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Promoting equity in research funding requires collaboration now more than ever

In contested and cautious times, cross-sector working is needed to push EDI work forward. Rachel Van Krimpen explains what this looks like in the context of research funding In contested and cautious ...

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When you are fairly sure the image that you have just come across is a monkey playing a lobster violin with a snake as a bow...... 🤔 Zürich. Zentralbibliothek Ms. Rh. 172, f.1r

Visual Arts and the Auld Alliance: Scotland, France and National Identity c.1420-1550. Looks to have some really beautiful art in it and a lot of very interesting thought. Paperback released recently and is affordable at around 20 pounds or so depending where you get it from.

A longer post in this weekly series - a tribute to Carlo Ginzburg, and his approach of the historian as a detective, with a particular focus on his important essay 'Clues'. "The Historian as Detective – Carlo Ginzburg and the Search for ‘Clues’" progressivegeographies.com/2026/08/02/t...

The Historian as Detective – Carlo Ginzburg and the Search for ‘Clues’

A few years ago, after one of the presentations I’d given on reconstructing Émile Benveniste’s movements during the Second World War through various archives, one audience member said to another: “…

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the children (apparently literally) yearn for the medieval www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/08...

'The Historian's Craft & Practice: new writing on history teaching and historical research' bit.ly/45l8I2M Selected recent articles from the Society's journal, 'Transactions', on the practice of pedagogy and research. All content available Open Access. New article submissions invited #Skystorians

The Historian's Craft and Practice: new writing on history teaching and historical research - RHS

The Society's academic journal, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, publishes a wide range of content from historians of all disciplinary backgrounds and career stages, worldwide. This inclu...

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A lovely flurry of activity here... do please let me know if you would like to be added...

Dr Bryony Coombs@bryonycoombs.bsky.social · 6d ago

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Rare Medieval Hair-Styling Tool Found at Eilean Donan Castle www.medievalists.net/2026/07/rare... #medieval #archaeology #Scotland

Rare Medieval Hair-Styling Tool Found at Eilean Donan Castle - Medievalists.net

A rare 13th-century hair-styling tool found at Eilean Donan Castle offers new insights into fashion and daily life in medieval Scotland.

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Finally! The 'Out of Office' is on and its time to head to Puy-l'Évêque☀️I can't tell you how needed it is this year... Time to ponder what I need to write in a hammock with some Malbec and olives to hand...

Becoming completely obsessed with tracing Scottish ecclesiastical ownership inscriptions in manuscripts... This book will never be written unless at some point I just admit that I will never find them all...... 🔎

You can access the analysis here - three briefings on the key findings, an explanation of the policy context, and of course, a map for you to explore. www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/policy-and-r...

Sarah Cowan@sarahcowan1.bsky.social · 3w ago

If words could accurately capture how hard this data has been to wrangle, they would be NSFW. Coming tomorrow is 10+ years of SHAPE staff data tracking number, contract & employment type, seniority etc to finally give an accurate picture of the cost of closures www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Being at Chalke History Festival reminds me yet again how interconnected university-based history and other forms of history-making are. The thing we do in one place explicitly supports the thing we do in another. University cuts, closures and job losses harm the entire history eco-system.

Advocating for History by Doing History - On History

This blog was written by Claire Langhamer, Director of the IHR Historians are very good at crafting arguments and in recent times very many people have advanced very many arguments about why history m...

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@bodleian.ox.ac.uk MS. Laud Lat. 102. Gospel Book; Fulda, 9th century. medieval.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/catalog/manu... (My photo)

My first journal article, "Seeing Stench: Identity and Odour in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-century anti-Scottish Discourse," has been published in a special edition of The Scottish Historical Review! I have such a wonderful time going beyond my PhD research topic and writing about Scotland!

Will Tullett@willtullett.bsky.social · 4w ago

(3/) then we have a really interesting piece on ethnicity, race, and Scottish identity in the eighteenth century from @gemmamcarr.bsky.social www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3...

How do we calculate loss of written works? A depressing but important new study notes that "the loss was far greater than scholars once thought. Researchers estimate that up to 60% of medieval literary works and more than 95% of the manuscripts that once carried them have disappeared over time." 📜🖋️

Up to 60% of medieval texts and 95% of manuscripts have vanished, study finds | Archaeology News Online Magazine

A new study estimates 60% of medieval texts and over 95% of manuscripts were lost through centuries of copying and destruction.

