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âlook, no one expected this proven liar to lie to us.â
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Three scholarships for PhD in Arthur Scargill Archive - quite the opportunity. Believe me when I say that I am sure that some of the stuff in here will be quite the eye-opener! (if the good stuff hasn't been already shredded or slapped with an embargo)
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FindAPhD : PhD Studentships to support doctoral research in the Arthur Scargill Archive at the University of Sheffield at University of Sheffield
Apply for a PhD: PhD Studentships to support doctoral research in the Arthur Scargill Archive at the University of Sheffield at University of Sheffield
https://www.findaphd.com/phds/program/phd-studentships-to-support-doctoral-research-in-the-arthur-scargill-archive-at-the-university-of-sheffield/?p7038
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The Georgian Lords
19 days ago
Always keen to explode the myth (and myth it is) that George I could not speak English!
historyofparliament.com/2019/06/06/c...
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Ich bin in meinem Herzen Englisch: Could George I speak English? - The History of Parliament
George I's linguistic weakness was supposedly the reason for the preference shown to his German advisors over most English politicians, who were for the most part similarly limited in their knowledge ...
https://historyofparliament.com/2019/06/06/could-george-i-speak-english/
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my quality of life has just gone up immeasurably
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17 days ago
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actual dream job
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19 days ago
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Oliver House
19 days ago
In February 2026
@senatehouselib.bsky.social
is seeking to appoint a Printer in Residence. This is to be an important part of the public engagement programme for the upcoming exhibition âThe English Print Revolution: Caxton and Beyondâ, and to provide a contemporary response to it in print. 1/3
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Senate House Library launches Printer in Residence Scheme
Senate House Library is seeking to appoint a Printer in Residence, to produce a contemporary response to the Caxton and Beyond exhibition.
https://www.london.ac.uk/senate-house-library/news/senate-house-library-launches-printer-residence-scheme
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afternoon reading: the OG centrist melt
21 days ago
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Dictionary of Irish Biography
21 days ago
#DIBBlog
âSĂ© seo stĂĄisiĂșn 2RN Baile Ătha Cliath ag triailâ (This is 2RN Dublin testing). SĂ©amus Hughes' words, broadcast on 14 Nov. 1925, marked the dawn of Irish broadcasting. Read our new blog by Dr Finola Doyle-O'Neill, first published by
@rtebrainstorm.bsky.social
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www.dib.ie/blog/2rn-and...
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IMEMS Durham
26 days ago
So exciting! The first IMEMS Press publication of 2026. đ
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Sebastian Ahnert
27 days ago
Weâre hiring a two-year DH postdoc for our HAVI project, to work on a new type of knowledge graph architecture for the humanities (and beyond). Deadline soon (18 Jan)!
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
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Research Assistant/Research Associate (Fixed Term)
Applications are invited for a full time post doctoral researcher to work on an international collaboration to develop AI-based solutions for research on archival materials as part of the Humanities
https://www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/research-assistantresearch-associate-fixed-term-nq48310
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Eddie Robson
about 1 month ago
Wikipedia uploaded the whole film to watch as soon as it entered the public domain:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:An...
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History of Parliament
about 1 month ago
In at number 2 of our countdown of our most popular articles of the year is a piece by Dr Robin Eagles of
@georgianlords.bsky.social
, who after the death of Pope Francis investigated the last member of the royal family to take part in a papal conclave: Henry Benedict, Cardinal York.
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The Last of the Jacobites: Henry Benedict - The History of Parliament
Henry Benedict, Cardinal York (1725-1807), born 300 years ago this March, was the last member of the royal family to take an active role in a papal Conclave,
https://historyofparliament.com/2025/03/06/henry-benedict/
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One thing about this (my mum was one of the âWI leadersâ consulted and was there for the speech) is that Blairâs advisers were right â an âold-fashioned valuesâ speech would have gone down even worse. The WI *hate* being mistaken for the Mothersâ Union.
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âToo complacentâ: how Blairâs advisers misjudged his disastrous WI speech
Former PMâs team suggested initial less-politicised drafts seemed patronising and appealed to âfuddy-duddy Britainâ
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/dec/30/tony-blair-advisers-wi-speech-womens-institute
about 1 month ago
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Fell off a treadmill next to Liam Gallagher.
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about 1 month ago
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I know Iâm a stuck record on this, but MMcS makes more sense if you place him within the history of Fine Gael, not the Labour Party.
