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Hannah Scott

@drhannahlscott.bsky.social
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Researcher | France, history, popular culture, music, dance, theatre, book enthusiast | Embroiderer | Sewist

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Hannah Scott @drhannahlscott.bsky.social · 17h
Posting things that bring me joy from the Paris archives: day 3. A manual for hospital nurses, 1890: a lovely juxtaposition of hand-written additions about pharmaceutical doses on the inside cover, followed by the lingering shadow of pressed daisies and pansies on the next page.
Opening page of the self-teaching Manuel de l'Infirmiere Hospitaliere for hospital nurses, with the sepia-stained shadow where daises and pansies were once pressed between the pages. Inside cover of the nursing manual, with elegant hand-written notes on dosages and treatments.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“Clifton, where the university is historically based, sees 100 per cent of teenagers go on to higher education. In Hartcliffe, which is a post-war housing estate, white, poor, multi-generational, around 11 per cent of children go into higher education". (Marvin Rees)
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Bristol’s ‘gentrification’ needs academic answers, say ex-mayor
Marvin Rees says research-intensive universities must put professors to work on civic challenges caused by academic expansion
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Hannah Scott @drhannahlscott.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Posting things that bring me joy from the Paris archives: day 2. LOUD printed cottons from the 1850s-60s at the Bibliotheque Forney. Can you imagine how, umm, *striking* these would be over a whole dress?
A variety of samples cut from busy printed cottons with flowers, leaves, and grapes scattered across blue, brown and burgundy backgrounds.A variety of samples cut from busy printed cottons with flowers, leaves, and grapes scattered across blue, brown, terracotta, dark green and burgundy backgrounds.A variety of samples cut from busy printed cottons with tartan checks, flowers, leaves, and grapes scattered across blue, brown, terracotta, dark green and burgundy backgrounds.A variety of samples cut from busy printed cottons with flowers, leaves, grapes, and geometric patterns scattered across royal blue, brown, red, white, and burgundy backgrounds.
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Hannah Scott @drhannahlscott.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Posting things that bring me joy from the Paris archives: day 1. Beautiful hand embroidery at the Bibliotheque Forney, from 1750s-1800s.
Intricate hand embroidery of bunches of flowers and wheat, worked in faded gold silk, sequins, and gold work and on a deep blue textured velvet. Undated, but probably Napoleonic.Hand embroidery on cream silk using brightly coloured silk threads, in a variety of greens, blues, golds, ocre, red, brown and black, with winding branches of flowers, leaves, and berries. Mostly worked in satin stitch, long-and-short stitch, and French knots. Undated, but probably around 1750.
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Hannah Scott @drhannahlscott.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Let's take a moment to appreciate this delightful moment of 1750s whimsy: "The New Art of Painting in Cheese or Ramekins, invented to continue the laudable project of gradually finding ways of painting worse than the ones that already exist"
 L'Art nouveau de la peinture en fromage, ou en ramequin [Texte imprimé], inventée pour suivre le louable projet de trouver graduellement des fac̜ons de peindre inférieures à celles qui existent
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Hannah Scott @drhannahlscott.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Just had the most wonderful time teaching 19th-century soutache braid work at the Newcastle Discovery Museum’s Making at the Museum evening 😃 Such a great event and so many lovely visitors! @northeastmuseums.bsky.social
A table set up in the Discovery Museum 
for a sewing workshop with braid in a basket, fabric, and images of Victorian dresses and fashion plates.A clothes rail filled with 18th and 19th underpinnings including pocket paniers, crinoline cage and petticoats.
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Clare Hickman @drhick.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
@sshmedicine.bsky.social - one to promote for the health/environmental humanities folk 🗃️
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Rounding up some translations of Count Binface that have been appearing in foreign press 🇷🇴 Romanian: Contele Tomberonez 🇫🇷 French: Comte Tête-de-Poubelle (bin-head, more accurate than bin-face) 🇮🇹 Italian: Conte Faccia-da-Bidone 🇪🇸 Spanish: "un hombre con un cubo de basura en la cabeza" (!) Cont...
