Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Yes please. We are poised and ready to announce the next DSN conference (next year) so hope to see you there if not before! 110
Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social · 01/10/2026This looks brilliant and I know @jlares.bsky.social will be a brilliant host too. I wish I could sneak away from teaching to attend but you should all go @drinkingstudies.bsky.social people: events.tuni.fi/premoderndri...events.tuni.fiProgramme | Drinking in the ancient, medieval, and early modern world | Tampere Universities 142
Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Interesting-looking post doc teaching fellow at Liverpool if anyone is looking for more teaching experience/an interesting post in a great place: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DST427/a...jobs.ac.ukAlan Frederick Price Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellow in English Literature at University of LiverpoolLooking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Alan Frederick Price Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellow in English Literature on jobs.ac.uk! 012
Reposted by Pam LockRachel Moss @menysnoweballes.bsky.social · 26/08/2026These niche courses are what make students fall in love with a subject! Small class sizes, intense focus - it’s a love story waiting to happen. In the UK, unfortunately, many unis are moving away from specialist modules to compulsory, broad, generic modules. To everyone’s detriment. 57210
Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Don't forget to sign up to my online writers' retreat - still some places left - starts tomorrow at 9.15am. If you are feeling stuck, need motivation, or like the idea of writing with others to a schedule then register now. Details and sign up here: writingwithpam.wordpress.com/online-write...writingwithpam.wordpress.comOnline Writers’ Retreats with PamHave you been struggling to get writing done this summer or want to learn a format to get more words down in a healthy way that won’t leave you exhausted? I’m running an online retreat … 001
Reposted by Pam LockCaroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Do I happen to know anyone who knows about hats in France during the reign of Louis XIII...? 🗃️ 237473
Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Next week's online writers' retreat is starting to book up. Come and join us on Thursday to find your focus and get some writing done from the comfort of your favourite writing spot. Share this with your favourite writers. writingwithpam.wordpress.com/online-write...writingwithpam.wordpress.comOnline Writers’ Retreats with PamHave you been struggling to get writing done this summer or want to learn a format to get more words down in a healthy way that won’t leave you exhausted? I’m running an online retreat … 012
Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Anyone interested in suicide studies/suicide prevention and looking for an RA post - this post looks very interesting: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.comResearch Assistant (Changing the Narratives)Funded by an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Impact Accelerator Award, we are looking for a Research Assistant to play a pivotal role in supporting the translation of critical social scien... 010
Reposted by Pam LockAmy Burnett @amyjbburnett.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Such a wonderful evening (even in 43-degree Paris)! A big thanks to Pam, who encouraged me to apply 🍻 021
Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Would some wilkie collins work? I was think maybe Miserrimus Dexter? 100
Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Fancy joining me for one of my writers' retreats but live outside Bristol? I'm doing an online retreat for a small fee on 27 August. Suitable for academics and creative writers - all welcome. i'm help you get those words on the page. More info here: www.eventbrite.com/e/writers-re... Please shareeventbrite.comWriters' Retreat with PamShut out all the noise & get some writing done in a healthy & productive format. Write online with others from your favourite writing spot. 010
Reposted by Pam LockDr Hannah J. Elizabeth @sexhistorian.bsky.social · 06/08/2026The cool thing about this PhD (beyond the funding) is you'll get to design your own project but also be part of a small team. It's associated with my project on the history of activism around AIDS denial wellcome.org/research-fun... & in September 2027 a postdoc will also join the project! #HistMedwellcome.orgA Transnational History of HIV/AIDS Denial: Origins, manifestations, and persistence, 1981 to the present - Grants Awarded | WellcomeA Transnational History of HIV/AIDS Denial: Origins, manifestations, and persistence, 1981 to the present 11413
Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Fancy joining me for one of my writers' retreats but live outside Bristol? I'm doing an online retreat for a small fee on 27 August. Finish your summer of writing with a bang or get the autumn started. More information and sign-up here: www.eventbrite.com/e/writers-re... Please share or recommendeventbrite.comWriters' Retreat with PamShut out all the noise & get some writing done in a healthy & productive online format. Write with others in your favourite writing spot 122
