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Dr Jessamy Carlson

@jessamycarlson.bsky.social
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Archivist. Historian. Knitter. Walker. Guider. Mama. Half deaf.

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Dr Jessamy Carlson @jessamycarlson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Delighted to be talking today about Spaces Places & Belinging, and the Community Hub grants we have given out at the @heritagenetwork.bsky.social conference in Belfast!
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Heritage Network (@heritagenetwork.bsky.social)
The Heritage Network (formerly Heritage Trust Network) is the UK's umbrella body for organisations that are rescuing, restoring and re-using historic buildings, structures and spaces. https://herita...
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Heritage Network @heritagenetwork.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
We've created a UK Heritage Restoration and Regeneration starter pack! It includes organisations and individuals who are rescuing, restoring, re-using and running historic buildings, structures and places across the UK. Know anyone else who should be included? #Heritage go.bsky.app/4ghsGmp
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Melinda Haunton @melindahaunton.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Out in ARA Today, a tender for developing an action learning set to support small archive services to apply for Accreditation. Consultants, please look! (Potential applicants, get thinking...) www.archives.org.uk/news/consult...
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Consultancy brief: Developing and delivering a pilot Action Learning programme to allow small archive services to apply for Archive Service Accreditation. — Archives & Records Association
‍Consultancy Brief: Developing and delivering a pilot Action Learning programme to allow small archive services to apply for Archive Service Accreditation This web page available as a pdf here. ‍‍...
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Dr Jessamy Carlson @jessamycarlson.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
On my way to Oxford for the British Crime Historians conference, where I am giving a paper on interwar juvenile crime and contributing to a round table on Murder in the Archives. Not literal murder. Obviously. More details here: sites.google.com/brookes.ac.u...
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British Crime Historians Symposium 2026
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Dr Jessamy Carlson @jessamycarlson.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I’ve got some events coming up, which regular readers may enjoy. First up, I’ve got a webinar on #localhistory and getting started next week. Details here: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/whats-on/eve...
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Researching your local history
Uncover your local history with The National Archives.
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Robert Fleming @flemingrob.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
This... And it was more accurate than internet results these days. bsky.app/profile/sjvn...
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Dr Jessamy Carlson @jessamycarlson.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
This should be an excellent event tomorrow on the history of fingerprinting. Do come along and join us online! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/leaving-a-...
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Leaving a mark: 125 Years of fingerprinting at the Met
Discover the evolution of fingerprinting over the last 125 years.
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Dr Jessamy Carlson @jessamycarlson.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Happy Sunday! #ArchivesFest is on at The National Archives. Lots of treats in store including Magna Carta, and me talking Family History. Come join us in our lovely air conditioning!
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Dr Jessamy Carlson @jessamycarlson.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
The temporary crown I had fitted yesterday has fallen out and I am really having to work hard not to have a major freak out. Argh.
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Dr Jessamy Carlson @jessamycarlson.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Daughter has been to visit her 3x Great Uncle John at Tyne Cot today, which has cheered me greatly. We haven’t been out since his centenary so I am glad someone has been able to go again. www.cwgc.org/find-records...
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James Elder @jameselder.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Lovely story, and thankfully devoid of the clichés and errors that are often present when finds in archives are reported.
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‘Vanishingly rare’ copy of US Declaration of Independence found by volunteer in UK archives
One of 11 surviving copies of ‘Exeter printing’ and only one known outside US was taken from American privateer ship
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Graham Moore @mooregraham.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
we have some fun 4 July news over at The National Archives! a new copy of the US Declaration of Independence, with an amazing story behind it (privateers! printers! prisoners!) - but also, a find that shows the power and importance of our volunteering and cataloguing projects.
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‘Vanishingly rare’ copy of US Declaration of Independence found by volunteer in UK archives
One of 11 surviving copies of ‘Exeter printing’ and only one known outside US was taken from American privateer ship
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Dr Jessamy Carlson @jessamycarlson.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
I have to take my daughter to school for a trip at 3am. I am still not home from Sheffield. Tomorrow is going to be interesting.
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Claire Phillips @clartyclara.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Great first day at #histchild26. Looking forward to presenting on siblings in Welsh Workhouses tomorrow. The panel is part of our forthcoming special issue on siblings in institutional care.