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about 2 months ago
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Heather Froehlich
about 2 months ago
i feel really conflicted about the people who insist that the Humanities needs to be a 100% technology free space. I get you - I am very analog in my daily life, with my piles of paper and pens - but AI is also doing a lot of things you actually like and enjoy having. R's thread is right on
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travelling home and experiencing my usual Proustian cocktail of nausea at Cambridge and elation at Newmarket
about 2 months ago
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I can only hope the new tv show about the dreadful, dreadful Mitfords includes a scene dramatising that time my great aunt tried to shove Diana into the traffic on Piccadilly.
about 2 months ago
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Dr Francis Young
2 months ago
Lads on tour
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MATER
2 months ago
Welcome to MATER (Medievalists Against the Extreme Right), an offshoot of the
@errnetwork.bsky.social
at
@uninorthampton.bsky.social
. The network is run by
@menysnoweballes.bsky.social
. Get in touch for details of meetings and events.
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The Material Culture of Wills Project
2 months ago
đą NEW 'Project Progress Update' Blog Post! đą We've recently reached a very significant project milestone, and thought this would be the perfect moment to provide a research update:
sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...
Featuring
@zooniverse.bsky.social
news, and a sneak peek at our database! đâïžđ»
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Tom Davies
2 months ago
Very sad news. Plenty of times in the early 90s he was the one batter England could rely on
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Nostalgic Things
2 months ago
Starting a campaign to bring back the On The Record crocodile
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Anna-Lujz Gilbert
2 months ago
*small embarrassed voice* A little plug for my article on Devon book sales c. 1700, which has gone online open access. tl;dr book auctions weren't just a London/Oxbridge thing: a flourishing second-hand book market centred on Exeter included auctions from the 1680s.
doi.org/10.1093/libr...
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A Provincial Market in Second-Hand Books: Book Sales in Devon, 1688â1725
Abstract. Comparatively little is known about Englandâs early book-auction trade outside of London and the university towns, with few catalogues surviving
https://doi.org/10.1093/library/fpaf023
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Research Professional News
2 months ago
Alan Turing Institute staff decry âunjustifiedâ cuts to research Internal documents detail extent of changes to projects and personnel at national AI institute
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-c...
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Alan Turing Institute staff decry âunjustifiedâ cuts to research - Research Professional News
Internal documents detail extent of changes to projects and personnel at national AI institute
https://www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-charities-and-societies-2025-11-alan-turing-institute-staff-decry-unjustified-cuts-to-research/
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Hannah Cooper
2 months ago
Budget day at last.
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The guy here who starts by saying âa budget thatâs good for the gilt market isnât necessarily one thatâs good for the UK economyâ should be marched into the BBC newsroom and asked to repeat himself every time a political correspondent says âyieldâ.
on.ft.com/4irx6Ww
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What big bond investors want from the UK Budget
Gilt market players call on government to cut spending and steer clear of inflationary tax rises
https://on.ft.com/4irx6Ww
3 months ago
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one aspect of the "Great Wealth Transfer" is that a lot of what passes for the middle classes' financial planning is an ever-expanding terra incognita marked "here be inheritance" and that's where the real bubble is
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3 months ago
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Michael Donnay
3 months ago
đŁ Really proud to announce the publication of Reframing Failure in Digital Scholarship, an
#OpenAccess
collection of essays co-edited with
@amsichani.bsky.social
and published by
@uolpress.bsky.social
that examines the role of failure in
#DH
and research more broadly
@sas-news.bsky.social
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Reframing Failure in Digital Scholarship - University of London Press
Failure is ordinary. From technological failures and computational obsolescence to rejected applications and challenging collaborations, failure is an unavoidable part of any scholarly endeavour. This...
https://uolpress.co.uk/book/reframing-failure-in-digital-scholarship/
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The Journal
3 months ago
The UK's Supreme Court has ruled that the Christian religious education taught in schools in the North is unlawful. It added that to teach pupils to 'accept a set of beliefs without critical analysis amounts to evangelism, proselytising, and indoctrination'.
jrnl.ie/6879415
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Christian religious education taught in schools in Northern Ireland unlawful, says UK Supreme Court
It had been argued that the right to withdraw from religious education prevented any breach to religious freedom protections under the European Convention on Human Rights.
http://jrnl.ie/6879415f
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Birmingham 81
3 months ago
Happy 60th birthday to Peter Kember and Jason Pierce who were both born in the same hospital on this day in 1965. Here they are together in Spacemen 3 performing Revolution
youtu.be/qdQn7c62zHM
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Spacemen 3 - 'Revolution'
YouTube video by rocketgirlrecords
https://youtu.be/qdQn7c62zHM?si=1owomaYFRQe0cSbE
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Nick Ames
3 months ago
Hope the "thank goodness the Premier League is back!!" takes are kept to a minimum this week â the past few days has been football at its best & purest.
