Whether or not you have been to the Kederminster Library at Langley Marish (now in the suburbs of Slough), do share this one abd consider visiting. It’s utterly spectacular and worth a long journey. langleymarish.com/stmary/keder... - hats off for them for seeing that is open to be visited.
Cervical cancer death rates in the United Kingdom have fallen by 80% since 1950 Reported deaths from cervical cancer per 100,000 women. In 1950, there were 8.6 deaths from cervical cancer per 100,000 women By 2021, this had fallen to 1.7
Your slow news story for the day: Death rates for cervical cancer in the United Kingdom have fallen by 80% since 1950 from 8.6 deaths per 100,000 women to 1.7
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There is a major exhibition ‘The Story of Us: Independent Ireland and the 1926 Census’ and I’m delighted that we are hosting this in London at @britishacademy.bsky.social from 24 April - 15 May. Free entry and no booking required. Pop in if you are around!
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Our friends @cecs-york.bsky.social have a really exciting programme over the next few weeks starting with their Annual Copley Lecture: Prof Ros Ballaster, 'The sense of touch and the shaping of the woman artist in the #18thC'
#history #womenshist #skystorians
www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...
Odesa , Ukraine , April 2026
I am genuinely thrilled to see this, and if it feels like no big deal to you, I would refer you to five years ago, when people in Westminster hyped the Turing scheme& argued that Erasmus was pointless anyway since British students did not like to go abroad.
It is beyond ridiculous that a government that is allegedly concerned about social cohesion and the rise of populism is doing nothing to stop this latest act of vandalism against the BBC.
Photo of 'the cages' in Marsh's Library
Image of blue tits and kingfisher in gouache on vellum, c.1730
Page from a 16th century herbal showing hand-coloured poppies
Applications for the inaugural 'Museum Plinth Project' close this Friday 17th April. The residency offers artists a 6-month residency to engage with the collections of Marsh's Library or the National Museum. visualartists.ie/advert/open-...
#MCRHumNetwork is looking for a social scientist or a humanist with experience in surveys to carry out research on the life and work histories of MCRs in UK during Academic Year 2026/2027 on a self-employed basis. We apply for a @britishacademy.bsky.social Small Grant.
Full-funded (home or international) collaborative PhD studentship (Kew and Royal Holloway, University of London) available. Deadline 8 May.
Topic: ‘Just acquisitions? Law and ethics over time in Kew’s overseas plant collecting history’ #Skystorians
#CFP: RADICAL PRINT CULTURE IN THE LONG 18TH-CENTURY
Join us for a day long discussion of the political power of print, featuring keynote lectures by Dr Helen Williams & Dr Esther Chadwick & a handling session inside the Borthwick Archives.
More Info:
www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...
#18c #18thC
The UKVI rejected the application, explaining that they were not satisfied the applicant was genuine given they had quoted the wrong founding year. The university subsequently confirmed that the applicant had provided the correct year and the UKVI caseworker was incorrect, but the decision could not be reconsidered. In another case a foreign student was rejected from obtaining a visa to study at the University of East Anglia due to a dispute over whether the university was in Norfolk. The applicant asserted correctly that it was, but the UKVI caseworker appeared to confuse Norfolk with Norwich, which is the capital of the county, and rejected the application - believing the applicant was wrong.
I hope the new Permanent Secretary at the Home Office is going to be able to look at the UK Visas and Immigration’s practices
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Listen up: I am one of those rare sex assault victims who actually took the guy who did it to court. It was a local scandal that put my initials on the front page of the local paper (not my whole name because I was a minor).
You have no idea what happens to women on the stand or in the press.
”I believe that everyone ought, in duty, to do any good they can.”
The man who saved children: Thomas Coram, English sea captain, philanthropist & founder of London’s Foundling Hospital, world’s first incorporated charity.
Portrait 1740 by William Hogarth (1697-1764).
Foundling Museum
Book bans often target women's stories (Handmaid's Tale, Color Purple, The Hill We Climb) and women's stories are also absent in school curricula. Where state standards focus on women in history, they emphasize domestic roles, rather than women's work or activism.
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May I interest you in £10k for humanities or social science research? Our small grants scheme is open. Apply by 3rd June.
We allocate through partial randomisation - awarding randomly between all applications that meet our quality threshold
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
At QMUL:
- 99 language modules cut
- 50 language modules marked as 'to be confirmed'
- single honours language degrees in questions
- 'possible futures' includes the closure of languages at QMUL altogether
The harm done to language studies is immense, and ramifications are not going to be pretty.
Languages are falling into a vicious cycle that will be difficult to break.
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/uk-job-...
Specially for @drbibliomane.bsky.social, some wisteria in the spring sunshine.
Beard retired from teaching just before AI arrived on campus in earnest, but she is optimistic that it won't replace what she thinks matters most in humanities degrees, namely "what's going on in your head and how you make that more acute, more intelligent, smarter and more sophisticated and complicated. I think Al's got very little to do with that - almost nothing. That's about you and me having a discussion."
She’s not worried that AI will replace the humanities
Can anyone find the dates for Elizabeth Randall Keating, wife of Col Thomas Keating (1734–1780), in the East India Company’s service; his 1764 letter applied for permission to take his wife with him to Bombay?
#ChoixGoncourtUK les étudiants ont tranché: c'est Laurent Mauvignier qui gagne avec son merveilleux roman "La Maison Vide" @heleneduchene.bsky.social (bientôt traduit en anglais par @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social)
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We are delighted to announce that registration for our Annual Conference is now open.🔔
The conference will take place at the University of Leicester, 29 June - 1 July 2026.
See link below to register and check out the provisional programme:
www.sfs.ac.uk/conferences/...
Hawskmoor towers at All Souls under a sunny sky
Arriving at work last week in the spring sunshine.
How do you start your mornings? ⛅️
Warm wood, sage green walls, and the soft gleam of brass. A young woman bends gently toward her coffee service, lost in the quiet ritual of morning.
🖼️ Jean-Etienne Liotard, A Dutch Girl at Breakfast, c. 1756
👁️ Discover more: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/20021964
It’s been out a while now, but Rosemary Sweet and I have written a book about #18thcentury British travel to Spain and Portugal that is free to download here!
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