Part of a conference programme showing a panel on Sibling Relationships in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century British and Australian Care Institutions.
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Dr Jessamy Carlson @jessamycarlson.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
At last. This is long overdue, given the extensive impact it has had. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Victims of forced adoption to get formal apology after years of campaigning
The practice saw thousands of babies taken from their mothers between 1949 and 1976.
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Piers Haslam 🌺 @phghaslam.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
A fully-funded queer history PhD opportunity!
westminster.ac.uk
The Development of a Gayborhood in post-war London: Mapping Soho and its archives | University of Westminster, London
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Teresa Doherty @dohertyta.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
#HistNursing #WW1 Lovely blog to go with #TeaUp 🫖
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Dr Jessamy Carlson @jessamycarlson.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Am up in Sheffield at the moment for the @histchild.bsky.social conference. Have enjoyed various papers, stretching from Lincolnshire Poor Law to teenage romance in 1960s Liverpool. Looking forward to more to come.
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Daniel F Gosling @thegozfather.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
I'm really excited to be hosting the Murder in the Archives! session at this year's British Crime Historians Symposium at Oxford Brookes in September. Featuring m'learned colleagues @krmaude.bsky.social, @jessamycarlson.bsky.social, and Charlotte Smith. sites.google.com/brookes.ac.u...
Typed writing from a conference programme
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Dr Jessamy Carlson @jessamycarlson.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Take @drtahaneyalghrani.bsky.social and I to Glasgow and we’ll inadvertently stumble across the nearest former home for ‘wayward’ girls…
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Journal of Women's History @jwomenshistory.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
The Berkshire Conference (@berksconference) on the History of Women, Gender, and Sexualities, “Beyond Boundaries: Gender, History and the Futures We Imagine,” will be in Minneapolis June 10–13, 2027. Now accepting proposals for individual papers, panels, roundtables, and works-in-progress workshops.
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Dr Jessamy Carlson @jessamycarlson.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Today at Rainbows (5-7yos) we learnt about voting and the government. They were full of excellent plans for the future - when tasked with setting policy priorities one informed me solemnly that they plan to allow the eating of chocolate for breakfast. The future is bright. 🌈
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Daniel F Gosling @thegozfather.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
If you heard me cackling in the Map Room earlier this week, it's because I was adding this 1630 Court of Requests dispute about a wet beaver (hat) to the online catalogue 🫢 TNA REQ 2/402/73. discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C2...
Text from an online catalogue description
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Dr Jessamy Carlson @jessamycarlson.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
One of my pet interests is the history of the Occupation, and this story caught my eye this morning: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Finding soldier Tom: Solving family mystery of WW2 Soviet prisoner of war
He was saved by a Jersey family after escaping a Nazi labour camp, but after the war he disappeared in the Soviet Union.
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Cambridge University History Faculty @camhistory.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
How @camunicampop.bsky.social researchers are turning static snapshots of Victorian Britain into dynamic life histories. The team are linking over 200 million census records, revealing how people moved, worked and lived in ways never before possible. 🔎 Read on 👉 www.hist.cam.ac.uk/news/tracing...
How researchers are linking over 200 million census records to transform historical research
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Dr Jessamy Carlson @jessamycarlson.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Folks! We’re recruiting another specialist for my team. Please spread the word https//www.civilse...
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Quick Check Needed
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Dr Jessamy Carlson @jessamycarlson.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Wednesday evenings, brought to you during the 90 minute window waiting for my daughter to do cadets, which comprises a food shop and what I’ve taken to referring to as car admin (admin undertaken from the car). All the glamour
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Jennifer Aston @drjenniferaston.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Yesterday's Broken Bonds conference was everything I hoped it would be. From parliamentary #divorce to the mid-20thC family courts, domestic #abuse & legacies of #coverture, the scholarship was outstanding. Lady Hale's keynote was unforgettable. Watch this space for news of an edited collection...
