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Society of Antiquaries of Scotland @socantscot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

GRANTS ANNOUNCEMENT: Audrey Henshall Legacy Fund Reopens We are offering a grant of up to £10,000 for the successful applicant to develop and undertake a significant research project which supports research or fieldwork on pre-Roman antiquities in Scotland: www.socantscot.org/news/audrey-...

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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Looks like a great job for medieval historians, at either Assistant or Associate (tenured) level, at John Hopkins.

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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 25/09/2026

We're publishing new guidance to support trans people who do fieldwork (any work outside the office)! Now we need your help to get them seen so please share! inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/trans/

a cartoon of three fieldworkers. One has a small trans flag. The logos of the university of leeds, research england, and canopy robin are shown, as well as the URL: InclusiveFieldwork (dot) Leeds (dot) AC (dot) UK (slash) trans

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Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Happy 12th anniversary to this immensely important editorial in Britain’s newspaper of record, the [checks notes] Sunday Sport.

Editorial in the Sunday Sport:

SUNDAY Sport likes to remain above the squabbles and spats which often divide our tired old
Fleet Street rivals.
We serve our readers, not the petty rivalries of editors or proprietors.
But we are today forced to join a debate after our very integrity was questioned by The Guardian.
And the heated issue is the spelling
of the word "BELLEND".
This left-wing,
loss-making house
journal of Britain's chattering classes recently updated its style guide - the manual which tells its journalists how to spell certain oft-misspelt words.
In defiance of common sense and common decency Guardian bigwigs have decreed their galley slaves spell out bellend as "bell-end"
They
may find
this bohemian
departure from orthodoxy "challenging" but it is a direct assault on the English language.
Do not forget, the teachers of Britain suckle at the teat of The Guardian like hungry puppies.
This misspelling of bellend will be forced into the easily-moulded minds of our nation's schoolchildren.
The
Guardian.
Wrong about everything. Always.

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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:
1.
Queer histories of the working and middle classes in rural areas
2.
Methodologies for recovering queer rural histories, such as the use of museum and archive collections
3.
Queer rural networks: how they met and flourished
4.
The response of rural communities to queer relationships
5.
Migration of same sex couples from the city to the countryside and vice versa
6.
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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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Cannot tell you how much I hate this & how ashamed & angry I am that @ukri.org have taken this step. We KNOW this sort of gAI is socially biased, we KNOW it favours slopAI output over human-written. Our research landscape is falling apart due to underfunding, & they do this? it's *appalling*

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Claire Boardman @claireboardman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Call for Case Studies: Heritage, History & Wellbeing in Scotland "HES & University of Birmingham are gathering examples of orgs, projects & individuals across Scotland using history & heritage, incl intangible heritage, to improve people's wellbeing." app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/bham/hes-h...

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HES Heritage and Wellbeing in Scotland Examples - Online Surveys | Online surveys

Online surveys is a powerful, easy to use tool for creating online surveys. Run by Jisc, Online surveys is used by over 300 different organisations in the UK...

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Rombert Stapel @rjstapel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Yesterday, we celebrated the successful launch of the brand new HisGIS.nl website (also in English!). In HisGIS, we unlock the cadastre of 1832, by georeferencing 17K maps and digitising 3M parcels and their owners. @iisg-amsterdam.bsky.social @knawhuc.bsky.social iisg.amsterdam/en/blog/hisg...

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Gwenffrewi Morgan @gjmorgan.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Now published in final form with page numbers!

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Noah Blan @noahwblan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I’m thrilled to share that my book Carolingian Ecological Sovereignty is out now with @archumanities.bsky.social ! You can order physical copies now, and the open access versions will be available sometime in early October. www.arc-humanities.org/978180270283... Keep an eye out for updates here 📚

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Carolingian Ecological Sovereignty - Arc Humanities Press

During the early Middle Ages, the ecological was political—as it is today. For the Carolingians, the governance of nature was integral to the making of emp...

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Adam Cook @adamcook.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I've extended the deadline for Borderland Communities of Rebellion in Britain and Ireland, to Monday 21st September! If you're still interested, please do send through an abstract to the email address on the CfP. #IMC2027 #IMC #LeedsIMC #Skystorians #MedievalSky

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Hannah O’Regan @palaeohan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

📣 new #bear paper! Dr Liam Lewis and I gathered the evidence for bears and bear-baiting in #medieval England and northern France. We looked at bones, literature and archival accounts. We found that evidence for live bears increased after the #Norman Conquest 🧵

A sculpture of a muzzled and chained bear lying down with its right front paw crossed over the left. It’s carved as the floor rest on the tomb of Richard Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick, located in the Beauchamp Chapel at the Collegiate Church of St Mary in Warwick. Photo by Liam Lewis.

