Matthew McCormack
@historymatt.bsky.social
Historian of Georgian Britain, currently researching shoes. President of @BSECS.bsky.social. Views my own but not necessarily original.
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North American scholars come and work at Birmingham for a month. Deadline 15 November! #nacbs
www.birmingham.ac.uk/about/colleg...
www.birmingham.ac.uk/about/colleg...
Huntington Exchange Fellowship - University of Birmingham
Information for prospective applicants wishing to apply to the Huntington for a Fellowship to visit the University of Birmingham.
www.birmingham.ac.uk
November 10, 2025 at 7:33 PM
North American scholars come and work at Birmingham for a month. Deadline 15 November! #nacbs
www.birmingham.ac.uk/about/colleg...
www.birmingham.ac.uk/about/colleg...
Having seen the edit, the lawsuit against the BBC is absurd. Or it would be if they hadn't already admitted liability
November 10, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Having seen the edit, the lawsuit against the BBC is absurd. Or it would be if they hadn't already admitted liability
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Less than a month to go until our free online workshop *Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900*. Friday 5 December from 10am GMT. Tickets available through this link!
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...
November 6, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Less than a month to go until our free online workshop *Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900*. Friday 5 December from 10am GMT. Tickets available through this link!
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...
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I teach this article EVERY time I teach philosophy of tech.
November 7, 2025 at 10:21 PM
I teach this article EVERY time I teach philosophy of tech.
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STARSHIP TROOPERS was released 28 years ago today. Among the most popular films of director Paul Verhoeven, and a classic sci fi/action satire, the making of story is as outrageous as the film. Would you like to know more…?
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November 7, 2025 at 11:41 AM
STARSHIP TROOPERS was released 28 years ago today. Among the most popular films of director Paul Verhoeven, and a classic sci fi/action satire, the making of story is as outrageous as the film. Would you like to know more…?
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So the historian didn't win Traitors, but happily Northampton did
November 6, 2025 at 10:12 PM
So the historian didn't win Traitors, but happily Northampton did
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CFP: “Embodied Knowledge Practices in the Early Modern World”
Conference at the University of Amsterdam
Monday, 15 June 2026
How do material conditions shape how & what we know about the natural world?
#earlymodern #C18L
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Conference at the University of Amsterdam
Monday, 15 June 2026
How do material conditions shape how & what we know about the natural world?
#earlymodern #C18L
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October 31, 2025 at 3:11 PM
CFP: “Embodied Knowledge Practices in the Early Modern World”
Conference at the University of Amsterdam
Monday, 15 June 2026
How do material conditions shape how & what we know about the natural world?
#earlymodern #C18L
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Conference at the University of Amsterdam
Monday, 15 June 2026
How do material conditions shape how & what we know about the natural world?
#earlymodern #C18L
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Great investigation of the Nazis, racists and criminals mobilising the flag-on-lamp-posts movement. This is the kind of journalism that the national media could and should have conducted:
manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...
manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...
November 2, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Great investigation of the Nazis, racists and criminals mobilising the flag-on-lamp-posts movement. This is the kind of journalism that the national media could and should have conducted:
manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...
manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...
My walk this morning, on Mersea Island
November 1, 2025 at 8:52 AM
My walk this morning, on Mersea Island
There are few things more terrifying than a rotten pumpkin
October 30, 2025 at 9:05 AM
There are few things more terrifying than a rotten pumpkin
A lovely review of Innovations in Teaching History in the American Historical Review!
academic.oup.com/ahr/article-...
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October 29, 2025 at 2:10 PM
A lovely review of Innovations in Teaching History in the American Historical Review!
academic.oup.com/ahr/article-...
academic.oup.com/ahr/article-...
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Ladies please take note.
October 22, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Ladies please take note.
My office for the morning, looking at children's shoes from the 18th century.
Will be talking about this at @bsecs.bsky.social - on their theme of "big and small" (some were tiny)
Will be talking about this at @bsecs.bsky.social - on their theme of "big and small" (some were tiny)
October 22, 2025 at 11:20 AM
My office for the morning, looking at children's shoes from the 18th century.
Will be talking about this at @bsecs.bsky.social - on their theme of "big and small" (some were tiny)
Will be talking about this at @bsecs.bsky.social - on their theme of "big and small" (some were tiny)
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Three high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.
When books were being pulled from Iowa classrooms, these teens started an after-school club to read them
Three Iowa City West high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.
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October 20, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Three high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.
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See @vanessathorpe.bsky.social in @theobserveruk.bsky.social — a devastating story:
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
October 19, 2025 at 8:02 AM
See @vanessathorpe.bsky.social in @theobserveruk.bsky.social — a devastating story:
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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At @ihr.bsky.social we can now offer PhD by Publication in History! For those with a substantial body of existing published research (within past 10 years), but without a PhD, should be of particular interest to #heritage professionals and independent scholars!
October 14, 2025 at 8:53 AM
At @ihr.bsky.social we can now offer PhD by Publication in History! For those with a substantial body of existing published research (within past 10 years), but without a PhD, should be of particular interest to #heritage professionals and independent scholars!
Reading a book from the university library and found this
October 16, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Reading a book from the university library and found this
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University of Derby proposes more than 200 redundancies. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
University of Derby proposes more than 200 redundancies
The university says it is committed to supporting everyone affected.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 15, 2025 at 7:06 PM
University of Derby proposes more than 200 redundancies. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
On 20 November, I'm giving a lunchtime lecture at the V&A about my book Shoes and the Georgian Man. It's free, do come along!
#skystorians @bloomsburyfashion.bsky.social @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social
www.vam.ac.uk/event/xd9XBD...
#skystorians @bloomsburyfashion.bsky.social @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social
www.vam.ac.uk/event/xd9XBD...
Lunchtime Lectures: Shoes and the Georgian Man - V&A Academy Talk at
V&A South Kensington · V&A
This talk is part of the free Lunchtime Lecture programme. No booking is required.
www.vam.ac.uk
October 15, 2025 at 11:19 AM
On 20 November, I'm giving a lunchtime lecture at the V&A about my book Shoes and the Georgian Man. It's free, do come along!
#skystorians @bloomsburyfashion.bsky.social @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social
www.vam.ac.uk/event/xd9XBD...
#skystorians @bloomsburyfashion.bsky.social @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social
www.vam.ac.uk/event/xd9XBD...
This is incorrect - Luton have stopped free pick up at mid stay. Don't believe AI overview
October 12, 2025 at 8:12 PM
This is incorrect - Luton have stopped free pick up at mid stay. Don't believe AI overview
Rollerskaters at the Stadio do Dragao in Porto
October 12, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Rollerskaters at the Stadio do Dragao in Porto
A cobbler's shop in Porto
October 10, 2025 at 5:38 PM
A cobbler's shop in Porto
This is fantastic news. As is often the way, it's not so much a "discovery" as it was already in an archive - more a case of better cataloguing
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...
‘Almost unheard of’: experts find more music by English composer Henry Purcell
Printed score and keyboard manuscript by Purcell, who died in 1695, unearthed in Worcestershire and Norfolk
www.theguardian.com
October 8, 2025 at 8:04 AM
This is fantastic news. As is often the way, it's not so much a "discovery" as it was already in an archive - more a case of better cataloguing
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...
The Bootleg Beatles were awesome at the Derngate last night. Many of the songs were never intended to be played live, so to recreate the studio sound with only a handful of musicians was hugely impressive
October 7, 2025 at 7:14 AM
The Bootleg Beatles were awesome at the Derngate last night. Many of the songs were never intended to be played live, so to recreate the studio sound with only a handful of musicians was hugely impressive