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Malcolm Noble

@malcolmjnoble.bsky.social

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Bibliographer & historian with broad interests, incl. business and economic hisotry, queer print, oral history, co-operative HE. he/him www.malcolmnoble.co.uk

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Malcolm Noble @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social · Nov 11

Hi! I am an economic and social historian with broad, interdisciplinary interests that need a thread. C19th local government finance, business history, co-operative education, and queer print are my principal preoccupations; there are others. 1/

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Malcolm Noble @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social · 7h

I had forgotten how haunted the Xavier Sabata Winterreise is. The lieder equivalent of MR James.

Malcolm Noble @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social · 10h

Oh wonderful. We will of course toast it when we next meet!

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Laura Helton @lehelton.bsky.social · 10h

I’m sorry to have to miss the @moderniststudies.bsky.social convening this year, but I’m incredibly honored to be in such good company on this shortlist for the 2025 MSA First Book Prize!

Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 8d

Congrats to the three authors on the shortlist for the 2025 MSA First Book prize:

Laura E. Helton, Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History

Congrats @lehelton.bsky.social and @columbiaup.bsky.social

Scattered and Fugitive Things | Columbia University Press

Winner, 2025 Merle Curti Intellectual History Award, Organization of American HistoriansWinner, 2024 Arline Custer Memorial Book Award, Mid-Atlantic Regional... | CUP

cup.columbia.edu

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Malcolm Noble @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social · 10h

Rest of world - there are two options North America or Rest of World, which involves emailing Wiley distribution

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Malcolm Noble @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social · 10h

Splendid! Does it / will it work for ROW?

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Scottish History Society @scothistorysociety.bsky.social · 13h

We've joined the blue sky! Just as the skies darken for winter too

Please let your followers know that the Scottish History Society has arrived!

Find out more about memberships, the society, and events at our website: scottishhistorysociety.com

The Scottish History Society

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NewsThump @newsthump.com · 17h

NEWS! Woman whose party couldn't spell 'Britain' decides English degrees are a 'rip-off' newsthump.com/2025/10/08/w...

Woman whose party couldn’t spell ‘Britain’ decides English degrees are a ‘rip-off’

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has today announced plans to reduce student numbers taking worthless degrees ‘like English’, just 24 hours after her party spectacularly failed to spel…

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LadyGiada @ladygiada.bsky.social · 17h

Call for Papers📣: Gender, Violence and the Early Moderns. Join us in Florence. We look forward to hosting you in May 2026😎☀️ @eui-history.bsky.social #skystorians #academicsky #earlymodern

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Aoife Bhreatnach @aoifeb.bsky.social · 22h

These books are medicinal!

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 22h

doomscroll break

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French Colonial Historical Society @frenchcolonial.bsky.social · 17d

Share widely!

We are now accepting paper and panel proposals for our 2026 Annual Conference in Ireland at Maynooth University taking place 25-27 June 2026!

The submission deadline is 14 November 2025, and you can read more information on our website!

frenchcolonial.org/annual-meeti...

Annual Meeting – French Colonial Historical Society

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Myriah Williams @myriahwilliams.bsky.social · 2d

the “dark” ages vs the “information age”

A rectangle sub-divided into four rectangles in a meme format. The upper left says “medieval” opposite the upper right which consists of a manuscript opening (The Lichfield Gospels, pp. 140-141); the lower left says “‘mid’ evil” opposite the lower right which is a screenshot of the ‘AI Overview’ that appears at the top of many Google searches.

