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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 2h

"to use a technical constitutional term, this is bollocks" -- @robertsaunders.bsky.social.

Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 2h

It's not a @robertsaunders.bsky.social paper without a Taylor Swift slide.

(VERRRRRY excited the History Department @qmul.bsky.social gets to discuss his work on Brexit as Democratic crsis)

screenshot of a powerpoint slide of taylor swift singing 'this is me swallowing my pride, standing in front of you saying I'm sorry for that DRAFT'

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Lisa Fagin Davis @lisafdavis.bsky.social · 17h

Not an actual Calvin & Hobbes comic, but pretty funny just the same! And, in case you didn't already know how far gone I actually am, the Voynichese text in the last panel is from folio 15v... (h/t @theefantomas.bsky.social) #Voynich

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 17h

You're speaking my language here.

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Barry Lyga @barrylyga.com · 23h

Prime Day what? Bookshop.org is offering FREE SHIPPING for October 7-8! Buy books, get free shipping, support local bookstores! Easy!

#primeday #antiprime #freeshipping #supportlocal #supportindie

Bookshop: Buy books online. Support local bookstores.

An online bookstore that financially supports local independent bookstores and gives back to the book community.

Bookshop.org

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 19h

Why not listen to this podcast of a previous conversation about #YayArchives @rshc.bsky.social in preparation for the 28 October event? #SkyStorians

History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 8d

How has paperwork served as a tool of empowerment for people who often find power elusive?

In our latest podcast, a group of historians, archivists, and activists met at the Raphael Samuel History Centre (@rshc.bsky.social) to discuss the hidden history of paperwork 🗃️🎙️

Changing The Record

How has paperwork served over time as a radical tool for empowerment and change?

www.historyworkshop.org.uk

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Kathleen Commons @kabcommons.bsky.social · 8d

Such a privilege to be part of this amazing roundtable, organised by @onslies.bsky.social at @rshc.bsky.social. So pleased that the conversation can be shared more widely (less pleased about my wobbly voice)

History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 8d

How has paperwork served as a tool of empowerment for people who often find power elusive?

In our latest podcast, a group of historians, archivists, and activists met at the Raphael Samuel History Centre (@rshc.bsky.social) to discuss the hidden history of paperwork 🗃️🎙️

Changing The Record

How has paperwork served over time as a radical tool for empowerment and change?

www.historyworkshop.org.uk

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Raphael Samuel History Centre @rshc.bsky.social · 1d

Leaflet about Archival Ambivalence event, 28 October, London WC1B. Shows archivist looking in archive.

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 19h

OOOOO! This sounds utterly fascinating! More #YayArchives research @rshc.bsky.social!

#SkyStorians #HistArchives

Raphael Samuel History Centre @rshc.bsky.social · 1d

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Sarah-Maria Schober @smschober.bsky.social · 19h

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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Dinah Roe @preraphsrule.bsky.social · 4d

"Mischaracterised by university leaders as financial ‘saving’, austerity is in truth vandalism."

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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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 4d

yet another way that the war on academic knowledge is a war on the past & a violent thinning out of historical experience — you’re taking years & often decades of slow-building expertise (& the investments that made it possible) and just tossing it in the bin

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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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · 3d

Your Sunday read on #UKHE:

Mischaracterised by university leaders as financial ‘saving’, austerity is in truth vandalism. It ravages decades of training, accrued and accredited knowledge, and publicly funded research. It abandons generations of students as the campuses and scholarly communities we invite them to join become, in multiple senses, impoverished. 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: even when the collapse of higher education is perceived as a problem, policymakers, academics, and the communities they serve are left with little recourse. One can only despair at the lack of viable alternatives.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 21h

Mourning those murdered by Hamas isn't incompatible with mourning those murdered by the Israeli state.

Demanding that the hostages return isn't incompatible with naming & demanding an end to genocide.

Naming the power imbalance & impact thereof doesn't desecrate those murdered two years ago today.

