Reposted by Alice MarplesJeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 02/10/2025On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read 663692974
Reposted by Alice MarplesNational Library of Scotland @natlibscot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026We’re excited to be hosting this event for early career researchers on Tuesday 3 November. Interested? Find out more at the link below 👇 064
Reposted by Alice MarplesBen Mechen @benmechen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Some fascinating Collaborative Doctoral Awards on offer here at the BL, including a great history of sexuality/book history/library history project relating to the Rund Collection of 19th/20thC erotic books and ephemera www.bl.uk/services/res...bl.ukCollaborative Doctoral Landscape AwardsFully-funded and jointly supervised studentships across four developing research areas. 33942
Reposted by Alice MarplesCentre for Place Writing @centreplacewriting.bsky.social · 19hComing up later this year @drdavidcooper.bsky.social will be celebrating the publication of his book Reading Place Writing: Geography, Form, Immersion 2010-2020 with a launch event with Jean Sprackland on 3rd December at Manchester Poetry Library. Book your place here: www.mmu.ac.uk/news-and-eve...mmu.ac.ukBook Launch: Reading Place Writing by David Cooper, 03 Dec 2026Book Launch, Manchester Poetry Library 042
Reposted by Alice MarplesCreative Manchester @uomcreativemcr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Join The John Rylands Library for ‘Beyond Preservation: Innovation in Special Collections’. 📅 5 October, 2.30pm–4.30pm 📍 John Rylands Library 🎟️ ow.ly/et8m50ZSZAJ This event forms part of The University of Manchester’s Innovation Festival. Find out more: ow.ly/rNIy50ZSZBC 002
Alice Marples @alicemarples.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Our fourth and final Collaborative Doctoral Landscape Award theme for this round is now published - all prospective academic supervisors welcome to apply. 000
Reposted by Alice MarplesLinda Andersson Burnett @lindaaburnett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The Instructing Colonial Natural History Seminar Series is back and we have a stellar line up: @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social, 6 Oct; @cberiksen.bsky.social, 28 Oct; Jim Endersby, 25 Nov; and Ma. Mercedes G. Planta, 9 Dec. All seminars are on Zoom, 15-16 CET 14225
Reposted by Alice MarplesNit Nurse With Wound @dannybirchall.bsky.social · 29/09/2026next step ... ban everyone from the home counties www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukOxford Street to be pedestrianised from 26 OctoberBuses, taxis, bikes and other vehicles, will be banned from Orchard Street to Great Portland Street. 042
Reposted by Alice MarplesBSECS @bsecs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Submissions are welcome for the London Topographical Society's Anne Saunders Prize: £1,000 for an original & unpublished research essay on the topography, development, or buildings of #London in any period. Details here: londontopsoc.org/about-us/ann... #skystorians 🗃️londontopsoc.orgAnn Saunders essay prize - London Topographical Society 0913
Reposted by Alice MarplesMargot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Webinar Free for registered readers Wednesday 11 November 2026 · 10.00–11.30 UK time · streamed on this page UKRI, transformed www.researchagenda.news/events.htmlresearchagenda.newsUKRI, transformed – a Research Agenda webinarWednesday 11 November 2026, 10.00–11.30. Four new buckets, whole budget lines ripped up, an industrial strategy to wrestle with: ninety minutes on a year of enormous change at UKRI. Streamed here, fre... 012
Alice Marples @alicemarples.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Unexpectedly felled by the current London cold, which is a doozie. Be careful out there. 000
Reposted by Alice MarplesMarie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 24/09/2026it saddens me that Taylor Swift has a new song coming out, I think that we, as free people, should be allowed to spend more than 17 minutes at a time without being made to think about Taylor Swift, her last tour lasted for 85 years, can she not rest for a little while longer 3932613
Reposted by Alice MarplesAnna Cusack @annacusack.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Just a PSA: the RNLI website has some great Christmas items up... cards, decorations, gifts, etc. 100% of the profits from these items go towards supporting RNLI lifeboat crews and their search and rescue services. 12815
