Craig Clunas

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Title: Doubts cast on another beloved inspirational tale Panel 1 Our investigations team has learned that the names "Jack" and "Jill" were invented to conceal a less than salubrious past. (image of smiling Jack and Jill with a bucket) Panel 2 The pair claim to have climbed a hill to "fetch a pail of water" but we found a number of water sources much closer to their cottage. (image of a water pump, atwo fountains and a drinking trough) Panel 3 (image of a book with the title "WELL: a memoir" by Jill) Jill now concedes that her account of Jack's fall and her own "Tumbling After" was intended to convey feelings, not "Cold facts". Panel 4 Multiple medical experts expressed Surprise that a broken crown was successfully treated with "Vinegar and brown paper. (Image of Jack with is head wrapped in brown paper beside an xray of his damaged skull).

My cartoon for this weekend’s @theguardian.com books.

A posh outlier among London streets with "China"-related names, see:
chinarhyming.com/2022/11/23/f...

Why is the history of the potato so important? In our new 10-Minute Talk, food historian Rebecca Earle FBA walks us through the ‘invention’ of the potato in the Western world and the role of figures like Sir Walter Raleigh.

Watch the full video here: buff.ly/JfPbfsJ

If you've written, or supervised, a dissertation on an Asian topic at a UK university then do think about making or encouraging an application for the Bayly Prize (there's £2.5 k in it for the deserving winner)
royalasiaticsociety.org/the-bayly-pr...

Portrait of Richard Owen posing next to a reptile skull. Maull & Polyblank, Professor Richard Owen, 1855. Gernsheim Collection, 2024:0003:0001. Harry Ransom Center University of Texas at Austin

Portrait of Michael Faraday leaning against a table while holding a magnet. Maull & Polyblank, Professor Michael Faraday, Esq., D.C.L., F.R.S., 1854–1855, published October 1857. Gernsheim Collection, 2024.0003.0001.0007. Harry Ransom Center University of Texas at Austin

Exciting news for fans of Victorian science! @ransomcenter.bsky.social recently digitized a photo album featuring members of Maull & Polyblank's Literary & Scientific Portrait Club, including Richard Owen & Michael Faraday (seen here).

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#histSTM #histsci #photosky 🗃️📜📷

Artworks, Digitisation, Book Launch and Bayly Prize Recently catalogued artworks This week I have spent some time cataloguing our visual material. Those who have visited our Reading Room would probably have consulted our physical catalogue entitled Cat...

New blogpost giving updates to the Society's artwork cataloguing, digitisation, Bayly Prize and the upcoming book launch: royalasiaticsociety.org/artworks-dig...

Donated to @royalasiaticsoc.bsky.social in 1852 as ‘a North American Indian drawing, or picture writing’, this (fabulous) image lacks precise identification. Anybody out there have ideas? Know someone who would? (More info at royalasiaticsociety.org/artworks-dig...)

The Vimar Curatorial Fellow (Paintings 1600 - 1800) - London (Central), London (Greater) job with THE NATIONAL GALLERY | 9693493 The National Gallery invites applications for the Vivmar Curatorial Fellowship, a 22-month paid position starting in October 2025.

Early career, fixed-term curatorial fellowship focusing on European paintings 1600-1800 at the National Gallery, London. #earlymodern #arthistory
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Opening next Thursday:

Aby Warburg and the Politics of the Stamp

7 Aug – 3 Sept | Mon–Fri, 10am–6pm | Free entry

Explore how Warburg saw postage stamps as tools for expressing national memory, identity and politics.

Find out more: warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/aby-w... #Stamps #StampHistory

The Story of Art at 75 Screenings, Discussions & Archive Display

To mark 75 years since the publication of Ernst Gombrich’s The Story of Art, we're presenting an event of rare archival screenings and discussion.

Find out more and book: warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/the-s...

Saturday 20 September 2025, 4 - 8pm

@flannobriensoc.bsky.social

To save UK higher education, start talking about knowledge - Research Professional News Until debate on universities foregrounds their core purposes, their woes will deepen, says Margot Finn

If the marketing team is struggling to understand what universities do and are for, they can read this by a former Warwick professor, HoD, research centre founder/director and PVC. 3/3

White banner with an image of a person speaking in front of an audience during a presentation. The words 'Mid-Career Fellowships' are written on the right-hand side.

There are only three weeks left to apply for the Mid-Career Fellowships. The opportunity supports researchers in the humanities and social sciences to pursue a significant research project and engage the public with their findings. Apply now: buff.ly/VOWVPuC

All historians know the sinking feeling of tracking an "authoritative" reference back through several generations of writers to an unsourced assertion by someone nobody's ever heard of.

Now AI can make up new ones in no time at all.

The jijin on the table, with the hat itself in focus.

The insignia of the Society of Jesus embroidered on the jijin.

