Elaine Mitchell
@elaineamitchell.bsky.social
PhD’er UniBirmingham. Unearthing gardening and horticulture in 18thC Birmingham. Book 📣 Gardens and Green Spaces in West Midlands since 1700, UniHertsPress.
Brrr!
🔔 We are recruiting! Job spec, salary details & how to apply here: buff.ly/q1SSXCM
ROLE: Ski Collections Cataloguer
FULL TIME: 37 hpw
DURATION: Fixed Term: 5 months
CLOSING DATE: 25-Nov-25
@dmu.ac.uk @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social @icshc.bsky.social @librarydmu.bsky.social @araukie.bsky.social
ROLE: Ski Collections Cataloguer
FULL TIME: 37 hpw
DURATION: Fixed Term: 5 months
CLOSING DATE: 25-Nov-25
@dmu.ac.uk @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social @icshc.bsky.social @librarydmu.bsky.social @araukie.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Brrr!
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#HRAExhibition #Christmas If you’re passing by the library over the next couple of months, why not pop up to Level 4 to take a look at our small, but perfectly formed display of Christmas related documents from our printed collections #LibraryofBham
November 12, 2025 at 5:02 PM
#HRAExhibition #Christmas If you’re passing by the library over the next couple of months, why not pop up to Level 4 to take a look at our small, but perfectly formed display of Christmas related documents from our printed collections #LibraryofBham
💥Opportunity @mrcwarwick.bsky.social.
🚨 Archive Job Alert 🚨
📜 Fancy working with our fantastic archive collections?
We're looking for a *new* MRC Manager to lead our service!
Could this be YOU?
Find out more about the role at warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...
More about the MRC at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...
📜 Fancy working with our fantastic archive collections?
We're looking for a *new* MRC Manager to lead our service!
Could this be YOU?
Find out more about the role at warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...
More about the MRC at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...
November 10, 2025 at 11:24 AM
💥Opportunity @mrcwarwick.bsky.social.
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PhD opportunity in plant developmental biology for UK based students of Black heritage!
How do they know when to grow up? Join us at the University of Bristol to find out.
Application deadline Jan 6th
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
#PlantSciencePhDs @blackinplantsci.bsky.social
How do they know when to grow up? Join us at the University of Bristol to find out.
Application deadline Jan 6th
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
#PlantSciencePhDs @blackinplantsci.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 10:37 AM
PhD opportunity in plant developmental biology for UK based students of Black heritage!
How do they know when to grow up? Join us at the University of Bristol to find out.
Application deadline Jan 6th
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
#PlantSciencePhDs @blackinplantsci.bsky.social
How do they know when to grow up? Join us at the University of Bristol to find out.
Application deadline Jan 6th
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
#PlantSciencePhDs @blackinplantsci.bsky.social
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Know someone who'd be interested?
🌿 Love nature and want to make a local impact?
Help lead our environmental work on the Lichfield & Hatherton Canals – protecting wildlife, shaping green spaces, and keeping nature at the heart of restoration. 🌱
lhcrt.org.uk/volunteer-op...
#TrusteesWeek
#TrusteeVacancy
#WeDigCanals
#Staffordshire
Help lead our environmental work on the Lichfield & Hatherton Canals – protecting wildlife, shaping green spaces, and keeping nature at the heart of restoration. 🌱
lhcrt.org.uk/volunteer-op...
#TrusteesWeek
#TrusteeVacancy
#WeDigCanals
#Staffordshire
November 7, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Know someone who'd be interested?
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🌱 Good afternoon, Mr Etty’s catalogue of heritage, rare & unusual seeds, together with his seed gift box catalogue are now available.
Please read the attached & then follow the link to obtain copies.
We would consider it a kindness if you would share this information.
bit.ly/thomasetty25...
Please read the attached & then follow the link to obtain copies.
We would consider it a kindness if you would share this information.
bit.ly/thomasetty25...
November 7, 2025 at 2:50 PM
🌱 Good afternoon, Mr Etty’s catalogue of heritage, rare & unusual seeds, together with his seed gift box catalogue are now available.
Please read the attached & then follow the link to obtain copies.
We would consider it a kindness if you would share this information.
bit.ly/thomasetty25...
Please read the attached & then follow the link to obtain copies.
We would consider it a kindness if you would share this information.
bit.ly/thomasetty25...
