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This is the profile for the Research Ireland-funded project, Minerals, led by Associate Professor Sarah Comyn at University College Dublin

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Minerals @imperialminerals.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
New Minerals publication available. This one explores the way artisanal, informal, illegal, and migrant labour marks the various forms and genres of South African mining literature, from the late nineteenth-century diamond rush compound novels to the speculative fiction of a ‘Rainbow Nation’
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Sarah Comyn @sarahcomyn.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
My article on reading mining and degrowth in South African literature for a special issue of Textual Practice is now online 🎉 And I think there are a few free eprint links available: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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White ants and mining: reading degrowth in South Africa
South Africa has an abandoned mines problem. These mines pose serious risks to lives and the environment and raise questions of what degrowth may look like in parts of the Global South that are con...
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Duncan Money @mininghistory.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Including an image of diamond miner being chased by a police officer shouting “Hi! Waar’s yo pas” ! What you are looking for really shapes what you see.
Old, yellowing cartoon showing an African man carrying a massive diamond over his shoulder. He is being chased by a white police officer carrying a truncheon.
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Duncan Money @mininghistory.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Interesting new article about the "illicit diamond buyer" in c19th South Africa by @imperialminerals.bsky.social. A lot to learn in it. I've seen this map of claims before without fully noticing it is decorated with caricatures of African miners being chased by police. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
Yellowing map showing the mining claims on the main diamond fields in Kimberley. The claims are depicted as squares with different shading showing the many different owners. The map is titled "Plan of Ownerships in Kimberley Mine" and around the edge of the map are figures of African miners and white police.Yellowing image showing four white police offciers chasing an African miner who has swallowed a cartoonishly large diamond. The diamond is visible in his stomach.
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Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie · 02/04/2026
The Commemorations Grants scheme has opened for the third year. Funded by the @deptcultureirl.bsky.social, this scheme provides between €1,500 and €10,000 per project. The deadline for applications is 29 April 2026. www.ria.ie/grants/commemorations-bu…
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Minerals @imperialminerals.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Delighted to have an article, 'The Racialized Energy and Labour of Illicit Diamond Buyers in Colonial South Africa' published as part of this special issue edited by Michael Tondre: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... This article has come from the Research Ireland-funded Imperial Minerals project and
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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Nigel Biggar attacking Alan Lester and colleagues through a proxy student ‘whistle blower’ in the national media, with no right of reply. Disgraceful MAGA tactics.
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David Hendy @davidhendy.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Fantastic blog by my former colleague @alanlester.bsky.social forensically refuting the disgraceful attacks on the University of Sussex by the disgracefully ignorant Nigel Biggar. If you’re interested in protecting academic freedom please do read and share
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Smearing Sussex (and Me): Responding to Nigel Biggar’s Latest Attack in The Spectator
The University of Sussex, Feb 2026, taken by the author. Alan Lester The Spectator has published an article by Nigel Biggar smearing the University of Sussex as repressing students who ‘don&#…
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Sarah Comyn @sarahcomyn.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
And now I have a helpful 20% discount code for anyone interested too: 26AFLY1
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Charlene Chua @charlenedraws.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
This book has the most scathing dedication by an illustrator I have ever seen (and he is completely right) #kidlit
Photo of I Will Not Be Scared picture bookPhoto of the dedication page of I Will Not Be Scared
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Sarah Crook @sarahcrook.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Please do share this doctoral opportunity with MA/MSt students - four years of AHRC funding to work on the history of children's play in Wales, supervised by me and the lovely and brilliant Dr Jacky Tyrie. Any questions get in touch! www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate...
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History: Serious about Play: Childhood, Play and Policymaking in Wales, 1945 to the present (RS936) - Swansea University
We offer a wide range of funded and fully funded research scholarships in all subject areas. Explore your options and apply now.
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David Naimon @davidnaimon.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
"this does not need a balm this needs an ending" --Dionne Brand, Nomenclature for the Time Being Audio: milkweed.org/between-the-...
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Dionne Brand : Nomenclature — New and Collected Poems | Milkweed Editions
Today’s guest Dionne Brand, to borrow the words of John Keene, “is without question one of the major living poets in the English language.” Kamau Brathwaite called Brand “our first major exile female ...
