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Stephen Gregg

@shgregg.bsky.social
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Academic: 18thC literature, book history, critical digitization. Bath, UK. Accomplices Sid the greyhound 🌈 and Turner the whippet.

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Jack Lynch @jacklynch000.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Teaching Swift today, and will always share this on “Modest Proposal” day.
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Punk Rock History @punkrockhistory.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Released 49 years ago today Oh Bondage Up Yours! - The debut single by X-Ray Spex X-Ray Spex - Oh Bondage Up Yours! (Twndish 1978) #punk #punks #punkrock #xrayspex #ohbondageupyours #punkrockhistory
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Punk Rock History @punkrockhistory.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
In memory of Marc Bolan, singer, songwriter and musician, who would have turned 79 today Photo by Kevin Cummins #glamrock #punkrock #marcbolan #trex #history #rockhistory #punkrockhistory #otd
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BOO! k HistoriAAAH 🎃 @book-historia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Lmao
The phrase book history in the style of the My Hero Academia logo
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Stephen Gregg @shgregg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ghost book
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Hourly Spaced @hourlyspaced.bagpuss.org · 28/09/2026
Groovy!
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Punk Rock History @punkrockhistory.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Released 49 years ago today "Problem Child" is a single by the Damned, and preview for the band's second album, Music for Pleasure. The Damned - Neat Neat Neat - Problem Child - Fan Club Live 1977 #punk #punks #punkrock #thedamned #problemchild #punkrockhistoy
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Stephen Gregg @shgregg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Just look at that roster of era defining music.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
'Asked by Kuenssberg if he would allow a programme to be made and presented by AI, Brittin replied: "I would do, within guardrails." He added: "We want to experiment with this technology and understand what it can and can't do, but I'm here because I believe in human creativity.'
bbc.co.uk
Some BBC channels and radio stations 'may well' have to close, director general says
The BBC's financial situation "may well mean" some channels and stations close, Matt Brittin says.
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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is it. This is what everyone is enabling by humoring genAI: you spend months writing something that took you years to get at, for an opaque algorithm that a few control to spit a number and cut you off right there and then. This is what we're up against 🧪
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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
THEY GOT TO 2000 SUPPORTERS! Now in need of 3000 more in just under a year. LETS GO! #earlymodern #bookhistory #skystorians
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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
To mark the Autumn Equinox, I offer you a biscuit tin. Designed in 1958 by CF Tunnicliffe
A large rectangular biscuit tin with a decorative lid showing red squirrel perched on a tree stump in front of a vivid blue ground 
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Prof MNP @nushpowell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
For anyone who needs to read a story about persistence paying off and a hero winning a victory.
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Stephen Gregg @shgregg.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Does anyone still use Voyant in DH teaching these days? I used to teach with it a while ago and just returning to it. I ask because it seems cranky and very slow #DH  voyant.lincsproject.ca
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Voyant Tools
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Stephen Gregg @shgregg.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Humphrey Clinker one of my fav comic fictions of the 18thC!
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Rebecca Anne Barr @rabarr.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
It's happening! 'Killjoy Comedy: Willful Women and 1750s Fiction' is coming out with @uvapress.bsky.social in February 2027. @sinsleyh.bsky.social says it is 'a ROMP'. I am *floored* @bsecs.bsky.social @asecsoffice.bsky.social #18thcentury #c18th www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10256/
A dour looking elite woman is sitting side-saddle on a horse, followed by a ridiculous supercilious little dog. The title of the book, in hot pink, is KILLJOY COMEDY.
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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
How to do with books, especially bibles, when you live in a material world? Well, William Hogarth of 18th century fame reminds us of the typical re-using (of bindings). In this case, the leather binding is re-used for a shoe sole. #bookhistory #booksky
A detail from William Hogarth, A Rake's Progress, Plate 1, from around 1735, showing a bound bible and the leather cover with a hole that looks like a shoe. William Hogarth, A Rake's Progress, Plate 1.
