Dr Nicola Clark @nikkiclark86.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Obsessed with chronicles. In 1563 Stowe thought it worth recording that the Mayor of London Sir Thomas Lodge was the first Mayor ever to wear a beard, 'ye whiche was thowght to mayny people very straynge'. 0121
Dr Nicola Clark @nikkiclark86.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I think I'm going to start a Substack. I prefer written rambling to pictorial, I've never really been a 'proper' Instagram historian. Do I need to call it something? Any pithy names not already taken?! 220
Reposted by Dr Nicola ClarkLisa Rullsenberg @rullsenberg.bsky.social · 14/09/2026"Universities are routinely expected to justify themselves through the earnings of their graduates in a way that few other public institutions are. We do not judge hospitals solely by the future tax revenues of the patients they treat..." 16617
Dr Nicola Clark @nikkiclark86.bsky.social · 14/09/2026It's too humid to do laundry without a tumbledryer. It will sit and be damp forever. Suboptimal. 010
Reposted by Dr Nicola ClarkDr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 08/09/2026The South Asian edition of HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY is out from @westlandbooks.bsky.social! It’s the history of the category of the human since antiquity, told through ideas about monsters and monster-making. 🧪💙📚 🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH 🧵 29132
Reposted by Dr Nicola ClarkHistFest @histfest.bsky.social · 07/09/2026📣 Announcement! We’re delighted to share a brand-new podcast series that invites expert historians to challenge your perceptions of the past. CHALLENGING HISTORIES is hosted by historian and author, @amyfuller.bsky.social. Listen wherever you get your podcasts! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/c... 25426
Dr Nicola Clark @nikkiclark86.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Today I need to look at a bunch of those Big Reformation Books written by Big White Male Historians, which has made me realise that is indeed a trope. Unfortunately (?) I have met and like several of them and their work. Am I missing Big Reformation Books written by women?! 320
Dr Nicola Clark @nikkiclark86.bsky.social · 04/09/2026What noise does glass make as it breaks. A tinkle? A tinkle of broken glass? A sad tinkle? Am I insane? 110
Dr Nicola Clark @nikkiclark86.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Anyone know anything about the custom of the Easter 'wythe'? From Stow: 'In the weeke before Easter, had ye great shewes made for the fetching in of a twisted tree, or With, as they termed it, out of the Woodes into the Kinges house, and the like into euery mans house of Honor or Worship' 122
Dr Nicola Clark @nikkiclark86.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Did either of the Cecils leave an opinion about former administrators like Cromwell? Sudden vision of William like, 'Christ alive how did he do all of this' 050
Dr Nicola Clark @nikkiclark86.bsky.social · 02/09/2026I need a historian of parliament! When a bill was committed in Elizabeth's reign, is there any reason to read into the person leading the committee - were they someone trusted by the House, by both 'sides' if there were sides to the issue? Or could it even be influenced by the Q? 2713
Dr Nicola Clark @nikkiclark86.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Have discovered I can still work mostly horizontal with laptop on my lap and kitten on my chest, but this means I can't keep an eye on other kittens. *thunk* 'Meep, what are you doing?' *meep meep MEEEEEEEP* 'Yes, I hear you. If it's naughty, stop!' 250
Reposted by Dr Nicola ClarkLiesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 02/09/2026When will authorities realise you don’t mess with nuns? The dictionary needs a new word to capture the level of tenacity of a nun — there’s no rush when you’ve got centuries of tradition coursing through you. #nuntastic will do for now. Anyway: cheese 🧀 + PhD + history + nuns = 👌👌👌 740793
Reposted by Dr Nicola ClarkCatherine Fletcher @catherinefletcher.info · 02/09/2026One for all you train nerds... the gate to the Vatican train station, only opened when a train goes through which is not often. 2443177
Dr Nicola Clark @nikkiclark86.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Admin day. I'm such a millennial I HATE calling strangers on the phone. 170
Reposted by Dr Nicola ClarkCatherine Fletcher @catherinefletcher.info · 28/08/2026Last day of the holidays, so here are a few things I have coming up once I get back to work 🧵 166
Dr Nicola Clark @nikkiclark86.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Apparently I'm getting my own personal tiltyard 1120
Dr Nicola Clark @nikkiclark86.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Trying to write the Elizabethan religious settlement without putting readers to sleep. Thoughts and prayers pls. 150
Dr Nicola Clark @nikkiclark86.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Hmm so this year I need to extend my first year Wars of the Roses sessions from 2 hours to 3. Bring on the sources and seminar tasks and space for off-piste debates! 050
Reposted by Dr Nicola ClarkPascale Aebischer (she/her) @pascaleexeter.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Just in case you haven't signed this yet: The crisis in Exeter is not over. It's just in that dangerous phase where people forget about it unless they're affected. We're waiting to find out the results of the 'consultation'. There's still time to change course. Share and sign! c.org/VZDjrbTybJc.orgSign the PetitionStop Redundancies at the University of Exeter 01321
Dr Nicola Clark @nikkiclark86.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Anyone got access to this? www.jstor.org/stable/26624...?jstor.orgReligion and the Composition of the Commissions of the Peace, 1547–1640 | JSTORALISON WALL, Religion and the Composition of the Commissions of the Peace, 1547–1640, History, Vol. 103, No. 2 (355), April 2018 100
Reposted by Dr Nicola ClarkDavid Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 06/08/2026I honestly would love to know what policymakers think will happen to social mobility, regional growth, employment, and educational attainment, when all these provincial universities are gone or shrink to almost non existence? Isn’t avoiding that disaster alone worth a billion quid right now?? 8261100
