Matt Shaw
@matthewshaw.bsky.social
In a library. Most likely just off Queen's Lane. #PrintHistory #Time #Newspapers
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/an-inky-business-a-history-of-newspapers-from-the-english-civil-wars-to-the-american-civil-war-matthew-j-shaw/5911999?ean=9781789143867
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/an-inky-business-a-history-of-newspapers-from-the-english-civil-wars-to-the-american-civil-war-matthew-j-shaw/5911999?ean=9781789143867
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Please support and share this petition to help save American Studies teaching at The University of Nottingham. Staff are facing redundancy. The expertise that would be lost would be monumental. Please sign.
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SAVE AMERICAN STUDIES TEACHING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM
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November 11, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Please support and share this petition to help save American Studies teaching at The University of Nottingham. Staff are facing redundancy. The expertise that would be lost would be monumental. Please sign.
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The Courtauld is offering a a new fully funded Peter Fergusson PhD Scholarship in English Medieval Architecture for eligible projects focusing on England from the eleventh to the early sixteenth centuries. Statement of intents are due by 17 November 2025.
Peter Fergusson PhD Scholarship in English Medieval Architecture, Courtauld, statement of intent deadline 17 November 2025
The Courtauld is offering a a new fully funded Peter Fergusson PhD Scholarship in English Medieval Architecture for eligible projects focusing on England from the eleventh to the early sixteenth centuries. Statement of intents are due by 17 November 2025.
medievalartresearch.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:16 PM
The Courtauld is offering a a new fully funded Peter Fergusson PhD Scholarship in English Medieval Architecture for eligible projects focusing on England from the eleventh to the early sixteenth centuries. Statement of intents are due by 17 November 2025.
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The PH Wodehouse of Beowulfs!
"What ho!"
Beowulf, a New Verse Translation for Fireside and Classroom, 1923
William Ellery Leonard 🇬🇧
Beowulf, a New Verse Translation for Fireside and Classroom, 1923
William Ellery Leonard 🇬🇧
November 11, 2025 at 3:15 PM
The PH Wodehouse of Beowulfs!
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It's the final week to submit to the #RLUK26 #CFP - closes this Friday!
#RLUK26 will explore dynamic, inclusive & strategic approaches needed to manage myriad challenges libraries face re: academic freedom & contested spaces + collections.
Our virtual conference is open to all.
ℹ️ bit.ly/RLUKconf
#RLUK26 will explore dynamic, inclusive & strategic approaches needed to manage myriad challenges libraries face re: academic freedom & contested spaces + collections.
Our virtual conference is open to all.
ℹ️ bit.ly/RLUKconf
November 10, 2025 at 1:43 PM
It's the final week to submit to the #RLUK26 #CFP - closes this Friday!
#RLUK26 will explore dynamic, inclusive & strategic approaches needed to manage myriad challenges libraries face re: academic freedom & contested spaces + collections.
Our virtual conference is open to all.
ℹ️ bit.ly/RLUKconf
#RLUK26 will explore dynamic, inclusive & strategic approaches needed to manage myriad challenges libraries face re: academic freedom & contested spaces + collections.
Our virtual conference is open to all.
ℹ️ bit.ly/RLUKconf
the case for deaccessioning www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/t...
A Home That Proves You Can Never Have Too Many Books
www.nytimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:09 AM
the case for deaccessioning www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/t...
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Revealing division in my timeline between (1) my insider friends who have lived privileged lives who are very keen that we defend the BBC and think it's important it survives and (2) my outsider friends who feel (at best) ambivalent about the BBC's survival.
November 11, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Revealing division in my timeline between (1) my insider friends who have lived privileged lives who are very keen that we defend the BBC and think it's important it survives and (2) my outsider friends who feel (at best) ambivalent about the BBC's survival.
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Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.
November 11, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.
Fraying at the edges
November 11, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Fraying at the edges
Sensible Christmas gifting from the FT HTSI deputy editor (the calendar, not the shirt)
November 10, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Sensible Christmas gifting from the FT HTSI deputy editor (the calendar, not the shirt)
has trump pardoned sarkozy?
