James Kneale
@jameskneale.bsky.social
Cultural/historical geographer at ucl working on drink/temperance, insurance, literary geographies, sf/fantastic/horror, &c. He/him.
Journal of Victorian Culture co-editor @jofvictculture.bsky.social
Drinking Studies Network starter pack gardener
Journal of Victorian Culture co-editor @jofvictculture.bsky.social
Drinking Studies Network starter pack gardener
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James Kneale
@jameskneale.bsky.social
· Nov 10
Inevitably, I've made a Drinking Studies Network starter pack based on the DSN's members list (drinkingstudies.wordpress.com/members-2/) If you don't want to be included, or if you see people I've missed and could add, please let me know!
go.bsky.app/4zgBneK
go.bsky.app/4zgBneK
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Even more petitions popping up. Doesn't make for a great endorsement, does it?
Please sign, spread the word, and help us push back against the constant undermining of our university:
c.org/MwqdpHLCnZ
c.org/Q6pTJXz87F
c.org/sGNYk5yGpM
Please sign, spread the word, and help us push back against the constant undermining of our university:
c.org/MwqdpHLCnZ
c.org/Q6pTJXz87F
c.org/sGNYk5yGpM
November 9, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Even more petitions popping up. Doesn't make for a great endorsement, does it?
Please sign, spread the word, and help us push back against the constant undermining of our university:
c.org/MwqdpHLCnZ
c.org/Q6pTJXz87F
c.org/sGNYk5yGpM
Please sign, spread the word, and help us push back against the constant undermining of our university:
c.org/MwqdpHLCnZ
c.org/Q6pTJXz87F
c.org/sGNYk5yGpM
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@uniofnottingham.bsky.social permanently suspends all teaching of Modern Languages, Music, Plant Biology, Microbiology, Theology, Agriculture, Food Science, and, ironically, Education. And that's not even the complete list. #Nottingham
Nottingham suspends music, language and nursing courses
University says financial uncertainties continue as government’s proposed student levy will ‘wipe out any benefits’ from rising tuition fees
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:57 PM
@uniofnottingham.bsky.social permanently suspends all teaching of Modern Languages, Music, Plant Biology, Microbiology, Theology, Agriculture, Food Science, and, ironically, Education. And that's not even the complete list. #Nottingham
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The University of Nottingham is the latest UK HEI to propose suspending the music department. Another in a long line of attacks on university music. Don’t let them get away with it! Sign the petition: www.change.org/p/stop-the-s... #university #UKHE #music
Sign the Petition
Stop the suspension of undergraduate music courses at The University of Nottingham
www.change.org
November 10, 2025 at 10:42 AM
The University of Nottingham is the latest UK HEI to propose suspending the music department. Another in a long line of attacks on university music. Don’t let them get away with it! Sign the petition: www.change.org/p/stop-the-s... #university #UKHE #music
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Thanks to all who have already signed the petition about the closure of Geography at the Uni. If you haven’t, please do so to help stop this ill-thought out action that threatens the future of staff, students & the discipline at Leicester
www.change.org/p/save-geogr...
www.change.org/p/save-geogr...
Sign the Petition
Save Geography at the University of Leicester
www.change.org
November 9, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Thanks to all who have already signed the petition about the closure of Geography at the Uni. If you haven’t, please do so to help stop this ill-thought out action that threatens the future of staff, students & the discipline at Leicester
www.change.org/p/save-geogr...
www.change.org/p/save-geogr...
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Definitely contemplating this. Anyone interested in doing a panel on Scottish SFF. I'm thinking modern modern or contemporary but always open to ideas. #fantasy #sciencefiction #ScottishSFF
If you’re working on any area of fantasy and the fantastic, come and join us at Glasgow in June 2026 and do consider presenting or running a workshop! All the info you need and the full CFP is here:
fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk/index.php/20...
@uofgfantasy.bsky.social @uofgartshums.bsky.social
fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk/index.php/20...
