Dr. Elizabeth Grimshaw
@elizagrimshaw.bsky.social
"Out of wood, he fashioned a miniature house with doors and windows that could be opened, and he put together a magic lantern as beguiling as a kaleidoscope."
Ai Weiwei on his father Ai Qing's childhood in 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows
Ai Weiwei on his father Ai Qing's childhood in 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows
January 16, 2026 at 10:54 AM
"Out of wood, he fashioned a miniature house with doors and windows that could be opened, and he put together a magic lantern as beguiling as a kaleidoscope."
Ai Weiwei on his father Ai Qing's childhood in 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows
Ai Weiwei on his father Ai Qing's childhood in 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows
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Did you know today is National #BlackCatDay 🐈⬛?
Which seems like the perfect opportunity to remind you, there are only four more days to get in your entries for Carve your PhD! our annual contest to depict your thesis topic in pumpkin form. Details here: abdn.site/phD
Which seems like the perfect opportunity to remind you, there are only four more days to get in your entries for Carve your PhD! our annual contest to depict your thesis topic in pumpkin form. Details here: abdn.site/phD
October 27, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Did you know today is National #BlackCatDay 🐈⬛?
Which seems like the perfect opportunity to remind you, there are only four more days to get in your entries for Carve your PhD! our annual contest to depict your thesis topic in pumpkin form. Details here: abdn.site/phD
Which seems like the perfect opportunity to remind you, there are only four more days to get in your entries for Carve your PhD! our annual contest to depict your thesis topic in pumpkin form. Details here: abdn.site/phD
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Looking forward to the IHR Parliaments, Politics & People seminar on 28 October. Dr Mari Takayanagi @satisfactory20.bsky.social will be sharing new research, inc. a recently discovered ‘suffragette chain’. FREE in-person in London & online. More info here: historyofparliament.com/2025/10/21/t...
The Speakers and the Suffragettes - The History of Parliament
At the IHR Parliaments, Politics and People seminar on Tuesday 28 October, Dr Mari Takayanagi will be discussing ‘The Speakers and the Suffragettes’.
historyofparliament.com
October 23, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Looking forward to the IHR Parliaments, Politics & People seminar on 28 October. Dr Mari Takayanagi @satisfactory20.bsky.social will be sharing new research, inc. a recently discovered ‘suffragette chain’. FREE in-person in London & online. More info here: historyofparliament.com/2025/10/21/t...
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Orlando Bloom Spotted At Dinner With Angela Merkel
Orlando Bloom Spotted At Dinner With Angela Merkel
BERLIN—Just weeks after announcing his split with fiancée Katy Perry, English actor Orlando Bloom was photographed Friday dining with former German Chancellor Angela Merkel. “Angela kept Orlando laugh...
theonion.com
October 27, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Orlando Bloom Spotted At Dinner With Angela Merkel
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Dr Harriet Baker will be giving the 2025 Sylvia Townsend Warner Lecture on Wednesday 22 October at 5.30pm, at UCL. Her subject is ‘Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Old Teapot: Archives, Objects and Life-Writing‘. For tickets to the in-person event or to watch online, go to: bit.ly/3KSe26Q
October 3, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Dr Harriet Baker will be giving the 2025 Sylvia Townsend Warner Lecture on Wednesday 22 October at 5.30pm, at UCL. Her subject is ‘Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Old Teapot: Archives, Objects and Life-Writing‘. For tickets to the in-person event or to watch online, go to: bit.ly/3KSe26Q
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📣 Exciting news!
We're offering stipends for 2025-6 for #international and #UK-based #scholars, researchers and #practitioners to #research using our collections on #cinema and moving image #history.
For more information and to apply, visit:
tinyurl.com/54wvy2du
#researchsky #filmsky #musueumsky
We're offering stipends for 2025-6 for #international and #UK-based #scholars, researchers and #practitioners to #research using our collections on #cinema and moving image #history.
For more information and to apply, visit:
tinyurl.com/54wvy2du
#researchsky #filmsky #musueumsky
September 23, 2025 at 9:42 AM
📣 Exciting news!
We're offering stipends for 2025-6 for #international and #UK-based #scholars, researchers and #practitioners to #research using our collections on #cinema and moving image #history.
