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Laura Dietz @loradeets.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Join us for a free online research seminar Weds 23rd Sept 13:00 UTC with @lindsaythomas.net - Quantifying the Long Novel #publishing + #DH + novel data = a great lunch hour! Hosted by UCL DIS and the UCL Centre for Publishing @uclpublishing.bsky.social #SHARP www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

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Research seminar: Quantifying the Long Novel: Popularity and Prestige in the 20th Century

This talk is by Dr Lindsay Thomas, Associate Professor, Department of Literatures in English, Cornell University.

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SHARP @sharpweb.org · 23/06/2026

Are you interested in contemporary publishing, texts, and readers? Then you'll love the SHARPIES festival, which kicks off in just two weeks! Registration is still open and free for SHARP members. SHARP membership is 55-100USD. events.zoom.us/ev/Ap9iEZwmC...

A Conversation about Digital-Textual Histories, Martin Paul Eve in conversation with Matthew Kirschenbaum, Tuesday, July 7 @ 1pm UTC
What Contemporary Readers Do: A Spoken Word Interactive Video Game Experience, a Keynote Address by Beth Driscoll, Wednesday, July 8 @ 6:30am UTC
Writing Backward and Big Fiction in Conversation, Alexander Manshel and Dan Sinykin interviewed by Greg Barnhisel, Wednesday, July 8 @ 7:30pm UTC

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SHARP @sharpweb.org · 18/06/2026

Are you interested in book history around the globe? Check out the SHARPIES online, global book history festival, taking place July 7th-9th. Free for SHARP members (and membership is between 55–100USD). Time is running out, so register today! events.zoom.us/ev/Ap9iEZwmC...

Ancient Book History: What Can We Learn by Studying Material Transmission and Transformation in the Ancient Mediterranean? A keynote address by Mark Lester & Mark Letteney, July 8 @ 7:30pm UTC
Minority Publishing: A Conversation, hosted by Asha Rogers, July 9 @ 8:00am UTC
The World and the Book: A Conversation, hosted by Kirsti Salmi-Niklander, July 9 @ 2:30pm UTC
All-languages Book Recommendation Fika Social Hour, hosted by Andrea Reyes Elizondo, July 9 @ 7:30pm UTC

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SHARP @sharpweb.org · 26/05/2026

Have you ever wondered what SHARP is? How to get published in one of SHARP's publications? Or how the SHARP Book Prize gets awarded? You're not alone! Register for the SHARPIES to get answers to these questions and more! events.zoom.us/ev/Ap9iEZwmC...

A poster for the following events:
SHARP News Editor Panel with Allie Alvis, Madeline Zehnder and hosted by Jolie Braun, Wednesday, July 8 @ 6pm UTC
Editor Insights: Book History and Lingua Franca with Yuri Cowan and Susan Pickford and hosted by Michelle Michel, Thursday, July 9 @ 1pm UTC
Demystifying the SHARP Book Prize, Kinohi Nishikawa interviewed by Shafquat Towheed, Thursday, July 9 @ 6pm UTC.

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Sarah Werner @wynkenhimself.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Come think about Feminist Bibliography with me this summer! I’m teaching a one-week online course for @calrbs.bsky.social—I love this class and am excited to do it again. Description below; priority deadline April 15; all details at www.calrbs.org/feminist-bib...

This online course considers what might constitute a feminist approach to studying books, what the benefits of such approaches are, and how to incorporate them into our own work.
We will center the textual object in exploring these issues, letting artifacts drive our questions rather than the actions of book makers, sellers, or collectors. Another way of putting this is that the course won't ask who women printing books were, but rather, who determined the terms on which we engage with books. This doesn't mean ignoring the many agents involved in book work, including the people involved in the long history of book trades, the academic field of print culture and textual editing, and the intersection of these with library practices. But it means that our work this week will be focused on generating
questions about methodology rather than recovering names and histories.

We will also wrestle with the theory and practice of feminism, which has a history of different meanings for different communities, and how to develop it as an inclusive practice for our book work. If living a feminist life is, as Sara Ahmed argues, something we must return to over and over, something that we put into practice daily rather than something that stays in the classroom, how do we bring that into our spaces of book work?
Through a combination of short advance readings about bibliography and feminism, course discussions, and your own work with textual artifacts, we will explore what questions are brought to the forefront when we approach our work through a feminist framework.
Participants should anticipate two concurrent and two asynchronous sessions each course day, with those sessions being scheduled to accommodate the range of US time zones; asychronous sessions could involve exercises, readings, and off-camera discussions.

