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Dr Rachel White
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Career Development Fellow in Early Modern Literature at Durham University

Out now: Elizabethan Occult Poetics: Exploring Practice and Knowledge in English Poetry https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.3828/9781836244783
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awickenden.bsky.social
Have official confirmation it will be December. Ask your library to buy the most exciting Christmas present going!
awickenden.bsky.social Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 14d
when will my book return from war (be published)... how am I meant to promote it when nobody can tell me and three different months are listed online... anyway, please ask your library to pre-order my book! it is good! www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...
Hans Sloane's Library Collection and the Production of Knowledge | Cambridge University Press & Assessment
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November 3, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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One for Halloween, on a myth that really never seems to die. lucyallengoss.substack.com/p/we-are-not...
We are not the granddaughters of the witches you couldn't burn: why the myth of 'lost women's healing knowledge' needs to go.
It is Halloween, and I am seeing a whirl of posts about witches, so here’s a quick post.
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October 31, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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starcrossed2018.bsky.social
Somewhat astonishingly, here it is, a book, a thing in the world... More, including acknowledgements, soon❤️
The cover of a book. Text reads TEXTILE SHAKESPEARE. The illustration is of black and white embroidery of flowers, fruit, and animals; it's sitting on a blue and white William Morris print cushion. The table of contents of a book. The chapter titles read Stuff, Linen, Leather/Wool, Silk, Inky Cloak, Sew, Cut, Fold, Ruff.
October 31, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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awickenden.bsky.social
when will my book return from war (be published)... how am I meant to promote it when nobody can tell me and three different months are listed online... anyway, please ask your library to pre-order my book! it is good! www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...
Hans Sloane's Library Collection and the Production of Knowledge | Cambridge University Press & Assessment
www.cambridge.org
October 31, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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levostregc.bsky.social
Tech wythout heart ys a horror.

For a bettir future we need poetrye, creativitye, historical studye, love of languages, dreames, dialogues, new storyes, & intellectual curiositye.

We must fund & expand higher educacioun yn HEART:

H umanityes
E thiques
A rtes
R hetorique & the crafte of
T eaching
October 29, 2025 at 11:20 PM
renaissancerach.bsky.social
Fascinating! This has given me something to think about on my commute along the A66 😀
claireboardman.bsky.social Claire Boardman @claireboardman.bsky.social · 20d
"Our story begins over 12,000 years ago, at the end of the last Ice Age. As glaciers melted and the climate warmed, people began moving back into what we now call Britain."

What a great way to start the archaeology story of the A66 highway upgrade! bit.ly/48IbjqE
The A66 Through History: A Road That Built Connections
The Oxford Cotswold Archaeology (OCA) teams have been continuing the archaeological investigations alongside the A66. This is a short glimpse into the archaeological history of the A66 and an…
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October 25, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Read. Read widely, randomly, for fun. Be led by your curiosity. Read fiction. Recommend your favourite books to your loved ones. Re-read the books from your childhood. Books are a uniquely portable kind of magic. Carry a book or three with you wherever you go. Never. Stop. Reading.
essencesimmone.blacksky.app essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · Oct 3
Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?
October 6, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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levostregc.bsky.social
Tech wythout heart ys hollow.

For a bettir future we need poetrye, creativitye, historical studye, love of languages, dreames, dialogues, new storyes, & intellectual curiositye.

We must fund & expand higher educacioun yn HEART:

H umanityes
E thiques
A rtes
R hetorique & the crafte of
T eaching
October 3, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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markhailwood.bsky.social
Delighted to see our new book - The Experience of Work in Early Modern England - out now, and open access (free!)

doi-org.bris.idm.oclc.org/10.1017/9781...
October 1, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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drnaomibaker.bsky.social
Just two weeks until Voices of Thunder is published! If you’re interested in hearing the stories of a dozen radical seventeenth-century women, it can be pre-ordered now ⚡️#earlymodern #womenshistory
September 30, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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georginaemw.bsky.social
Today is publication day for PAPER AND THE MAKING OF EARLY MODERN LITERATURE! Available in paper or digital form www.pennpress.org/978151282744... @pennpress.bsky.social
September 30, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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willpooley.bsky.social
“Without the ideas+perspective of ECRs… there will be no new generation of scholars to take up ideas and push them in new directions”

@wadehistory.bsky.social on “What can be done?” for the French History Network’s ECR in 2025 series

frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6746/

🗃️#FRHistory
Let me be blunt: senior colleagues, institutions and organisations need to act in accordance with the mentality that French history in Britain is on the verge of extinction, because it is. Based on the nature of the job market today, the majority of ECRs in French history are, realistically, looking for permanent positions in European (or possibly global) history or in a particular subdiscipline of history (e.g. political history, economic history, social history, and so on). This puts them in fierce competition with historians studying other countries, all of whom face the same challenges. If ECRs in French history do not manage to secure permanent positions, the entire French history community will suffer: without the ideas and perspective of ECRs, senior scholars will only be able to have conversations with each other, and there will be no new generation of scholars to take up their ideas and push them in new directions. Put another way, senior scholars who do not wish to see their books merely gathering dust in libraries twenty years from now need to be doing whatever they can to support ECRs on the job market.
September 25, 2025 at 6:59 AM
renaissancerach.bsky.social
I was very excited to come home to find the author copies of my book had arrived!

