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Neil Stewart

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Head of Library & Digital @ihrlibrary.bsky.social at the Institute of Historical Research, London, UK @ihr.bsky.social. Libraries, history, books, music, film, current affairs, the odd bit of politics- you know, the good stuff.

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Neil Stewart @neilstewart.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Any excuse to share the brilliant video for Ghost's Daytona 500, a single from this album www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZGi...
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Ghostface Killah - Daytona 500 (Official Video) ft. Raekwon, Cappadonna
YouTube video by GhostfaceKillahVEVO
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Neil Stewart @neilstewart.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Seems like a leap from "word-guessing machine built on stolen texts" to "new silicon species" but then I'm not an AI expert like this guy, so all hail our new silicon overlords, I suppose www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Uncontrolled AI could lead to 'silicon species' rivalling humans, warns Microsoft
Mustafa Suleyman says he believes rival AI firm Anthropic is in effect teaching Claude it "may be conscious".
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Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Join us and @brepols.net for the free webinar about BBIH’s key features so you can make the most of this valuable resource! Date: October 2, 2026 Time: 14:00 (London, UK) / 09:00 AM (Eastern Time, USA) / 15:00 (Brussels) Duration: 15-20 minutes Register today: buff.ly/QwhXi5R
Details of online webinar Get ready for a new academic year with the Bibliography of British and Irish History, Friday 2 October 2026, 14:00-14:30 (BST)
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Neil Stewart @neilstewart.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The FT on erstwhile Reform policy guru James Orr is full of amazing lines: "Orr admires Orbán’s vision of a Christian Europe and has called him “the calibre of statesman we saw in the 19th century: a Castlereagh, a Metternich, a Bismarck, a Palmerston”." Gift link: giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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James Orr and the gospel of the new British right
Reform’s policy head is a Cambridge theologian with an enviable contact book and a belief in ‘faith, family and flag’
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Neil Stewart @neilstewart.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Purchased! A great way to while away those late summer hours with a camping trip and the bank holiday weekend coming up
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 29/07/2026
'History and Archives in Practice' 2027: call for participation now open for our annual gathering of historians and archivists, co-hosted with @ihr.bsky.social and TNA. HAP27's theme is connecting past and future with sessions on advocacy, value and applied history bit.ly/3RGHbWy #Skystorians
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'History and Archives in Practice' (HAP), 2027. Call for participation now open - RHS
History and Archives in Practice (HAP) is an annual partnership event, co-hosted by the Royal Historical Society, The National Archives, and the Institute of Historical Research. Now in its fifth year...
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Neil Stewart @neilstewart.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
“If we can hit that bullseye, their house of cards will fall like a row of dominoes… checkmate”
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Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
A thoughtful and illuminating thread from our colleague @adamchapman.bsky.social
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Institute of Historical Research Wohl Library @ihrlibrary.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Just letting readers know about our August opening hours. Throughout August we will be closed on Saturday and from Monday to Friday we will be open from 09.00 to 18.30. Our regular hours will resume from the 1st September. www.history.ac.uk/about-us/ope...
Notice showing the August opening hours for the Institute of Historical Research. From the 1st August the IHR will be open from 09.00-18.30 Monday to Friday and closed on Saturday. The IHR's regular times will resume on the 1st September.
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Peter Whitewood @pwhitewood.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Daniel Hannan has written an entire column earnestly arguing with a satirical candidate’s deliberately absurd manifesto.
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Neil Stewart @neilstewart.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Setting up a new local council account as they have upgraded their systems, and am being passed between at least four different web domains, exactly the kind of fraud flags that e.g. our work info security awareness teaches us to look out for and report 🤷‍♂️
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Neil Stewart @neilstewart.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Seems an odd move for Pink Floyd to rename on of their most famous albums, but here we are www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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The dark side of the Brazilian butt lift boom
The aesthetics industry is worth billions but campaigners say there have been numerous cases of serious harm.
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Neil Stewart @neilstewart.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
I didn’t know he spent some time at the @warburginstitute.bsky.social
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Catherine Clarke @cathamclarke.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
I'm leading this new @ihr.bsky.social Discovery Course: 'Writing and Pitching Your #Trade Non-Fiction #Book'. Two days, with experienced writers + agent Elliot Prior (Curtis Brown), plus an optional add-on 'writing retreat' with expert advice @ihrlibrary.bsky.social www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Writing and Pitching Your Trade Non-Fiction Book
Discovery Course (PAID)
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The Institute of Classical Studies @ics.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Join the ICS! We are now recruiting a Project Conservator to work on the Ventris Papers: an archive of correspondence, papers, drawings, photographs,as well as selected offprints and newspaper cuttings relating to the decipherment of Linear B by Michael Ventris. Full details here: shorturl.at/3uE5G
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Project Conservator:Warburg Institute
The University of London
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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
yes, this needs to be said and grateful to our UCU branch for saying it
1. Fascism is bad
Those of you attending the All-Staff Assembly this week will have heard the VC declining the opportunity to state that fascism is bad, pointing to the university's role as a politically neutral actor. From the UCU's perspective, we would like to take this opportunity to say that we do think that fascism is bad and we also think that this is an example of when political neutrality reaches absurd limits, much as it does in relation to genocide. There is no neutrality when it comes to fascism. Instead, neutrality becomes an abdication of the duty to think. Not least, we believe that the university can and should do more to stand up for Global Majority colleagues who feel increasingly threatened in a context of the rise of the far right. This is an area in which we have been campaigning and will continue to do so.