November 10, 2025 at 12:47 PM
has trump pardoned sarkozy?
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Only a few tickets left! But the good news is that you can join us via Teams! 🎉
Register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/eec9de...
The countdown has started 🥁
#medievalsky
#manuscripts
#science
#history
Register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/eec9de...
The countdown has started 🥁
#medievalsky
#manuscripts
#science
#history
The programme is out 📣
Heritage Science and Manuscripts from Antiquity and the Middle Ages!
A two-day colloquium organised by the #CraftingDocuments project in partnership with the @cmtc-oxford.bsky.social
(We are working on hosting it as a hybrid event. more soon)
Registration info 👇🏼
#medievalsky
Heritage Science and Manuscripts from Antiquity and the Middle Ages!
A two-day colloquium organised by the #CraftingDocuments project in partnership with the @cmtc-oxford.bsky.social
(We are working on hosting it as a hybrid event. more soon)
Registration info 👇🏼
#medievalsky
November 10, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Only a few tickets left! But the good news is that you can join us via Teams! 🎉
Register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/eec9de...
The countdown has started 🥁
#medievalsky
#manuscripts
#science
#history
Register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/eec9de...
The countdown has started 🥁
#medievalsky
#manuscripts
#science
#history
I missed this on Barnsley Archives and the Baftas
BAFTA Games Awards on Tuesday 8 April: 'Their game, 'Thank Goodness You’re Here!', draws inspiration from Barnsley Archives’ online films.' www.barnsley.gov.uk/news/barnsle...
(ht @stephenkb.bsky.social)
BAFTA Games Awards on Tuesday 8 April: 'Their game, 'Thank Goodness You’re Here!', draws inspiration from Barnsley Archives’ online films.' www.barnsley.gov.uk/news/barnsle...
(ht @stephenkb.bsky.social)
November 10, 2025 at 9:55 AM
I missed this on Barnsley Archives and the Baftas
BAFTA Games Awards on Tuesday 8 April: 'Their game, 'Thank Goodness You’re Here!', draws inspiration from Barnsley Archives’ online films.' www.barnsley.gov.uk/news/barnsle...
(ht @stephenkb.bsky.social)
BAFTA Games Awards on Tuesday 8 April: 'Their game, 'Thank Goodness You’re Here!', draws inspiration from Barnsley Archives’ online films.' www.barnsley.gov.uk/news/barnsle...
(ht @stephenkb.bsky.social)
‘In her guidebook from 1900… “The life of a bachelor girl in a big city [is] a wonderful and glorious vision … What a thing it must be…to be like Celia in London, who has a career, in music perhaps, or art or journalism, who lives in chambers like a man’ heritagecalling.com/2025/11/06/h...
Hostel, House, and Chambers
Exploring Victorian and Edwardian accommodation for working women.
heritagecalling.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:26 AM
‘In her guidebook from 1900… “The life of a bachelor girl in a big city [is] a wonderful and glorious vision … What a thing it must be…to be like Celia in London, who has a career, in music perhaps, or art or journalism, who lives in chambers like a man’ heritagecalling.com/2025/11/06/h...
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What a fabulously curated and presented site this is. Clean & clear to navigate, lots of fascinating data & artifacts. And to hear newly recorded political songs from the era! 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
@philipwblood.bsky.social
ecppec.ncl.ac.uk
@philipwblood.bsky.social
ecppec.ncl.ac.uk
Eighteenth-Century Political Participation & Electoral Culture
18th-century Britain is notorious for corrupt and restrictive politics, when few could vote, bribery and debauchery were commonplace. But it was also an age when modern democracy was being shaped.
ecppec.ncl.ac.uk
November 7, 2025 at 6:43 AM
What a fabulously curated and presented site this is. Clean & clear to navigate, lots of fascinating data & artifacts. And to hear newly recorded political songs from the era! 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
@philipwblood.bsky.social
ecppec.ncl.ac.uk
@philipwblood.bsky.social
ecppec.ncl.ac.uk
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Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry
November 6, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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*This* is NYC, where I commuted to work for #publishers Simon & Schuster and Churchill Livingstone. 💗 For the newest cover of The New Yorker, Edel Rodriguez portrays Zohran #Mamdani, NYC’s incoming mayor, in the subway. Mamdani campaigned out and about in the city. www.newyorker.com/culture/cove...