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 06/07/2026
Academics “examined the behaviour of mainstream large language models provided by Elon Musk’s xAI, Meta, Google, China’s Alibaba and France’s Mistral and found the introduction of bias happens even when the AI tool is instructed to preserve the original sense.”
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AI altering meaning of users’ drafts on issues from abortion to climate, study finds
Researchers say small changes in drafting could spread rapidly and create long-term shifts in public opinion
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
UK-based early career historian in need of up to £2,000 to complete a project? Deadline for the Royal Historical Society's scheme is 4 September: royalhistorical.smapply.io/prog/early_c...
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Early Career Fellowship Grants - RHS
The Society's Early Career Fellowship Grant scheme provides grants of £2,000, maximum, for discrete research projects lasting no more than six months. In 2026, two rounds of grants will be awarded by ...
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Kirsty Grainger @kirstygrainger.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
A new TOP FIVE has just dropped. The @ukri.org TOP FIVE shortest timescales from call opening to closing. And you won't believe the winner 👀
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Hannah Scott @drhannahlscott.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Just over 2 weeks to go for this fully-funded PhD on long 19th-century France - projects welcome on history, literature, culture, music, medical humanities, clothing and more.
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Hannah Scott @drhannahlscott.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Kiddo wanting to join in the historic costume fun = so much PINK
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Hannah Scott @drhannahlscott.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
What's that? A FULLY-FUNDED PhD studentship on Long 19th century France??? Come and study with me at Newcastle University from September 2026 - application deadline June 15th. Please circulate widely! www.ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate...
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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Recently, FamilySearch digitized and uploaded tons of microfilmed records, including many from 18th-century Massachsuetts. They're using some sort of AI to transcribe/summarize the handwritten documents. I've noticed that the AI strips out references to race and enslavement in 18thc documents.
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Hannah Scott @drhannahlscott.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Had a wonderful time at the Laing Gallery on Saturday running a sewing drop-in on 18th-century dress embellishments - and it was a delight watching my blank canvas dress turn into quite the statement outfit! ⭐
Plain calico 1760s dress on a dress mannequin in front of Joshua Reynolds's 1760s portrait of Elizabeth Riddell at the Laing Gallery in Newcastle.1760s-style calico dress now embellished with rosettes, cockades, bows, ruffles and trims contributed by members of the public to make their version of a dress fit for a portrait. Stands in front of Joshua Reynolds's 1760s portrait of Elizabeth Riddell at the Laing Gallery in Newcastle.Leaflet entitled 'What am I wearing?' describing dress choices in the Joseph Wright portrait of Miss Jane Monck at the Laing Gallery in Newcastle.Leaflet entitled 'What am I wearing?' describing dress choices in the Joshua Reynolds portrait of Mrs Elizabeth Riddell at the Laing Gallery in Newcastle.
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 07/05/2026
Applications are now invited for the Society's 2026 Funded Book Workshops - for historians currently writing a 2nd or 3rd monograph bit.ly/4uwep8C. Grants enable authors to hold a day workshop with upto 6 specialist readers to discuss a MS in detail before submission to a publisher #Skystorians
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Applications now invited for the Society's 2026 'Funded Book Workshops' for mid-career historians - RHS
The Society’s Funded Book Workshops Grants support historians, currently working on a second or third major research project, and which will lead to publication of a monograph. The Book Workshops enab...
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Some worrying figures here www.thetimes.com/article/d758...
But in the 2lst century, the creative industries have re-privileged, a return to the pre-war status quo. The closing of access today starts not with unpaid internships or university courses, but at school. Over the past 20 years, arts education has been downgraded in the state sector; in 2023, 41 per cent of state schools did not have any students sitting drama GCSEs, and 42 per cent had none doing music GCSEs, according to the Cultural Learning Alliance.
University applications now reflect this prioritisation. At four top universities — Oxford, Cambridge, King's College London and Bath - more than 50 per cent of students studying creative degrees come from upper middle-class households; for working-class students, the take-up is as low as 4-5 per cent, according to the Sutton Trust, a social mobility charity.
