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Helen Smith

@wordsmith.bsky.social

Professor, @UoYEnglish. Printer, @thinicepress. Opinions mainly culled from the dustier corners of the sixenteenth century.

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Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, York@crems-york.bsky.social · 7mo ago

🚨 Two @rarebookschool.bsky.social courses coming to York in July! @wordsmith.bsky.social 'The Culture & Craft of Wood Type' & @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social 'The Rise of Periodical Print Culture' rarebookschool.org/courses/typo... rarebookschool.org/courses/hist... 🗃️ #bookhistory #earlymodern #18thC

The Culture & Craft of Wood Type | Rare Book School

Course Length: 30 hours Course Week: 12–17 July 2026 Format: in person, York, UK Fee: $1,495 This course offers an in-depth engagement with the culture and craft of wood type, with a core focus on the...

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Hannah Murphy@hsmurphy.bsky.social · 10mo ago

An amazing opportunity for a PhD and a 4-year postdoc on this important project with the brilliant and lovely @smschober.bsky.social - hair, race, trade and multispecies history! #EarlyModern 🗃️

Sarah-Maria Schober@smschober.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Want to work on the history of hair? I am looking for a doc and postdoc to join my project team researching #earlymodern hair, race, trade and multispecies history at the University of Lucerne. Do apply and spread the word! www.unilu.ch/en/universit... www.unilu.ch/en/universit...

Helen Smith@wordsmith.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Please do not tell me it is time for my annual password update. I can't update my password, there are no more passwords, the universe is empty of passwords, it is all void.

will pooley@willpooley.bsky.social · 10mo ago

do my clever and knowledgeable followers have examples of historians writing (eg journal article or book chapter) about their own *failures* in interesting ways? eg research goes wrong, wrong questions etc 🗃️

Helen Smith@wordsmith.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Please can someone come up with a flowchart for 'Is the Union Flag racist?', with Gerri Halliwell's dress featuring on one side and anything funded by Tommy Robinson and his right-wing mates marked out clearly on the other?

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 11mo ago

How we talk about history is the issue where the media and political discourse is perhaps most out of touch with how out of touch Nigel Farage is with the British public, outside his core vocal minority

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 11mo ago

'Nigel Farage has hit out at universities for “poisoning the minds” of students with what he said was a “twisted interpretation of history” in his speech on the opening day of the Reform UK conference.' 1/3

Helen Smith@wordsmith.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Eurostar waitress spotted my daughter gnawing on a block of parmesan, in preference to her train meal. 'Oh, you're living your best life right now', she cried. 'No need to hide the cheese, I'm French.'

Susannah Lyon-Whaley@susannah-lw.bsky.social · last yr.

Thanks to Thin Ice Press and @georginaemw.bsky.social @wordsmith.bsky.social for an enlightening three days of material thinking! If I have learned anything it is that there is there is no end to matter and 'digressions are sunshine'!

Georgina Wilson@georginaemw.bsky.social · last yr.

Print Matters summer school hard at work at Thin Ice Press amid 3 days of book-making, reading Lucretius, depicting 'chaos', and perusing the Minster Library and Shandy Hall

Helen Smith@wordsmith.bsky.social · last yr.

Spitting blood at being thanked for my 'patience and resilience' in the face of VS schemes. I have resilience in spades, and patience in a small number of extremely niche contexts, but I have felt neither of those emotions when it comes to the damage these measures are doing across the sector.

Helen Smith@wordsmith.bsky.social · last yr.

We're advertising two artist's residencies at Thin Ice Press: the York Centre for Print. Please share! www.thinicepress.org/research/pri...

print matters artist’s residencies — Thin Ice Press: the York Centre for Print, offering memberships, workshops, equipment hire, events & exhibition space.

Thin Ice Press: the York Centre for Print welcomes applications for two artist’s residencies, to take place across five days between August and September 2025 as part of our research project: Print ...

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@gailrenard.bsky.social · last yr.

Saw the play Nye last night, starring Michael Sheen, about the founding of NHS. Both Sheen and play magnificent. The takeaway message.

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Helen Smith@wordsmith.bsky.social · last yr.

Still not persuaded that the answer to women's work being undervalued is for women to behave more like (certain) male colleagues. How about instead we recognise, value and reward the work that gets done? Workloads are an institutional responsibility, not a personal one.

Amy Diehl, Ph.D.@amydiehl.bsky.social · last yr.

In a study of professors, women got 378 new work requests over 4 weeks vs 118 for men. Women spent more time on service, advising & teaching; men on research. Orgs should track who is taking extra duties & ensure they are rewarded and distributed fairly. www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...