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Dr Amara Thornton
@amalexathorn.bsky.social
Historian of archaeology, Co-Investigator of Beyond Notability @beyondnotables.bsky.social, Co-Editor (with Dr Katy Soar), Strange Relics (Handheld Press, 2022). Website: https://www.amarathornton.com/; Agent: @agentbal.bsky.social @mmagency.bsky.social
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Since it’s University Press Week #UPweek, a shout out to my amazing colleagues at University of London Press @uolpress.bsky.social. They are flying the flag for open humanities publishing.
November 10, 2025 at 9:01 PM
November 3, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Our staff are fiendishly friendly today, ready to welcome you into the depths of our Library.....if you have the guts to enter....
October 31, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Our staff are fiendishly friendly today, ready to welcome you into the depths of our Library.....if you have the guts to enter....
October 31, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Paintings of Stonehenge by Victorian women are rare, and these details are tantalising: could this be Elizabeth Russell, Duchess of Bedford (1818-1897) and her daughter Lady Ermyntrude Russell (1856-1927)? Such precious women's artwork needs to be in the Wiltshire Museum collection.
October 18, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Episode 180
EDITH NESBIT'S GHOST STORIES

Watch the interview and other content on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkDM...

Listen on the website:
www.thefolklorepodcast.com/episode-180....

Or via your podcast app

Join me and @clairelouiseamias.bsky.social to learn about Edith's gothic tales
October 21, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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A fascinating read about terminology in the archives and why it's so important to address, from @thelondonarchives.bsky.social

www.thelondonarchives.org/revisiting-t...
Revisiting the Cooper Family collection
Exploring the omissions, language and content in our catalogue descriptions at The London Archives. We take a closer look at the Cooper family collection.
www.thelondonarchives.org
October 21, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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Congratulations and happy Pub Day to @ktgerbs.bsky.social "Archival Irruptions" tells a new history of Obeah, an Afro-Caribbean religion that was criminalized in 1760 after the largest slave revolt in the 18th century British Empire
www.dukeupress.edu/archival-irr...
Archival Irruptions: Constructing Religion and Criminalizing Obeah in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica
www.dukeupress.edu
October 15, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Wow - super impressed by Grenada National Museum website which I think must be relatively new? museum.gd
October 19, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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We aren’t hosting a November event as so many of the co-convenors will be speaking at NACBS, but you can book now for our December event will be a discussion of the new book ‘Teaching Slavery: New Approaches to Britain’s Colonial Past.’ www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Book talk: Teaching Slavery: New Approaches to Britain’s Colonial Past
www.history.ac.uk
October 18, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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These books will also be on display in our Ubunto: Pan African Congress 80 exhibition, inspired by the 80th anniversary of the October 1945 Pan-African Congress in Manchester, a landmark gathering that reshaped the global fight for Black liberation and independence.

uk.bookshop.org/lists/pan-af...
Pan African Conference 80: Black History Month titles 2025
Book recommended by people from the African diaspora at the Portico Library that have shaped them and are on display in our Ubunto: Pan African Congress 80 display.
uk.bookshop.org
October 14, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Article includes a photo of a US naval base in Trinidad under construction. My Grenadian grandfather, a building contractor, moved to Trinidad during the war to work on the construction of US bases.
October 10, 2025 at 6:34 AM
This sounds superb!
THE SECRET PROJECT I'VE BEEN WORKING ON FOR THE PAST FEW MONTHS IS FINALLY LIVE

CHECK IT OUT

outsidersartsclub.com
October 8, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Good advice generally for personal archiving (not just for romance authors)!
It's October, aka American Archives Month, and while it's been a bit warm to don our cardigans, the shrines to Henry from RED are up and it's time to remind romance authors (and authors of all stripes!) about what kinds of things they ought to be preserving. romancehistory.com/2021/10/15/a...
Archives Month: Tips for romance authors (and others!)
October is always American Archives Month, which is of course when archivists don their colorful costumes and dance in the stacks after assembling their shrine to Henry the Record Keeper, as portra…
romancehistory.com
October 7, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Very much enjoyed yesterday's Black British Folk Takeover @cecilsharphouse.bsky.social yesterday. Some absolutely beautiful music.
October 5, 2025 at 7:16 PM
October 5, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Had it with admin
October 3, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Hill is in our @beyondnotables.bsky.social database
Panel 3/8
October 2, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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Thought I’d do something a bit different for my annual month-long celebration of women’s ghost stories. So instead of doing individual stories, I’ll share the books themselves. (All books are from my collection.)

🎃 Here we go! 👻

First up is Marjorie Bowen’s The Bishop of Hell (1949)
October 1, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Will be checking this out, with great interest
The stories of enslaved African people and more than 1,000 British plantation owners who were compensated after abolition have been brought together in a searchable archive for the first time.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
‘This is strength’: stories of enslaved Africans in Grenada made into searchable archive
Depths of Paradise project backed by British family and created by Stephen Lewis, a descendant of survivors
www.theguardian.com
October 1, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Hostel, House and Chambers: Accommodating the Victorian and Edwardian Working Woman by Emily Gee publishes today! This Historic England title offers an expert architectural analysis, combining social history and insights into pioneering employed women’s domestic and working lives. bit.ly/HEHostel
August 28, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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📚 Now available! 📚 THE TIGER SKIN AND OTHER TALES OF THE UNEASY, published by @blpublishing.bsky.social

I’ve wanted to bring Violet Hunt’s supernatural fiction back for a while now, so am happy to see these stories reach a wide audience again.

Please share!
September 19, 2025 at 12:28 PM