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Cassie Ulph @crulph.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A lot of toddler life is just wondering whether I am allowed another greyhound yet (I am not)

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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.

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Cassie Ulph @crulph.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This evening in the middle of her dinner (fish fingers, peas and potatoes) the toddler demanded her "phone" (an oblong plastic cutlery case with a cartoon lion face on), held it to her ear and said "hello, potato?", so frankly anything else that happens today can just pack up and go home

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Cassie Ulph @crulph.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Terrible dilemma because the toddler biting daddy's toes *is* in fact funny, and surely telling her it *isn't* is lying and thus setting a bad example? So morally speaking I think I am covered for laughing at that

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Cassie Ulph @crulph.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Sounds that don't wake my sleeping toddler 1) neighbouring car alarms 2) dramatic thunderclaps 3) loud music outside Sounds that do wake my sleeping toddler 1) the creak of my bra strap as I straighten up after putting her down in her cot 2) hot water hitting a teabag several rooms away 3) vibes

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

(standing in front of the "not getting a lot done" factory) i hope i get a lot done today

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Sophie Coulombeau @sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I was chuffed to be asked to write the entry for Mary Hamilton (1756-1816)in the Palgrave Encyclopaedia of Romantic-Era Women's Writing. Do check it out (or contact me) if you want a bang up to date overview of Hamilton's life, writing, & relevant scholarship. link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/...

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Mary Hamilton (1756–1816) was one of the most well-connected and highly cultured women in late eighteenth-century British polite society. She was a courtier, diarist, antiquarian, and active member of the Bluestocking circle. Although her writing was never published during her lifetime, she was a prolific writer in several genres. She kept detailed diaries of her daily life, social engagements, and travels, wrote probably thousands of letters to her friends and acquaintances, compiled manuscript books of poetry and prose, and made catalogues of the collections of her eminent friends. A careful archivist and antiquarian, she left behind a vast and valuable archive of over 3000 written items, which has recently been fully digitized as The Mary Hamilton Papers. Hamilton was a pivotal figure in the dynamic manuscript culture of the Bluestocking circle during the 1780s, and was herself a skilled life writer across a range of forms and media. In particular, her extant correspondence reveals a wily, adroit, and flexible epistolary artist, capable of adopting different voices, techniques, strategies and personae to achieve specific ends. In the past, her reputation as an author has suffered from a critical presumption that print publication is a prerequisite for literary significance. However, if we accept manuscript culture and life writing as crucial elements of the literary landscape of late eighteenth-century Britain, Mary Hamilton emerges as an important and often innovative figure whose achievements invite us to re-scope our understanding of literature itself.

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Cassie Ulph @crulph.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

#Northern #DH pals, come and join us in lovely LEEDS next April 🎉

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Cassie Ulph @crulph.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I have such strong feelings about the latest educonglomeration bollocks news re my former employer but mainly just really really sad for my wonderful ex colleagues who have been holding back the tide of anti-intellectual bullshit from on high, for the sake of the students, for years now

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Cassie Ulph @crulph.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Recovered from Hand Foot and Mouth just in time for the Noro to hit (while on holiday!) 💖 parenting

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Cassie Ulph @crulph.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Tomorrow I have to not only dress myself for a wedding in the heat but also a toddler (which means at least three outfits for when she gets covered in tomato/cottage cheese/unidentified green) and I'm thinking - maybe we are a mumu family now?

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Leeds University Library Galleries @lulgalleries.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Last chance to apply to become our Galleries Student Engagement Intern! 📢 If you love galleries, event planning, community building, and accessibility, this role could be for you.❤️🤝🌍🖼️ Applications close Sunday 9 August, for more information click here: jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

A photograph of a girl reading at a desk in a sunny library. Overlaid the text in pink reads: Hiring! We're looking for our next galleries student engagement intern.

