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Lisa Smith @historybeagle.bsky.social · 9h

Le matrimoine ❤️

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Lisa Smith @historybeagle.bsky.social · 10h

you're very welcome. @rouge1767.bsky.social and I have been making good use of it in an article we are working on.

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Lisa Smith @historybeagle.bsky.social · 11h

Excellent book. Highly recommend. (Sold as Abortion: A History in the UK.)

Mary Fissell @maryfissell.bsky.social · 11h

Hey bookshop.org has FREE Shipping today! catch my book at at a discount AND free shipping: bookshop.org/p/books/push...

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Lisa Smith @historybeagle.bsky.social · 11h

Oh Thony! Hope you are feeling better soon.

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Sarah-Maria Schober @smschober.bsky.social · 1d

Want to work on the history of hair? I am looking for a doc and postdoc to join my project team researching #earlymodern hair, race, trade and multispecies history at the University of Lucerne.

Do apply and spread the word!

www.unilu.ch/en/universit...

www.unilu.ch/en/universit...

PhD position in History (100%, 4 years) - Vacancies - University of Lucerne

Assistant or doctoral positions, employment or internship: Looking for a job at the University of Lucerne? Find our listed open positions and apprenticeships here.

www.unilu.ch

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Lisa Smith @historybeagle.bsky.social · 2d

ugh 🥴 hope the migraines ease up for you soon. Just awful!

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Gwent Archives @gwentarchives.bsky.social · 2d

Gwent Archives needs your help! Over the last few months we have been working with the 'Divergent Minds in the Archives' project.

Led by a group of neurodivergent humanities academics and over the course of a series of workshops, a guide has been produced for visiting Gwent Archives.

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Dr Surekha Davies (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 3d

"The fact that the asphyxiation of British higher education does not instantly count as a national scandal underlines the extent to which the austerity mindset continues to constrain our political imagination" - @robbhawkes.bsky.social & Scott Ferguson's piece is excellent.

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Rob Hawkes @robbhawkes.bsky.social · 5d

As more of my valued colleagues face the threat of redundancy, here’s a quick reminder that it takes years and years of public investment to train an academic. Cutting someone with this wealth of experience loose isn’t “saving” anything. It is a massive waste of our collective resources.

UK Universities in Crisis? Time to Transform Higher Ed Finance

by Rob Hawkes and Scott Ferguson Universities in the UK are in crisis. Job cuts in the sector are reaching ‘cataclysmic’ levels, with an estimated 10,000 already lost and many more at risk. Just da…

moneyontheleft.org

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Lisa Smith @historybeagle.bsky.social · 3d

That was very striking.

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Lisa Smith @historybeagle.bsky.social · 4d

How weird. I just searched for you on FB and you are no longer coming up.

Lisa Smith @historybeagle.bsky.social · 4d

Perfectly safe...

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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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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 6d

Are you a researcher in the field of history of science, technology and medicine? The #NotesAndRecords essay award is now open for entries until 28 February 2026. Visit our website find out more: buff.ly/dedMm93 #HistSci #HistSTM

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Lisa Smith @historybeagle.bsky.social · 8d

Stiff upper lip and denial of any general pandemic trauma or environmental collapse grief is useful when there is a year-long (at least) waiting list for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services. But hey, who needs to address children's feelings?

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Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social · 11d

An amazing opportunity to serve the field at a defining moment

NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 11d

Applicants Sought for Editor of Environmental History
- @envirohistory.bsky.social

@aseh.bsky.social & @foresthistory.bsky.social seek applicants to serve as Editor(s) and a new institutional home for the journal Environmental History for a 5-year term.

niche-canada.org/2025/09/27/a...

#envhist

Applicants Sought for Editor of Environmental History

The American Society for Environmental History and the Forest History Society seek applicants to serve as Editor(s) and a new institutional home for the journal Environmental History for a five-year t...

niche-canada.org

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 9d

RHS First Book and Early Career Article Prizes, 2026.

We invite submissions for the Society's book and article prizes: for eligible titles published in 2025. Further details and how to apply: bit.ly/3KnR47v

Submissions are by self-nomination by an author. Closing date: 15 December #Skystorians

Royal Historical Society Book and Article Prizes, 2026: submissions now invited - RHS

The Royal Historical Society invites applications for its First Book Prize, 2026 and Early Career Article Prize, 2026. The call for submissions opens on Monday 29 September 2025 and runs to Monday 15 ...

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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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Lisa Smith @historybeagle.bsky.social · 9d

only three episodes in, but enjoying it very much!

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Ben Jackson @benltjackson.bsky.social · 9d

We're putting on an exciting range of research events this year at @manchester.ac.uk on 'Queer Bodies' in 18 & 19C Britain. Colleagues in English, Art History (@emmamerkling.bsky.social), & History are exploring queer approaches to bodies and embodiment and their cultures. See poster for more!

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Madeleine Sugden @madlinsudn.bsky.social · 9d

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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Herbal History Research Network @herbalhistoryrn.bsky.social · 14d

Our latest blog is up! Read about Lucy Reed's research
@uor-research.bsky.social tracing continuity and change in herbal practices in Britain #herbalism #histmed

herbalhistory.org/home/placing...

Placing contemporary local herbalism in a historical context

Lucy Reed is a PhD candidate at the University of Reading.This blog explores her research on the effects of written and oral traditions on the British medicinal flora.

herbalhistory.org

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Jennifer Schell @jenniferschell16.bsky.social · 14d

51 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND!!!! 🐳🦑

Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 14d

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

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Lisa Smith @historybeagle.bsky.social · 15d

I am so sorry for your loss, Lorna.

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Chris Manias @chrismanias.bsky.social · 15d

We have two jobs at KCL History!

16-month post in Modern Irish and/or British History: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOU178/l...

And 5-year post in Early Modern Europe & The World: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOU182/l...

(both to start in January 2026)

Lecturer in Irish/British History at King's College London

Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Lecturer in Irish/British History on jobs.ac.uk!

www.jobs.ac.uk

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 15d

People say "autism never used to exist" and then you go to the Natural History Museum and the exhibit has a caption like "Born in 1762, The Revd [name] was famously irascible, steadfast in his routine, and dedicated his life to collecting 25,000 rare beetle specimens".

Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 15d

Fundamentally, the headbanging Right doesn't believe Autism (or ADHD) exists. Or in so far as it does exist, a human conspiracy has created it.

We're back to their core outlook that 'It didn't exist back in the good old days so can't exist now.'

'It must just be some modern woke Marxist nonsense'.

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