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Hannah Scott @drhannahlscott.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
So close to finishing my 'blank canvas' dress for the @northeastmuseums.bsky.social Late Shows at the Laing Gallery (May 9th); learn how to make some 18th cent. dress embellishments & help turn this into a community-made fashion artwork adorned in your beautiful creations. Free/no experience needed!
Plain, cream calico version of a 1760s dress hung on a red dress mannequin, with wide hips over pocket panniers, open dress over a fully petticoat, green stomacher, and elbow-length sleeves with a frilled cuff. Waiting to be adorned with your dress embellishments at the historic crafting workshop at the Laing Gallery on May 9th.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 09/04/2026
Consumers urged to ‘completely avoid’ UK-caught cod as population plunges
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Consumers urged to ‘completely avoid’ UK-caught cod as population plunges
Marine Conservation Society warns that fish numbers have reached dangerous point of decline Consumers should “completely avoid” buying UK-caught cod, the Marine Conservation Society (MCS) has said, as it warned that populations have reached a dangerous point of decline despite zero-catch recommendations. The MCS, an environmental charity, publishes a Good Fish Guide to help consumers and businesses make sustainable seafood choices. Continue reading...
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 08/04/2026
Doing a basic calculation using a chatbot instead of a calculator uses between 2.5 million and 62 million times more energy. And using chatbots for calculations is *extremely common* - the companies have marketed these systems as general purpose, everything-apps!
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Hannah Scott @drhannahlscott.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
This weekend mostly involved sewing ruffles…
A photo of a red dress mannequin with a handmade 1880s bustle with lots of ruffles
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Hannah Scott @drhannahlscott.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Happy to see this Special Issue out in the world - Cultural Histories of Medicine & Health in the Long 19th Century - edited by Larry Duffy & myself @uksdn.bsky.social Great contributions from Jacob Meister, Kaat Wils, Sun-Young Park, Kathryn Bryan & Aine Larkin with several chapters open access!
Special issue: Cultural Histories of Medicine & Health in the Long 19th Century - issue 29:4, Winter 2025.
Edited by Larry Duffy and Hannah Scott.

Jacob Meister, Vidangeant la ville insalubre: Literary Recycling in Sketches of Montfaucon
Kaat Wils, Catholic Engagement with Animal Magnetism, Spiritism and Therapeutic Hypnotism in Nineteenth-Century Belgium
Sun-Young Park, Forming the Deaf Citizen in Third Republic France: Health and Education at the Institut d’Asnières
Kathryn Bryan, ‘Les Avorteuses de Paris’: Abortion in the fin-de-siècle Press
Aine Larkin, Contested Medical Authority in Proust's À la Recherche du Temps Perdu
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
'Teaching-only staff at Sheffield Hallam University are set to be moved into a subsidiary firm, leaving research intensive scholars the only academics still being employed directly by the institution.' Utterly inequitable & betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of the teaching/research nexus. 1/3
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Sheffield Hallam restricts TPS access to REF academics only
Teaching staff at post-92 institution to be employed by subsidiary firm and lose right to access expensive pensions scheme
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Becca @beccalou.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Morning everyone. We are looking for carers/ parents who are artists or academics in arts, social sciences or humanities to take part in our survey. More info here: lncn.ac/care . Reposts and shares appreciated.
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Caregiving, Careers, and Precarity in the Arts and Humanities | University of Lincoln
Caregiving, Careers, and Precarity in the Arts and Humanities Ethics reference: 2025_21927 Eligibility If you are a caregiver of any gender or age in one of the following roles we would like to know more about your experience. Caregiving includes: Parenting of biological or adopted children Kinship care Providing unpaid care to a friend or...
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The London Archives @thelondonarchives.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
We have more Skills Training in Archival Research (STAR) workshops coming up! Join staff at The London Archives for a hands-on workshop designed to help postgrad students and researchers make the most of archival collections. 📍 The London Archives 📅 1 April + 3 June 🕛️ 1-4:30pm
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Skills Training in Archival Research (STAR) Workshop
Join us for a hands-on workshop designed to help postgraduate students and researchers make the most of archival collections.
