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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 12h

Our members at Goldsmiths are months into strike action. They are fighting to save vital jobs. Share this picket like speech from our GS and send your solidarity.

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Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

survived! thanks to the lovely lot that sponsored me really helped me show up this morning 😂

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Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

My PB for a half is 1h54 from... 2012? ahaha so yeah that ain't happening 😂😂😂😂 thanks for the encouragement!!!

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Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

(did 18km a couple of weeks ago and have not run or even really moved since basically as I did too many squats in the gym a few days later and made myself completely paranoid about getting injured 😂)

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Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

ah thanks so much for sponsoring me @wouterwagemakers.eurosky.social ! my only aim is to finish alive now as the last few weeks of training have been completely terrible 😂😂

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Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

annoying eh, hope they get it sorted soon...

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Will Tullett @willtullett.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Next Wednesday in York come hear me and my wonderful friend and brilliant colleague @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social talk about each other’s new books.

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Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Oh thanks my love i'm actually bricking it now!! Hopefully I survive!!

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Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies @sims-mss.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Say hello to BASIRA (Books as Symbols in Renaissance Art): basiraproject.org #medievalsky --------------- Video by Emily Brooks Music by J.D. Porter Narration by Iris Péron-Ames

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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.

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Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"implementing additional assurance measures" - attempted(? Or successful - unclear) hack again, has been 6 weeks+ of stalled production

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Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

it's alright the world will survive the wait for my glorified pamphlet 😂

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Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This... has not published... because CUP is still broken... SIGH! have a little launchy thing scheduled for next week so I'll be waving around a printed PDF methinks 😂

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Lavinia Gambini @lavinia-gambini.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

🚨CFP, #EarlyModern #MaterialCulture Workshop! Early-career scholars, don't forget to apply to present your work on Early Modern Material Culture in Bern (19-20 Nov 2026)! Deadline: 2 Oct 2026 👇

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Dr Andrew Sneddon @drandrewsneddon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My week book ‘Magic and disability in the early modern world’ out with Cambridge is free to download until 15 oct 2026 www.cambridge.org/core/element... It’s free , help yersel

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Magic and Disability in the Early Modern World

Cambridge Core - Religion: General Interest - Magic and Disability in the Early Modern World

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Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Is anyone is Oxford available to take a photo of a ms for me?

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Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Lmao. So just a compulsory lunch break then? 😂

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Liam Temple @liamtemple.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Thanks to everyone that came to Notre Dame London for my book launch, and especially to fellow @ccshistorycatholic.bsky.social scholar Dr James E. Kelly for interviewing me about the book! It was great to see so many familiar faces in the room, including many Capuchins! #capuchins #skystorians

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UCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Day 2 of the UCU workers' strike at the University of Edinburgh. The 1,800 jobs UCU estimates will be cut is unprecedented in Scottish higher education. It is happening in the wealthiest Scottish university, and the third richest in the UK, currently sitting with over £3billion reserves.

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 28/09/2026

Our great thanks to Prof Glen O'Hara for his excellent RHS lecture last Friday evening: ‘In All Our Footsteps? Rights of Way and the Battle for the Land after the 1949 National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act’. Recordings are now available bit.ly/4ySyB6W #Skystorians 1/2

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Glen O'Hara gives latest RHS lecture on 'Rights of Way and the Battle for the Land' - RHS

On Friday 25 September the Society hosted the latest lecture in its 2026 programme. Our great thanks to Professor Glen O'Hara (Oxford Brookes University) who spoke on: ‘In All Our Footsteps? Rights of...

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 28/09/2026

Next week, the Society visits historians at the University of Strathclyde and concludes the day with a public lecture by Dr Meleisa Ono-George: 'Visualizing Difference: Amelia Newsham and the Art of Race-Making’ bit.ly/46MYwkA Join us at 6pm on Weds 7 October, in person. All welcome #Skystorians

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Visualizing Difference: Amelia Newsham and the Art of Race-Making

RHS Lecture with Dr Meleisa Ono-George at the University of Strathclyde

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 29/09/2026

Submissions are now invited for the Society's 2027 First Book and Early Career Article Prizes - covering monographs and articles published in 2026 bit.ly/4z45bD8 The closing date for submissions is 14 December 2026. Judging begins in early 2027 with winners announced next July #Skystorians 1/2

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Royal Historical Society Book and Article Prizes, 2027: submissions now invited - RHS

The Royal Historical Society invites applications for its First Book Prize, 2027 and Early Career Article Prize, 2027. The call for submissions opened on Monday 28 September 2026 and runs to Monday 14...

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Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

having a 'take deep breaths to cope with other people' kind of morning

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 26/09/2026

This week the Society launched a new programme to support research bit.ly/4iFNuF0 The RHS / Social History Archive Partnership offers free access to resources in @socialhistarchive.bsky.social, published by DC Thomson. Applications for 6-month access to Archive content invited #Skystorians 1/2

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Society launches new programme for researchers, in partnership with The Social History Archive - RHS

The Society is pleased to launch a new programme for researchers, in partnership with The Social History Archive, published by DC Thomson. The Social History Archive is a comprehensive online archive ...