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Laura Tisdall @lauratisdall.bsky.social · 1d

The call for papers for the @histchild.bsky.social 2026 conference at the University of Sheffield, 1-3 July, is now up on our website! Deadline 14 December www.histchild.org/pages/sheffi... #histchild #skystorians #histyouth

Fifth Biennial Conference | Children's History Society

University of Sheffield, 1-3 July 2026

www.histchild.org

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Malcolm Noble @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social · 2d

I fear it is slightly dated now, but Steve King's 'Making Sense of the Industrial Revolution: English Economy and Society, 1700–1850' (Manchester 2002) is a solid, clear primer. The structured nature makes it highly digestible.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 2d

A work of art

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Construction History Society @constructionhist.bsky.social · 5d

CONSTRUCTION HISTORY & FILM INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM
19 - 20 february 2026
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS 6 November 2025: spehc.pt/CHFilmabstra...

More at : www.spehc.pt/noticias.html

The symposium marks the first step towards creating an academic forum dedicated to exploring film images as a valuable source for the study of Construction History. By bringing together scholars from diverse fields, we aim to foster discussion, share recent research findings, and open new perspectives in this emerging area of study.

Since the late nineteenth century, moving images have captured every aspect of daily life in communities around the world. As with earlier artistic media, motion pictures revealed the everyday realities of new construction in urban, rural or natural landscapes as well as restoration and maintenance of existing structures. Newsreels and documentaries are among the main categories of historical sources providing valuable insights into building practices since the invention of cinema. These films document the extraction, transportation, and use of materials, machines, and building techniques, the activities of architects, engineers, master builders, and work crews on construction sites, as well as in their leisure time. They also document a wide range of events, including foundation-stone ceremonies, inaugurations and trade union demonstrations, among many others.

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The Folklore Society @folkloresociety.bsky.social · 5d

📢Call for Papers📢 ‘Folklore on the Move’: The Folklore Society’s annual conference 2026 in collaboration with the Elphinstone Institute, University of Aberdeen. In person conference: 5-7 Jun 2026; online conference day: 10 Jun 2026. Proposal deadline 14 Dec www.folklore-society.com/event/call-f...

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Camilla Holm Soelseth @supercamilla.bsky.social · 3d

And this:

"discoverability increasingly depends on corporate decisions about interface design, search algorithms, and content filtering rather than intellectual analysis of scholarly materials."

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Camilla Holm Soelseth @supercamilla.bsky.social · 3d

THIS THIS THIS 🚨

"Content-filtering layers designed for social media chatbots now “quietly block controversial topics from being searched” in academic library systems, undermining the careful subject analysis that catalogers perform to ensure comprehensive access to scholarly materials."

Guest Post — Beyond Classification: The Human Cost of Library and Information Labor Under Digital Capitalism - The Scholarly Kitchen

In an era of information abundance and epistemic chaos, libraries serve as crucial sites for democratic knowledge practices -- protecting them is critical to preserving the infrastructure of informed ...

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 3d

If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.

CFP: A Time of Monsters

The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...

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j19journal.bsky.social @j19journal.bsky.social · 3d

We've extended the deadline for submissions to our special issue, "Adaptations," to January 15th, 2026. Attaching the cfp here: please submit!

Cfp for special issue of J19, "Adaptations."

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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 3d

In a rural corner of Louisiana, Meta is building one of the world's largest data centers, a $10 billion behemoth as big as 70 football fields that will consume more power in a day than the entire city of New Orleans at the peak of summer.

New Meta Data Center Needs Twice as Much Energy as New Orleans

Meta is constructing its largest data center yet: a $10 billion facility in Louisiana requiring more than twice as much electricity as New Orleans.

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MAREcus 👻/ 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 3d

Here is a street near to my mum’s house.

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 3d

And when those new coercive powers are introduced, then what follows will prompt another round of more coercive powers for the state, and then another, and then another.

The UK is trapped in an illiberal spiral.

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Malcolm Noble @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social · 4d

Lots of ways to access through institutional and library subscriptions and I can also generate individual links for friends etc

Malcolm Noble @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social · 4d

I didn't say it was.

Malcolm Noble @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social · 4d

Yes please! I know your plate is full (!). Also I always think there is mileage on the affective labour involved in the handling of historical materials in them too. On our way to a panel there
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