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Dr Scarlett Butchers @scarlettbutchers1.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I'm looking to chat to any PhDs who are doing/have done some tutoring to find out more about it. Please comment or DM!

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Univ. Portsmouth History @uophistory.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Thrilled to be the top-ranked History course in the South in today's Guardian league tables @theguardian.com

Image shows our Open Day subject stand with admissions lead, Lee

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Sarah Wise @misssarahwise.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Online + in person I’m giving 2 talks for the Society of Genealogists on Tue 22 Sept as part of their ‘Poor London’ week of events. 1)All about the Old Nichol area, East London 2)‘Pauper emigration’ to Canada1869-1904 – children packed off for a life of exploitation portal.sog.org.uk/Event/view/1...

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Roger Luckhurst @theprofrog.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Day conference on Conan Doyle and the Orient comin’ up

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Conan Doyle’s Orient

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Sara Zadrozny @drsarazadrozny.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Summer school teaching for the next three weeks and husband has just sent me a video of two black cats, to check which one is ours. The answer is neither. This bodes well.

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Charlotte Boyce @c19thceleb.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Happening soon! If you’re at #RSVP2026 come and join us at Panel 4E to hear about mediated memories of the Irish Famine!

A PowerPoint slide titled ‘Hunger, Memory and Masculinity in the Post-Famine Fiction of The Irish-American’.

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Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Hello all it’s mid week and I’m stuck in the same hospital bed as at the weekend - tell me news I have missed! Kevin Keegan is dead? Mitch McConnell is still schrodingers senator? There’s some kind of hopping raccoon? Personal news and pet pictures welcome

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Sarah Bull @sarahebull.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Hey, pals, do any of you know of a great recipe for a vegan, nut-free cake that could be a hit at a kid's birthday party? I bake one every year for my kid's birthday b/c guest allergies, but I haven't found a recipe that the kids have really loved (there seem to be lots of great recipes for +

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Sara Zadrozny @drsarazadrozny.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

My mobile phone provider cannot talk to me by phone. How did we get here?

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Factory Gothic / Bridget Marshall @factorygothic.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Do you teach courses or modules on the Gothic? @jendeavour.bsky.social and I would love to hear from you for an edited collection we're developing: New Approaches to #Teaching the #Gothic! Full info here: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/07/... Message or email us with queries or proposals!

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Simpsons: Homer and Bart Say 'Join Us'

Alt: A Simpsons gif in which Bart and Homer are sitting on a couch and Homer is patting the seat beside him saying 'Join Us'

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Kristof Smeyers @kristofsmeyers.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

the other editors can't make it so it'll be just me but I'll try and adequately perform some magnetism for y'all next week

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

With immeasurable sadness I must announce that Napoleon, our best boy, went missing a few nights back. if you see a small black kitty with two white toes around Boundary/Markhouse roads in #walthamstow do DM me. if i post no photos of him anymore, this will be why. he was my very best boy 💔

my beautiful black kitty, with white belly patches and two white toes, stretched out asleep in happier times.

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Dani Garavelli @danigaravelli.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Do any of my journalist friends - or indeed anyone else - have any good, helpful journalistic contacts in Florence or thereabouts? Have hit a brick wall with something that I really need to sort out soon. Thank you.

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Sarah Wise @misssarahwise.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Hello Hive Mind, could do with some niche advice. Would any organisation, or individual, find useful about 20 or so medical volumes, mid-1950s to mid-1980s used by a relative who worked as a GP. Want them to go to a good home if poss. I know they're out of date but might be of interest to someone

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

This petition needs as many signatories as the Exeter one. Please sign and share — don’t let Hertfordshire managers get away with this just because a Russell Group one took the spotlight. #UKHE

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Sara Zadrozny @drsarazadrozny.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Marking all day today and I have come to reflect that overly-caffeinated may be my default setting.

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Dr Cath Feely @cathfeely.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

It's raining! I'm so happy!

