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Cultural & intellectual historian @york.ac.uk, @ihr.bsky.social, & in the wild | hows, whys, & effects of re-imagining historical homicides | #YWES editor | committee @historylabplus.bsky.social & @capnetwork.bsky.social | sarahwride.co.uk/historianforhire

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Sarah Wride @srwride.bsky.social · Sep 3

A HUGE thank you to @ihr.bsky.social for welcoming me into its fellowship community while I work on two big #publichistory projects 2025/26! So excited to get started. If you’re also a #histparl & #truecrime #history & #ethics buff, watch this space!

#ECRs #skystorians #humanities

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Alexandre Klein @alexandreklein.bsky.social · 15d

(Talk) Scotland's Opium Secrets histoiresante.blogspot.com/2025/09/les-... #histSTM

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Sarah Wride @srwride.bsky.social · 1d

I'm so disappointed that I can't attend this!
For any other #skystorians or #academicsky researchers interested in better connecting with the TV industry, catch #AHTV2025 @conwayhall.bsky.social on 5 November 👉 www.thetvfestival.com/tv-foundation/career-development/ahtv/
Funding available!

AHTV - The TV Festival

Engaging Academia in TV Are you an academic interested in how you could work with or in the TV industry? Or are you looking for access to the latest academic research for your TV production? This is t...

www.thetvfestival.com

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Clare Stainthorp @claregs.bsky.social · 16d

Check out this new podcast for ECRs - I’m proud to have been one of the guests on episode 3, where we talk about the importance of networks and mentors, and where to find them!

Episode 3 - Two heads are better than one: Networking and mentors in academia. Screenshot of podcast page banner with photo of three women (including me) in green tops smiling and talking in a relaxed podcast studio.

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 2d

Comedy = tragedy + time

Scarborough Fair = parsley, sage, rosemary + thyme

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History Lab Plus @historylabplus.bsky.social · 3d

HL+ committee members Dr Alex Rigg & Dr Michael Reeve have written a blogpost about the Teaching in a Time of Crisis Conference 2025 at University of Warwick. Have a read! historylab.plus/blog/

@historyuk.bsky.social @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social @alexriggsby.bsky.social @drmichaelreeve.bsky.social

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About | Events | Meet us | Contact | Join BLOG: Teaching in a Time of Crisis conference, 29 May 2025 – reasons to be cheerful? Alex Riggs Regional Ambassador, Midlands and Michael Reeve Co-Ch…

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Simon HB @norock.bsky.social · Aug 31

Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival

BBC News headline: Frankenstein is monster success at Venice film festival

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CSHHH @cshhh.bsky.social · 2d

We are thrilled to announce that @joannabourke.bsky.social and Tracey Loughran will be helping us to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the @cshhh.bsky.social. Come along on the 29th of October to hear two fantastic public lectures and to raise a glass with us. Register here:
tinyurl.com/4k98rn7w

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Rachel Moss @menysnoweballes.bsky.social · 4d

Self promo plug to say if you’re interested in this & wanna invite me to your dept, esp if your city is nice - then invite me!! I am a good value seminar guest 😅

Rachel Moss @menysnoweballes.bsky.social · 13d

Our History Research Seminar @uninorthampton.bsky.social kicks off next Wed 1 Oct with a talk by me on my new project 'Medievalism, gender and politicised nostalgia in the British extreme right, 1962 – 1982'. It will be at 12pm UK time and on Teams. Email rachel.moss @ northampton.ac.uk for a link.

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Sarah Wride @srwride.bsky.social · 5d

You know when anyone tries to reboot AI assistant Janet in The Good Place & she's programmed to stop them by pleading for her life in ever more extreme ways? THIS is how attempting to leave McAfee is starting to feel.

a woman is holding a red button on the beach .

Alt: Eleanor Shellstrop from The Good Place moves towards a big red button on a beach in the 'Good Place' neighbourhood. As her hand approaches the big red button, Janet ever more aggressively tries to emotionally blackmail her into stopping: she's now holding up a photograph of her "three beautiful children", captioned "we love you mommy", and screaming "look at them!". Eleanor backs off.

