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Richard Coulton

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I research eighteenth-century literature and culture and teach English + Digital Humanities at QMUL. Graduate supervision principally around history of gardening and plant humanities.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Join us Wednesday 7 October at 5:30 pm at the Institute of Historical Research, London or on Zoom, for Miles Ogborn's "Law, Violence and Empire: Understanding the Jamaican Uprising Trials of 1832". Free and welcoming to researchers, students & the public. Please register in advance. #Skystorians
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Miles Ogborn, ‘Law, violence and empire: Understanding the Jamaican uprising trials of 1832’
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Mary Flannery @15thcgossipgirl.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This week’s Page by Page is in honour of one of the most wonderful colleagues I ever had the pleasure of working with: Julia Boffey (1953-2026). maryflannery.substack.com/p/for-julia-...
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For Julia, with gratitude
Remembering the kindness of a dear colleague
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Linda Andersson Burnett @lindaaburnett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Instructing Colonial Natural History Seminar Series is back and we have a stellar line up: @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social, 6 Oct; @cberiksen.bsky.social, 28 Oct; Jim Endersby, 25 Nov; and Ma. Mercedes G. Planta, 9 Dec. All seminars are on Zoom, 15-16 CET
Poster for Instructing Colonial Natural History, Autumn Term 2026 seminar series. The design uses an 1785 watercolour by Sarah Stone showing the interior of Sir Ashton Lever’s Museum in Leicester Square, London: a dark green natural-history collection crowded with display cabinets, birds, shells, antlers and other specimens, with green curtains opening onto receding galleries and a large elephant on the right. Four online seminars are listed: Sadiah Qureshi, 6 October; Christoffer Basse Eriksen, 28 October; Jim Endersby, 25 November; and Ma. Mercedes G. Planta, 9 December. All seminars are on Zoom, 15.00–16.00 CET. Registration: instructingnaturalhistory@uu.se
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Markman Ellis @markmanellis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
QMCECS: Queen Mary Centre for 18th Century Studies, Seminar Programme for 2026/27. Monthly-ish, on Tuesdays from 5-7 pm, in-person in Mile End, London. Everyone is welcome.
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Brad Scott @trichocolea.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Ai Weiwei, A Ton of Tea (2007), Bristol Museum @rxcoulton.bsky.social
A large block of tea measuring about a metre cubed, in a gallery
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Kristof Smeyers @kristofsmeyers.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
6-year fully funded research and teaching assistant job at University of Ghent in the fields of English literature/cultural theory, history/translation history, linguistics, language acquisition, communication. Own projects are welcome! Details: jobs.ugent.be/job/Ghent-As...
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Assistant English
Assistant English
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DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Leading a creative writing workshop on Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726) in Special Collections at Kent, writing objects and subjects big and small. Wed 28 Oct, 2pm until 4pm, Templeman Library. Email D.kavanagh@kent.ac.uk to reserve a place. #CreativeWriting #GulliversTravels
Writing Big and Small after Gulliver
A Creative Workshop
Dr Swift
First published in 1726, the first two books of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels turn on a single trick played in opposite directions: shrink the world around its narrator, and even the smallest objects and gestures of Lilliputian court life become petty and absurd; leave him ordinary-sized among the giants of Brobdingnag, and the plainest objects, and the bodies of the people who use them, become overwhelming, even repulsive, at close range. This workshop invites participants to think about their chosen objects or subjects in both big and small ways, using inspiration from the Special Collections holdings to write other worlds into existence.
Date: Wednesday 28 October 2026
Time: 2.00pm - 4.00pm
Venue: Special Collections & Archives, Templeman Library, University of Kent,
Canterbury
Led by: Dr Declan Kavanagh
Places limited - materials provided - all levels welcome
To reserve a place, email D.kavanagh@kent.ac.uk
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Margot 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.] 1/4
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Curriculum reform is a wedge issue
With 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...
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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Now available online! www.cambridge.org/core/books/h... 🌿📚💚🪲
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Hannah Murphy @hsmurphy.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Please share! A rare PhD studentship @kingshistory.bsky.social *fully* funded by @slaveryinwar.bsky.social to work with myself and Maeve Ryan, supported by a broader community of experts in Caribbean history, transatlantic slavery, and the history of war. www.kcl.ac.uk/study/fundin... 🗃️
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AHRC Studentship: Slavery and the Seven Years’ War within and across the Caribbean Archipelago | King's College London
The Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War (CRSW) is pleased to announce the availability of a fully funded AHRC doctoral studentship, to be jointly supervised across History and War Studies
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Just one para from @jdportes.bsky.social brilliant (and beautifully written) @theguardian.com piece on Burnham and the economy. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
‘We urge the Government to prioritise this issue. Should this situation continue unchecked, the damage to the health of higher education, research and innovation will be profound and have long-lasting consequences.’ www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/stateme...
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British Academy President: UK higher education crisis risks irreversible damage
As course closures, shrinking provision and widening regional inequalities threaten the future of UK higher education and research, President of the British Academy, Susan J Smith calls for an immedia...
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UK Disability History and Heritage Hub @ukdishisthub.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
CFP alert: We are thrilled to announce the Call for Presenters for a hybrid event in collaboration with @britishlibrary.bsky.social! This will be taking place on 27th November 2026, with presentations happening both in-person and online. Deadline to submit your ideas is: 31st July 2026! #DisHist
Poster for the Call for Presenters for "Collections Uncovered: Disability at the British Library." All text is black typed on cream, yellow and light blue backgrounds (descending down the page in that order). The text reads:
Collections Uncovered: Disability at the British Library
27th November 2026, 10am-4:30pm, hybrid

