Spontaneous combustion in Dublin, Irish Times 12 May 1970. I like that the coroner is called Dr Bofin.

AI isn't inevitable. You know what is? Having a great time when you visit The Museum of English Rural Life. merl.reading.ac.uk/visit/

Visit

Visiting The Museum of English Rural Life is free. Discover our galleries, activities, café, and beautiful walled garden.

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Meoghan Cronin discussing narrators of ‘The Signal-Man’ and Sarah Smith’s ‘The Traveling Post-Office’ of Mugby Junction: each narrator has a compulsion to solve the mystery. They imagine they are subjective but they are not. #Dickenssociety2026

My most recent ed collection with the brilliant Katie Brown (Exeter). Lots of amazing work in here across so many different arts.

Liverpool University Press@livunipress.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New in Migrations & Identities | Refugees Across the Arts, edited by Katie Brown and Peter Sloane, is available now. This book offers a truly global and interdisciplinary perspective on refugee representation. More here ⬇️ www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.... #Migration #AcademicSky

Thanks to @claireturner.bsky.social for organizing a stimulating and very smelly day on the senses yesterday. Met some lovely people and enjoyed putting together my paper on alcohol and the senses in Victorian fiction and culture to get some of my thoughts together on this.

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JSTOR@jstor.bsky.social · 4w ago

A very good drinking vessel with a very good face. 🐱 This 11th to 12th century lime pot is one of many delightful #OpenAccess works from @metmuseum.org available on JSTOR. See more: https://bit.ly/457ltyS Images: Lime Pot in the Shape of Cat. 11th to 12th century. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

An album of over 200 pressed seaweeds arranged by an anonymous Victorian collector. A transcribed poem is pasted as title page, it begins: “Oh call us not weeds, we are flowers of the sea.” UW-Madison Special Collections. #naturalhistory #seaweed #pressedseaweed #seaweedalbum #herbarium

Woo go Dr Amy! One of our amazing speakers at a previous She Drinks Beer anniversary brewday, and excellent host/interviewer of @braciatrix.bsky.social for our first Think While You Drink last year, and that's just the extra-curricular stuff with us - what a woman! 🙌🏻

Pam Lock@pamplemoussepam.bsky.social · last mo.

So delighted for the brilliant @amyjbburnett.bsky.social for her well-deserved win of the ADHS thesis prize last week. You can read more about the prize and her thesis here: amy-burnett.co.uk/2026/06/28/a...

So delighted for the brilliant @amyjbburnett.bsky.social for her well-deserved win of the ADHS thesis prize last week. You can read more about the prize and her thesis here: amy-burnett.co.uk/2026/06/28/a...

Award: ADHS Dissertation Prize 2024-2026

Last week, I had the pleasure of visiting Paris for the Alcohol and Drugs History Society’s biennial conference. At the cocktail event, my thesis was chosen as a joint winner for the society&…

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In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light. In summer, quite the other way, I have to go to bed by day… —Robert Louis Stevenson, “Bed in Summer” from A CHILD’S GARDEN OF VERSES (1885) #BookWormSat #poem #poetry #kidlit www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43190/...

Job Opportunity! Assistant Professor in European and or Global History (pre-1800) University of Limerick - School of History and Geography www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRU993/a...

Assistant Professor in European and or Global History (pre-1800) at University of Limerick

Discover Assistant Professor in European and or Global History (pre-1800) jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.

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My team is hiring a permanent lecturer: -> Lecturer Digital Culture & Society Deadline 28 June 2026. Please share with friends. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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IT'S PUBLICATION DAYYYYYYYYYY!!!!! Download 'The King's Dinner: family, nation, and identity on the British table, 1760-1820' here FOR FREE and read all about George III's eating habits over breakfast! uclpress.co.uk/book/the-kin... #skystorians #openaccess #18thC #foodhistory 🗃️

The King’s Dinner

The King’s Dinner is about what it meant to be British at the end of the eighteenth century. Drawing on the vast kitchen ledgers of two royal households made newly available to research through digiti...

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Please Use AI

Thanks to the brilliant @devikanarayan.bsky.social for snapping this lovely short of @deborahlam.bsky.social interviewing me at my lovely book launch this week. Loved celebrating with you all, thank you.

