Time for another 🧵 about one of the articles from our 50th anniversary special issue, 'London's Past Today'. Today's will focus on the article, 'Displaying London’s Past to Contemporary Visitors', by Clare Tonks.

Displaying London’s Past to Contemporary Visitors

This article contributes to our understanding of the development of curatorial practices from the nineteenth century to the present day through the analysis of museum collections that were displaye...

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Can confirm! 🔥💅

Dr Marina Gerzić@mazzyg.bsky.social · last mo.

Hello folks, I'm on the lookout for a new job. So if you have any leads, please send them my way. Looking for project/research management, & high level administrator work. I have extensive research, editorial, & admin experience, and according to @aidannorrie.bsky.social I'm an excellent work wife!

Cleaning out my photos and found this, which may be a helpful guide at this time of year, when discussing jobs with the precarious academic in your life:

Have read this cover to cover again for proofing, and it’s really good. (I mean, I would say that, but it just is). Inventive, committed essays all pursuing edges and angles opened up by the work of @lisahopkins.bsky.social.

Dr Aidan Norrie 🦄@aidannorrie.bsky.social · 2mo ago

After a rather drawn-out process, I am so delighted that the festschrift for the wonderful @lisahopkins.bsky.social that @matthewsteggle.bsky.social and I have edited is only a few months out from publication with @dgb-mem.bsky.social! www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isb...

And thank you @aidannorrie.bsky.social & @matthewsteggle.bsky.social for editing my essay so helpfully and patiently I'm very proud to celebrate the wonderful @lisahopkins.bsky.social in such terrific company

Dr Aidan Norrie 🦄@aidannorrie.bsky.social · 2mo ago

After a rather drawn-out process, I am so delighted that the festschrift for the wonderful @lisahopkins.bsky.social that @matthewsteggle.bsky.social and I have edited is only a few months out from publication with @dgb-mem.bsky.social! www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isb...

Writing an essay for this fabulous collection & working with @aidannorrie.bsky.social and @matthewsteggle.bsky.social was so much fun. I recommend you ALL work with them* *within reason, that is—don’t suffocate them with a swathe of your scintillating scholarship 😬

Dr Aidan Norrie 🦄@aidannorrie.bsky.social · 2mo ago

After a rather drawn-out process, I am so delighted that the festschrift for the wonderful @lisahopkins.bsky.social that @matthewsteggle.bsky.social and I have edited is only a few months out from publication with @dgb-mem.bsky.social! www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isb...

After a rather drawn-out process, I am so delighted that the festschrift for the wonderful @lisahopkins.bsky.social that @matthewsteggle.bsky.social and I have edited is only a few months out from publication with @dgb-mem.bsky.social! www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isb...

It's time for another 🧵 on one of the articles that made up our 50th anniversary special, 'London's Past Today'. This time, it is the turn of 'ReOrientalism: Representing London’s Muslim History Through its Adapted Mosques', by Nur Sobers-Khan & Shahed Saleem.

ReOrientalism: Representing London’s Muslim History Through its Adapted Mosques

‘Three British Mosques’ was co-curated by Shahed Saleem, Christopher Turner, and Ella Kilgallon and exhibited at the Victoria and Albert Museum’s Pavilion of Applied Arts at the Venice Biennale 202...

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New blog post by Ian Stone: 'With Due Acknowledgement: From Bermondsey’s Tanneries to The London Journal', reflecting on his research on the Leathersellers’ College in Bermondsey and its archival presence, and its place in his wider research and teaching: thelondonjournal.org/blog.html#St....

Happy Pride to this Caravaggio self-portrait that made one man so gay he had to go to the hospital

New post on our blog from Stephen Ridgwell: ‘Fugitive Material: The Case of the Nineteenth-Century Playbill’: thelondonjournal.org/blog.html#Ri...

TERF nonsense on the first day of Pride month? Fuck the fuck off.

This observation from Stefan Collini in the LRB is striking. I don’t think it’s true anymore: there’s a level of glee that seems to underpin the cuts to staff & courses. Rather than being seen for the failure of leadership it obviously is, VCs can crow about their ability to make tough decisions.

www.thelondonjournal.org/blog.html#Ha... A new piece up on the @thelondonjournal.bsky.social blog including some unpublished bits from my PhD; a few of my photos; and some reflections on Smithfield's long life/slow death prompted by Justinien Tribillon's @vittles.bsky.social article about Rungis

I'm so pleased to announce this new book series with @dgb-mem.bsky.social - Genders & Sexualities in the Early Modern World Series Editors: Elizabeth Rhodes, James Daybell & Merry Wiesner-Hanks brill.com/page/forthco... Image: The Concert, 1623, by Gerrit van Honthorst; National Gallery of Art

New post for our new blog! 'Smithfield is Dead, Long Live Smithfield' by @jackhanlon.bsky.social, in which he reflects both on his historical research on Smithfield Market, and the market's uncertain future. All reads and reposts much appreciated.