Discussions and exercises will also try explore different models of pedagogy in order to give participants a feel for what methodologies might suit them best.
The course is intended to be of use to anyone researching, teaching, or acting as a custodian for rare books; although we will pay careful attention to the first centuries of western printing, since the study of those books have shaped the field of bibliography as a whole, the issues the course will consider cover all periods of book study. Participants should not expect to come out of the course having mastered a feminist history of books, but to leave with a set of tools to ask feminist questions of books.

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UCL Art Librarian @uclartlibrarian.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

The call for applications for the UCL Small Press in Residence 2026 is now open. The residency is hosted by @uclspeccoll.bsky.social in collaboration with the @sladeschoolucl.bsky.social and @uclpublishing.bsky.social Please share: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll...

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Call for Small Press in Residence 2026 | UCL UCL Special Collections

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UCL Publishing @uclpublishing.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Join the Bookselling Research Network on Friday, March 13th for what will be a fascinating talk by Sarah Harkness: Literature for the People: How the Pioneering Macmillan Brothers built a Publishing Powerhouse booksellingresearchnet.uk/event/harkne... #bookhistory #publishing

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Literature for the People: How the Pioneering Macmillan Brothers built a Publishing Powerhouse - Bookselling Research Network

Sarah Harkness speaks on her recent book, "Literature for the People: How the Pioneering Macmillan Brothers built a Publishing Powerhouse"

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Laura Dietz @loradeets.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Working with @kajamarczewska.bsky.social and the amazing team at @uclspeccoll.bsky.social - what could be better? Deadline 23 March, 10am London time, apply!

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Laura Dietz @loradeets.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

This conversation will be fantastic - 10 years on from Words Onscreen, the chance to talk to Naomi Baron about AI and the future of reading. Online at 2pm GMT today (and free!)

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Laura Dietz @loradeets.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Really looking forward to this talk by @tylershores.bsky.social at @uclpublishing.bsky.social - some space available for in person attendance as well! #reading #publishing #bookhistory

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UCL Grand Challenges @uclgrandchallenges.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Approaches to promote children’s mental health and wellbeing Date: Feb 9 | Time: 3pm to 5pm Location: 26 Bedford Way Hear from UCL academics as they explore how arts, leisure & physical activity can foster resilience & wellbeing in young people. bit.ly/49iLxcz

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Approaches to promote children’s mental health and wellbeing

Join us on 9th February for a special event during Children's Mental Health Week 2026.

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Laura Dietz @loradeets.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Still time to register for today’s @uclpublishing.bsky.social free online event, Understanding the Digital Public Library Ecosystem, with guest speakers @kiberens.bsky.social and Prof Rachel Noorda - sign up via www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

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Understanding the Digital Public Library Ecosystem

Players, processes, and how publishers can work with libraries to reach readers

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Charlotte Connelly @curatorconnelly.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

The @scottpolar.bsky.social are looking for a librarian. This is a rare opportunity! Work with (probably) the world's largest dedicated polar library alongside archive and museum colleagues. The dream 😍 📜

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Librarian

The Library of the Scott Polar Research Institute is one of the most comprehensive collections of published polar information in the world. This highly specialist reference collection, which attracts

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Daniel Wilson @danielwilson.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

!Stop Press! Article on bias in digitised newspaper collections: ’Whose News’, in the new journal of @comphumresearch.bsky.social by Kaspar Beelen, @jonhistorian61.bsky.social, @kmcdono.bsky.social and me. See blog for summary & 🧵 1/7 Article doi.org/10.1017/chr.... Blog is.gd/2IFc30 #dh #c19 🗃️

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Whose news? Critical methods for assessing bias in large historical datasets | Computational Humanities Research | Cambridge Core

Whose news? Critical methods for assessing bias in large historical datasets - Volume 1

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UCL Publishing @uclpublishing.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Looking forward to tonight's www.beinghumanfestival.org/events/digit... event: 100+ booked but some tickets still available. See you on Zoom at 6pm UK time for a wide-ranging discussion of the impact of reading on our health and wellbeing

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Digital Bibliotherapy: Reading for Wellbeing

What happens to reading for wellbeing when the books aren’t on paper, or a reading community meets in a virtual space? How, and why, do reading practices change, and what does this mean for readers wh...

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Laura Dietz @loradeets.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

…and with @shaftowheed.bsky.social of @openuniversity.bsky.social and Dr Carina Spaulding of @readingagency.bsky.social as well - join us tomorrow to share ideas on reading for wellbeing! Thank you to @beinghumanfest.bsky.social and @uclgrandchallenges.bsky.social for making the event possible 📚

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Laura Dietz @loradeets.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

So looking forward to this event, and hearing from Dr Nenna Orie Chuku, Dr Katharine Smales, and Prof Sam Duncan - our thanks as always to @uclgrandchallenges.bsky.social for generous support of this research #reading #wellbeing @sharpweb.org @beinghumanfest.bsky.social

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The Price Lab @pricelab.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

🚨 Job alert! UPenn Libraries, on behalf of @digitalscriptorium.bsky.social, seeks to appoint an early career library professional or postdoctoral researcher with a background in premodern manuscript studies for an NEH-funded, 22-month Manuscript Data Curation Fellowship 📜

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Manuscript Data Curation Fellow

University Overview The University of Pennsylvania, the largest private employer in Philadelphia, is a world-renowned leader in education, research, and innovation. This historic, Ivy League school co...