This is bonkers.🤣
November 6, 2025 at 9:56 PM
This is bonkers.🤣
Well I don’t think I saw this first time round. Enjoying eggs and onions with @lachlangoudie.bsky.social on BBC4.
November 6, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Well I don’t think I saw this first time round. Enjoying eggs and onions with @lachlangoudie.bsky.social on BBC4.
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General registration now open!
General registration is now open for our upcoming conference The Hand: Emotions, Embodiment and Identity at London College of Fashion, 8-9 January!
Visit our website to register: www.thevictorianhand.uk/conference
Visit our website to register: www.thevictorianhand.uk/conference
November 5, 2025 at 3:41 PM
General registration now open!
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The @bibsoc.bsky.social has advertised the 2026 round of grants for bibliographical research. Do have a peek!
Every year, The Bibliographical Society awards a number of major grants to those engaged in bibliographical research with primary focus on the physical object as historical evidence.
November 4, 2025 at 1:59 PM
The @bibsoc.bsky.social has advertised the 2026 round of grants for bibliographical research. Do have a peek!
Oh yes. More maps.
Looking forward to this exhibition after the industrial action over low pay at the British Library (supported by 98% of voting staff) ends on 9 November.
Secret Maps at the British Library reconsiders the lines that shape our world
Maps have always both granted power and threatened it, depending on who controls the data, the scale and the narrative.
theconversation.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Oh yes. More maps.
Well, this won't get the ironing done.
We've just added more historic Ordnance Survey maps of Ireland to our website. You can now compare first edition one-inch to the mile maps dating from the 1860s to 1870s with second edition maps published between 1898 and 1902. maps.nls.uk/os/one-inch-...
November 3, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Well, this won't get the ironing done.
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@catherinemax.bsky.social and I are convening a practitioner/policy/academic roundtable and discussion covering themes such as inclusion in public spaces. Also featuring the work of @draflint.bsky.social (who is speaking at the event) and myself as part of All Footsteps. Get in touch if interested!
Based in/near Newcastle? @drhick.bsky.social
and I convening a roundtable on 18th, exploring how signs, fences and barriers affect our experience of place. Inspired by my “Keep On the Grass" exhibition
now at the Farrell Centre.
Contact me if interested in participating.
and I convening a roundtable on 18th, exploring how signs, fences and barriers affect our experience of place. Inspired by my “Keep On the Grass" exhibition
now at the Farrell Centre.
Contact me if interested in participating.
November 3, 2025 at 10:14 AM
@catherinemax.bsky.social and I are convening a practitioner/policy/academic roundtable and discussion covering themes such as inclusion in public spaces. Also featuring the work of @draflint.bsky.social (who is speaking at the event) and myself as part of All Footsteps. Get in touch if interested!
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One of our Fellows has co-curated a fascinating exibition of Indian botanical art. Henry Noltie & Sita Reddy chose 52 drawings by Indian artists, and where possible identified the artists responsible.
'Flora Indica’ is on at the Sherwood Gallery, Kew until 12 April 2026.
Images © RBG Kew.
'Flora Indica’ is on at the Sherwood Gallery, Kew until 12 April 2026.
Images © RBG Kew.
November 2, 2025 at 11:05 AM
One of our Fellows has co-curated a fascinating exibition of Indian botanical art. Henry Noltie & Sita Reddy chose 52 drawings by Indian artists, and where possible identified the artists responsible.
'Flora Indica’ is on at the Sherwood Gallery, Kew until 12 April 2026.
Images © RBG Kew.
'Flora Indica’ is on at the Sherwood Gallery, Kew until 12 April 2026.
Images © RBG Kew.
Thanks to @fierengraw.bsky.social for reposting. Well worth a read on AI in academic publishing.
We need a critique of AI in academic publishing. Following my decision not to sign an AI addendum to my contract with Cambridge University Press, I wrote this short essay which is now out in the Dublin Review of Books.
👇
drb.ie/move-over-fo...
👇
drb.ie/move-over-fo...
Move over for AI - DRB
Katja Bruisch writes: I recently completed a scholarly monograph – an environmental, economic and energy history of peat in imperial and Soviet Russia. After years of thinking and writing, I approache...
drb.ie
October 30, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Thanks to @fierengraw.bsky.social for reposting. Well worth a read on AI in academic publishing.
💥New! CFP for Print, Printing and Industrial Heritage event to be held in Cornwall in 2026.
