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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 15d

Hand-printing was a very damp affair. Lung-rot was one of the occupational hazards. And boulders.

As late as the 1880s, printers were still twice as likely to die from TB as other trades...
www.jstor.org/stable/25564...

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Daniel F Gosling @thegozfather.bsky.social · 21d

Next week (24 Sept) I'm speaking at the @long18thsem.bsky.social on the English court cases relating to the Chevalier d'Eon, and whether they really made a legal judgment of d'Eon's sex (they did not, but don't you want to find out what was actually going on). www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

A Question of Sex? Assessing Lord Mansfield’s “judgment” on the sex of the Chevalier d’Eon

www.history.ac.uk

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Alex Partridge @alexpartridge87.bsky.social · Sep 3

Fascinated that In Our Time is one of the BBC’s most popular podcasts among under 35s. The young people demand three academics and a peer discussing Demosthenes, apparently. And they’re right to do so.

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Hannah Elias @hannahelias.bsky.social · Sep 3

Returning to my favourite institutional home this academic year as an @ihr.bsky.social Research Fellow. Thank you to the wonderful team at the IHR for your ongoing support.

I’m no longer affiliated with Goldsmiths, so please contact me at [email protected] going forwards.

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Dr Sally Holloway @sallyholloway.bsky.social · Sep 2

Really looking forward to visiting Koblenz in a few weeks, where I’ll be presenting my work on the rise and fall of the written proposal of marriage

Programme for conference in Koblenz in Sept/Oct 2025 ft. René Magritte’s painting The Lovers, where two lovers kiss with their heads covered by fabric

Abstract for conference on love in Koblenz

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Society for the Study of Labour History @sslh.bsky.social · Sep 6

Studying a #LabourHistory topic for your dissertation or teaching someone who is? We offer dissertation bursaries up to £500 for undergraduate (final year) and taught Masters students sslh.org.uk/bursaries-gr...

Leaflet inviting final year BA and taught MA students to apply for dissertation bursaries from the Society for the Study of Labour History

QR code linked to bursaries page on the SSLH website

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Neil Johnston @nejohnst.bsky.social · Aug 27

A final bump for this. Closing date is Sunday, 31 August

Neil Johnston @nejohnst.bsky.social · Aug 4

We're recruiting for a new role in the Early Modern team at TNA to help us integrate the Parliamentary Archives. I'm looking for someone with an expertise in pre-modern Westminster Parliament so we can join the executive, legislative and judicial collections www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOD893/r...

Records Specialist - Early Modern Parliament at The National Archives

Start your UK & international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top...

www.jobs.ac.uk

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Neil Johnston @nejohnst.bsky.social · Aug 4

We're recruiting for a new role in the Early Modern team at TNA to help us integrate the Parliamentary Archives. I'm looking for someone with an expertise in pre-modern Westminster Parliament so we can join the executive, legislative and judicial collections www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOD893/r...

Records Specialist - Early Modern Parliament at The National Archives

Start your UK & international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top...

www.jobs.ac.uk

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Joel Herman @joelherman.bsky.social · Aug 27

Tickets now available for ‘Ireland and the American Revolution’. A conference organized by the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland in partnership with the @tlrhub.bsky.social. For booking and more information use the link below. Full programme coming in September.

www.eventbrite.ie/e/ireland-an...

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Dr Fern Riddell @drfernriddell.bsky.social · Aug 22

Found by the brilliant @thegozfather.bsky.social !!

Daniel F Gosling @thegozfather.bsky.social · Aug 21

www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

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Matthew McCormack @historymatt.bsky.social · Aug 22

RIP Frank O'Gorman. He was a lovely man and a brilliant historian, and I was very fortunate that he was my PhD supervisor. I will miss him.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

Frank O’Gorman obituary

Other lives: Manchester University historian who wrote books on 18th- and 19th-century society

www.theguardian.com

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Society for the Study of Labour History @sslh.bsky.social · Aug 15

All welcome. Speakers include @vjctorianist.bsky.social @drdavesteele.bsky.social @dnhamilton.bsky.social & many others not on here!
#Chartism #C19th #History #Yorkshire
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/chartism-d...

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Daveybot @daveybot.bsky.social · Aug 9

Haha! It worked!

I scoped out the angle this morning and figured I’d be very lucky to pull it off, but it was surely worth a try, eh?

#Edinburgh #RedArrows #Photography

A spiral staircase in a lovely concrete carpark. Out the top of the stair you can see the sky, Edinburgh Castle, and the Red Arrows.

