Dr Kate Cook
@katexe.bsky.social
Academic working on Gender & Language in Greek tragedy, and the Ancient World in video games. Also a lot of women's cricket chat. Views all mine.
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We’ve edited a thing! Writing Game Histories is an accessible entry point to historical game studies, coming from Bloomsbury in 2026. Our contributors are a brilliant bunch of people who have worked with us through the HGN over the last few years. Check it out ⬇️⬇️
A project that started with a DiGRA23 workshop is finally, nearly out in the world! Coming May 2026 from Bloomsbury’s Writing History series, Writing Games Histories is a collection of essays on historical game studies methods&approaches. Find the ToC here:
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/writing-g...
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/writing-g...
Writing Game Histories
This book offers an accessible introduction to the dynamic intersection between history and games, and the flourishing discipline of Historical Game Studies. Fr…
www.bloomsbury.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:45 AM
We’ve edited a thing! Writing Game Histories is an accessible entry point to historical game studies, coming from Bloomsbury in 2026. Our contributors are a brilliant bunch of people who have worked with us through the HGN over the last few years. Check it out ⬇️⬇️
This is going to be such a great volume, can't wait to read it!
A project that started with a DiGRA23 workshop is finally, nearly out in the world! Coming May 2026 from Bloomsbury’s Writing History series, Writing Games Histories is a collection of essays on historical game studies methods&approaches. Find the ToC here:
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/writing-g...
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/writing-g...
Writing Game Histories
This book offers an accessible introduction to the dynamic intersection between history and games, and the flourishing discipline of Historical Game Studies. Fr…
www.bloomsbury.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:42 AM
This is going to be such a great volume, can't wait to read it!
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At some point I’ll do a thread that overviews the chapters in more detail, so watch this space. But for now, it is going to be an affordable(?!) academic textbook, and please ask your library to buy one!!
November 8, 2025 at 9:39 AM
At some point I’ll do a thread that overviews the chapters in more detail, so watch this space. But for now, it is going to be an affordable(?!) academic textbook, and please ask your library to buy one!!
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A project that started with a DiGRA23 workshop is finally, nearly out in the world! Coming May 2026 from Bloomsbury’s Writing History series, Writing Games Histories is a collection of essays on historical game studies methods&approaches. Find the ToC here:
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/writing-g...
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/writing-g...
Writing Game Histories
This book offers an accessible introduction to the dynamic intersection between history and games, and the flourishing discipline of Historical Game Studies. Fr…
www.bloomsbury.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:39 AM
A project that started with a DiGRA23 workshop is finally, nearly out in the world! Coming May 2026 from Bloomsbury’s Writing History series, Writing Games Histories is a collection of essays on historical game studies methods&approaches. Find the ToC here:
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/writing-g...
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/writing-g...
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You don't do the research, and you've nothing to offer elsewhere/on your CV anyway. It is really, repeatedly terrible for people in my position, and I don't know why UCU aren't engaging more with this.
November 7, 2025 at 10:03 AM
You don't do the research, and you've nothing to offer elsewhere/on your CV anyway. It is really, repeatedly terrible for people in my position, and I don't know why UCU aren't engaging more with this.
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The current REF system really encourages temporary staff to burn down their own careers - either you complete research because you need it for your CV, but an institution can claim any resulting outputs before making you redundant so you've nothing to take elsewhere, or...
November 7, 2025 at 10:03 AM
The current REF system really encourages temporary staff to burn down their own careers - either you complete research because you need it for your CV, but an institution can claim any resulting outputs before making you redundant so you've nothing to take elsewhere, or...
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If you are planning to attend CAA in Vienna and you have an #archaeogaming paper to present consider submitting in our #archaeogaming session! Deadline has been extended to November 9 so there are a few more days left!
November 6, 2025 at 7:27 PM
If you are planning to attend CAA in Vienna and you have an #archaeogaming paper to present consider submitting in our #archaeogaming session! Deadline has been extended to November 9 so there are a few more days left!
Good question - anyone on a REF panel or talking to a REF panel member who has...?
Was talking to a junior colleague about this exact problem yesterday. I wonder if REF panels (made up of experienced and secure academics) have considered this?