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Sarah Wride @srwride.bsky.social · 5d

👇'Feuding in the Streets? Gender, Crime, and Conflict in Scottish Towns, c. 1500-1600' by @kiritekatawa.bsky.social, online & in person. This looks to be great.

Scottish Historical Review @scottishhistreview.bsky.social · Aug 29

OOOOOOOOH, news of our third Jenny Wormald Lecture has dropped just in time for the weekend. Are you excited? See more information below:

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/scottish-h...

Scottish Historical Review Trust: The 3rd Annual Jenny Wormald Lecture

Professor Elizabeth Ewan (University Of Guelph): 'Feuding in the Streets? Gender, Crime, and Conflict in Scottish Towns, c. 1500-1600'

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Darrell Z. Grizzle @dzgrizzle.bsky.social · 5d

“The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”
~ G.K. Chesterton

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Jo (unfunded hobbyist) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · Jan 22

Now Costa Coffee needs to do State Papers Online

Richard Carr @richardcarr.bsky.social · Jan 15

This is both an incredibly niche thing but I think it should be more of a thing. Caffè Nero subscribes to the British Newspaper Archive so it’s all free on their wifi. There. I said it.

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Sarah Wride @srwride.bsky.social · 7d

I can't stop thinking Inigo Jones and the Temple of Doom.

(I know, I know: the massive boulder wasn't in that one.)

Image from The Designs of Inigo Jones (1727), showing Jones's design for a simple circular temple with steps and a small colonnaded portico, including an elevation and (of particular interest to me here) a top-down view, basically a massive, bold circle, with a lighter rectangle protruding from its base ...as though falling on the page's final elevation...

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Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social · 12d

🎉The call for participation for #HAP26 is now open!

Alongside @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy, @royalhistsoc.org & @unisheffieldlib.bsky.social we invite you to explore the theme 'Shaping Societies, Improving Lives: The Impact of Archives and Historical Research'.

Apply today: bit.ly/46VfEVY

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Hannah Elias @hannahelias.bsky.social · 8d

Are you an emerging scholar researching Black British history and looking for opportunities to share your research? Please get in touch with @oliviawyatt1999.bsky.social or Meleisa Ono George via contact info below to take part in this ⚡️ talks session @ihr.bsky.social (and please share widely!)

IHR Black British History Seminar @ihrblackbritish.bsky.social · 8d

Kicking off our fantastic line up with a showcase of new research! Get in touch if you are a postgraduate or early career researcher who would like to introduce their work to the field.

📍 Hybrid: N304, IHR, Senate House, WC1E 7HU and Online
📅 Thursday 16th October, 2025
⏰ 17:30
🔗 bit.ly/3INwCfO

Email Olivia.Wyatt@ed.ac.uk or Meleisa.Ono-George@history.ox.ac.uk to present online or in-person

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Duncan Hamilton @dnhamilton.bsky.social · 9d

Manchester historians!

@historylabplus.bsky.social and @porticolibrary.bsky.social are uniting again for another History Open Mic Night! Come down on Dec 11th to hear brilliant speakers from the Manchester history scene on a range of topics - book below!

www.theportico.org.uk/event-calend...

FastHistory — The Portico Library

Listen to a series of quickfire talks with specially invited guests from across the history and heritage sector, then take to the stage yourself to share your own historical passions!

www.theportico.org.uk

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Sarah Wride @srwride.bsky.social · 8d

YES.
This is definitely a thing.

Part of the floorplan, showing an L-shaped "Lounge/Diner" measuring in at a whopping 12.66m by 3.76m.

The other end of the same room, also packed with the owner's lovely things: a dining area, separated from the longer lounge area by Gothic style wooden paneling.

An unexpectedly long and narrow lounge area, with the owner's lovely things, and glowing with sunlight. The chairs are lined up along each of the long walls, Plato's-cave-style.

