Dr Aidan Norrie 🦄

If you can, go see this on the big screen. It deserves it!! 😍

I am very excited for this workshop: please do submit an EOI or get in touch if you have any queries.

Publishing a journal article doesn’t have to be a daunting experience, and we are very proud of our support for ECRs.

English lit - 6.4% unemployed

Maths - 7.5% unemployed

So kid, in your heart you want to study humanities but you worry about your job prospects? Let’s play a game.

On the latest data, who is more likely to be unemployed after 15 months after graduation. The English Lit grad or the Maths grad?

WRONG!

An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.

We are running a free workshop at @tandfresearch.bsky.social's office in South London on 30 January 2026 to support early career scholars in developing their work into a publishable journal article. Expressions of interest due by 16 January. See here for more details (and please share widely!)

Here's a seven-point peace plan:

💀💀💀

The London Journal 50th Anniversary Special Issue: London’s Past Today. Volume 50, Issue 1 of The London Journal

Compiling an ongoing thread of threads that we have produced about the Viewpoint articles the journal has published this calendar year in conjunction with its 50th anniversary celebrations, for which we also published this special issue on 'London's Past Today'. 🧵

The Curriers’ Prize The Worshipful Company of Curriers, has established an essay prize on the history of London, in association with The London Journal Trust and the IHR.

Applications are now open for the Curriers Prize, awarded by the Worshipful Company of Curriers in association with ourselves and the @ihr.bsky.social for the best entered essay on any aspect of London's history from Roman times to the present.

"Since I've met you and moved to Sydney, I haven't listened to one ABBA song. That's because my life is as good as an ABBA song. It's as good as Dancing Queen."

❤️😍❤️

As a previous prize winner, I can hardly recommend this enough: it’s a force for good in the study of #London history, and publishing with @thelondonjournal.bsky.social (with the gentle support/encouragement of @aidannorrie.bsky.social!) was a delight. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Awww! Thanks, Richard. It was a true pleasure 🥰

Guilds and Companies in London, 1200–1700: Contexts and Comparisons Published in The London Journal: A Review of Metropolitan Society Past and Present (Ahead of Print, 2025)

Our latest Viewpoint article is out: 'Guilds and Companies in London, 1200–1700: Contexts and Comparisons' by @mpdavies.bsky.social.

A 🧵 on the insights provided by this article into the history and historiography of these key metropolitan institutions in the medieval and early modern periods.

Those numbers are burned into my brain… and yet I can’t learn my husband’s number… 🤣🙈

May you all find someone who believes in you like Yodel insisting that my parcel is still “out for delivery” with only 6 stops before me… at 11.11pm on a Saturday night 🤣🙈💅

This is one of the events where I’d really love to be able to read minds. What did Richard actually feel? If I were him, I’d be indignant & upset, but also probably so frustrated with the bitching that I’d just think, “you know what? Fuck it. I’m out”—esp. if he thought he would be allowed to live

This is kinda spooky, but earlier today I was thinking of doing something like this with Volpone. Now that I think about it though, I already do Faustus, and this could be a very fun (and relatively easy) thing to add to class.

I taught Thomas for the first time last year and it was really hard to leave aside the love…

My favourite genre of scholarly work is stuff inspired by an academic's childhood. This is GOLD!

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.

OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

Whereas the fantasy is what is tempting me.

It was the last 50 or so pages of Yellowface that ruined it for me. So many contemporary books are let down by their rubbish endings. It’s like authors can’t be bothered to wrap things up. It’s not mysterious—it comes across as lazy!

I’m curious and wary… I want to be excited, but I was really underwhelmed by Yellowface.

I think you mean 1989 (Taylor’s Version)

This is a great shout! I actually use Andrew’s Unnatural Tragedy for another module. Thanks, Lisa ☺️☺️

I read this when it first came out and I still think about it, more than 15 years later. My copy has come with me around the world.

This is the first bit of news that’s made me miss living in Stafford!

Oooh! That’s a great shout!!

The sources need to be edited.

Hivemind, I need your wisdom. My third years have an assignment where they create an edition of an early modern source. Previously, I showed them the Pulter project website, but its fanciness intimidates them (it’s well beyond what they need to do). So, I need something else to show them. Any ideas?