Call for Presenters

Join the UK Disability History and Heritage Hub to explore disability stories in the collections of the British Library. The day will begin with academic, artistic, or community presentations on all things disability
history. Presentations will be online and in-person.

The afternoon will be a hands-on, in-person workshop with
selected material from the British Library collections.

Topic ideas:
. cataloguing disability
. activist publications
. access
. disability histories in the British Library collections

Presentations may be 5 or 15 minutes.
These can be standard papers or something more
creative, like an interview or performance!
Please submit by text or video:
. Summary (max 200 words)
· Personal or organisation bio (max 100 words)
. Videos may be up to 3 minutes
Email ukdishistheritagehub@gmail.com by 31st July 2026
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Ana María Sánchez-Arce (she/her) @anamsanchezarce.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
“Is the sector really committed to sustaining anything like a full humanistic and cultural education? Because this is not a luxury in a climate of polarised and historically myopic conflict.” Rowan Williams asks THE question. The government needs to answer it too. Where is the leadership?
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ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk · 09/06/2026
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Blue plaque honours East End anti-racism pioneer Kamal Chunchie
A new English Heritage plaque in Poplar commemorates the pastor and community worker whose support for Black and Asian seamen helped shape the fight against racial discrimination in London's docklands.
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 13/05/2026
"Ultimately, the UK needs to review how higher education is funded and regulated. We cannot leave the future of essential teaching and research to a scramble for students and a race to recruit." #Skystorians
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Art Herstory @artherstory.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Erythrina Fulgens, from an album (Vol.IV, 19), 1780, by #MaryDelany (English, 1700-1788) who was born #otd, May 14. Held by the British Museum, britishmuseum.org/research/col... #womenartists #artherstory #hernaturalhistory
Collage of colored papers, with bodycolor and watercolor, on black ink background, depicting a branch of Erythrina Fulgens, with orange flowers.
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Today’s Education Select Committee report on higher education is the best report on HE to come from Govt/Parliament in ages. It takes a rounded view of the whole system, moving away from the more atomistic or narrow accounts we’ve seen 🧵 committees.parliament.uk/committee/20...
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“A very serious problem”: No clear government plan for universities risking insolvency, MPs find in new report - Committees - UK Parliament
Today MPs on the Education Committee warn that the government has no clear plan for universities facing insolvency and that protections for students are inadequate, as the Committee publishes a new re...
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
I'm in @theobserveruk.bsky.social today looking at why so many unis are in financial trouble and what the government needs to do to save HE. observer.co.uk/news/columni...
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Why saving universities is far more than academic
Modern Britain needs young people with degrees – here’s how to make sure they still have somewhere to study them
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Petter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com · 23/04/2026
Social media is no longer social. Most of it is passive viewing of videos and pictures from people we've never met. But we're still studying social media like it's 2010. We've entered the post-social media era — and research needs to catch up. osf.io/preprints/so... preprint w/ Richard Rogers
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
'The fundamental problem is that the relationship between the English state and higher education – what this paper terms the “HE/state nexus” – is broken....This mechanism has failed, by every metric its architects set for it, and its failure is structural, not incidental.' Stark and to the point.
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Blood, debt, toil, and arrears: why thirty years of policy struggle has left us without the higher education system we deserve
New thinking, ideas & policy solutions for post-18 education in the UK
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BSHS @bshsnews.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
