Notes for a book

The book

New York Review of the book

I found this old notebook today. How it started v where it went.

TIL: There's a whole network of databases named after the 12thC abbess and intellectual, Heloise! The network is devoted to gathering historical data on Europe's universities. If that isn't a legacy, I don't know what is! heloise.hypotheses.org

#MedievalSky

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I dunno. Maybe I would like it now and I was just, well, too close to the last days when I saw it.

No no no. I really hated that film 🙁 Women on the Verge however…

Let's be clear: the destruction of universities is a political choice. It doesn't have to be like this. Sure, there are issues, some serious, but Ireland's universities aren't totally screwed, nor The Netherlands'. The UK government has made a choice - it is demolishing and incinerating education.

Good news, but...
...can we now #RejoinEU as a whole?
#Erasmus

@sazwingrove.bsky.social

The cover and a spread of History Today. The cover story is Servants on the Grand Tour. An early modern engraving shows a man, standing next to some ruins and gesturing up at a statue.

🚨 Job alert! History Today is hiring a PT freelance copy editor, either remote or in the office. Please share widely! www.historytoday.com/jobs

Yesterday I saw this beautiful butterfly and, in the evening, heard a skylark sing.

Management consultants are ruining UK universities Relentless off-the-peg commercial rewiring has undermined British higher education

Indeed www.ft.com/content/5032...

'Gender pay gap' agenda a pointless contrivance that ignores the reality of women like me

Steen has managed in this article to mis analyse the gender pay gap- it’s not only the care issue, it’s a systemic gendered hierarchy which has existed forever.Even women without children are paid less than their male colleagues! Do better Ms Steen it’s just not about you,it’s the patriarchal system

FAMEXIL-ConstanceBantman Constance Bantman, professeure à l'Universié du Surrey parle des sources des anarchistes français exilés à Londres, à la fin du XIXe siècle, et de ce qu'elles peuvent nous indiquer de la vie intime et

Que fait l'exil à la famille (anarchiste), et comment les liens familiaux déterminent-ils en retour l'expérience de l'exil?
Mes réponses dans ce podcast de la toujours brillante Romy Sanchez, dans le cadre du projet FAMEXIL.

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Prospect Cottage pilgrimage

Lamb House, Rye, home of Henry James

Fantastic!

Amazing!! Huge congratulations 🥳

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Also in research lead role I argue that in the arts and humanities a book is at least the equivalent of a grant, often double weighted in REF, bringing in QR funding.

I understand why you feel demoralised but you are so successful—SL with great publications. That matters.

And yes the system is rigged. Patronage is still a huge factor in success in the humanities

How demoralising. This is why many academics, literary scholars in particular, stop applying for funding. Have you tried different kinds of funding to fellowships eg AHRC catalyst (a network on medieval makers!)?

Meet a Medievalist Maker: James Paz — The Guild of Medievalist Makers

As the weather gets colder, warm the cockles of your creative-critical heart by reading our new Meet a Medievalist Maker blog post by @jamespaz.bsky.social, which is filled with fiery reflections on his 'ecocreative' process🔥

Read more by following the link below👇

PhD position on medieval representations of disability within the project DISMANTLE Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS) invites applications for a PhD position on medieval representations of disability within the project DISMANTLE (1.0 fte, 4 years / 0.8 fte, 5 y...

Please help spread the word #medievalsky!

Funded PhD position on medieval literary and artistic representations of disability as part of a Vidi project I will be leading that is funded by the Dutch Research Council:

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"Academic writing is a form of thinking. It’s not the transcription of thoughts already completed, but a process of thinking itself."

Six women bale hay with a red hay baling machine

Evelyn Dunbar was the only woman commissioned by the War Artists' Advisory Committee.

Discover D in our A-Z of women artists 👉 artuk.org/discover/curations/an-a-...

🧑‍🎨 Evelyn Mary Dunbar (1906–1960) 📸 Museum Wales

Research, old school style

So sorry

The original Brigadoon