The University of Northampton is making significant cuts that put many programmes at risk, including our MA in History. Our Union branch has started a petition about these cuts in general, please sign and share. chng.it/HmQLFK8Lry We also have letters from learned socs & groups supporting History. 🗃️

Today we celebrate Boxing Day in the UK, so named because cats spend the day exploring empty boxes discarded from Christmas Day* *This may not be true

Just a reminder: you are NOT unusual, weird, or unlovable if you have: - no one to see on Christmas Day, - no presents, or - no contactable relatives. Very few people live the idealised version on TV. Those of us who live differently—whether by choice or trauma—matter as much.

On the 11th day of Christmas my true love sent to me, 11 pipers piping, 10 lords-a-leaping, 9 ladies dancing, 8 maids-a-milking, 7 swans-a-swimming, 6 geese-a-laying, 5 GOLD RINGS, 4 colly birds, 3 French hens, 2 turtle doves & a partridge in a pear tree. 38 people watched me eat 23 birds to music

On the tenth day of Christmas my true love sent to me, 10 lords-a-leaping, 9 ladies dancing, 8 maids-a-milking, 7 swans-a-swimming, 6 geese-a-laying, 5 GOLD RINGS, 4 colly birds, 3 French hens, 2 turtle doves & a partridge in a pear tree. A lord landed on a French hen; feathers everywhere. Ate them.

On the ninth day of Christmas my true love sent to me, nine ladies dancing, eight maids-a-milking, seven swans-a-swimming, six geese-a-laying, FIVE GOLD RINGS, four colly birds, three French hens, two turtle doves and a partridge in a pear tree. 17 women had a front row seat of me eating 23 birds.

Beat Kümin and I are accepting applications for our 4yr M4C fully-funded PhD Studentship for 2025/26 at Uni of Warwick and Warwick County Record Office "Warwickshire Identities: Early Modern Archival Perspectives" Get in touch with me for more info. Full details here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/his...

On the eighth day of Christmas my true love sent to me, eight maids-a-milking, seven swans-a-swimming, six geese-a-laying, FIVE GOLD RINGS, four colly birds, three French hens, two turtle doves and a partridge in a pear tree. Thanks maids, needed a drink after eating all those birds.

He was the full Monty before.

On the seventh day of Christmas my true love sent to me, seven swans-a-swimming, six geese-a-laying, FIVE GOLD RINGS, four colly birds, three French hens, two turtle doves and a partridge in a pear tree. They're not a-swimming anymore. Ate them.

On the sixth day of Christmas my true love sent to me, six geese-a-laying, FIVE GOLD RINGS, four colly birds, three French hens, two turtle doves and a partridge in a pear tree. Goose, colly bird, hen, turtle dove, partridge and pear omelette. Yum.

On the fifth day of Christmas my true love sent to me, FIVE GOLD RINGS, four colly birds, three French hens, two turtle doves and a partridge in a pear tree. Ate the birds. Sold the rings. Bought more birds with the money. Ate them too.

On the fourth day of Christmas my true love sent to me, four colly birds, three French hens, two turtle doves and a partridge in a pear tree. Ate them. Tastier than calling birds.

On the second day of Christmas my true love sent to me, two turtle doves and a partridge in a pear tree. Ate them.

On the third day of Christmas my true love sent to me, three French hens, two turtle doves and a partridge in a pear tree. Ate them. Oh-la-la.

Yessss! Larry’s 12 Days of Christmas on Blue Sky

Word of the day is a favourite, from old Scots. To ‘tartle’ is to hesitate while introducing someone because you have completely forgotten their name.

SCANDAL as senior member of Downing Street administration caught breaking the rules... (Pic @pjrfoto.bsky.social)

You know what would **really** disrupt the publishing industry? Fair contracts and decent pay for authors. No AI training without the creator’s consent. Artists and translators on the cover. No NDAs for ghostwriters.

Associate Lecturer in Conservation of Buddhist Heritage- Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London - Conservation #skystorians 🗃️ www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKU789/a...

Snr Research Fellow with Digital Skills for Historical Research UCL - SELCS-CMII #skystorians 🗃️ www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKU346/s...

Word of the day is ‘librocubicularist’: one who loves nothing better than reading in bed. (Not easy to say, but I’m glad to know it exists).