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Gwenffrewi Morgan @gjmorgan.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Now published in final form with page numbers!

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Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

We're all getting up in arms about this, but what if they mean "pagan" in the original Latin sense of "country bumpkin", eh?

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Justine Firnhaber-Baker @medievalrevolt.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

My new article is now out in French Historical Studies: "Into the Woods: Negotiating Environment and Power in France Around the Time of the Black Death" Not OA, but I can send you a pdf if you don't have access. read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo...

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Into the Woods | French Historical Studies | Duke University Press

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Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

yeah sure, that looks archive safe, whatever

A photo inside the archive office showing someone holding a giant empty bag of 'COALES Calf Milk Powder', a milk replacer for calf rearing. It has a blue and yellow striped pattern across the bag, and it's clearly several decades old from how yellowed it is.

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Michael Eber @ebermichael.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

We've extended the deadline for submissions for "Queer and Trans Medieval Communities" at next year's @imc-leeds.bsky.social to *8 September*! If you work on any aspect of medieval trans and queer communitie(s), please consider sending in an abstract. We'd love to hear from you!

As the existence of the trans and queer community is under constant and increasing threat across the world – with alt-right political rhetoric in the West seeking to rupture solidarity for and within the global queer community – the work of the historian has never been more vital. Historians have long found solidarity and recognition of queer experiences and practices with individuals and groups of the past. In concert with the wealth of current research being produced in trans and queer medieval studies, this panel session responds to the urgency of this present moment. In the face of existential threats, we recognise the importance of finding community with one another, which includes understanding our community has a history. This panel session seeks not only to contribute to transtemporal and scholarly trans and queer community building, but to better understand what historical trans and queer communities and practices may have looked like – including the mechanisms and structures that attempted to preclude such community formations. Engaging with and making legible such histories constitutes an act of compassion both with historical actors and with living members of our community today. It also constitutes an act of resistance, by finding existence and continuity in community.
Presentations may address but are not limited to the following topics:
-Cultivating cross-temporal queer and trans community
-How trans and genderqueer experiences manifest in the Middle Ages
-Spaces in which queer/trans community could be manifested in the Middle Ages
-Communal failure/loss of community
-A failing or absence of a trans and queer community
-Texts, codes, etc. used in constituting queer/trans communities in the Middle Ages
-Methodologies available for talking about trans/queer communities
EXTENDED TO 8 SEPTEMBER
TITLE, ABSTRACT (200 WORDS) AND BIO (150 WORDS) TO:
Michael Eber michael.eber@uni-koeln.de
Hannah Victoria hjohnson@aup.edu
Oliver Wilkin o.lg-wilkin@outlook.com

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Gwenffrewi Morgan @gjmorgan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

For those in sensible sustainable striking distance from Stockholm

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Clare Downham @downham.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

University of Liverpool - doctoral funding in Irish Studies Applications to the PhD programme should ideally be submitted a fortnight before the studentship deadline, i.e. by 16 September 2026. PhD studies to commence in the academic year 2026/7. A PhD can start at any point during the year.

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Postgraduate research | School of Histories, Languages and Cultures | University of Liverpool

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Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

"In the evening the bats weave soft black circles and their wings splash delicate ink upon the pale blue air..." Joseph Auslander (1897-1965) 🎨 Eric Fitch Daglish (1894–1966) #BookWormSat

B&w engraving of four bats. One is on a ledge, another is about to land. Two are in flight, under a crescent moon, stars and clouds. Trees frame the picture which is signed by the artist who gave it the title 'Bats'

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

as Norway plunges into chaos following death of king, one military strongman is seizing power

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Shannon McSheffrey @medievalmcsheff.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

JOB!! The Department of History at the University of Ottawa invites applications for a position in medieval and/or transregional history, 7th-16th centuries. French or English, bilingualism an asset. universityaffairs.ca/search-jobs/...

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Michael Weiss @mweissohcgl.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Two-year Mellon Post-doc in Linguistics at Cornell. Historical linguists strongly encouraged to apply! societyhumanities.as.cornell.edu/mellon-postd...

