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Eddie Meehan

@eddiemeehan99.bsky.social

Carolingian monasticisms, intellectual culture and digital humanities, doing monastically economic things

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Irish Studies@LivUni@irishinstitute.bsky.social · 7h ago

Join our PhD student @hspevans.bsky.social for her ONLINE seminar ‘For every woman who is an embroideress deserves more profit than even queens’: gender, status, and textiles in medieval Ireland. FREE registration: www.ssns.org.uk/events/ssns-... With thanks to Scottish Society for Northern Studies

SSNS Seminar - Hannah Evans - 'For every woman who is an embroideress deserves more profit than even queens': gender, status, and textiles in medieval Ireland. - Scottish Society for Northern Studies ...

Stephen will explore why so many of the crucial incidents leading to the downfall of the Norse line of northern Scottish jarls in the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries.

ssns.org.uk

Clare Downham@downham.bsky.social · 10h ago

Online seminar free and open to all #medievalsky #herstory #textiles #history #ireland #celtic www.ssns.org.uk/events/ssns-...

will pooley@willpooley.bsky.social · 19h ago

does anyone know of any work that’s been done on career trajectories of (UK humanities) academics who have been made redundant? eg information about how many go into school teaching, early retirement, independent research? appreciate this is complex, sensitive and much data is too recent

Alex Harvey@alexharvv.bsky.social · 22h ago

A (belated) cfp for #IMC2027 FORGET THE VIKINGS: Other raids, raiders, & raiding practises of the Early Medieval Period Read below for details, and if you're interested (or know anyone who might be), please submit your proposal of 150 words to the attached e-mail (also in alt text) before 1/9/26

A Call-for-papers for IMC 2027 which reads: 'Forget the Vikings! CFP: Other raids, raiders, and raiding practises of the Early Medieval Period There are good reasons why Scandinavian raiders - or ‘Vikings’ - occupy a much-coveted space in popular perceptions of early medieval warfare. But enough about them. What about everyone else? This CFP is seeking submissions from scholars interested in exploring other, non-Viking raiding groups from c. 400 - 1100. This could include (but is not limited to): Avars, Huns, Hungarians, Slavs, Frisians, Saxon and Frankish pirates, Saracens, Welsh and Irish cattle-rustlers, Balts, Oesellians, Narentanians, Dál Riatans, as well as the military activities of major hegemonies such as the Carolingians, Ottonians, West Saxons, Byzantines, even Normans, and so on. Chiefly, this is to fashion some new notions of how identity, political practice, and belonging were fostered within raiding communities. Of particular interest would be any papers keen to explore how other, non-Viking groups used raiding as part of regular military affairs. Analogies and comparisons with Viking studies are also welcome, if they are used to shine a light on lesser-known groups. Like the Vikings, many other communities engaged in more than just raiding, so explorations of trade, exchange, and other political dynamics alongside raids, would be ideal. Please send proposals (150 words or less) to: alexharvv@gmail.com before 1/9/26'
Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 3d ago

'Slapdash reviewer reports and ones that include unnecessary citation requests have long plagued academic publishing, but over the past few years the production of some has become much more sophisticated.'

‘A waste of time for all of us’: caught in the crossfire of the peer-review wars

Review mills — researchers who write fake referee reports with coercive citation requests — are setting off a war in academic publishing. What happens to those caught in the middle?

nature.com

Kerry L@kerrymlove.bsky.social · last wk.

If you're involved with a society or group (not listed on the @royalhistsoc.org's list) with members who may be ECRs who've completed a PhD in a History related subject, or a GLAM org who support / connect with ECRs regularly - could you email Kerry. Love@northampton.ac.uk saying hello?

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 3d ago

'The universities will still operate as separate academic divisions and will retain their individual names and identities. Students will attend, study and graduate from their chosen institution but staff from both universities will be employed by the university group.' It's called LASEUG.

UK’s first ‘super-university’, merging Greenwich and Kent, to launch in September

The new London and South East University Group will be UK’s third largest higher education institution

theguardian.com

Royal Historical Society@royalhistsoc.org · 3d ago

In late 2023, the Society spent a day with Hertfordshire’s historians. We saw the quality, creativity and distinctiveness of teaching, research and engagement. We were told by a (now departed) senior manager that History was ‘a portfolio the university will guard very carefully’. bit.ly/4hLediN

Glen O'Hara@gsoh31.bsky.social · 4d ago

So it's farewell to the History subject area at the University of Hertfordshire, not the first nor the last to go. One of the best departments in the country, just extinguished like a snap of the fingers. Think of the waste. (1/2)

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 5d ago

Burnham risks first revolt as PM over apparent support for North Sea drilling

Burnham risks first revolt as PM over apparent support for North Sea drilling

Labour MPs fear No 10 team lack up-to-date energy insight and don’t fully recognise voters’ climate concerns Andy Burnham was told he could face the first revolt of his premiership as Labour MPs and climate experts condemned his apparent support for renewed drilling for oil and gas. As the UK suffers through drought, fires and heatwaves, the prime minister gave the strongest indication yet on Friday he was minded to allow for new drilling. His comments came just hours before the UN secretary-general warned “every new fossil fuel project” made heatwaves more dangerous. Continue reading...

theguardian.com

Alex Harvey@alexharvv.bsky.social · 5d ago

toying with the idea of proposing an IMC panel(s) next year, something about early medieval raiders and raiding, but importantly NOT the Vikings, or rather not *just* the Vikings Just putting this out now to see if anyone is doing anything similar / is anyone partly interested? lets chat!

