Looking forward to our Think While You Drink event with @petebrownbeer.bsky.social tonight as he'll be talking us through some of his research for his brilliant new book, Tasting Notes including some music-themed tastings. @kellywasgcb.bsky.social www.petebrown.net/2025/02/07/s...

#skystorians - do you have a good intro/explainer text on the concept of the Noble Savage suitable for undergrads? Scanning my own library everything I have just skims it or take the concept for granted rather than acting as a 'first encounter with a concept' teaching source.

🌍 Racism & climate crisis—what’s the link? Join Bridging Racial and Climate Justice at Easton Community Centre, 16 Nov, 1 PM. Talks + conversations with Natalie Hyacinth & Yaz Brien. Free tickets: www.bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/eve... @cabot-institute.bsky.social #ClimateJustice #RacialJustice

🔍 Bristol glass, taxidermy pangolin & colonial silences—what stories do they tell? Join Materiality & Museum Extraction at Watershed, 19 Nov. Talks + creative insights from historians, artists & scientists. 👉 www.bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/eve... @cabot-institute.bsky.social #DecolonisingMuseums

Oh and you need to verify your ID to access these functions 👇

Great talk! Let us know what you'd like us to do next. We are free to join, like all @drinkingstudies.bsky.social groups and welcome new members.

Could you co-supervise a PhD working with unexplored areas of our collection? We’re seeking proposals from academics at HEI’s on four specially selected research themes: bit.ly/BritishLibra...

I think about this post every day 🧪

This looks brilliant. I've been lucky enough to see see @jameskneale.bsky.social present on this research and its just fascinating. Can't wait to see the whole thing. Recommend wholeheartedly to @drinkingstudies.bsky.social and Victorianists among others....

🚨 Job alert 🚨 NorseMap is recruiting for a new team member: a 3-year postdoctoral researcher with a background in Politics OR Old Norse Viking Studies to lead the 'Politics & Identity' strand of the project. Come and work with us at UCC! my.corehr.com/pls/uccrecru...

The BAVS 2026 Annual Conference CfP is now live: victorianist.wordpress.com/2025/10/20/c... We hope you can join us in Liverpool next year!

Anyone else planning to put a paper in? Love Liverpool so hard to resist!

@dorotadias.bsky.social ?

Thank you so much to @lottelouisa.bsky.social for a fascinating talk on beer consumption of Central European women tourists at today's @womenandalcohol.bsky.social seminar. So interesting to hear about the manner in which these women talk about drink and drinking in their private diaries

Thank you to everyone who came to celebrate the launch of Being Human Festival 2025 yesterday! Taster activities included a Spooky Stories storytelling performance & a healing scents and remedies workshop from humanities researchers. #BeingHuman2025 @mybcu.bsky.social @herts.ac.uk

One to add to my unusual signs collection...

Thanks so much to @glensidehospmuseum.bsky.social for inviting me to speak about my most eccentric research to date. It was so lovely to meet so many interesting people and to support this brilliant museum. Think its my first time in a pulpit....that was a fun surprise.

Ooh this looks interesting

An longer mid morning writing walk today. Found these little guys having a board meeting

My friend Sascha is a professional musician and he's lost a viola bow on the way to Heathrow. Please signal boost to help him get it back.

No more putting myself down, I can illustrate/be creative and I will make new work. It’s gonna take some time but I will climb out of this.

I wish we could all continue being vaccinated. I wouldn't mind paying like my flu jab to feel a little safer.

Mid morning walk on a writing day. Lovely to see all the green coming back after our dry summer.

Assistant Professor or Associate Professor in Humanities- Waseda Institute for Advanced Study #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOY258/a...

Excellent news that our beloved @goodchembrew.bsky.social will be passed into safe hands. I love the warmth with which the incoming owners talk of the things that make it so special. Rapidly expanding bar group buys brewery share.google/pkQkL87wkVJF...

