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Senior Lecturer in 18th-century Studies at the Uni of Kent; queer literature & disability studies. Author of _Effeminate Years_(2017); co-editor of _The Edinburgh Companion to Queer Reading_ (Nov ‘24)📚EDI co-officer BSECS. Views my own, not employer’s.

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Not happy with ending their Queer history MA, Goldsmith’s uni want to make the leader of the MA in Black British History redundant. Again. There’s a petition chng.it/Yjwsjp972V 🗃️

Save Black British History at Goldsmithschng.it Dear Warden, Senior Management, and Members of Council, We, as students of Goldsmith’s MA Black British History (past and present), are writing to express our outrage and deep concern regarding the pr...

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Please vote, dear 18th century friends and colleagues. This is our big shot at making our structure reflect who we are and who we want to be in future — and make it easier for us to adapt to changes ahead.

If you're in ASECS, please remember to vote on the new bylaws proposal -- unlike in our other recent elections, it really only takes a second. If you need to renew your membership, now's a great time: it means you get to weigh in on our future as a functional society! #c18

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"By 2027, the worldwide cosmetics market is projected to be worth $463.5 billion." I'm not criticising, many women find it fantastic. Just noting sex is not gender & the current global presentation of feminity takes $463.5 billion. www.hollywoodmirrors.co.uk/blogs/news/u...

UK Beauty Industry Statistics 2024: Facts, Stats and Trendswww.hollywoodmirrors.co.uk If you are a beauty enthusiast who is curious about the state of the UK beauty industry in 2024, then no need to look further. In this piece, we have organized, assessed, and classified some beauty...

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I have changed my mind about the world. David Ignatow

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England's university student recruitment 'system' in one image.

The generic post ‘I went back on Twitter to check and everything is awful there …’ is really beyond wearing thin at this stage.

www.theguardian.com/education/ar... This is good on the OfS & how its prioritising of ‘free speech’ concerns on campuses has distracted from material problems in sector funding. Also how Bojo’s mate has led it there as Chair. We need proper sector funding & reintroduction of caps #HEUK

UK universities need rescue package to stop ‘domino effect’ of going underwww.theguardian.com Experts say the next head of the Office for Students must oversee a programme that will protect higher education

I don’t know anything about football and never will.

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Aphra Behn first edition novel found on home bookshelfwww.bbc.com Just 13 first editions of Oroonoko were known to exist before the discovery.

This is great. I love the Mousehole woman. I had heard about her and her Cornish speaking but didn’t know about the business acumen.

From the All Things Georgian archives, '18th-century business women - trade cards' wp.me/p3JTNy-3nA #18thcentury

18th-century business women – trade cardswp.me We have looked at trade cards in a previous blog and if we’re honest this post is slightly self-indulgent as we’re fascinated by them. Today we thought that we would focus on the trade cards for those...

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🚨Coffee House Perspectives returns for the first of THREE new episodes to be released over the summer!🚨 In the first, Alex Hobday talks to Michèle Cohen about pedagogies for children in 18th-Century England! Listen: t.co/PNQTnVNcfe More info: t.co/syjLmwQsQQ #18C #18thC #18thCentury #BSECS

Excuse my ignorance but I am guessing if Biden steps aside it’s very unlikely that a replacement will beat Trump. Unless it’s someone like Michelle Obama. Right? The campaign calls for reality-star clout to defeat Trump. But she won’t run? So my guess is he stays & this just damages him further?

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"Disability should not be a fringe topic. On the contrary, to reflect on disability is to explore the fragility and potency, dependence and independence, constraints and possibilities, and hardships and joys that are a part of every human life." -- Shane Clifton, "Crippled Grace"

Final version 🛶

What a time to be alive

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NEW POST: My latest instalment of reading and listening recommendations from the past week - a UK general election special. All reposts much appreciated. #polisky #skystorians🗃️

Stop, Look, and Listen #27 (UK General Election Special)academicbubble.substack.com A round-up of what I have been reading and listening to this past week.

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Deadline for this post is tomorrow. It's full time for 2 years, working with me and colleagues on a project about trans youth, with a strength-based methodology using creative and participatory methods. Loads of scope; jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Job Opportunity at the University of Southampton: Research Fellowjobs.soton.ac.uk

Hearing Tony Blair on Radio 4 talk about trans people as if they are unwell is wrong and stigmatising. Biology isn’t destiny. Gender is complex and many people do not adhere to binaries, including some cis people. We need more nuanced and brave conversations about gender. #TransRights

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I get that it was a surprise result, but it's very funny to me that UK papers are explaining who the left wing group is in France only after the election. Sums up UK media's seemingly endless coverage of right wing parties.

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Are you ready to submit your work to ECF for consideration? We have spots open in the October *2025* issue for research articles. ecf.humanities.mcmaster.ca/guidelines/ Questions? [email protected] #18thCentury Submit mc04.manuscriptcentral.com ReadECF @ProjectMUSE muse.jhu.edu/journal/324

Completed my UCAS embargo training today. No one is getting anything out of me. I am MI5 level unreadable.

Great to hear that the Rwanda policy has been binned. #Starmer

Gillian Keegan loses her seat! #UkGeneralElection #HigherEd

Feeling very nervous about the exit poll. Really don’t want a shock. #GeneralElection

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ECF July 2024 is now up at UTP Journals: utpjournals.press/toc/ecf/36/3 Read all the abstracts at that link. Subscribe to the e-version! On Project MUSE soon. Stay tuned for that link. Get your read on! #18thCentury #C18th #18thC

A new low for the Tories & when it comes to their record on disability that’s an achievement for them.

According to a press release issued by the charity, a canvasser in the Livermead area suggested that Darling, who has a guide dog called Jennie, was “faking his sight loss” and “using his guide dog for ‘political purposes’”. #ToriesRottenToTheCore #GTFTO #TacticalVoting

Tories criticised for saying Lib Dem candidate pretending to be blindwww.theguardian.com Charity alleges doorknocker in Torbay suggested Steve Darling was using his guide dog ‘for political purposes’

Was a pleasure to listen to the artist who designed the new statue of Aphra Behn that will be unveiled in Canterbury next February. #AphraBehn

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The Guardian long view on the HE crisis in the UK: 'In an economy as regionally unequal as the UK’s, higher education is one of the few countervailing forces, spreading revenue and jobs to parts of the country that otherwise have little to fall back on.' www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...

How the Tories pushed universities to the brink of disasterwww.theguardian.com The long read: Over the past 14 years, the Conservative dream of a free market in higher education has collided with the harsh reality of austerity and the cultural resentment of the radical right – d...

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