🌿 Learning botany at home 🔓️ In our latest BJHS issue, Brad Scott explores how the Talbot family studied mosses—by collecting, drawing, and naming—showing how botanical knowledge was shaped in domestic settings and through networks, even without formal structures. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Latest issue | The British Journal for the History of Science | Cambridge Core
The British Journal for the History of Science
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Art Herstory @artherstory.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Timelea / Thymelaea, c. 1631, by #GiovannaGarzoni (Italian, 1600-1670). F.39 (seq. 88), Piante Varie, c. 1650, held at the @dumbartonoaks.bsky.social Research Library, doaks.org/resources/ra... #hernaturalhistory #womenbotanicalartists #artherstory #womenartists #InternationalPlantAppreciationDay
A C17th watercolor and gouache drawing of a thyme plant, including roots, from an album of drawings of 50 different plants. The label "Timelea" is written in black near the roots. At the top of the page is a longer 5-word label that begins with "Thymelea." In the top right corner "Timelea 39" is written.
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BSHS @bshsnews.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
📖 New issue of the BJHS now out! This issue brings together a rich set of contributions that explore how scientific knowledge is produced, communicated, and imagined across different contexts. BSHS members enjoy full access to all articles! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Apollo @apollo-magazine.com · 06/04/2026
‘As a history of Africa in 45 objects, it would be hard to top the developer’s selection here.’ Samuel Reilly plays Relooted, a video game that allows us to pull off heists of African art from Western institutions.
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How to take restitution into your own hands
Relooted is a video game that allows players to pull off heists and reclaim artefacts – and doubles up as a short history of African art, writes Samuel Reilly
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Spooky Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Tory MP Matt Vickers invited constituents to a coffee morning to discuss their concerns, but only if they paid £5 for the privilege. The cash would go to Vickers' campaign fund. No one should have to pay to see their parliamentary elected representative. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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Top Tory blasted for flogging £5 tickets to constituents who want to meet him
Conservative Party deputy chairman Matt Vickers is accused of a 'cash grab' after advertising a coffee morning for his Stockton West constituents - and selling tickets for a fiver
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Louise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
It is past time to do a power mapping of which consultants are advising which universities, and which Super Efficiency Optimizing Plans they're laying out as their Burger King menu of options
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Paul Carnahan @pacarnahan.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
This week, Brexit finally killed our family business. We cleared out our warehouse, handed back the keys, paid the final bills and said goodbye to our last employee. What was once a thriving firm died a slow, sad death, all thanks to Farage, Johnson and the gullible idiots they conned. 1/18
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Fully-funded AHRC Collaborative Doctoral PhD Studentship at UCL and the V&A: 'Invisible Hands: Migrant Labour and British Craft in the 18th Century' Ignore the 'top ten' hype; focus on the ace resources, environment and support. Deadline 15 April. #Skystorians
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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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Clare Hickman @drhick.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
🥳The Routledge Handbook of Health and Environmental Humanities is published today! Ed. by the fab Amber Abrams, @victoriabates.bsky.social & @rothiotome.bsky.social. It also includes a chapter 'Research on the Move' by @draflint.bsky.social and me. (Probably one to ask your library to order tho' £)
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The Routledge Handbook of Health and Environmental Humanities
This handbook delves into the innovative intersection of health and environmental humanities, capturing its multidisciplinary creative spirit by showcasing key concepts and tools, on-the-ground applic...
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BSECS @bsecs.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
