Thank you @slaveryarchive.bsky.social! This is very unexpected - I had no idea!

Thank you, Alyssa! (I'm trying to take a sabbatical from social media while on sabbatical, but then I miss very kind posts like this one...)

@csschmitt.bsky.social - it’s here, and it’s gorgeous! Looking forward to getting stuck in. Congratulations! 🥳 🗃️

So, @profkfh.bsky.social, this is what happens when you preorder, forgot you preordered, and preorder again! Twice as nice 😆 @pennpress.bsky.social

This will be soooooo good! 🗃️ Pre-order available now www.dukeupress.edu/archival-irr...

Huge sale! @uncpress.bsky.social is letting their amazing catalogue go for 50% off to celebrate their new website. But don’t dither - it’s 48 hours only! You can get all kinds of great books including THE WOMEN OF RENDEZVOUS at half price with code 01NEWSITE50 🗃️ uncpress.org

@profkfh.bsky.social look what finally arrived - I cannot wait to dig in!!! 🤩

Who could possibly have predicted this?

This is actually happening! 😊 The Predatory Sea featured alongside some great titles, like Jordan Smith's The Invention of Rum. Thank you, @pennpress.bsky.social! 🗃️

Some must-read follow-ups on yesterday’s stories on so-called race science at Edinburgh University from @theguardian.com This one by @hannahdevlin.bsky.social covers the Chris Brand of it all but does so much more 1/2 🗃️

Glad that Edinburgh has done this, but couldn't help thinking that when I arrived in 1996 "racist scientific theories" were still being taught by Chris Brand in the psychology department, and had been for twenty-five years. 1/3 🗃️ www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Columbia just expelled or suspended 80 students for protesting in favor of Palestinian rights. Suspended students can only be readmitted if they "apologize"--otherwise the suspension converts to an expulsion. www.axios.com/2025/07/22/c...

“The UK government’s continued complicity in Israel’s atrocities is unconscionable, and I do not want to spend another day operating on children who have been shot and starved by a military our government supports.” Devastating reporting.

Thank you, Cate, for posting this because I missed this excellent piece the first time around! “For me, in the process of writing, you formulate your ideas, and by rewriting and editing, it really crystallises what you want to say. Having a machine do that is not what it’s about.” - Steve Royle

Not great, Bob

Come for the very apt comparison of Musk to all four of the Golden Ticket winners in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; stay for the thoughtful and insightful review!

Brilliant opportunity! 🗃️

St Mary’s Children’s Home — Tuam: “How hundreds of Irish babies came to be buried in a secret mass grave”

Sure would you be anywhere else?!?! #theresnoplacelikehome

First attempt at gluten free focaccia for mum and I’m pretty impressed with the results! #BreadSky

Ummmm, file under "No shit, Sherlock." Just add to the "reasons AI is the devil's scourge, and has no place in the classroom" list that no higher ed admin appears able to comprehend.

437 footballers among those nearly 800 athletes killed. Still not a word from UEFA or Fifa. www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-ea...

There’s no place like home ❤️

Like hundreds of other people I stood on Argyll Street last night to hear Rachel Zegler perform “Don’t Cry for me Argentina” and I’m so glad I did. Brilliant!

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Not sure what it says about me that I feel a sense of calm walking into this place, but I do! (it helps that i found what i was looking for) #archivelife 🗃️

Tomorrow and Thursday! Come along if you can! 🗃️

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Finally! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Run, don't walk! @uncpress.bsky.social is having a banner summer sale and you can get THE WOMEN OF RENDEZVOUS for 30% off with code 01UNCP30 🗃️ uncpress.org/book/9781469...

One week today! All details in the link below 🗃️ www.mmor.co.uk/events/carib...

And Chancery is the gift that keeps on giving. Gulp 😱 🗃️

Yes to all of this. A much better use of everyone’s time is @laraputnam.bsky.social’s brilliant 2016 AHR article, “The Transnational and the Text-Searchable,” referenced in the NYTimes piece, and well worth giving a full read 🗃️

That feeling when you *find* a Chancery Court case vs that feeling when you realize you have to *read* said Chancery Court case #notabadproblemtohave #archivelife 🗃️

This is, indeed, v. cool and well worth the read 🗃️

Assassinations of opposition leaders, likely carried out by supporters of the regime, as the embattled strongman leader deploys the military to head off protests against his mass ethnic cleansing operation.

Concentration camp prisoners try to draw attention to what they say are unsurvivable conditions. www.latintimes.com/watch-cuban-...

I am, as ever, way behind in my podcast consumption, but this @todayinfocus.bsky.social one with @karenhao.bsky.social on the many horrors of AI is well worth the listen podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Referring to events in Ballymena as "disturbances" is a euphemism too far. We are witnesses to a pogrom. And it behoves us to say so, loud and clear. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...

This is another excellent piece on what is (and what isn’t) happening in Ballymena and Northern Ireland more broadly…

Really great piece of reporting by Rory O’Carroll, but no less depressing for that… www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

When did spinsters spin? Amy Erickson has a handy blogpost explaining how the ubiquity of spinning wool and other textiles in medieval and early modern England related to the marital status meaning of 'spinster': www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2025/06...

I should probably have read to the end of the box...her son died a few months later...😢

An English mother (Mary Morgan) in India in 1779 writing to her aunt about the importance of “inoculating” her toddler son against smallpox: “the catching of it is very dangerous.” Yep. Someone might want to tell RFK why vaccination matters 🗃️

The @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social treasures exhibit is excellent. Struck by this 1779 letter from the Codrington Papers detailing the coercive sexual relationship between an overseer and an unnamed enslaved woman. Even better is Amina Atiq’s 2021 poem, “Wench” which gives her voice (see ALT text)🗃️

From that judge’s lips…

I can’t remember the name of the show (help me out UK Gen-Xers!) but I was doing homework in the early/mid 1990s and got completely sucked into an hour-long Radio 1 doc about the making of Good Vibrations that blew my mind. RIP Brian Wilson www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...

The riots in ballymena are because of racism. The last thing they’re about about women’s safety. Ask @elainecrory.bsky.social about the cross community chorus of men who ring up Talkback to tell her to stop taking about violence against women every time she’s on after a woman is murdered here

Having fun at the Bodleian reading “A /true/ description of a young Lady’s arrival in Calcutta, in a letter to her friend in England” c. 1778. New project, new century, new continent 😬 🗃️