The current REF system really encourages temporary staff to burn down their own careers - either you complete research because you need it for your CV, but an institution can claim any resulting outputs before making you redundant so you've nothing to take elsewhere, or...
November 7, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Good question - anyone on a REF panel or talking to a REF panel member who has...?
The current REF system really encourages temporary staff to burn down their own careers - either you complete research because you need it for your CV, but an institution can claim any resulting outputs before making you redundant so you've nothing to take elsewhere, or...
November 7, 2025 at 10:03 AM
The current REF system really encourages temporary staff to burn down their own careers - either you complete research because you need it for your CV, but an institution can claim any resulting outputs before making you redundant so you've nothing to take elsewhere, or...
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🚨Research alert! 🚨The incredible @copperkeerthi.bsky.social is looking for people playing videogames about the past to help with their research! If you are such a gamer, please go fill in the survey!
hey y'all! my questionnaire on player experience in historical videogames is now LIVE! if you play videogames about the past, we want to hear from you! edu.nl/7w3yn
November 6, 2025 at 11:00 AM
🚨Research alert! 🚨The incredible @copperkeerthi.bsky.social is looking for people playing videogames about the past to help with their research! If you are such a gamer, please go fill in the survey!
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hey y'all! my questionnaire on player experience in historical videogames is now LIVE! if you play videogames about the past, we want to hear from you! edu.nl/7w3yn
November 6, 2025 at 10:35 AM
hey y'all! my questionnaire on player experience in historical videogames is now LIVE! if you play videogames about the past, we want to hear from you! edu.nl/7w3yn
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Tomorrow @apolitopoulos.bsky.social and @docrandom.bsky.social are back behind the streaming wheel with Europa Universalis V! Aris' brain will break, Angus will crunch, and history will be (re)played! Join us around 15:00 CET always on www.twitch.tv/streamingthepast
November 5, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Tomorrow @apolitopoulos.bsky.social and @docrandom.bsky.social are back behind the streaming wheel with Europa Universalis V! Aris' brain will break, Angus will crunch, and history will be (re)played! Join us around 15:00 CET always on www.twitch.tv/streamingthepast
After Monday's bright start, the rest of this week really should be renamed to "online meeting week" rather than "reading week."
November 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM
After Monday's bright start, the rest of this week really should be renamed to "online meeting week" rather than "reading week."
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I wrote about historical fiction and romantic visions of the past in this year's videogames. Read it below!
Ghost of Yotei, Assassin's Creed Shadows, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, and Mafia: The Old Country each, to different degrees, complicate our vision of the past.
Ghost Of Yotei And Other Historical Games Are Rewriting Old Myths
Ghost of Yotei, Assassin’s Creed Shadows, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, and Mafia: The Old Country each, to different degrees, complicate our vision of the past
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November 5, 2025 at 2:00 PM
I wrote about historical fiction and romantic visions of the past in this year's videogames. Read it below!
I've already mentioned this about translations, but putting together student bibliographies for my 'Drama & Democracy' course I can again really see just how varied scholarly attention to particular plays has been.
November 5, 2025 at 12:55 PM
I've already mentioned this about translations, but putting together student bibliographies for my 'Drama & Democracy' course I can again really see just how varied scholarly attention to particular plays has been.
Things I am trying to read *less* of this reading week: my emails.
November 3, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Things I am trying to read *less* of this reading week: my emails.
It's reading week! So I feel it's quite apt that I've spent today reading chapters for the Companion, reading game studies things for more introduction-writing, and now I'm about to read a bunch of scholarship on Aristophanes (topic switch) to prepare reading lists for the rest of the semester.
November 3, 2025 at 5:01 PM
It's reading week! So I feel it's quite apt that I've spent today reading chapters for the Companion, reading game studies things for more introduction-writing, and now I'm about to read a bunch of scholarship on Aristophanes (topic switch) to prepare reading lists for the rest of the semester.
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Months ago I gave a paper on Irish mythology in games, which was almost entirely a list of what games do wrong with the theme. Then comes @blakemanorgame.bsky.social, which does almost everything right.
What a joy of a historical game! Comhghairdeas leis an foireann ar fad ag Spooky Doorway!
What a joy of a historical game! Comhghairdeas leis an foireann ar fad ag Spooky Doorway!