Leonie V. Hicks@lvhicks.bsky.social · 6d ago

I'd argue that Haldene is pretty much dead in the water re UKRI grants & it's increasingly on life support in many universities. This is what worries me. Focusing funding on whatever a 5-year government thinks is important is not a viable timescale for important & original work. 3/

Gender & History Journal@genderandhistory.bsky.social · 6d ago

Hot off the press! Our new Open Access article by Joel Mead explores the relationship between food, gender and domesticity in wartime Britain. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #SkyHistorians #GenderHistory #WWII #Britain

‘The Housewife's Greatest Standby’: Dried Eggs, Gender and Domesticity During the Second World War

This article examines the previously underexplored connections between dried eggs, women and domesticity in Britain during the Second World War. It argues that newsprint and advertisements framed the....

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Plashing Vole@plashingvole.bsky.social · 2w ago

My dept is about to be reduced to 3 people covering 3 separate disciplines. The 25 PhD students will be left bereft of adequate supervision numerically and in terms of expertise. The government has decided that they should have no recourse (music to my university’s ears).

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 2w ago

'Read it on a substantial train delay – alongside the promises made to students when the Office for Students (OfS) was created – it is something much worse. It is the formal expiry of the deal that was supposed to make marketisation safe for the people paying for it.' 2/2

Dr Laura Sangha@lsangha.bsky.social · 2w ago

Last week, about a third of the History department were able to gather together on graduation day. Rather than lend our intellectual authority to the official procession and ceremony we invited our students to come and celebrate their achievements with us in a shady courtyard. They came. 1/

A group of world leading historians in their finery, some in gowns, stand together under a tree. Some carry signs saying 'Historian at risk', other raise a glass to the camera.
Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 2w ago

'A restructure at London South Bank University that is dividing staff into teaching and research tracks could become a “test bed” for the wider sector, staff claim.' New staff to be employed by a subsidiary, and won't have access to TPS. 1/4

‘Nuclear’ restructure at London South Bank seen as ‘test bed’

University claims its changes will protect academic jobs and strengthen teaching but striking staff say reforms pose an ‘existential’ threat

timeshighereducation.com

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 2w ago

'Defining questions for higher education are emerging at a time when universities are structurally under-resourced to answer them.' (page 19) Grim but important reading of the tea leaves.

New choices: Revisiting futures for higher education in England - HEPI

English universities face ‘unstable hybrid’ future as funding model collapses faster than predicted, warns new report. English higher education is heading into a future nobody planned, according to a ...

hepi.ac.uk

Research Professional News@resprofnews.bsky.social · 2w ago

Ministers rule out insolvency regime for struggling universities. Government says institutions are “responsible for managing their finances” as Jacqui Smith retains ministerial role. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...

Ministers rule out insolvency regime for struggling universities - Research Professional News

Government says institutions are “responsible for managing their finances” as Jacqui Smith retains ministerial role

researchprofessionalnews.com

Institute of Historical Research@ihr.bsky.social · 2w ago

Did you know that the IHR delivers high-quality training and unique learning opportunities to a wide community of historians of all career stages and historical interests? Take a look at this thread which highlights all of our upcoming Term 1 training opportunities! www.history.ac.uk/study-traini...

Research Training and Short Courses

We deliver high-quality training programmes and unique learning opportunities to a wide community of historians of all career stages and historical interests.

history.ac.uk

Research Professional News@resprofnews.bsky.social · 2w ago

EXCLUSIVE: STFC’s true cost overrun revealed as nearly £700m. Figure calls into question transparency from UKRI leadership amid cuts to science facilities. STFC had told its staff it had to reduce spending by £162 million. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...

STFC’s true cost overrun revealed as nearly £700m - Research Professional News

Exclusive: Figure calls into question transparency from UKRI leadership amid cuts to science facilities

researchprofessionalnews.com

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 2w ago

Great to see the Guardian champion the SHAPE (Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences) subjects, but this piece gives impression that they are expensive, whereas many are 'cheap to teach' subjects subsidising more expensive subjects, mainly in STEM and medicine. The crisis demands better understanding.

The Guardian view on humanities cuts in universities: academic departments are more than cost centres | Editorial

Editorial: Literature, the arts and social sciences must not be sacrificed as higher education funding is squeezed

theguardian.com