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Jim Mussell @jimmussell.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

JOBS! We’re currently looking for two people to join us in the School of English @universityofleeds.bsky.social: Lecturer in Creative Writing jobs.leeds.ac.uk/AHCEN1086; Lecturer in English Language (with interests in DH) jobs.leeds.ac.uk/AHCEN1087 Both are FT ongoing appointments

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Cassie Ulph @crulph.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Feeling left out because you're missing the major disciplinary conference all your mates are at? Consider being woken up by a toddler at 5AM then answering a series of incomprehensible but very insistent questions to get that authentic sleep-deprived conference feel

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Cassie Ulph @crulph.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

It's ten years since the inaugural #BarsOfBARS so particularly sad that for the first time in *more than a decade* that I will be missing #BARS2026 💔 ...fellow dinosaurs, what is your fondest BARS memory? Mine: DIY hairbrush karaoke at Nottingham in 2019

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David Ibitson @arry-k-arry.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

My baseball caps: Unaffiliated tiger cap & Toronto BlueJays cap: left in childhood Isle of Wight cap: stolen by a Frenchman while playing petanque Italy cap: left at a Red Chilli Red Stripe cap: missing at Uni of Leeds open day Boston Red Sox 1: stolen by a Dublin gravedigger BRS 2: left on Eurostar

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Cassie Ulph @crulph.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Our toddler has two main interests currently and those are planes and cricket so congratulations to me on giving birth to a retired accountant anyway we're back at the airport cafe this morning

View from behind of man holding toddler, both with hats on, looking through a chain link fence towards and airstrip

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Cassie Ulph @crulph.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

When your GUI jumps around a lot and the "reply-all" and "report phishing" buttons on your email app are dangerously close together, you can really kick off some hilarious misunderstandings in the institutions you supply

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Cassie Ulph @crulph.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Failed to mark the boss's half birthday at the weekend because we were busy fulfilling her various demands, my favourite recurrent one of which is "mummy no help" which is more actual work for me than it sounds like. 18 months has passed in the blink of an eye!

View from behind of a toddler wearing checked green romper and sunhat, on a beach, carrying a disproportionately large bucket, surrounded by discarded trowels

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I respect France's commitment to not working on a holiday.

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Cassie Ulph @crulph.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Bastille day-ready! (aka the day the Easter decorations finally came down 🙃)

Interior of room with window and chimney-breast festooned with French flag bunting

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Cassie Ulph @crulph.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

@davidhiggins.bsky.social just checking you are aware of this bsky.app/profile/jert...

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Cassie Ulph @crulph.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Brilliant to see the Hamilton edition continue to grow and update, and a fascinating blog post from my wonderful former colleague David on how this iterative digital edition just *keeps* iterating!

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Unlocking The Mary Hamilton Papers @maryhamiltonpapers.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

The Mary Hamilton Papers is much refreshed: full details & blog on our project website. New transcriptions, improved personography, more x-refs, many corrections. A striking example is the letter HAM/1/9/116, whose interpretation, authors, recipients and places have all been revised! #18thC #langsky

Harriet Bandinel's humorous report of Anna Maria Clarke's behaviour in HAM/1/9/116

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Digital Medievalist @digitalmedievalist.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

🚨Last chance to join us for the DMSI 2026 at the @imc-leeds.bsky.social. Gain hands-on experience in #digital methods adapted to medieval texts and images. 📆Jul 10 2026 📍Leeds, UK ▶️ tinyurl.com/5cm6ymn7 And if you have already registered for the IMC, you can still add DMSI to your registration.

Flyer advertising the DMSI 2026 at Leeds IMC.

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Cassie Ulph @crulph.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

One of the highlights of my job is supporting great people who do great work. Delighted to see @ninawardleworth.bsky.social 's fabulous project on Colonial French Resistance fighters featured by @stbslam.bsky.social on @france24.com today! 🇫🇷 bsky.app/profile/stbs...

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Unlocking The Mary Hamilton Papers @maryhamiltonpapers.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

The online edition of the Mary Hamilton Papers is finally getting its long-expected major refresh on 5 June: numerous corrections to transcriptions and mark-up, revisions to person identifications and improved tooltips, plus about 100 items newly transcribed. Watch for announcement! #18thC #langsky

Example of tooltip for 'Miss Boyle' in HAM/1/15/1/20

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Cassie Ulph @crulph.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

If anyone wants to know my general WFH vibe, the child just pointed to the Gruffalo in her bedtime story and said "mummy!"