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Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Last easy long run before Royal Park half in two weeks 🔥 thanks to everyone that's sponsored me!! This is the time I'm aiming for but w 3km more so we shall see how I get on 👀

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Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Wrote to my MP using this template, he responded thoughtfully, and with my permission he has passed this on to the Education Secretary directly... I await her reply...

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Tom Hulme @tomhulme.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This looks like a cool queer history conference!

Call for Papers: Queer Rural History Symposium
Date: Monday 15th March 2027
Venue: The Museum of English Rural Life, Reading, RG1 5EX
Lunch to be provided for all attendees
About the Symposium
Until recently, studies of queer history have focused almost exclusively on the urban sphere, given the greater availability of archival material evidencing queer lives in the city. The few queer rural histories which have been popularised in public consciousness are those of aristocrats in country homes, such as Anne Lister and Vita Sackville-West. However, it goes without saying that people with dissonant sexualities and gender identities lived and loved in all corners of society throughout the centuries, including the countryside. As such, there is a growing appetite for broader research into this area. How did queer people meet those who were like-minded in regions of scarce population density? What forms did their relationships take against a backdrop of criminality and stigma? And how did rural attitudes towards queer people differ to those in the city?
This one day symposium aims to bring together researchers of all backgrounds, and at any stage of their work, to share ideas and discuss methods on this emerging field of study. It works towards the goal of not just filling gaps in academic knowledge that exist for both rural history and queer history, but also to show queer people living in the countryside today that there is, and always has been, a heritage and a place for them.

Proposals
We invite proposals on themes such as, but not limited to, the following:
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Queer histories of the working and middle classes in rural areas
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Methodologies for recovering queer rural histories, such as the use of museum and archive collections
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Queer rural networks: how they met and flourished
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The response of rural communities to queer relationships
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Migration of same sex couples from the city to the countryside and vice versa
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The ways in which museums and archive services respond to queer rural history
If you would like to submit a proposal, please send an abstract (max 250 words) along with a short bio (50 words) to symposium organisers Tim Jerrome and Esther Rutter at t.jerrome1@uni.brighton.ac.uk. It is preferable that these come in the form of a Word document attached to the email. The deadline for submissions is 5pm on Sunday 6th December 2026.
If you would like to attend the symposium without presenting a paper, let us know via the above email as we need to ensure we do not go above capacity.
We are currently applying for funding to help cover travel costs for those who need it. Please let us know if you would like to attend but would require assistance with travel costs to do so. Priority will be given to attendees where cost would otherwise be a barrier to participation.
Many thanks to Rainbow Canopy (The LGBTQ+ network of Forestry England), the Esmée Fairbairn Collections Fund, and the staff at The MERL for helping us to fund and organise the symposium.

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I will always remember fondly the student who finished an essay with the line "In conclusion, the early modern period marked a massive shit in European history."

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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

JUST OVER TWO HOURS! (in case you, too, were as alert as this wing of the Phoenix and may or may not have been thinking of a different 12 o' clock...)

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Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Maybe the IHR too? Fingers crossed... You have me panicked now 😂

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Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

hahaha, that conference committee better accept us eh 🫢 (I think I know a few of them so I've already told my fellow panellists how violently offended i'll be if they reject us and that they're probably safe to book flights/accommodation 😅)

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If anyone has reading they'd recommend on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Mombasa, I'm all ears!

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Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Speakers include mee, @jaimelgoodrich.bsky.social @amylidster.bsky.social @lux-sterritt.bsky.social (and other marvellous folks not here) - all to be expertly chaired by @mlcoolahan.bsky.social and @rhetorician.bsky.social. Can you tell I'm excited?! Woohoo! Roll on next summer for #earlymodern fun!

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Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Examining #earlymodern historical writing, biography, memoir, visual culture, book ownership and institutional collections, from both Protestant and Catholic English women, often beyond national borders. Mss! Images! Books! What's not to love?! *COUGHS IN DIRECTION OF THE CONFERENCE COMMITTEE* 😂😅

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Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Our panel proposals on 'Women, Memory and Authority in #EarlyModern English Religious Cultures' have been submitted for the @srsrensoc.bsky.social conference at the @warburginstitute.bsky.social in 2027! Asking how women made the past authoritative, and how remembrance shaped confessional identities

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Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

'History is a Human Craft'. In piece about ethics, our classrooms and AI, I suppose I've put up my barricades and drawn my lines. I suggest 8 'considerations' before we do any teaching with AI. This is part of a new @royalhistsoc.org short series on 'AI and History Teaching' in Transactions.

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History is a human craft | Historical Transactions

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