Ooh wow this looks cool!

Today all I can thing of is this Scrubs sketch - not helpful but in case anyone else is in the same loop - 'its regular strength, Tylenol....': youtu.be/gD6olRJ8S3I?...

Bristolians - if you were ever fascinated by spontaneous human combustion or wondered how we started to understand alcohol from a medical point of view then come and join me for my talk on my research into exactly that at the @glensidehospmuseum.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/did-victor...

Really looking forward to this. The strangest research I've ever done and some of the most interesting too!

Victorianists - a little bit of silly joy in all the gloom: take a moment today to vote for this gorgeous Lego set idea of the Great Exhibition so we can all get it for Christmas! beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...

Bristolians interested in Spontaeous Human Combustion or the history of our medical understanding of alcohol's history on the body and mine might like to sign up to my talk at the brilliant @glensidehospmuseum.bsky.social next month: glensidemuseum.org.uk/spontaneous-...

Emma Parker’s Life Writing and the End of Empire: Homecoming in Autobiographical Narratives (Bloomsbury, 2024) has been shortlisted for the 2025 Literary Encyclopedia Book Prize! www.litencyc.com/book-prizes/...

PSA: My laptop (windows) just did a massive update which took 100 years and in the process decided to change my display settings so it didn't recognise my second screen. Just took me a while to work out it wasn't just a lead problem. In case anyone else has the same issue...

Just thought I’d say…

Heading towards 550 signatures - please sign and share if you haven't already. This programme is so important as an opportunity for local people to do a degree with us at any age.

“We reject the far right’s racist lies about ‘protecting’ women and girls. They are not defenders of women – they exploit violence against women to fuel hate and division." Words that very much need to be said.

Six weeks from publication! Forgive a little book promo. I’ve got some talks lined up this autumn if you want to hear more about Electric Wind. Feel free to message me for more details.

Last few days to register your interest in the Maritime Britain End of Project Conference - deadline for proposals to speak is 1/9/25 ⚓⚓⚓ eventbrite.co.uk/e/maritime-b... & conference organiser @medievalmariner.bsky.social is now here!

If you are scrolling on a Sunday afternoon and fancy doing something lovely, see below. Please sign, please share.

BEST WIKIPEDIA PAGE EVER: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

Jubbe [JOO-bee] (n.) - A large vessel for liquor. From Middle English “iobbe” - of uncertain origin Used in a sentence: “The knight bragged of holy quests, yet swore he found more virtue in a brimming jubbe than in a cloistered chapel.” _____ 2026 calendars! www.kickstarter.com/projects/gra...

we've hit 500 signatures!!

We are nearly at 500 signatures already. Please keep signing and sharing.

We have a medieval PDRA role on the same project recruiting too.

TWO MORE SIGNATURES and we'll have 450 - every voice counts, you don't have to be an academic or involved with universities in any way <3

400 signatures and counting!!!

Vacancy with the Royal Historical Society: Membership and Office Administrator bit.ly/46TgZNA We look to appoint a Membership and Office Administrator (0.8 FTE) to join our professional Office to help us support history and historians. £31,904 pro rata. Closing date Monday 8 September #Skystorians

📣Applications still open for the Senate House Library Visiting Fellowships 📣 In 2025-6 up to two awards of £1500 will be allocated to support a fellowship of up to two weeks. Deadline: 15 September 2025 More info 👇 https://tinyurl.com/ykudv9tn

This course has made a positive difference to so many lives. It would be a disaster for that to end. Please sign.

Fellowship from Bloomsbury for early career academics who are Black, Asian or Ethnically Diverse: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/discover/...

This is a fantastic blogpost by @patthomson.bsky.social about the mixed emotions when you do finally get an article published. I was esp drawn to this para and this is why I'm honest & vulnerable abt my challenges via my blog (and also in the imposter syndrome episode of @ecrpodcasters.bsky.social!)

Now just 8 signatures away from 400 now, keep going! Thanks to everyone who has already signed. Keep sharing too!

This is a very good, informative episode. Most striking is how powerfully both main party leaders condemned racism - at a time when Powell’s views were far more popular with the public than similar views are now. So why are Starmer and Badenoch so reluctant to strongly condemn racism?

Anyone who cares about the #humanities/ #EnglishLiterature/ #communityeducation/ #adulteducation, it's time to sign to save this important degree programme.

