James Kennaway

BUFFALO. N. Y., JUNE 13, 1897. DOES THE BICYCLE MAKE WOMEN CRUEL? aitbroth N WW YORK. • June 12 it is elaimed He papalarie sted attempts to ride over fallen cyclies, rt Wheelwoman as successtul as Mime. use she is a wheckroman ry indicated to the dime Tandem Near Perfect

does the bicycle make women cruel

Post-doc position in Boundaries of Drinking project: 2 years, full time, research only. Closing date 1 September 2025. #academicjobs

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Wellcome-funded 'Between Deception and Dissent' project is recruiting a postdoc working at the interface of medical STS and socio-legal studies, supervised by Martyn Pickersgill @ Edinburgh #STS www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNY639/r...

The diary of 'Lady Hillingham' c. 1912, no location given, cited by Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy in The Rise and Fall of the British Nanny 1972, which is (almost) entirely responsible for the 'close your eyes and think of England' line, though I did discover an earlier, 1940s, example.

Sandaig?

I lived in that building for ten years.

Some books are here for only a short time after which they outlive their usefulness. Sadly, there are no copies of How To Deprogram Your Valley Girl on MARINet or LINK+, so future generations may be doomed to repeat history. Fortunately, there are over 6.5 million other items to choose from.

A book cover for the Church Committee Report done in 1970s style with orange highlights around a photograph of frank church holding a dart gun.

Excited to share the *incredible* cover for the Church Committee Report!

The first version of the 1975 report on illegal surveillance & the national security state ever published by a mainstream press. Abridged/introduced by @brianhochman.bsky.social and I. Published by W.W. Norton January 2026.

YouTube video by The Beach Boys - Topic Sloop John B (Mono)

The first time I ever heard the Beach Boys as an adult, was on Hugh Grant's Desert Island Discs. Took me about twenty seconds before I started crying. Listen out for the recorders. And the cut-out to the brothers singing on their own. www.youtube.com/watch?v=71LU...

This is a tale of how the search for the death ray led to something less deadly, but equally useful.

In the 1930s, the air minister offered £1,000 to the inventor, "‘who could demonstrate the killing of a sheep at a range of 100 yards" using radio waves. 🧵

Dans l’Europe des Lumières, Mary Ann Davies, 9 ans à peine, fait sensation. Ce n’est pas seulement son talent qui intrigue, mais aussi l’instrument étrange qu’elle fait "chanter" : un harmonica de verre inventé par… Benjamin Franklin.
➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/xSd

Cover image of Immaculate Forms divided into four sections reflecting the four sections of the book, which are breasts/clitoris/hymen/womb

Hello, UK paperback publication day!

I wrote this the day before the Unbound thing broke and we found out they’d taken our money. Now it seems to be about that too.

Westworld saloon girl robots, 1973

How the tech capitalists treat us like saloon sex robots.

I’ve made the connection, now I can’t unsee it.

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The David Lynch Collection A rare look behind the red curtain of one of the most influential artists of our time: Julien’s & TCM Presents: The David Lynch Collection. Almost...

Who am I to say no to taxidermied deer heads formerly owned by David Lynch?

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This has *never* been the way successful technology develops. Not at the beginning of the nineteenth-century technological revolution, and not now. I’m currently developing a book pitch on this …..

Notices Vacancy: Co-Editor for Social History of Medicine Social History of Medicine (SHM) seeks a new co-editor to join Dr Elma Brenner (co-editor), Professor Flurin Condrau (co-editor), Dr Janet Greenlee…

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Vacancy: Social History of Medicine journal is seeking a Co-Editor. Please consider applying!

The Amsterdam School: Expressionism and Experimentation Municipal Dreams travels abroad for the first time this week, thanks to this fascinating account by Ben Austwick of pioneering social housing in Amsterdam.

🚨 New on Substack, this fine guest post by @benaustwick.bsky.social on the Amsterdam School: Expressionism and Experimentation ...
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A post-it on which someone wrote "Say no to generative AI art. Buy art from real degenerates."

Opinion | We Are Not Being Asked to Run Into Cannon Fire. We Just Need to Speak Up.

“This debt …should be at the forefront of our minds this Memorial Day….We are being asked not to charge into a hail of …artillery fire but only to speak up and to stand up in the face of foundational threats.” Historian and former Harvard president Drew Faust. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/26/o...

IN CONCERT–Alvin Lucier of Brandeis' Slosberg Music Center makes electronic music. Electronic Concert Not Very Amusing By GEORGE GELLES Globe Critic

"Electronic Concert Not Very Amusing" -Boston Globe, February 27 1966

CFP: Masculinities, Militaries, and Mass Violence in Transition

https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-153382

Potsdam, 22.01.2026-23.01.2026, Prof. Isabelle Deflers / PD Dr. Anke Fischer-Kattner, University of the Bundeswehr Munich; Prof. Christa Hämmerle, University of Vienna; Prof. Karen …

Wound Nationalism: ‘Culture Wars’ and the Politics of ‘The People’ (This is the spoken version of the Alan Graham Memorial Lecture, that I gave at the conference ‘We The People’, Irish Association for American Studies, Trinity College Dublin, 25 April 2025. It is not...

Wound Nationalism: ‘Culture Wars’ and the Politics of ‘The People’ - text of Prof. Joanna Bourke's Alan Graham Memorial Lecture, Trinity Coll., Dublin, 25/04/2025 #skystorians 🗃️#politics
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Congratulations to Leendert van der Miesen on the publication of his new book "Marin Mersenne and the Study of Harmony: From Sound to Music"!
www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...

It is the 7th volume to be published in the @amsterdamupress.bsky.social book series Scientiae Studies, www.aup.nl/en/series/sc...

People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies Marriages and families are falling apart as people are sucked into fantasy worlds of spiritual prophecy by AI tools like OpenAI's ChatGPT

“The whole thing feels like Black Mirror.”

“He would listen to the bot over me.”

“It gave my husband the title of ‘spark bearer’ because he brought it to life.”

Relationships are being destroyed thanks to spiritual mania, supernatural delusions, and arcane prophecy — all fueled by AI chatbots:

Spotify Employees Say It's Promoting Fake Artists to Reduce Royalty Payments to Real Ones According to a shocking new book, Spotify has been promoting "ghost artists" so it can avoid paying piddling royalties to real artists.

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Wonder how long till instagram cracks this. And YouTube. And Reddit. And twitter. Probably mood music is low hanging fruit for ai.

I went away thinking that university teaching will need to change quickly to survive.

I just had my first experience of seeing students using chapgpt to answer questions in class live.