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Institute of English Studies @ies-sas.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

📚Join us on 30 Oct 2025 at Senate House for The History of English Studies in Britain symposium 🎤 Speakers include Carole Atherton, Gail Marshall, Ronan McDonald, Christopher Stray, Stuart Jones, & Stefan Collini Free (booking required)👉 tinyurl.com/43z9mxnc #EnglishStudies #Humanities #Literature

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The History of English Studies in Britain: a Symposium

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Ryan Heuser @ryanheuser.com · 06/09/2025

FYI: We are hiring a 3-year research postdoc at @camdighum.bsky.social to study AI and the future of creativity. Application deadline Sep 21; more info below. Please circulate / apply! www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/about/news/r...

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Now Hiring: Research Associate (Fixed Term) - CDH

Cambridge Digital Humanities (CDH) seeks to appoint a postdoctoral researcher in Digital Humanities. The post will run for three years from Spring 2026. The successful candidate will work with Profess...

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Catherine Fletcher @catherinefletcher.info · 07/09/2025

Quick rundown for non-US academics of whether you're likely to be eligible for the Anthropic payout: 1. you have works published in or before 2022 2. which are registered for US copyright (most likely if you had a US publisher, not otherwise): check here publicrecords.copyright.gov 1/2

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Laura Dietz @loradeets.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

…and another permanent, full time role available at UCL DIS: Lecturer/Associate Professor in Publishing Practice, Grade 8/9. Closing date 16th September. Come work with us! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

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UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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Laura Dietz @loradeets.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Closing date coming up soon: Monday 8th Sept for the Lecturer (Teaching) in Publishing, Knowledge Production, Platforms and Society role (permanent, full time). Click below for details and to apply!

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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

So @theturing.bsky.social has decided they no longer need Humanities (!) - so the The Alan Turing Institute’s Humanities and Data Science Interest Group are having one final event: "Network power: the humanities and data science in collaboration" In person and online, Oxford, 25th Sept. Pls share!

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Network power: the humanities and data science in collaboration

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Alyssa Arbuckle @alyssaarbuckle.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

So great to see this in the world. Thank you to editor Janneke Adema, all of the authors, reviewers, and fine folks at @michiganpublishing.bsky.social for creating this timely special issue!

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Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

CFP: Thinking of the Children: Book Bans, Censorship and Literature for Young People An online conference hosted by the University of Münster 11-12 February 2026 Abstracts due 11:59pm on 31 August! Full CFP and to submit: indico.uni-muenster.de/event/3505/ Please share!

A pile of books on a red background with a QR code with white text which reads: Thinking of the Children: Book Bans, Censorship and Literature for Young People. It's a CFP for an online conference hosted by the University of Münster, 11-12 February 2026. For the full CFP, an easier to read version is available at bit.ly/CFPThinkingOfTheChildren

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Laura Dietz @loradeets.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Come work with us! Three jobs with UCL Department of Information Studies: first up, Lecturer (Teaching): Publishing, Knowledge Production, Platforms and Society - application deadline 8th Sept www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

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UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC) @csmc-hamburg.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Do your PhD in Manuscript Cultures with us! Our Grad School invites applications for full PhD scholarships (3 years, 1300 EUR/month + allowances) in the Scholarship Programme of the German Academic Exchange Service @daadworldwide.bsky.social Apply by 30 Sep! More info here👉 uhh.de/csmc-scholar...

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Alexander Manshel @manshel.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

More than 30 years worth of data on UK literary prizes (and their winners) goes live today @post45data.bsky.social! Bravo to researchers Katherine Binhammer, Kanika Batra, Theo Gray, and Maryse Jayasuriya for compiling and publishing this incredible resource! data.post45.org/posts/britis...

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Selected British Literary Prizes (1990-2022) – Post45 Data Collective

The Selected British Literary Prizes (SBLP) dataset contains information on nine major literary prizes in the U.K. from 1990 to 2022 and demographic information on 682 prize winners and shortlisted au...

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Mia Sato @miasato.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

The Sun-Times' AI content also includes made up experts, quotes, and publications. It's the same story, over and over: a news outlet outsources work to freelancers or third-party firms that use AI, and that content is thrown in with actual human work w/o review. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

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Chicago Sun-Times publishes made-up books and fake experts in AI debacle

A summer reading guide included made-up books by real authors.