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Chris Lintott @chrislintott.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Long shot, but if anyone in North #Oxford has lost a tortoise with a surprising turn of speed in the heat, do get in touch..

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Sara Zadrozny @drsarazadrozny.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Thunderstorms predicted in the next few hours 🤞

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 24/06/2026

15-Year-Old Girl: Fully visible 15-Year-Old Boy: In your face! 25-Year-Old Woman: Lookin’ good 25-Year-Old Man: Bro! 35-Year-Old Woman: Partially obscured 35-Year-Old Man: BRO!

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Human Visibility Scale

45-Year-Old Woman: Oops, sorry, I didn’t see you there 45-Year-Old Man: Loud and clear

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Ben Phillips @benphillips1989.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

A statement from Exeter UCU branch @ucu.org.uk - please share far and wide.

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Oxford Medical Humanities @oxmedhum.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Our ECR/DPhil workshop tomorrow (Thursday18)+Friday19 June. Keynote by Helene Scott-Fordsmand (UCL) on Friday morning: Fat tissue and the collapse of the subject-object divide in anatomical dissection practices torch.ox.ac.uk/event/object... @uehiro.ox.ac.uk @torchoxford.bsky.social

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Objectivity and Subjectivity in Medicine

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

I am looking for articles/books on the Victorian fascination with signs/symbols/"lost" historic cultures that they believe to be visible in remnants like architecture, alphabets, etc. Are there terms/phrases for this that I'm not thinking of that might help me filter out the semiotics articles?

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Hannah Howe @hannahhowe.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Sixties Sunday Supplement Issue #1, 14 June 1964 Welcome. Our cover picture this week is a “Stoned Glass Window”, originally featured in “Jackie”.

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Efram Sera-Shriar @dreframss.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Does anyone have digital access to the following chapter? I'd be greatly for a copy. James Secord, “Global Darwin,” in Darwin, ed. William Brown and Andrew C. Fabian, 31-57.

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Charles Darwin: Survival of the Fittest

ALT: Charles Darwin: Survival of the Fittest

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Sarah Wise @misssarahwise.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

4) 2 December, 7.30pm. ‘ "A disgrace to the Christian world?": The Emigration of London’s Street Children to Canada, 1869-1904' Annie Macpherson's Spitalfields child rescue and resettlement work from the 1860s to 1900s drew admiration as well as bitter criticism. www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/lond...

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Sarah Wise @misssarahwise.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

3) On 4 November my talk will be ‘Strands of Radicalism in Denmark St, 1850-1880’ A tiny meeting house stood at the back of no 18 Denmark St until the end of the 19th century. Using this venue as a prism, I’ll map the currents of political thought in St Giles & Soho www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/lond...

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Sarah Wise @misssarahwise.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Those lovely folks @citylit.bsky.social have asked me to do a series of online ‘London Lectures’ on Wednesday evenings. My first is on 10 June, 7.30pm-9pm: ‘Policing Late-Victorian/Edwardian London and the “White Slave Trade” ’ To book: www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/poli...

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Sarah Wise @misssarahwise.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

2) The second is ‘The World of the London Bodysnatchers’ on 24 June, 7.30pm. An online tour of some of London’s lesser-known graveyards, and some of the unsentimental folk who made a profit from death and bereavement To book: www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/the-...

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Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) @sshmedicine.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

📣CFPs 📣London Foundling Hospital Conference 16 October 2026 @ihr.bsky.social Hidden Identities in the London Foundling Hospital Archives, New Questions and Discoveries Deadline for proposals 1 August #histmed

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Doug Bamford @dougbamford.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Is there anyone out there who can create a website? The site below is looking very old-fashioned and its author sadly died many years ago. The content is CC 3.0 so it should not be a problem legally. #philosophy #webdev www.philosophypages.com/sy.htm#dis

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Philosophy Study Guide

Suggestions about the reading, writing, and discussion required in philosophy courses.

