Isn't she pretty. This is Ursa

Delighted to announce that tickets for the Symbols of Mortality Online Conference have just gone live. Very exciting! Full programme available soon. So, don't delay, grab your FREE ticket today! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/symbols-of...

Well played #Bristol. Recycling ad done right

Winter sun Thursday @arnosvalecemetery.bsky.social

If I win the lottery, I won't tell anyone but there will be signs.

Me - fending off all meeting requests and emails until 2025

One of my favourite events in @arnosvalecemetery.bsky.social a beautiful and fascinating carol concert by the fantastic Bristol Chamber Concert in the Anglican Chapel. Perfect venue and the best way to really start Christmas off

Call for Participants: Volunteer Readers for a Study of Serial Form in Victorian Novels (Deadline: 6/30/25) bit.ly/3VEqMkh

The untold stories of thousands of children left at 'foundling hospitals' - including one in Chester - have been published for the first time.

Many many thanks to @arnosvalecemetery.bsky.social and @thejanine.bsky.social for a wonderful session yesterday on Victorian mourning terms and traditions. An inspiration to write more about transatlantic differences in death/mourning/funeral practices. #TheVictorianBookoftheDead

Autumnal @arnosvalecemetery.bsky.social . Just look at those colours #nofilter

Final episode of 2024 out now!

Right let's do Friday

Morning blue-sky. It's a frosty morning in Bristol. Looking forward to seeing the beauty of @arnosvalecemetery.bsky.social

Stuart Hall PhD scholarship at Sussex: www.sussex.ac.uk/study/fees-f...

Thank you to everyone who came to our consultation with the Law Commission today at the University of Bath. CDAS members also had chance to meet with the Commissioner and team beforehand for discussion

Our latest publication is all about dissection photography. bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/dissection-p...

Like buses, here’s a 2nd call for papers for a great queer conference in May 2025, Stirring Queer and Trans Memory: Counterarchives and Peripheries, in Valencia. Organised by PERCOL (Perverse Collections: Building Europe’s Queer & Trans Archives) it focuses on peripheral locations and experiences

Daily #Dinosaur - The Quetzalcoatlus was a #prehistoric reptile that lived 70–65.5 million years ago. It was the largest flying animal known to #science, with a wingspan of 10–12 meters and a weight of about 200 pounds.

Full day of writing up today. Think I'd better go to the shop for snacks first

Lots of good people to follow here for those interested in health /medical humanities.

Wake up baby, a new block list 🚫 just dropped

Norwich people

Hello 👋 I'm Rebecca, an aroace PhD researcher at the University of Birmingham. My research looks at how asexuality is represented in the media, and how representations impact asexual communities. Wanna get involved? Go to tinyurl.com/acetvquestions (eligibility: aces from the British Isles aged 18+)

hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... this looks great

Follow to remember #Geradejetzt #weremember go.bsky.app/MmNn4iy

Who's still needing to be added?

Block the crypto bros

Deadline for Expressions of Interest to get feedback on a draft proposal and connect with a potential supervisor closes 29 November

@soniaz.bsky.social ⬇️ They make a small charge. Under £5 for me!

HEX History Conference 2025 - Historicizing Experiences - Call for Papers is now open! The seventh annual conference will take place at Tampere University, Finland 10-12 March. The CfP deadline is 29 November. More information and CfP here: events.tuni.fi/historyofexp...

Another potentially handy block list

Well this looks great

Nice bit of history. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/o...

Five bands I've seen more than five times New Model Army Fields of the Nephilim Mother Vulture Iron Maiden Metallica

Advertise your Bluesky in 3 words: Cemeteries Heritage Bats

There is one here: I've started a starter pack for academics and organizations focused on the #19th century! I'm sure I have missed many, many people (I was trying to get this started quickly) — comment below if you want to be added. go.bsky.app/6ZkJ592 If you find another one, let me know !

Okay, I've made a starter pack for maritime historians – please share, and let me know in the replies if you'd like to be added to the list! go.bsky.app/EcGGYJw

Lounging like a #ferret is the #lifegoal. Introducing pugsley (left) and Mr Puck. #adoptdontshop

I've started a starter pack for academics and organizations focused on the #19th century! I'm sure I have missed many, many people (I was trying to get this started quickly) — comment below if you want to be added. go.bsky.app/6ZkJ592

What the heck: Long Eighteenth Starter Pack right here: go.bsky.app/6aF4mek -- I'm sure I missed lots of people; respond if you want to be added.

Advertise your Bluesky account in 3 words: Ferrets cemeteries goth

Anyone seen a suitable starter pack?

I am unsurprised and also extremely vexed that efforts to write on my #Dissertation are going EXTREMELY FUCKING POORLY TODAY FOR OBVIOUS REASONS. #PhDLife

Mood. “Death blowing bubbles,” 18th century. The bubbles symbolize life's fragility. This plaster work appears on ceiling of Holy Grave Chapel in Michaelsberg Abbey, Bamberg, Germany. After the monastery’s dissolution in 1803, the buildings were used as the city's hospital. #skystorians #history

I made a starter pack. go.bsky.app/H6W5vXh

I'm starting a thread called 'what's today's earworm'. Feel free to mute it if you feel it's catching.