Lesley A Hall

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This is an enormous scandal and reason for all academics to withhold labor from Taylor and Francis/Routledge

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there is actually a *superb* point lurking in here about Glasgow Worldcon getting away from the old 'programming is the people who know people saying what they want to do' and going for a much more bottom up inclusive approach that has learned some lessons from the last mess

This is an awful lot of words to say: "He was asked to fill in the same form as other people but couldn't be arsed." www.theguardian.com/uk-news/arti...

Game of Thrones’ George RR Martin falls foul of Glasgow sci-fi event’s strict ruleswww.theguardian.com Author’s efforts to take part apparently stymied by application protocol, but he still plans to attend Worldcon

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📢EXCELLENT RESOURCE KLAXON📢 warwick.ac.uk/cwad V. Hitchman & teams' #EarlyModern parish data inc. 🗃️ 1) Spreadsheet listing ALL parishes in England and Wales, with maps showing them 2) individual spreadsheets for all counties, showing survival/finding info for churchwarden accounts

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Labour members have opened a petition to Wes Streeting. Anyone can sign it. "We, the undersigned, are calling on you to immediately withdraw your support for the ban on puberty blockers for trans young people." actionnetwork.org/pe... #transgender #LGBTQ #LGBT #Labour #trans

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Online and in-person attendance options! #QueerBibliography

Are you interested in attending Queer Bibliography in LA or online the 25th and 26th of July? If so, registration is open here: forms.gle/NweCq1mS5rE5....

Queer Bibliography 2024 Conference Registrationforms.gle To be hosted by UCLA California Rare Book School online and in person at the University of California, Los Angeles - July 25th–27th, 2024 Program (draft) link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LDe...

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actionnetwork.org/petitions/op... I've signed, as a member of the Labour Party, but you don't have to be a member to add your support. UK signatures have most value in this case.

Open Letter to the Health Secretaryactionnetwork.org We're appalled that Wes Streeting plans to continue the Tories' ideological ban on puberty blockers. This move is not in the best interests of young trans people, and we will need the full unity of th...

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Inigo Purcell

In the realm of TV series there was the long-running Grange Hill, about a North London comprehensive en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grange_..., which sounds a bit different from the US high school experience

Grange Hill - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org

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The Society's AGM will take place on Thursday 18 July during #SSHM2024 For those attending in Glasgow we will be in Conference Room 8 between 1:00-2:00pm and will also announce the winners of the Roy Porter Essay Prize. Members can also join remotely, see webpage to sign up and get access to papers

Noticessshm.org SSHM Annual General Meeting Our AGM to discuss the Society's activities in 2023 and formally accept the annual accounts and conduct EC elections will take place on Thursday 18 July 2024, between 1:00-...

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Vivian H

Don't think I've read that one?

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly

I raise my eyebrows at any invocation of 'Deep England' which is about 'suburbs, shires, and small towns' (it's UK version of Hallmark movieland). It's like the cities/larger towns - which a lot of the inhabitants of those places fled and still flee to - don't really count.

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Cathy Pegau 📚🌈 - 🌹BLOOD REMAINS🌹 out NOW!!!

There was some Victorian/Edwardian grandee who allegedly and one hopes apocryphally claimed that once one had been Head of School at Eton nothing else compared, whether it was Prime Minister, Viceroy of India or C-in-C of Armed Forces.

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Jo VanEvery, she/her is close enough

I would have loved (still would!) novels about the non-Oxbridge uni experience - but I can only think of campus novels (Bradbury, Lodge, e.g.) about middle-aged academics at redbricks. (Oh, one Andrea Newman about - one guesses - Bedford College, mid-60s.)

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KJ Charles

Casting my aged memory back, there were Britlit novels in the 60s about Being A Teenager and a lot of the characters were At School and some of the plot involved that but they were not, as I recall, about The Grammar/Secondary Mod/Whatever Experience - possibly more the Youth Club, even.

Though vague recollections of a subgenre of Traumatic Public School Days (postdates the era of jolly school stories What).