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Chris Louttit @drchrislouttit.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Any plans next weekend? On Saturday 6 June I'll be hosting the @dickenssociety.bsky.social 'Dickens on Screen' Online Event at 7pm CEST (adjust for your own time-zone). Register via the link 👇. 1/2

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Dickens on Screen: Dickens Society Online Event — The Dickens Society

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Joe McGann @joemcgann.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

New post. Please read and share open.substack.com/pub/joemcgan...

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The Threshold

What Do We Mean By Meaning?

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

New kind of phone but no one can call you on it and it only contains your favorite thing to read. Also it’s made out of paper.

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NAVSA @navsa.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

CFP: Dickens on Screen, Dickens Society Online Event (Abstract Deadline: 5/11/26) navsa.org/News/13624628

Unfinished painting of Charles Dickens, seated, surrounded by many of his most well-known characters. Painted in 1880 by Robert William Buss.

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Sarah Wise @misssarahwise.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

I’ll be leading a guided 2-hour walk of Soho on Weds 20 May for @citylit.bluesky.social at 11am We'll explore the area as a site of radical politics, the policing of vice and the working lives of those who made the gorgeous clobber in the department store windows More info: tinyurl.com/5x4zaarw

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Pete Orford @peteorford.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

The CFP for Dickens Day 2026 is live! We warmly invite proposals linked to this year’s theme of “Dickens and family” (both in his life and work). The deadline is 15 June, and the day itsef will be on Saturday 10 October at Senate House, London. All are welcome! www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

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Dickens Day 2026 - ‘Dickens and Family’

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Chris Louttit @drchrislouttit.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Some exciting news: I'm organising an online event on the topic of Dickens on Screen for @dickenssociety.bsky.social! More info on the Society's website 👇. Abstracts of 100-200 words & short bio due by May 11th. The event itself will be on June 6th in the afternoon (East-coast US time).

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Dickens on Screen: Dickens Society Online Event — The Dickens Society

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Patrick Leary @patrickleary.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Many thanks to Paul Lewis for making available the unannotated texts of all of the letters included in the magisterial Pilgrim edition of Dickens's correspondence. As that edition is paywalled, this will be very handy for scholars everywhere: victorianresearch.org/Dickens%20le... #Victorian

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Mail is running a poll on whether the UK should rejoin the EU. Takes seconds to vote and it's going hilariously well... www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

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Sara Zadrozny @drsarazadrozny.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

The Grand National always worries me. I can't see how we can justify a race that routinely ends up with horses dying.

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Annika Bärwald @annikabaerwald.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

CfP: Global Histories of Hair, c. 1500–2026 (Lucerne, Oct 8–10, 2026)🚨🗃️ We’re organizing an interdisciplinary conference on global histories, cultures, and legacies of hair. Researchers from all relevant fields and early-career scholars are encouraged to apply. All costs are covered. 📆 May 15, 2026

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CfP: Global Histories of Hair, c. 1500-2026

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OpenARC Research Centre @openarc.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

🎓 OU PhD Student Lecture Series | 30 Apr–21 May 2026 Join a series of online talks from Open University PhD students. Everyone is welcome—come learn something new and support our postgraduate researchers! 🖇️ fass.open.ac.uk/events/next-... @shaftowheed.bsky.social @ou-ld-social.bsky.social

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Olivia Formby @oliviaformby.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

✨Speech/less in the Early Modern World✨ Research Workshop, 23-24 April 2026 Emmanuel College, Cambridge Places limited. Please register as an attendee by 12 April: forms.gle/k9Xnz4gVFhe2Syez9 Thank you event sponsors! @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social @camhistory.bsky.social @socialhistsoc.bsky.social

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The British Society for Literature and Science @thebsls.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Would anyone like to review Sally Shuttleworth's new book In Quest of a Cure: Literary and Medical Cultures of the Health Resort (global.oup.com/academic/pro...)? Get in touch at bslsreviews@gmail.com if so.

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