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John MacNeill Miller @snarlsdickens.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
The deadline for submissions to the Vcologies Early Career Paper Prize has been extended to February 15! Submissions should be emailed to Kathleen Frederickson. See attached flyer for details! #envhist #envhum
A flyer for the Vcologies Early Career Paper Prize, announcing a call for papers under 3,500 words on ecological thinking in the Anglophone world 1750–1945 by Ph.D. students or scholars <3 years out from the Ph.D. Papers should be sent to kfrederickson@ucdavis.edu by February 15, 2026.
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Ge(Gigi)Tang @gigitang.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
I was funded by the minerals project to visit Museum Africa to consult its fascinating postcard collections on SA’s extractive histories. The postcards discussed in this article offer a glimpse into how this highly commercial medium shaped global perceptions of mining capitalism and abstract labor.
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Minerals @imperialminerals.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
@gigitang.bsky.social article, 'Race, Postcards, & the Visual Politics of Chinese Indenture in South African Gold Mines' has been published in Victorian Studies! In it, Gigi compares how 3 SA postcard publishers represent the arrival of indentured Chinese workers👇 imperialminerals.ie/publications...
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Imperial Minerals — Race, Postcards, and the Visual Politics of Chinese Indenture in South African Gold Mines
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.
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Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95
ALEXANDRIA, VA — Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She passed away
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
When the active shooter on campus is the Israeli state, does anyone offer thoughts and prayers?
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Minerals @imperialminerals.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
You can also listen to Assoc. Prof Tom Nurmi's brilliant keynote which opened the symposium. In his paper, Tom engages closely with previous Minerals roundtables and provides a philosophical exploration of minerals in our contemporary era through Emerson's poetry imperialminerals.ie/podcasts/qua...
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Imperial Minerals — Quarry of Thought: Minerality and AI
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Minerals @imperialminerals.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Read @gigitang.bsky.social reflection on the brilliant Critical Minerals symposium she & Katie Donnelly organised for the Minerals project. The symposium was generously supported by UCD College of Arts & Humanities seed funding & @ucdhumanities.bsky.social imperialminerals.ie/2025/12/19/c...
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Imperial Minerals — Critical Minerals Symposium Reflections
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Sarah Comyn @sarahcomyn.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
I'm giving a public talk at Universistät Konztanz's ZKF on Wednesday at 5:30pm. I'll be talking about my @researchireland.ie Imperial Minerals project, Illicit Diamond Buyers, Zama Zama, Koleka Putuma, William Kentridge, and more. You can join online! 👇 www.uni-konstanz.de/forschen/for...
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ZKF Public Talk: The Carceral and Geopower Logics of South Africa’s Mining Imaginary
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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 07/12/2025
Check it out!! Hodder & Stoughton have an open submission window for all fiction genres. Get in quick. Details in link. Please share :)
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HODDER & STOUGHTON OPEN SUBMISSIONS
Visit the post for more.
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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 04/12/2025
Weird situation. AI adoption in the work world is stagnating, while higher-ed institutions are rushing to embrace it so that students will be prepared for…the work world?
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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Same for literary studies. Non-tenure-track lit studies scholars I know you're out there and publishing articles and books. And if you're tenure-track and know NTT authors, let me know about their work! I can reach out and confirm that they're cool with being listed.
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Great to see this out in the world
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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Look at this excellent handkerchief from 1769 at the V & A museum: a showcase for #18thc practices of remediation. Made to imitate a quodlibet/medley print, a genre that itself aims to simulate, in a trompe l'oeil idiom, a scatter of small printed papers. Imagine blowing your nose on that! #scraps
Red and white printed square handkerchief, designed to make you think you are looking at an untidy heap of printed papers: a playing card, a receipt, portrait engravings, a play, sheet music, positioned every which way.
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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
This is a 52-pound 9000+ page accordion-bound artist’s book of Donald Trump’s lies, conceived, printed, and bound by Jill and Ray Nichols of @leadgraffiti.bsky.social in Delaware. Each of the 9000 pages has the text (per the Washington Post) of one or more of Trump’s lies; none are repeated.