For more information and to apply, visit:
tinyurl.com/54wvy2du
#researchsky #filmsky #musueumsky
We're offering stipends for 2025-6 for #international and #UK-based #scholars, researchers and #practitioners to #research using our collections on #cinema and moving image #history.
For more information and to apply, visit:
tinyurl.com/54wvy2du
#researchsky #filmsky #musueumsky
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History curious? You don't need to be in London (or the UK) to attend many Institute of Historical Research seminars, although if you're in Bloomsbury you'll enjoy doing so. Most are hybrid (online/in person). They're free, usually fortnightly and open to the public.
Starting this week:
Starting this week:
Events
Stay up to date with the upcoming events organised or hosted by the Institute of Historical Research
www.history.ac.uk
September 22, 2025 at 12:33 PM
History curious? You don't need to be in London (or the UK) to attend many Institute of Historical Research seminars, although if you're in Bloomsbury you'll enjoy doing so. Most are hybrid (online/in person). They're free, usually fortnightly and open to the public.
Starting this week:
Starting this week:
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Claims of pure bloodlines? Ancestral homelands? DNA science says no.
Geneticist explains analyses made possible by tech advances show human history to be one of mixing, movement, displacement news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor... @harvard.edu
Geneticist explains analyses made possible by tech advances show human history to be one of mixing, movement, displacement news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor... @harvard.edu
Pure bloodlines? Ancestral homelands? DNA science says no. — Harvard Gazette
Geneticist explains recent analyses made possible by tech advances show human history to be one of mixing, movement, displacement.
news.harvard.edu
September 19, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Claims of pure bloodlines? Ancestral homelands? DNA science says no.
Geneticist explains analyses made possible by tech advances show human history to be one of mixing, movement, displacement news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor... @harvard.edu
Geneticist explains analyses made possible by tech advances show human history to be one of mixing, movement, displacement news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor... @harvard.edu
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The story about Trump ordering the removal of references to slavery from national Parks is being censored on here by the moderation service because it wrongly labeled the photo of an enslaved person with scars from being whipped on their back as "self harm."
September 15, 2025 at 11:07 PM
The story about Trump ordering the removal of references to slavery from national Parks is being censored on here by the moderation service because it wrongly labeled the photo of an enslaved person with scars from being whipped on their back as "self harm."
Reposted by Dr. Elizabeth Grimshaw
silence is acceptance
National park to remove photo of enslaved man’s scars www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
National park to remove photo of enslaved man’s scars www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
National park to remove photo of enslaved man’s scars
The Trump administration is ordering the removal of information on slavery at multiple national parks in an effort to scrub them of “corrosive ideology.”
www.washingtonpost.com
September 15, 2025 at 9:35 PM
silence is acceptance
National park to remove photo of enslaved man’s scars www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
National park to remove photo of enslaved man’s scars www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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A monster set out to murder innocent children. Leanne Lucas, Heidi Liddle and Jon Hayes put themselves between him and them. Leanne and Jon were each stabbed multiple times as they shielded the children. Their heroic actions saved lives.
January 23, 2025 at 6:10 PM
A monster set out to murder innocent children. Leanne Lucas, Heidi Liddle and Jon Hayes put themselves between him and them. Leanne and Jon were each stabbed multiple times as they shielded the children. Their heroic actions saved lives.
Southport dance teacher who shielded child during knife attack ‘tortured by guilt’ www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Southport dance teacher who shielded child in toilet during attack ‘tortured by guilt’
Heidi Liddle told inquiry she felt ‘crushing’ guilt, while Leanne Lucas said she felt ‘ostracised’ from community
www.theguardian.com
September 14, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Southport dance teacher who shielded child during knife attack ‘tortured by guilt’ www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Opening tomorrow: our latest display and exhibit, connecting the life and work of beloved author Jane Austen to rural England!
We'll be opening the exhibit with a gallery tour, led by MERL's Isabel Hughes and @uniofreading.bsky.social's Professor Paddy Bullard:
merl.reading.ac.uk/event/monthl...
We'll be opening the exhibit with a gallery tour, led by MERL's Isabel Hughes and @uniofreading.bsky.social's Professor Paddy Bullard:
merl.reading.ac.uk/event/monthl...
September 8, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Opening tomorrow: our latest display and exhibit, connecting the life and work of beloved author Jane Austen to rural England!
We'll be opening the exhibit with a gallery tour, led by MERL's Isabel Hughes and @uniofreading.bsky.social's Professor Paddy Bullard:
merl.reading.ac.uk/event/monthl...
