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Dr Corrina Readioff
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Literary detective & long 18th-centuryist. Honorary Research Associate at the University of Liverpool.
Currently working on early modern whales
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https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/people/corrina-readioff#tabbed-content
https://18thcparatext.wordpress
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bsecs.bsky.social
***DEADLINE EXTENSION TO THE 2 MARCH***
We are extending the deadline for applications for the #BSECS-BECC award to the 2 March.
£400 to support research using Birmingham's extensive #18thC resources held across the city

@unibirmingham.bsky.social #skystorians

www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/cen...
BECC-BSECS Postgraduate Fellowship - University of Birmingham
The Birmingham Eighteenth-Century Centre and the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies run an annual fellowship.
www.birmingham.ac.uk
February 4, 2026 at 9:13 AM
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npr.org
A Minneapolis knitting shop has resurrected the design of a Norwegian cap worn to protest Nazi occupation. Its owner says the money raised from hat pattern sales will support the local immigrant community. n.pr/4thWiUr
A red hat, inspired by a symbol of resistance to Nazi occupation, gains traction in Minnesota
A Minneapolis knitting shop has resurrected the design of a Norwegian cap worn to protest Nazi occupation. Its owner says the money raised from hat pattern sales will support the local immigrant community.
n.pr
January 31, 2026 at 10:14 AM
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stephanieseul.bsky.social
AI is killing the arts, academia, literature, music, photography, film and the internet. I wholeheartedly detest it.
3dfrost.bsky.social Frost || 3D Models & Reviews @3dfrost.bsky.social · Dec 16
I don't want gen AI in my browser
I don't want gen AI in my pc
I don't want gen AI in my art
I don't want gen AI in my games
I don't want gen AI in my music
I don't want gen AI in my movies
I don't want gen AI in my books
I don't want gen AI in my cart
I don't want gen AI in my life
January 27, 2026 at 10:21 PM
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earlymodjustice.bsky.social
The headlines in this article in the Economist (UK) are great—better than almost any newspaper in the US
The Economist → Weekly edition World in brief United States United States | Violence without consequence Another horrifying shooting by federal agents in Minneapolis What happens when armed men are given impunity
January 25, 2026 at 12:27 PM
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apnews.com
A German soccer federation executive committee member says it's time to consider a World Cup boycott because of the actions of U.S. President Donald Trump.
German soccer federation official wants World Cup boycott considered because of Trump
A German soccer federation executive committee member says it’s time to consider a World Cup boycott because of the actions of U.S. President Donald Trump.
bit.ly
January 23, 2026 at 10:00 PM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
Alex Pretti was an ICU nurse serving veterans. He died trying to protect protestors being assaulted. A group of anonymous & masked men fired chemicals into his face, beat him, disarmed him, and shot him in broad daylight in front of witnesses. Then his government smeared him & defended his murder.
picture of Alex Pretti
January 24, 2026 at 11:44 PM
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societyofauthors.bsky.social
We have made the decision to formally close our X social media account. Once a vibrant platform to promote the interests of authors, we feel X is no longer a trusted place for balance, community support, and reliable information.
January 20, 2026 at 10:00 AM
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londonmikmaq.bsky.social
I just chaired a discussion for BBC radio on The Last of the Mohicans, Indigenous futurities, and US settler colonialism with some awesome people, including academics and Indigenous authors, that should drop soon. Stay tuned! Related to this adaptation, which I advised in its early development.
BBC Radio 4 - Drama on 4, The Last of the Mohicans, Episode 1
American classic refreshed – adventures in love and war.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 6, 2026 at 8:12 PM
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purserhallard.com
We're calling for submissions to the Black Archive from disabled authors and authors of colour, who we know have been underrepresented in the range.