The 9000-page 52-pound book, entitled LIAR, LIAR, on display today at the University of Maryland. Sample interior page.Front of a postcard describing the project.  Photo of postcard describing project: “9,296
pages document 3o,573 false or misleading claims by Donald Trump from his
first day in office, 2017, to his final day on January 20, 2020, when Joe Biden was sworn in as the country's next president. All that verbiage is s3" thick, weighs 52 pounds, and it started like this.
The disolution of the Delaware College of Art & Design, to whom Lead Graffti had donated 1oos of design books over the past decade, brought an invitation to redaim them. We found a few, which brought us another interesting find — a blank Coppic-stitched book with a spine about 36 inches wide bound by Ema Ishii Holdredge for her BEA show at the Corcoran School of Art in
2008. That book haunted us for several weeks, and we decided it was too audacious not to give ita Lead Graffiti shot. For a while, we pondered how to fill a several thousand-page book with
content that made a serious point.
The notion of the presidential untruths came to mind, so maybe there was some documentation we could "borrow?" Sure enough, in a few Safari minutes, we found a downloadable PDE from
The Washington Post that we could massage into a typographic form we could use. We were off. Ray undertook the ink-jet printing of the pages, folding and inserting the red cover-weight sheets for structural support, and gathering and
punching the folds for sewing. Jill did 99.8% of the sewing.
At a 3o2 United gathering, we encouraged attendees to give the book a stroke.
Shown at right is the head of the Delaware ACLU, who has excellent technique.
LEAD GRAFFITI | NEWARK, DELAWARE| LEADGRAFFITI.COM|RAY@LEADGRAIETTI.COM”
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Sarah Comyn @sarahcomyn.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
5 Academy in Exile Fellowships-Deadline Extended, 30 November 2025. Eligibility: scholars with PhD in the humanities, social sciences, law, who are at risk because of their academic work/civic engagement in human rights, democracy, & the pursuit of academic freedom. www.academy-in-exile.eu
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Academy in Exile
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Katja Bruisch @kbruisch.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
🔔 Admissions are open for the M.Phil in Environmental History at Trinity College Dublin. Come and join us - or recommend our course to your students! #envhist #skystorians More info here 👇 www.tcd.ie/courses/post...
Screenshot of the admissions website of the Environmental History M.Phil at Trinity College Dublin
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David Naimon @davidnaimon.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Congrats to Omar El Akkad & Leanne Betasamosake Simpson both shortlisted for the 2025 Writers' Trust Hilary Weston Prize for Nonfiction ICYMI here are my 2025 conversations with each Omar: tinhouse.com/podcast/omar... Leanne: tinhouse.com/podcast/lean... @biidaasamose.bsky.social @haymarketbooks.org
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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
It’s that time of year friends! Thanks to @erinbartram.bsky.social and our friends at @contingent-mag.bsky.social, Laura and I are putting together a list of 2025 articles & books by contingent & indie lit critters. DM, reply, email me @ suny press. And spread the word!!
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Duncan Money @mininghistory.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Fitting advert in the airport in Zambia's biggest mining region:
Large advert billboard on a wall. The advert shows a map of the world with the slogan "Thanks to Minerals Today you Fly"
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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
A permanent post in my department. Closing date Dec 14th 2025, interviews in March. Please spread #histsci
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Assistant Professor in History of Knowledge Pre-1400
Applications are invited for the position of Assistant Professor in History of Knowledge Pre-1400, in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. Please note
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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.
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UCD Library @ucdlibrary.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Wonderful to host the launch of "Creative Pedagogies in Practice: Case Studies from Creative Futures Academy at University College Dublin", with essays reflecting on how creative pedagogies foster critical thinking in teaching & learning. @artshumanitiesucd.bsky.social @creativefutures.bsky.social
Attendees at an event in the James Joyce Library, UCD. Book cover shown, titled Creative Pedagogies in Practice.
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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
"Climate & History," @nichecanada.bsky.social's Canadian History & Environment Summer School, 29-31 May 2026, on Prince Edward Island.🦞 Apply now to attend! The deadline is 30 Nov, but we'd much appreciate early apps. #envhist #cdnhist #chess2026 #gojays niche-canada.org/2025/10/20/c...