I had an absolute blast last week on @bbcradio6musicbot.bsky.social pairing drinks to the various new releases on the show as part of the launch of new book Tasting Notes. It’s available for another couple of weeks if you want to listen.The tunes are good! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

thanks so much to everyone who's signed - 300 signatures in less than 3 days and climbing. this programme is one of the best things about UoB and the very least of what the university owes the broader region

Oh that is such a flagship programme! So sorry to hear that it isn’t valued by the SMT as it really should be. Hope they change their mind. Signing petition immediately.

Please help. Please sign. I work on a part-time degree for mature students to study for a BA in English Literature & Community Engagement. Its direct access and designed for those who didn't or couldn't go to Uni at 18. Bristol plan to close it. We want to save it. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I want to write a new blogpost, academic pals! What’s your best advice for sustaining your motivation as an early career scholar, post PhD, without institutional affiliation? How can you feel supported in carrying on with your work? And what can those of us lucky enough to have jobs do to help?

My book drops in less than a week and I am thrilled to be with @hopkinspress.bsky.social. My first encounter with the press was also my first intellectual crush: their translations of Carlo Ginzburg beginning in 1980. 1/2 press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

In my mid-20s after 3 years of OU study I finished my degree full-time. I have subsequently worked closely to support widening participation to + thru HE via Access courses, foundation degrees, working with students to find their voice - especially through arts & humanities. Please sign!

REGISTRATION OPEN! Now more than ever, research is reshaping our view of women’s roles in the early modern book trade. Join us in Antwerp (5–7 Nov 2025) for our conference Women & the Household in the #earlymodern Book Trade. Register here: tinyurl.com/womenbooktrade #rarebooks #bookhistory 💙📚📜

Just re-posting this for those who haven't seen it yet and might be scrollling with their lunch. Please sign and share if you feel able and help us advocate for our unique and accessible part-time degree, known as ELCE against the planned closure by Bristol Uni. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Ffs, all the work that has gone into this course over the years, all the trumpeting of it as the public face of Bristol’s community engagement and they are closing it down? Still, Bristol is throwing cash at Mumbai, right?

disgraceful decision to suspend the flagship widening participation initiative in the humanities at Bristol please sign and share this letter to oppose this docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Please help. Our department runs a groundbreaking part-time degree programme in English Literature and Community Engagement, known as ELCE, designed for mature students who didn't or couldn't do a degree at 18. The University of Bristol has decided to close it. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Sheridan le Fanu published his vampire novella 'Carmilla' in a magazine called 'The Dark Blue' between 1871 and 1872. I don't think I've ever seen a bound volume of The Dark Blue until today...and it's BEAUTIFUL! 💙 #c19th #vampires

Pls sign and share this open letter to the Bristol VC, against the School of Humanities's decision to withdraw the BA in English Literature and Community Engagement (ELCE): the only part-time, flexible undergraduate degree programme available at the University forms.gle/SbyhXPSJgQTc...

Please help. Please sign & share. I work on a degree programme known as ELCE for mature students who didn't or couldn't do a degree at 18. Bristol uni has decided to close it. Bristol was set up to serve this community & now we are losing our most accessible degree. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

It's alive! Publication day! Play in Utopian and Dystopian Ficion arrived in the mail. Thanks Liverpool University Press for producing such a beautiful book.

Really exciting new archaeology report showing that two people who died in 7th century Kent had West African grandfathers. It’s suggested they’d travelled here as traders and settled thanks to the Byzantine Empire’s trade network that linked North Africa to Britain

Another CFP that promises to interest RSVPers. /The Edinburgh History of the Radical Press: The Religious Press/ seeks original contributions by 1 Sept. 2025, for publication in 2027. Thanks for #SharingYourNews, Ian Cawood! More details here: rs4vp.org/cfp-edinburg...

Devonians: I'm giving a talk with an excellent artist, Jo Lathwood, whose exhibition about women brewers opens in September. Come along! It's at East Quay, Watchet, and I'm v excited :) www.eastquaywatchet.co.uk/events/kitch...

This makes me think of Louisa Young's brilliant book, You Left Early, which gives a very moving and informative account of this

A CFP has recently come across our digital desk that is sure to be of interest. /Women's Writing/ is celebrating 200 years of Margaret Oliphant with a special issue! Abstracts (300 words) are due 1 December 2025. Thanks for #SharingYourNews! More info here: think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...