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Katherine Ibbett

@eparpillee.bsky.social
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Early modern France, eating. Compassion's Edge (2018); now writing on 17thc rivers. I also like cats. Oxford mostly, Cévennes when I can. Trans-inclusive feminist, she/her.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 20h
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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Jana Byars @janalena.bsky.social · 16h
Fabulous @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social talk with the legendary Peter Burke. #skystorians #EarlyModern #Renaissance #ArtHistory
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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 15h
RIP Esther Rantzen, who was implicated in one of the most extraordinary TV clips that has ever been filmed.
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Sir Nicholas Winton - BBC Programme "That's Life" aired in 1988
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Zander @zans.bsky.social · 18h
RIP Esther Rantzen. A remarkable woman who achieved remarkable things, including finding a dog that said sausages youtu.be/ajsCY8SjJ1Y?...
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Talking Dog from That's Life (1970s)... SAUSAGES!!
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Yale University Press London 📖 @yalebooks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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New biography reveals the rich life of the ‘studiously self-effacing’ artist Anni Albers
Book showcases the ground-breaking textile works of the artist who, during her lifetime and since, was overlooked in favour of her husband, Josef Albers
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Katherine Ibbett @eparpillee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Student on French archival plans: “I’ll go this autumn bc I don’t want to be around when they elect the fascists.”
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Katherine Ibbett @eparpillee.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I spent today with new scholars of the Weidenfeld-Hoffmann Trust: (mostly) social scientists, some medics, from low + middle income countries here for graduate work. And all hungry for the humanities: so many questions re histories of technological change, of care, or translation + multilingualism
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Eric Brandom @ebrandom.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
For people teaching in any language or discipline
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Katherine Ibbett @eparpillee.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Went to an event yesterday to mark a former (UCL) colleague's retirement at FIFTY-FIVE - huge shared gratitude for the amazing work he's done to build and sustain programmes, alongside cries of envy and regret that we'd not all been that careful with planning.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
'Accounts described elephants selecting particular plants when they seemed unwell, and mothers reportedly giving medicinal plant material to their calves. ...the researchers concluded that the elephants use 35 different plant species, and that 25 of those are known locally to have medicinal uses.'
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Elephants treat themselves with medicinal plants, witnesses say
African elephants use dozens of different medicinal plants to treat themselves and their families when they are sick, research reveals.
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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Not to alarm anyone, but it is now 23 September 2026.
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It is disgraceful and wilfully misleading that the BBC do not report that Danny Tommo was filmed slashing the boat.
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Migrants taken to Dover after more than 30 hours at sea
Protesters gathered in Gosport after initial reports the small boat would be brought further west.
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Danielle Terrazas Williams @drdanielletw.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Call for Papers! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Carin Ruff @carinr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🚨📚📜🚨 "With a chirograph, Pope Leo has granted the Vatican Apostolic Archive and Vatican Apostolic Library an additional area within the Vatican City State, and asked that a new building be constructed."❗️ www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...
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Pope orders expansion of Vatican Apostolic Archive and Library - Vatican News
Given the increase in the Holy See’s bibliographic holdings and documentary production, the Pope expands the Vatican’s archive and library, and asks ...
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Brett Rushforth @brettrushforth.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Some news.
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Chloe Ireton @chloeireton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
v. honored to learn that Society for Renaissance Studies awarded the Biennial 2026 Book Prize to *Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic.* Very grateful to the judges for their work, & congratulations to fellow shortlisted authors. More here: rensoc.org.uk/srs-book-pri...
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felix @felixthefemale.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is lovely
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Jason Sinclair @jsinclair.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Local story takes quite a swerve just before the page turn.
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Katherine Ibbett @eparpillee.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Up bright (kinda) and early for the first official event of my tenure as Ertegun director: introducing @oldfortunatus.bsky.social as this year’s Ertegun Lecturer! So I’m beginning with delight, and long may it continue.
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Emile Chabal @emile-chabal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The programme I run - the MSc in Contemporary History - will be axed, amongst so many others. We've also been told our undergrad courses will need to have a minimum of 20 students over a 3 year period. The bonfire of the universities has truly come for Edinburgh.
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Anna Girling @annagirling.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The Centre of African Studies is the only academic institute in Scotland of its kind - with its own budget, space, and leadership - and has produced, and brought to Edinburgh, generations of scholars. The proposal to close ('restructure') it diminishes the university, and Edinburgh, as a whole.
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SKL🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱 @sklafon1.eurosky.social · 15/09/2026
Oh!
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Daniel C. Blight @danielcblight.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
***URGENT PLEASE SHARE*** University of Brighton management have announced today that they ‘give notice of termination of all collective agreements’. This is a fundamental erasure of workers' rights. Management have announced the termination of all contractual documents, which includes:
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Susan Pickford @libripotens.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Publication day for Moussa Konaté's Headless in Kita - AFAIK the first English translation of a West African crime novel 👉 www.dedalusbooks.com/our-books/bo...
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Headless in Kita by Moussa Konaté : Our Books :: Dedalus Books, Publishers of Literary Fiction
Dedalus is an alternative, independent publisher, founded in England in 1983. The films on our page are all related to the books we publish. Our list includes contemporary English language fiction, tr...
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Katherine Ibbett @eparpillee.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Any Wagner fans with great core muscles out there? I have a spare ticket to the rehearsal of Parsifal (5.5 hrs) at Covent Garden, Mon 28 Sept, 5pm, an amphitheatre seat with no armrests...if that sounds appealing to anyone I'm happy to give it to you!