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Neil Stewart @neilstewart.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Pompous, shallow, idiotic recycling of American right-wing culture war talking points by the so-called "paper of record", an absolute disgrace and more proof, were it needed, that the British media in its current form should be razed to the ground
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Neil Stewart @neilstewart.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
This collaboration allows participants to access the Making History collection in full. Making History was a successor project to our re-launched Interviews with Historians collection www.history.ac.uk/resources/di... & feature eminent historians reflecting on their lives and professional practices
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Interviews with Historians
Interviews with Historians was a landmark series of interviews between prominent historians. This page introduces the collection and gives access to the interviews.
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Sarah Wride @srwride.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
📣 Applications open for @historylabplus.bsky.social & HistoryUK ECR Survey Fellow 2026-7, to action UK-wide survey of support & access to resources available to historical researchers post-PhD 📍 Remote 💰 Honorarium of £800 🕰️ 23:59, 14 June #Skystorians #ECRs @ihr.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.org
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opportunities
About | Events | Meet us | Contact | Join Opportunities Links to research posts, post docs and other opportunities. VACANCY: HistoryLab+ and HistoryUK ECR Survey Fellow * [ENDING SOON – JUNE …
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Centre for the History of People, Place & Community @chppc.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Recent @ihr.bsky.social MA student and Library Services Manager @ihrlibrary.bsky.social, @katewilcox.bsky.social, has won the Phil Batman Family History Prize (Centre for Regional & Local History, University of Leicester). Discover her powerful and moving project: blog.history.ac.uk/2026/06/crea...
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Creative historical practice: an eighty-year family journey - On History
Kate Wilcox, Library Services Manager at the IHR, recently completed the IHR’s MA in History, Place and Community. Here, she shares her experiences of developing a critical-creative research project.
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Centre for the History of People, Place & Community @chppc.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Still wondering about joining us @ihr.bsky.social for this year's London Summer School (22-26 June)? Bookings close on 12 June. Our 2026 theme is 'Sickness and Health', with our usual focus on #London #history. View the full schedule of lectures, trips etc: www.history.ac.uk/study-traini...
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Daily Schedule
IHR Summer School Schedule 2026.
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Aadam Jacobs Collection @ajcproject.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 16/05/2026
New Order Live at Wembley Arena, London, England on 1987-12-10 archive.org/details/ajc03199_neword…
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New Order Live at Wembley Arena, London, England on 1987-12-10 : New Order : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
New Order - Wembley Arena, London, England - 1987-12-10 - Aiwa CM-30A Stereo Mic > Marantz PMD 420 > Cassette (M)
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Neil Stewart @neilstewart.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
This exhibition is NOW ON and curated by our colleagues at @senatehouselib.bsky.social, I would highly recommend it!
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 14/05/2026
‘Caxton was a visionary, in the same way that all successful ad men are visionaries. He was the first person in England to understand that he was selling not just print, but novelty.’ @tomlukejohnson.bsky.social on the story of the English printing press. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Tom Johnson · At Senate House Library: Caxton’s Print Revolution
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Neil Stewart @neilstewart.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Sweating superhero meme with two buttons: "Farage £5m donation" and "Polanski Red Cross"
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Neil Stewart @neilstewart.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Jesus Lizard, Monkey Trick Raekwon, Incarcerated Scarfaces New Order, 1963 Motörhead, (We Are) The Roadcrew Smog, Cold Blooded Old Times Galaxy 2 Galaxy, Jupiter Jazz Black Sabbath, Symptom of the Universe Public Enemy, She Watch Channel Zero Happy Mondays, Wrote For Luck Palace, West Palm Beach
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Hurray for the University of Sussex. Not so hurray for OfS. 'Sussex University has overturned a £585,000 fine by England’s higher education watchdog after the high court rejected claims the university had breached free speech regulations involving its former professor Kathleen Stock.'
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Sussex University overturns £585,000 fine as high court rejects free speech breach claim
Ruling is blow to Office for Students after it issued record fine for allegations over professor’s trans rights views
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Claire Langhamer @clairelanghamer.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
On protecting what matters. @ihr.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.org @histassoc.bsky.social History UK www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Protecting What Matters: A joint statement by the Historical Association, History UK, Royal Historical Society and the IHR
Protecting what matters: A joint statement by the Historical Association, History UK, Royal Historical Society and the IHR
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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 27/04/2026
The Open Research team at Cambridge is looking for an Open Access Service Manager. Please share! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRI653/o...
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Open Access Service Manager at University of Cambridge
Looking for a professional services job in higher education? Apply now for the Open Access Service Manager position on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board.
