Dr Amy Louise Blaney
@blaneylouise.bsky.social
She/Her. Medievalismist. Lecturer in Film Studies @ Keele University. Sauntering vaguely downwards. Views my own.
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So this is very exciting! We have 16 places on our AHRC-funded Print Matters Summer School. There is no course fee, and applicants get 4 nights B&B accommodation and a travel bursary of up to £100. The Summer School is open to all disciplines and career stages.
www.thinicepress.org/events/print...
www.thinicepress.org/events/print...
Print Matters summer school: Thin Ice Press — Thin Ice Press
What does it mean to think about matter and materiality through the medium of letterpress printing? We invite scholars of matter, materiality and/or material culture (broadly conceived) in any ...
www.thinicepress.org
January 10, 2025 at 10:34 AM
So this is very exciting! We have 16 places on our AHRC-funded Print Matters Summer School. There is no course fee, and applicants get 4 nights B&B accommodation and a travel bursary of up to £100. The Summer School is open to all disciplines and career stages.
www.thinicepress.org/events/print...
www.thinicepress.org/events/print...
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If you are a PGR student working on any aspect of 18th-Century Studies, then you should definitely consider submitting an application to the York Centre for 18th-Century Studies PG conference.
CFP dealine 31 Jan.
#18c #BSECS2025
CFP dealine 31 Jan.
#18c #BSECS2025
January 10, 2025 at 3:47 PM
If you are a PGR student working on any aspect of 18th-Century Studies, then you should definitely consider submitting an application to the York Centre for 18th-Century Studies PG conference.
CFP dealine 31 Jan.
#18c #BSECS2025
CFP dealine 31 Jan.
#18c #BSECS2025
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We're recruiting!
Join History at the University of Glasgow (the best History dept in Scotland and one of the best in the UK) as a lecturer (permanent post, research and teaching) in Asian history 1500-2000.
Please share with suitable candidates.
www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...
Join History at the University of Glasgow (the best History dept in Scotland and one of the best in the UK) as a lecturer (permanent post, research and teaching) in Asian history 1500-2000.
Please share with suitable candidates.
www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...
January 10, 2025 at 1:02 PM
We're recruiting!
Join History at the University of Glasgow (the best History dept in Scotland and one of the best in the UK) as a lecturer (permanent post, research and teaching) in Asian history 1500-2000.
Please share with suitable candidates.
www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...
Join History at the University of Glasgow (the best History dept in Scotland and one of the best in the UK) as a lecturer (permanent post, research and teaching) in Asian history 1500-2000.
Please share with suitable candidates.
www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...
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The British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Conference is underway!
You can browse all the titles we’ve featured in our BSECS2025 virtual exhibit here: combinedacademic.co.uk/bsecs-2025/
Use the discount code BSECS25 for 30% off selected titles.
@bsecs.bsky.social #c18th #BSECS2025
You can browse all the titles we’ve featured in our BSECS2025 virtual exhibit here: combinedacademic.co.uk/bsecs-2025/
Use the discount code BSECS25 for 30% off selected titles.
@bsecs.bsky.social #c18th #BSECS2025
January 9, 2025 at 1:44 PM
The British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Conference is underway!
You can browse all the titles we’ve featured in our BSECS2025 virtual exhibit here: combinedacademic.co.uk/bsecs-2025/
Use the discount code BSECS25 for 30% off selected titles.
@bsecs.bsky.social #c18th #BSECS2025
You can browse all the titles we’ve featured in our BSECS2025 virtual exhibit here: combinedacademic.co.uk/bsecs-2025/
Use the discount code BSECS25 for 30% off selected titles.
@bsecs.bsky.social #c18th #BSECS2025
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New exhibition for @bsecs.bsky.social conference. Some highlights from the archive, and the afterlife of Boswell’s Life of Johnson. Pichette Foyer until 5.30 today #BSECS2025
January 9, 2025 at 12:34 PM
New exhibition for @bsecs.bsky.social conference. Some highlights from the archive, and the afterlife of Boswell’s Life of Johnson. Pichette Foyer until 5.30 today #BSECS2025
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I'd be very grateful if anyone on here would be willing to help boost @iasecr.bsky.social! We're trying to put together a network of early career researchers in Arthuriana so do follow/circulate if that sounds interesting to you/people you know (and events to follow soon...)
January 8, 2025 at 4:25 PM
I'd be very grateful if anyone on here would be willing to help boost @iasecr.bsky.social! We're trying to put together a network of early career researchers in Arthuriana so do follow/circulate if that sounds interesting to you/people you know (and events to follow soon...)