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RMT Union @rmtunion.bsky.social · Aug 4

RMT at the North Sands Massacre 200th commemoration held in Sunderland yesterday.
The event marked the 200th anniversary of the day five striking seafarers were shot dead by soldiers during an industrial dispute in Sunderland.
You can read more here:
rmtunion.org/41ojeVq

Group of people standing outdoors holding a colourful banner for the North East Offshore Shipping Branch of the National Union of Rail Maritime and Transport Workers.

Two men in formal attire standing by a waterfront with a large blue ship and industrial cranes in the background under a partly cloudy sky.

Person in a grey suit holding a wooden pole with a colourful flag during an outdoor event on a sunny day.

Musician playing acoustic guitar and singing outdoors by a river, with a colourful union banner behind him supporting maritime workers.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · Aug 8

'The research by independent scholar Desirée Baptiste shows that George IV, who ruled for a decade until 1830, received profits from enslaved labour on Grenadian plantations – a finding that experts say heightens pressure on the monarchy to confront its historical links to slavery.' 1/3

New research reveals King George IV profited from slavery in Grenada

Experts say finding heightens pressure on the monarchy to confront its historical links to slavery

www.theguardian.com

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Lonely Tower Film & Media @lonelytower.bsky.social · Aug 3

Brilliant event at North Sands #Sunderland today, marking the 200th anniversary of the 1825 'North Sands Massacre' when state power was turned on striking sailors, resulting in the deaths of at least seven people at the hands of the military. #Solidarity has no expiry date ✊

David Scott in perod costume talking about the massacre

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Joe Cozens @joecozens.bsky.social · Aug 3

Read my brief history of the Sunderland sailors strike and its violent suppression: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/explore-the-...

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Joe Cozens @joecozens.bsky.social · Aug 3

200 years ago today 3 sailors and 4 onlookers were shot dead by troops in Sunderland. I've been working with local historians and David Gordon Scott (OU) to raise awareness of this little-known massacre. Today we gathered to mark the bicentenary with speeches and the naming of the dead. (1/2)

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Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · Jul 30

One like, one history of poverty opinion

Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · Jul 25

One like, one history opinion

Kerstin Hall @kerstinhall.bsky.social · Jul 25

one like, one writing opinion.

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Lesley A Hall @erinacean.bsky.social · Jul 20

This is why I bang on, whenever I can, about the value of having a browseable archive catalogue, and, you know, browsing through it: rather than thinking you can just zap into a specific target.

Éireann @eireannmor.bsky.social · Jul 20

For the past 10yrs or so I've tried to explain to students how keyword searching trains us to see looking at the world as seeking a known target. By contrast, being in a library, archive, gallery asks us to make a network of connections, questions, possibilities. Which one makes thinking more free?

Rachel Shelden @rachelshelden.bsky.social · Jul 17

Seems to me an increasing amount of bad history is based on the idea that you can just keyword search terms (esp. 21st c. terms) to locate origins & relative usage. It's totally unimaginable to these keyword searchers why folks in the past would use diff terms or not mention common practice at all.

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will o’the wisp pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · Jul 10

this is pretty striking

but it is also “crucial” and “important” remember this doesn’t make use of eg “delves” good evidence that a piece of writing is LLM generated: humans have always used this word, too, and (deeeeeeepressingly) there are signs that humans are adapting to write more like LLMs

Science Magazine @science.org · Jul 9

The appearance of large language models caused a drastic shift in the vocabulary of academic writing, according to an analysis in #ScienceAdvances of more than 15 million biomedical abstracts published from 2010 to 2024. scim.ag/3IhpoQF

Delving into LLM-assisted writing in biomedical publications through excess vocabulary

Excess words track LLM usage in biomedical publications.

scim.ag

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Tom Ue @tomue.bsky.social · Jul 6

Turn this off if you still have an Academia.edu account.

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John Levin @anterotesis.bsky.social · Jul 1

For more on Black Mary and her Well, see the excellent Grub Street Project:

www.grubstreetproject.net/places/90234/

#History #BlackHistory #LondonHistory 🗃️

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History of Parliament @histparl.bsky.social · Jul 1

Today marks the anniversary of the birth of Harriet Grote in 1792.

As @martinspychal.bsky.social has explored in his series, now available on the #HistParl site, she was able to establish herself as one of Westminster’s leading radical politicians. (1/8)🧵

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Jay Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social · Apr 11

🚨FT Permanent Job 🚨
My department is hiring a lecturer (B/B) in 18th-c. Irish history, with the desire for someone whose research and teaching pertains to the Irish 'long eighteenth century (1690-1830)...and broader international, political and intellectual context of the period.' 🗃️

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