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Diane Watt

@dianewatt.bsky.social
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Writer, academic, medievalist, queer

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Diane Watt @dianewatt.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Impressive mortsafe in the kirkyard of Old St Nicholas’s in Prestwick (Priest’s wick or dwelling place)
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Diane Watt @dianewatt.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Someone in @waterstones.bsky.social in Ayr has a sense of humour. These book cover posters adorn the walls of the women’s loo.
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Diane Watt @dianewatt.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
My review of a new biography of Marie Maitland has just been published in The Conversation. 'Douglas represents Maitland as [Anne] Lister’s sapphic forebear – an educated, intellectual and self-determining woman’. theconversation.com/the-16th-cen...
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The 16th century lesbian poet who could be Scotland’s answer to Gentleman Jack
Maitland was an educated, intellectual and self-determining woman and who found (and, sadly, lost) her big love.
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Diane Watt @dianewatt.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
My review of a new biography of Marie Maitland has just been published in The Conversation. 'Douglas represents Maitland as [Anne] Lister’s sapphic forebear – an educated, intellectual and self-determining woman’. theconversation.com/the-16th-cen...
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The 16th century lesbian poet who could be Scotland’s answer to Gentleman Jack
Maitland was an educated, intellectual and self-determining woman and who found (and, sadly, lost) her big love.
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Diane Watt @dianewatt.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Queer cafe in the Surrey countryside 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️
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Leonie V. Hicks @lvhicks.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
A very interesting Reuter lecture from @dianewatt.bsky.social on Margaret Paston. Good to think about Medieval stuff again.
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Cambridge University Press @universitypress.cambridge.org · 08/04/2026
Explore over 150 titles in our reference sale, including: 📗The Cambridge Global History of Fashion 📘Women and Medieval Literary Culture 📙The Great Gatsby Save 40% with our code REF40 🔗 cup.org/4sYmimX
Open book with text and images on a Cambridge blue background. A pair of glasses is resting above the book. Text reads, "Save 40% on selected Reference books.Cover of "The Cambridge Global History of Fashion" with four vintage-style painted portraits of a person in elaborate attire. Edited by Christopher Breward, Beverly Lemire, and Giorgio Riello.The image is a book cover for "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It features a burgundy background with the title and author's name in gold. The book is part of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald, edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli.Cover of the book titled "Women and Medieval Literary Culture: From the Early Middle Ages to the Fifteenth Century," edited by Corinne Saunders and Diane Watt. The cover features an artwork depicting a historical scene with two figures in medieval attire.
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Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Exclusive: Academic hiring at UK research-intensives falls 19 per cent in two years. Data obtained through freedom of information requests reveal impact of financial crisis on job opportunities. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
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Academic hiring at UK research-intensives falls 19 per cent in two years - Research Professional News
Data obtained through freedom of information requests reveal impact of financial crisis on job opportunities
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Diane Watt @dianewatt.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
‘Perhaps most damaging for the regulator meant to oversee freedom of speech, the accusation of bias in the process was also upheld‘ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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University of Sussex wins landmark free speech case against universities regulator
A record fine had been issued by the Office for Students over the university's trans and non-binary inclusion policy.
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Paul Langley @paullangley.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
University management spent £80 million on new building that wasn't needed (presently for sale at £14 million) and now decide 600 staff should go to 'save' £50 million. This is the math currently shaping future of UK HE. Staff paying the price for mismanagement. Govt looking the other way
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Diane Watt @dianewatt.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
I found this old notebook today. How it started v where it went.
Notes for a bookThe bookNew York Review of the book
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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
TIL: There's a whole network of databases named after the 12thC abbess and intellectual, Heloise! The network is devoted to gathering historical data on Europe's universities. If that isn't a legacy, I don't know what is! heloise.hypotheses.org #MedievalSky
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Atelier Héloïse | European Network on Digital Academic History
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The Warburg Institute @warburginstitute.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
We’re currently recruiting for a Project Cataloguer on a 1 year fixed-term contract to catalogue parts of our archives relating to our transfer from Hamburg to London in 1933. 35 hours per week £30,842 per annum Apply by 12 May 2026 Apply now ➡️ warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... #jobopportunity #UoL
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Rebecca Wynter @rebeccawynter.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Let's be clear: the destruction of universities is a political choice. It doesn't have to be like this. Sure, there are issues, some serious, but Ireland's universities aren't totally screwed, nor The Netherlands'. The UK government has made a choice - it is demolishing and incinerating education.
