: Half of UK universities face a deficit next year. Up to 50 could close.
That is a sector in crisis. Simply blaming a tuition fee freeze and nudging fees up with inflation is not a plan. Where is the long-term strategy for higher education?
#Universities #HigherEducation
Huge agree from me. I love the Rijksmuseum
There's similar pieces on the introduction of leisure time in this period that thinks about structures of time and how they changed
And the work of Sylvie Droit-Volet. Various pieces but all thinking about how time is experienced. The piece linked is also on research gate for those with an account
brill.com/view/journal...
And www.routledge.com/Gendered-Tem...
Maybe, I also wonder how far social media 'speak' is shifting language use and word meanings.
I was wondering this recently when watching tv.
There's some really interesting scholarship on historical perceptions and experiences of time that are interesting for thinking through why and how we say things about our time or lack thereof
The Senses and Medical Humanities – 24 February
A one-day workshop exploring sensory studies and medical humanities, organised by @claireturner.bsky.social with the Institute for Medical Humanities, Durham University
Details here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-senses...
'The prize-winning books will be published fully open access on OUP’s Oxford Academic platform, with a full OA fee waiver'
Deadline 31 January. 1/2
Bump for my CFP for Nostalgia and Radical Politics, Past and Present www.northampton.ac.uk/research-blo... Deadline 14 February! Have had a few abstracts already and it's shaping up to be great. 🗃️
Birkbeck is hiring a Lecturer in Medieval Studies (c.1300-1500), full-time and open-ended.
They will be formally based in English but expected to be able to contribute about 0.5FTE to History, including teaching and supervision.
Closing date Feb 23rd: cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...
Found the Thesis and it was so incredibly helpful thank you again!!
So true. I find it very much slower than marking in the olden days
Thanks for all the help tracking down work on early modern leather. Research assistant number 1 (pictured) is very glad he can resume napping after the search.
Amazing thank you
Amazing thank you!!
Happy New Year all. Wondering if anyone could recommend any reading on the status of leather as a 'fabric' in early modern England. Or anything highlighting its status as a material rather than a fabric (if that makes sense)
Are you a PG research student based outside of London? Did you know that you may be eligible for a bursary of up to £500 to take one of our short courses in 2026? Find out more on our IHR Research Training and Short Courses page: www.history.ac.uk/study-traini... Applications open until 31 Jan 2026
JOB ALERT!
3-year postdoc at @girtoncollege.bsky.social - research anything you like in History, Archaeology or Anthropology in a wonderful, welcoming scholarly community.
PLEASE SHARE! Closes 12 January
www.girton.cam.ac.uk/job-vacancie...
I think im going to write an abstract about fabric and midwifery. I could go either way.
May I ask which way your choice went ?
Thomas Chatterton Williams writing in the Atlantic. Humanities as counter culture
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Exactly 50th year for SHS, but then we only get SSHM every other year.
Well overlap more than clash.
SHS and SSHM clash this year. What to do, what to do?
Who's entering our Biennial Book Prize 2026, to celebrate the best monographs in Renaissance studies published in 2024 and 2025? Send your scintillating scholarship to the Chair of the Book Prize Committee, @racheljwillie.bsky.social, by 31st January 2026.
www.rensoc.org.uk/funding-priz...
Im so sorry Lucy. Solidarity.
It is that time of year when I ask if anyone is contemplating submitting a paper for @socialhistsoc.bsky.social conf in the Bodies and emotions strands and wants to plan a panel
