Pam Lock
@pamplemoussepam.bsky.social
Sen Lecturer, Eng Lit, Bristol Uni. I research alcohol in 19th C. Co-dir. Drinking Studies Network; Co-I on NCN-funded women & alcohol project (http://www.womenandalcohol.net)
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Pam Lock
@pamplemoussepam.bsky.social
· Nov 29
My brilliant friend, Jules, created this video for me if my @britishlibrary.bsky.social book, Dead Drunk, in their bookshop last year and I had to share it on here
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We are running our short course on Crime Fiction again in 2026. 8 weeks of evening classes @bristoluni.bsky.social. Join 8 university tutors sharing some of their favourite cold cases in detective fiction in an accessible but intellectually stimulating way:
www.bristol.ac.uk/.../detectiv...
www.bristol.ac.uk/.../detectiv...
www.bristol.ac.uk
December 17, 2025 at 11:55 AM
We are running our short course on Crime Fiction again in 2026. 8 weeks of evening classes @bristoluni.bsky.social. Join 8 university tutors sharing some of their favourite cold cases in detective fiction in an accessible but intellectually stimulating way:
www.bristol.ac.uk/.../detectiv...
www.bristol.ac.uk/.../detectiv...
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I'm keen to speak with any creatives who have lost work because of generative AI, for something I'm writing.
If this is you, please DM me. Thank you!
If this is you, please DM me. Thank you!
December 17, 2025 at 10:29 AM
I'm keen to speak with any creatives who have lost work because of generative AI, for something I'm writing.
If this is you, please DM me. Thank you!
If this is you, please DM me. Thank you!
We are running our short course on Crime Fiction again in 2026. 8 weeks of evening classes @bristoluni.bsky.social. Join 8 university tutors sharing some of their favourite cold cases in detective fiction in an accessible but intellectually stimulating way:
www.bristol.ac.uk/.../detectiv...
www.bristol.ac.uk/.../detectiv...
www.bristol.ac.uk
December 17, 2025 at 11:55 AM
We are running our short course on Crime Fiction again in 2026. 8 weeks of evening classes @bristoluni.bsky.social. Join 8 university tutors sharing some of their favourite cold cases in detective fiction in an accessible but intellectually stimulating way:
www.bristol.ac.uk/.../detectiv...
www.bristol.ac.uk/.../detectiv...
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Just out of interest... Who among those of you researching and writing about beer and pubs has a talk or two in your arsenal? We've got our 30-minute bit on the 20th century pubs of Bristol, for example.
December 13, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Just out of interest... Who among those of you researching and writing about beer and pubs has a talk or two in your arsenal? We've got our 30-minute bit on the 20th century pubs of Bristol, for example.
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JOB KLAXON!
CHAIR IN CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN HISTORY AT @ox.ac.uk: please publicize!
Eleanor Rathbone Professor of Contemporary European History
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
CHAIR IN CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN HISTORY AT @ox.ac.uk: please publicize!
Eleanor Rathbone Professor of Contemporary European History
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
Job Details
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December 8, 2025 at 5:20 PM
JOB KLAXON!
CHAIR IN CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN HISTORY AT @ox.ac.uk: please publicize!
Eleanor Rathbone Professor of Contemporary European History
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
CHAIR IN CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN HISTORY AT @ox.ac.uk: please publicize!
Eleanor Rathbone Professor of Contemporary European History
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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If you teach histories of British slavery, don't miss this Thursday's book launch and talk: Teaching Slavery: New Approaches to Britain's Colonial Past, IHR, London 11 December & on Zoom. 5:30pm. Registration details are below and a link to the open access book in post 2/2. This post is 1/2.
Book talk: Teaching Slavery: New Approaches to Britain’s Colonial Past
www.history.ac.uk
December 9, 2025 at 10:27 AM
If you teach histories of British slavery, don't miss this Thursday's book launch and talk: Teaching Slavery: New Approaches to Britain's Colonial Past, IHR, London 11 December & on Zoom. 5:30pm. Registration details are below and a link to the open access book in post 2/2. This post is 1/2.
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Tomorrow we make our final Visit of 2025: to historians
@lshtm.bsky.social and @ioe.bsky.social.
Our focus is on working as a historian outside 'traditional' history departments - something that's increasingly common. The RHS welcomes historians to join us, wherever they work bit.ly/3KBcnTy 1/2
@lshtm.bsky.social and @ioe.bsky.social.
Our focus is on working as a historian outside 'traditional' history departments - something that's increasingly common. The RHS welcomes historians to join us, wherever they work bit.ly/3KBcnTy 1/2
December 9, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Tomorrow we make our final Visit of 2025: to historians
@lshtm.bsky.social and @ioe.bsky.social.
Our focus is on working as a historian outside 'traditional' history departments - something that's increasingly common. The RHS welcomes historians to join us, wherever they work bit.ly/3KBcnTy 1/2
@lshtm.bsky.social and @ioe.bsky.social.