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Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships

Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships 2027-29

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Dr Hannah J. Elizabeth @sexhistorian.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

No but really, apply for this ace funded PhD studentship. #AcademicSky #HistMed

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Camille Thomas @camthomas.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

It started, as all serious scientific thinking does: in a bar. I was reflecting on the nature of time, the essence of life, and our place in the Universe. (I was drunk.) this is what came out... agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #Geoscience #EarthScience #Geology #DeepTime

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Geological Reasoning Across Incompatible Timescales

Click on the article title to read more.

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Lisa Onaga @lisaonaga.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

MPIWG-NTU Centre for Biocultural Worlding advertises a Singapore-based fellowship in Curatorial Research and Practice! This 2-yr renewable position in a high-energy team is on epistemic, biological & cultural diversity. bioculturalworlding.org/postdoctoral... CBCW@ntu.edu.sg ✍️ ??? 🪲🐓🌳🏗️🛶🐢🪸🌴🌏🇸🇬

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Girl with a Pearl Earring is being exhibited in Osaka and so of course this happened

Miffy dressed as Girl in a Pearl Earring in front of the painting

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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

24th August is the feast of St Bartholomew. Here St Bartholomew gives a scourge to St Guthlac to drive away the demons who have carried him to the gates of hell. BL Harley Roll Y 6; the 'Guthlac Roll'; 1175-1215; Benedictine Abbey of Crowland, Lincolnshire; f.8r @blmedieval.bsky.social

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Henrike Lähnemann @hlaehnemann.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Nuntastic job opportunity! Research positions on the nuns’ letters project available from 1 October at the HAB Wolfenbüttel. Deadline for applications 15 September. Very happy to answer informal inquiries medingen.seh.ox.ac.uk/index.php/20...

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Opportunity: Research Position for the Lüne Letters – Medingen Manuscripts

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Hannah S-R @hannahsrwriter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Excited to announct a (slightly belated) call for papers for @imc-leeds.bsky.social! @vikkisands.bsky.social and I look forward to hearing your abstracts for our session on Communities and Outsiders! Deadline for abstracts: 1 September 2026. #medievalsky #imc2027 #cfp

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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Postdoc in Integrated History & Philosophy of Modern Science at my alma mater #HPS program at Notre Dame. $75K +$15K research funds Deadline Dec 1st. #PhilJobs #philsci #philsky #histSTM #histmod philjobs.org/job/show/31869

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Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Notre Dame - PhilJobs:JFP Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Notre Dame

An international database of jobs for philosophers

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Sarah-Maria Schober @smschober.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Conference: Global Histories of Hair, c. 1500-2026 in Lucerne, Switzerland, 8-10 October 2026. There will be a hybrid possibilty to attend, please register. #skystorians #earlymodern

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Destination Venus sells comics in Harrogate! @destinationvenus.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

AI is a scourge. But it is important not to trust "AI detectors". I lost regular freelancing work because my client insisted I used AI to write copy (I didn't, but their AI detecting software said I did). This is a great thread with an excellent example of why these detectors cannot be trusted.

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Dr Alison Ray @liber-ray.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Happy Black Cat Appreciation Day to all the ghoulies celebrating! Illustration from a 13th-century Bestiary, now @bodleian.ox.ac.uk MS Bodl. 533, f. 13r 🐈‍⬛🖤

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Florian Louis @florianlouis.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

G. Geltner - Lucifer's Land The Mines and Miners of Europe, 1180–1550 À paraître en décembre aux UPP

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Gwenffrewi Morgan @gjmorgan.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I find the logic of our library catalogue fascinating sometimes ....

A library catalogue search. The user has searched for 'Doomsday Book Somerset'. The first result is 'On Thermonuclear War' by Khan and Jones, followed by the Philimore edn of the Domesday Book for Somerset.

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hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

There are quite a few PhD studentships available on environmental humanities topics through the North Sea Heritage in Transitions project, for an autumn start - have a look and share with prospective students.

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Opticians must have tiny fingers.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Heartened to see that my university is ending its contract with Turnitin before the next academic year, because Turnitin is going to use student submissions to train AI models. Institutions can and should resist this stuff!

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Myriah Williams @myriahwilliams.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

As a coda to this thread, please enjoy Aneurin Owen’s attempt to restore the lost cat in his 1841 edition Ancient Laws and Institutes of Wales

Somewhat childish drawing of a cat roughly in keeping with the illustrations in NLW Peniarth MS 28. From Aneurin Owen, ed., Ancient Laws and Institutes of Wales, vol. 2 (London, 1841), p. 812.

