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Dr Gillian Jack

@drgillhistory.bsky.social
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Historian of women in late medieval/early mod Italy. Open University. Feminist. UCUCommons & NEC. She/her. Strong words; weak tea. Book out in October: uolpress.co.uk/book/prostitution-re…

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Dr Jo Edge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Today: rain, prepping for my London Archives talk on 21 October. Come along! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/evening-ta...
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Evening Talk: Witchcraft, Necromancy, Politics -Eleanor Cobham’s 1441 Trial
Eleanor Cobham faced trial in 1441 for plotting against Henry VI with occult methods. Explore the crime, the people and the places.
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Dr Matilda Fitzmaurice @matildaf.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Cracker of a newsletter from us this week! If you don't already, why not subscribe? #UKHE #UCU
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Lisa Rullsenberg @rullsenberg.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Featuring our @uonucu.bsky.social rally from last week ❤️ we stand together
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Dr Gillian Jack @drgillhistory.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
How else are we going to fill senior management?
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Owen Davies @odavies9.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The contemporary blight of journalistic inclusivity pieces - the "we all love", "we all do this now". No we don't. It's a plague of lazy journalistic "opinion". Reading historic newspapers is my job, & never have newspapers been so poor on actual news as today. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Preppers used to be ridiculed – but we’re all stockpiling now | Zoe Williams
The UK government urging households to prepare for unknown threats with a three-day supply of food and water doesn’t feel like an overreaction, writes Zoe Williams. But is there a bigger plan to go wi...
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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
You guys want to hear a short but adorable story that happened right in front of me at the baggage claim in NYC yesterday? I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it.
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Dr. Barry Torch @barrytorch.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I will always feel weird doing self promotion, but my latest article has been officially published in "Renaissance and Reformation/Renaissance et Reforme," titled "Jockeying for Printed Reputation: Giovanni Bussi and the Apuleius of 1469." jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/re...
A screenshot of a journal article page titled “Jockeying for Printed Reputation: Giovanni Bussi and the Apuleius of 1469,” by Barry Torch, with an abstract in English and Italian, followed by the section heading “Premise” and the opening paragraph. The page is from Renaissance and Reformation, Winter 2026.
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 01/10/2026
Published later this month: the next title in the Society's 'New Historical Perspectives' book series for early career historians: 'Prostitution, Repentance and Social Welfare in Renaissance Florence', by Gillian Jack bit.ly/4gY9IQ7 Available in print and Open Access from 15 October. #Skystorians
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Prostitution, Repentance and Social Welfare in Renaissance Florence - University of London Press
From the fourteenth century, prostitutes in Florence were encouraged to leave their profession and spend their lives in repentance at the monastery of Sant’Elisabetta delle Convertite. Many did over i...
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Kristian Kiehling @kristiankiehling.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Headline of the weekend
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Dr Victoria Bateman @vnbateman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Want #Economica 📗 for just 99p on Kindle (UK) or £3.99 on audible (UK)? If so, now is the time to splurge. Limited time offer before it returns to full price. #womenwealthpower @headlinebooks.bsky.social
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Nicholas Scott Baker @renhistorian.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"There are no iron laws of history and it teaches no easy lessons either. There is no algorithm that will do this job of choosing for us, in fact, to relinquish this burden of historical choosing is to give up on the profession of history itself." Essential reading.
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Prof Laurie Stras @lauriestras.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
HUGE congratulations to @drgillhistory.bsky.social Cannot wait to read this.
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Dr Amanda McVitty @dramandamcvitty.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
It’s been a few years since I’ve written anything on prostitution in medieval Europe, so I’m excited to catch up on the latest research. This one’s going straight to the top of my TBR pile! 📚 Love that it’s open access, too.