Our focus is on working as a historian outside 'traditional' history departments - something that's increasingly common. The RHS welcomes historians to join us, wherever they work bit.ly/3KBcnTy 1/2
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I have already been quoted and referenced with hallucinated literature, and you all will be too. It’s a growing mess.
“AI models not only point some users to false sources but also cause problems for researchers and librarians, who end up wasting their time looking for requested nonexistent records…”
AI Slop Is Spurring Record Requests for Imaginary Journals
The International Committee of the Red Cross warned that artificial intelligence models are making up research papers, journals and archives
www.scientificamerican.com
December 9, 2025 at 7:28 AM
I have already been quoted and referenced with hallucinated literature, and you all will be too. It’s a growing mess.
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CFP: Clio Reframed: Women Writing History, 1500–1750
Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, 18th–19th June 2026. Deadline: 28 February 2026
Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, 18th–19th June 2026. Deadline: 28 February 2026
December 6, 2025 at 1:50 PM
CFP: Clio Reframed: Women Writing History, 1500–1750
Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, 18th–19th June 2026. Deadline: 28 February 2026
Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, 18th–19th June 2026. Deadline: 28 February 2026
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What looks like an alien starship visiting a small country estate in eighteenth-century Germany is in fact, *checks notes* a giant pomelo. So nothing to see here, #skystorians
December 5, 2025 at 11:32 AM
What looks like an alien starship visiting a small country estate in eighteenth-century Germany is in fact, *checks notes* a giant pomelo. So nothing to see here, #skystorians
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
I'm talking about spontaneous human combustion again next year, this time at the wonderful and atmospheric @arnosvalecemetery.bsky.social . Join us on 18 March if you want to learn more about what the victorian's thought about this phenomenon and what it taught them
arnosvale.org.uk/spontaneous-...
arnosvale.org.uk/spontaneous-...
Did Victorians believe heavy drinking caused Spontaneous Human Combustion? Online and in-person talk - Arnos Vale
Dr. Pam Lock from the University of Bristol will share insights on Victorian beliefs about spontaneous human combustion.
arnosvale.org.uk
December 3, 2025 at 10:24 AM
I'm talking about spontaneous human combustion again next year, this time at the wonderful and atmospheric @arnosvalecemetery.bsky.social . Join us on 18 March if you want to learn more about what the victorian's thought about this phenomenon and what it taught them
arnosvale.org.uk/spontaneous-...
arnosvale.org.uk/spontaneous-...
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The Victorian Commons team are looking forward to hearing this paper and congratulating Dr Wilson on her recent PhD!
Tonight Helen Wilson will speak at a joint session of the IHR’s Parliaments, Politics and People and British History in the Long 18th Century seminars, discussing her paper on 'Reconstructing Black Participation in British Politics, 1750-1850'.
You can attend online or in-person:
You can attend online or in-person:
Black and Political: Reconstructing Black Participation in British Politics, 1750-1850
Please enable JavaScript in your web browser to get the best experience.
www.history.ac.uk
December 3, 2025 at 10:12 AM
The Victorian Commons team are looking forward to hearing this paper and congratulating Dr Wilson on her recent PhD!
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Last week I went on a 'research walk', a new thing for me. I was attempting to 'beat the bounds' of the parish of Portishead, which is the central case study in my current book project about everyday life in 17th century villages. A good start; it was a dry day... 🧵
December 2, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Last week I went on a 'research walk', a new thing for me. I was attempting to 'beat the bounds' of the parish of Portishead, which is the central case study in my current book project about everyday life in 17th century villages. A good start; it was a dry day... 🧵
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*goes to a natural history museum and holds up a bouquet to an Allosaurus skeleton so they can finally see some flowers*
I don’t know a lot.
But I know a lot about dinosaurs.
Now we all know dinosaurs lived for millions of years right?
But does you mind actually wrap around how long they dominated for?
Lets get a little perspective.
Did you know Allosaurus never saw flowers but T.rex did?
But I know a lot about dinosaurs.
Now we all know dinosaurs lived for millions of years right?
But does you mind actually wrap around how long they dominated for?
Lets get a little perspective.
Did you know Allosaurus never saw flowers but T.rex did?
November 29, 2025 at 11:28 PM
*goes to a natural history museum and holds up a bouquet to an Allosaurus skeleton so they can finally see some flowers*
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The Deansgate Temperance Hotel in Manchester opened at the end of 1895 and survived until 1940, when it was destroyed by enemy action.
It features in 'Temperance Lives: Life Assurance, Drink and Medicine in Britain, 1840–1918' (Bloomsbury, 2025) as part of a tour of temperance Manchester... 1/4
It features in 'Temperance Lives: Life Assurance, Drink and Medicine in Britain, 1840–1918' (Bloomsbury, 2025) as part of a tour of temperance Manchester... 1/4
November 27, 2025 at 4:16 PM
The Deansgate Temperance Hotel in Manchester opened at the end of 1895 and survived until 1940, when it was destroyed by enemy action.