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Durham Institute for Medical Humanities @durhamimh.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Can you 'hear' disease? What does it feel like to 'smell' sickness? We're excited to be hosting a one-day in-person workshop exploring sensory studies and medical humanities. 📅 Tue 24 Feb, 11am–4pm Book your free spot 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-senses...
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The Senses and Medical Humanities
A one-day workshop exploring sensory studies and medical humanities through short talks, creative activities, and networking.
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Society for the Study of Labour History @sslh.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
The Society for the Study of Labour History offers financial support for conferences and public events with a focus on labour history, broadly defined. Applications, for a maximum of £850 per event, are welcome at any time of year. sslh.org.uk/bursaries-gr...
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Grants
For conferences and public engagement The Society for the Study of Labour History offers financial support for conferences and public events with a focus on labour history. We take a broad view of …
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Kristof Smeyers @kristofsmeyers.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Hi everyone, I'm organising a conference in Leuven, 4-5 June, and you're all invited*! It's called 'Performing evil: the mediation and display of diabolic spectres 1700-2000' and here is the call for papers (get in touch if you'd like a pdf!). Please share widely! *to submit an abstract before 21/3
CALL FOR PAPERS: PERFORMING EVIL: the mediation and display of diabolic spectres, 1700-2000'. 4 & 5 June 2026, Leuven. 

This conference explores the tangled histories of supernatural, diabolic evil and all kinds of spectral apparitions in the last three centuries – Walter Scott’s ‘malignant and unhappy beings’. Specifically, it is interested in how and why ghosts, spirits and related apparitional phenomena were framed as diabolic, demonic or malign manifestations from the afterlife.

Diabolic connotations of ghosts and spirits did meaningful cultural work. They were mobilised to discredit ghost beliefs and spiritual practices, to delegitimise competing beliefs, or to invest doctrinal arguments with occult authority. They could also function as tools of scepticism and ridicule as well as triggers of wonder, fear and religiosity. Put differently, the nexus of ghosts and evil is deeply historical. And it was often articulated through performative means: in gestures and expressions of (dis)belief, in visual and textual representations, in séance rooms, on the stage and on the page. Emerging from this nexus are theatrical spirits of evil, staged, embodied, and made legible through mediation and display. In this sense, every ghost is a theatrical ghost. Through the focus on the construction and staging of diabolic spirits, this conference aims to develop a methodological framework for studying historical forms of occultism and demonology more broadly in terms of performance.Exploring how the relationship of spectrality and evil has shifted in shape over time and across different cultures, the conference invites contributions that can consider a wide range of historical actors – clerics, mediums, ghost-hunters, debunkers, necromancers, stage
performers, eyewitnesses.

This conference aims to study cultural intersections and interactions to arrive at a more granular understanding of discursive, practical and material connections between spirits and evil. At the same time this lens zooms out, making visible broader dynamics of knowledge construction in specific historical moments. How, for instance, did hauntings and possessions shape communities and audiences? How did religious or folkloric ideas about the devil inform spectral encounters?

We hope to bring together historians, art historians, theatre and literary scholars, folklorists and anthropologists from every stage in their career around the above questions. We welcome 20-minute papers on topics that include but are by no means limited to:
- making spectral evil visible: performance, arts, media, technologies, popular cultures
- making spectral evil invisible: popular and occult knowledge circulation
- performing (un)belief: practices and rhetoric, summoning and debunking on the stage (from popular stages to the lecture hall and the laboratory)
- materiality of spectres: the function of bodies and objects
- diabolic spirits and (intellectual, vernacular, theological, folkloric) ideas about morality, mortality and temporality
- occult performance and ‘cultural scripts’ of ghost encounters (from necromancy to poltergeists)
- affect and emotions: fear, grief, trauma… and hope

Send abstracts (c.250 words) and bios (c.100 words) to kristof.smeyers@kuleuven.be before 21 March 2026. Please do get in touch if you have any questions.
