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Micah
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GNU Terry Pratchett, whose words will echo long after we, and our children, and our children’s children have moved on thank you, as always, for making me a better person (quote from Reaper Man)
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Dr Eleri Cousins
23 days ago
Durham and English Heritage are now recruiting for a fully-funded PhD on Roman Corbridge 🥳🥳🥳 This is a fantastic opportunity to work on one of our most important and understudied finds assemblages from Roman Britain. Deadline 1st June. Please share widely!
www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
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Liz Rees
24 days ago
Archives
#JobKlaxon
- Curious Arts are recruiting for a north-east based Digital Archivist
drive.google.com/file/d/1NHPQ...
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Digital Archivist Job pack (3).pdf
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Brian Groom
about 1 month ago
The Arrival Of Spring In Woldgate, East Yorkshire, 2011, painting by David Hockney (b.1937).
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KJ Charles
about 1 month ago
I am doing an event at the National Archives, for crying out loud! The Love Letters exhibition, talking and signing advance copies, courtesy of Notting Hill's Saucy Books!
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KJ Charles at Love Letters Late
We’re thrilled to be partnering with The National Archives for Love Letters Late — a special late-night celebration of romance, stories, and after-hours literary magic. Join us on Friday, April 10th f...
https://www.saucybooks.com/products/kj-charles-at-love-letters-late?variant=52872841593168
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University of Surrey Archives and Special Collections
about 1 month ago
Another call for the hive-mind of Bluesky! Can any paleography experts identify the occupation of Susannah Cowell, shown here on her student registration card? She was a student at Battersea Polytechnic in 1927, taking a course in Laundry Work.
#archives
#educationhistory
#trickyhandwriting
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Rob Fraser (he/him)
about 2 months ago
www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2rh...
Nicholas Brendon RIP.
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Buffy - Once More, with Feeling - I'll Never Tell
YouTube video by Samantha Graff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2rheMw1X4Y
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Micah
about 2 months ago
Discworld QOTD, from Reaper Man
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Jennifer Aston
about 2 months ago
Only 5 weeks until the *free* Broken Bonds: The History of Divorce and Marital Breakdown conference at Northumbria University! Thanks to the ESRC, travel bursaries are available. Details in replies 👇
#LegalHistory
#DivorceHistory
#FamilyLaw
#SocioLegalStudies
#WomensHistory
#ESRC
#ECRHistory
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Oskar Jensen
about 2 months ago
Jobs! Three jobs! I am hiring three full-time, three-year postdocs to research the long history of song at Newcastle, from any disciplinary background (within reason), starting 1 October 2026. Spread the news far and wide – all details in the link below...
jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastl...
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Research Assistant/Associate: Mainstream Song, Class, and Culture 1520-2020
Research Assistant/Associate: Mainstream Song, Class, and Culture 1520-2020
https://jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastle-Research-AssistantAssociate-Mainstream-Song%2C-Class%2C-and-Culture-1520-2020/1373710333/
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Borthwick Institute for Archives
about 2 months ago
🚨FIXED TERM ARCHIVE JOB KLAXON🚨 We are looking for an experienced archivist to develop and implement a scoping project to re-catalogue and make available the York Archdiocesan Archive (6 months full time, or 12 months part time). Full details at the link:
jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/proj...
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John Bull
about 2 months ago
Seriously. Y'all NEED TO ACTUALLY READ John Hodgson's 173 page footnote in which he proves Hadrian built the Roman Wall. I CANNOT do justice to how beautiful his brain was. That he's forgotten as a historian breaks my heart.
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Micah
about 2 months ago
bonus Discworld QOTD, from The Shepherd's Crown "FOR I CAN SEE THE BALANCE AND YOU HAVE LEFT THE WORLD MUCH BETTER THAN YOU FOUND IT, AND IF YOU ASK ME, said Death, NOBODY COULD DO ANY BETTER THAN THAT…"
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Evening all. We've been enjoying sunshine today so have managed both a shopping expedition and a walk! Lime cordial and a new sewing project this evening. Cheers!
#ConfinedCocktails
2 months ago
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Rob Dale
2 months ago
Now up on
jobs.ac.uk🚨
- Collaborative Doctoral Award with Prof Annie Tindley
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PhD studentship: Reawakening the Living Landscape: Integrating Heritage and Sustainability at the Ulster Folk Museum at Newcastle University
Apply for a PhD studentship: Reawakening the Living Landscape: Integrating Heritage and Sustainability at the Ulster Folk Museum. Discover a wide range of PhD opportunities at jobs.ac.uk.
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQT596/phd-studentship-reawakening-the-living-landscape-integrating-heritage-and-sustainability-at-the-ulster-folk-museum
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UK Archive Sector Leadership
2 months ago
Congratulations to
@vindolandatrust.bsky.social
on receiving the consortium grant worth £149,996. They will lead a partnership with
@ducollections.bsky.social
and
@northeastmuseums.bsky.social
to catalogue 5 archives relating to Hadrian’s Wall:
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-rev...
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2025 - 2026 - Portals
Consortium Grants Awarded 2026 The Vindolanda Trust – £149,996 The Vindolanda Trust will lead a partnership with Durham University and North East Museums to catalogue five archives relating to Hadrian...
https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-revealed/consortium-grant/current-and-past-projects/2025-2026/
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Tina Morton
2 months ago
Great opportunity to be involved in something new at The National Archives, based in my department but collaborating across the organisation and the wider archive sector. Regional Loans Programme Coordinator:
www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cg...
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Barts Health Archives
3 months ago
We loved introducing Alice to our collections, but you don't need to be a Professor to come to the archives, anybody can visit and explore our collections! Find out how by visiting our website -
www.bartshealth.nhs.uk/barts-health...
#History
#Archives
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Daniel Pietersen
3 months ago
The rebuttal to this is that Star Trek is not a show about how the future could be but how the present should be. To eradicate disability, rather than accept and accommodate it, is a eugenicist ideal.
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Greg Jenner (Historian)
3 months ago
This applies to young people too, if ANYTHING changes with your bowel health, ask your GP for this simple test 👇
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Molly Knight
3 months ago
Please honor James’ memory by getting screened for colorectal cancer. Make the call today if you are 45 or have a family history. Rates are surging among young people. Catching it early is the best way to survive it.
www.cancer.org/cancer/types...
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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️🌈🚀🦄 📜
3 months ago
Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. “The professional standard is clean, dry hands, and has been for all of this century.”
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𝚕𝚘𝚞𝚕𝚊 𝚢𝚘𝚛𝚔𝚎
3 months ago
rules for watching Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979) - try to guess the age of everyone in screen - shout “78!” or similar - look cast up on IMDb - discover they are all younger than you are now
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Liam J. Liburd
3 months ago
I did my PhD at Sheffield working fairly closely with the Special Collections staff (who are brilliant). An excellent funded opportunity here...
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Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, York
3 months ago
🚨 Two
@rarebookschool.bsky.social
courses coming to York in July!
@wordsmith.bsky.social
'The Culture & Craft of Wood Type' &
@jenniebatchelor.bsky.social
'The Rise of Periodical Print Culture'
rarebookschool.org/courses/typo...
rarebookschool.org/courses/hist...
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#bookhistory
#earlymodern
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The Culture & Craft of Wood Type | Rare Book School
Course Length: 30 hours Course Week: 12–17 July 2026 Format: in person, York, UK Fee: $1,495 This course offers an in-depth engagement with the culture and craft of wood type, with a core focus on the...
https://rarebookschool.org/courses/typography/t65/
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John Bull
4 months ago
The US granted visas to Jews but only allowed 30,000 in from Germany a year. You had to wait for your number to come up. Meet Robert Smallbones. An unassuming British diplomat who 'hacked' this system so effectively (saving 48 THOUSAND Jews) the UK government kept his scheme secret for decades /1 🧵
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Divorce_History
4 months ago
📣It's your FINAL chance to register for our FREE online ‘Archives to Action’ workshop on 20th January 2026 with some fantastic speakers.
#Archives
#History
#MaritalBreakdown
#Divorce
#DomesticAbuse
#ChildWelfare
#PolicyReform
#Coercion
#Diversity
#PrivateSector
www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/new...
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Archives to Action: Historical Evidence for Policy Reform
This one-day workshop showcases the results of a groundbreaking two-year interdisciplinary project funded by the Economic and Social Research Council: 'A New Methodological Approach to the History of ...
https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/news-events/events/2026/01/archives-to-action---historical-evidence-for-policy-reform/
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Micah
4 months ago
Discworld QOTD, from Mort
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Piers Haslam 🌺
4 months ago
Queer history types! Can anyone recommend scholarship that looks at asylum / psychiatric hospital records through a queer or trans lens?
