Missed this one: newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

Another cold, grey, drizzly #Caturday? Mitzi has the solution for that. #cats 🐈‍⬛🐾

I just got a copy of my cover for my forthcoming book! It features a postcard from Fez by the Moroccan Jewish photographer Joseph Bouhsira. Bouhsira was the first Moroccan to establish his own commercial photography studio, and many of his images featured the Jewish community in Fez.

I’m in a newly published collection on political writing in modern Britain published by CUP. I met and got the opportunity to work with some lovely people in the preparation of this collection. I hope it’s as much fun to read as it was to put together.

On the new #WutheringHeights film. I've co-curated an exhibition (Bronte Parsonage Museum) showing what the Bronte children read & wrote (they invented their own colonies) & how Wuthering Heights was inspired by their colonial reading material. www.bronte.org.uk/news/new-exh...

Catching up on emails between teaching and meetings, and the reporter in the United States who sent me an email with this subject line: "[Major magazine] reporter seeks ASAP expert comment for mummy story" ...will soon be waking up to quite a different reply than s/he probably bargained for. 🗃️📜🏺

Very pleased to share details of a new permanent academic job opportunity in Creative & Cultural Industries at University College Dublin. We are seeking candidates with a PhD whose work engages with the commercial creative industries. Deadline: 6 March 2026 universityvacancies.com/university-c....

Please, if you live in the UK, take part in this public consultation. Ten minutes well spent.

Take the time to do this folks. The proposed changes to ILR are shocking and cruel, which is made abundantly clear in the text of the public consultation linked below. Please lend your voice to try to mitigate the cruelty.

New job at UCL History of Art @uclhistoryofart.bsky.social 'Lecturer in History of Art, Materials, and Technology'. Deadline 1 March. Please circulate/apply! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

ICYMI: "@tgpeterson.bsky.social's 'Revolutionary Warfare: How the Algerian War Made Modern Counterinsurgency' is a deeply researched and strikingly lucid account of how one colonial war reshaped the meaning of modern warfare." www.middleeasteye.net/discover/rev...

NEW ESSAY — Christine Jacobson’s “Typing for Love or Money”, on the neglected efforts of women like Theodora Bosanquet, Véra Nabokov, and Valerie Eliot, who — through their work as typists and editors — had a profound impact on modern literature: publicdomainreview.org/essay/typing...

I wrote about Pantone's controversial 2026 COTY pick, Cloud Dancer (AKA white) for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social. I discuss what color-focused corporations like Pantone are actually selling us and how Cloud Dancer holds up a reactionary mirror to our current fascist times. #Pantone #ColorOftheYear

It's hard to believe good things can still be happening, but if you are in the Boston area between now and May 1st, there is an free-to-the-public exhibition on women's type labor in literature and the arts (co-curated by me and the great Dale Stinchcomb). library.harvard.edu/exhibits/tha...

❤️ #Torino #Turin - a city where residents still speak of the transformation brought by hosting the Olympics, and long for something similar to happen again. (Also Heather is an amazing expert on Olympic history - see whole thread!)

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I did my PhD at Sheffield working fairly closely with the Special Collections staff (who are brilliant). An excellent funded opportunity here...

A win for the Green Party at the Gorton & Denton by-election on 26th February would halt the Reform Party's momentum and send a clear message to Keir Starmer. Want to help? Chip in here: donatetothe.greenparty.org.uk/parliamentar...

Teaching with material and visual culture - my favourite class of the year, in the Sudan Archive at Durham University. 🗃️📜📷📸🇸🇩

The Burlington Magazine has a useful £12k of funding for a one-year scholarship in 18th c. French fine and decorative art. Want to apply? Know somebody who needs to know this? Details here: www.burlington.org.uk/jobs-noticeb...

Publication alert: my latest article Comparative Focus on Legacies of Enslavement in the United Kingdom and France #OUP #RacismbyContext academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

#Caturday means that at least one of us has to clean the kitchen sink. At least once. 💙🐈‍⬛ #cats

1. Introduction to Japanese Literature 2. Japanese Poetry 3. The Fourth Dimension (mathematics) 4. The Middle East (political science) 5. Buddhism (religious studies)

In particular, we support a farmers alliance that is supporting farmers in the Gezira grow subsistence foods by distributing seeds and inputs and by helping farmers clean the irrigation canals that bring water to their plots.

Wonderful news from Birkbeck's School of Historical Studies. We're hiring not one but TWO open-ended, full-time roles: Medieval Studies, and History of Art! cis7.bbk.ac.uk/home.html#fi...

