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Laura Gowing

@lauragowing.bsky.social
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Professing feminist history, early modern women and queer stuff at King’s College London, History Workshop Jnl and around town.

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IHR Women @ihrwomen.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 31 AUGUST Call for Participants for IHR Women's History Seminar Lightning Talks to be held Friday, 20th of November 2026. @ihr.bsky.social @clairelanghamer.bsky.social @lauragowing.bsky.social @dralanagharris.bsky.social @carmenmangion.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social
Call for participants for Lightning Talks at Institute of Historical Research University of London Women's History SeminarLast year's participants
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Prof Carmen M. Mangion @carmenmangion.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
IHR Women's History Seminar Lightning Talks. Please post! @dralanagharris.bsky.social @lauragowing.bsky.social @sshmedicine.bsky.social @socialhistsoc.bsky.social @camunicampop.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.org
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Annalisa Nicholson @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
✨ KCL is offering a fully-funded MPhil/PhD in French via the Sévigné Scholarship 🖋️. Details here: www.kcl.ac.uk/study/postgr...
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French Research | King's College London
MPhil/PhD Research in French at King's College London.
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Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War @slaveryinwar.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Applications Reopened – Two Fully Funded AHRC PhD Studentship Missed the first round? Applications have now reopened for two fully funded AHRC PhD studentships with the Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War at King's College London.
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Hannah Murphy @hsmurphy.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Please share! A rare PhD studentship @kingshistory.bsky.social *fully* funded by @slaveryinwar.bsky.social to work with myself and Maeve Ryan, supported by a broader community of experts in Caribbean history, transatlantic slavery, and the history of war. www.kcl.ac.uk/study/fundin... 🗃️
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AHRC Studentship: Slavery and the Seven Years’ War within and across the Caribbean Archipelago | King's College London
The Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War (CRSW) is pleased to announce the availability of a fully funded AHRC doctoral studentship, to be jointly supervised across History and War Studies
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Morwenna Ludlow @morwennaexe.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
#DefendExeterUni
Exeter Academics Elected to the British Academy Fellowship, 2026. We are all truly honoured by our election to the Fellowship of the British Academy. The recognition of our work from our peers means an enormous amount to us. It also reflects the wonderful, supportive and collegial environment of the Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Exeter where we work.
However, it's hard to celebrate when our University's management has decided to launch a devastating attack on humanities and social sciences at Exeter, putting nearly all the academics in the Faculty (including us) "at risk" of compulsory redundancy.
These drastic, rushed and myopic cuts undermine the very environment in which our work was able to flourish. The targeted attack on Humanities and Social Sciences represents a catastrophic failure to understand the critical role of humanities and social sciences in public life, and why understanding human society and its history is more important today than it has ever been. 
Rob Gleave, Professor of Arabic Studies (Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies); Mark Jackson, Professor of the History of Medicine (Archaeology and History); Morwenna Ludlow, Professor of Christian History and Theology (Classics, Ancient History, Religion, and Theology)
Jane Whittle, Professor of Economic and Social History (Archaeology and History)
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
'The study authors say that continuous exposure to such tools can cause clinicians to become “less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance”.' 2/2
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Endoscopist deskilling risk after exposure to artificial intelligence in colonoscopy: a multicentre, observational study
Continuous exposure to AI might reduce the ADR of standard non-AI assisted colonoscopy, suggesting a negative effect on endoscopist behaviour.
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Alasdair Cameron @alasdaircameron.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Apparently there are data centres with 70 GW of power needs applying to be built. Thats roughly TWICE the entire electricity demand of the WHOLE COUNTRY. If you are wondering why Tony Blair’s bosses are upset by net zero look no further.
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Laura Gowing @lauragowing.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Today’s post brought a grand haul! Thanks @sdamussen.bsky.social @sarahabendall.bsky.social and Leah Astbury!
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Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
*Violent Waters: Environmental Politics in Early Modern England* An important new book from @ellydezateux.bsky.social shows 'how environments were politically constructed and contested, and how environmental concerns inflected politics'. 🗃️ Cambridge UP: www.cambridge.org/core/books/v...
Screenshot of the first page of Violent Waters book.Cover of 'Violent Waters: Environmental Politics in Early Modern England' by Elly Robson Dezateux
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Pierre Purseigle @purseigle.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
🚨History Job: Assistant Professor in Early Modern British History (Permanent) 🗃️ Come work with us at Warwick! You will join a group of excellent early-modernists and one of the nicest bunches of historians around! 👇👇👇 @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...