Though one young reviewer is disappointed that there are no tractors in it, if you are interested in early modern poetry and the occult, you can order below 👇

www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...
Cat next to the book Toddler reading the book
September 24, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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clairejowitt.bsky.social Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · Sep 23
Lovely to get a copy of @renaissancerach.bsky.social new book Elizabethan Occult Poetics in the post! Latest book in
@englishassociation.bsky.social series now published by @livunipress.bsky.social
👏👏👏 www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
September 23, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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Lovely to get a copy of @renaissancerach.bsky.social new book Elizabethan Occult Poetics in the post! Latest book in
@englishassociation.bsky.social series now published by @livunipress.bsky.social
👏👏👏 www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
September 23, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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earlymodlancs.bsky.social
"Coventry University bosses criticised by union on flight expenses" - BBC News share.google/odtvMljzNB5J...
Coventry University bosses criticised by union on flight expenses
Leaders have been taking first class flights while staff are being made redundant, a union says.
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September 22, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Do not go quietly into the redundancy pool
a man is sitting at a table with a napkin around his neck and eating food .
Alt: a man is sitting at a table with a napkin around his neck and banging metal serving dished together like cymbals
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September 21, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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earlymodlancs.bsky.social
I haven't posted an update on the petition for a while 👇

Over 3600 signatories to date

Folk are still signing

Thank you
earlymodlancs.bsky.social Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social · Jul 30
- 400 jobs to go at Lancaster University

- 1 in 4 people will be made redundant

But where's the financial evidence for this extreme action?

Please read 👇

Sign the petition 👇

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Stop Mass Redundancies at Lancaster University – Hold Senior Management Accountable
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September 19, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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willpooley.bsky.social
Today a follow up to yesterday’s post on being an ECR in French History, by @wadehistory.bsky.social

frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6744/ 🗃️ #FRHistory
For me, it is difficult to overstate how challenging it is to be an ECR in French history right now. One fellow ECR speaks of it being 'cataclysmically bad'; another speaks of the academic job market as a ravaging 'tornado'; neither are exaggerations.
September 18, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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jendeavour.bsky.social
Warwick English came 5th in The Guardian today, which is great for us.
But also notice that Lancaster came 3rd for Creative Writing & 7th for English - but the university is decimating programmes & firing 1/3 of academic staff over the next six months 🤔🤔🤔 @lancasterucu.bsky.social
#saveartsandhums
September 13, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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levostregc.bsky.social
Major yn Englisshe:
• focused readinge & writinge prepare you for anythinge
• research, communicacioun, creativitye, and interpretacioun will be needed for careers not even invented yet
• meaningful engagement wyth big ideas and textes that will staye wyth you forevir
• it ys awesome
• books!
September 17, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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#WordsMatter

Carol Ann Duffy writes ‘bombsite’ poem about Trump’s UK state visit | Carol Ann Duffy | The Guardian share.google/ZvDAQmOk9nhK...
Carol Ann Duffy writes ‘bombsite’ poem about Trump’s UK state visit
Exclusive: Former poet laureate has reader contrasting pomp and ceremony of banquet with ruins left by war
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September 18, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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This is genuinely (academically) dystopian — Kings featuring a lecturer who has to mark 100 scripts in a fortnight (!) and presenting AI as the approved workaround to that problem. This is why we can’t let this stuff into our working practice…
ernestopriego.com Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · Sep 17
Simply astonishing. Maybe Lecturer A should not have to mark over 100 essays in a two-week window in the first place? Invest in qualified staff and reduce impossible workloads FFS www.kcl.ac.uk/about/strate...
Screenshot. King's College London page. Examples of effective practice The following scenarios follow the above guidelines and offer insights into ways that academic staff can use AI transparently and in an assistive capacity, always ensuring human oversight and judgment remain central. Scenario A – Scaling feedback while maintaining quality Lecturer A is responsible for marking over 100 essays within a two-week window. Conscious of the limitations this workload places on the depth of individual feedback, they adopt a hybrid approach using their university’s approved or supported LLM tool, Copilot. Without ever uploading student work directly, Lecturer A composes an anonymised summary for each student, noting which marking criteria were met and the approximate percentage achieved for each. They input this summary alongside the official rubric into Copilot, prompting it to generate supportive, criterion-referenced feedback. This feedback is then carefully reviewed, adapted, and personalised before being uploaded to the marking platform. Students are made aware of this process in advance and shown a demonstration, reinforcing transparency and trust.
September 17, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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willpooley.bsky.social
“Cataclysmically bad”

This new series of ECR blog posts on the French History Network makes for grim reading, perhaps grimmer even than some in UK #FrenchHistory might have realised.

1st post, anon ECRs in French History on what it’s like right now out there:

frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6691/

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ECR in 2025: Part One- What is it like? – SSFH
frenchhistorysociety.co.uk
September 17, 2025 at 7:54 AM