The jijin on a table.

The jijin on a table, side view.

One of the Institute's jijin 祭巾, headgear worn by Catholic priests in late imperial China. The jijin was first described by Giuilo Aleni 艾儒畧 (1582-1649) in his Misa jiyi 彌撒祭義 (Meaning of the rite of the mass, preface dated 1629). The pictured jijin is small and probably belonged to an altar boy.

Still can't get used to the white covers ...

The Alienation Effect In the 1930s, tens of thousands of central Europeans sought sanctuary from fascism in Britain. While the rainy, seemingly quaint island they discovered on arrival was a far cry from the dynamism of We...

Do you know www.penguin.co.uk/books/311898...? There’s an interesting discussion in there I think.

"Uniquitous" is one of those words which *ought* to exist (but I meant ubiquitous)

Image credit: Iain Masterton

💥The Bernat Klein Studio has been saved! This morning the coalition of Scottish heritage organisations secured the property at auction with a winning bid of £279,000.

The studio will now be restored and brought back into public use, creating a new venue for creative arts in the Scottish Borders.

Notes the Thames and Hudson "World of Art" display at lower right, uniquitous in 1960s/70s bookshops. Developed by Thomas Neurath, whose obit here www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

Here's the missing link to the interview with Jennifer Montagu on Giovanni Battista Maini:

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Oxford Studies in Medieval History is now Oxford Studies in the New Medieval History. Glad to be part of the opening up of this great series to global approaches. We are looking forward to receiving book manuscripts in global #medieval history.
More info in the flyer:
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Open letter from UK university staff: Request for biometric deferral and safe evacuation of incoming Palestinian students and scholars from Gaza to UK Universities More than 40 students currently trapped in Gaza with full scholarships to UK Universities are asking for a safe route to come and study. We, the academic community hoping to welcome these scholars, ca...

An open letter has been launched today (27/7/25) for members of the UK academic community (academics and other university staff) to sign, to press the UK Home Office to facilitate safe passage out of Gaza for 40+ students with offers for UK universities.

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The $75,000 Cundill History Prize Names Its 2025 Longlist The 18th cycle of the Montreal-based Cundill History Award opens with the release of a 15-title longlist in nonfiction.

Looking for summer/winter reading? 'Canada’s Cundill History Prize today (July 28) is announcing its 2025 longlist, a roster of 15 titles. The program’s shortlist is to follow in September; with its “finalists” in early October; and an announcement of who will be its 18th winner on October 30.'

People, the Society for Early
Modern French Studies @semfsuk.bsky.social is now on BlueSky! An intellectually rich and really warm group of people with excellent support for graduate students and ECRs- give them a follow!

Black-and-white rubbing of an Ancient Egyptian stela depicting several figures in a line, wearing headdresses and carrying staffs.

In the early 20th century, Chinese diplomat Duanfang made rubbings of Ancient Egyptian inscriptions🏺#Archaeology

In the subsequent political changes, they were lost. Rediscovered in the early 2000s, they allow exploration of a Chinese perspective on Egyptology.

Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

Hawksmoor Essay Medal - SAHGB To encourage new and unpublished entrants to the field of architectural history, the Society's Essay Medal (popularly known as 'the Hawksmoor') is awarded annually to the author of the best essay subm...

Nominations Now Open: Hawksmoor Essay Medal

We welcome submissions that demonstrate critical and innovative approaches to architectural history.

The competition is open to current postgraduate students, and to early career researchers.

sahgb.org.uk/hawksmoor-essay-medal

This article provides a comparative discussion of the theories of imperialism developed by three prominent scholars – Paul Samuel Reinsch, Ukita Kazutami, and Liang Qichao – in the 1900s. Such a discussion offers a fresh understanding of imperialism in the East Asian context from three perspectives. First, by revealing inter-textual connections between the three figures’ writings, it sheds light on Japan’s mediating role in the formation of Chinese knowledge of imperialism in a transpacific exchange of ideas. Second, it examines how the theories of imperialism travelled in the unequal international spaces created by practices of imperialism. Last, it draws attention to the consequences of embracing the Western ideal of national empire in East Asia, highlighting the fact that some Japanese and Chinese elites resisted Western imperialism on the one hand, but, on the other, drew inspiration from the ideal of imperialism to formulate their own expansionist agendas.

📣Out now on #firstview!

Fei Chen (Central China Normal University) on 'The Transpacific Travel of Theories of Imperialism in the 1900s'

#Empire #Writings #Intellectual #China #Japan 20thc 🗃️

👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Cambridge PhD students: please consider this great opportunity to use the Chinese collections at UCSD library for your PhD studies, under the WongAvery Visiting Scholar Exchange Programme. Application deadline: 30 September 2025. For details, please see: library.ucsd.edu/news-events/...