending more time on social media and less with our kids.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 10d

Can we stop doing this? There is no sense in debating whether people are themselves racist, or sexist, or homophobic, if the context for this debate is how these people have done racist, sexist or homophobic things

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 10d

Supporting Reform’s ‘racist policy’ does not make voters racist, says Rachel Reeves – UK politics live

Chancellor backs Keir Starmer’s statement that policy to end indefinite leave to remain is racist, but says many Reform supporters would be ‘horrified’ by it Q: You are saying you don’t call supporters of Reform racist. But it looks as if you don’t understand people’s concerns. Reeves says the government should call out policies that are wrong. Continue reading...

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History & Policy @historyandpolicy.bsky.social · 14d

We’re delighted to publish a new Policy Paper today by Jonathan Moss & @emilyrobinson.bsky.social. They suggest that Mass Observation @massobsarchive.bsky.social - founded in the 1930s - can help us understand the reasons behind contemporary voter apathy. historyandpolicy.org/policy-paper...

Mass Observation and Political Engagement in Britain - History & Policy

Low turnout in the 2024 General Election and other signs of voter disengagement from politics pose serious challenges for the UK’s democratic system. To meet these, this policy paper argues, we need a...

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Lisa Bortolotti @lisabortolotti.com · 14d

Our #projectEPIC on #EpistemicInjustice in healthcare is 2 years old, our blog reached 103k views and our open access book had 15k downloads… curious? Here’s our website! epistemicinjusticeinhealthcare.org @jelliedsours.bsky.social @histloneliness.bsky.social @kmurphyhollies.bsky.social #philsky

Epistemic Injustice in Healthcare

The Universities of Bristol, Nottingham and Birmingham have been awarded a major £2.6 million Wellcome Discovery Award.

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Voices of Motherhood @voicesofmotherhood.bsky.social · 15d

We're pleased to share this call for papers for our upcoming conference!

📍Online via Zoom
🗓️Thursday 5 - Friday 6 February 2026
⏱️Abstract deadline Saturday 1 November 2025

See our website for full details 👇

voicesofmotherhood.wp.worc.ac.uk/index.php/news-and-resources/updates-from-the-project

The Politics of Motherhood: Maternalism, Maternity and Mothering.

Thursday 5 and Friday 6 February 2026, Online Conference.

Ruth Davidson, Anna Muggeridge, Eve Pennington and Beckie Rutherford.

Keynote address by Dr Sarah Crook, Swansea University: ‘Cradles of Discontent: Motherhood as a pathway to activism in modern Britain’.

This conference is supported by a UKRI Future Leaders’ Fellowship ‘Voices of Motherhood’ Project reference MR/Y018184/1 and the University of Worcester.

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Dr Beth Mills @drbethmills.bsky.social · 15d

A review of 'X-Ray' by Nicole Lobdell that I wrote over Christmas was published this month in Victorian Periodicals Review: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl....

The book is part of Bloomsbury's Object Lessons series on the fascinating history of everyday things and was a delight to read! 🩻

Project MUSE - X-ray by Nicole Lobdell (review)

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Emily Vine @emilymayvine.bsky.social · 15d

I really enjoyed speaking about my new book with Dr Miranda Melcher for the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast 📖

Now available online! 👇📻

newbooksnetwork.com/birth-death-...

@universitypress.cambridge.org @uoearchhist.bsky.social @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social @uniofexeternews.bsky.social

The front cover of the book 'Birth, Death, and Domestic Religion in early modern London' - it has a red from cover and the image is from a seventeenth-century woodcut.

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 15d

Take a look at some of our project’s work on narrative vulnerability during the #Covid19 pandemic and its impact on young people and textual expression, perhaps what we could see as a form of scriptotherapy ✍️

Media and Epidemics @mediaandepidemics.bsky.social · 15d

You can read our Media and Epidemics @euchanse.bsky.social @ukri.org ‘Story of Change’ which reflects our project’s work on narrative vulnerability during #Covid19 as a result of a collaboration with non-profit organisation Fragile Society. See this and more here: chanse.org/medep/ #hstm #medhums

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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 16d

Autism is back on the front pages. Why not read the book that my excellent @manchester.ac.uk @manchstm.bsky.social colleague Dr Bonnie Evans has published on the history of autism? It's open access and you can read it online for free.

www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...

Cover of Dr Bonnie Evans' book The Metamorphosis of Autism: A History of Child Development in Britain (Manchester University Press, 2017)

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George Severs @georgesevers.bsky.social · 16d

My latest article has just been published in the Journal of British Studies! It's open access and you can read it here. Huge thanks to the archivists and librarians across Birmingham for their help with this research. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Composing and Narrating Black Memories of Sexual and Reproductive Health in Jamaica and England in 1990s Birmingham | Journal of British Studies | Cambridge Core

Composing and Narrating Black Memories of Sexual and Reproductive Health in Jamaica and England in 1990s Birmingham - Volume 64

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 17d

A devastating read, I hope people spend a few minutes with it:

Bolts @boltsmag.org · 17d

“I can’t think of a single time I was told how long I would be in solitary confinement. You are simply taken there and expected to wait,” says incarcerated journalist Christopher Blackwell in a new Q&A.

