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Malcolm Noble
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Bibliographer & historian with broad interests, incl. business and economic hisotry, queer print, oral history, co-operative HE. he/him www.malcolmnoble.co.uk
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Hi! I am an economic and social historian with broad, interdisciplinary interests that need a thread. C19th local government finance, business history, co-operative education, and queer print are my principal preoccupations; there are others. 1/
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I’m co-chairing the program committee for the 4S conference in Toronto this year. Looking forward to seeing lots of submissions!
I'm co-chairing the Society for Social Studies of Science @4sweb.bsky.social Conference in Toronto, Oct 2026. #STS #scipol #innovation

Theme: "TechnoPower • Technoscientific Futures".

Open panel submissions portal is open! ls!

Deadline: 2nd February 2026

www.4sonline.org/about_the_co...
About the Conference
www.4sonline.org
January 14, 2026 at 4:46 PM
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Don't forget the deadline is looming for submitting proposals for the PrintNetworks/CPHC annual conference which this year is in Cornwall. The theme is Print, Printing and Industrial Heritage (surfboards welcome!) www.cphc.org.uk/updates/2025...
Print, Printing and Industrial Heritage — CPHC
Call for papers
www.cphc.org.uk
January 7, 2026 at 10:49 AM
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DELL EXEC: Consumers are “not buying based on AI. In fact I think AI probably confuses them more than it helps them understand a specific outcome."

@pcgamer.com #CES
www.pcgamer.com/hardware/del...
Dell seems to be the first to realise we don't actually care about AI PCs
"What we've learned over the course of this year, from a consumer perspective, is they're not buying based on AI."
www.pcgamer.com
January 6, 2026 at 11:26 PM
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Great.

Now someone is going to blow Boudica's trumpet, and who knows what will then happen.

www.bbc.com/news/article...
Thetford dig unearths Iron Age war trumpet and boar standard
The discoveries are "extraordinarily rare", say the archaeologists who helped find them.
www.bbc.com
January 7, 2026 at 9:54 AM
07:00 Uhr: Frühstück
09:00 Uhr: Zweites Frühstück
11:00 Uhr: Elf-Uhr-Imbiss
13:00 Uhr: Mitagessen
15:00 Uhr: Nachmittags-Tee
18:00 Uhr: Abendessen
21:00 Uhr: Nachtmahl
January 7, 2026 at 10:19 AM
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There we go. That there’s a headline.
Who’s who at X, the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter
A look inside Elon Musk’s big tent
www.ft.com
January 6, 2026 at 4:08 PM
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January 3, 2026 at 1:26 PM
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The Glasgow Corporation Lighting Department lamp base of 1902, at the entrance to the Botanic Gardens. Manufactured in Possilpark at the Saracen Foundry, and given a colourful makeover in 2025, there are now probably more of these in Halifax, Nova Scotia than in Glasgow.
January 3, 2026 at 10:37 AM
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“I’m a developer for a major food delivery app. The 'Priority Fee' and 'Driver Benefit Fee' go 100% to the company.

The driver sees $0 of it.”

www.reddit.com/r/confession...
January 2, 2026 at 9:36 PM
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Snowdrops illustrated by Frederick Edward Hulme for ‘The Garland of the Year, or, The Months: their poetry and flowers : with twelve chromographs of flowers, one for each month.’ London, 1873.

From my personal collection. ❄️

#FrederickEdwardHulme #LanguageofFlowers #chromolithograph #snowdrops
January 1, 2026 at 10:02 PM
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Happy New Year! We love sharing these pro-book posters from the Works Projects Administration Poster Collection in the Library's Prints and Photographs Division. Of the 2,000 WPA posters known to exist, the Library of Congress's collection of more than 900 is the largest.
January 1, 2026 at 11:00 AM
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Anyone interested in Wagner may like to know that tomorrow the German TV station 3Sat is showing all 4 parts of the Ring. Production from Zurich Opera 2024, Noseda conducing. Starts 8am UK time.
December 31, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Mind-bogglingly greedy acceptance of gifts of suits, mind-bogglingly evil schemes to take gold from refugees, mind-bogglingly inept policies on winter fuel and child support, &c &c. Rather, it speaks of some modicum of decency in at least some people; alas not in this government.
Mind bogglingly low.
December 31, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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The politics here are reprehensible but also really sad. He was a great scholar once. He had philological skills that no one has anymore. There are very few people who could produce that kind of work today. And to some extent, that's what this is about. He's mad that our field lost its former status
The reason this Harvard history professor decided he was done with one of the best and most privileged jobs in the world was, in his own words, because he was forced to lecture in a mask during peak Covid.

I’m not making this up.
December 31, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Dear Dutch historians, I'm trying to find Amsterdam price currents in the National Archives of the Republic of Indonesia. McCusker (1991) says that there are dozens of them, starting in 1734. I searched the website and did not find much, and what I did find I could not access. Any advice?
Digital Inventory :: Sejarah Nusantara
Digital Inventory
sejarah-nusantara.anri.go.id
December 27, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Guys guys guys, I found the archive of the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures (it's not an achievement, they've not hidden them) - you can watch every single one since they started televising them in the 60s:

www.rigb.org/christmas-le...

I love watching them every year, now I can see them all!
Watch the Royal Institution CHRISTMAS LECTURES archive
Watch all the Royal Institution CHRISTMAS LECTURES back to 1966, when the lectures were first televised.
www.rigb.org
December 30, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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graphic design is my passion
The San Francisco BallEEEEEEETTTT 's new logo
December 30, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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Well this is making me feel old
December 30, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Earlier in the year, we worked with the Incorporated Trades of Edinburgh who told the story of Edinburgh as a City of Industry, focused on the Incorporated Trades, an organisation which was established in the 1500s and still continues today.
Find out more on Our Town Stories -
zurl.co/YXnaV
December 30, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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'Rays of Language' expands horizons in #papyrological #linguistics and historical #sociolinguistics. Edited by Bentein and Vierros, the book offers a comprehensive analysis of #language used in the everyday written culture of the ancient #Mediterranean.

Read the #OAbook at: doi.org/10.33134/HUP...
December 29, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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They live in other young men, O kings,
December 29, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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CFP: Society for the Study of Measurement will be held at the University of Edinburgh
June 22-25, 2026. Submit proposals for papers, symposia, & poster on any topics in the theory, history, philosophy, & application of measurement by January 15, 2026 app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/80364...
#HPS
December 29, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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Our photographer Alex Kormann captured the exact moment the presses stopped for the last time in Minneapolis, ending a 158 history of locally printed newspapers.
December 28, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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As many of us begin Christmas meal prep, allow me to share the advice that my ER nurse sister puts in the chat every year:

A dropped knife has no handle. Jump away. Let it fall. You can pick it up and wash it.
December 24, 2025 at 6:31 PM
What a splendid prospect. I would feel obliged to add a slug of kirsch to those berries and a dribble of triple sec to the clementines to help the fruit keep overnight.
December 23, 2025 at 11:04 AM