CONGRATULATIONS 🎉 to the winner of our Digital Prize 2026: Eighteenth-Century Libraries Online (ECLO). The project is the result of a 5yr AHRC-funded project on the role of books in social, cultural & political change across the #18thC Atlantic. www.liverpool.ac.uk/history/rese... #skystorians 🗃️
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Eighteenth-Century Libraries Online (ECLO) | Department of History | University of Liverpool
Eighteenth-Century Libraries Online is the result of a five-year Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded project investigating the contribution of books to social, cultural and political change in...
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Kristof Selleslach @kristofselle.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Ever wondered how pressmen and compositors at the early-modern Plantin Press structured their careers? 📘🕰️ Join the University of Antwerp as a PhD fellow and dive into the rhythms of labour between 1580–1840 Apply by 1 July 2026 👇 #PhDPosition #EarlyModern #PlantinPress #PrintingHistory #Antwerp
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UCFL - University Council For Languages @ucflangs.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
The University of Essex has proposed to discontinue most of their undergraduate language provisions as well as the Languages for All programme as part of large-scale restructuring. Sign their petition to urge the Executive Committee to reconsider the proposal: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Katie McDonough @kmcdono.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Join the Lancaster-Manchester Environmental #DH Seminar on March 11 @ 3pm UK (online) for a talk by @jimclifford.bsky.social & @historyjacob.bsky.social: "Solving OCR: Using olmOCR to Follow Commodities across the British World" www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/solving-oc... #dhist #ocr #envhist 🗃️
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Solving OCR: Using olmOCR to Follow Commodities across the British World
Join the Lancaster-Manchester Environmental DH Seminar for a talk and discussion with Jim Clifford and Jacob Polay (Saskatchewan)​.
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Krista Kesselring @kjkesselring.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Delighted to find in the mail today my hard copy of Sonia Tycko's 'Captured Consent: Contract Labor in English Charity, Colonization, and War, 1600-1700' -- an outstanding book that warrants a wide readership. www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...
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Captured Consent
Cambridge Core - British History after 1450 - Captured Consent
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Katie McDonough @kmcdono.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Next Friday! Registration will be open until next Monday! #envhum #dh cc @northernenvhistory.bsky.social @envhumsoxford.bsky.social @ukiedh.bsky.social
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Markman Ellis @markmanellis.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
QMCECS Seminar 17 February 2026: Esther Chadwick (Courtauld): 'Art, Bureaucracy and the Stamp Office'. In person at Queen Mary Mile End campus, ArtsOne 1.36, starting at 17.15. All welcome. More info: www.qmul.ac.uk/sed/english/....
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RCP museum @rcpmuseum.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
These beautiful plant drawings were made by an unnamed Chinese artist, possibly at the behest of colonialist John Bradby Blake in 1771-2. Ordinary sticky tape is a nightmare for archives, but acid-free repair tape can be used to patch up torn pages. #ExploreArchives #EYAConservation
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
What's lost when we lose staff, departments, programmes and faculties in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, and what's that got to do with organ donation? Amid the looming losses faced by Cardiff, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Leicester and Nottingham (among many others), here's a worked example. 1/8
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The organ donation ‘opt-out’ has been a fatal failure | The Observer
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
There was a robust trade in live eels in pre-modern England, & I know you're wondering: "How do I ship live eels?" Not in barrels of water. They'll use up the oxygen & die. Nope. You pack them in layers of damp moss or hay, & off you go. They don't need to be in water. Wut? 1/3 🗃️🧪
Meme. Medieval image showing a cooper making a barrel. He is leaning over the barrel with a wooden wedge in one hand, and a wooden mallet raised high in the other. He's about to strike, like a cobra (if the cobra were holding a wooden mallet).

