Dr Amara Thornton

Cambridge University now has access to Latin American Newspapers Series 2, a comprehensive digital archive of historical newspapers published in Latin America and the Caribbean between 1822 and 1922. To find out more, check out this blog post!

https://loom.ly/NK1xrc4

Fantastic line-up for our upcoming CLACS Caribbean Studies Seminar Series @ilcs.bsky.social, School of Advanced Study, University of London starting Sept: shorturl.at/BQfAr

Electricity & Electrification/ Education & Debt / Baseball / Afro-Asian Ecologies

Supported by @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social

Increasingly often, books I want to read are not coming up in the uni library catalogue but are nonetheless held electronically by the library, hidden away in a database. To find them, you have to search the particular database directly. What's the point of a system that hides its actual holdings?

Our Director, @cathamclarke.bsky.social, might have mentioned that she has a book out (we have had a sneak preview and we love it), but don't take our word for it, you can hear Catherine, this autumn, on BBC Radio 4.

Digitising the Victoria County History: first new volume added to British History Online   - On History In this blog post, Dr Ruth Slatter (Co-General Editor of the Victoria County History and the VCH Digitisation Project Manager) celebrates the publication of new digitised VCH material on British…

New #OnHistory blog post fro @ruthslatter.bsky.social updating us on progress of the @vchlondon.bsky.social and @bho.bsky.social digitisation project. blog.history.ac.uk/2025/07/digi...

Exactly. Plus spellings. Also this blog post by @sharonhoward.bsky.social - especially the bit about the different ways Alice Thornton refers to her son Robin/Robert - should give pause for thought about why keyword searches alone are not satisfactory.

thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/blog/2...

Holiday Sketches on Film women artists When you look at Rhodes town, it seems unchanging with its castellations, its fortifications, its palaces, its cobbled streets. It even seems unchanging from the Ottoman Empire, with the mosques, the ...

When you look at Rhodes town, it seems unchanging with its castellations, its fortifications, its palaces, its cobbled streets . . . But of course, it isn’t.

New post and film on Mary Severn Newton, Gertrude Jekyll & Rhodes.

#womenartists #victorian

www.debbiechallis.com/post/holiday...

This is why I bang on, whenever I can, about the value of having a browseable archive catalogue, and, you know, browsing through it: rather than thinking you can just zap into a specific target.

This is fantatic news to start the weekend @clairelanghamer.bsky.social!

Following this thread bsky.app/profile/step... but still not sure what to do.

Porträt von Amelia Edwards auf einem Tisch neben einem Blatt mit Hieroglyphen.

Wir starten eine kleine Reihe mit Beiträgen von Gastautorinnen, die sich in universitären Lehrveranstaltungen mit der historisch-biografischen Forschung und der Vermittlung von Wissenschaftlerinnen-Biografien in der Public History auseinandergesetzt haben.

YouTube video by ALCS (Authors' Licensing & Collecting Society) Let's fix it for freelancers

Last month, the Government announced they would be appointing a Freelance Champion to represent creative freelancers, something we have long campaigned for.

While we wait to see the details, here's a reminder of why it is needed:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgOC...

Wyrdlings! To celebrate the birthday of Desmond Dekker, born in St Andrew Parish, Jamaica, in 1941, for this week's #WyrdWednesday we shall celebrate the Caribbean with:

"Sun, Soucouyants, and Sea Robber Stories!"

Bring us tales & artwork, history & folklore, from Papa Bois to pirates!

You'll find her entry on our @beyondnotables.bsky.social database here: beyond-notability.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Item:Q916

Anticipating that this new @vchlondon.bsky.social project @themakingofmaidstone.org from @jack-newman.com bsky.app/profile/vchl... might be covering among other things Allington Castle, home of my long-time research subject Agnes Conway who researched & published on its history in the early 20thC.

Would be good to know what the title of the history being referred to here a best-seller is!

You're welcome!

A. E. Housman's letter bsky.app/profile/liam... is to his sister Katharine, who is in our @beyondnotables.bsky.social database - see beyond-notability.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Item:Q3...

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Sulking

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Me in the kitchen next to the coffee machine

Calling storytellers in London!

Free workshop on Biographical Storytelling tomorrow St John Waterloo facilitated by Danyah Miller.

We have been running awesome free workshops for storytellers in London for two years now…
Storytelling also teaches listening, builds empathy & brings people together.

Yes. AI cannot do historical research, in part because most archives aren't digitised, and it can't pick out the gaps and context and nuances of those archives that are digitised.

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).

Two 4-year fully-funded PhD studentships available at UCL for Black British candidates. One in History of the legacy of Transatlantic slavery and reparations; the other on reparations and the media/culture focusing on reparations and the media/culture. Here's the History one. 1/2

Been knocked out by Covid for past week & wfh when feel up to it. Now okish.

Finally planned talk for PV on Holiday Sketches & Mary Severn Newton @porticolibrary.bsky.social. Even made a video on travel, Rhodes, people then, now & between.

Made a few places publicly available. Link below.

Oh that is sad! He was very kind to ECR me.

Indeed

You'll find her in our @beyondnotables.bsky.social database

Loving Ella Armitage's description of barrows in her 1901 article on "Non-Sepulchral Earthworks of Yorkshire": "Many barrows are protected by a wall of stones, or a bank or ditch, intended either to keep the public out or to keep the ghost in".

The more I think about it, the more impressed I am with DK Broster's ability to write a genuinely unsettling tale. Just really good. When's her Ghost Story for Christmas please?