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Assistant Professor in Early Modern British History (111286-0126) - University of Warwick
Title: Assistant Professor in Early Modern British History (111286-0126). Application Deadline: . Position Type: Permanent
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CEMS KCL @cemskcl.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Deadline to submit draft application is this Wednesday (4th Feb)! We're hosting a webinar on drafting applications for postdoc fellowships on 12th Feb. Your application will be reviewed and discussed by assessors and successful applicants. Full details below.
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IHR Women @ihrwomen.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Join us live at the IHR and online. Free registration. tinyurl.com/229on2w7 @lauragowing.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social @clairelanghamer.bsky.social @carmenmangion.bsky.social @dralanagharris.bsky.social @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social @harkaway1.bsky.social
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
We are supporting this conference on Charles Ignatius Sancho, the late-18thC Black British polymath. A recent upsurge in scholarly discoveries makes it timely to bring together international scholars and practitioners for the first time in over 25 years! www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/briti...
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Charles Ignatius Sancho: a Black British man of letters and his world
Charles Ignatius Sancho, late-18th-century Black British polymath, is a foundational figure in Black British history; a recent upsurge in scholarly discoveries of his life has occurred in parallel wit...
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Haven't yet had time to read Toby's Green's 2025 The Heretic of Cacheu? Find out swiftly about Crispina Peres, 'the most powerful trader in the town in the 1650s-60s'. #Skystorians
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Lessons in pluralism from a 17th-century African town | Aeon Essays
The 17th-century town Cacheu was a hub of West African and European cultures, languages and beliefs (and run by women)
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CEMS KCL @cemskcl.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
A 🧵 of CEMS events and opportunities this term! Next Tuesday at 14:00 we'll be hosting a workshop on doing a PhD. kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/doing...
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Doing a PhD Workshop — CEMS KCL Blog
Join CEMS for a discussion on doing a PhD. We will hear from current PhD across King’s. Tuesday 27th January at 15:00 in Bush House (SE), 2.01. Light refreshments will be provided.
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Laura Gowing @lauragowing.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
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History Workshop Journal's 100th Issue: a celebration
Celebration of HWJ's 100th edition
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Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
This is a stunning resource, beautifully presented - congratulations to Ros Smith Kathy Acheson and their team emwmlibrary.com
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The Library of Early Modern Women's Marginalia
The Library of Early Modern Women's Marginalia.
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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
An early modern anti-multi-tasking emblem and slogan... “We cannot all do everything” Jacob Hoefnagel, 1634 (British Museum)
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
How is technology reshaping modern love? Great panel discussion we are holding on this topic on 26 March with @drkatedevlin.bsky.social @lukebrunning.bsky.social @shannonphilip.bsky.social Book here - free - in person or online www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/the-a...
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Love in the time of tech
Explore how technology is transforming modern love. Take part in an interactive chat-app installation and join an expert-led panel discussion exploring how technology is reshaping modern love.
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IHR Women @ihrwomen.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Join us live at the IHR and online Free registration: tinyurl.com/24fgrxbe @carmenmangion.bsky.social @lauragowing.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social @clairelanghamer.bsky.social @dralanagharris.bsky.social @sydradford.bsky.social @emiliastu.bsky.social @harkaway1.bsky.social LIGHTNING TALKS 2025
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
“Around six months after the cyber incident I talked to the then chair of the science select committee, who was not aware of this incident” w o w
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Miles King @milesking.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
While so many politicians & the media are obsessing over 39000 people crossing the channel in small boats in 2025... The Office for National Statistics just announced they got the figure for UK nationals emigrating in 2024 wrong. The ERROR was 97,000 people. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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UK net migration dropped more than first reported, ONS says
Net migration to the UK last year was 20% lower than previously thought.