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Cassie Ulph @crulph.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

TIL you can turn off the terrible email nesting on new outlook and my working day improved 700%

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Alexander Huber @c18ah.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Excited to launch London Theatre, 1660–1800, an analysis and visualisation framework built on @londonstagedb.bsky.social: londontheatre.prisms.digital Explore a map of venues, theatrical calendar, repertoire, casts and roles, receipts, networks and more. #c18th #TheatreStudies #DigitalHumanities

Screenshot of the homepage of London Theatre, 1660–1800, at https://londontheatre.prisms.digital/

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Cassie Ulph @crulph.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Happy #DogsAtPollingStations day to all who celebrate. First one without this stinker. She would have wanted you all to vote!

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Cassie Ulph @crulph.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Special mention to the neighbour across the road who in defiance of today's torrential rain erected an awning and got the black and decker out on the front drive, kept company by a jolly dog, giving the toddler someone to wave at on a day otherwise starved of passers-by

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Cassie Ulph @crulph.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Who wants to join me in the new-version-of-Outlook-haters' support group?! 🤮 Begging everyone to stop "updating" things by making them worse

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Cassie Ulph @crulph.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Tfw your undergrad experience was traumatic but 20 years later still the comfiest hoodie you have ever owned

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Cassie Ulph @crulph.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

"so good to get into my comfies" I murmur to myself as I switch my daytime loose trouser and graphical tee for my nighttime loose trouser and graphical tee

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Cassie Ulph @crulph.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Home from our epic travels and immediately downloading a sound clip of the SNCF jingle because apparently it sends my child to sleep when played very loudly and repeatedly over a train station PA

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Cassie Ulph @crulph.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

So far packing includes 90% more books than necessary - so far, very much like my optimistic pre-baby packing, except the books are much shorter yet somehow heavier

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Cassie Ulph @crulph.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Psyching myself up to take the 14-month-old to Europe on the train. Any local knowledge of family friendly things to see/do/eat in Lille much appreciated! (She currently wants to walk everywhere and she is *not* fast ...except when running towards a hazard)

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Paid opportunity for PhD students and ECRs! The Elizabeth Montagu Correspondence Online (@montaguletters.bsky.social) 2026 Summer Internship Programme is open for applications. Deadline: 1st April 2026 More details on the blog: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6359

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Elizabeth Montagu Correspondence Online: Summer Internship Programme 2026 – BARS Blog

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Cassie Ulph @crulph.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

[gilet shorts and backwards cap boy to fellow gilet shorts and backwards cap boy] bro is that a new gilet #SpringOnCampus

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Cassie Ulph @crulph.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Took a load of dogface's belongings to donate to the greyhound trust. Leaving without a new pointy friend (because they probably wouldn't enjoy the toddler) broke my heart a bit. Even though I knew they wouldn't be her, the dogface-shaped hole just isn't getting any smaller

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Cassie Ulph @crulph.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Why doesn't outlook have 👎 as an auto reaction

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Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Let’s publish soon! 😉 🍻

The photo of a beer - Black Gate from Bristol Beer Factory - and crisps - Lancashire Sauce! - which started off our new phrase for a cheeky pint

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Cassie Ulph @crulph.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Autocorrect from @drbeard79.bsky.social that we need to publish soon (for "pub soon") and yes I will be using this as my new verb for going to the pub please and thankyou

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Cassie Ulph @crulph.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

#DH colleagues - does anyone know of live/participatory training courses in SNA softwares such as Gephi/nodeXL for humanities data, online or in person? Thinking summer schools, multi-day courses rather than brief intro @ukiedh.bsky.social

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Cassie Ulph @crulph.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Had a middle-aged panic about upper body strength specifically in relation to being able to pick up my child in future as an older parent so long story short I went bouldering and now I will be picking up NOTHING for approximately a week

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