Prof. Rich Firth-Godbehere FRHistS
@profrichfg.bsky.social
#Writer of Many Things from books to YouTube Scripts viewed by tens of millions.
Writing and Emo Intelligence #Consultant #History Of #Emotion Thinker, #Musician.
Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Humanities @Woxsen Uni.
Writing and Emo Intelligence #Consultant #History Of #Emotion Thinker, #Musician.
Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Humanities @Woxsen Uni.
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Many congratulations to my colleagues in the Forms of Labour project team on the publication of their new monograph! 🗃️👏🎉
Brilliantly, The Experience of Work in #EarlyModern England is available open access:
www.cambridge.org/core/books/e...
news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...
Brilliantly, The Experience of Work in #EarlyModern England is available open access:
www.cambridge.org/core/books/e...
news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...
A woman’s place was not in the home: New book challenges assumptions about women’s work in early modern history
New research has revealed that women played a fundamental role in the development of England’s national economy before 1700. Far from being the unpaid homemakers and housewives of traditional historic...
news.exeter.ac.uk
October 9, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Many congratulations to my colleagues in the Forms of Labour project team on the publication of their new monograph! 🗃️👏🎉
Brilliantly, The Experience of Work in #EarlyModern England is available open access:
www.cambridge.org/core/books/e...
news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...
Brilliantly, The Experience of Work in #EarlyModern England is available open access:
www.cambridge.org/core/books/e...
news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...
Yesterday I FINALLY finished writing my second book. I've been chipping away at it for nearly 3 years.
Today, I don't know what to do with myself.
Don't get me wrong - I have loads to do. But I don't know what to do with myself.
Today, I don't know what to do with myself.
Don't get me wrong - I have loads to do. But I don't know what to do with myself.
October 8, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Yesterday I FINALLY finished writing my second book. I've been chipping away at it for nearly 3 years.
Today, I don't know what to do with myself.
Don't get me wrong - I have loads to do. But I don't know what to do with myself.
Today, I don't know what to do with myself.
Don't get me wrong - I have loads to do. But I don't know what to do with myself.
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Fascinated by health and wellbeing? So were our medieval ancestors.
Curious Cures exhibition brings together texts, diagrams and case-notes from special collections cared for by Cambridge University Library
#histmed
Curious Cures exhibition brings together texts, diagrams and case-notes from special collections cared for by Cambridge University Library
#histmed
Curious Cures: Medicine in the Medieval World
Saturday 29 March – Saturday 6 December 2025 Monday – Friday 9am – 6:30pm Saturday 9am – 4:30pm Closed Sundays Booking is essential. Entry is FREE. Book your free exhibition tickets here Forthcoming
www.lib.cam.ac.uk
October 8, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Fascinated by health and wellbeing? So were our medieval ancestors.
Curious Cures exhibition brings together texts, diagrams and case-notes from special collections cared for by Cambridge University Library
#histmed
Curious Cures exhibition brings together texts, diagrams and case-notes from special collections cared for by Cambridge University Library
#histmed
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Something grimly predictable about the way that the conversation about 'ripoff degrees' in the UK is always about degrees that aren't rip-offs, but are instead fairly obvious 'this student has chosen something unlikely to pay off economically' rather than the short tail of crap business degrees:
Everyone needs educating in the fight over university degrees
Political confusion over the purpose of these institutions means the obvious fixes are being neglected
www.ft.com
October 8, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Something grimly predictable about the way that the conversation about 'ripoff degrees' in the UK is always about degrees that aren't rip-offs, but are instead fairly obvious 'this student has chosen something unlikely to pay off economically' rather than the short tail of crap business degrees:
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The reason the Right are so invested in the myth that the arts have no value isn’t because the arts don’t generate wealth (they do); it’s that studying the arts teaches people to imagine better ways of judging the value of an idea than by counting how much money it makes…
October 8, 2025 at 1:41 PM
The reason the Right are so invested in the myth that the arts have no value isn’t because the arts don’t generate wealth (they do); it’s that studying the arts teaches people to imagine better ways of judging the value of an idea than by counting how much money it makes…
Reformers: They took the winter fuel away. All our pensioners are good to freeze to death!
Labour u-turns on winter fuel payments.
Reformers: They can't do that! How are they going to pay for it? Tax more or magic money tree?
Reformers are simply contrarians. They aren't serious people.
Labour u-turns on winter fuel payments.
Reformers: They can't do that! How are they going to pay for it? Tax more or magic money tree?
Reformers are simply contrarians. They aren't serious people.
June 11, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Reformers: They took the winter fuel away. All our pensioners are good to freeze to death!
Labour u-turns on winter fuel payments.
Reformers: They can't do that! How are they going to pay for it? Tax more or magic money tree?
Reformers are simply contrarians. They aren't serious people.
Labour u-turns on winter fuel payments.
Reformers: They can't do that! How are they going to pay for it? Tax more or magic money tree?
Reformers are simply contrarians. They aren't serious people.
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I am in downtown Los Angeles right now and it is completely surreal to hear that Trump is sending Marines here. We are listening to mariachi music. People have dogs. There are teenagers here. It is utterly and completely peaceful. Please tell your friends.