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Michael Brown @medhistoryman.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
@victorianhand.bsky.social is running a series of workshops exploring our hands as agents of making & mending in collaboration with the Quilters' Guild & @collegeofsurgeons.bsky.social. You can sign up for the QG workshops here with dates for the RCS to follow: www.eventbrite.com/cc/the-work-...
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The Work of Mending
The Work of Mending is a series of research-led, hands-on workshops exploring what hands do and what they mean across histories of making, repairing and caring.
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Dr Lucy Rycroft-Smith @ljrycroftsmith.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
I am delighted to announce that my new paper with @darrenmacey.bsky.social is now published, entitled 'All sizzle, no steak: AI tools are not able to act as credible knowledge brokers by summarising evidence in mathematics education' bsrlm.org.uk/wp-content/u...
A picture of the title and abstract of the research paper: All sizzle, no steak: AI tools are not able to act as credible knowledge brokers by
summarising evidence in mathematics education
Lucy Rycroft-Smith, Darren Macey
University of Cambridge
Current discourse around AI (artificial intelligence) tools suggest they can
offer users quick access to research evidence, with the goal of improving
our practice and policies in mathematics education. However, recent
evaluations suggest that AI often falls short of human capabilities in
accurately summarising complex information, raising questions about
trust, credibility, and reliability. In this paper, we investigate whether AI
tools are able to successfully perform the educational knowledge
brokering function of finding, selecting, and summarising research with
implications for practitioners. In particular, we ask if AI tools are able to
find research papers that actually exist (accuracy), are relevant to the
question (relevancy) and are able to interpret findings into useful,
actionable implications for practitioners (applicability). We find that
generally they are not, and even when they are, they do so in a way that is
so inconsistent as to be a serious threat to credibility.
Keywords: artificial intelligence; AI; knowledge brokering; large language
models; mathematics education
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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
For any PhD students working in Medical Humanities, check out the Medical Humanities summer school from @durhamimh.bsky.social medhumsplatform.org/medical-huma...
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Medical Humanities International PhD Summer School 2026
The Medical Humanities International Summer School is open for applications from PhD students.
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 16/01/2026
Applications are now invited for a new RHS programme for 2026, co-hosted with @ihr.bsky.social and @chalkefestival.bsky.social 'Pitch my Project' is for early career historians to present their research at the Chalke History Festival in June bit.ly/44kfUMM. Closing date: 6 February. #Skystorians
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Pitch my Project: an opportunity for early career historians to present their work at the Chalke History Festival 2026 - RHS
Have you ever wanted to share your research with a wide audience? Would you like to gain experience in public speaking, and be supported to develop imaginative ways to communicate your research to the...
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Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Job alert! Interested in a career in libraries? We're looking for our next Graduate Trainee Library Assistant to start in September 2026. A great introduction to the profession and a fascinating and friendly place to work. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPZ835/g...
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Graduate Trainee Library Assistant at University of London
Recruiting now: Graduate Trainee Library Assistant on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board
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SDN @uksdn.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Our ECR workshop will now take place on Friday 23rd Jan at 3pm! It is open to all SDN members. Join Professor Helen Abbott (Birmingham) and Dr Hannah Scott (Newcastle) who will discuss their experience of working outside the ivory tower and reaching a much broader audience.
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Seb Falk @sebfalk.com · 05/01/2026
JOB ALERT! 3-year postdoc at @girtoncollege.bsky.social - research anything you like in History, Archaeology or Anthropology in a wonderful, welcoming scholarly community. PLEASE SHARE! Closes 12 January www.girton.cam.ac.uk/job-vacancie...
Here's what it looked like on my return to work this morning - beautiful red brick gabled building of Girton's Hall, with a dusting of snow on the grass in front.
