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Charlotte Mathieson
@cemathieson.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in 19th Century English Literature, University of Surrey.
Victorian lit, mobilities, & skin studies.
Co-ed. Palgrave Studies in Mobilities, Literature & Culture. She/her
https://charlottemathieson.wordpress.com
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6 Apr 1619: George Abbot, Archbishop of #Canterbury lays the foundation stone of The Hospital of the Blessed Trinity, now better known as Abbot's Hospital at #Guildford #otd (Jack1956/NPG)
April 6, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Our keynotes are @cemathieson.bsky.social (University of Surrey) on ‘From “seaside girls” to “the sun-tanning crowd”: Cultures of Suntanning in Britain, c.1900-1940’ and Professor Sam Goodman (@bournemouthuni.bsky.social ) on 'Wishful Drinking?: Alcohol, Medicine and Wellbeing, Past and Present'
March 31, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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The programme is now up and registration is now open for our Literatures & Medicines Online Symposium (April 23 2025)--please check it out and sign up! www.litsampersand.org/literatures-...

#medicalhumanities #literature #onlineevent @bournemouthuni.bsky.social
Literatures & Medicines 2025 — Literatures &
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March 31, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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We're delighted to announce that applications for the 2025-26 BARS/BAVS Nineteenth-Century Matters Fellowship are now open!

Deadline for applications: Monday 12 May 2025.

We look forward to hearing from you!
March 13, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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My piece for History Workshop looks back at what feels, I'm sure to me and so many other academics in the UK, like a decade-long crisis in universities. A crisis of politics, of a particularly venomous form of "education as market" ideology, and now a crisis of desperate, annihilating job cuts. 1/2
March 13, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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Things are dire. But the Royal Historical Society is still funding postgraduate research. Next deadline is 6 June 2025. Grants of £500 or £1,000 available. Details: royalhistsoc.org/research_fun...
Postgraduate Research Support Grants | RHS
royalhistsoc.org
March 13, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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REF2029: concerns about the implications of decoupling | The English Association : Please read this important joint letter we have written (on behalf of us, our chair @jennyrichards.bsky.social ) along with @ies-sas.bsky.social & @univeng.bsky.social
englishassociation.ac.uk/ref2029-conc...
REF2029: concerns about the implications of decoupling | The English Association
We support the teaching, learning, and enjoyment of English at all levels of education, from early years to further and higher education and beyond.
englishassociation.ac.uk
March 7, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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A reminder that next week you can hear me talk about the smell history of Glasgow’s subway online or in person at the IHR!
COMING SOON!

The next @ihr.bsky.social Transport & Mobility History seminar:

Underground-Overground: The Heritage Smell of the Glasgow Subway
@willtullett.bsky.social (York)

13 Mar 2025, 17.30 UK, hybrid

#Railway200

Booking free - all welcome:
https://buff.ly/3PzKoCG
March 5, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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Check out the ADM8 Database that @sarahspa.bsky.social and I have been working on together. We're getting very close to having all the deployment reports live. Maybe tomorrow.

If you know anybody who is working on/researching the Royal Navy between 1673-1691, let them know about this database.
The Deployment Reports for

1683-11-01 ADM 8/1 f164R
1690-05-01 ADM 8/2 pp 62-67
1690-06-01 ADM 8/2 pp 74-79
1690-07-01 ADM 8/2 pp 80-85
1690-08-01 ADM 8/2 pp 86-91

Have been made live.

This brings us to 224 Reports Live Total

globalmaritimehistory.com/adm-8-databa...

21 Reports left to go
ADM 8 Database Project - Global Maritime History
Welcome to the home of the ADM 8 Database Project. The impetus behind this project is the idea that there is a better approach to putting archival sources online than merely photographing them and mak...
globalmaritimehistory.com
March 6, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Really looking forward to this!
Thrilled @cemathieson.bsky.social is keynoting our April Literatures & Medicines Online Symposium with 'From “seaside girls” to “the sun-tanning crowd”: Cultures of Suntanning in Britain, c.1900-1940'. CFP deadline Feb 15: www.litsampersand.org/literatures-...
#literature #medicalhumanities #cfp
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January 31, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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How long would your commute take in 1680? Mine would be about a day and a half.

@camunicampop.bsky.social has a brilliant tool for calculating travel times in Roman, 1680, 1830, 1911 and 2024. 🗃️
www.travelintimes.org/journey/52.2...
November 22, 2024 at 9:49 AM
Looking forward to this tomorrow!
Next week!

The next @ihr.bsky.social Transport & Mobility History seminar:

Steam trains & the smoke abatement movement in Britain
@emilea.bsky.social

21 Nov 2024, 17.30 UK, Hybrid
All welcome!

📷@ExploreWellcome #Railway200

Register here:
www.history.ac.uk/events/a-fam...
November 20, 2024 at 7:20 PM
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Next week!

The next @ihr.bsky.social Transport & Mobility History seminar:

Steam trains & the smoke abatement movement in Britain
@emilea.bsky.social

21 Nov 2024, 17.30 UK, Hybrid
All welcome!

📷@ExploreWellcome #Railway200

Register here:
www.history.ac.uk/events/a-fam...
November 12, 2024 at 11:44 AM
Well it seems very nice around here and, 24 hours in, I should really say hello… I’m a Victorianist interested in mobilities in literature and culture, currently working on various things related to my project on “Cultures of suntanning” in the 19th to mid-20th centuries
November 14, 2024 at 5:52 PM