Please spread this as widely as you can, as we want it to reach as many eligible authors as possible. Thank you.

obversebooks.co.uk/blackarchive...
January 2, 2026 at 11:51 AM
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nothoodlum.bsky.social
Issa Rae has canceled her sold out performance at the Kennedy Center. Pulitzer Prize winner Rhiannon Giddens, Peter Wolf, Low Cut Connie, and the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, D.C., have also canceled. Lin-Manuel Miranda has canceled the entire Kennedy Center run of Hamilton.
December 28, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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jimalwine.bsky.social
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has stated that the 1918 flu pandemic was caused by a lab virus from vaccine research, a defective influenza vaccine. Let’s analyze what a lie this is. First, in 1918, 107 years ago, virology was in its infancy
December 27, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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bho.bsky.social
New in the Cambridge Elements series, and free to read and download until 15 January:

The London Foundling Hospital and Eighteenth-Century Objects of Charity
Recovering the Digital Archive
by Hilary E. Wyss.

www.cambridge.org/core/element...

#History #DigitalHistory
The London Foundling Hospital and Eighteenth-Century Objects of Charity
Cambridge Core - Evolutionary Biology - The London Foundling Hospital and Eighteenth-Century Objects of Charity
www.cambridge.org
December 22, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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marshslibrary.bsky.social
In our last blogpost of 2025, Maddock Research Fellow
Dr Zoë Van Cauwenberg @zvancauwenberg.bsky.social sheds light on some of the women authors and illustrators among the book owned by Benjamin Guinness, now part of our Benjamin Iveagh collection
marshlibrary.ie/between-the-...
Between the Bindings: Uncovering the Histories of Irish Women Writers - Marsh's Library
Zoë Van Cauwenberg uncovers some of the Irish women writers and illustrators in the Benjamin Iveagh collection.
marshlibrary.ie
December 19, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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lollardfish.bsky.social
THERE ARE NO JOBS IN ACADEMIA! NO JOBS! DOZENS OF HYPER QUALIFIED APPLICANTS PER JOB!
December 19, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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fierengraw.bsky.social
The British Library have a searchable interim Archives & Manuscripts Catalogues up & running: searcharchives.bl.uk
(posting for all the folks who, like me, had somehow managed to miss this important development)
British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue
searcharchives.bl.uk
December 15, 2025 at 12:37 PM
fierengraw.bsky.social
The British Library have a searchable interim Archives & Manuscripts Catalogues up & running: searcharchives.bl.uk
(posting for all the folks who, like me, had somehow managed to miss this important development)
British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue
searcharchives.bl.uk
December 15, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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dalegothic96.bsky.social
Do any Gothic people have access to a digital copy of the following text? Anon, _Phantoms of the cloister, or, The mysterious manuscript : a novel : in three volumes_, 1795. I'd be so grateful if anyone had this, and could email digital copies of the volumes to me.
December 15, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social
Oh heeeey. I've just seen that my two research articles on Mary Hamilton in this volume are now available via open access (pre-print versions) on @uoyopenres.bsky.social research repository! At time of initial skeeting, they were still embargoed. Go get 'em! (or, as ever, message me for PDFs). (1/3)
sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social Sophie Coulombeau @sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social · Nov 21
It's here! Our special issue of JECS (journal of @bsecs.bsky.social), a bumper vol of cutting-edge interdisciplinary research on 18c networks, gender, sociability & manuscript, deriving from @maryhamiltonpapers.bsky.social project. I'll be skeeting today about the contributions in turn...stay tuned!
maryhamiltonpapers.bsky.social Unlocking The Mary Hamilton Papers @maryhamiltonpapers.bsky.social · Nov 21
At last our special issue, JECS 48.4, is out, all 200+ pages of it! We're very proud of it. Thanks are due to many colleagues, but especially Nuria Yáñez-Bouza for proof-correcting heroics, and the general editor, Emrys Jones, for brilliant support throughout. #18thC #langsky
December 15, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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chanda.blacksky.app
AS A PROFESSOR, I AM ASKING

HOW ARE OUR STUDENTS SUPPOSED TO LEARN IN THESE CONDITIONS?

HOW ARE THEY SUPPOSED TO GO TO SCHOOL AND TAKE EXAMS KNOWING SOMEONE MIGHT JUST SHOW UP WITH AN EASY TO ACQUIRE AUTOMATIC WEAPON?