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Lloyd's Register Foundation Heritage Centre
4 months ago
Read about one of the strangest ships ever built was launched at a Hull shipyard in 1874- a ship had a rotating cabin that aimed to prevent seasickness! Did it work? 👉
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Hull-built anti-seasickness ship was plagued with misfortune
The Hull-built SS Bessemer was designed by a Victorian inventor to counteract seasickness.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g45x3mjkjo
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Rob Dale
4 months ago
A reminder for hard pressed UK researchers the "Great British Rail Sale" runs till Monday 12 January and you can get 50% off on some train journeys, and you can book ahead till end of March 2026.
www.nationalrail.co.uk/great-britis...
Perhaps it will make that library or archive trip a bit easier. 📢
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The Great British Rail Sale | National Rail
The Great British Rail Sale is back, with up to 50% off over 3 million selected Advance and Off-Peak train tickets. Book between 6 January and 12 January 2026 for travel between 13 January and 25 Mar...
https://www.nationalrail.co.uk/great-british-rail-sale/
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Buckinghamshire Archives
4 months ago
Whilst you're all here, we're hoping to do a bunch of new videos this year showing off some of our collection and answering your weird archive questions. So, what would you like us to do videos on?
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I think you said you were looking for some interesting 'learning' things to do? Not sure if these would fit the bill
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John Bull
4 months ago
Not even the prompts. If you are a Twitter user in the UK and Twitter sticks a Grok CSAM image in your feed for WHATEVER reason, well congrats your device just downloaded child porn. And you are legally responsible for that.
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🎱 Kelly Pringle 🎱
4 months ago
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alix e. harrow
5 months ago
my favorite thing about the benoit blanc movies is that they aren't really about benoit blanc. he is not grappling with demons from his past. we are not getting flashbacks to the husband whose murder he never solved. he just shows up and does his job like mary poppins for homicides
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Jenny Landreth
4 months ago
Watching Victoria Wood and for the 900th time I’m struck by how everyone (including her) talks about her size and she’s SO ABSOLUTELY NORMAL SIZE. Pernicious as it ever bloody was.
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Ed Morrish
4 months ago
i post this story every christmas, and will keep doing so until it stops making me cry merry christmas xx
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A real Good Samaritan
One act of kindness that befell Leeds writer Bernard Hare in 1982 changed him profoundly. Here he tells his story.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-12043294
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Micah
4 months ago
Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather
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MazzyK
over 1 year ago
Just in case you never saw this on Twitter, it’s a masterpiece of a thread.
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Rhodri Marsden
4 months ago
Twas the night before Christmas, and throughout the land The sleeping arrangements were carefully planned Down in the kitchen, a picturesque scene A mattress, a pillow, a washing machine
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This is always a highlight of my Christmas Eve - grateful I don't have an entering enough sleep set up to qualify! Please read, laugh - and donate to very good cause
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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺
4 months ago
And the finest Christmas tradition has arrived —
#DuvetKnowItsChristmas
is today! 1) Follow
@rhodri.biz
2) post your pics of your makeshift Christmas Eve sleeping arrangements and 3) give money to the homeless
@centrepointuk.bsky.social
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Micah
4 months ago
Discworld QOTD, from Snuff "You should look for those who can’t believe that the law would ever catch them, who believe that they act out of a right that the rest of us do not have. The job of the officer of the law is to let them know that they are wrong!"
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Rhodri Marsden
4 months ago
Tomorrow evening it’ll be my annual duty to vaguely shepherd the activity on the
#duvetknowitschristmas
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Kat
4 months ago
are you bored at Christmas? want an opportunity to escape from your relatives because you are Making Valuable Contributions to Scholarship? can I interest you in looking at (labelled!) slides from the early 20th century, architecture and archaeology? all I need you to do is write down the label.
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Jonathan Edward Durham
5 months ago
"Think not of the books you've bought as a "to be read" pile. Instead, think of your bookcase as a wine cellar. You collect books to be read at the right time, the right place, and the right mood." - Luc van Donkersgoed
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