Reposted by Pam LockClodagh Tait @clodaghtait.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Spontaneous combustion in Dublin, Irish Times 12 May 1970. I like that the coroner is called Dr Bofin. 4217
Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Thanks! Thanks to my uni it's open for all to read which I love too. Glad you enjoyed it! 020
Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social · 02/08/2026You might like my recent article with my colleague Iain Smith then, which mentions this and other medical and literary cases - I love this public battle too! 2025 - Addiction - Wiley Online Library share.google/08PlJQfWtAL4...share.googleHow did investigations into spontaneous human combustion influence alcohol medicine? An examination of the medical and literary discussions that brought the two togetherBackground and Aims The presence of sections or chapters on spontaneous human combustion in more than half of the key texts in English on the action of alcohol on the body and mind in the first half... 262
Reposted by Pam LockThe Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 14/07/2026AI isn't inevitable. You know what is? Having a great time when you visit The Museum of English Rural Life. merl.reading.ac.uk/visit/merl.reading.ac.ukVisitVisiting The Museum of English Rural Life is free. Discover our galleries, activities, café, and beautiful walled garden. 545265
Reposted by Pam LockKatie Bell 🇵🇸 @decadentdickens.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Meoghan Cronin discussing narrators of ‘The Signal-Man’ and Sarah Smith’s ‘The Traveling Post-Office’ of Mugby Junction: each narrator has a compulsion to solve the mystery. They imagine they are subjective but they are not. #Dickenssociety2026 052
Reposted by Pam LockPeterSloane.bsky.social @drpetersloane.bsky.social · 12/06/2026My most recent ed collection with the brilliant Katie Brown (Exeter). Lots of amazing work in here across so many different arts. 043
Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social · 12/07/2026I don't think I have an example on a train. There are a couple of examples of cart drivers burying into flames as they drive along 010
Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social · 11/07/2026I think they'll walk in and think to themselves 'ah, the sweet smell of blasphemy' 110
Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Going to have to work out how to store the exciting scent created for my research which is currently making my bag and hotel room smell a bit strange thanks to @liamrfindlay.bsky.social 171
Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Thanks to @claireturner.bsky.social for organizing a stimulating and very smelly day on the senses yesterday. Met some lovely people and enjoyed putting together my paper on alcohol and the senses in Victorian fiction and culture to get some of my thoughts together on this. 1182
Reposted by Pam LockSarah Finn @romanceofbooks.bsky.social · 05/07/2026An album of over 200 pressed seaweeds arranged by an anonymous Victorian collector. A transcribed poem is pasted as title page, it begins: “Oh call us not weeds, we are flowers of the sea.” UW-Madison Special Collections. #naturalhistory #seaweed #pressedseaweed #seaweedalbum #herbarium 65914
Reposted by Pam LockKelly - She Drinks Beer @kellywasgcb.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Woo go Dr Amy! One of our amazing speakers at a previous She Drinks Beer anniversary brewday, and excellent host/interviewer of @braciatrix.bsky.social for our first Think While You Drink last year, and that's just the extra-curricular stuff with us - what a woman! 🙌🏻 121
Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social · 30/06/2026@drinkingstudies.bsky.social one for drinking studies bods 010
Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social · 30/06/2026So delighted for the brilliant @amyjbburnett.bsky.social for her well-deserved win of the ADHS thesis prize last week. You can read more about the prize and her thesis here: amy-burnett.co.uk/2026/06/28/a...amy-burnett.co.ukAward: ADHS Dissertation Prize 2024-2026Last week, I had the pleasure of visiting Paris for the Alcohol and Drugs History Society’s biennial conference. At the cocktail event, my thesis was chosen as a joint winner for the society&… 2102
Reposted by Pam LockAssociation for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 27/06/2026In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light. In summer, quite the other way, I have to go to bed by day… —Robert Louis Stevenson, “Bed in Summer” from A CHILD’S GARDEN OF VERSES (1885) #BookWormSat #poem #poetry #kidlit www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43190/... 0429