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Gwenffrewi Morgan @gjmorgan.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Lots of entanglements of time: flying ants, fossils, the eclipse (look at the lens flare!) and ruins.

Flying ants on a paving slab en route to where I watched the eclipse

In the foreground, a fossil plant root in a pale sandstone. Behind the rock and spindle, a basaltic feature near St Andrews

View looking over the sea to St Andrews from near the rock and spindle. The ruined cathedral is siloetted against heavy clouds. The sun bursts through, and the lens flare of it shows the slither of the sun caught in it's eclipse

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Jamie Wood @woodjamie.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Calling anyone working on the Normans. Medieval People CFP for Leeds next year: "The Normans and their communities". Please circulate to anyone you think might be interested.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Here are major UK funders that fund the humanities and social sciences: @ukri.org 's AHRC, ESRC & Research England; @britishacademy.bsky.social ; @leverhulme.ac.uk ; @wellcometrust.bsky.social and @wolfsonfdn.bsky.social . Click on their 'About' link and you can find out about them. Rightly. 1/3

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Joe Keating @evopalaeo.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

⚠️Please repost!⚠️ Over 99% of species that ever lived are extinct. Without palaeontology, the new Natural History GCSE will only cover a snapshot of life's history. We're making the case for fossils in the new GCSE 🦴🐚🌿 teach.ocr.org.uk/palaeontolog... The consultation is open now! Have your say👇

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GCSE Natural History - Palaeontology - Joseph Keating

Joseph Keating puts forward a case for including palaeontology in the new GCSE Natural History curriculum due to its unique deep-time perspective.

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Dr Basil Arnould Price @basilaprice.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

You have just over a month to apply to the sessions Hunter Phillips and I organised at @kzooicms.bsky.social on either DISENTANGLING ECOCRITICISMS ( tinyurl.com/ICMS2027-S1) or DISAPPOINTING ECOCRITICISMS (tinyurl.com/ICMS2027-S2). (Sponsored by Medieval Ecocriticisms) Join us! #medievalsky

CALL FOR PAPERS: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MEDIEVAL STUDIES 2027 (MAY 13-15). RETHINKING ECOTHEORY, SPONSORED BY MEDIEVAL ECOCRITICISMS This pair of sessions questions 'entanglement' as the predominant idiom of ecocritical thinking, arguing that the medieval past both yields and necessitates alternative ways of thinking about our ecological investments, both affective and ontological. Drawing upon recent critiques (Swarbick and Tremblay 2024), this pair of sessions interrogates the limits of 'enmeshment' as the predominant idiom for ecocritical approaches to the premodern past. Although the (specifically European) premodern past is often identified as 'The Green Middle Ages' (e.g. Chavannes- Mazel 2023, Kehnel 2024), these sessions question the recuperation of this period as one of ethical, reciprocal, and harmonious relations between humans and the natural world. SUBMISSION DEADLINE: SEPT 15 Organised by Hunter Allen Phillips (hap48@cornell.edu) and Basil Arnould Price (basil.price@oneonta.edu).

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🌈 Dr Ross Brooks @rossbrooks.co.uk · 10/08/2026

Please help me get QUEER ORIGINS 'out there' by recommending it to your favourite libraries! Academics and students can usually submit a request to their uni libraries. Public libraries all have a way for members to suggest a title. Thank you! 💜🌈📚🗃️ #books #booksky #libsky #libraries #lovelibraries

Promotional image for DARWIN AND THE QUEER ORIGINS OF LIFE: A HISTORY OF SEX AND SCIENCE. Above an image of the book is an endorsement from Kit Heyam, author of BEFORE WE WERE TRANS. It reads: 'As politically essential as it is compelling. A rich counter history of biology.'

Screenshot from Brighton & Hove City Council's 'Brighton and Hove Libraries' webpage. It's a completed 'Suggest a Purchase' form, filled out with the title of Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life: A History of Sex and Science'.

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Gwenffrewi Morgan @gjmorgan.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Two St Andrews views on the week of the Lammas fair

View towards Lambieletham, tall grasses in seed in the foreground, bales of straw scattered across the golden stubble of a harvested field, with the combine harvester at rest on the far ridgeline. Small clouds race across an azure sky.

Fairground rides set up on South St in St Andrews, a tall spinning top looming over the King James Library in the background.

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