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South-East London for Europe (Selfe) @selfe.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Good news, but... ...can we now #RejoinEU as a whole? #Erasmus
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Diane Watt @dianewatt.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Yesterday I saw this beautiful butterfly and, in the evening, heard a skylark sing.
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Diane Watt @dianewatt.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Indeed www.ft.com/content/5032...
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Management consultants are ruining UK universities
Relentless off-the-peg commercial rewiring has undermined British higher education
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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Steen has managed in this article to mis analyse the gender pay gap- it’s not only the care issue, it’s a systemic gendered hierarchy which has existed forever.Even women without children are paid less than their male colleagues! Do better Ms Steen it’s just not about you,it’s the patriarchal system
'Gender pay gap' agenda a pointless contrivance that ignores the reality of women like me
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Constance Bantman @constancebantman.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Que fait l'exil à la famille (anarchiste), et comment les liens familiaux déterminent-ils en retour l'expérience de l'exil? Mes réponses dans ce podcast de la toujours brillante Romy Sanchez, dans le cadre du projet FAMEXIL. on.soundcloud.com/qZ8RdnzcimCN...
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FAMEXIL-ConstanceBantman
Constance Bantman, professeure à l'Universié du Surrey parle des sources des anarchistes français exilés à Londres, à la fin du XIXe siècle, et de ce qu'elles peuvent nous indiquer de la vie intime et
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Diane Watt @dianewatt.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Prospect Cottage pilgrimage
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Diane Watt @dianewatt.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Lamb House, Rye, home of Henry James
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The English Association @englishassociation.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
EVENT! Thinking Forwards: Collaboration | The Editing Women in the Archives Project (27 March,14:00 – 15:00) This Project aims to locate, collate, conserve & provide access to endangered women’s literary, lifestyle & art publications in Pakistan. englishassociation.ac.uk/thinking-for...
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Thinking Forwards: Collaboration | The Editing Women in the Archives Project (27 March 2026, 14:00 - 15:00) | The English Association
We support the teaching, learning, and enjoyment of English at all levels of education, from early years to further and higher education and beyond.
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The Guild of Medievalist Makers @guildmedmak.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
As the weather gets colder, warm the cockles of your creative-critical heart by reading our new Meet a Medievalist Maker blog post by @jamespaz.bsky.social, which is filled with fiery reflections on his 'ecocreative' process🔥 Read more by following the link below👇
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Meet a Medievalist Maker: James Paz — The Guild of Medievalist Makers
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Dr. Krista A. Milne @kmilne.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Please help spread the word #medievalsky! Funded PhD position on medieval literary and artistic representations of disability as part of a Vidi project I will be leading that is funded by the Dutch Research Council: www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/3592...
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PhD position on medieval representations of disability within the project DISMANTLE
Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS) invites applications for a PhD position on medieval representations of disability within the project DISMANTLE (1.0 fte, 4 years / 0.8 fte, 5 y...
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Elizabeth Boyle @thecelticist.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
"Academic writing is a form of thinking. It’s not the transcription of thoughts already completed, but a process of thinking itself."
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Art UK @artukdotorg.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Evelyn Dunbar was the only woman commissioned by the War Artists' Advisory Committee. Discover D in our A-Z of women artists 👉 artuk.org/discover/curations/an-a-z… 🧑‍🎨 Evelyn Mary Dunbar (1906–1960) 📸 Museum Wales
Six women bale hay with a red hay baling machine
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Diane Watt @dianewatt.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Research, old school style
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Diane Watt @dianewatt.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
The original Brigadoon
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Medievalist.net @medievalists.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
New Encyclopedia Highlights Medieval Women’s Writing Around the World www.medievalists.net/2026/02/new-... #medievalwomen #medievalstudies
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New Encyclopedia Highlights Medieval Women’s Writing Around the World - Medievalists.net
A major new reference work is aiming to reshape how medieval literature is taught and studied, by putting women’s writing—across Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia—at the centre of the story
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Diane Watt @dianewatt.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
There is something about a British pub …
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Institute for Medieval Studies Leeds @leedsims.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Really recommend!
