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Sarah Wride

@srwride.bsky.social

Historian of culture & ideas | hows, whys, & effects of writing & making c18th+ | now: political activism's role in framing practice; ethics of reimagining historical homicides | @york.ac.uk, @ihr.bsky.social, & in the wild | shop window 👉 sarahwride.co.uk

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Dr Jordan Kistler@jordankistler.bsky.social · 4mo ago

My book comes out next month and I'd love to talk to your research group/seminar series/PGRs about it! Potential talk topics: Why do we think natural history museums are for kids? How public are our public museums? Truth and fiction in the museum Looting: empire in the museum...

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Rose Ruane@regretteruane.bsky.social · 5d ago

Bought myself a big Toblerone & I feel like I’ve broken an unspoken law of the universe, as if nothing is sacred & there are no rules in the world. They are a present, a thing people bring you back from holiday: one does not just buy a big Toblerone, the same as one does not simply walk into Mordor

Briony Neilson@brionyneilson.bsky.social · 7d ago

Allen Lane, co-founder of Penguin Books, extracts a book from the brand new "Penguincubator" – a vending machine with a range of Penguin titles available for sixpence, placed outside Collet's bookshop on London's Charing Cross Road in July 1937 🗃️

b&w page with a photo of a man in a suit extracting a book from a vending machine
Long Nineteenth-Century Network @ Manchester Met@l19cmanmet.bsky.social · last wk.

Manchester Met is currently inviting expressions of interest for Leverhulme Early Career fellowships. If you're an early career researcher interested in proposing a long C19 project, please get in touch. The deadline for completed EOIs is 9 October. www.mmu.ac.uk/research/fel...

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Elanor@elanorandthearts.bsky.social · last wk.

CALLING LONDONERS 📣 My friend has spent FIVE YEARS developing her play—a queer horror story—and she's hardly sold any tickets. She's travelling down from Leeds and I'm devastated 🥺 The Haunting of Verity Evans, The Hope Theatre, 25th–26th August. I hope you'll join me! Please share if you can't!

Sarah Wride@srwride.bsky.social · last wk.

📣 PT 3-year #archives job: 'The Living History of the Care Experienced Movement' @lotterygoodcauses.bsky.social HF project archivist 📍 London 🕰️ Apply by 8 September Full details 👇 @ihr.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.org @araukie.bsky.social @oralhistsoc.bsky.social @scotsarchives.bsky.social

Children's charity

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Sarah Wride@srwride.bsky.social · 2w ago

📣 Permanent FT #altac job: Digital Scholarship Manager at @surreylib.bsky.social 📍 Guildford UK 🕰️ Apply by 31 August 2026 Full details 👇 #ECRs #AcademicSky #Skystorians @royalhistsoc.org @englishassociation.bsky.social @historylabplus.bsky.social @h-net-job-guide.bsky.social @ukiedh.bsky.social

Job Vacancy at the University of Surrey: Digital Scholarship Manager

The University of Surrey is a global community of ideas and people, dedicated to life-changing education and research. We are ambitious and have a bold vision of what we want to achieve - shaping ours...

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Tobias Wilson-Bates@phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 2w ago

James Bond: you think I haven’t faced death before? Supervillain: oh, I don’t expect you to die, Mr. Bond. I expect you to suffer. *opens travel funding reimbursement software I think you will find your motorboat rental and casino reservations especially complex James Bond: no. no. pls kill me

Dr Vanessa@hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 3w ago

props to Mary Douglas for turning this apparently regular domestic frustration into an academic publication rather than a totally justified murder. (Deciphering a Meal, 1972)

Screenshot of text “Sometimes at home, hoping to simplify the cooking, I ask, "Would you like to have just soup for supper tonight? I mean a good thick soup- instead of supper. It's late and you must be hungry. It won't take a minute to serve." Then an argument starts: "Let's have soup now, and supper when you are ready." "No no, to serve two meals would be more work. But if you like, why not start with the soup and fill up with pudding?" "Good heavens! What sort of a meal is that? A beginning and an end and no middle." "Oh, all right then, have the soup as it's there, and I'll do a Welsh rarebit as well." When they have eaten soup, Welsh rarebit, pud- ding, and cheese: "What a lot of plates. Why do you make such elaborate suppers?" They proceed to argue that by taking thought I could satisfy the full requirements of a meal with a single, copious dish. Several rounds of this conversation have given me a practical interest in the categories and…”
Kate Littler@palaeoclimate.bsky.social · 3w ago

And look at the SW bumbling along near the bottom of the chart. There is (rightfully) a lot of focus on the north-south UK divide in opportunity and attainment, but the SW really struggles too. Thank god we have excellent unis in the SW that are definitely not closing programmes and firing staff 🙄

Social Market Foundation@smfthinktank.bsky.social · 3w ago

And these regional gaps have widened. Since 2019, the proportion of 18-year-olds entering university has risen by 7.3 percentage points in London, compared with just 1.2 points in the North East. The gap between the two regions has grown from 12 percentage points to 18 points.

Eddie Meehan@eddiemeehan99.eurosky.social · 3w ago

Postdoc job alert! Early medieval charters, monastic economics and XML-TEI, starting January 2027. Come join a lovely department @livunihss.bsky.social, brilliant project team with @unituebingen.bsky.social and awesome city! #medievalsky #digitalhumanities www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSO571/p...

Postdoctoral Research Associate at University of Liverpool

An opportunity for an academic position as a Postdoctoral Research Associate is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.

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