Congratulations to the amazing Dr Pam @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social on the publication of her book, which we celebrated yesterday. This is the Think While You Drink team (Bob, Pam, Sam, me!), and yes we ARE plotting more TWYD - watch this space! @drinkingstudies.bsky.social

Nanako Matsuda

#MusicHallMonday 🎶🍺 Featuring The Barman, sung with great success by Wilkie Bard. As we prepare for our 3rd conference in Nov. 2026, we’re inviting proposals on the theme: CATERING for People’s Desires and Needs in the Music Hall See Call for Papers on our website: buff.ly/35wQKXA

If you’re working on digital cultural heritage and have an idea for a short-form monograph, we’d love to hear from you. The series is diamond open access too!

University of London Press@uolpress.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Announcing our new #OpenAccess #DigitalCulturalHeritage series - thanks @sas-news.bsky.social! And thanks to the authors of the inaugural volume: @amsichani.bsky.social @jfwinters.bsky.social @dh-researchhub.bsky.social & Eirini Goudarouli @uknatarcsector.bsky.social. www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

#CfA 📢 Job opportunity: Lecturer in Medieval/Early Modern History 🏫 Lancaster University (UK) ⏰Application deadline: Tuesday 19 May 2026 🔗 www.hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Job Opportunity at Lancaster University: Lecturer in Medieval/Early Modern History

The School of Global Affairs at Lancaster University is seeking to appoint a Lecturer in Late Medieval / Early Modern History (1400-1700). This is a 1.0 FTE indefinite appointment to start on 1 August...

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If anyone in government has a few minutes to run the country in between plotting leadership challenges, could they please cast their eye over the devastation of Higher Education in the UK. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Thousands of University of Nottingham staff told they are at risk of redundancy

Institution says it could run out of money by 2031 and wants to cut more than 600 academic and support posts

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The extremely rare catcopus.

Amazing opportunity for an archivist here, especially if you're interested in Sherlock Holmes; a bit buried in the details, but part of your role would be looking after Portsmouth's Arthur Conan Doyle Collection (Richard Lancelyn Green Bequest). searchjobs.portsmouth.gov.uk/jobs/job/Por...

Portsmouth History Centre Manager | 29 May, 2026 | Jobs and careers with Portsmouth City Council

Jobs and careers with Portsmouth City Council - A fantastic opportunity for an experienced archivist with experience of managing and developing staff to join our team.Your new roleReporting to the Lib...

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Wow this looks like a very cool option.

Royal Historical Society@royalhistsoc.org · 3mo ago

Applications are now invited for the Society's 2026 Funded Book Workshops - for historians currently writing a 2nd or 3rd monograph bit.ly/4uwep8C. Grants enable authors to hold a day workshop with upto 6 specialist readers to discuss a MS in detail before submission to a publisher #Skystorians

Hi all, I need help with late 18th-century theology, specifically: was universal salvation a crackpot idea or widely accepted (c. 1790); what the likely interpretation of Romans 11 might've been then ('until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. And so all Israel shall be saved') Help appreciated!

Yo so for work we are doing an episode on myths about the medieval period. Anyone have any pressing medieval myths they want us to unpick? I am at your service.

📣Calling all graduate students! @vpreditors.bsky.social is now accepting nominations to its annual VanArsdel Prize! The prize seeks the best graduate student essay that investigates the #19thC press. Turn your latest term paper into a published essay! More details here: rs4vp.org/awards/vanar...

The Rosemary VanArsdel Prize – RSVP

The VanArsdel Prize is awarded annually to the best graduate student essay investigating Victorian periodicals and newspapers. The prize was established in 1990 to honor Rosemary VanArsdel, a founding...

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One for @drinkingstudies.bsky.social bods. Long term DSN member Mareen Heying talks about her ongoing research.

L.I.S.A.@lisa.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de · 3mo ago

Zwischen Genuss und Devianz zeigen sich Fragen von Klasse, Geschlecht und Moral. Mit Mareen Heying sprechen wir über den gesellschaftlichen Umgang mit Alkohol, Kneipenkultur und soziale Kontrolle. @lwlgeschichte.bsky.social lisa.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de/geschichtlic...

Great paid opportunity for Global London #Heritage #Trainees as part of #Thames Festival, working with mudlark finds. Do note that the deadline is soon: thamesfestivaltrust.org/about-us/joi...

Thames Festival Trust - Join our Team - Our Global London Heritage Trainees - Thames Festival Trust

We want to recruit 10 trainees to take part in a new heritage project called Our Global London.

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one for @drinkingstudies.bsky.social bods?

Emma Peplow@emmapeplow.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I was really happy to speak to Susan Hulme for Yesterday in Parliament about my piece on historic drinking at Westminster, with some more archive recordings (including Alan Clark vs Clare Short). The section is 19 minutes in: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...