Reposted by Pam LockDanielle Terrazas Williams @drdanielletw.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Job Opportunity! Assistant Professor in European and or Global History (pre-1800) University of Limerick - School of History and Geography www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRU993/a...jobs.ac.ukAssistant Professor in European and or Global History (pre-1800) at University of LimerickDiscover Assistant Professor in European and or Global History (pre-1800) jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board. 03253
Reposted by Pam LockAdam Crymble @adamcrymble.bsky.social · 09/06/2026My team is hiring a permanent lecturer: -> Lecturer Digital Culture & Society Deadline 28 June 2026. Please share with friends. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...ucl.ac.ukUCL – University College LondonUCL 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). 066
Reposted by Pam LockSarah Fox @sarahfoxhistory.bsky.social · 11/06/2026IT'S PUBLICATION DAYYYYYYYYYY!!!!! Download 'The King's Dinner: family, nation, and identity on the British table, 1760-1820' here FOR FREE and read all about George III's eating habits over breakfast! uclpress.co.uk/book/the-kin... #skystorians #openaccess #18thC #foodhistory 🗃️uclpress.co.ukThe King’s DinnerThe King’s Dinner is about what it meant to be British at the end of the eighteenth century. Drawing on the vast kitchen ledgers of two royal households made newly available to research through digiti... 58538
Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Thanks to the brilliant @devikanarayan.bsky.social for snapping this lovely short of @deborahlam.bsky.social interviewing me at my lovely book launch this week. Loved celebrating with you all, thank you. 070
Reposted by Pam LockKelly - She Drinks Beer @kellywasgcb.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Congratulations to the amazing Dr Pam @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social on the publication of her book, which we celebrated yesterday. This is the Think While You Drink team (Bob, Pam, Sam, me!), and yes we ARE plotting more TWYD - watch this space! @drinkingstudies.bsky.social 1133
Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social · 01/06/2026If you send us the cfp and a para of some sort to drinkingstudies(at)gmail.com we will share with our members if you like? Looks great! And do join us if you work on drink at all - it's free 131
Reposted by Pam LockBritish Music Hall Society @musichallsociety.bsky.social · 01/06/2026#MusicHallMonday 🎶🍺 Featuring The Barman, sung with great success by Wilkie Bard. As we prepare for our 3rd conference in Nov. 2026, we’re inviting proposals on the theme: CATERING for People’s Desires and Needs in the Music Hall See Call for Papers on our website: buff.ly/35wQKXA 1116
Reposted by Pam LockJane Winters @jfwinters.bsky.social · 27/05/2026If you’re working on digital cultural heritage and have an idea for a short-form monograph, we’d love to hear from you. The series is diamond open access too! 0149
Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social · 13/05/2026If you were a wine, that would be just right. If you were a beer that would be too much. 020
Reposted by Pam LockEMoDiR @emodir.bsky.social · 12/05/2026#CfA 📢 Job opportunity: Lecturer in Medieval/Early Modern History 🏫 Lancaster University (UK) ⏰Application deadline: Tuesday 19 May 2026 🔗 www.hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...hr-jobs.lancs.ac.ukJob Opportunity at Lancaster University: Lecturer in Medieval/Early Modern HistoryThe School of Global Affairs at Lancaster University is seeking to appoint a Lecturer in Late Medieval / Early Modern History (1400-1700). This is a 1.0 FTE indefinite appointment to start on 1 August... 026
Reposted by Pam LockThomas Penny @thomaswpenny.bsky.social · 12/05/2026If anyone in government has a few minutes to run the country in between plotting leadership challenges, could they please cast their eye over the devastation of Higher Education in the UK. www.theguardian.com/education/20...theguardian.comThousands of University of Nottingham staff told they are at risk of redundancyInstitution says it could run out of money by 2031 and wants to cut more than 600 academic and support posts 2267132
Reposted by Pam LockMe and a small nugget of love. 🇸🇪♥️🇺🇦 @mnotme.bsky.social · 07/05/2026The extremely rare catcopus. 307185683331
Reposted by Pam LockChristopher Pittard @christopherpittard.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Amazing opportunity for an archivist here, especially if you're interested in Sherlock Holmes; a bit buried in the details, but part of your role would be looking after Portsmouth's Arthur Conan Doyle Collection (Richard Lancelyn Green Bequest). searchjobs.portsmouth.gov.uk/jobs/job/Por...searchjobs.portsmouth.gov.uk Portsmouth History Centre Manager | 29 May, 2026 | Jobs and careers with Portsmouth City Council Jobs and careers with Portsmouth City Council - A fantastic opportunity for an experienced archivist with experience of managing and developing staff to join our team.Your new roleReporting to the Lib... 1106
Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Yes, so depressing when I send students reading as a pdf and the first thing adobe does now is offer to summarise it for them... 091