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Dr Jo Edge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
UCU's Anticasualisation Committee's webinar on Equalities and Casualisation is TODAY, running twice at 12.30pm and 5pm. Details on this page (scroll down): do register for one of the two sessions if you can make it! #UCU www.ucu.org.uk/acc
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Anti-casualisation committee
Representing all casually employed staff and fighting the exploitation of casual contracts throughout FE, HE, ACE and prisons.
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Dr Gillian Jack @drgillhistory.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Another fortnightly update, this time with especially good news about Maddie's NEC election! #ucu
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UCU Commons @ucucommons.org · 22/09/2026
The first episode of UCU's podcast has dropped! Featuring our very own @markpendleton.bsky.social ! Links to listen are in the original post.
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 22/09/2026
In our latest branch solidarity update video, UCU vice president Mark Pendleton hears about the latest at @exeterucu.bsky.social ehere members are organising and fighting back against job cuts, high workload and poor management
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Dr Gillian Jack @drgillhistory.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Delighted about this! Madeleine is amazing so thrilled she'll be on NEC! 🎉🎉🎉
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 09/09/2026
Coming soon: latest title in the Society's 'New Historical Perspectives' book series for early career historians: 'Prostitution, Repentance and Social Welfare in Renaissance Florence', by Gillian Jack bit.ly/4gY9IQ7 Available in print and Open Access from 15 October. #Skystorians 1/2
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Prostitution, Repentance and Social Welfare in Renaissance Florence - University of London Press
From the fourteenth century, prostitutes in Florence were encouraged to leave their profession and spend their lives in repentance at the monastery of Sant’Elisabetta delle Convertite. Many did over i...
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 22/09/2026
Today at midday we are launching our new campaign #EducationItsOurs Check your emails for more information on how you can get involved.
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Dr Gillian Jack @drgillhistory.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Honest to god, I do not have time to have a cold just now.
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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Ditto 30,000 roles in universities in the past three years.
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Fixed that story about Sir Jim Ratcliffe on the BBC.
Picture of man smiling with tea-mug. Headline reads: "Non-Billionaire who actually lives in the UK and pays its taxes says he has lost confidence in the super-rich", with sub-header: 'One of Britain's taxpayers says he has lost confidence in billionaires, describing them as "on the take"".
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“Don’t bring a union rep” is one of those sentences that always means your employer is going you treat you with respect and dignity
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Dr Gillian Jack @drgillhistory.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
shocking behaviour from UoB senior management.
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Dr Jo Edge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Hi, #UCU. UCU's Anti-casualisation committee are running an Equality & Anticas webinar on 23rd September, at 12.30pm and 5pm. Come and hear from chair Ben Pope, and speakers Suzi Toole, Andy Ward and Kevin Daws. Links to register and more info in linked post. Please share and pass to contacts!
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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
erm. This sounds like a problem.
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Dr Gillian Jack @drgillhistory.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
As well as this, I have no training nor interest in 'employability'. I'm a historian not a careers advisor.
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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This is the essence of a University experience. If we continue to degrade it with workplace skill, AI and employability & all the other shite, we’ll be undermining the key reason students register in the first place. ‘Come study Early Modern History and enjoy 6 hours a week of work place skills’.
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Dr Gillian Jack @drgillhistory.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This is the last day to request a new ballot paper if yours went astray! #ucu
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Dr Gillian Jack @drgillhistory.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Lots of news this fortnight, and the academic year has hardly started!
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 08/09/2026
University of Cumbria staff are being told to give up their existing pension arrangements and move to a significantly less secure scheme. UCU general secretary Jo Grady: “A pension is deferred pay. Staff deserve security and dignity in retirement, not draconian threats from their employer.”
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University of Cumbria staff face 'fire and rehire' over pensions
The University and College Union (UCU) has warned that University of Cumbria staff could face the threat of 'fire and rehire' as the university begins a process to remove workers from the Local Govern...
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 07/09/2026
A very good question.