@uofgfantasy.bsky.social @uofgartshums.bsky.social
November 9, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Definitely contemplating this. Anyone interested in doing a panel on Scottish SFF. I'm thinking modern modern or contemporary but always open to ideas. #fantasy #sciencefiction #ScottishSFF
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Around 10,000 university workers being made redundant this year. Labour policies are definitely cutting through in higher education …
November 8, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Around 10,000 university workers being made redundant this year. Labour policies are definitely cutting through in higher education …
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Some petitions to sign to protest Nottingham’s cuts! #AcademicSky
Save Modern Languages - c.org/D5v6qstzyW
Save Agriculture - c.org/bgxhcKVHYk
Save Modern Languages - c.org/D5v6qstzyW
Save Agriculture - c.org/bgxhcKVHYk
November 7, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Some petitions to sign to protest Nottingham’s cuts! #AcademicSky
Save Modern Languages - c.org/D5v6qstzyW
Save Agriculture - c.org/bgxhcKVHYk
Save Modern Languages - c.org/D5v6qstzyW
Save Agriculture - c.org/bgxhcKVHYk
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Save languages at the University of Nottingham c.org/fWNV5PrpGZ
November 7, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Save languages at the University of Nottingham c.org/fWNV5PrpGZ
Just in case anyone missed this post (with a blurb by the very kind @danmalleck.bsky.social) and is thinking of ordering the hardback of Temperance Lives--I mean, it could happen!--then there's a decent *discount* if you use this code
Just over a month until Temperance Lives comes out in print!
Anyone interested in buying the hardback can use the discount code GLR AT8 to save 35% on the price - to do that and for more details, see bloomsbury.com/9781350529717
@bloomsburyhist.bsky.social
Anyone interested in buying the hardback can use the discount code GLR AT8 to save 35% on the price - to do that and for more details, see bloomsbury.com/9781350529717
@bloomsburyhist.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Just in case anyone missed this post (with a blurb by the very kind @danmalleck.bsky.social) and is thinking of ordering the hardback of Temperance Lives--I mean, it could happen!--then there's a decent *discount* if you use this code
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Great talk! Let us know what you'd like us to do next. We are free to join, like all @drinkingstudies.bsky.social groups and welcome new members.
Thank you so much to @lottelouisa.bsky.social for a fascinating talk on beer consumption of Central European women tourists at today's @womenandalcohol.bsky.social seminar. So interesting to hear about the manner in which these women talk about drink and drinking in their private diaries
November 6, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Great talk! Let us know what you'd like us to do next. We are free to join, like all @drinkingstudies.bsky.social groups and welcome new members.
Please sign c.org/cYgDXSqx62
Save Geography at the University of Leicester
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
c.org
November 7, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Please sign c.org/cYgDXSqx62
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today's niche #foodhist query - can anyone recommend a book/chapter/article on the history of sugar that covers PRE-COLONIAL use, e.g. in country of origin Papuan use etc. (We don't have a copy of Abbot's Bittersweet in the uni library & I can't figure out if she covers it eno' to warrant an ILL) 🗃️
November 7, 2025 at 9:38 AM
today's niche #foodhist query - can anyone recommend a book/chapter/article on the history of sugar that covers PRE-COLONIAL use, e.g. in country of origin Papuan use etc. (We don't have a copy of Abbot's Bittersweet in the uni library & I can't figure out if she covers it eno' to warrant an ILL) 🗃️
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Hot from the press! 🗃️
Anat Rosenberg's article on the history of 'magical economics of something-for-nothing' in a special issue of the Journal of Cultural Economy, on enchantment in the history of capitalism (this is us: economic-enchantments.net)
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Anat Rosenberg's article on the history of 'magical economics of something-for-nothing' in a special issue of the Journal of Cultural Economy, on enchantment in the history of capitalism (this is us: economic-enchantments.net)
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The legal dematerialization of enchantment: prizes, brands and the magical economics of something-for-nothing
This article brings together cultural studies and legal history to address a particular mode of historical enchantment, namely, the economic magic of something-for-nothing. Considered within the ea...
www.tandfonline.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Hot from the press! 🗃️
Anat Rosenberg's article on the history of 'magical economics of something-for-nothing' in a special issue of the Journal of Cultural Economy, on enchantment in the history of capitalism (this is us: economic-enchantments.net)
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Anat Rosenberg's article on the history of 'magical economics of something-for-nothing' in a special issue of the Journal of Cultural Economy, on enchantment in the history of capitalism (this is us: economic-enchantments.net)
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The Worshipful Company of Curriers essay prize on London for early career scholars, in association with The London Journal Trust and the Institute of Historical Research.
The author of the winning submission will receive £1,000, and publication, subject to peer review, in The London Journal.
The author of the winning submission will receive £1,000, and publication, subject to peer review, in The London Journal.
Curriers' Essay Prize | The London Journal
The author of the winning submission will receive £1,000, and publication, subject to peer review, in The London Journal. Other promising entries may also be considered for publication.
www.thelondonjournal.org
November 7, 2025 at 9:50 AM
The Worshipful Company of Curriers essay prize on London for early career scholars, in association with The London Journal Trust and the Institute of Historical Research.
The author of the winning submission will receive £1,000, and publication, subject to peer review, in The London Journal.
The author of the winning submission will receive £1,000, and publication, subject to peer review, in The London Journal.