We'll be opening the exhibit with a gallery tour, led by MERL's Isabel Hughes and @uniofreading.bsky.social's Professor Paddy Bullard:
merl.reading.ac.uk/event/monthl...
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Online Now: Gene context drift identifies drug targets to mitigate cancer treatment resistance
Gene context drift identifies drug targets to mitigate cancer treatment resistance
Jassim et al. introduce a graph-embedding computational pipeline (RECODR) that measures changes in gene co-expression context during cancer treatment. RECODR enables the design of highly effective combination treatments for aggressive brain tumors in mice and the prediction of potential new treatments for patients with medulloblastoma and triple-negative breast cancer.
dlvr.it
June 27, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Online Now: Gene context drift identifies drug targets to mitigate cancer treatment resistance
Mapping the lantern slides:
Learn about the work undertaken by 2020-21 @themerl.bsky.social Open Spaces Society Fellow, Dr Katrina Navickas
merl.reading.ac.uk/blog/2021/06...
Learn about the work undertaken by 2020-21 @themerl.bsky.social Open Spaces Society Fellow, Dr Katrina Navickas
merl.reading.ac.uk/blog/2021/06...
June 10, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Mapping the lantern slides:
Learn about the work undertaken by 2020-21 @themerl.bsky.social Open Spaces Society Fellow, Dr Katrina Navickas
merl.reading.ac.uk/blog/2021/06...
Learn about the work undertaken by 2020-21 @themerl.bsky.social Open Spaces Society Fellow, Dr Katrina Navickas
merl.reading.ac.uk/blog/2021/06...
What Makes JMW Turner A Master Of British Art?
youtu.be/QxKpM4JoqN8?...
youtu.be/QxKpM4JoqN8?...
What Makes JMW Turner A Master Of British Art
YouTube video by National Gallery of Art
youtu.be
June 7, 2025 at 1:34 PM
What Makes JMW Turner A Master Of British Art?
youtu.be/QxKpM4JoqN8?...
youtu.be/QxKpM4JoqN8?...
Hallam and Lionel Tennyson's magic lantern at Farringford House: farringford.co.uk/news-events/...
Hallam and Lionel's Magic Lantern
On display at Farringford is a ‘Magic Lantern’ which projected images painted on glass slides onto the walls.
farringford.co.uk
June 5, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Hallam and Lionel Tennyson's magic lantern at Farringford House: farringford.co.uk/news-events/...
Lord Bateman as he appeared before his embarkation by George Cruikshak, from Dickens and Thackeray's The Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman @gutenberg.org
June 3, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Lord Bateman as he appeared before his embarkation by George Cruikshak, from Dickens and Thackeray's The Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman @gutenberg.org
Our Firemen, by W. Butcher & Sons, Primus Junior Lecturer’s Series, circa 1901, lithographic magic lantern slide.
britishartstudies.ac.uk/issues/22/th...
britishartstudies.ac.uk/issues/22/th...
June 2, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Our Firemen, by W. Butcher & Sons, Primus Junior Lecturer’s Series, circa 1901, lithographic magic lantern slide.
britishartstudies.ac.uk/issues/22/th...
britishartstudies.ac.uk/issues/22/th...
Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of the French, who spent the majority of his life at war against the United Kingdom, became one of the most admired military heroes in British popular culture in the 19th century.
victorianweb.org/history/basd...
victorianweb.org/history/basd...
Napoleon’s Surprising Popularity in Nineteenth-Century England
victorianweb.org
June 2, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of the French, who spent the majority of his life at war against the United Kingdom, became one of the most admired military heroes in British popular culture in the 19th century.
victorianweb.org/history/basd...
victorianweb.org/history/basd...
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Our UK Team Principal Investigator Dr Melissa Dickson has opened today’s @cncsi.bsky.social conference on Contagion and Contamination in the Nineteenth Century with an examination of the ‘influenza fiend’, epidemic diseases of the 1890s, & the looming presence of influenza in Dracula #litsci
May 1, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Our UK Team Principal Investigator Dr Melissa Dickson has opened today’s @cncsi.bsky.social conference on Contagion and Contamination in the Nineteenth Century with an examination of the ‘influenza fiend’, epidemic diseases of the 1890s, & the looming presence of influenza in Dracula #litsci