SMT promised that our pay uplift would come in February, but it didn't. We asked them why, and they responded - a full 17 days after payday! - that they were deferring it again. A clear breach of UCEA's requirement to consult trade unions *in advance* about any deferrals.
Look I also think it’s weird when people call Austen ‘Jane’ but using the pronoun ‘it’ to refer to her is probably overcorrection.
A UCU picket line in front of a glass fronted building. People are standing and talking to one another, holding placards reading ’No Compulsory Redundancies’.
A more oblique camera angle showing the same UCU picket line in front of a glass fronted building. People are standing and talking to one another, holding placards reading ’No Compulsory Redundancies’.
Beautiful day for a picket with #UCU members in the Centre for Academic Language and Development, 45 of whom have been put at risk of compulsory redundancy. This is the first of TWENTY ONE days of strike action voted for by these members.
A table containing various items printed at bristol common press for sale.
A picture of The Bristol Mercury, a single sheet newspaper printed at bristol common press
Two printed items, The Prayer of Jonas and an early modern ‘indulgence’ in Latin
Two posters with the text ‘Book history for printers, printing for book historians: Bristol Common Press’
Bristol Common Press is ready to peddle at the @srsrensoc.bsky.social conference. We are printing two issues of the Bristol Mercury, the conference’s very own newspaper, and delegates can get involved by having a go at printing issues & submitting notices for inclusion in issue 2. Come find us!
My piece for History Workshop looks back at what feels, I'm sure to me and so many other academics in the UK, like a decade-long crisis in universities. A crisis of politics, of a particularly venomous form of "education as market" ideology, and now a crisis of desperate, annihilating job cuts. 1/2
(For a sense of what we do at BCP see our insta: www.instagram.com/bristolcommonpress) 4/3
historical print shop & its 3 printing presses, to have a look at some of the things we’ve printed, and to discuss practice-based research more broadly. Despite what form says, we aren’t asking participants to do anything in advance, and people presenting papers etc. can still join us. 3/3
It’s not really a seminar because it’s really a workshop: we put it in this section because we need to limit numbers. It’ll be an opportunity for folk interested in early modern print cultures to hear about the research projects we are running at Bristol Common Press, to explore our working 2/3
If you’re attending the @srsrensoc.bsky.social conference in Bristol this summer (or thinking about it), please consider signing up to our (not-really-a-)seminar, ‘Mechanick Exercises in the History of the Book’. You can find a description and sign up link here: www.rensoc.org.uk/rensoc25-sem... 1/3
Don’t forget to sign up for these exciting seminars!
Deadline 22 January
#RenSoc25 #EarlyModern #Skystorians
So this is very exciting! We have 16 places on our AHRC-funded Print Matters Summer School. There is no course fee, and applicants get 4 nights B&B accommodation and a travel bursary of up to £100. The Summer School is open to all disciplines and career stages.
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Time to wheel out archiveses, precious.
Wait are we using ‘archives’ in the singular now? I must have missed the twitter discourse about this.
We’re certain IA operatives didn’t abseil down into PQ HQ through a skylight, dodge the lasers, and replace the microfilms with their hat?
Am starting to wonder if some members of UCU HEC are in the pay of Civica Election Services.
And no doubt the point was made that an unsuccessful ballot does not = ‘action’.
Presumably the working theory is that the 73% of members who didn’t even vote in the consultative ballot are absolutely desperate to take industrial action, and don’t get out of bed for anything less than a proper IA ballot.
I think my eyes have slid over Bounce to Fop at some point but I will look again. It would be good to have more poems by dogs (2) than men (1) on the unit.
18th century historians: if you have an article nearing completion that you'd like a round of detailed feedback on in a friendly London setting, consider applying to join our '4* Society' on 19 February.
Funding available to cover childcare, travel, and free lunch
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I don’t think I know these poems…? Unless you mean ‘whose [dog / fool] are you?’?
As in in ‘English Bards’?
Double points!
I have no idea! Yes, Oroonoko is week 2, then Fantomina, then we inexplicably jump to Doris Lessing and hang around in C20th and 21st.
My question: can you think of other instances of this i.e. an exposure of some piece of writing as (disguised) autofiction / self-insert. Ideally for satirical purposes / as attack on author, but not necessarily. Needn’t be #C18th.
#C18 Given fact I spent much of autumn writing about Swift’s /Lady’s Dressing Room/ and Montagu’s response (‘The Reason’s that Induc’d Dr Swift…’ &c.), I might include them in my unit The Author as Character, because Montagu’s response weaponises the authorial fallacy: Swift = Strephon, etc. 1/2
Watch out, it’s another handbook:
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Come for essays by the luminaries of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century studies, be momentarily distracted by me arguing that ‘Bites and Shams’ are a bit like surprise parties.
(This actually represents several week’s work, not all of it by me, but not all those days were good and many of them some time ago)
This is beautifully done.
Printed sheets in octavo format hung up to dry in a print shop. 4 sheets are cisible, the camera focussed on the ornamental title page in the background. The title, ‘four sheets to the wind,’ is legible, and there is a linocut engraving of a pile of books beneath it.
Another view of a printed sheet, with a second typeset title page visible. A wooden replica eighteenth-century common press is in the background.
The camera focusses on a sheet hanging on a line, visible between the blurred edges of two sheets hanging on a dofferent line in the foreground. 6 of the 8 octavo pages are partially visible.
A printed sheet in octavo format still attached to the tympan of a replica eighteenth-century common press
A good couple of days work in the print shop at the end of this week.