A hand-drawn visual summary of the Broken Bonds conference on a green background. The title "Broken Bonds: New Perspectives on Marital Breakdown in the English Common Law World 1801-1969" appears at the top in bold decorative lettering. The image contains twelve illustrated circular vignettes, each representing a conference paper, with key themes and keywords highlighted in banners and speech bubbles. Topics include parliamentary divorce, the Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes 1857, domestic violence, bigamy, Scottish divorce law, homosexuality in the mid-twentieth century divorce court, and coverture. Silhouetted figures of Victorian men and women appear throughout. Logos for Northumbria University, the ESRC, Welsh Women's Aid, and The National Archives appear at the bottom, alongside the credit "By Julia Bakay."
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Dr Jessamy Carlson @jessamycarlson.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
One of my MLitt students is doing their thesis on potential applications for AI based noise reduction of archival recordings of speech. If this is your area of interest, there is a survey here they’d be grateful for contributions to app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/dundee/sou... #archives #oralhistory
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Archives Sound Processing Survey
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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Dr Jessamy Carlson @jessamycarlson.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Spent yesterday at Broken Bonds, an absolutely brilliant conference examining divorce and its history. Fascinating papers and great to catch up with people. Baroness Hale on top form in addition. Congratulations on a superb day @drjenniferaston.bsky.social
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Dr Jessamy Carlson @jessamycarlson.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
We’ve got some great training courses coming at @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy for students and anyone interested in learning more about our records: all the details here www.eventbrite.com/cc/practical...
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Practical Archival Skills Training
Join The National Archives to learn from our experts how to get started with archives and find original documents for your research.
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Dr Jessamy Carlson @jessamycarlson.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Delighted that details of our recently awarded seed corn grants are now announced: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/community-hu... #spacesplacesandbelonging
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Awarded Projects - Portals
Seed Corn Grants Awarded March 2026 Black Men Teach Black Men Teach CIC will use their £5,000 grant to develop a community-led programme that centres belonging, identity and aspiration for Black boys....
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Royal College of Nursing Library and Museum @rcnlibraries.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Learn more about the crucial role nurses played in the Women's Suffrage Movement with our Historic Nursing Journals. Here's an image of nurses in suffrage procession on the 17 June 1911, just before the Coronation of George V and Mary. ✊ #RCNLibraries #HistNursing bit.ly/3OwvVu0
An image of nurses in a suffrage procession, holding flags and staring determinedly at the camera
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Oxford Centre for the History of Childhood @histchildoxford.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Excellent talk yesterday at our seminar by Ian Archer 16thC children's work - some of it under the aegis of charity - beginning a conversation tbc in our colloquium this year - Monday 22nd June, 'Charity, Humanitarianism, and Childhood' get your abstracts in! deadline 13th March 2026
Charity, Humanitarianism, and Childhood
Monday 22nd June 2026
One day colloquium: Centre for the History of Childhood, University of Oxford
Magdalen College Oxford, UK, and online
Call for Papers
We welcome papers that consider the theme of ‘Charity, Humanitarianism, and
Childhood’ from a wide variety of perspectives.
Areas that papers might explore include:
• Children’s experiences as recipients of charity and humanitarianism, including in the
context of conflict and displacement
• Children’s experiences as charitable and humanitarian actors and providers
• Representations of childhood within charitable and humanitarian discourses
• Institutions and communities that mobilise around charitable and humanitarian
relief for children
• Memories, intergenerational transmission, and legacies of charity and
humanitarianism
• Failures, limitations, and tensions resulting from charitable and humanitarian actions
• Archives for, approaches to, and public engagement with the study of charity,
humanitarianism, and childhood in the past
• Conceptual connections between care, vulnerability, and age
We welcome papers from any disciplinary or professional background and career stage,
including advanced undergraduate and graduate students. We encourage papers that
engage with the diversity of children’s and young people’s experiences in any historical
period and place.
Please send abstracts of c. 250 words for a fifteen-minute paper and a brief bio to
sian.pooley@magd.ox.ac.uk by midday on Friday 13th March 2026. We plan to offer in-
person and online participation, so please indicate your preference when submitting.
Organising Committee: Charlotte Canizo, Joseph Leidy, Siân Pooley, Susannah Wright
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Dr Jessamy Carlson @jessamycarlson.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Delighted to see @ermerlindaj.bsky.social on Our Hospital Through Time tonight. Marvellous job Kate. I made D watch it too.