And here it is! Come to Liverpool in July next year. We have a fantastic [insert appropriate collective noun here] of keynotes: @bkadams.bsky.social, @dnmcinnis.bsky.social, @lucycmunro.bsky.social, Perry Mills & Deborah Payne!

RILCH at LJMU@rilch-ljmu.bsky.social · 3mo ago

#CfP: “Stuart Drama” conference, 6-9 July 2027, @ljmuofficial.bsky.social. Abstracts by 2 October 2026 #Skystorians #EarlyModernEvents stuartdrama.com

List of those Starmer has called out for anti-Semitism: - The Universities - The Arts Council - The Green Party - Pro-Palestinian protestors List of those Starmer has not called out for anti-Semitism: - Twitter - Reform UK - The Trump administration Feels like there’s a pattern here.

Inspired by a joke in the latest episode of Bob’s Burgers that Romeo & Juliet was originally typed, please enjoy my views on the typing abilities of early modern playwrights: Shakespeare: aggressive, 2-finger typer Marlowe: gets a twink to type for him Fletcher: is a professional typist 1/2

It has taken three years, but the first review of my monograph has been published. In some ways, it’s what you want: it concludes by describing the book as “an impressively learned study that adds a fresh voice and a provocative point of view”. Nice, right? Nope. Buckle in. 🧵 1/19

Inspired by a joke in the latest episode of Bob’s Burgers that Romeo & Juliet was originally typed, please enjoy my views on the typing abilities of early modern playwrights: Shakespeare: aggressive, 2-finger typer Marlowe: gets a twink to type for him Fletcher: is a professional typist 1/2

A rather odd ranking, but I guess you'll never get agreement on this kind of thing! Did make me think of @starcrossed2018.bsky.social, @lucycmunro.bsky.social, @lyntribble.bsky.social, @adamwithbooks.bsky.social, @drpetekirwan.bsky.social. @oldfortunatus.bsky.social will surely be pleased with #2

To see or not to see? Every single Shakespeare play – ranked!

Antony and Cleopatra? Exhausting. Lear? Magnificent but flawed. Hamlet? Limitless. For Shakespeare’s birthday, the Guardian’s former theatre critic ranks all the plays

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It has taken three years, but the first review of my monograph has been published. In some ways, it’s what you want: it concludes by describing the book as “an impressively learned study that adds a fresh voice and a provocative point of view”. Nice, right? Nope. Buckle in. 🧵 1/19

Time for another 🧵 about one of the articles from our landmark 50th anniversary special issue, 'London's Past Today'. On this occasion, we're taking a deeper dive into @helenjuliapaul.bsky.social's 'The Grit in the Oyster: Deptford, Enslavement, and the Challenges of Memorialisation' (available OA).

The Grit in the Oyster: Deptford, Enslavement, and the Challenges of Memorialisation

London was the first slaving port in Britain, although it was subsequently overshadowed by Bristol and Liverpool. It still lags behind the western ports in its attempts to memorialise Britain’s rol...

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Not a serious question. The reason to boycott the Harry Potter series is not just because of J.K. Rowling’s heinous views. Any money she makes from the show will be used to terrorize trans people. She has made this abundantly clear. This is not a theoretical.

David H Feldman@dhfeldman.bsky.social · 4mo ago

This is a serious question, not snark. Do you listen to Richard Wagner? Do you think there is no ethical way to include Wagner in the arts?

A bumper issue of @thelondonjournal.bsky.social is now available for your reading pleasure! I learned so much from all these articles, so I am really pleased they’re officially out in the world 🥰

The London Journal@thelondonjournal.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Our first new issue of 2026 has been published! A 🧵 on its contents...

I’m currently working with a lot of material that uses in-text references and it fucking sucks. It’s actually insane how many articles etc have an in-text citation that does not appear in the bibliography. And don’t get me started on references that are just to a whole monograph: that’s not helpful!

Another bump for this; expressions of interest due in by 24 March.

The London Journal@thelondonjournal.bsky.social · 7mo ago

We are looking for a new Joint Book Reviews Editor to join our editorial board. They would cover the period from 1800, working alongside Kirstin Barnard, who covers the medieval/early modern period. You can check out the full Call for Expressions of Interest here; and please do also share widely.

A reminder that we are still look for a joint book reviews editor, covering books on modern London. Could that be you? Let us know! Expressions of interest due by 24 March.

The London Journal@thelondonjournal.bsky.social · 7mo ago

We are looking for a new Joint Book Reviews Editor to join our editorial board. They would cover the period from 1800, working alongside Kirstin Barnard, who covers the medieval/early modern period. You can check out the full Call for Expressions of Interest here; and please do also share widely.