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Neil Stewart @neilstewart.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
I'm reminded of the quote wrongly attributed to Einstein, "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
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JR Moores @spinal-bap.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
The Tubs making Metallica’s Fade To Black sound all Tubs-y. #janglethrash @mergerecords.bsky.social thetubs.bandcamp.com/album/fade-t...
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Fade to Black, by The Tubs
1 track album
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Adam Chapman @adamchapman.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Great to see tis volume available @bho.bsky.social. It includes my favourite editorial intervention (to date), which was to ask the editor to gloss what the 'Chipping Norton Set' is/was. Remember that? The point is that the volume covers this area from the earliest times to the 21st century. 🗃️
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Neil Stewart @neilstewart.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
At History & Archives in Practice #HAP26 at the University of Sheffield. First session is on "Navigating the Politics of/within the Archive". This first paper is on Oswald Mosley and the archive of the British Union of Fascists.
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Neil Stewart @neilstewart.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Counter-point: a) this is terrible writing and b) why on earth should librarians be singled out for being less physically able, than, for example, newspaper columnists?
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Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
We are reaching out to mid-career historians who specialise in 17th-century British history! 📜 The IHR Ian Roy Mid-Career Library Bursary offers support for travel and accommodation for research using the IHR's incredible library collections in London. www.history.ac.uk/fellowships-...
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IHR Ian Roy Mid-Career IHR Library Bursary
The Ian Roy Mid-Career IHR Library Bursary is offered with the generous support of the estate of Ian Roy.
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Neil Stewart @neilstewart.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Enjoying the @thequietus.com Low Culture Podcast on Suicide's debut album. I got an original vinyl copy at a record fair in Bristol in 2000 for the princely sum of £1, it has been a favourite ever since.
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Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Our fantastic library team have been working hard to make our collections even more accessible. Another reason to join @ihrlibrary.bsky.social
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Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Are you a mid-career historian researching 17th & 18th-century British Protestant dissenting traditions? 🏛️ Apply for the Dr Williams's Trust Library Bursaries at the IHR! Three awards of £3,500 are available to support your research in London libraries and archives www.history.ac.uk/fellowships-...
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The Dr Williams’s Trust Library Bursaries for Mid-Career Researchers
The Dr Williams’s Trust has generously provided funds to support the work of mid-career historians researching the British Protestant dissenting traditions.
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Neil Stewart @neilstewart.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Important thread on the practicalities of actually dealing with with these issues
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Neil Stewart @neilstewart.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
“Needless to say, I had the last laugh”
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Neil Stewart @neilstewart.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Super Furry Animals on TOTP! With costumes, bongos and steel drums!
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Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Holy heck, Fugazi just released the 1992 Albini sessions for Bandcamp Friday! Proceeds going to Letters Charity.
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Albini Sessions (Benefit for Letters Charity), by Fugazi
12 track album
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Justin Colson @justincolson.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Many medievalists and early modernists have fond memories of the Keele Palaeography Summer School - it lives on! Now in the convenient location of central Birmingham, organised with help from @ies-sas.bsky.social and @ihr.bsky.social Booking open now! palaeography.uk/study/short-...
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The 49th Latin and Palaeography Summer School, 27-31 July 2026
The School, formerly the Keele Latin and Palaeography Summer School, returns for its 49th year. In 2025 The Ranulf Higden Society took over the organisation of the Latin and Palaeography Summer Sch…
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
The Spectator published this attack on me & colleagues just as the High Court is considering Sussex’s request for review of the Office for Students fine. It accuses us of ‘repressing’ our students. The magazine ignored my request for to reply. Please disseminate. alanlester.co.uk/blog/smearin...
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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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Dr Caitlin Burge @caitlinburge.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
We're looking for more book chapters! For anyone working with network analysis on any period in history: check it out! Deadline Friday 13th March - send abstracts to interlocked.universe@gmail.com #digitalhumanities #cfp #skystorians
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Neil Stewart @neilstewart.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Fondly remembering the time on Twitter I said Brendan O’Neill had a massive forehead and bad opinions, and he blocked me
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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 20/02/2026
Remarkable piece by @melindacooper.bsky.social for @equatormag.bsky.social www.equator.org/articles/eps...
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Epstein Family Values • EQUATOR
The billionaire patriarchs of the American far-right want to rule an economy of masters and servants
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Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Date for your diary - join us Join us for this online training session on 28th April, hosted by the @ihrlibrary.bsky.social team, which will bring together a panel of historians, librarians and subject specialists to discuss the History of Emotions www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Researching the History of Emotions
Please enable JavaScript in your web browser to get the best experience.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
18 month postdoc at the lovely IHR in London, $41,740. Deadline 7 March. 'The Fellow will play a key role within the IHR team responsible for hosting the 2027 North American Conference in British Studies (NACBS)' in London 2027. Repost to spread the word. #Skystorians
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Jacob Price Fellowship in British Studies (18 month FTC):London Senate House - Hybrid
The University of London is both the UK’s largest provider of international distance and online learning and the convenor of a federation of 17 renowned higher education institutions.
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