November 3, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Months ago I gave a paper on Irish mythology in games, which was almost entirely a list of what games do wrong with the theme. Then comes @blakemanorgame.bsky.social, which does almost everything right.
What a joy of a historical game! Comhghairdeas leis an foireann ar fad ag Spooky Doorway!
What a joy of a historical game! Comhghairdeas leis an foireann ar fad ag Spooky Doorway!
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Before we at @contingent-mag.bsky.social do our Face/Off project in the new year, we want to try a few with editors as participants so we can get the wrinkles smoothed out.
Any contingent non-historian who studies women’s friendship (19th c US good but not required) want to try w/me? (it’s paid!)
Any contingent non-historian who studies women’s friendship (19th c US good but not required) want to try w/me? (it’s paid!)
November 2, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Before we at @contingent-mag.bsky.social do our Face/Off project in the new year, we want to try a few with editors as participants so we can get the wrinkles smoothed out.
Any contingent non-historian who studies women’s friendship (19th c US good but not required) want to try w/me? (it’s paid!)
Any contingent non-historian who studies women’s friendship (19th c US good but not required) want to try w/me? (it’s paid!)
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It would mean a huge amount to me if people looked through this thread, shared it, and (if you’re able) set up a monthly donation with the fund 💜
The Newham Solidarity Fund has officially been going for half a decade this October!
October 31, 2025 at 11:59 AM
It would mean a huge amount to me if people looked through this thread, shared it, and (if you’re able) set up a monthly donation with the fund 💜
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Breaking: Australia Women have lost a game of cricket! Australia women are out of the World Cup. This is not a drill! Looked easy as they rattled up 338 against hosts India, but Jemima Rodrigues' 127 led her team home in amazing style. Australia dropped her twice and paid the price. Fabulous! #CWC25
October 30, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Breaking: Australia Women have lost a game of cricket! Australia women are out of the World Cup. This is not a drill! Looked easy as they rattled up 338 against hosts India, but Jemima Rodrigues' 127 led her team home in amazing style. Australia dropped her twice and paid the price. Fabulous! #CWC25
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The Excavation of Hob's Barrow is a blood-curdling 55% off in the Steam Halloween sale!
A perfect time to play our folk horror adventure game inspired by movies such as The Wicker Man & the works of M.R. James, with a little pinch of Twin Peaks and Lovecraft.
store.steampowered.com/app/1182310/...
A perfect time to play our folk horror adventure game inspired by movies such as The Wicker Man & the works of M.R. James, with a little pinch of Twin Peaks and Lovecraft.
store.steampowered.com/app/1182310/...
October 28, 2025 at 12:49 PM
The Excavation of Hob's Barrow is a blood-curdling 55% off in the Steam Halloween sale!
A perfect time to play our folk horror adventure game inspired by movies such as The Wicker Man & the works of M.R. James, with a little pinch of Twin Peaks and Lovecraft.
store.steampowered.com/app/1182310/...
A perfect time to play our folk horror adventure game inspired by movies such as The Wicker Man & the works of M.R. James, with a little pinch of Twin Peaks and Lovecraft.
store.steampowered.com/app/1182310/...
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After being overlooked in 2022, and being dropped earlier in this edition, Jemimah Rodrigues sees India 341/5 (48.3) into the 2025 World Cup final.
Rodrigues 127* (134)
Harmanpreet Kaur 89 (88)
Garth 2-46
Sutherland 2-69
India win by 5 wickets.
#CWC25
icc-cricket.com/matches/2622...
Rodrigues 127* (134)
Harmanpreet Kaur 89 (88)
Garth 2-46
Sutherland 2-69
India win by 5 wickets.
#CWC25
icc-cricket.com/matches/2622...
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October 30, 2025 at 5:14 PM
After being overlooked in 2022, and being dropped earlier in this edition, Jemimah Rodrigues sees India 341/5 (48.3) into the 2025 World Cup final.
Rodrigues 127* (134)
Harmanpreet Kaur 89 (88)
Garth 2-46
Sutherland 2-69
India win by 5 wickets.
#CWC25
icc-cricket.com/matches/2622...
Rodrigues 127* (134)
Harmanpreet Kaur 89 (88)
Garth 2-46
Sutherland 2-69
India win by 5 wickets.
#CWC25
icc-cricket.com/matches/2622...