There really are just a couple of tickets left for this talk on Thursday, and that's by squeezing a couple of extra spaces in! So grab them while you can and come hear Nick and me discuss basically how beer evolved!

Wish I could attend this as it sounds fantastic

Can anyone recommend some histories of old age and the body, specifically those that look at leakiness and focus on the eighteenth-nineteenth centuries? Aware of stuff on the menopause but want to check I'm not missing something!

Our next online seminar will take place on 6 November at 12.00 midday. Louisa Niesen, European University Institute will speak on 'Alcohol Consumption among Women Tourists, 1880-1914'. This event is online. More information and how to get the zoom link here: www.womenandalcohol.net/2025/10/onli...

@goodchembrew.bsky.social @jamesnicholls.bsky.social @amyjbburnett.bsky.social @joanpassey.bsky.social

Think While You Drink on Thurs features Local Archaeologist & Brewer Nick Fitzgerald and Heritage Brewer @beernouveau.co.uk. Together, they'll explore what early (pre-historic) beers might have tasted like, and what flavours are still used today. goodchemistrybrewing.co.uk/pages/think-...

This should be fascinating. Maybe one for @drinkingstudies.bsky.social @jameskneale.bsky.social @dorotadias.bsky.social @harbottlestores.bsky.social @jamesnicholls.bsky.social @danmalleck.bsky.social @lucycogan.bsky.social Please share.

The IHR seminar series on 'Bad Habits' look fascinating this term, particularly for @drinkingstudies members as @jameskneale.bsky.social and David Beckingham are both giving talks on their temperance research. More information and sign up here: us8.campaign-archive.com?u=e075dbc3a1...

Strange and exciting spot by my lovely @jendeavour.bsky.social - @britishlibrary.bsky.social have made a t-shirt of the front cover of my Tales of the Weird collection, Dead Drunk. And they've done the same for @joparsons.bsky.social and @joanpassey.bsky.social! shop.bl.uk/products/dea...

Are you a postgraduate researcher trying out digital methods, tools or resources as a means of exploring historical phenomena? Consider applying for our Postgraduate Seminar Series ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2025/08/ihr-...

🙌 EVENTS NEXT WEEK 🙌 Think While You Drink at The Robin Hood THURSDAY - 9th October 🍻 Archaeologist & brewer Nick Fitzgerald teams up with heritage brewer Steve Dunkley (aka @beernouveau.co.uk) to discuss ancient brewing techniques, and how they echo into the modern day. See you next week!

🙌 EVENTS NEXT WEEK 🙌 She Drinks Beer @thegood-measure.bsky.social NEXT TUESDAY - 7th Oct 🎉 Our regular night at the pub for women who enjoy beer! We'd love you to join us in disrupting the traditionally male pub space - find out more here: goodchemistrybrewing.co.uk/pages/she-dr...

This job at Galway on early modern manuscripts (2 years) looks very cool for the right person: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOS764/p...

Make a movie about bats: The Scarlet Pippestrelle

Would Cumbrian West Coast folk please repost this: I need homebrewers for a homebrew club In the Cockermouth - Workington area. Bottle swaps, meet ups to wang on about beer & maybe even in the summer drinks in the garden. Even if you don't currently homebrew & want to see if it's the hobby for you.

GOOD MORNING! Pubs are struggling. The 2026 Good Beer Guide is "a triumph". Craft beer is still growing in India. Gen Z really isn't drinking. BrewDog beers have lost their edge. Nobody really knows which is the oldest pub in London. New Boddies is "drinkable". 🍺🍻 boakandbailey.com/2025/09/news...

Our November 'Think While You Drink' talk by @petebrownbeer.bsky.social is one of the events for the @bristoluni.bsky.social series in this year's @beinghumanfest.bsky.social. We are v excited to hear about Pete's new book on beer & music. Sign up here: goodchemistrybrewing.co.uk/pages/think-...

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/...