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CHESS 2026: Climate & History - Call for Participants
We are pleased to invite applications to attend the 2026 Canadian History & Environment Summer School.
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Ge(Gigi)Tang @gigitang.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
📢Registration is OPEN! Join us at UCD on 7 Nov for the Critical Minerals Symposium – insights & networking all in one place! Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/critical-m...
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Minerals @imperialminerals.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Registration is now open for the one-day symposium on Critical Minerals being organised by @gigitang.bsky.social and Katie Donnelly on 7 November. Featuring a keynote by Associate Prof. Tom Nurmi, 'Quarry of Thought: Minerality and AI' More details 👇 imperialminerals.ie/events/regis...
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Imperial Minerals — Register now! Critical Minerals Symposium
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Julia Ditter @juliaditter.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Call for Contributions: Victorian Infrastructures & their Environmental Legacies We're still looking for articles to be included in our @openlibhums.org special issue! Abstracts are due 31 October, full texts 31 March '26. @bavs-uk.bsky.social @rs4vp.org @asleuki.bsky.social @easlce.bsky.social
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OLHJ_CfP.pdf
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Pamela K Gilbert @pamelakgilbert.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
New series just dropped! Victorian/ 19th C Global Anglophone folks, please take a look. www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...
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Elements in Victorian Literature, Science, and the Environment « Humanities# « Cambridge Core Blog
Many eco-scholars today have lamented our current tendency to soft denial. We acknowledge major environmental concerns such as climate change while continuing to go about our lives as if they don’t ex...
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AAUP @aaup.org · 15/10/2025
BOOM! 💥💥💥 Brown REJECTS Trump’s loyalty oath! “I’m concerned the compact, by its nature & provisions, would restrict #academicfreedom & undermine the autonomy of Brown’s governance, critically compromising our ability to fulfill our mission.” — Christina H. Paxson, Brown University President
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Brown University Rejects White House Deal for Special Treatment
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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Apply now for a free week-long PhD course on Energy Humanities organized by the Greenhouse and the project Energy Lives! project run by @melinabuns.bsky.social Takes place in Stavanger, Norway, 1-5 December 2025 www.uis.no/en/research/... #envhum #envhist #energy
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Apply for PhD Course on Energy Humanities
5 ECTS PhD course ‘Themes within Environmental Humanities’ to be held in Stavanger, 1-5 December 2025. This year’s thematic focus is the developing field of the Energy Humanities.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
'In a time of ecological crisis and economic inequality, the authors argue that closing off inquiry into alternatives to GDP growth is not just anti-scientific but dangerously regressive.'
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Luca Trenta @lucatrenta.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
In a day in which those who perpetrated a genocide and those who were complicit gather to pat themselves on the back as peacemakers, I recommend two books.
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Adam Wickberg @adamwickberg.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
We are hiring! Prospective PhD students in environmental history, history of science, history of technology and STS interested in the climate and environmental impacts of AI look here. Please share in your networks. #envhist #histsci #AI #anthropcoene
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Jamal abu hashem🇵🇸 @jamalzuhir.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Honestly, it’s exhausting that people think Gazans should only ask for help to survive to eat, to stay alive but not to dream, to study, or to rebuild their lives. Wanting education, safety, and a future isn’t greed. It’s being human.
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Quarry Farm Symposium, my favorite event on our annual calendar, kicks off tonight with a discussion of everyday ecofascism with @aprilanson.bsky.social & Alexander Menrisky. This year’s theme is Energy Studies, co-organized with @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social. marktwainstudies.com/2025-quarry-...
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John MacNeill Miller @snarlsdickens.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
The deadline for submissions to the next Northeast Victorian Studies Association conference is just two weeks away! Just because the theme is “Silences”doesn’t mean you should let this CFP pass by you in silence—go ahead and submit!
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Priti Joshi @pritijoshi.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
The deadline for Curran Fellowships is fast approaching: Oct 15 (letters due a week later). Who doesn't want money for travel & research? So much exciting work to do on British/empire periodicals of the long 19th c!
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Julia Ditter @juliaditter.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Deadline today!
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