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We are running our President’s Prize again this year, for the best paper delivered by a postgraduate student. Details on how to nominate are in your conference pack. The winner receives an award of £200 #BSECS2025 #18thC
January 8, 2025 at 11:15 AM
We are running our President’s Prize again this year, for the best paper delivered by a postgraduate student. Details on how to nominate are in your conference pack. The winner receives an award of £200 #BSECS2025 #18thC
Dosed up on Beechams and orange juice but ready to present my first paper as Dr Blaney at #BSECS2025. I’ll be talking about reading pedagogies in the SCR Parlour at 11.10 as part of Panel 7 along with @elementaladam.bsky.social, Dr Rachel Adcock & Joanna Yates
January 8, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Dosed up on Beechams and orange juice but ready to present my first paper as Dr Blaney at #BSECS2025. I’ll be talking about reading pedagogies in the SCR Parlour at 11.10 as part of Panel 7 along with @elementaladam.bsky.social, Dr Rachel Adcock & Joanna Yates
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For any scholar working on the 19th-c. press, a Curran Fellowship can be a big help. Everybody is eligible, and the application is blessedly straightforward. This year's deadline is next week: Wednesday, January 15. Recommendation letters due Jan 22. rs4vp.org/awards/curra... #19th-c
The Curran Fellowships – RSVP
The Curran Fellowships are travel and research grants intended to aid scholars studying British magazines and newspapers from the long nineteenth century in making use of primary print and archival so...
rs4vp.org
January 8, 2025 at 5:00 AM
For any scholar working on the 19th-c. press, a Curran Fellowship can be a big help. Everybody is eligible, and the application is blessedly straightforward. This year's deadline is next week: Wednesday, January 15. Recommendation letters due Jan 22. rs4vp.org/awards/curra... #19th-c
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Attending @bsecs.bsky.social 2025 this week?
Our Commissioning Editor in Early Modern History
@siobhanmup.bsky.social will be there to say hello👋
Here's our essential reading list of 18th-Century Studies titles from MUP... with a 30% discount! ⬇️
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2024/12...
Our Commissioning Editor in Early Modern History
@siobhanmup.bsky.social will be there to say hello👋
Here's our essential reading list of 18th-Century Studies titles from MUP... with a 30% discount! ⬇️
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2024/12...
January 7, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Attending @bsecs.bsky.social 2025 this week?
Our Commissioning Editor in Early Modern History
@siobhanmup.bsky.social will be there to say hello👋
Here's our essential reading list of 18th-Century Studies titles from MUP... with a 30% discount! ⬇️
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2024/12...
Our Commissioning Editor in Early Modern History
@siobhanmup.bsky.social will be there to say hello👋
Here's our essential reading list of 18th-Century Studies titles from MUP... with a 30% discount! ⬇️
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2024/12...
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The Royal Historical Society is a membership organisation with 6,500+ Fellows & Members, worldwide, representing the diversity of academic and professional history.
We welcome applications to join at any time with options for all career stages. Next closing date 24 March bit.ly/45lOzr0 #Skystorians
We welcome applications to join at any time with options for all career stages. Next closing date 24 March bit.ly/45lOzr0 #Skystorians
January 7, 2025 at 2:14 PM
The Royal Historical Society is a membership organisation with 6,500+ Fellows & Members, worldwide, representing the diversity of academic and professional history.
We welcome applications to join at any time with options for all career stages. Next closing date 24 March bit.ly/45lOzr0 #Skystorians
We welcome applications to join at any time with options for all career stages. Next closing date 24 March bit.ly/45lOzr0 #Skystorians
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Congratulations to Dr Rob Houghton on the publication of his new monograph with @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social! The Middle Ages in Computer Games is now available!
December 1, 2024 at 5:26 PM
Congratulations to Dr Rob Houghton on the publication of his new monograph with @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social! The Middle Ages in Computer Games is now available!
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Congratulations to Mary Bateman as her book, Arthurian Tradition, has won the 2024 Dhira B. Mahoney prize! 🎉 "We commend and congratulate Bateman for this fine work." - PRIZE COMMITTEE. https://buff.ly/4g8FDLE
December 4, 2024 at 5:13 PM
Congratulations to Mary Bateman as her book, Arthurian Tradition, has won the 2024 Dhira B. Mahoney prize! 🎉 "We commend and congratulate Bateman for this fine work." - PRIZE COMMITTEE. https://buff.ly/4g8FDLE
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The Guardian view on humanities in universities: closing English Literature courses signals a crisis
The Guardian view on humanities in universities: closing English Literature courses signals a crisis
With degrees disappearing and reading rates plummeting, the arts face a critical moment in education and culture
The announcement that Canterbury Christ Church University in Kent is to stop offering English literature degrees has set several hares…
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2024 at 6:21 PM
The Guardian view on humanities in universities: closing English Literature courses signals a crisis
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'The lack of teaching opportunities is particularly apparent among PGRs from an ethnic minority, with just 34 per cent of black, Asian or minority ethnic PGRs doing any teaching during their research degree compared with 41 per cent of white PGRs.' Link to report below. 2/2
Postgraduate researchers report high satisfaction despite the cost-of-living pressures | Advance HE
The 2024 Postgraduate Research Experience Survey (PRES) shows that 81% of PGRs are satisfied with their research degree programme.