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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Hey, I’ve got a sector far more valuable than car manufacturing to the economy which has lost TENS of thousands of jobs and looks forecast to lose TENS of thousands more, just if any minister is interested…
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Dr Gillian Jack @drgillhistory.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Just doing completely normal things like making stickers for book promotion.
Three sets of stickers fanned out, showing the cover of a book with a painting of Mary Magdalene weeping on them.
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UCU Commons @ucucommons.org · 29/08/2026
Still lots of time to dig out your ballot for the #UCU NEC casual vacancy elections, fill it in and send it back! Deadline for receipt of all ballots 17 September. Not received your ballot? Request a replacement: yoursay.ucu.org.uk/s3/UCU-Casua... Our recommendations 👇👇👇
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Dr Gillian Jack @drgillhistory.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I'm on holiday but #UCU Commons is not! Fortnightly catch up here:
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Roses are redde Noble are the manatees For a bettir future Teach artes and humanityes
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Just as a matter of interest, *any* use of AI in scholarly writing is tantamount to plagiarism. You don’t know whose work the AI has trained on, so you can’t give them proper acknowledgment or make an appropriate citation.
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Dr Matilda Fitzmaurice @matildaf.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
It may be sleepy mid-August but there's lots happening in Commons, in UCU and in post-16 education. Plus the report from our first HEC of the new cycle. #UCU #UKHE
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Dr Gillian Jack @drgillhistory.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Fortnightly update on what Commons and #UCU more generally have been up to. In this newsletter, our recs for the NEC casual vacancies - election starting next Monday!
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Ewan Gibbs @ewangibbs.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
There's been a rumbling crisis building at Scottish and British universities for a couple of years now, including huge job losses, course and department closures and even threats to the future of institutions. It's staggering how little political attention it has received.
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Further update from the EHRC…
THE EHRO'S NEW CODE:
"EXPLAINED"
Don't check.
→
• Unless somebody complains.
Then you might need to check.
But there's no way to check.
Mary-Ann Stephenson
Chair, EHRC
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Dr Jo Edge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
TALK KLAXON: 21 October 2026, 5.30pm at the London Archives, Farringdon. I will be talking about: 'Witchcraft, Necromancy, and Politics: The 'Eleanor Cobham’ trial of 1441' £10 for tickts. Hope to see you there! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/evening-ta...
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Evening Talk: Witchcraft, Necromancy, Politics -Eleanor Cobham’s 1441 Trial
Eleanor Cobham faced trial in 1441 for plotting against Henry VI with occult methods. Explore the crime, the people and the places.
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Gerard Hynes @gerardhynes.com · 07/08/2026
Someone flew a flag in Eyre Square that was Palestinian on one side and the Progress Pride flag on the other and I love it because it will make the very worst people have absolute aneurysms.
Flag flying in Eyre Square, Galway. It is Palestinian on one side and progress Pride on the other.Flag flying in Eyre Square, Galway. It is Palestinian on one side and progress Pride on the other.
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James Butler @piercepenniless.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
This is an attempted lynching, which will be treated with much less seriousness then pensioners holding up Palestine Action placards.
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Dr Gillian Jack @drgillhistory.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I have finished and sent my index to the publisher. Is this the last thing I have to do on the book? Will it just magically appear, a physical object, in the post, in a couple of months? We can but hope.
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Mark Grimshaw @markgrimshawtism.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
It’s hard to think of a larger actual social contagion than the massive rise of numerous bigotries (racism, transphobia, ableism etc) amongst cishet, able-bodied, neurotypical, middle-age, middle-class white people within the last decade.
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Dr Gillian Jack @drgillhistory.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
There is 'social contagion' in evidence here, but it's not the young women using walking sticks, Kathleen.
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Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Generative AI is catnip to the men who miss female sycophants katemanne.substack.com/p/a-culture-...
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A Culture Hooked on Generative AI is a Culture that Misses Female Sycophants
And we have missed a central reason why AI is a feminist issue
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