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Rachel Herrmann @raherrmann.bsky.social · 22h

Yesterday I submitted the proofs for Claiming Land, Claiming Water: Borders and the People Who Crossed Them in the Early Modern Atlantic. This volume I’m editing with Jessica Roney is out next spring with @pennpress.bsky.social, but here’s a peek now at our table of contents!

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 1d

Delighted to see the open access publication of Crossings: Migrant Knowledges, Migrant Forms -- a superb volume featuring artists, poets, scholars, and a short essay by me on Dutch- and French-speaking women in 16th-century London telling their stories of migration. punctumbooks.com/titles/cross...

Crossings: Migrant Knowledges, Migrant Forms – punctum books

punctumbooks.com

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 21h

Ursula K. Le Guin about writing is always lovely. She wrote an introduction to The Complete Orsinia which reflects on the process that led her to writing it which sounds like it fits your brief?

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 1d

HELLO YOU ARE HERE! Looking forward to reading that article!

I think there's a bit more of a culture in Belgium to write library purchases into grants than in the UK? Still comes with the issue of imbalance created by whoever wins the lottery rather than thought-out library strategies though.

Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 1d

exactly. The one-size-fits-all approach imposed upon us by sciences who need expensive labs is both undermining the actual research of humanities scholars & leading to the monopoly of a couple of Absurdly Ginormous Projects (which can't exist w/o the broader ecological system they're destroying)

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 1d

There are moments when the attack on the humanities is so transparent without them just tweeting it out like Trump does that I wonder how much I'm hallucinating it.

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Hannah Murphy @hsmurphy.bsky.social · 1d

A total privilege to hear @eicathomefinn.bsky.social's work on imperial family formation - representation, political manipulation, and the ambivalence of its legibility in the context of the EIC and Tipu Sultan. The perfect start to our @ihreurope1500.bsky.social year

#EarlyModern 🗃️

Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 1d

We’re OFF! (I just managed to lock myself out off the @ihreurope1500.bsky.social account on this device, apparently…) #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

Picture of Margot Finn at a lecture stand with PowerPoint

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 1d

How is anyone going to do the work that leads up to those big grants? You need loads of small bits of financial support for most humanities research (or, well, job security and non-overload with teaching & admin but 🤷‍♀️) and to support the groundwork. Only massive grants skew the research environment.

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 1d

'“We need a more long-term strategic partnership,” he said, noting that this could mean fewer but larger grants being awarded across the research landscape.' 2/3

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 1d

We’re OFF! (I just managed to lock myself out off the @ihreurope1500.bsky.social account on this device, apparently…) #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

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Europe & the World at the IHR @ihreurope1500.bsky.social · 1d

Have zoom link, can smuggle you in under our big coat if you didn't sign up clandestinely. #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

Europe & the World at the IHR @ihreurope1500.bsky.social · 5d

FIRST SESSION THIS MONDAY! Join us for "At the Cusp of the Modern? Tipu Sultan, the Family & East India Company Rule", a paper by @eicathomefinn.bsky.social with comment by @jhowesuk.bsky.social

All welcome in person @ihr.bsky.social & on zoom (register for link: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...)

Europe and the world, 1500-1800, IHR seminar, Mondays, 17:30.
6 October: Margot Finn: At the Cusp of the Modern? Tipu Sultan, the Family & East India Company Rule
10 November: Sari Nauman: Between Categories: Migration, War, and Refuge in the Early Modern Baltic Sea
17 November Roger Lee Jesus: Colonialism and Land: Rethinking Imperial and Local Agency in the Portuguese Empire in Asia
1 December: Ana Lucia Araujo: Dahomey: A West African Kingdom in the Centre of the World During the Eighteenth Century

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CSMBR Pisa @csmbr-pisa.bsky.social · 2d

PSMEMM 11
𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐨𝐝𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐄𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞
Michael Stolberg

𝐀𝐯𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐚𝐭: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

#CSMBR #PSMEMM #Body #Medicine #EarlyModern #Medicalhistory

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