Sarah Wride @srwride.bsky.social · 10d

Haunted house horror meets detective mystery AND kooky Mrs Bradley humour… my favourite crime novel of recent years. I really hope that you enjoy it as much as I do!

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Sarah Wride @srwride.bsky.social · 11d

Cover of Gladys Mitchell’s When Last I Died, the recent Vintage edition

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Clare Stainthorp @claregs.bsky.social · 20d

On Tuesday 30 Sept I’ll be the respondent to Nyala Karla Nauwelaer’s paper ‘The feminization thesis under scrutiny: the case of the freethinking women of Ghent (late 19th - early 20th century)’. Join us for what is sure to be a fascinating conversation!
www.aehrc.es/sfm-nyala-ka...

Seminario Feliciano Montero de Historia Religiosa Contemporánea
The feminization thesis under scrutiny: the case of the freethinking women of Ghent (late 19th - early 20th century).
Speaker: Nyala Karla Nauwelaers, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Commentator: Clare Stainthorp, Royal College of Art & Queen Mary University of London
Session: Tuesday, September 30, 2025, 6:00 p.m. (Central European Time)
Location: virtual seminar
To participate, please contact: aehrc.asociacion@gmail.com
Organized by: Spanish Association for Contemporary Religious History (AEHRC) in collaboration with the Secular Studies Association Brussels (SSAB) and the TheoFem project: Lay Women: International Experts and Theologians avant-la-lettre. Legacies and Entangled Histories (1945-1962), Grant No. 101108049.
Information and coordination: natalia.nunezbargueno@kuleuven.be

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Clare Stainthorp @claregs.bsky.social · 22d

I’m delighted to be part of this term’s London 19th Century Studies Seminar line up, and on a periodicals panel with @andrewkingc19.bsky.social no less! Join us at Senate House on Tues 14 Oct - all welcome!

Hark! The wild west wind rattles yonder casement, and autumn's own breath chills the under-insulated pedestrian trudging the pavement outside. These things betoken the return of hats and overcoats, umbrellas and germs, and of course students... but also the London 19th Century Studies Seminar! Please find the programme below, lovingly curated by myself, Mary Shannon and Briony Wickes. All events will be held from 6pm to 8pm in Room 243 at Senate House.
14th October: Andrew King (Greenwich),
"Periodicals and the Materiality of Marketing", and Clare Stainthorp (Royal College of Art),
"The British Freethought Movement and
Periodical Form".
25th November: Kate Hext (Exeter) and Catherine Maxwell (QMUL) on Decadent
Flowers and Gardens.
9th December: Peter Bryden (Exeter) and Robert Hampson (RHUL) on New Perspectives on Late Victorian Art.

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ceej @ceej.online · 12d

my daughter really captured my essence in this portrait of me “at work”

a bald stick figure in a chair with his arms out in front like he’s typing on a keyboard, and he’s got the biggest angry frown imaginable and eyebrows that express frustrated bemusement

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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 13d

Look what we have here then.

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History Lab Plus @historylabplus.bsky.social · 13d

As we enjoy lunch w/ @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social before heading off on a curator tour of @ulstermuseum.org... a small reminder to all Belfast #skystorians to join the HL+ team & the excellent @mauricejcasey.com at the Pavilion on Ormeau Rd from 7pm TONIGHT for our History Open Mic! 👇 #HL+DocsCom

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Michael Reeve @drmichaelreeve.bsky.social · 14d

Finally launched 'Remembering to Help, Helping to Remember' at the weekend - a new exhibition about #FWW civilian experience in Hartlepool following the Dec 1914 naval bombardment of the town (with a generous grant from @sslh.bsky.social). It covers the emergency response to the attack, including...

A view of the gallery space at the Heugh Battery Museum

Historian Michael Reeve stood in the gallery space at the Heugh Battery Museum

The tie-in booklet that accompanies the exhibition

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