I have a new paper out: "image, screen, projection: conceptualising the urban (imaginary) in digital visual culture." #urban #visualculture #imaginary available #openaccess here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Do other UK universities timetable lectures and seminars until 6 pm? Given that professional services staff finish at 5 pm, I don’t understand why academics and students (who hate the time slot) are meant to continue until 6 pm. I also just find it exhausting.

This is happening to almost every UK university (minus the same culprits that hoover up most students). It’s pretty unbelievable. Watch this.

The Senses and Medical Humanities – 24 February A one-day workshop exploring sensory studies and medical humanities, organised by @claireturner.bsky.social with the Institute for Medical Humanities, Durham University Details here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-senses...

The new issue of History Workshop Journal is out: issue 100, marking 50 years of the journal's existence. It's more necessary than ever. academic.oup.com/hwj/issue/10...

Another beautifully observed radio doc in this series: we have a now-91-yr-old American to thank for #Poems on the Underground, plus you get to hear several poets and poems, including the famous plums. I’m also glad to know that Norfolk’s own George Szirtes is on current selection committee.

Registration is open for the 2026 Women of Photography conference-athon on 8th March. Join 72 speakers over 24 hours celebrating International Women’s Day - starting with photography of Antarctica & travelling across the world. womenofphoto.com

We start next week! Spanning eight weeks, this course goes behind the scenes to look at the different areas of work of The Photographer’s Gallery. More info 👇

#Caturday ponderings: if Mitzi is not allowed on the kitchen counters, where does that leave the kitchen sink? 🐈‍⬛💙🚰 #cats (I assure you that she has three drinking glasses with fresh water located throughout the house.)

There are bunch of different #scholarships/#fellowships going in Cambridge at the Needham Research Institute and its East Asian History of Science library #historyofscience #科技史 Here are details: www.nri.cam.ac.uk/opportunitie...

It’s a grim, grey January day, but I got to spend 2 hrs with my fabulous 1st yr students @durhamhistory.bsky.social working with material in the #Sudan Archive. Here: training box for Sudanese midwives in 1920s Omdurman. Huge thanks to archivist Francis Gotto and the special collections team! 🗃️📜

Two new recipes for the Jewish Food Society! www.jewishfoodsociety.org/stories/writ...

If you’d like to know more about my new book A Dirty History of Photography: Chemistry, Fog and Empire, I am talking about it on the New Books Network @NewBooksNetwork podcast with Dr. Miranda Melcher here - newbooksnetwork.com/a-dirty-hist...

The first paperback copy of my book Flooded Pasts: UNESCO, Nubia, and the Recolonization of Archaeology just arrived! Available on the 15th March from @cornellupress.bsky.social: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Great call for papers in #photohist and #histmed!

The book "Palaeontology in Public" is one year old today! 🦣🦖🦕🎂🎉 We've apparently had 7,756 downloads (!!), so many thanks to @uclpress.bsky.social for publishing it and making it open access, and to all the contributors, and to everyone who has read it so far

It’s good to keep a cat on tap for winter mornings. 🐈‍⬛💙

'Illustrations are . . . entangled in the process of 'writing' radical history.' Led by Vivien Chan 10 illustration students at Nottingham Trent University offer a visual response to the practice of making history from below.

To all folks in the north of England, check out these April dates for. @threeacresacow.bsky.social. Brilliant show!

I give you the National English Rabbit Club 1st-prize rabbits and their humans, perhaps from the Stockton and District show, September 2nd, 1933. Photo by the J.R. and Daisy Edis Studio in Durham, digitised 6.5x8.5 in glass negative @ducollections.bsky.social. Bunny on the left has munchies. 🐇🏆📷📸📜

There's a lot going on right now. But please don't forget the people of Sudan.

The fog comes on little cat feet - or slightly large and furry ones, in Mitzi’s case. #cats 🐈‍⬛💙

Settled in for a very drizzly #Caturday with Mitzi

Join us on 29 Jan at 2 pm GMT for our next Ethics of Medical Photography Network online seminar on the theme of SENSITIVITY! We'll have three incredible speakers: @ermerlindaj.bsky.social @katrawling.bsky.social and Savannah Dodd. Free but registration needed empnetwork.our.dmu.ac.uk/2026/01/16/s...

Glad to see this roundtable on Colonisations Notre Histoire out! It was great to read Rose Ndengue, Robert Aldrich, Jennifer Boittin and Brett Rushforth look at the volume from different perspectives, and to have the opportunity to respond to what such a project can and cannot do