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love to turn a distributed network into an oligopoly
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3 months ago
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is uh cloudflare all right
3 months ago
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Dr. Liz Hebbard
3 months ago
Here is a very cool object: a volume with stacked paper boards that have come apart, revealing a manuscript fragment between the print waste! (Rare Books PA2317 .E7 1546). The manuscript leaf is from a psalter đ
#midwestmss
#medievalsky
#medievalmss
#manuscripts
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Sam Jeffers
3 months ago
One way to take some of the heat out of politics, which is within the BBC's control, is to drop phone-ins and vox pops.
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Spinkyâs Mama
3 months ago
At the risk of talking shop: there are just under 50 Government Bills before Parliament (including Employment Rights, English Devolution, Great British Energy) which arenât getting the media attention that Coalition Bills at a similar point did. Weâre missing proper scrutiny outside of Parliament.
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Neon Genesis Ewangelion
3 months ago
honestly every time i read this i break again
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Salty MacTavish
3 months ago
Of course I donât post selfies. Like normal people my age I grew up hating the way I looked
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awww yeah
3 months ago
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3 months ago
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Eddie Robson
3 months ago
I've written a new audio adaptation of one of Dickens' other Christmas books, The Cricket On The Hearth, and it's available now to buy as a bundle with The Haunted Man scripted by
@jonnymorris.bsky.social
. Mine stars Graham Fellows, his stars Paterson Joseph!
averageromp.com/the-cricket-...
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The Cricket in the Hearth & The Haunted Man â Average Romp
https://averageromp.com/the-cricket-in-the-hearth-the-haunted-man/
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but it did mean I stopped by this lunchtime and I bought this excellent book by the excellent Brooke Palmieri, so hurrah
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3 months ago
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Sam Brown
3 months ago
If there's anything more exciting than seeing a book you work on in an exhibition, it's surely being invited to talk about it. Very excited for this event next month! đ· Lancelot Browne's annotated copy of Avicenna in Arabic at the
@rcpmuseum.bsky.social
exhibition, 'A body of knowledge'.
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Katie Birkwood
3 months ago
Mega excited that
@awickenden.bsky.social
and
@samuscript.bsky.social
are speaking on 9 December for
@rcpmuseum.bsky.social
winter lectures. Online, 6pm GMT, ÂŁ5, book now:
history.rcp.ac.uk/event/body-k...
#LibraryHistory
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https://history.rcp.ac.uk/event/body-knowledge-winter-lectures
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The Georgian Lords
3 months ago
Born
#OnThisDay
1650 King William III. He celebrated his 38th birthday (1688) by invading England and driving his father-in-law, James II, from the throne. 100 years on, politicians were convinced the event should be marked but couldn't agree how: for which, see our new blog this Thursday!
#HistParl
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qUCL
3 months ago
Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group - Session 11 11 Nov 2-3:30pm with
@ctlnkane.bsky.social
The Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group is an informal discussion group exploring queer and trans themes in medieval and early modern texts.
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
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Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group - Session 11
The Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group is an informal discussion group exploring queer and trans themes in medieval and early modern texts.
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-advanced-studies/events/2025/nov/queer-and-trans-pre-modern-reading-group-session-11
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Sarah Knott
3 months ago
ARCHIVAL FUNDING: Ann Ball Bodley Visiting Fellowship in Womenâs History, to use Bodleian Libraries collections to advance scholarship in womenâs history, of any geographical area and historical period. Deadline 28th Nov.
www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowsh...
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Bodleian Visiting Fellowships in Special Collections
https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowships/bodleian-visiting-fellowships
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Well this is going to haunt my day
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3 months ago
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This is weirdly the politics of anti-whiggery, the Commons voting the Crown arbitrary power. The old Tory party has returned at last!
3 months ago
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