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir)

Except in a few very specific instances (like books with arsenic-dressed leather covers, and certain artworks), libraries and rare materials repositories are NOT going to make you don gloves to consult books, archives, manuscripts, etc etc, whatever you saw on TV. (Plus: also not dusty.)

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Melinda Haunton

Just to remind #JacobinDay that there is all in collections at Wellcome that life can afford: Street entertainers in Nottingham: James Burne, called Shelford Tommy, a ventriloquist (left) and Charley, a man playing a shawm (right). Etching with aquatint, 1797 wellcomecollection.org/works/jtug68ka

Street entertainers in Nottingham: James Burne, called Shelford Tommy, a ventriloquist (left) and Charley, a man playing a shawm (right). Etching with aquatint, 1797.wellcomecollection.org Street entertainers in Nottingham: James Burne, called Shelford Tommy, a ventriloquist (left) and Charley, a man playing a shawm (right). Etching with aquatint, 1797.

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well-conceived TT art history job at Sarah Lawrence for an early modern Europeanist who has a global perspective: slc.peopleadmin.com/postings/2223

History of Early Modern European Art in a Global Perspective (ca. 1400-1750)slc.peopleadmin.com Sarah Lawrence College seeks candidates for a tenure-track position in History of Early Modern European Art in a Global Perspective (ca. 1400-1750) with a start date of fall 2025. We seek scholars who...

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Upcoming walks into November. Sex work is a strong theme in Old Knightsbridge, Scratching Out a Living, London's Sex Industry and Disgraceful Women. Many terms were used to describe transactions, some masking and others denigrating. My Eventbrite profile to book: www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/the-naked-...

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The journal Cultural and Social History is looking for an Editor again! 👇 Deadline for applications: 12 August 2024.

Call for Applications: Editor of Cultural and Social Historysocialhistory.org.uk The Social History Society invites applications for the position of Editor at its journal, Cultural and Social History. The journal is published by Taylor & Francis and has provided a platform …

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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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'“We want to get people to walk through geological time,” says Dr Paul Kenrick, lead scientist for the museum’s new evolution garden. He is standing at the tunnel exit, where two cliff faces of rock sheer up on either side of a ramp, forming a rugged canyon of stacked strata.'

‘You travel five million years a metre’: inside the Natural History Museum’s mind-boggling new gardenwww.theguardian.com It has giddying cliffs, three-billion-year-old rocks, a prehistoric forest – and a giant bronze dinosaur called Fern. Our writer hurtles back through millennia as the beloved museum’s five-year revamp...

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Reminder! great webinar on SEX this week! www.genome.gov/event-calend... www.genome.gov/event-calend... #QueerSTEM #PsychSciSky #Complex #devsci #IntersexInSTEM #LGBTQSTEM #medsky #philsci #PsychSciSky #PublicHealth #Queer+TransStudies #science #STS #TransInSTEM #TransRights #womeninstem

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Courtney Milan

It depends a bit on the things you are reading - I remember the 'posh dining - cutlery - work in from the outside' from women's mags etiquette advice columns - and also, the sort of novels that I suspect people like Vance would scorn and diss on, but they do give one these clues.

Plus, I am in the UK, and there is a whole tradition of the novel of the uncertainties around social mobility.... (and I did EngLit at uni)

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If you want access to free books, please get a library card. In the US, the more people there are with library cards, the more funding libraries have access to. Libraries provide more than books. They are a community resource. As an author and reader, I support libraries! #books #libraries

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Amanda Watson

It's very good! but yes, requires a certain devotion.

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Melinda Haunton

A lovely (?) breakfast treat for #JacobinDay: Shredded Wheat : from field & factory to you wellcomecollection.org/works/em6kg5...

Shredded Wheat : from field & factory to you / The Shredded Wheat Company Ltd.wellcomecollection.org

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💐I’d like to read more about Woolf’s experience of doctors. Septimus’s suffering and the incorrect but confidently applied treatment feels oddly personal, especially against a background of deference to structures of authority. Suggestions for further reading, please?