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IHR Women @ihrwomen.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Join us live at the IHR or online. Register: tinyurl.com/2xt3th36 @carmenmangion.bsky.social @lauragowing.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social @clairelanghamer.bsky.social @dralanagharris.bsky.social @harkaway1.bsky.social @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social @ihrblackbritish.bsky.social @long18thsem.bsky.social
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IHR Women @ihrwomen.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
The IHR Women's History seminar programme for autumn 2025: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/seminars/womens-history is now available. We look forward to seeing you soon! @clairelanghamer.bsky.social @carmenmangion.bsky.social @lauragowing.bsky.social @dralanagharris.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social
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IHR Women @ihrwomen.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Please join us for our inaugural seminar of the term in the IHR and online. Register: tinyurl.com/298ssvkr @ihr.bsky.social @clairelanghamer.bsky.social @dralanagharris.bsky.social @carmenmangion.bsky.social @lauragowing.bsky.social @harkaway1.bsky.social @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social
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Clive Thompson @clivethompson.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
This is really fascinating Wikipedia's list of linguistic and stylist "tells" of AI writing, the better to help editors recognize it en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
A Wikipedia-style guideline page on avoiding exaggerated wording by LLMs, with two sections titled Undue emphasis on symbolism and importance and Promotional language. Each section lists “words to watch” in a beige box, such as "stands as a testament", "plays a vital role", "rich cultural heritage", "breathtaking", and "must-see". Below, example sentences are shown with problematic phrases highlighted in yellow, including "enhancing its significance", "captivates both residents and visitors alike", "stands as a symbol", "reflects the evolving identity", "vibrant town with a rich cultural heritage", "fascinating glimpse into the diverse tapestry", and "value-driven experiences".
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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 12/08/2025
📣We're into the FINAL WEEK for applications for two Editorial Fellowship positions 2025-27!📣 Deadline is midnight 15th August (that's this Friday!), and the fellowships are open to any early career historians. See the post below for the full details: www.historyworkshop....
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Call for Applications: Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop, 2025
History Workshop is advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships in 2025, open to early career historians.
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Sadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
A 2 year postdoc research assistant job to work on the early institutional history of Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, leading to the writing of a report to contribute to broader decolonising and reparative efforts. Around 40k, deadline 5 Sept 25. app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car...
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Post-Doctoral Research Associate - LSTM Decolonial History Project | Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
The Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) is seeking a Post-Doctoral Research Associate (PDRA) to support the delivery of a two-year, independent academic research project to develop a rigorous...
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Remaking Britain: South Asian Connections and Networks @remakingbritain.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
We are proud to announce that South Asian Britain: Connecting Histories, a landmark educational website on the histories of South Asians in Britain, is now live! Visit southasianbritain.org @qmul.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social @britishlibrary.bsky.social #AHRC @uobartsmatter.bsky.social
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Women's History Network @womenshistnet.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
🚨 Are you a first-time author in women or gender history? The WHN Annual Book Prize offers £500 for the best debut monograph in this field published in the UK (2023–2024). Deadline: 15 August 2025 Open to WHN members. Details: womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-b... #WHNBookPrize #GenderHist
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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
An open letter has been launched today (27/7/25) for members of the UK academic community (academics and other university staff) to sign, to press the UK Home Office to facilitate safe passage out of Gaza for 40+ students with offers for UK universities. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Open letter from UK university staff: Request for biometric deferral and safe evacuation of incoming Palestinian students and scholars from Gaza to UK Universities
More than 40 students currently trapped in Gaza with full scholarships to UK Universities are asking for a safe route to come and study. We, the academic community hoping to welcome these scholars, ca...
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Hannah Scott @drhannahlscott.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
The next round of the BA Talent Development Scheme is open! 🚨I had one of these this year to build historic dress making skills for my performance history work - so culture studies people, don’t be put off, this is also for you!
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The Material Culture of Wills Project @materialwills.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Many thanks for sharing - we're glad you're looking forward to it - as are we! willstranscribathon.eventbrite.com
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Tudor, Stuart, and Georgian Wills Transcribathon
Join researchers from the University of Exeter in person or online to help produce transcriptions of 25,000 Tudor, Stuart & Georgian wills.
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Laura Gowing @lauragowing.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Fantastic news!
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The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Congratulations to former British Academy Book Prize winner Toby Green FBA on the release of his new book, The Heretic of Cacheu. This powerful history of the global slave trade is told through the life of one woman: Crispina Peres. Out now with Penguin 👉 buff.ly/e7yfl7p
Green background with the book The Heretic of Chacheu on front.
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Laura Gowing @lauragowing.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
@historyworkshop.org.uk is looking for new editorial fellows! For early career historians with an interest in radical, public and digital histories: paid, part-time work commissioning and editing on our digital history magazine. www.historyworkshop.org.uk/article/hist...