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gill partington @gillpartington.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

A reminder that THIS is coming up next month. A week-long deep dive into the artists' book, with some amazing guest speakers and visits to key collections. Places still available so PLEASE SHARE!!! 16-20th June, London Rare Books School Book here: ies.sas.ac.uk/london-rare-...

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UCL Publishing @uclpublishing.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Interdisciplinary conference from a brilliant team: exploring texts and the human experience #publishingstudies #digitalhumanities #DH

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Dr Francesca Benatti @rhymesontheroad.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Postgraduate student in book history or literary studies? Apply for a bursary to the Digital Scholarship Winter School. Learn concepts and methods for research on new sources and media technologies. Generously sponsored by @sharpnews.bsky.social digital-humanities.open.ac.uk/text-affects... 2/end

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Text Affects at The Open University

Digital Humanities allows scholars to approach old problems with new means, or to ask new questions that could not have been asked with the traditional means of humanistic enquiry. Whatever the approa...

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Dr Francesca Benatti @rhymesontheroad.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Join us on 16-18 December in Chieti to explore how texts — from hypertexts and digital narratives to literature and social media — shape human experience: influencing social change, reframing histories. CfP open now digital-humanities.open.ac.uk/text-affects... 1/

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Text Affects at The Open University

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Dr Rebecca Williams @augustaquarius.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Fully funded PhD at Glasgow University as part of the AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership Scheme Fanfiction and Online Fan Communities: Collecting Practice and Inclusion in a National Collection www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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Fanfiction and Online Fan Communities: Collecting Practice and Inclusion in a National Collection at University of Glasgow on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Fanfiction and Online Fan Communities: Collecting Practice and Inclusion in a National Collection at University of Glasgow, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Merisa Martinez @merisamartinez.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

EADH seeks to elect 4 new members to the Executive Committee. We encourage direct members & members of AOs (DHNB, CzADH, AIUCD, DhD) to self-nominate for these positions to better rep EADH/AO joint missions. To vote/nominate, must be member in good standing by 25 April (Friday!) eadh.org/membership

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Membership | EADH - The European Association for Digital Humanities

Become a direct member of the EADH or join one of its Associate Organizations. EADH's membership fees will be set at €34/£29/$45. Direct membership of the EADH can also be combined with a subscription...

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Cambridge University Library @theul.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

📣The Charles Darwin Archive has been added to the prestigious @unesco.org International Memory of the World Register! 🔎Read the full story: loom.ly/g_s0slk

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Charles Darwin Archive recognised by United Nations Agency

The Charles Darwin Archive has been recognised on the prestigious UNESCO International Memory of the World Register.

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Alastair Owens @alastairhackney.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

I have a fully-funded, 4 yr AHRC collaborative PhD studentship 'Soundscapes of domesticity: music and lived experiences in non-elite English homes, 1780–1870' supervised by myself and Matt Ingleby with colleagues at The Museum of the Home. Deadline 23 May See: www.qmul.ac.uk/geog/postgra...

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UCL Publishing @uclpublishing.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Lynette Owen and Diane Spivey, two of our favourite regular UCL MA Publishing guests, are running a 2025 edition of their renowned Selling Rights short course at IES (this year with the brilliant Juliet Pickering as well) #publishing

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Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

!! it's here this was a total joy to work on -- a riso catalogue for Seized Books!, printed and stitched by PageMasters, phenomenally illustrated by Esther MacManus and with an Afterword by Michael Bronski Looking forward to getting my hands on a physical copy soon

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Lise Jaillant @lisejaillant.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Happy #WorldPoetryDay! 🌍✍️ Excited to share my new open-access monograph, Women Poets, Male Publishers! It explores how publishers like Carcanet have rediscovered women poets since the 1960s. Read it for free here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007... #Poetry #WomenInLiterature @lboroor.bsky.social

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Laura Dietz @loradeets.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

An extra fun surprise: took me a minute to notice how many edited collections appear only under editor name(s). So chapters in there too, in case the articles, stories, books get lonely. Echo what others have said: feels different to know.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Digital History: permanent post (Lecturer, standard teaching and research contract) at UCL History Department in Digital History. We're a friendly and diverse group with ace access to research resources and diverse, smart and friendly student cohorts. 1/2 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMI974/l...

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Laura Dietz @loradeets.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

13,000 responses to the AI govt consultation 👏

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Laura Dietz @loradeets.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

The lecture is brilliant! 🧠🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🥳

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Laura Dietz @loradeets.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

In case we needed a reminder of how important the creative industries are to the UK economy (spoiler from @melissaterras.bsky.social , bigger than construction) www.eca.ed.ac.uk/event/inaugu...

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Inaugural Lecture by Professor Melissa Terras | Edinburgh College of Art

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