It features in 'Temperance Lives: Life Assurance, Drink and Medicine in Britain, 1840–1918' (Bloomsbury, 2025) as part of a tour of temperance Manchester... 1/4
It features in 'Temperance Lives: Life Assurance, Drink and Medicine in Britain, 1840–1918' (Bloomsbury, 2025) as part of a tour of temperance Manchester... 1/4
Lovely retreat today of the new ND PGR group at Bristol. Thanks to Kat Nelms for the invitation and hope to do more soon.
a cartoon cat is sitting at a desk with a computer and a clock
Alt: Blue cat typing in a happy bouncy way
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November 27, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Lovely retreat today of the new ND PGR group at Bristol. Thanks to Kat Nelms for the invitation and hope to do more soon.
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*small embarrassed voice*
A little plug for my article on Devon book sales c. 1700, which has gone online open access. tl;dr book auctions weren't just a London/Oxbridge thing: a flourishing second-hand book market centred on Exeter included auctions from the 1680s.
doi.org/10.1093/libr...
A little plug for my article on Devon book sales c. 1700, which has gone online open access. tl;dr book auctions weren't just a London/Oxbridge thing: a flourishing second-hand book market centred on Exeter included auctions from the 1680s.
doi.org/10.1093/libr...
A Provincial Market in Second-Hand Books: Book Sales in Devon, 1688–1725
Abstract. Comparatively little is known about England’s early book-auction trade outside of London and the university towns, with few catalogues surviving
doi.org
November 27, 2025 at 9:31 AM
*small embarrassed voice*
A little plug for my article on Devon book sales c. 1700, which has gone online open access. tl;dr book auctions weren't just a London/Oxbridge thing: a flourishing second-hand book market centred on Exeter included auctions from the 1680s.
doi.org/10.1093/libr...
A little plug for my article on Devon book sales c. 1700, which has gone online open access. tl;dr book auctions weren't just a London/Oxbridge thing: a flourishing second-hand book market centred on Exeter included auctions from the 1680s.
doi.org/10.1093/libr...
Final session of my 19th C unit for my brilliant mature students tonight so thought I'd dress as a Victorian heroine to entertain them. Its been such a blast to teach these brilliant students and awaken a new love of Victorian fiction in (most of) them. Finishing with Dracula so trying Mina vibes.
November 26, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Final session of my 19th C unit for my brilliant mature students tonight so thought I'd dress as a Victorian heroine to entertain them. Its been such a blast to teach these brilliant students and awaken a new love of Victorian fiction in (most of) them. Finishing with Dracula so trying Mina vibes.
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Adorable ancient little guy alert! 🦔 #DHmakes
Part 218 of 200 in historically interesting things to inspire your ttrpg dnd
Ceramic hedgehog dated to the Neolithic period found at the Hamin archaeological site near Shebotu Town in Inner Mongolia, China
Ceramic hedgehog dated to the Neolithic period found at the Hamin archaeological site near Shebotu Town in Inner Mongolia, China
November 22, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Adorable ancient little guy alert! 🦔 #DHmakes
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Job alert! 🚨 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Edinburgh Uni to work w/a team of historians on a new project, Voices in Slavery's Archive: Law, Place and Testimony in British Guiana, which will build a digital archive out of the recorded words of enslaved people. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPN147/p...
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at The University of Edinburgh
Discover an exciting academic career path as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!
www.jobs.ac.uk
November 24, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Job alert! 🚨 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Edinburgh Uni to work w/a team of historians on a new project, Voices in Slavery's Archive: Law, Place and Testimony in British Guiana, which will build a digital archive out of the recorded words of enslaved people. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPN147/p...
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Do I know anyone on here who went to a British boys boarding school -preferably the elite kind- within the last 20 years? If that doesn't describe you then retweet this until somebody it does describe sees this.
November 24, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Do I know anyone on here who went to a British boys boarding school -preferably the elite kind- within the last 20 years? If that doesn't describe you then retweet this until somebody it does describe sees this.
If you are based in Brighton/Bevendean and want something warm on this cold evening, go and try a delicious spud from my brother in law's new van. Details and more info here: www.rathergoodspud.co.uk/new-page
Please share (and enjoy).
Please share (and enjoy).
November 21, 2025 at 3:57 PM
If you are based in Brighton/Bevendean and want something warm on this cold evening, go and try a delicious spud from my brother in law's new van. Details and more info here: www.rathergoodspud.co.uk/new-page
Please share (and enjoy).
Please share (and enjoy).
Is it just me or does the diaeresis above Brontë look like that little celebration emoji with confetti? I'm proof reading something today with lots of Brontës in it, and it keeps making me see those little bursts of confetti somehow 🎉 🎉 🎉
November 21, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Is it just me or does the diaeresis above Brontë look like that little celebration emoji with confetti? I'm proof reading something today with lots of Brontës in it, and it keeps making me see those little bursts of confetti somehow 🎉 🎉 🎉
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in the unlikely event anyone knows of academic work on Jewish brothel-keepers in Georgian London through to the early Victorian period, please let me know.
November 21, 2025 at 3:32 PM
in the unlikely event anyone knows of academic work on Jewish brothel-keepers in Georgian London through to the early Victorian period, please let me know.