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Rachel Mairs @rachelmairs.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Please join us for an event on Aurel Stein at the Royal Asiatic Society in September. Photo of one of his many intrepid dogs (all named Dash) for those who may need persuading.

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Rachel Mairs @rachelmairs.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

New book! Women in the History of Language Learning and Teaching.

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Rachel Mairs @rachelmairs.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

www.savemlcatnotts.org.uk Please consider supporting the campaign to stop the University of Nottingham's disastrous plan to cease offering degrees in Modern Languages. #SaveNottinghamLanguages #WeAreUoN @uniofnottingham.bsky.social

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Rachel Mairs @rachelmairs.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

New Book! (Spoiler: all the Ptolemies die at the end.)

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Peopling The Past @peoplingthepast.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

In this week’s #PeoplingBlog post, our Egyptian colleagues from the Egypt’s Dispersed Heritage project offer us a 12-point manifesto which highlights the ways in which the public can treat Egyptian mummified ancestral remains with dignity and respect peoplingthepast.com/2025/10/31/b... 🧵 /1

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Rachel Mairs @rachelmairs.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Language & History is now accepting applications for Associate Editors.

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Saqi Books @saqibooks.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

SUPPORT THE EDUCATIONAL BOOKSHOP! We would hugely appreciate any support you are able to give at this time. Find out more here: www.gofundme.com/f/jerusalems...

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Rachel Mairs @rachelmairs.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

www.aup.nl/en/book/9789... Now out, from Amsterdam University Press: Colonial Vocabularies: Teaching and Learning Arabic, 1870-1970. Big thank you to everyone involved in this project, which was a lot of fun! (It's a free to download ebook, so please don't buy the hard copy.)

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Colonial Vocabularies

Language teaching and learning were crucial to Europeans’ colonial, national, and individual enterprises in the Levant, and in these processes, “Oriental language teachers” – as they were termed prior...

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(Mar)Chella Ward @luxmea.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Everyone please cross your fingers 🤞🏻that the bullies of the Classicists listserv have got better things to do than be dramatic today because we’ve just circulated this with details of our next CAWS / EO event: everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2025/02/04/i... Please come and please share! 🇵🇸🥰

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In the Ruins of History: A CAWS/#EOTalks Roundtable in Solidarity with Palestine

This event is co-organized by the Critical Ancient World Studies Collective and Everyday Orientalism. It is the 2nd of our ongoing series of Roundtables In solidarity with Palestine. You can access…

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Rachel Mairs @rachelmairs.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Merry Christmas to all who celebrate. To mark the festive season, here is the 1892 Toussaint-Langenscheidt method for learning English, through the medium of Dickens' A Christmas Carol.

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Rachel Mairs @rachelmairs.bsky.social · 01/05/2024

Fully funded PhD at University of Reading and British Museum, working with Professor Rachel Mairs and Dr. Victoria Donnellan. All details here: www.reading.ac.uk/doctoral-res...

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Rachel Mairs @rachelmairs.bsky.social · 04/03/2024

I'm delighted to say that my new book is now available for free download (or hard copy purchase) from UCL Press: www.uclpress.co.uk/products/233... A huge thank you to everyone who supported this project along the way.

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