Reposted by Alice MarplesDr Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull (He/They) 🏳️🌈 @benwt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Brilliant time yesterday at @awickenden.bsky.social and @oldfortunatus.bsky.social ‘s “Politics of Rare Books” event @crasshlive.bsky.social talking about/connecting with people working across all things rare books and colonial provenance with academics and librarians. 1143
Reposted by Alice MarplesRoyal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 22/09/2026Join us online at 1pm on Thursday (24th Sept) for 'Historical Context: The Climate Crisis' bit.ly/3V4lgKf With panellists @dagomardegroot.bsky.social, @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social and @ellydezateux.bsky.social. How does historical expertise help us understand the world today? All welcome #Skystoriansbit.lyHistorical Context: The Climate CrisisA panel discussion, hosted by the Royal Historical Society, in which expert historical researchers provide context for current events. 02225
Reposted by Alice MarplesBritish Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social · 22/09/2026We’re delighted to announce Dr Paul Bate as the British Library’s new Chief Executive Joining us from the UK Space Agency, Paul brings experience supporting world-class research communities. We look forward to welcoming his expertise at the Library. Read the full announcement here link.bl.uk/fc6 13813
Reposted by Alice MarplesCatherine Fletcher @catherinefletcher.info · 12/08/2026My university (Manchester Met) is inviting expressions of interest for Leverhulme postdocs. If you have an innovative early modern European and/or public history project to put forward, please get in touch. Deadline for completed EOIs is 9 October.leverhulme.ac.ukEarly Career Fellowships | The Leverhulme Trust 02326
Reposted by Alice MarplesMargot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026We really need a comprehensive (government funding bodies, charitable funders, universities, learned societies and ECRs) summit and plan for maintaining postdoctoral pipelines AND not letting the crises simply re-inscribe extant inequalities in the system. 0626
Reposted by Alice Marpleswill pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 21/09/2026applications TRIPLED within 5 years 1226
Reposted by Alice MarplesDr Eleanor Shaw @eleanorshaw.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Fancy coming to work with me at the British Library? Part time for 18 months, collecting oral histories about covid and thinking about covid commemoration. www.nationalmuseums.org.uk/jobs/job/228...nationalmuseums.org.ukJobs - National Museum Directors' Council WebsiteAssociation of directors and chief executives of the UK's national museums, galleries, libraries and archives. 512099
Reposted by Alice MarplesRebecca Whiteley @rebeccawhiteley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Anyone who is interested in Material Culture and the Medical Humanities should definitely come and join our new Collective! medhumsplatform.org/call-for-col... @annafranjam.bsky.social @harrietbarratt.bsky.social @drfijohnstone.bsky.socialmedhumsplatform.orgCall for collaborators – launching the Material Medical Humanities Collective | The Platform 0119
Alice Marples @alicemarples.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Yesterday, I got to say 'piss-pot prophets' on telly. Being a historian is good, isn't it? 010
Reposted by Alice MarplesDeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Leading a creative writing workshop on Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726) in Special Collections at Kent, writing objects and subjects big and small. Wed 28 Oct, 2pm until 4pm, Templeman Library. Email D.kavanagh@kent.ac.uk to reserve a place. #CreativeWriting #GulliversTravels 11610
Reposted by Alice MarplesPrem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 14/09/2026The state we are in. 7.28m hospital appointments awaited. 4m waiting for a social home. Universities in financial crisis. Rivers polluted with sewage. Half of schools unfit for use. Manufacturing declined from 30.1% of economic output in 1970 to 8.5% by 2026. Must abandon neoliberalism.leftfootforward.orgHere’s how the chancellor can raise the billions needed to improve the quality of life of millionsPrem Sikka is an Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of Essex and the University of Sheffield, a Labour member of the House of Lords, and Contributing Editor at Left Foot Forward. Mi... 27374172
Reposted by Alice MarplesBrian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Building the Angel of the North, 1998, photo by Trevor Ermel. 320642