HOW??????????
joshuajfriedman.com Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · Dec 13
Longer statement from Brown University:

"We are very sorry to share that we have confirmed reports of multiple shooting victims, but we are not able to share their condition. They have been transported to local hospitals."
DECEMBER 13, 6:05PM: At 4:22 p.m., we alerted our campus to an active shooter incident near Barus & Holley Engineering. We informed our community to shelter in place by locking doors, silence phones and stay hidden until further notice. This remains an active crime scene, and law enforcement continues to search for the suspect. The situation is ongoing, and all members of the community should continue to shelter in place. We are very sorry to share that we have confirmed reports of multiple shooting victims, but we are not able to share their condition. They have been transported to local hospitals. Our first priority is the safety of our community and coordinating closely with local law enforcement and medical personnel to ensure their safety. We are working immediately to determine who was in the building at the time of the shooting. We had multiple exams scheduled in that building from 2 pm to 5 pm. We can confirm that support services are on site. Senior administrative leaders from across the university are convened in emergency command to mobilize ongoing response and support for our community. We are establishing support for our community and families. We have been and continue to be very grateful to law enforcement and emergency medical personnel. We have relocated students to get support services at a secure location. Please continue to take all steps to remain safe. Follow the instructions of law enforcement personnel and avoid the area.
December 13, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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tambourine.bsky.social
it’s St Lucy’s day, so you know what that means — time for the best John Donne poem
JOHN DONNE (1572-163I) A Nocturnall upon S. Lucies Day, Being the Shortest Day Tis the yeares midnight, and it is the dayes, Lucies, who scarce seaven houres herself unmaskes, The Sunne is spent, and now his flasks Send forth light squibs, no constant rayes; The worlds whole sap is sunke: The generall balme th'hydroptique earth hath drunk, Whither, as to the beds-feet life is shrunke, Dead and enterr'd; yet all these seeme to laugh, Compar'd with mee, who am their Epitaph. Study me then, you who shall lovers bee At the next world, that is, at the next Spring: For I am every dead thing, In whom love wrought new Alchimie. For his art did expresse A quintessence even from nothingnesse, From dull privations, and leane emptinesse, He ruin'd mee, and I am re-begot Of absence, darknesse, death; things which are not. All others, from all things, draw all that's good, Life, soule, forme, spirit, whence they beeing have, I, by loves limbecke, am the grave Of all, that's nothing. Oft a flood Have wee two wept, and so Drownd the whole world, us two; oft did we grow To be two Chaosses, when we did show Care to ought else; and often absences Withdrew our soules, and made us carcasses. But I am by her death, (which word wrongs her) Of the first nothing, the Elixer grown; Were I a man, that I were one, I needs must know, I should preferre, If I were any beast, Some ends, some means; Yea plants, yea stones detest, And love; All, all some properties invest, If I an ordinary nothing were, As shadow, a light, and body must be here. But I am None; nor will my Sunne renew. You lovers, for whose sake, the lesser Sunne At this time to the Goat is runne To fetch new lust, and give it you, Enjoy your summer all, Since shee enjoyes her long nights festivall, Let mee prepare towards her, and let mee call This houre her Vigill, and her Eve, since this Both the yeares, and the dayes deep midnight is.
December 13, 2025 at 12:22 PM
fierengraw.bsky.social
Strong contender here for world’s stupidest, most offensive and poorly considered definition of womanhood.

Anyone this ridiculously uneducated and thoughtless has no place being a fellow of the Royal Society.
December 13, 2025 at 4:02 PM
fierengraw.bsky.social
This is appalling.
If it doesn’t include trans women then it’s not including all women.
December 6, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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npr.org
Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered. n.pr/48HypvT
HHS changed the name of transgender health leader on her official portrait
Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered.
n.pr
December 5, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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boapublishing.bsky.social
We’ve grouped our primary source collections under historical themes! “Slavery and Abolition” contains 19 collections, totalling over 695,000 images. They document Britain’s involvement in transatlantic slavery and opposition to it.

Explore this theme at britishonlinearchives.com/themes/11/sl...
December 4, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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harrywallop.co.uk
Great culture can save lives. Literally.

Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard
December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM