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Toby Kunin @toby-kunin.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
That's a wrap on conference season! Very grateful for @biajs.bsky.social for the platform to talk all things Romani-Jewish histories, and for all who joined for an open dialogue on Postcolonial Studies and Jewish Studies, especially @bryan-cheyette.bsky.social and Laura Almagor as co-conspirators
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Dr Anna Hájková @ankahajkova.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Excellent crisp chairing by @bryan-cheyette.bsky.social
Prof Cheyette listening attentively
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Christine Schmidt @ceschmidt.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Honoured to share a panel with Jennifer Geddes, @pdavies.bsky.social @ankahajkova.bsky.social for @biajs.bsky.social! With special thanks to @bryan-cheyette.bsky.social for excellent chairing and to @ankahajkova.bsky.social for bringing us all together in smart conversation and solidarity.
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David Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Hats off to whoever created this.
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Dr Anna Hájková @ankahajkova.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Productive day of plotting Eastern European history takeover at St Andrews, hosted by the wonderful Bernhard Struck with @dacretu.bsky.social @svenjabethke.bsky.social & al
l to r: Roland Clark, Claire Morelon, Svenja Bethke, Anca Cretu, myself, Bernhard
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British and Irish Association for Jewish Studies @biajs.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
On Wednesday!
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Parkes Institute @parkesinstitute.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
This Wednesday, join Parkes Institute Honorary Fellow Bryan Cheyette in conversation with Becky Taylor on the displacement of Gypsy communities, with a focus on Janina Bauman's pioneering work on this subject. 🔗 More info and registration: baumaninstitute.leeds.ac.uk/events/how-d...
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How do you displace a Gypsy? Bauman Memorial Conversation 2 | The Bauman Institute
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bryan-cheyette.bsky.social @bryan-cheyette.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
@baumaninstitute.bsky.social baumaninstitute.leeds.ac.uk/events/how-d...
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How do you displace a Gypsy? Bauman Memorial Conversation 2 | The Bauman Institute
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bryan-cheyette.bsky.social @bryan-cheyette.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
baumaninstitute.leeds.ac.uk/events/how-d... So looking forward to speaking to Prof. Becky Taylor about this on Wednesday.
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How do you displace a Gypsy? Bauman Memorial Conversation 2 | The Bauman Institute
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
JB PRITZKER Could Be A Good Candidate For President........ ?
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bryan-cheyette.bsky.social @bryan-cheyette.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
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Organisers of antisemitism march defend move to invite Nigel Farage
Decision draws criticism from some British Jews who called for invitation to be withdrawn
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Literature Cambridge @litcamb.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Next in our Lectures for Peace: Alison Hennegan on Siegfried Sassoon: The Making of a War Poet? All income from our Lectures for Peace goes to peace and refugee charities. 7 March live online. www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/peace
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Parkes Institute @parkesinstitute.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Launching tomorrow! Visit God's House Tower to see a selection of art by Gerda Cohen 5-8 March. Join us on Friday to hear from curator and Parkes Outreach Fellow Maddie Walch at the Celebration Event! 🔗 godshousetower.org.uk/eventer/memo...
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Parkes Institute @parkesinstitute.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Join us for our upcoming lecture with Parkes Visiting Fellow Jonathan C. Kaplan-Wajselbaum, who will talk about 'The Schnorrer & the Parvenu: Jews, Tailoring & the Performance of Respectability'. 🗓️ Tues 10 March, 6pm GMT 📍 Avenue Campus & online Register 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/jews-tailo...
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Jews, Tailoring and the Performance of Respectability
Jonathan C. Kaplan-Wajselbaum - the Archives Lecture - The Schnorrer and the Parvenu: Jews, Tailoring and the Performance of Respectability
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Literature Cambridge @litcamb.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
If you have access to BBC radio, don’t miss the reading of Percival Everett’s powerful 2024 novel, James, on BBC Sounds. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/serie...
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BBC Sounds - James by Percival Everett - Available Episodes
Listen to the latest episodes of James by Percival Everett on BBC Sounds.
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Ben Davies @bendavies.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
The next instalment of #EnglishCreates is all about reading, beginning with @bobeaglestone.bsky.social @ies-sas.bsky.social @engmediacentre.bsky.social @englishassociation.bsky.social @rsliterature.bsky.social @literacy-trust.bsky.social @rbtownsend.bsky.social @barbarableiman.bsky.social
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British and Irish Association for Jewish Studies @biajs.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Deadline end of 29th May to submit for our Book Prize!!
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Nick Hubble @thehubble101.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
'The 2010s is the concluding volume of the Decades Series. Although novels will continue to be written and read in the UK, there are good reasons for thinking that future fiction written in Britain is unlikely to have the same cultural signification within national life as over the past century.'
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Nick Hubble @thehubble101.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
All seven volumes to date in the #MassObservation Critical Series @massobscritical.bsky.social are also currently at attractive prices in the @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social sale until Sunday @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social
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The Mass-Observation Critical Series: Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) - Bloomsbury
The Mass-Observation Critical Series pairs innovative interdisciplinary scholarship with rich archival materials from the original Mass-Observation movement and…
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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 13/02/2026
AI safety leader says 'world is in peril' and quits to study poetry www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Anthropic AI safety researcher quits with 'world in peril' warning
It comes in the same week an OpenAI researcher resigned amid concerns about its decision to start testing ChatGPT ads.
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Standing Together @standing-together.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Berlin, Brussels, Paris & Zurich, see you soon!! The fight is not over — we still have a lot of work to do. We’re coming to Europe to chat with you about this moment in Israel-Palestine and what we’re doing on the ground to fight for justice, equality and peace. Registration links 🔗⬇️
