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Now open access: BJRL back archive, including special issue on ‘Medical History in Manchester: Health and Healing in an Industrial City, 1750–2005’. Check it out.

Work really hard and one day this can be you (followed by graffiti of a headstone that says “RIP worked really hard” on it

happy sunday, remember that you are completely expendable to your employer and that when you die they will forget you ever existed within weeks and easily replace you

I have just moved and am similarly Not Unpacking Today

How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More - Consumer Reports AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.

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Congratulations, Matthew! That's great news!

YouTube video by maxinebendix Kitty 2 - With Patricia Routledge - BBC

RIP to the most wonderful and loved comedy actor. Kitty in particular has always made me cry laughing.

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Ever wondered what the epic poem Beowulf sounds like spoken in Old English?

#NationalPoetryDay

Martin Degville of Sigue Sigue Sputnik having breakfast in a Newcastle B&B, 1986, photo by Homer Sykes.

I'm very pleased to announce that the call for proposed Special Issues of the Historical Journal is now live, with a deadline of 12th December. Please do spread widely among your networks — @saracaputo.bsky.social and I look forward to reading your submissions! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Doctoral Open Days | British Library oin one of our Doctoral Open Days for an introduction into the areas of our collection which may be relevant to you, alongside practical tips for using the

New & aspiring MA/PhD students! Join us to learn how we can help you with your research at the first of our Doctoral Open Days 2025:

16 Oct - 'Getting Started at The British Library' (online)
31 Oct - 'Music, Sound and Vision' (in person)

More info, events & tickets: events.bl.uk/whats-on/doc...

Calls for research funding from the Royal Historical Society: current programmes - RHS The Society currently invites applications for the following three schemes — open to historians across a range of career stages and backgrounds — with closing dates from 5 December 2025 onwards. For f...

RHS Funding opportunity: Postgraduate and Early Career Research Support Grants.

Grants of up to £1000 for graduate and early career historians to undertake research projects bit.ly/4nWLNlI

Closing date for the next round: 5 December 2025

The Boring Fund - Open Collective We support small non-profit organisations (UK) by only funding the really boring (but essential) stuff like insurance, accountancy or admin

The Boring Fund will be open for applications in November.

If your small UK charity needs (up to) £200 to cover something boring like insurance or web hosting, take a look.

They welcome donations too.

Naming and Classifying cfp final CFP: Naming and Classifying in the Long Eighteenth Century Whereas “the nineteenth century can be seen as the century of counting and measuring,” the eighteenth century can be seen as the century of ...

Hello #academicsky! I'm sharing a cfp for an edited collection on "Naming & Classifying," pulled together by me, Kristin Girten, & @aaronrhanlon.com . We'd love to see your work! Please also circulate to anyone you think might be interested. Deadline 10/31. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

SMOG STORIES: A Lived History of Air Pollution in Britain | British Library In December 1952 a thick fog caused by high levels of air pollution descended on London and killed up to 12,000 people. The Great London Smog was a human a

Our current Visiting Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Sustainability & Climate, Dr Kathy Davies, will be giving a public lecture on 'SMOG STORIES: A Lived History of Air Pollution in Britain'

Please join us on Wednesday 29 October at 6.30pm - more info and booking page: events.bl.uk/events/smog-...

Cold spots: Mapping inequality in SHAPE provision in UK higher education This British Academy report reveals that many parts of the UK are becoming subject cold spots – areas with no provision in a subject within a commutable distance. These are often in rural, coastal or ...

Hot off the press, the British Academy's Cold Spots: Mapping Inequality in SHAPE Provision in UK Higher Education report. Read it if you care about universities or access to the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences for the rising generation. 1/5

Simply can't be arsed.

All arts and humanities approaches welcome!

- 'Dispersal of Manuscripts From the Cotton Library'
- 'Libraries, Literacy, and Learning in Leeds'
- 'New Sources & Perspectives on Sarah Sophia Banks'
- 'Cold-War Socialism, Non-Alignment & Anti-Colonialism in Yugoslav Press, 1961-1979'

Are you a cultural theorist who is looking for postdoctoral research project? Research Ireland have a funding scheme opening.

If you are interested in the politics of popular culture and intersectional theory, drop me an email at anna.hickeymoody@mu.ie

Julian's forthcoming PhD opportunity (Oct 26 start) has just gone live - take a look! #BuiltWithBooks

We are looking for HEI supervisors to collaborate on 'The Dispersal of Manuscripts from the Cotton Library'

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Research theme 4:
'Cold-War Socialism, Non-Alignment and Anti-Colonialism in the Yugoslav Press, 1961–1979'

British Library co-supervisors: Milan Grba (South East European) and Savka Andic (Acquisitions South)

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Research theme 3:
'Rediscovering a Woman Collector at the British Library: New Sources and Perspectives on Sarah Sophia Banks'

British Library co-supervisors: Felicity Myrone (Western Prints and Drawings), Maddy Smith (Printed Heritage 1600-1900), and me!

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Research theme 2:
'Libraries, Literacy, and Learning in Leeds'

British Library co-supervisor: Elvie Thompson (Learning North)

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Research theme 1:
'The Dispersal of Manuscripts From the Cotton Library'

British Library co-supervisors: Julian Harrison (Medieval Historical and Literary Manuscripts) and Dr Andrea Clarke (Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts)

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Absolutely delighted to invite applications from prospective HEI supervisors for four Collaborative Doctoral Partnership opportunities, to start October 2026.

Deadline for applications Fri 28th Nov, 5pm.

Further details below and here: www.bl.uk/services/res...

British Library/UEA collaborative PhD student Raphaelle Goyeau giving a brilliant presentation on Robert Cotton's collection at #BuiltWithBooks 'Shaping the Shelves of the Early Modern Library' symposium

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Search your name.

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National Trust heartened by surge in young members Some 40,000 people aged 18-25 signed up in the past year as research suggests young adults are showing more interest in culture, heritage and history

Some heartening news in amongst all the gloom. Well done @nationaltrust.org.uk on sticking to your principles of inclusion and honesty about the past and present despite all the political pressure. It pays off in the end.

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‘You just have to learn to play the game’: survival, resentment and resignation in women academics’ narratives of precarity This paper discusses precarious academic labour and its implications for gender and interrelated inequalities, drawing on narrative interviews with temporarily employed UK women academics. It ident...

"The academic career is framed as a privileged but high-risk venture that ppl knowingly choose to embark on so they must endure the consequences or find a way to cope, thus obscuring deliberate adoption of biz models that [deprioritize] investment in staff + render large sections of the workforce 🗑️"