November 5, 2025 at 3:14 PM
*This* is NYC, where I commuted to work for #publishers Simon & Schuster and Churchill Livingstone. 💗 For the newest cover of The New Yorker, Edel Rodriguez portrays Zohran #Mamdani, NYC’s incoming mayor, in the subway. Mamdani campaigned out and about in the city. www.newyorker.com/culture/cove...
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Maybe nobody in the great big world cares about this.
But the public libraries in tiny Jefferson County in Northern Appalachia were in danger of losing their tax funding thanks to right-wing book banners. And we won. The library's funding is safe!!!!!
But the public libraries in tiny Jefferson County in Northern Appalachia were in danger of losing their tax funding thanks to right-wing book banners. And we won. The library's funding is safe!!!!!
November 5, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Maybe nobody in the great big world cares about this.
But the public libraries in tiny Jefferson County in Northern Appalachia were in danger of losing their tax funding thanks to right-wing book banners. And we won. The library's funding is safe!!!!!
But the public libraries in tiny Jefferson County in Northern Appalachia were in danger of losing their tax funding thanks to right-wing book banners. And we won. The library's funding is safe!!!!!
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Uncut pages in a copy of the @thetls.bsky.social! A glimpse into the production process makes a text suddenly strange
November 5, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Uncut pages in a copy of the @thetls.bsky.social! A glimpse into the production process makes a text suddenly strange
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'In some respects the [IWM] stands in for the absence of a national history museum' (Gregory). Discuss.
The IWM can be a genuinely surprising institution. In some respects it stands in for the absence of a national history museum.
What happens when nationalist history meets the horrors of empire? For @jacobinmag.bsky.social, I reviewed a new exhibition on British counterinsurgency at the Imperial War Museum jacobin.com/2025/11/brit...
November 5, 2025 at 8:01 AM
'In some respects the [IWM] stands in for the absence of a national history museum' (Gregory). Discuss.
'A young woman who wrote to a newspaper of the day enquiring about London accommodation was advised that ‘Sloane Gardens House is... a little beyond your means. Brabazon House would be much more likely to suit you, as you say you intend to be a real “working girl”.’ the-past.com/feature/maki...
Making accommodations: How 19th-century housing helped launch women’s independence | The Past
Following on from CA’s review of the golden age of the chain store (CA 426), Chris Catling looks this month at the accommodation built in the Victorian and ...
the-past.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:05 AM
'A young woman who wrote to a newspaper of the day enquiring about London accommodation was advised that ‘Sloane Gardens House is... a little beyond your means. Brabazon House would be much more likely to suit you, as you say you intend to be a real “working girl”.’ the-past.com/feature/maki...
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A story of verdigris in your bonbons, German chemist Frederick Accum at the Royal Institution and an interesting little twist at the end #histSTM
Caution: Poisonous Candy! - A Consultant Chemical Analyst's fight for food safety in Regency London: regency-explorer.net/comfits/
November 4, 2025 at 5:53 AM
A story of verdigris in your bonbons, German chemist Frederick Accum at the Royal Institution and an interesting little twist at the end #histSTM
The FT explains what flying in economy is like
November 4, 2025 at 9:26 AM
The FT explains what flying in economy is like
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This magazine just fired all of their politics staffers
We are honored to receive the @rooseveltinstitute.org's 2025 Four Freedoms Award for Freedom of Speech and Expression, and to be among a stellar class of laureates including @wck.org, @cvt.org, and more. Details: tnvge.co/ZMIUg7v
November 3, 2025 at 9:59 PM
This magazine just fired all of their politics staffers