Print, Printing and Industrial Heritage — CPHC
Call for papers
www.cphc.org.uk
October 30, 2025 at 2:10 PM
💥New! CFP for Print, Printing and Industrial Heritage event to be held in Cornwall in 2026.
Beatrice Warde’s cat giving a bit of side eye there I think.
For National Cat Day in the U.S., we share the enthusiasm of Stanley Morison (pictured), the British typographer, scholar, & historian well known for his design of Times New Roman.
The photographer was Beatrice Warde, a scholar of #typography, teacher, & writer.
(AAP1224): https://bit.ly/3WEyScR
The photographer was Beatrice Warde, a scholar of #typography, teacher, & writer.
(AAP1224): https://bit.ly/3WEyScR
October 29, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Beatrice Warde’s cat giving a bit of side eye there I think.
Just been east of the M40. OMG. That’s a hard drive. 😩 Coming back different way to avoid M1 and HS2 works north of Leamington. Never been so glad to see signs for Oxford. In familiar territory at last at Cherwell Valley Services.😊
October 29, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Just been east of the M40. OMG. That’s a hard drive. 😩 Coming back different way to avoid M1 and HS2 works north of Leamington. Never been so glad to see signs for Oxford. In familiar territory at last at Cherwell Valley Services.😊
Oh god, someone please stop those two men talking across that woman non-stop. #newsnight
October 28, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Oh god, someone please stop those two men talking across that woman non-stop. #newsnight
Calling all you map enthusiasts out there.
Looking forward to this #Birmingham #LocalHistory talk by fellow enthusiast @jfredt.bsky.social
📅Thurs 13 November
🕰️7:00-8:00pm
💻Online
Free and open to all just register to receive link
📅Thurs 13 November
🕰️7:00-8:00pm
💻Online
Free and open to all just register to receive link
John Pigott Smith, Surveyor (1798-1861): Birmingham’s Answer to Bazalgette
John Townley explores the career of civil engineer John Pigott Smith, a man of many parts and Birmingham’s answer to Sir Joseph Bazalgette.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
October 28, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Calling all you map enthusiasts out there.
Watching sun rise over Cowper & Newton Museum in Olney through very dirty windows of my hotel. Not been on research trip for aeons. I have overpacked. And there are stairs. Steep stairs.
October 28, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Watching sun rise over Cowper & Newton Museum in Olney through very dirty windows of my hotel. Not been on research trip for aeons. I have overpacked. And there are stairs. Steep stairs.
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On Friday 21 November we host the 2025 RHS Anniversary Lecture given this year by Prof. Jane Ohlmeyer (Trinity College Dublin): bit.ly/48NJHR5
‘Visible | Invisible: Voices of Women in Early Modern Ireland‘
6pm, at Mary Ward House, London, and online. Booking now open and all welcome. #Skystotrians
‘Visible | Invisible: Voices of Women in Early Modern Ireland‘
6pm, at Mary Ward House, London, and online. Booking now open and all welcome. #Skystotrians
‘Visible | Invisible: Voices of Women in Early Modern Ireland‘: In Person
The Royal Historical Society's 2025 Anniversary Lecture with Professor Jane Ohlmeyer MRIA, FBA (Trinity College Dublin): IN PERSON BOOKING
bit.ly
October 27, 2025 at 10:34 AM
On Friday 21 November we host the 2025 RHS Anniversary Lecture given this year by Prof. Jane Ohlmeyer (Trinity College Dublin): bit.ly/48NJHR5
‘Visible | Invisible: Voices of Women in Early Modern Ireland‘
6pm, at Mary Ward House, London, and online. Booking now open and all welcome. #Skystotrians
‘Visible | Invisible: Voices of Women in Early Modern Ireland‘
6pm, at Mary Ward House, London, and online. Booking now open and all welcome. #Skystotrians
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One week to go to enter Midland History Prize!
There is still time to enter the Midland History essay prize
£400 first prize and opportunity to publish in a peer reviewed journal
Closing date for entries 31 October 🎃
#phd #ecr #postgrad
£400 first prize and opportunity to publish in a peer reviewed journal
Closing date for entries 31 October 🎃
#phd #ecr #postgrad
To enter the Midland History Essay Prize, the essay must be a genuine work of original research, not published or accepted for publication as an article or a chapter in an edited collection book. Max. 10,000 words, including footnotes, tables and figure captions (2/2)
More Details 👇
More Details 👇
October 24, 2025 at 7:25 AM
One week to go to enter Midland History Prize!