June 9, 2025 at 9:28 PM
I am in downtown Los Angeles right now and it is completely surreal to hear that Trump is sending Marines here. We are listening to mariachi music. People have dogs. There are teenagers here. It is utterly and completely peaceful. Please tell your friends.
Funnily enough, I bought 3 bags of popcorn just yesterday.
June 6, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Funnily enough, I bought 3 bags of popcorn just yesterday.
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I urge all researchers interested in #emotion - or using facial expressions as emotive stimuli - to read this response paper 👇
by @lisafeldmanbarrett.com @eblissmoreau.bsky.social @jtheriault.bsky.social @katiehoemann.bsky.social & others
doi.org/10.1177/1745...
#neuroskyence #affectsci
by @lisafeldmanbarrett.com @eblissmoreau.bsky.social @jtheriault.bsky.social @katiehoemann.bsky.social & others
doi.org/10.1177/1745...
#neuroskyence #affectsci
The Theory of Constructed Emotion: More Than a Feeling - Lisa Feldman Barrett, Shir Atzil, Eliza Bliss-Moreau, Lorena Chanes, Maria Gendron, Katie Hoemann, Yuta Katsumi, Ian R. Kleckner, Kristen A. Li...
A recently published article by van Heijst et al. attempted to reconcile two research approaches in the science of emotion—basic emotion theory and the theory o...
doi.org
June 6, 2025 at 4:37 AM
I urge all researchers interested in #emotion - or using facial expressions as emotive stimuli - to read this response paper 👇
by @lisafeldmanbarrett.com @eblissmoreau.bsky.social @jtheriault.bsky.social @katiehoemann.bsky.social & others
doi.org/10.1177/1745...
#neuroskyence #affectsci
by @lisafeldmanbarrett.com @eblissmoreau.bsky.social @jtheriault.bsky.social @katiehoemann.bsky.social & others
doi.org/10.1177/1745...
#neuroskyence #affectsci
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New or forthcoming trade and academic releases by talented early modern/18th-century historians that I look forward to reading this summer.👇 Spread the word! @juliagaffield.bsky.social
@marcusrediker.bsky.social @kawulf.bsky.social
@marcusrediker.bsky.social @kawulf.bsky.social
June 3, 2025 at 1:31 PM
New or forthcoming trade and academic releases by talented early modern/18th-century historians that I look forward to reading this summer.👇 Spread the word! @juliagaffield.bsky.social
@marcusrediker.bsky.social @kawulf.bsky.social
@marcusrediker.bsky.social @kawulf.bsky.social
I'm at the point now where I think all Deep Fakes should simply be illegal and heavily monitored. Especially if they're political.
And I think political parties caught using bots, DF, or any of that should be threatened with jail terms.
And I think political parties caught using bots, DF, or any of that should be threatened with jail terms.
What the proliferation of Google Veo 3 will definitely do is further erode our belief in truth and falsity, in the distinction between real and unreal, and that they can be discerned with things like facts, people or places in photography, film or video.
These *realistic* videos could “fuel social unrest or violence”.
June 3, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I'm at the point now where I think all Deep Fakes should simply be illegal and heavily monitored. Especially if they're political.
And I think political parties caught using bots, DF, or any of that should be threatened with jail terms.
And I think political parties caught using bots, DF, or any of that should be threatened with jail terms.
I ordered a new tremolo ark for my guitar.
I do not think this is a tremolo arm.
I do not think this is a tremolo arm.
May 14, 2025 at 9:29 AM
I ordered a new tremolo ark for my guitar.
I do not think this is a tremolo arm.
I do not think this is a tremolo arm.
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It's tough to overstate just how shockingly unusual an article like this is. Despite the fact that this is the response of the vast, vast majority of neighbours for both wind and solar farms, they are mostly erased from existence in coverage of attitudes of neighbours to utility-scale renewables
The BBC spoke to locals near a big English solar farm and found the panels “do not really bother them” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
What is life like living the shadow of Ashby's solar farms? - BBC News
Residents of Ashby-de-la-Zouch offer mixed views on the fields of solar panels surrounding the town.
www.bbc.co.uk
May 6, 2025 at 9:32 AM
It's tough to overstate just how shockingly unusual an article like this is. Despite the fact that this is the response of the vast, vast majority of neighbours for both wind and solar farms, they are mostly erased from existence in coverage of attitudes of neighbours to utility-scale renewables
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Our book has now appeared, a bit ahead of schedule. Its in Open Access, meaning the chapters are all free to download either as epub or pdf from this link. I’ll put a thread together on what the individual chapters are about.
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
May 6, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Our book has now appeared, a bit ahead of schedule. Its in Open Access, meaning the chapters are all free to download either as epub or pdf from this link. I’ll put a thread together on what the individual chapters are about.
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
Being 2026, I'm used to reading painfully stupid things in the Tory client media.
But this one is especially special.
But this one is especially special.
Telegraph reading mother-in-law just sent me this and obviously I'm now filled with a fiery rage 🤣 who is this absolute imbecile writing this www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/07bc05f...