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Laura Greenfield @lauragreenfield.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
What a joy to see our @rsliterature.bsky.social President Elif Shafak deliver the National Humanities Lecture at the School of Advanced Study @sas-news.bsky.social. A beautiful reflection on and defence of the long form of literature, and many other things too.
Elif Shafak on stage with a gold background and a pink banner saying The National Humanities lecture
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
I wish I believed academia was ready for co-written dissertations in the humanities. Yeah, dissertations, paired work (or bigger teams!) between people with true expertise in different arenas. The most obvious/urgent (IMO) is in languages, but there are many kinds of expertise that might work.
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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
BREAKING GOOD NEWS: Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office, BBC understands www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c7...
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Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office
It comes after Thames Valley Police said they were assessing a complaint over the alleged sharing of confidential material by the former prince with Jeffrey Epstein.
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Heike Bauer @heikebauer.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Great new work by @dianewatt.bsky.social and colleagues on a millennium of medieval women's writing from across the globe www.surrey.ac.uk/news/thousan...
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Thousand years of women's writing challenges assumptions about medieval literature | University of Surrey
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Diane Watt @dianewatt.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Great to see this story featured!
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Thousand years of women's writing challenges assumptions about medieval literature | University of Surrey
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Dr Anne E Bailey @anneebailey1.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
St Anne's holy well, Caversham (Berkshire). 📸2021
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🕸️👻 Dr Evilyn K🎃ch 👻🕸️ @evelynkoch.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
If you'd like to know more about the #earlymodern alchemy featured in #SmallProphets, have a look at this thread. Spoiler warning - please only have a look if you're acquainted with the whole premise of the series. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Two - Small Prophets
A mystical recipe in an old journal promises Michael Sleep the answers he longs for.
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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
...Sparta lost.
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Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
The other thing I've been thinking about that hoard - there was no opportunity, none at all, for the heritage community, the public to intervene to stop this. 1/4 #Archaeology #Detecting #Treasure www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Professor finds Iron Age coin hoard near Bury St Edmunds
Tom Licence says he feels a personal connection to the coins, which are to be auctioned.
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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Explosion of middle managers ‘ruining university life’ #Highered #edchat #AcademicSky #business www.timeshighereducation.com/news/explosi...
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Explosion of middle managers ‘ruining university life’
The gulf is growing between self-perpetuating middle management and the people who ‘produce the value’, Australian symposium hears
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Adam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
JOB! Come and be my colleague! Tutorial Fellow and Professor (or Associate Professor) of English Literature, ca. 1780–1914, at Balliol College, Oxford. Details: www.balliol.ox.ac.uk/balliol-peop...
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Tutorial Fellow and Professor (or Associate Professor) of
Tutorial Fellow and Professor (or Associate Professor) of Literature in English Balliol College, Oxford, and the Faculty of English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford are seeking to
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Rachel Moss @menysnoweballes.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Did you read all the way through your @royalhistsoc.org newsletter? If not you may have missed my CFP! royalhistsoc.org/calendar/nos...
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Nostalgia and Radical Politics, Past and Present - CALL FOR PAPERS - RHS
Nostalgia and Radical Politics, Past and Present Workshop - University of Northampton, 15 June 2026. Call for papers deadline - 22 February 2026. Nostalgia, defined most simply as a wistful or sentime...
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Heike Bauer @heikebauer.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Excited to share that Karen Hiestand & I have secured a 2nd Bloomsbury Doctoral Scholarship working across the Royal Veterinary College & Birkeck Humanities: When Should Pets Die? Mapping changing expectations around end-of-life care in UK veterinary practice bloomsbury.ac.uk/when-should-...
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When Should Pets Die? Mapping changing expectations around end-of-life care in UK veterinary practice
Principal Supervisor: Dr Karen Hiestand, Royal Veterinary College Co-Supervisor: Professor Heike Bauer, Birkbeck Project Description Is animal euthanasia a necessary treatment or a failure of care?…
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Diane Watt @dianewatt.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
An amazing opportunity!
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Diane Watt @dianewatt.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
AI generated! (Only kidding)
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Virginia Woolf book cover designs by her sister, artist Vanessa Bell ( 1920's - 30's) #WomensArt
Nine book covers with individual images for Virginia Woolf's novejs
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