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Pam Lock

@pamplemoussepam.bsky.social
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Sen Lecturer, Eng Lit, Bristol Uni & Dir. of MA in Eng Lit. I research alcohol in 19th Century. Co-Dir. Drinking Studies Network (drinkingstudies.wordpress.com). shop.bl.uk/products/dead-drunk-tale…

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Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Yes please. We are poised and ready to announce the next DSN conference (next year) so hope to see you there if not before!
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Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This 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...
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Programme | Drinking in the ancient, medieval, and early modern world | Tampere Universities
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Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Interesting-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...
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Alan Frederick Price Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellow in English Literature at University of Liverpool
Looking 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!
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Rachel Moss @menysnoweballes.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
These 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.
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Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Don'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...
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Online Writers’ Retreats with Pam
Have 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 …
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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Do I happen to know anyone who knows about hats in France during the reign of Louis XIII...? 🗃️
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Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Next 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...
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Online Writers’ Retreats with Pam
Have 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 …
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Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Anyone interested in suicide studies/suicide prevention and looking for an RA post - this post looks very interesting: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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Research 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...
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Amy Burnett @amyjbburnett.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Such a wonderful evening (even in 43-degree Paris)! A big thanks to Pam, who encouraged me to apply 🍻
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Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Ooh that sounds like a lovely winter!
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Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Would some wilkie collins work? I was think maybe Miserrimus Dexter?
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Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Fancy 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 share
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Writers' Retreat with Pam
Shut out all the noise & get some writing done in a healthy & productive format. Write online with others from your favourite writing spot.
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Dr Hannah J. Elizabeth @sexhistorian.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The 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! #HistMed
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A Transnational History of HIV/AIDS Denial: Origins, manifestations, and persistence, 1981 to the present - Grants Awarded | Wellcome
A Transnational History of HIV/AIDS Denial: Origins, manifestations, and persistence, 1981 to the present
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Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Fancy 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 recommend
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Writers' Retreat with Pam
Shut out all the noise & get some writing done in a healthy & productive online format. Write with others in your favourite writing spot
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Clodagh Tait @clodaghtait.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Spontaneous combustion in Dublin, Irish Times 12 May 1970. I like that the coroner is called Dr Bofin.
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Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Thanks! Thanks to my uni it's open for all to read which I love too. Glad you enjoyed it!
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Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
You 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...
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How did investigations into spontaneous human combustion influence alcohol medicine? An examination of the medical and literary discussions that brought the two together
Background 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...
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Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Ooh good question. Yes a strap maybe?
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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
AI 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/
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Visit
Visiting The Museum of English Rural Life is free. Discover our galleries, activities, café, and beautiful walled garden.
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Katie Bell 🇵🇸 @decadentdickens.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Meoghan 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
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PeterSloane.bsky.social @drpetersloane.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
My most recent ed collection with the brilliant Katie Brown (Exeter). Lots of amazing work in here across so many different arts.
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Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I 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
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Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
I think they'll walk in and think to themselves 'ah, the sweet smell of blasphemy'
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Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Going 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
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Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Thanks 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.
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Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Want!
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Sarah Finn @romanceofbooks.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
An 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
19th century book with a dark green cover and the words “Sea Weeds” in gold lettering on the front. The book is placed carefully in an archival box with tissue paper. Brown paper with four white cards pasted on top. Each card has a small pressed seaweed specimen. They are in shades of reddish brown and marroon. Light tan paper with three white cards pasted on top. Each card has a pressed green seaweed specimen. Open page in a seaweed herbarium album. The paper is tan with a white rectangle pasted on top. Inside the rectangle is a large pressed pink seaweed specimen. The opposite page is a bright blue paper.
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Kelly - She Drinks Beer @kellywasgcb.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Woo 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! 🙌🏻
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Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
@drinkingstudies.bsky.social one for drinking studies bods
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Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
So 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...
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Award: ADHS Dissertation Prize 2024-2026
Last 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&…
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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 27/06/2026
In 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/...
Bed in Summer
by Robert Louis Stevenson

In 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.

I have to go to bed and see
The birds still hopping on the tree,
Or hear the grown-up people's feet
Still going past me in the street.

And does it not seem hard to you,
When all the sky is clear and blue,
And I should like so much to play,
To have to go to bed by day?
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Danielle Terrazas Williams @drdanielletw.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Job 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...
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Assistant Professor in European and or Global History (pre-1800) at University of Limerick
Discover 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.
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Adam Crymble @adamcrymble.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
My 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/...
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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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Sarah Fox @sarahfoxhistory.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
IT'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 🗃️
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The King’s Dinner
The 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...
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Kurbs @kkurbs.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Please Use AI
PLEASE USE AI
Shawn Smucker
Be sure to use Al when making your next, I don't know, meal plan, for example. Definitely do not call your friend who loves to cook and ask her for her favorite recipes or tips or ways to save time making meals, because you will end
up talking for longer than you had hoped, hearing, perhaps, about her father's cancer diagnosis or how lonely she's been or even what she's planted in her spring garden and then lost with the early frost.
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Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Thanks 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.
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Kelly - She Drinks Beer @kellywasgcb.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Congratulations 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
Bob, Dr Pam, Sam and me with glasses cheersing Dr Pam's book, which she is holding a copy of
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ande91.bsky.social @ande91.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Nanako Matsuda
Line art illustration by Nanako Matsuda of a cat and a buttery.
The butterfly is flying over the cat. The drawing is very simple. Minimalist style illustration. Purely line art. Lovely, whimsical,
Black lines, ochre background and calligraphic mark as a well as signature.
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Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
If 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
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British 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
Cover for Wilkie Bard's song, The Barman.
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Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
So Grand
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Jane Winters @jfwinters.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
If 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!
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Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
If you were a wine, that would be just right. If you were a beer that would be too much.
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EMoDiR @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...
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Job Opportunity at Lancaster University: Lecturer in Medieval/Early Modern History
The 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...
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Thomas Penny @thomaswpenny.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
If 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...
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Thousands of University of Nottingham staff told they are at risk of redundancy
Institution says it could run out of money by 2031 and wants to cut more than 600 academic and support posts
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Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
OMG looks so soft and silky!
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Me and a small nugget of love. 🇸🇪♥️🇺🇦 @mnotme.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
The extremely rare catcopus.
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Christopher Pittard @christopherpittard.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Amazing 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...
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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...
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Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Wow this looks like a very cool option.
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Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Yes, so depressing when I send students reading as a pdf and the first thing adobe does now is offer to summarise it for them...
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