The man has massively muscled forearms, and a sharply receding hairline. He's going bald, and will arm wrestle you into submission if you bring it up. He is wearing a yellow apron with tools hanging from his belt, a light blue shirt, and a dark cowl. His grey hair speaks to his experience, and his calm look says that he hasn't noticed yet that he's in a meme.

On the wall behind his is a coil of rope, and something that might be a hat or a hood. It is, though, more fun to imagine that it is a fedora and a coiled whip, and that this man is actually Indiana Jones, taking a break from questionable archeology and bad pedagogy to make a few barrels.

Meme text reads:
"Lock, stock, and two
slithering
barrels of eels"
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Sadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
This collaborative PhD project with the LSE and Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, on Planting Decolonization: Plantation Science and Empire in the Twentieth Century, sounds amazing. I’m sure many of you might be interested. #STS #HPS #HistSci www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...
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LSE Collaborative Studentship with Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
LSE Collaborative Studentship with Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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Richard Coulton @rxcoulton.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
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She listened to Grenfell’s bereaved and then acted. Rayne...
Unlike her predecessors as housing minister, she confronted the issue of the tower and demolition has started
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Hunterian Museum London @hunterianmuseum.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
📢Come and work at the Hunterian Museum 📢 RCS England Museums is seeking a dynamic, highly motivated and empathetic individual to develop, deliver and promote inspiring public and professional Museum engagement programmes, on site and online. 👇👇👇 hunterianmuseum.org/news/vacancy...
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Vacancy - Museums Engagement Manager
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Brad Scott @trichocolea.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Yesterday I was @cuherb.bsky.social checking out its collection of Sussex #bryophytes, most of which were collected by William Nicholson (1866-1945), though there are also some from Thomas Laflin (1914-1972), and even William Mitten (1819-1906) 1/5 #bryology
Some of the drawers at the Cambridge Herbarium containing mossesOne of Nicholson's moss packets, opened to show its contents, the pleurocarp Anomodon viticulosus, which was in fact from the collection of William Mitten, and had been supplied by the New York Botanical Garden
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Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
New issue of Journal of the History of Collections Vol. 37, No. 1 (2025) academic.oup.com/jhc/issue/37/1 @sdallaglio.bsky.social @suziebirch.bsky.social @tfraser.bsky.social @rxcoulton.bsky.social
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Volume 37 Issue 1 | Journal of the History of Collections | Oxford Academic
Publishes contributions on all aspects of collecting activity, including the contents of collections, the processes which initiated their formation, and the circumstances of the collectors themselves.
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Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Foundations: please step up and take over the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL). This is an absolutely essential scanned archive of all of the old journals and books from the 1500s to about 1920. Has been indispensable for my research. about.biodiversitylibrary.org/call-for-sup...
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Call for Support: – About BHL
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
It's Tuesday. You're dragging yourself through the world, one cup of coffee at a time. Can nothing liven up this day? How 'bout a thread of eel ships on maps? These maps are what got me into eels in the first place! "Cool!" you say. "But wait...what's an eel ship?" Well... 1/14
Two eel ships on the Thames, between Paulus Warfe and Qeen Hythe, from Hollar's 1647 "Long View of London." You know they're the eel ships because they're labeled "the Eel Ships."

This is a rather long thread, and so the alt-text will be greatly diminished today. It takes a while to write narrative alt-text, and I don't have it in me to do a 14-post thread. I'd have to plan ahead for that, and I certainly am not that guy.
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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
late for #DigitalFriday but I think this is a useful article for the (comparatively few) people really saying "there's no use case for AI" - it's super important that we don't let slop genAI boosters muddy the waters & confuse their ecocidal theft-based tech with this careful, worthwhile stuff:
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MIT student prints AI polymer masks to restore paintings in hours
Removable transparent films apply digital restorations directly to damaged artwork.
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Dr Will Wyeth @willwyeth.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Interesting new work on the legacies of British slavery, taking here an holistic view of income and wealth. Bonus: if you buy the related book straight from the publisher, they offer a whopping 50% discount if you subscribe to the newsletter. Get buying!! theconversation.com/tracing-the-...
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Tracing the Drax family’s millions – a story of British landed gentry, slavery and sugar plantations
Journalist and historian Paul Lashmar has published extensive research into the wealthy and influential Drax family of Dorset.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Not true. I see you're a luxury watch dealer. I'm also interested in watches. Let me show you how free and easy migration has allowed you to earn a living. 🧵
Corey Wiley on Twitter writes: "You don’t get it. 
Foundational immigration law is morally just and has been established over millennia. Disrespecting these rules and ideals is very offensive to folks who highly value civilized society"
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