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Ben Gidley @bengidley.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Check out our new website! (Here’s the page for my project: liminalwater.uni-graz.at/en/projects/... )
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Claude McKay’s sojourn on the Thames dockside - Liminalwater
In Wayward maritime counterculture the Birkbeck team retrieve the London sojourn of Claude McKay, a bisexual Black Jamaican-born writer.
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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 31/01/2026
I am really disappointed that the new version of EThOS at the British Library (the service for getting PhD theses) will be metadata-only. I really think we should use such resources, even if they are not books. They are still contributions to knowledge. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/give-ph...
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‘Give PhD archive attention it deserves,’ British Library urged
Scholars criticise lack of progress on restoring repository of 600,000 PhD theses more than two years after it was felled by cyberattack
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Avert Your Eyes, Pamela Ganache! @pressfuturist.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Could Nazi cosplayer and all-round fascist Bovino be an antisemite? If only there had been some kind of sign.
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Dr C Weissenberg @drcweissenberg.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
In amongst the daily whiplash of US events - Anyone have a source for numbers detained / imprisoned so far - and numbers of people sent to another country?
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Dr Anna Hájková @ankahajkova.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
I am so grateful that Mark Pendleton is running as the next UCU VP (Higher Education). He is a dedicated, strategic, kind, and level headed union organizer; brilliant historian; and a dear friend. He will make a terrific vicepresident; please vote for him, all. ucucommons.org/about-mark/
Mark (left) and Anna (right) in front of the Housmans bookshop, smiling widely.
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British and Irish Association for Jewish Studies @biajs.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Deadline is 6pm today!!
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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 30/01/2026
Great, innovative use of KC Works: academic podcasts. Just uploaded: The Literary Encyclopedia Podcast, Episode One, De-cosifying Dickens works.hcommons.org/records/33yj...
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The Literary Encyclopedia Podcast, Episode One, De-cosifying Dickens
An occasional podcast from the online Literary Encyclopedia (www.litencyc.com) a non-profit, containing more than ten thousand entries.
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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 30/01/2026
More traditional but rigorous philosophical and close-reading approaches also, of course, welcome!
The cover to Contemporary Fiction, Celebrity Culture, and the Market for Modernism: Fictions of Celebrity. It shows a stylised version of The Thinker statue.
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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 30/01/2026
If you are considering writing and publishing a book on any aspect of contemporary writing: just a reminder that I am a series editor of the New Horizons in Contemporary Writing series at Bloomsbury. We'd love to have your submissions and books!
The front cover for Douglas Coupland’s Literature and Art: The Extreme Present. It shows a silhouetted face with colored pixellated blocks in front
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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 30/01/2026
Someone just sent me a picture of my book "Password" (a short foray into the philosophies and histories of passwords), in translation, in Lima!
A bookshelf, with my book displayed!
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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 30/01/2026
Big congratulations to @ellenforget.bsky.social, who has just, I see, won a fellowship from SHARP (The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing) for a project on “A History of Tactile Writing and Reading”!
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight www.cityam.com/the-british-...
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The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 29/01/2026
This is how to convert from a for-profit Big Deal to an equitable, but professionalised, diamond OA system! @theblochian.bsky.social and I dreamed of this scale when we launched @openlibhums.org Now, she has done it. Consortial funding, at scale. Now over to the library community to support it.
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Standing Together @standing-together.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
It’s about time
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Les Back @academicdiary.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Just finished writing a feature on Laurie Taylor @ 90 for a Sociological Review Magazine… what a life Laurie has led. Should be out in May. He is recording a new season of Thinking Allowed at the moment for BBC Radio 4. 28 years of putting socioligy on the airwaves. 👏👏👏
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Hartley Special Collections @hartleyspecialc.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
#OnThisDay in 1864 Israel Zangwill was born. A British author at the forefront of cultural Zionism during the 19th century, his work earned him the nickname the “Dickens of the Ghetto”. Find out more about his life and work in our blog buff.ly/ByNZFQU @parkesinstitute.bsky.social
Black and white photograph of Israel Zangwill. He has wavy dark hair. He is wearing wire framed glasses sat on his nose. He is wearing a suit jacket and silk cravat tied at the neck.
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Ben Doyle @bendoyle.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
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Sign the Petition
Hold a Parliamentary Debate on Palantir’s Role in UK Defence, Security & Public Services
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Ben Doyle @bendoyle.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Delighted to have a final jacket for @bloomsburylit.bsky.social 'Vonnegut's War'! A fetching £20/$27 jacketed hardback, it fuses biography with popular history & textual analysis, telling the story of the making of a modern classic and the writer that created it. www.bloomsbury.com/vonneguts-wa...
Image shows a jacket spread (front and back) for new book 'Vonnegut's War' by Susan Farrell. The front cover is a cartoonish image of a stickperson being beamed up by the icon of a UFO. This image is surrounded by icons of eyes. The back jacket contains endorsements from John Irving, Ken Kalfus and Suzanne McConnell.
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Dr C Weissenberg @drcweissenberg.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
A last post #HMD2026 Thank you to the crowd who turned out on a dark cold January night to hear about the Kitchener camp rescue in 1939 What a warm, interesting, friendly set of people It was nerve-wracking but I had a great evening with many thoughtful follow-ups. Thanks so much Pinner shul🙏
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Ben Doyle @bendoyle.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Also publishing in Aug (but you can order your paperback copy now): 'Black Feminist Theories', an amazing collection which brings together the most influential historical and contemporary thinkers across transnational contexts. Perfect for course use! www.bloomsbury.com/black-femini...
Image shows the jacket proof for 'Black Feminist Theories: Transnational Approaches'. Front cover has a green background with multicolour leaves edging it and an illustration of a Black figure in profile, wearing colourful dress. 