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BSECS @bsecs.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
***BREAKING NEWS*** We have extended the deadline on our #CFP by 5 days to give those of you that missed our early deadline another chance! New deadline: 20 September 2026 Get writing! #skystorians #18thC 🗃️ www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...
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BSECS Annual Conference
BSECS Annual Conference: the annual meeting of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies is Europe's largest and most prestigious annual conference
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Stephen Gregg @shgregg.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Attn @iangadd.bsky.social
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Stephen Gregg @shgregg.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
My poor whippet! Turner at the vets for a routine check up. Backing himself away from reception desk and wedged himself between chairs.
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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I am the very model of a modern day typographer A font take on the tune “Modern Major General” by Gilbert & Sullivan #typography #fonts #graphicdesign
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Jennie @unabridgedopinions.com · 04/09/2026
one of the most beloved programmes of all time was literally Melvyn Bragg talking to two experts about a subject they knew an enormous amount about, with him knowing enough to ask erudite and pertinent questions. Come ON BBC. Not everything needs one historian and a comedian.
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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Rough Draft vs Final Draft
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Steven Van Impe @svanimpe.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
A rabid sheep, still from the horror movie Black Sheep.
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Jim Wald @citizenwald.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
He is even the subject of a couple of fictional projects: 1) the Sir John Fielding novels of Bruce Alexander www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/SIJ/s... and 2) TV series City of Vice,featuring both Fielding brothers IMDb www.imdb.com/title/tt1044...
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Sir John Fielding
Buy books online and find book series such as Sir John Fielding written by Bruce Alexander from PenguinRandomHouse.com
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Meg @prayingmantis.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Happy Skynet day
Arnold Schwarzenegger as Terminator, saying "Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14AM Eastern Time August 29.Sarah Connor in Terminator 2 smoking. Caption is: Sarah Connor watching you use AI for everything
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Jonathan @jsench.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
PBSA is searching for an Editorial Assistant! Review of applications begins September 1 and goes through the 15th. Information & instructions to apply are at the link below. Position manages logistics of journal processes. $5000 annual honorarium, 1 year w possibility of renewal.
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Editorial Assistant job description
PBSA Editorial Assistant description and qualifications The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America (PBSA) seeks an Editorial Assistant. PBSA is a peer-reviewed quarterly journal published o...
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CRASSH @crasshlive.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
📚 The Politics of Rare Books: Colonial legacies, libraries, provenances 21 September Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP bit.ly/4gcpiXM This event aims to advance conversations on how historical connections to the slave trade within library collections can be communicated to the public
The politics of rare books
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Johnny Normality (Spooky Mode) @probgobl.in · 14/08/2026
EVERY STORY ABOUT BEAVERS FOR THE LAST DECADE READS LIKE: WE RELEASED A DOZEN PADDLE TAILED LITTLE FREAKS AND THEY IMMEDIATELY BEGAN A TERRAFORMING PROJECT THAT REVERSED A CENTURY OF ECOLOGICAL DAMAGE IN THREE WEEKS.
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Hourly Spaced @hourlyspaced.bagpuss.org · 14/08/2026
I let my principles get in the way sometimes.
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Stephen Gregg @shgregg.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Fantastic piece.
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Stephen Gregg @shgregg.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Local media needs support if devolution push is to succeed, publishers say
Shift from Westminster risks weakening scrutiny as regional titles battle hostility, big tech and ‘news deserts’
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Stephen Gregg @shgregg.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Don’t normally post family stuff but can’t help feeling proud of my 15 year old boy who went and bought these two books for himself today:
Hands holding two books: Angela Davies’ Women, Race & Class; and Marx and Engels’ The Communist Manifesto.