I have faced fascism before, in this very country. I was one of 120,000 Japanese Americans summarily rounded up and expelled from our homes at gunpoint, all for the crime of looking like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor. I spent my childhood behind barbed wire. My parents lost everything. 1/

I've been thinking about why so many history students get themselves into a pickle by thinking an argument comes *before* research. More at my blog: catherinedenial.org/blog/uncateg...

Bacup snow 🌨️🥶

Please see attached a CALL FOR A DEPUTY EDITOR for 'Environment and History'. #envhist

What's this? Free, open-source newspapers from 84 countries, some dating back centuries? 🗃️ For you, my #Skystorians friends! This quick blog contains the link that will have you diving into rabbit holes in no time. www.joehistorian.com/blog/2020/2/...

CripAntiquity calling for papers for a hybrid conference for July of 2025! This conference is looking to examine disability in Greek and Latin literature, art, & archaeology in the ancient world, experiences of disabled scholars today, and reception studies of ancient disability.

Rachel's Random Resources is always on the look out for more #bookbloggers & #bookstagrammers to join our #blogtour hosting family. We organise tours across a whole range of genres for wonderful #publishers & #authors and would love to hear from you docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

A skeleton with dart and hourglass on the copper halfpenny token of John Morse of Watford, 1666. The cheerful presence of death is a pun as 'mors' sounds quite similar to 'morse’ (From British Museum) #mementomori #skystorians

I have opened DMs so anyone can ask for a copy of this.

And, as I’ve not had time to go through my completely exploded followers list, if you’re a historian of Ancient Greece (Bronze Age - Roman Period, as long as its firmly Greek) - say hi and I’ll add you to this starter pack:

I'm so excited about this cover that I can't keep it secret any longer. Dance with the Fae is coming out in February and is available preorder now. mybook.to/DanceWiththeFae  #coverreveal #bookcovers #coverart #fairytales #romantasy #fantasybooks #fantasy #romance #fae #preorder

Save Undergraduate Education at Wales’s Historic Lampeter Campus

Would you like to join in our project to support & promote the teaching of Indigenous histories & perspectives in UK schools? We have paid opportunities for educators to make teaching resources, & a meeting next Monday to find out more about getting involved. Join us! docs.google.com/document/u/2...

Tfw you’re looking for books published in the last 10 years for your first History MA assignment - and the majority were published a lot earlier 😩

Thought I’d make my first post both positive and useful-so here’s a list of all of the free-to-view titles now available on the British Newspaper Archive: blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/2024/09/19/a...

Postgraduates in history of science, technology and medicine: come to Leeds in April to meet likeminded souls and give a paper about your research! Such a friendly and supportive atmosphere at this PG-only conference #histsci #histSTM #HPS

Māori MPs briefly suspended the Aotearoa parliament’s attempts to reinterpret their founding treaty in the most bad ass use of the Haka I’ve ever seen.

Now that @thehistoryguy.bsky.social, @katewilliamsme.bsky.social, @helencarr.bsky.social & so many other great historians have joined #BlueSky today, I'm re-upping my #starterpacks on Historians in Britain! There's still room on the 2nd list. Part 1: go.bsky.app/Fpw6Tvr Part 2: go.bsky.app/8aaAtPg

Folks if you’re account now says “invalid handle” on here see this👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

✍️ SIGN: "Apply for the UK to join the European Union as a full member as soon as possible" We are supporting this #RejoinEU petition on the official Parliament e-petitions website. Please sign and share: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

📚♠️♦️📚♠️♦️📚♠️♦️ Your reminder: this is the ‘day job’. I am an #indieauthor: that means every book you read is all my own work ( apart from the lovely covers). I am your ‘small artisan business’. Your support is always appreciated.

Lily is a heroine with a deep sense of social awkwardness, and I extremely love her for it. Her story is coming in under a week! Preorder links in next post!

Please share this amazing opportunity widely! 3 funded MA studentships in Black British Local History for the coming academic year based at the Centre for Regional and Local History at the University of Leicester in partnership with the Black Cultural Archives! le.ac.uk/english-loca...

Words of wisdom. 😊

Characters are always more powerful when they move and react in your writing and story to show how they feel about things, adding to the telling of the reader how they feel. It gives it an honest feel, describing it visually. - Wrtr #amwriting ~ #writing #author

“A writer's life. Writing is uniquely personal to every author and how they do it. What we write and how we write are a part of us, it is a part of our stories.” - Wrtr #amwriting ...Be Writing #writing #author

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