The kiss! What could be more romantic? In this episode, @jackewilson.bsky.social talks to author Katie Barclay about her new book, The Kiss: A History of Passion and Power. #books #literature @uchicagopress.bsky.social @reaktionbooks.bsky.social
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The kiss! What could be more romantic? And yet, as historian Katie Barclay discovered when writing her book The Kiss: A History of Passion and Power, she found non-…
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The Kiss is out today! And here I discuss it with the New Books Network! @reaktionbooks.bsky.social newbooksnetwork.com/the-kiss-a-h...
Katie Barclay, "The Kiss: A History of Passion and Power" (Reaktion Books, 2025) - New Books Network
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And if you want to know more, today I’m on Women’s Hour on the BBC talking all things kiss. @reaktionbooks.bsky.social
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The Psychologist@psychmag.bsky.social · 5d agoKiss my ass: A history of shame and humiliation. @katieebarclay.bsky.social with a theme from her new book 'The Kiss: A History of Passion and Power'. www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...
Kiss my ass: A history of shame and humiliation. @katieebarclay.bsky.social with a theme from her new book 'The Kiss: A History of Passion and Power'. www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...
Kiss my ass: A history of shame and humiliation | BPS
Katie Barclay with a theme from her new book 'The Kiss: A History of Passion and Power'.
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Wonderful news! OSIRIS, vol. 41: Histories of Science and Childhoods is FINALLY out! The hope is that this is just initial steps, sparking further research into and engagement with the intricately interwoven worlds of the child and science. www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/osiris/2...
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What is the relationship between narrative, imagination, and well-being? We'll explore this question in an interdisciplinary workshop (in-person only) at the Macquarie University Minds and Intelligences Research Centre on 25 September 2026. Join if you like! 1/2 events.humanitix.com/workshop-nar...
Workshop: Narrative, Imagination, and Well-Being
This workshop facilitates an interdisciplinary conversation about narrative and imagination and their impact on individual and collective well-being.
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Me, @boddice.bsky.social and @stephanietrigg.bsky.social talk to the ABC’s God Forbid show about the history of emotions. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
God Forbids The History of Emotion: Were feelings always felt this way? - ABC listen
If you hit your finger with a hammer, would you feel it the same way a medieval carpenter did, doing exactly the same thing?
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Today in the Scottish public history column: A new volume celebrates the life and work of Enid Gauldie, antiquarian book dealer, librarian, and pioneering scholar of the industrial history of Dundee. www.thenational.scot/culture/2629...
Meet the woman who rescued Dundee’s industrial past from oblivion
The essays in Beacon Of Curiosity will be of interest to Dundonians at home and abroad, writes Charlie Lynch
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50 Years of Prof Jim Hunter’s classic book, The Making of the Crofting Community. Today in the Scottish public history column, a full conference report of proceedings at the University of the Highlands and Islands Centre for History. www.thenational.scot/news/2627650...
Book that reshaped Highland crofting history marked at 50-year gathering
Dr Charlie Lynch attends a two-day conference held to mark 50 years since the publication of a book which ruffled the feathers of Scotland’s…
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Want to think about loneliness in global history? Here I talk to the Chasing Leviathan podcast. m.youtube.com/watch?is=fVU...
Loneliness in World History | Dr. Katie Barclay
YouTube video by The Chasing Leviathan Podcast
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Don’t worry! A consultancy near you is ready to come in and advise on how to lift morale! Just ask an Australian…
Peter Mandler@petermandler.bsky.social · last mo.Economists talk about 'scarring' - long-term effects on a cohort of some short-term phenomenon like a bout of unemployment: even if we pull out of this UK HE crisis soon (doubtful), the whole sector will be scarred for life. (1/2)
In July 2026, we'll celebrate 10 years of VIDA: Blog of the Australian Women's History Network! Join to hear the managing editors and editorial team, as well as authors and students, reflect on the blog's origins and transformation over the past decade. Register here ⬇️ events.humanitix.com/vida-10
VIDA @ 10: Celebrating a decade of the Australian Women’s History Network’s blog
Come together to celebrate VIDA: Blog of the Australian Women’s History Network @ 10!
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10th anniversary issue of @ehcsjournal.bsky.social is now out! We’re thinking the future of emotions, including an article by me on what it means to call something an ‘age of…’ anger, anxiety etc. brill.com/view/journal...
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Engaging the public in humanities & social sciences feels more important than ever. So we are offering £8k grants for researchers to work with galleries, libraries, archives, museums or performing arts organisations to do this. Please help spread the word! www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
SHAPE Involve and Engage
A funding programme for innovative public engagement from the British Academy.
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CFP: Feelings of Safety and Security in the Early Modern World - Friday 27 November, Macquarie University, Sydney This workshop aims to fill a key gap in our knowledge of how people created conditions to feel safe during times of existential danger or crisis in EM Europe.
Here @parergon.bsky.social our call is open for proposals for special issue 45.2 (2028) - please circulate widely! www.parergon.org/index.php/pa...
Parergon Call for Themed Issue (45.2 - 2028) | Parergon
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For many, imagination and creativity are considered luxuries. But if we want to build a better future and respond to contemporary challenges, harnessing our capacity to imagine should be treated as a national priority worthy of investment, argues Prof @katieebarclay.bsky.social 👉 bit.ly/3RDXEdz
We have a new article out on mentoring in the university! @meganwarin.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Unworlding mentoring in Australian universities: creating feminist mentorship in the academy
Mentoring in the academy is a laudable exercise, but it continues to be shaped by powerful institutional infrastructures of inherited, white, patriarchal privilege. Drawing on interviews that explo...
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The budget was meant to be about fairness. So why are young people still paying $52,000 for a degree?
The budget was meant to be about fairness. So why are young people still paying $52,000 for a degree? | George Williams
Labor was right to place intergenerational inequality at the centre of the budget, but it missed an opportunity to reverse the grossly unfair Morrison-era university fee hikes
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Wee review of our book by @charlielynch.bsky.social! www.thenational.scot/culture/2611...
The new book charting Scotland's history of marriage
THERE’S a milestone to mark. This history column has now been running for nearly a year and now has reached 25 instalments. It is believed to be…
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Scottish history column: Working Class Courtship, Marriage and Divorce, 1855-1939. How a narrative of the ‘traditional’ family is challenged by the complexity of familial and domestic experience. www.thenational.scot/culture/2611...
The new book charting Scotland's history of marriage
THERE’S a milestone to mark. This history column has now been running for nearly a year and now has reached 25 instalments. It is believed to be…
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Two events; two days! Sydney in November! Call for papers deadline coming up soon!
Two more week to submit your proposal for a special issue on gender, crisis and childhood! #childhood #gender #history
Unis: we’ll keep you in poverty and debt til you get your first job in your mid 30s. Uni colleagues: but also retire by 60 or we’ll think you’re hoarding resources. Oh you want to pay a mortgage down and save for retirement?? lol.
Benjamin Balthaser@blbalthaser.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe problem is not that older faculty are sticking around - it’s that they are not being replaced. The argument of this piece is quite pernicious as it substitutes a class war btw workers and a neoliberal administration w an age war btw different ranks of workers
The changing of the seasons is marked by ancient rituals: I’m searching for freelance/consultancy/ research work. I’m a social historian by profession, a very experienced researcher and oral history interviewer. I’m also a published writer and a public history journalist. Surely, I am employable…