Reposted by Dr Nicola ClarkGlen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Yeah well, maybe you shouldn't take an axe to its biggest university then, you stupid idiots. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukThe 'education gap' hiding in picture-perfect Cornwall and DevonBehind the South West's postcard image, poverty and isolation are limiting opportunities for many young people. 525764
Reposted by Dr Nicola ClarkTanya D. || Writer || Narrative Designer @cypheroftyr.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Daaaamn. “AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...thenerve.newsCory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lyingIt has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t... 361292416
Dr Nicola Clark @nikkiclark86.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Have any other @ihr.bsky.social seminar convenors had their schedule of sessions for next academic year from the events team yet? 000
Dr Nicola Clark @nikkiclark86.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Living with Maeve is often like trying to duck someone who really really really wants to french kiss you. Sometimes literally. What it is to be loved. 1150
Dr Nicola Clark @nikkiclark86.bsky.social · 31/07/2026The phrase 'look at' in proposals or introductions. 'This essay will look at...' - how nice for it but you're gonna have to do more than look. Irrational rage. 170
Dr Nicola Clark @nikkiclark86.bsky.social · 31/07/2026When writing about the pre-modern City of London as an agent ('the City had outdone itself with the coronation pageants', for example) would you capitalise? 340
Reposted by Dr Nicola ClarkMargot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Recruitment suspended on UG environment & sustainability, mathematics and physics. At postgraduate level, suspended courses include international corporate finance, water & environmental engineering and environmental strategy. If you think your subject is safe because not Humanities, rethink. 1/2timeshighereducation.comCourse closures at University of Surrey raise concernsScience and maths programmes among those suspended in recent months, with UCU claiming decisions are being made ‘in haste’ 48248
Reposted by Dr Nicola ClarkProf Rob Dover @robdover.bsky.social · 30/07/2026The sec of state who has seen at least 15000 academics lose their jobs just said this. Out loud. Mercy me. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.com‘It hurts to lose a job you love’: Starmer loyalist Bridget Phillipson fights on despite cabinet demotionExclusive: The former education secretary on her new role as Labour chair and continuing as the minister for women and equalities 20571230
Dr Nicola Clark @nikkiclark86.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Those days where the words won't come and so you start trying things that might help: household chores, because they need doing regardless and you have to be useful/productive somehow and mundanity might free up the hippocampus; coffee, to break through the brain fog; and if all else fails,a nap. 3120
Reposted by Dr Nicola ClarkMargot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 29/07/2026'Strip away the grandiose language and a pattern emerges – some combination of fewer, larger modules, almost always wedges of 30 credits, an all-core or heavily prescribed first year, reduced optionality in later years, curated pathways instead of individual module choice... [cont.] 1/4wonkhe.comCurriculum reform is a wedge issueWith curriculum reform converging on fewer, larger modules across the sector, Jim Dickinson argues that consolidation solves institutional problems while reallocating regret onto students least able t... 45135
Dr Nicola Clark @nikkiclark86.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Why do vets always tell you cats are drowsy after anaesthesia. Lies. He is high as a kite and completely hyperactive, and they never warn you about this. 021
Reposted by Dr Nicola ClarkJoão Florêncio @noisybits.bsky.social · 28/07/2026New day, new insights from what’s going on at @exeter.ac.uk. It doesn’t cease to amaze me how uni management patronises its workers while deploying the most obscene kind of “caring management” attitude by offering free mental health support to those whose lives it wants to destroy. #DefendExeterUni 1123
Dr Nicola Clark @nikkiclark86.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Oof I've remembered why I tend not to read others' non-fiction writing for pleasure while I'm trying to write my own. Suddenly my 'voice' feels shallow, and yet I must not accidentally morph into somebody else's either! 040
Dr Nicola Clark @nikkiclark86.bsky.social · 22/07/2026When will @britishlibrary.bsky.social learn that the majority of its clientele don't want expensive fancy food for lunch on a normal work day? Exhibitions and making money yes yes but at least put a reasonably-priced sandwich option there for the rest of us library-using plebs. 040
Dr Nicola Clark @nikkiclark86.bsky.social · 22/07/2026@tracelarkhall.bsky.social it won't let me message you but I have coronation procession questions about London in 1559.... 110
Reposted by Dr Nicola ClarkMargot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 22/07/2026What's gender go to do with it? Within UK SHAPE disciplines, women are 51% of academic staff (39% of professors). In STEM, that's 45% of all academics (27% of professors). What are the impacts of disproportionate SHAPE redundancies on those stats? Is anyone attending to gender equality? 1/2 54925
Dr Nicola Clark @nikkiclark86.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Anyone got access to this? www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...tandfonline.com 100
Dr Nicola Clark @nikkiclark86.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Officially the idiot who came to the archives and forgot her laptop. Luckily I only came to take some pics and I can access my files on my phone 😂 470
Dr Nicola Clark @nikkiclark86.bsky.social · 16/07/2026The Coronation-eve procession thru London sounds awful for anyone in the queen's train. Stop start constantly. No chance of hearing the speeches at each pageant unless you're right next to the queen. What if you need a wee and oh god she's stopped AGAIN because some peasant waved at her. 291