'Texas Tech University’s plans to phase out and eventually close all programs “centered on” sexual orientation and gender identity also prohibit students from creating “degree-culminating” research or theses on such topics, according to a recent memo from university leadership.'
Very chilling. 1/2
My school had a debating team. It tended to be the older ex-grammars and private schools that competed in my area. This was central Scotland late 80s/early 90s.
These are for students already in the UK system whose PhD funding covers the cost of a placement.
Submit the manuscript is standard for fiction, not for non-fiction, where you should be fine with proposal and sample chapter.
Yes, it's absolutely standard to query multiple agents. Then if you get interest from one, tell the others, because that'll move you up their to-read list.
Exciting! Looking forward to the London gun culture in particular.
Free webinar course: introduction to becoming a public intellectual, for folks with a PhD *or* midway through a PhD degree, in a historical discipline (doesn't have to be History)!
Applications close April 20.
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Please encourage colleagues and PhD students to apply: we welcome anyone working in a history-related field who is relatively new to public-facing work, whatever their exact career status. Academic affiliation not required.
Just a few more days to apply to this year’s Take Your Research Public course - an introduction to public writing, social media, podcasting and more for academics new to this work. Guests include @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social and @estelleprnq.bsky.social. Free, online, over four Tuesdays in June.
Now this is the sort of content warning we should all aspire to
Picture of empty train seats
The 0700 Manchester to London. Half-empty, perhaps because it'll cost you £193 to get on. Why on earth don't they do cheap last-minute offers?
Congratulations on the book and what a lovely tribute to your father.
Today is the official publication day for my new book, Sedimentary Aesthetics: Painting on Stone and the Ecology of Early Modern Art. It is out in the world, and I would like to thank @yalepress.bsky.social for all they did. I’d also like to tell you a bit about why this publication means so much.
The Firearm Revolution: From Renaissance Italy to the European Empires by Catherine Fletcher
A groundbreaking account of how firearms changed Europe and the world.
@catherinefletcher.info's The Firearm Revolution is now available.
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Thank you! That was a great show
And on Friday 1 May I’ll be on Radio 4’s Free Thinking to discuss weapons real and symbolic with @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social.
Coming up I have an event on Wednesday 29 April at the Royal Armouries in Leeds (both in-person and online), book here to get your free ticket or link.
And I also talked to Al Zambone for the Historically Thinking podcast: he wrote a great reflection on the book here, which really gets what I was trying to do with it.
Want a preview? I talked to @michellefranklin.bsky.social at Legends & Lectures about the book (also in audio only).
I spent a year in euroland twenty years ago when it was 1.46 euros to the pound and ever since then my brain has insisted that that's the only correct exchange rate
Thank you!
I've never come across one (Duolingo plus a year of evenings at the Instituto Cervantes has been my approach) but would be interested to know if you find one
Out today!
Does Leo have a nephew? Because the traditional thing for popes is to put their nephew in charge of the other state they’re trying to run.
The audio version of The History of Firearms in the Renaissance is now available wherever you get your podcasts.
Many thanks to @catherinefletcher.info for joining us!
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Better version of the double portrait discussed in the thread
It's clearer in this version.
According to this it says Prince Rupert, but they think that's incorrect.
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My recent book studied the 11th-c. formation of the kingdom of Hungary, providing essential context for today's election.
As an early modernist, I have to say that no-one can truly understand Hungary without a longue-durée appreciation of its historic status as a small polity caught between the Habsburg and Ottoman empires...