“Designed to Break You:” Two Incarcerated Writers on the Heavy Toll of Solitary Confinement

The authors of a new book on solitary answer your questions about their experiences with isolation and the movement to end the tortuous practice.

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Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · 17d

If you write professionally in the UK, make sure to sign up to ALCS for your fair share of royalties

ALCS @alcs.co.uk · 17d

🥳 This week, we will pay 31,487 members their share of £11,588,572!

Find out more:
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Your distribution questions answered

This week, we will pay 31,487 members their share of £11,588,572. Get answers to your most pressing questions about our latest distribution.

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 20d

An actual quote from the Secretary of State for Business and Trade

Too often people go to university to ‘explore research and knowledge’

Look forward to Wes S saying 'too often people go to hospital to have operations' or Heidi Alexander saying 'too often people go to the station to catch a train'

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Fiona Johnstone @drfijohnstone.bsky.social · 21d

Grateful for a rich few days in Oslo with the Curating Cultural Heritage for the Medical & Health Humanities project (MNU). Highlights: inspiring sessions at Norsk Teknisk Museum & MUNCH, deep dives into art, ethics & medicine—and a sauna swim to wrap it all up!
medhumsplatform.org/curating-cul...

Curating Cultural Heritage for the Medical & Health Humanities: Reflections from Oslo

Researchers from across the Matariki Network of Universities (MNU) recently gathered in Oslo for a stimulating few days of discussion, collaboration, and creative exploration as part of the Curating C...

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Lisa Bortolotti @lisabortolotti.com · 21d

New post today on the #projectEPIC on the first day of the conference of expertise in mental health hosted by Radboud University: epistemicinjusticeinhealthcareproject.blogspot.com/2025/09/who-... #philsky #epistemicinjustice @who-knows-what.bsky.social

Who knows what in mental health? The conference (part one)

Radboud University hosted a conference on 11th and 12th June 2025 examining the interplay between the study of epistemic injustice and the debates on expertise by experience in mental healthcare. This is a brief report of some of the talks presented on the first day of the conference.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 21d

This is genuinely (academically) dystopian — Kings featuring a lecturer who has to mark 100 scripts in a fortnight (!) and presenting AI as the approved workaround to that problem. This is why we can’t let this stuff into our working practice…

Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 22d

Simply astonishing. Maybe Lecturer A should not have to mark over 100 essays in a two-week window in the first place? Invest in qualified staff and reduce impossible workloads FFS www.kcl.ac.uk/about/strate...

Screenshot. King's College London page. Examples of effective practice

The following scenarios follow the above guidelines and offer insights into ways that academic staff can use AI transparently and in an assistive capacity, always ensuring human oversight and judgment remain central.
Scenario A – Scaling feedback while maintaining quality

Lecturer A is responsible for marking over 100 essays within a two-week window.

Conscious of the limitations this workload places on the depth of individual feedback, they adopt a hybrid approach using their university’s approved or supported LLM tool, Copilot.

Without ever uploading student work directly, Lecturer A composes an anonymised summary for each student, noting which marking criteria were met and the approximate percentage achieved for each. They input this summary alongside the official rubric into Copilot, prompting it to generate supportive, criterion-referenced feedback. This feedback is then carefully reviewed, adapted, and personalised before being uploaded to the marking platform.

Students are made aware of this process in advance and shown a demonstration, reinforcing transparency and trust.

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Laura Tisdall @lauratisdall.bsky.social · 22d

Cover reveal for my forthcoming book, WE HAVE COME TO BE DESTROYED: GROWING UP IN COLD WAR BRITAIN which tells the history of Cold War Britain (c.1956-89) through the eyes of children & young people! Out with @yalebooks.bsky.social 28 April 2026 #booksky #skystorians yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...

Cover of my book We Have Come To Be Destroyed: Growing Up In Cold War Britain. The cover is an eerie blue-green and the words melt into an image of a group of children confronting the camera at a festival in Coventry in 1980.

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Heike Bauer @heikebauer.bsky.social · 24d

The Journal of the History of Sexuality is looking for new editor(s) networks.h-net.org/group/announ... 🌈🎓

Reminder: Journal of the History of Sexuality seeks new editor(s) | H-Net

The Journal of the History of Sexuality is seeking new editors. The JHS, which was founded in 1990 and is published by the University of Texas Press, is the oldest journal devoted to the history of se...

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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · Sep 4

Having decided I want my public scholarship to be properly public, rather than behind a paywall, I've decided to make everything I've written for my newsletter - going back over two years - free to read for the foreseeable future.

The Academic Bubble | Dion Georgiou | Substack

Politics and culture from a contemporary historian‘s perspective. Click to read The Academic Bubble, by Dion Georgiou, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

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Fred Cooper @histloneliness.bsky.social · Sep 4

📢 I'm thrilled to announce the full - and stellar -
lineup for our upcoming symposium on critical approaches to like and dislike in medicine, law, and society! 📢

Bristol Uni, 15th October - register (for free) below!!

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/critical-a...

Critical Approaches to Like and Dislike in Medicine, Law, and Society

Critical approaches to like and dislike in medicine, law, and society: University of Bristol

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