Reposted by Alice MarplesLaura Cleaver @laurajcleaver.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Marking the 350th anniversary of the oldest English book auction catalogue, this year’s book trade history conference returns to the theme of auctions. 🧑⚖️ 📚 London 22-23 November, book now at www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...sas.ac.uk47th Annual Conference on Book Trade History | Battling Over Books: Auction Catalogues and Their Contexts, 1676-2026 11712
Reposted by Alice MarplesRoyal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 11/09/2026Applications now invited for the Society's next round of research funding: for Postgraduates, studying for a PhD, and Early Career Historians, within 5 years of completing a doctorate: bit.ly/4ywZi0S Grants of £500-£1000 to pursue research. Closing date 4 December 2026 #Skystorians 1/2bit.lyCalls for research funding from the Royal Historical Society: December 2026 deadlines - RHSThe Society invites applications for the following three schemes — open to historians at a range of career stages — with closing dates from 4 December 2026. Postgraduate Research Support Grants, 2026-... 23650
Reposted by Alice MarplesDee Lomas @deelomas.bsky.social · 11/09/2026The RNLI volunteer has told us that donations usually run at £20,000 per day. Currently running at £100,000 per day! Bloody brilliant! 892845742
Reposted by Alice MarplesRachel Moss @menysnoweballes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Excited to share my @britishacademy.bsky.social event in collaboration with @wienerlibrary.bsky.social - www.northampton.ac.uk/research-blo... 🗃️ Please share!northampton.ac.ukCFP: Far-Right Archives in the Digital Age | UONWiener Holocaust Library, London. Friday 27 November 2026, 10.30am-4pm Improved digital access to far-right material at archives, libraries, and beyond... 0108
Alice Marples @alicemarples.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Can I recommend Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed during these troubled times? Rereading it now and I can almost literally feel the strength returning to my body. 100
Reposted by Alice MarplesBen Mechen @benmechen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I should say here that the BL are looking for EOIs from academics who might come on board as supervisors for projects like this one 032
Reposted by Alice MarplesThe Royal Society @royalsociety.org · 09/09/2026Are you an early career researcher in the history of science? The Lisa Jardine Grant Scheme is now open for applications, giving early career scholars the opportunity to exploit history of science collections in support of their research. Find out more and apply now: royalsociety.org/grants/lisa-... 245
Reposted by Alice MarplesLucy Snow @lucysnowy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Last week, I had the pleasure of attending the BSECS PGR/ECR conference in Montpellier, and presenting a paper entitled ''Your long detention of a parcel of old musty Parchments': Stagnant Collaboration in Acquisitions to the Harleian Collection'. It was great meeting so many like-minded academics! 011
Reposted by Alice MarplesCatherine Angerson @sonofanger.bsky.social · 09/09/2026@susanreed.bsky.social and I are looking for academic co-supervisors for a collaborative PhD project on the German friendship albums (alba amicorum/ Stammbücher) at the British Library. Please share with anyone who might be interested! Details on the website: www.bl.uk/services/res... 144
Reposted by Alice MarplesKirsty Finn @kirsty-finn-mcr.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Really good piece. We wrote something similar ish about institutional belonging work in HE. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....tandfonline.comThe contemporary contradictions of belonging in higher education: successful transitions in times of crisisEducational transitions have way-markers and objective milestones as students enter, move through and exit institutional spaces within a normative timeframe. Increasingly, however, scholarship has ... 0126
Reposted by Alice MarplesAlice Marples @alicemarples.bsky.social · 08/09/2026See below for collaborative project outlines inviting UK PhD supervisor proposals - deadline is 27 Nov 2026. Happy to answer any queries and please do repost/pass on to all interested parties! 016
Alice Marples @alicemarples.bsky.social · 08/09/2026See below for collaborative project outlines inviting UK PhD supervisor proposals - deadline is 27 Nov 2026. Happy to answer any queries and please do repost/pass on to all interested parties! 016