Back cover copy reads:
An innovative contribution to the field of Black Feminist Studies, this landmark collection brings together the most influential historical and contemporary thinkers in Black feminist theories across transnational contexts.

Featuring ground-breaking new work alongside canonical essays from key thinkers, this book adopts a truly global approach to its subject. In doing so, it looks beyond North America to showcase a diverse range of continents and perspectives. The collection includes not only standard academic essays, but also vital statements, interviews, manifestoes, and creative work, which transmit and embody Black feminist thought.

The book is broken up into five carefully curated sections:
- Black Feminist Foundations
- Statements and Manifestos
- Cultures and Aesthetics
- Bodies, Genders, and Sexualities
- Black Feminist Futures

Timely and important, this is an indispensable resource for students and scholars of Black Studies, Women & Gender Studies and Black Feminist Studies, as well as more generally to American Studies, African Studies, Caribbean Studies, and African Diaspora Studies.

A number of endorsements are also included from Amina Mama, Rhoda Reddock, Barbara Smith, and Beverly Guy-Sheftall.
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British and Irish Association for Jewish Studies @biajs.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
🏆 The 2026 BIAJS Book Prize competition is now open! We invite submissions focused on topics relating to the ancient and medieval periods for a prize of £1,000 to be announced at our July conference See eligibility details and how to submit here: bajsbulletin.wpcomstaging.com/2026/01/26/c...
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Correction: BIAJS Book Prize call
BIAJS Book Prize 2026 We are pleased to announce that the 2026 BIAJS Book Prize competition is now open. The book prize initiative was launched in 2018 to recognise and promote outstanding scholars…
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British and Irish Association for Jewish Studies @biajs.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Deadline is 15 Feb for abstracts for the next NGG of JHSE conference!
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Ben Gidley @bengidley.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Quite an honour to be one of the keynotes at Greenwich University’s #HolocaustMemorialDay event last night, in very grand surroundings. I spoke about how we can learn from antisemitism’s history to resist it, & how intergenerational learning & multidirectional solidarity can create safer communities
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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
The UK marks Holocaust Memorial Day each year on the 27th January, the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. 'Out of the depths' is a powerful memorial to the victims of the Holocaust. In June 1945, a team of researchers embarked on a remarkable project. [1/3]
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David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
'A private joke at the piulic's expense,' according to Stewart Lee. The second of Harry Hill's weekly online shows, with guest Nish Kumar. A light in these dark times. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ql4Q...
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The Harry Hill Show - Nish Kumar
YouTube video by HARRY HILL
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Ben Gidley @bengidley.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
On how Ernst Fraenkel’s 1930s theory of the Nazi Dual State illuminates the Trump regime’s campaign of violence in Minnesota Via @theunpopulist.net open.substack.com/pub/theunpop...
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In Trump's 'Dual State,' Dissenters Face Extrajudicial Executions, Loyalists Enjoy Protections
America's system of justice has fundamentally broken because the regime believes it can justify attacks on citizens via lies rather than in a court of law
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Parkes Institute @parkesinstitute.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
📢Last call to get tickets for Southampton's Holocaust and Genocide Memorial Day 2026 event tomorrow evening. To join us, sign up using the link below: 🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/southampto...
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Dr C Weissenberg @drcweissenberg.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Related… My father didn’t talk about the Holocaust that almost wiped out his family. But I knew there was something dreadful in his history. I used to watch films and documentaries in secret when parents were out, on the arm of a chair, ready to flick it off if they came home. ->
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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 23/01/2026
Happy Friday, all. I spent the last 15 mins writing a very personal blog post. It's ten years since I had a stroke. Glad to be here, still. Peace out. eve.gd/2026/01/23/i...
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It's been ten years...
Ten years ago, I had a bad cold. This was not unusual as I have hypogammaglobulinemia (which means an abnormally low concentration of gamma globulin in the b...
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