Cassie Newland
@cassienewland.bsky.social
Director CHI Swindon. Dean of ASP Historical & contemporary archaeology. Cultural heritage. Public history. Endless building projects. Geeky-geek-geek-geek.
We are new here. And we're starting with news that the cfp deadline for our next conference is approaching fast! We're meeting in Durham 8-10 July and welcome proposals from new and established historians. There are details and links to submit abstracts here: socialhistory.org.uk/conference/s...
"Elrond of Rivendell has called a meeting …" - A mental image I couldn't escape, so why should you? 😉
Una McCormack@unamccormack.bsky.social · 3y ago“Elrond of Rivendell has called a meeting” is the stupidest line in any Tolkien adaptation. Is it on Zoom? Teams?
Every year I challenge myself to pick a tree (by eye) that is as close to my 8 foot ceiling as I can get it. This year's attempt is within 23mm. Sense of smug satisfaction: priceless. (Apologies for mixing imperial and metric. Child of the 70s. Can't help it)
OMG. The lids from Pringles cartons fit the glass ramekins from Gu puddings. Life. Changed.
The last point nails it: a decade of Tory HE policy is hitting hard -- and there is no 'plan or strategy' relating to the actual strengths of UK academia, just pure market forces
Glen O'Hara@gsoh31.bsky.social · 3y agoJob losses in university History depts now at I think Brighton, Chichester, Goldsmiths, Hertfordshire, Huddersfield, Kent, Oxford Brookes, Portsmouth, Roehampton, UEA and more. The whole discipline is being deranged out of all shape or coherence - with no overall plan or strategy.
Historic England have opened a consultation on an update to the 2011 Environmental Archaeology guidelines. Comments are welcomed from colleagues in the archaeological sector. historicengland.org.uk/about/what-w...
Guidance Open for Consultation | Historic England
Please give us your feedback on our advice and guidance published in draft and open for comment.
historicengland.org.uk
Announcing the launch of our highly anticipated Post Doctoral Early Career Research Fellowships! For additional details, please refer to this link: www.history.ac.uk/fellowships/... (Deadline 31st January 2024) #IHRFellowships
Early Career Fellowships
IHR Early Career Research Fellowships provide funding to enable early career historians to complete a doctorate or to undertake post-doctoral research.
history.ac.uk
The Institute of Historical Research annual early career fellowships have now been advertised. Schemes and details and deadlines are here: www.history.ac.uk/fellowships/...
Early Career Fellowships
IHR Early Career Research Fellowships provide funding to enable early career historians to complete a doctorate or to undertake post-doctoral research.
history.ac.uk
Nowhere does Christmas in November like Mangotsfield does Christmas in November!
Let’s turn this Daily Excrement poll around! Link avoids giving them clicks. Please vote and share widely. xd.wayin.com/display/cont... No need to put in your email address! Just click submit.
Very much sub-optimal, but as scholars and authors try to deal with the consequences of the ransomware attack, the Royal Historical Society has published a list of work arounds for at least some of the information normally available from the British Library's on-line resources and databases.
WEB ACCESS TO BRITISH LIBRARY DATABASES: WORKAROUNDS for historians | Historical Transactions
blog.royalhistsoc.org
Will the human reality behind this statistic and graph from the Office of Budget Responsibility doom the Conservative Government, regardless of whether the General Election comes in the Spring or Autumn?
Deadline approaching! Get your submissions in for this fantastic opportunity! As always please let us know if you have any queries...
HistoryLab@ihrhistorylab.bsky.social · 3y agoPrize announcement! We are thrilled to announce our #CfP for the Olivette Otele Prize 2023/24! The prize is open to Black PhD students that are UK-based and the winner will receive £500 First deadline for an abstract (400 words max): 20th Nov. More details below... Share widely! #callforpapers
An opportunity to hear me speak on 28 November about the archaeology of Op Nightingale to the Company of Makers (supporting veterans with life on Civvy Street). It’s free and I hope will be interesting too! #archaeology #veterans #wellbeing www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/broken-pot...
Fully funded PHD scholarships for BAME students at UCL- UCL's Research Opportunity Scholarship (UCL-ROS) supports BAME postgraduate research degree students. www.ucl.ac.uk/scholarships...
UCL Research Opportunity Scholarship
UCL's Research Opportunity Scholarship (UCL-ROS) supports BAME postgraduate research degree students.
ucl.ac.uk
The #wordoftheday is 'refoulement' Rwanda judgement makes fascinating reading (link below). It was never ever, even momentarily gonna fly. Which do we think ladies and gentlemen, performative politics at its most blatant or genuine massive incompetence? caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/uksc/2023/42
Rather sadly - my first post on here is to let anyone who will listen know that English/Creative Writing at Oxford Brookes is facing massive redundancies - 40% of staff to be culled by January including my own role. Please share and support, we are trying to save our livelihoods #SaveBrookesEnglish
Ministers could have made the Rwanda policy legal. They chose not to do so. The government has only itself to blame for this week’s Supreme Court outcome. By me, at Prospect www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/63...
Hello! We are the longest-established and most ambitious Local History project yet devised. Established in 1899, and part of @ihr.bsky.social and @chppc.bsky.social, we aim to produce histories of every English place from the earliest time to the ever moving now.
Victoria County History
The Victoria County History is one of the world's longest-running research projects, exploring England's rich local history.
history.ac.uk
Two weeks ago, Jewish Currents interviewed three doctors in Gaza to show the world the direness of their situation. The story was just updated to reflect one of the doctors was killed by an airstrike in his own home, making this quote even more gutting. jewishcurrents.org/we-have-lost...