This must be Britain’s most ungrateful profession
Unjustified complaints from those paid to pursue their passions are ceaseless
www.telegraph.co.uk
May 5, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Being 2026, I'm used to reading painfully stupid things in the Tory client media.
But this one is especially special.
But this one is especially special.
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Funding for teaching innovation: applications are now invited for the Society's Jinty Nelson Teaching Fellowships, 2025-26 bit.ly/4cg7wid
Fellowships support new projects and teaching practices, with funding of up to £1250 per award. Closing date for applications: 11 July 2025, 1/2 #Skystorians
Fellowships support new projects and teaching practices, with funding of up to £1250 per award. Closing date for applications: 11 July 2025, 1/2 #Skystorians
May 5, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Funding for teaching innovation: applications are now invited for the Society's Jinty Nelson Teaching Fellowships, 2025-26 bit.ly/4cg7wid
Fellowships support new projects and teaching practices, with funding of up to £1250 per award. Closing date for applications: 11 July 2025, 1/2 #Skystorians
Fellowships support new projects and teaching practices, with funding of up to £1250 per award. Closing date for applications: 11 July 2025, 1/2 #Skystorians
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New publication claxon: Lauren Mancia on Embodied Epistemology as Rigorous Historical Method, in the Cambridge Elements Series on Histories of Emotions and the Senses. This is *free* to download till May 19. Go get it!
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Embodied Epistemology as Rigorous Historical Method
Cambridge Core - History of Ideas and Intellectual History - Embodied Epistemology as Rigorous Historical Method
www.cambridge.org
May 5, 2025 at 8:31 AM
New publication claxon: Lauren Mancia on Embodied Epistemology as Rigorous Historical Method, in the Cambridge Elements Series on Histories of Emotions and the Senses. This is *free* to download till May 19. Go get it!
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
An older friend of mine recently claimed that no other generation has come up with their own language and words like this one does. He seemed angry about it.
I said, "Chill. Don't be a bad cat, daddy-o. It's totally far out, you dig?"
I said, "Chill. Don't be a bad cat, daddy-o. It's totally far out, you dig?"
April 13, 2025 at 10:28 AM
An older friend of mine recently claimed that no other generation has come up with their own language and words like this one does. He seemed angry about it.
I said, "Chill. Don't be a bad cat, daddy-o. It's totally far out, you dig?"
I said, "Chill. Don't be a bad cat, daddy-o. It's totally far out, you dig?"
I just took a quick peak at my Threads account.
Yikes.
Yikes.
April 9, 2025 at 8:26 PM
I just took a quick peak at my Threads account.
Yikes.
Yikes.
Zazzy Rascalface's annual vet trip.
If she owned a harmonica, she'd be playing it.
If she owned a harmonica, she'd be playing it.
March 28, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Zazzy Rascalface's annual vet trip.
If she owned a harmonica, she'd be playing it.
If she owned a harmonica, she'd be playing it.
Hello wonderful persons.
Long shot, but does anyone I know know how you navigate at sea using the stars and want to help me write a script?
It's for a YouTube maritime channel that likes all the technical nerdy details you can throw at it.
Long shot, but does anyone I know know how you navigate at sea using the stars and want to help me write a script?
It's for a YouTube maritime channel that likes all the technical nerdy details you can throw at it.
March 28, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Hello wonderful persons.
Long shot, but does anyone I know know how you navigate at sea using the stars and want to help me write a script?
It's for a YouTube maritime channel that likes all the technical nerdy details you can throw at it.
Long shot, but does anyone I know know how you navigate at sea using the stars and want to help me write a script?
It's for a YouTube maritime channel that likes all the technical nerdy details you can throw at it.
Zazzy trying to demonstrate that Elon really was making a Nazi salute.
March 10, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Zazzy trying to demonstrate that Elon really was making a Nazi salute.
It's so ironic that Bezos has said the WSJ opinions section is to advocate for freedom of speech, but only the speech he feels for.
So you have to be a pillock to be a billionaire, I wonder?
So you have to be a pillock to be a billionaire, I wonder?
March 2, 2025 at 8:36 AM
It's so ironic that Bezos has said the WSJ opinions section is to advocate for freedom of speech, but only the speech he feels for.
So you have to be a pillock to be a billionaire, I wonder?
So you have to be a pillock to be a billionaire, I wonder?
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The Ukrainian government has a list of places where you can donate to the war effort here. I personally just donated $100: war.ukraine.ua/donate/
Slava Ukraini.
Slava Ukraini.
Donate to Ukraine’s defenders
The National Bank of Ukraine has decided to open a special fundraising account to support the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
war.ukraine.ua
February 28, 2025 at 7:26 PM
The Ukrainian government has a list of places where you can donate to the war effort here. I personally just donated $100: war.ukraine.ua/donate/
Slava Ukraini.
Slava Ukraini.
I'm starting to feel like Europe is a sleeping giant that badly needs to wake up.
March 1, 2025 at 11:19 AM
I'm starting to feel like Europe is a sleeping giant that badly needs to wake up.