www.advance-he.ac.uk
December 5, 2024 at 8:12 AM
'The lack of teaching opportunities is particularly apparent among PGRs from an ethnic minority, with just 34 per cent of black, Asian or minority ethnic PGRs doing any teaching during their research degree compared with 41 per cent of white PGRs.' Link to report below. 2/2
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'Only 37 per cent of PGRs say they have had the chance to teach or demonstrate, according to the survey, published on 5 December, which received responses from PGRs at 57 UK and four Australian universities.' 1/2
Teaching opportunities for PhDs dry up in university cash crisis
Barely one in three postgraduate researchers now have opportunity to teach, finds Advance HE survey, with financial pressure on institutions likely to blame
www.timeshighereducation.com
December 5, 2024 at 8:12 AM
'Only 37 per cent of PGRs say they have had the chance to teach or demonstrate, according to the survey, published on 5 December, which received responses from PGRs at 57 UK and four Australian universities.' 1/2
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“There are two dragons inside of you: One who loves knowledge, and one who loves trinkets. Both of them are happy when you go to a museum”
February 4, 2024 at 5:21 AM
“There are two dragons inside of you: One who loves knowledge, and one who loves trinkets. Both of them are happy when you go to a museum”
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They’ve released the Christmas Discourse Schedule! Lots to look forward to this year.
November 26, 2024 at 7:48 AM
They’ve released the Christmas Discourse Schedule! Lots to look forward to this year.
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There's still time to apply for a Bodleian Library Fellowship. This year for the first time one of them is in Polish Studies!
www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowsh...
www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowsh...
Visiting Fellowships at the Bodleian Libraries
www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
November 16, 2024 at 10:32 PM
There's still time to apply for a Bodleian Library Fellowship. This year for the first time one of them is in Polish Studies!
www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowsh...
www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowsh...
As usual, I went into this year’s #HiddenBooksGame with excitement. And, as usual, I have completed it with a string of expletives. Tearing my hair out doesn’t even do it justice. Well played, National Book Tokens, well played.
November 14, 2024 at 8:15 PM
As usual, I went into this year’s #HiddenBooksGame with excitement. And, as usual, I have completed it with a string of expletives. Tearing my hair out doesn’t even do it justice. Well played, National Book Tokens, well played.
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For any humanities scholars and professionals in the UK, this is worth looking at www.sas.ac.uk/research-eng...
Public Humanities Fellowship
Our Public Humanities Fellowship stimulates new ideas and conversations around public humanities.
www.sas.ac.uk
November 13, 2024 at 2:12 PM
For any humanities scholars and professionals in the UK, this is worth looking at www.sas.ac.uk/research-eng...
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Elizabeth and Cecil Kent Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the History Of Britain and the British World
University of Saskatchewan - Department of History #skystorians 🗃️ www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKO051/e...
University of Saskatchewan - Department of History #skystorians 🗃️ www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKO051/e...
Elizabeth and Cecil Kent Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the History Of Britain and the British World at University of Saskatchewan
Explore an exciting academic career as a Elizabeth and Cecil Kent Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the History Of Britain and the British World. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and ex...
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November 11, 2024 at 7:19 PM
Elizabeth and Cecil Kent Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the History Of Britain and the British World
University of Saskatchewan - Department of History #skystorians 🗃️ www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKO051/e...
University of Saskatchewan - Department of History #skystorians 🗃️ www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKO051/e...
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Looking for people to follow? Here’s a directory of 4,500 starter packs which you can search by keyword! blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...
All - Bluesky Directory
A curated collection of all things relating to the Blue Sky social media platform.
blueskydirectory.com
November 10, 2024 at 4:41 PM
Looking for people to follow? Here’s a directory of 4,500 starter packs which you can search by keyword! blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...
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Everyone can have a long century if they want. I'm not taking away people's pretty things. But the eighteenth century is the LONGEST and also the first out of the gate with this trick. We've got Milton; we've got Austen; even late Wordsworth. Gaze on our works and despair.
November 10, 2024 at 5:54 PM
Everyone can have a long century if they want. I'm not taking away people's pretty things. But the eighteenth century is the LONGEST and also the first out of the gate with this trick. We've got Milton; we've got Austen; even late Wordsworth. Gaze on our works and despair.