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To read more about how the "University of Little England" is selling its students short, go here: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Music and modern languages courses suspended at University of Nottingham
In a statement the institution also says it is "proposing to reduce its nursing offer".
www.bbc.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 3:34 PM
To read more about how the "University of Little England" is selling its students short, go here: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Rumours are on the student forums that Nottingham have already sent out some conditional offers to applicants for language courses in 2026, and have not informed them the courses will not, actually, exist.
To read more about how the "University of Little England" is selling its students short, go here: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Music and modern languages courses suspended at University of Nottingham
In a statement the institution also says it is "proposing to reduce its nursing offer".
www.bbc.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Rumours are on the student forums that Nottingham have already sent out some conditional offers to applicants for language courses in 2026, and have not informed them the courses will not, actually, exist.
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the sandwich guy walking away from the court house and suddenly, his limp disappears
November 6, 2025 at 8:19 PM
the sandwich guy walking away from the court house and suddenly, his limp disappears
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Breaking News: Late last night Conde Nast illegally fired 4 union organizers who asked company execs to explain the downsizing of Teen Vogue and continued layoffs. We’ve filed a grievance.
November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Breaking News: Late last night Conde Nast illegally fired 4 union organizers who asked company execs to explain the downsizing of Teen Vogue and continued layoffs. We’ve filed a grievance.
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New book review: Queer Premises: LGBTQ+ Venues in London Since the 1980s by @bencampkin.bsky.social, reviewed by Marisa Müsing.
Queer Premises: LGBTQ+ Venues in London Since the 1980s
Published in The London Journal: A Review of Metropolitan Society Past and Present (Ahead of Print, 2025)
www.tandfonline.com
October 30, 2025 at 3:00 PM
New book review: Queer Premises: LGBTQ+ Venues in London Since the 1980s by @bencampkin.bsky.social, reviewed by Marisa Müsing.
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Every so often I encounter an anecdotal claim that is repeated again and again across secondary texts in a maddening loop of apparent reinforcement, and yet an original source reference is always somehow absent. Here's an example, involving altars and stone phalluses (thread)
May 21, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Every so often I encounter an anecdotal claim that is repeated again and again across secondary texts in a maddening loop of apparent reinforcement, and yet an original source reference is always somehow absent. Here's an example, involving altars and stone phalluses (thread)
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Horrific, stupid news from @uniofnottingham.bsky.social — they are closing their music department. Apparently they all found out suddently in a meeting yesterday.
It is one of the best music departments in the country — solidarity with my colleagues and their students
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
It is one of the best music departments in the country — solidarity with my colleagues and their students
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Music and modern languages courses suspended at University of Nottingham
In a statement the institution also says it is
www.bbc.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Horrific, stupid news from @uniofnottingham.bsky.social — they are closing their music department. Apparently they all found out suddently in a meeting yesterday.
It is one of the best music departments in the country — solidarity with my colleagues and their students
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
It is one of the best music departments in the country — solidarity with my colleagues and their students
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Highly targeted clickbait for @markbould.bsky.social - a thread that includes both Tony Benn and the Bible Christians
Now that you can read /both/ indexes for Temperance Lives, expertly crafted by @helenglew.bsky.social, I can draw your attention to some of the individuals featured in the book.
Tony BENN is there because his uncle Ernest was a director of the largest temperance assurance firm in the 1950s... 1/7
Tony BENN is there because his uncle Ernest was a director of the largest temperance assurance firm in the 1950s... 1/7
November 6, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Highly targeted clickbait for @markbould.bsky.social - a thread that includes both Tony Benn and the Bible Christians
Now that you can read /both/ indexes for Temperance Lives, expertly crafted by @helenglew.bsky.social, I can draw your attention to some of the individuals featured in the book.
Tony BENN is there because his uncle Ernest was a director of the largest temperance assurance firm in the 1950s... 1/7
Tony BENN is there because his uncle Ernest was a director of the largest temperance assurance firm in the 1950s... 1/7
November 6, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Now that you can read /both/ indexes for Temperance Lives, expertly crafted by @helenglew.bsky.social, I can draw your attention to some of the individuals featured in the book.
Tony BENN is there because his uncle Ernest was a director of the largest temperance assurance firm in the 1950s... 1/7
Tony BENN is there because his uncle Ernest was a director of the largest temperance assurance firm in the 1950s... 1/7
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Uuuuh does anyone have any suggestions about grants (for UK academics) to pay for image rights for journal articles? I’ve had something accepted and just found out that due to budget cuts I can’t claim expenses for article costs 😱
November 6, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Uuuuh does anyone have any suggestions about grants (for UK academics) to pay for image rights for journal articles? I’ve had something accepted and just found out that due to budget cuts I can’t claim expenses for article costs 😱