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Hannah Scott @drhannahlscott.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
A nice quick project for a long winter’s day - one MASSIVE petticoat
Photograph of handmade ruffled cotton lawn petticoat over my recent reproduction 1850s crinoline cage
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Dr Kat Rawling @katrawling.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
There's still time to submit your paper proposals for SSHM 2026 In/Out @universityofleeds.bsky.social Submission deadline: 11 Jan 2026 5.00pm GMT sshm.org/sshm-2026/ @historynerdess.bsky.social #HistMed #HistSTM
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SSHM 2026: In/Out
Location: University of Leeds Dates: 30 June to 3 July 2026 Submission Deadline: 5.00pm (GMT) 11th January 2026 Conference Co-Convenors: Dr Alexia Moncrieff & Dr Katherine Rawling Conference Co…
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 10/12/2025
We are pleased to launch today a new programme for early career researchers with @ihr.bsky.social & @chalkefestival.bsky.social 'Pitch my Project' is an opportunity for early career historians to present their research at the Chalke History Festival in 2026 bit.ly/44kfUMM Applications now invited.
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Pitch my Project: an opportunity for early career historians to present their work at the Chalke History Festival 2026 - RHS
Have you ever wanted to share your research with a wide audience? Would you like to gain experience in public speaking, and be supported to develop imaginative ways to communicate your research to the...
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Hannah Scott @drhannahlscott.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
200 years ago #OTD in 1825, the comic opera the Dame Blanche was 1st performed in Paris, in a mash-up of Walter Scott novels, with myriad lost heirs, ghostly ladies, dastardly stewards, and honest farmers. I spent November recreating Jenny’s dress from the show – here are some things I learned:
An 1825 print of Jenny Dickson's dress from the Dame Blanche, with ankle-length tartan skirt, large translucent white sleeves with tartan cuffs, white bodice with tartan ribbon details, a yellow-stripped sash and large feathered hat.Recreation of the Jenny dress on a dressmaker's mannequin
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Andrew WM Smith @smidbob.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
The CFP for the 2026 Society for the Study of French History conference has just been launched. Come join us in Groningen! frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/conference2/
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Conference2 – SSFH
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Hannah Scott @drhannahlscott.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Very happy to see our special issue on Song in Modern & Contemporary French Narrative out with Journal of Romance Studies @livunipress.bsky.social - co-edited with the magnificent, uplifting Jennifer Rushworth & with fascinating contributions on song in novels, translations, & autobiography ⬇️
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 20/11/2025
Applications are now invited for the Society's 2026-27 Centenary PhD Fellowships for early career historians completing a doctorate bit.ly/48pWB72 Fellowships provide support of £8500 per award for 6 months and are held jointly with @ihr.bsky.social. Closing date: 31 January 2026 #Skystorians
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Applications invited for the Society's Centenary PhD Fellowships, 2026-27 - RHS
Applications are now invited for the Royal Historical Society’s Centenary PhD Fellowships to support postgraduate historians to complete a doctorate. Two Fellowships, of six months each, are offered f...
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Nicki Hitchcott @nickihitchcott.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
When is this going to stop? Save Modern Languages at the University of Leicester 👇
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Hannah Scott @drhannahlscott.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Levelling up the dressing up
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Hannah Scott @drhannahlscott.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Looking forward to taking part in this session on impact and engagement this Friday with @drhelenmckelvey.bsky.social and Helen Abbott ⬇️
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SDN @uksdn.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Just a reminder that Friday’s session on impact is open to all of our members. If you are not a member, but would like to become one, you can sign up here: uksdn.co.uk/membership/
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MEMBERSHIP
SDN Membership Advantages Amongst the benefits of membership of SDN are free access to the Dix-Neuf journal and voting rights at the Society’s AGM. Membership entitles ECR members to submit publish…
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
'people who are multilingual are half as likely to show signs of accelerated biological ageing than are those who speak just one language.' Good thing that schools, universities and governments are so actively promoting modern languages then, isn't it? 1/2
nature.com
Want a younger brain? Learn another language
A vast study suggests that being multilingual can slow down cognitive ageing.
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Hannah Scott @drhannahlscott.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Senior management’s left hand: you must provide a skills-based, employability-focused education! Senior management’s right hand: hey, let’s axe languages lads
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