Alice Marples @alicemarples.bsky.social · 08/09/2026@britishlibrary.bsky.social were grateful to receive a large allocation of studentships as part of the AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Landscape Award scheme. We have 4 exciting new studentships starting in Oct 2027 - 3 are now open for prospective HEI supervisor proposals! www.bl.uk/services/res...bl.ukCollaborative Doctoral Landscape AwardsFully-funded and jointly supervised studentships across four developing research areas. 22225
Reposted by Alice MarplesInstitute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Are you starting a PhD this academic year in history &/or a history-related discipline? If so, join us on 7 Oct for this fantastic Workshop for New Research Students. Learn more about the range of resources we offer to help you in your research journey. @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social shorturl.at/ymJprhistory.ac.ukIHR Workshop for New Research Students in History | 2026IHR Research Training 01517
Reposted by Alice MarplesMargot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 07/09/2026It's (almost) that time of year again: Inaugural Lectures season is nearly upon us. What better way to tip ones toes back in the water that Prof Simon Werrett's 'At Length did Cross an Albatross: Science and Seabirds in the Eighteenth Century'. Free and open to the public, 21 October. #Skystoriansucl.ac.ukSTS Inaugural Lecture Series: Professor Simon Werrett“At Length did Cross an Albatross”: Science and Seabirds in the Eighteenth Century 1179
Reposted by Alice MarplesGareth Millward @millieqed.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I've also received solicitations to write for journals (real) from people (also real), but which are "off" like this here. The first time was quite convincing, and it was only the fact it had been flagged by spam and the domain of the address wasn't the official one that tipped me off. 163
Reposted by Alice MarplesJess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 03/09/2026As someone who has been tweeted about personally by Rowling. And who spends my whole life trying to fight the damage caused by the litigation she funds. I think, personally, I would be less harmed by you giving me an actual kick in the ribs than watching the new Harry Potter & trying to justify it. 440671243
Reposted by Alice MarplesInstitute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Sign up now for our 2026-27 IHR short courses, including: 19 Nov Sources to Data: Excel and Alternatives for Historians w/ @justincolson.bsky.social 27 Nov Masterclass in Public Speaking and Presentation Skills for Historians 8-11 Dec Databases for Historians Info: www.history.ac.uk/study-traini...history.ac.ukResearch Training and Short CoursesWe deliver high-quality training programmes and unique learning opportunities to a wide community of historians of all career stages and historical interests. 055
Reposted by Alice MarplesCreative Manchester @uomcreativemcr.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Creative Manchester has appointed Professor Ana Carden-Coyne as Academic Research Lead for our new Activating Collections Research Theme to explore how our archives can inspire new research, partnerships and collaboration. Read more: ow.ly/Qpvw50ZHG78 School of Arts, Languages and Cultures 002
Reposted by Alice MarplesManchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 01/09/2026In today's blog, Kélina Gotman reflects on social media, public life, Hannah Arendt's 'dark times', and why thoughtful living may be more necessary than ever, manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2026/09... 001
Reposted by Alice MarplesGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Officially, the water industry in England is regulated. Practically, it's unregulated. There's no difference between what it does under the eye of the Environment Agency and what it would do if the EA did not exist. The EA is completely useless, by design. www.theguardian.com/business/202...theguardian.comDry weather sewage discharges soar as water companies face scrutinyExclusive: 7,280 suspected illegal spills in rivers and sea recorded in first five months of 2026 9824421018
Alice Marples @alicemarples.bsky.social · 30/08/2026"it's the scrag-end of the summer holidays" Just heard someone say this on telly and am unreasonably delighted. 010
Reposted by Alice MarplesSooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Tim. Fucking. Curry. I've said it before and I'll say it again...he played every single role like it was the role he'd been waiting his entire life to play. Brilliant and weird and sexy and hilarious. There'll never be another. RIP to a true (see pic) legend. 0637138