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
If there’s one thing Alexander Pope taught us, it’s that translators of the Odyssey are a calm bunch who never pick public fights with anyone
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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Did I travel all the way to #JodrellBank this morning for a 5min TV interview? Yes reader, I did. Did I then persuade the fab e-MERLIN Director Simon Garrington to let me climb inside the Lovell Telescope? Well, if you can't flex a Royal title occasionally, then what is the point of having it? 😇🔭🧪
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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b
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Prof Tracey Hill @tracelarkhall.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
The rather lovely Hogarth memorial in Bartholomew Close, where he was born
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Adam Markham @adammarkham.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
This would be another big blow for UK science. It's also a threat to a #WorldHeritage site which was only listed by the UK in 2019 after nearly a decade of work by scientists, advocates & government. Now it should go on the World Heritage "in danger" list. @unesco.bsky.social @icomos.bsky.social 🧪🌏
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Jodrell Bank Observatory facing closure after major funder cuts support
Scientists say decision is blow to UK astronomy as deep space observatory is home to world-leading facilities
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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
‘Great Inventions, 1961’ Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope Artist: Robert Ayton
Illustration from the endpapers of the revised edition of the book showing a detailed illustration of the dish set against a striking dark pink ground
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georgiosmasman.bsky.social @georgiosmasman.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Happy #StrummerSaturday everyone.
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University English @univeng.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
The #EnglishCreates: Futures symposium brought together students, teachers, researchers, writers and advocates to celebrate the creativity and public value of English. We’re delighted to now share recordings of the talks for those who couldn’t join us on the day: www.youtube.com/channel/UCVL...
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Stephen Gregg @shgregg.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Wow. There’s a big rabbit-hole about foxing! #bookhistory
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Robert Sheppard @robertsheppard.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Visual work by Patricia Farrell: patriciafarrell.weebly.com
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Patricia Farrell
Patricia Farrell lives in Liverpool. She is a poet and visual artist. She co-organised the SubVoicive reading series in London in the 1980s and was a member of the arts group New River Project.  She.....
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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Ladybird endpapers. London sunset ‘A Little Princess’, 1985 Artist: Shirley Tourret
The double page spread of The endpapers represents a rooftop view with the buildings, jumbled and crowded, depicted in shades of brown. In contrast, the expensive sky is luminous with blue and orange watercolour.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 14/07/2026
It's Harrison Ford's birthday, which means we are obliged to share this absolute banger from our archives: "No one on the committee can identify who or what instilled Dr. Jones with the belief that an archaeologist’s tool kit should consist solely of a bullwhip and a revolver."
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Back from Yet Another Globetrotting Adventure, Indiana Jones Checks His Mail and Discovers That His Bid for Tenure Has Been Denied
“As chairman of the Committee on Promotion and Tenure, I regret to inform you that your recent application for tenure has been denied by a vote of 6 to 1. Fo...
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Megan L. Cook @meganlcook.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Descriptive bibliography question for those who know more about the 18th century than I do: the book below is large and has a lot of plates, and seems based on signatures to be a folio in 2s. Is this a thing? I am used to seeing them in 6s. The binding is such that I can't ascertain directly.
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Stephen Gregg @shgregg.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Another classic!
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Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Sure it doesn't work, but have you considered that it makes middle-aged men feel like COOL SPIES? www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Peter Geoghegan and Lucas Amin · ‘This looks absolutely rubbish’: Palantir and the NHS
A decade ago Palantir was largely unknown in the UK. It now holds public contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds...
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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 13/07/2026
Book history/bibliography folks—doe anyone know of a bibliography/libguide/anything else where folks have compiled revisions of Robert Darnton’s famous “Communications Circuit" diagram? I’ve seen so many over the years—I kind of want to point students to a whole batch of ‘em for a class exercise
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 11/07/2026
- Guy named Monty playing spoons in front of barrel fire - Minor league baseball game on radio in room next door at flophouse, 1953 - Time
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Tom Waits White Noise Sound Options
Rumble of freight trains at dusk Tuesday delivery at scrap metal yard Broom sweeping floor of bar in Sheboygan at closing time
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