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CEMS KCL @cemskcl.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Not one, but two keynote lectures! Join CEMS and MMoR next week. 25.06, 17:00 - @profjennyshaw.bsky.social on "The Women of Rendezvous" 26.06, 17:00 - @sdamussen.bsky.social on "Seeing Racial Patriarchy" Full details below. kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/carib...
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Caribbean Connections: Seventeenth-Century Barbados and Britain — CEMS KCL Blog
Join King's Medicine and the Making of Race for two keynote lectures by Dr. Jenny Shaw (University of Alabama) and Prof. Susan D. Amussen (University of California Merced). Each keynote will think thr...
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Now emancipated from its paywall. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...
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To save UK higher education, start talking about knowledge - Research Professional News
Until debate on universities foregrounds their core purposes, their woes will deepen, says Margot Finn
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Dr Lucy J.S. Clarke 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🌈 no human is illegal @lucyjsclarke.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
fancy a bit of legal history, law and literature, and practice-as-research? come to my @leverhulme.ac.uk-funded workshop at @sheffieldcems.bsky.social on the 23rd May. featuring libels, process-serving, facsimile documents, lewd remarks and document eating! tinyurl.com/4ras5xtv please share widely!
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IHR Women @ihrwomen.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Register: tinyurl.com/2yytrdd8 @ihr.bsky.social @harkaway1.bsky.social @clairelanghamer.bsky.social @dralanagharris.bsky.social @carmenmangion.bsky.social @lauragowing.bsky.social
A group of women graduates at Bradford University in 1987.
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Olivia Wyatt @oliviawyatt1999.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
The Institute of Historical Research’s Black British History seminar series is hosting a writing workshop and dinner, before the first GPI Annual Lecture. Full details available on our seminar page: bit.ly/4jycw72 📍 GC202 & GC102, Queen Mary University of London 🗓️ Thursday 30th January ⏰ 16:15
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Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Applications are open for the 2025-27 Past & Present Fellowships @ihr.bsky.social are open Applications close on 31st Jan 2025 Fellows appointed will commence on 1st Oct 2025 and be tenable for 24 months Please share with your network www.history.ac.uk/fellowships/...
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Past & Present Fellowships
Past & Present Fellowships are available for two years, and open to researchers who have completed a doctorate in history.
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Hannah Murphy @hsmurphy.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
A wonderful opportunity to undertake funded PhD research with one of the most supportive and interesting scholars I know.... #EarlyModern 🗃️
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Jon Hughes @riderjon.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
On the weaponisation of sound and silence. Extraordinary insights in this piece by audio artist/investigator Lawrence Abu Hamdan.
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‘To cough was to risk death’: the artist who mapped Syria’s Sednaya prison with testimonies from its survivors
As an artist and audio investigator, I interviewed people who had been imprisoned in a building where sound and vision were weaponised. So what should happen to this monstrous place now it has been li...
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Sadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
I’ve finally finished my book on extinction! If you’re interested in reading how ideas of race, empire, and extinction have shaped our world and left important legacies for thinking about just conservation and the future of our planet, preorder here. #skystorians uk.bookshop.org/p/books/vani...
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Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction a book by Sadiah Qureshi.
Anyone alive today is among a tiny fraction of the once living: over 90 percent of species that ever lived are now extinct. How did we come to think of ourselves as survivors in a world where species ...
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Work, Authenticity, & Social Identity in Early Modern Britain @earlymodern2025.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Please share the CFP for our Work, Authenticity, and Social Identity in Early Modern Britain Conference, to take place 10-11 June 2025 at the University of Warwick, with keynote addresses from Steve Hindle, @jwhittle.bsky.social, @markhailwood.bsky.social & @brodiewaddell.bsky.social!
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Louise Gray @drlcagray.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Being a body in a vibrant sonic space: my most personal account of listening ever in the new issue of the Wire magazine. Three.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Just advertised: UCL History Department leave cover (fixed-term, Associate Lecturer, Teaching) from Jan 2025-April 2026). US History. £43,124–£51,610. Deadline 12 Dec 2024. Details here: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Exterior of 24 Gordon Square, entrance to UCL History Dept. Late Georgian Building with red door.
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IHR Women @ihrwomen.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Join us at the IHR Women's History Seminar's inaugural lightning talks. Register: www.history.ac.uk/events/lightning-talks @ihr.bsky.social @lauragowing.bsky.social @carmenmangion.bsky.social @harkaway1.bsky.social @dralanagharris.bsky.social
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