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Thank you @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social for sending me proof that Anselm Adornes made it to @imc-leeds.bsky.social Delighted to see him there!

Society for Renaissance Studies: Two scholarships of £4,000 each, to contribute to the costs of postgraduate study. rensoc.org.uk/apply/schola...

The Tunnock Prize 2026 is now open! Entries should focus on the use and interpretation of Scottish archives both within Scotland and further afield. Find out more: www.scottisharchives.org.uk/latest/the-t...

The Tunnock Prize 2026 now open! - Scottish Council on Archives

29 June 2026

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New publications by our members: the article 'Patrick Geddes’s Influence on France and Beyond' by Murdo Macdonald has appeared in the latest issue of 'Cahiers victoriens et édouardiens: on 'Inspirations et modèles écossais'. 🇫🇷 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Available in open access: journals.openedition.org/cve/18477 🔓

‘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...

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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To be clear: this is DIFFERENT to ALCS! this is about public lending, ALCS is scanning/photocopying and other secondary use. Sign up for both! (tho I've yet to be borrowed enough to make anything from PLR)

Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her)@drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · last mo.

Last day, UK #author folks and narrators! Register your hardbacks, paperbacks, ebooks, audiobooks (CDs and electronic file versions) for Public Lending Rights payments! And here's the page in the portal with guidance for how to split rights when there are multiple creators (e.g. for audiobooks). 💙📚

Last day, UK #author folks and narrators! Register your hardbacks, paperbacks, ebooks, audiobooks (CDs and electronic file versions) for Public Lending Rights payments! And here's the page in the portal with guidance for how to split rights when there are multiple creators (e.g. for audiobooks). 💙📚

Public Lending Right (PLR) - authors, illustrators - British Library

Published authors, illustrators, editors, translators or audiobook narrators could could receive up to £6,600 per year from public library loans.

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Louie Stowell@louiestowell.bsky.social · last mo.

UK authors! If you haven't done it yet (I haven't) it's time to update your PLR account! The deadline is June 30th!

An intense (conference & research) four days. Dublin, the TCD manuscripts & the REBPAF conference have been incredible. Giving my paper tomorrow before a late return to Edinburgh. Soo much food for thought....📚📖

A very simple reason why I’m not interested in incorporating this software into my work. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good

Reliance on artificial-intelligence tools degrades the abilities of physicians and software engineers, studies show.

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Sad to learn of passing of eminent historian Carlo Ginzburg; his "The Cheese and the Worms" is one of the books that had the most impact on me as a grad student, as the writing is lively & builds insight from small, carefully observed details of the historical record en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Che...

Mickaël Wilmart@mickaelwilmart.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Carlo Ginzburg est mort, annonce la presse italienne. Immense historien, il a su construire une oeuvre originale entre micro-histoire et anthropologie historique qui a considérablement renouvelé la discipline. www.repubblica.it/cultura/2026...

Very grateful to Sherry Lindquist for so clearly articulating some of the misgivings I had about this spectacular exhibition & catalogue. The lack of engagement with labour, class, taxation & the more unsavoury aspect of the duc de Berry. Glad to direct my students here: hnanews.org/hnar/reviews...

Les Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry - Historians of Netherlandish Art Reviews

The Château de Chantilly justifiably billed its exhibition as a landmark show, and for early modernists and medievalists, it was the most anticipated

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The Manuscript of the Week is RIA MS D ii 3, the Stowe Missal. Written in Latin between A.D. 792-803, the Stowe Missal is a Mass-book of the early Irish Church, small enough to be carried around for the use of a priest on his travels.

Watch an illustrated video podcast with @jillburke.bsky.social about the nude in Italian Renaissance art & changing beauty standards for women related to the newly fashionable statues from Antiquity. 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #art #academia #ArtHerstory #womenartists 🏺 youtu.be/5tLubAF_X2Y

Ep. 7. BODILY INSIGHTS: A conversation with jill Burke

YouTube video by Exploring Art History

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Rebranding a hallucination as a ‘critical confabulation’ that can fill archival gaps is a big no from me.