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Big Fat Ugly Bug-Faced Baby-Eating O'Brien, RN @twogreenparrots.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This is a dress that says "I am smuggling poodles in my sleeves" and I love it
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Katherine Ibbett @eparpillee.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Standing on my bougie Cotswold Company toolbox shouting (to no avail) YOU GET BACK IN HERE at the cat galloping off to wallop a smaller cat and remembering the lady across the road in my childhood shouting DONT GET YOUR TROUSERS DIRTY GARY at her truculent son
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Katherine Ibbett @eparpillee.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Niche TV review: we finished watching the glorious Colin from Accounts and the Frenchman described it as an Aussie Alfred de Musset. On ne badine pas avec le chien! 🇦🇺 🐶
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Jacob Siefring @jsief.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
one must imagine Marat with a rubber duckie
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Adam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Record what you're doing on our phone 5.35pm BST on Friday 2 October and be part of an international collage of one minute on the planet 📽️ ⏱️ 🌍 adamsmyth.substack.com/p/be-part-of...
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Be part of a film!
An invitation!
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Yes, newspapers' "Good University" guides are deeply problematic and pernicious. But they're also a real reminder of a key strength of the current UK HE system: the distribution of excellence across the full range of institutions and places.
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The Guardian University Guide 2027 – the rankings
Find a course at one of the top universities in the country
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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Some hard truths and good advice about applying for a PhD in History in the US. 🗃️
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Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I personally will not be happy until the British have ranked all their invasions in order of goodness. Is the "Glorious Revolution" still our favourite? Does anybody remember Fishguard? (Cofiwch Fishguard) Did the Beaker People come in peace, and were the beakers worth it?
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A cheery message from the new minister responsible for research funding for the Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences (and the subjects that the majority of UK taught undergraduate and Masters students study).
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Science and maths degrees offer most value to the nation, says minister
Chris McDonald told a room full of vice-chancellors that science, engineering and mathematics ‘offer the greatest personal, social and economic value’
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Katherine Ibbett @eparpillee.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I just got my first mailshot addressed to me and advertising a retirement village near Henley. They've got their demographic wrong on at least one count - I'm fairly certain I couldn't afford it...
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Katherine Ibbett @eparpillee.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
a friend has suddenly had that old favourite a Louis XIV class dumped on her so I sent her the Versailles chickens, and you should know them too if you don't already www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
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Dessin animé 2020 - Versaille à la Française
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Sam Wetherell @samwetherell.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
My latest post: On the deindustrialisation of the university. And on being "in defence of history" at a time of extinction. thehistoryfactory.substack.com/p/the-histor...
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The History Factory 2: The Deindustrialisation of the University
A few years ago, my employer, the University of York, commissioned a civil engineering firm named Tilbury Douglas to build a new nursery for the children of its employees and students.
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Katherine Ibbett @eparpillee.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Like me, the cat sometimes has a hard time leaving the house
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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Plans for a Greater Oxford Council have been dramatically halted. The Government has unexpectedly launched a review into the planned reorganisation - meaning Oxfordshire County Council continues for now. Oxfordshire is one of 14 areas where plans have been paused for a review to take place.
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Katherine Ibbett @eparpillee.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
revising the final final FINAL final river book ms and find the typo (or is it) WARTERSCAPE. New title!
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 07/09/2026
This story is doing the rounds today so here’s some credit to the Oxford Clarion, who have been reporting on this org, in depth, for a lot longer than the BBC has been.
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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
🚨🚨 Job Klaxon 🚨🚨 Early modern Frenchies!! UVA French is hiring an asst prof of French and francophone global literature and culture 1500-1700!! We’d love someone historically minded :). 🗃️🇫🇷 apply.interfolio.com/192507
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 05/09/2026
Oxford Open Doors is one of my favourite events of the year! Just about everything is worth going to, so I had a real trick narrowing this list down.
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Katherine Ibbett @eparpillee.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
extremely excited to say that this article on making the best of an Oxford garden features my garden but best of all MY CAT BERTIE oxfordclarion.uk/five-challen... @oxfordclarion.bsky.social (the photos with dog/fruit tree/window boxes are someone else)
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Five challenges with Oxford gardens… and how to turn them into opportunities
With the summer over, and the merciful reappearance of rain, our thoughts turn to gardens – as we move to a more outside-in lifestyle to accommodate the changing climate. We asked our resident horticu...
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Briony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
People outside the Canadian "Pulp and Paper" Pavilion at Expo 67 in Montreal (photo Stanley Prowler) – the pavilion featured 44 green, pyramid-shaped roofs built to resemble a geometric forest of pine trees, the tallest of which loomed to the height of an 8-storey building 🗃️
colour photo of crowds outside a building made to resemble a forest of pine trees, with a large white sculpture like a strip of paper in front of it
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Emily Cock @emilyncock.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I genuinely loved this, but especially for the exhibition's hints at the politics between the 35 women as they negotiated e.g. who got to sew which bits. I hope many Reading Uni dissertation students have raided the archives.
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Katherine Ibbett @eparpillee.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
When you’re so excited about a book that you preorder it twice (actually three times but managed to cancel one) - welcome to these shores @brettrushforth.bsky.social!
Two copies of Christopher Hodson and Brett Rushworth’s Beyond the Ocean, ready to change everything I know about France and the Atlantic world
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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Rough Draft vs Final Draft
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 03/09/2026
This is demonstrably, measurably improving the health of the people who live there. Most notably, it increases the respiratory *& cognitive* health of children. They literally do better in school. If this country really gave a shit about children, this would be at the top of the public-policy list.
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Katherine Ibbett @eparpillee.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
A big relief and yet I cannot believe the shit these excellent colleagues have been put through. Well, I can. The uni should have to pay all their therapy bills and a week in a luxury spa. 😡😡😡
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