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Dr Jessamy Carlson @jessamycarlson.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Nice long stomp along the Thames Path, knocking off Windsor to Bourne End and some bits around the back of Little Marlow because the TP was not so much damp as under a full foot of water. There was sunshine and spring flowers so hurrah.
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Dr Jessamy Carlson @jessamycarlson.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Most saddened to hear of the demise of the Diplomog. Rest well Palmerston. May the eternal treat jar ever be well stocked.
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Richard Ovenden @richove.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
The study points to using libraries and visiting museums as bringing these enormous brain health benefits ... who would have thought? Well, librarians and museum folk for a start ... www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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Reading and writing can lower dementia risk by almost 40%, study finds
Cognitive health in later life is ‘strongly influenced’ by lifelong exposure to intellectually stimulating environments, say researchers
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Uni of Sheffield Special Collections, Heritage and Archives SCHA @uoscollections.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Registration for History and Archives in Practice is now OPEN! We can't wait to host #HAP26 and explore intersections of archives and history! @unisheffieldlib.bsky.social @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy @ihr.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.org More info and to register ➡️ tinyurl.com/2skavaty
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History and Archives in Practice
History and Archives in Practice is where historians and archivists come together to consider shared interests in archive collections.
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Sarah Crook @sarahcrook.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
The special issue of Cultural and Social History on “Researching Student Lives: Methodological and Theoretical Perspectives” (co-ed. w Georgina Brewis & Jodi Burkett) is live - yay! Several articles are OA :) Huge thanks to our contributors & the journal editors! www.tandfonline.com/toc/rfcs20/2...
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Cultural and Social History
Researching Student Lives: Methodological and Theoretical Perspectives. Volume 23, Issue 1 of Cultural and Social History
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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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Divorce_History @divorcehistory.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
🎉 Wonderful news from our project! "Deserted Wives and Economic Divorce in 19th-Century England and Wales" by PI @drjenniferaston.bsky.social & Olive Anderson has been shortlisted for TWO prizes: the Hart-SLSA Book Prize AND the Socio-Legal Theory and History Prize! #LegalHistory #SocioLegal
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Dr Jessamy Carlson @jessamycarlson.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
There is something quietly dispiriting about undergoing a hearing test and being aware that there is probably not meant to be quite such a long gap between the noises. On the upside, my hearing has definitely deteriorated so glad to learn I was correct about that.
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Rebekah Higgitt @rhiggitt.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Yes, I've dusted off the old blog to post this. Slightly shocked to discover I hadn't posted anything since 2020. Just maybe I will start to add the odd thing again. Maybe.
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Dr Jessamy Carlson @jessamycarlson.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Very productive day at the Surrey History Centre, doing some research for a forthcoming journal article and uncovered far more than I anticipated which is great and infuriating #research #archives
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Mass Observation Archive @massobsarchive.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
We're looking to capture experiences of what it means to be queer in the UK today! To do that we're collecting day diaries for 12th February. It doesn't matter what you get up to, or how you record it, we'd love to have it!🧵 (1/4) #LGBTplusHM #lgbthm26
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Voices of Motherhood @voicesofmotherhood.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
We have now sent out the final programme for our conference to all attendees, which includes Zoom links. If you haven’t received it or if you missed out on registering email us (at the link) and we will send it to you, before we start on Thurs morning voicesofmotherhood.wp.worc.ac.uk/index.php/20...
Schedule for 'The Politics of Motherhood: Maternalism, Maternity and Mothering', an online conference on 5 and 6 February. The full programme can be found at the link.
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Daniel Grey @djrgrey.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Full time AHRC doctoral studentships now available in Arts & Humanities at University of Hertfordshire for October 2026 start - please do share widely!! This includes both History & Heritage Studies among other subjects 🌟😀 www.herts.ac.uk/research/res...
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AHRC Doctoral Landscape Award studentships
The AHRC Doctoral Landscape Award is a major new funding scheme from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). Its aim is to grow the UK’s capacity for doctoral research in the arts and humanit...
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Teresa Doherty @dohertyta.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
#HistNusing
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Dr Jessamy Carlson @jessamycarlson.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
My morning commute has been much improved by an introduction to Waffles who is very keen to investigate the possibility of snacks from every human in the carriage.
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