A picture of a rather dilapidated copy of "The picture of Dorian Gray" There is visible water damage to the cover and the plastic cover is yellowing. Obviously, not evident from the picture but there is a truly foul musty smell emanating from it!

Last week, a gentleman returned this rather dilapidated copy of this famous book to us after 50 years. He had found it in his attic!
Presumably this means there is a pristine copy somewhere in our libraries....

Hit a small snag in my research. Some of the records I need haven’t been digitized by the London Archives as far as I can tell. Anyone know of where I can find digitized lists of prisoners from the Tower of London from 1500 to 1700? #medievalsky #earlymodern

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Obituary: Frank O'Gorman, 1940–2025 Click on the article title to read more.

Here is an obituary for Frank O'Gorman, an important historian of British politics and former president of @bsecs.bsky.social, who died last year. It will appear in a future issue of JECS. It was a privilege to help put this together.
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Job Opportunity at Lancaster University: Lecturer in Theatre Lecturer in TheatreThe School of Arts at Lancaster University is seeking to appoint a new Lecturer in Theatre. We especially welcome applications from candidates with practical expertise in theatre te...

What's that? A rare permanent academic job? Come join me in our School of Arts as a Lecturer in Theatre!

"We especially welcome ... candidates with practical expertise in theatre technologies, digital media, intermediality or related areas of theatre practice."

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📢 Our next seminar is scheduled for Tuesday 21 April with our own Harrie Neal presenting a paper on: "The Edgeworths, Ireland’s Bogs, and Improvement"
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An enormous thank you to everyone who shared Black History Walks' event and the fundraiser for Bill Richmond and Tom Molineaux's blue plaque. A story that's visible is a story remembered.

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Thanks so much - I will *absolutely* do that!

i just think it’s really sad that we just accept greenwich mean time and never think about greenwich kind time

Cover of book with text in yellow reading: The Firearm Revolution: From Renaissance Italy to the European Empires, overlaid on an image of an angel in seventeenth-century dress with wings and a long gun.

Hello Bluesky! My new book, THE FIREARM REVOLUTION, is out on 14 April. It’s about how a new technology changed society, and how hard it was to control. Here’s a little thread of what’s inside:

Replace every how-to-publish panel with one on the material realities of publishing. This is where I’m at.

The 2026 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History - Digital History Seminar SUBMIT YOUR NOMINATION HERE BEFORE 31 MAY Richard Deswarte (1965-2021) was one of the founding convenors of the Digital History seminar at the Institute of Historical Research (IHR), University of Lon...

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Looking for a third person to join a panel for WSFH in Memphis. Currently both papers touch on the Dreyfus Affair and after, organized roughly around moral claims and political action. 🗃️

The first series of my podcast is finally at 'COMING SOON'!
& I'm very excited about this.

We're delighted to be collaborating w/ @ukiedh.bsky.social's CIG PeTRA for our next big event: if you're an #ECR #skystorian handling #difficultdata as part of your research or practice, consider joining PeTRA today to advocate for greater safeguards! 👇

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On old hardback book. The text on the cover, in black and red, reads 'True Tales from the annals of Crime & Rascality' by St. Clair McKelway.

I'm always on the lookout for old books with great titles (and sometimes use them as prompts for short stories) and this is a terrific one

I cannot recommend @the-ciep.bsky.social's core copyediting courses & its amazing tutors - particularly my own, @janesimmonds.bsky.social - more highly.
Get thees to one, #AcademicSky editors!

Thank you so much to @bookishbeck.bsky.social for this generous review of ‘The Way the Water Held Me’ 💙🌊

Frederic Leighton's 1895 painting "Flaming June" with the words "Belonging to the Victorians? Community, Collections, and Care" and "A One Day Conference 4 September 2026" superimposed on it.

CFP: Belonging to the Victorians? Community, Collections, and Care - 4 September 2026 - Keynote Address @janehamlett.bsky.social 🌟This conference examines how the 19th century shaped ideas of belonging through its landscapes, laws and collections, and how its legacies still shape heritage today 1/7

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Call for papers: Modern British History and the 'Environmental Turn'

A two-day workshop organised by
@andrewseaton.bsky.social and myself at Lincoln College, Oxford, 16-17 September. Deadline for abstracts is 15 May.

Details in poster below!

Black Motorway sign that says End in Orange letters indicating the end of traffic hanging over lanes of traffic

Bit of an ominous sign

Proust, finding lost time in the last place he looked.

A 'Dinosaur Smarties' Easter egg.

Erm, they're called palaeontologists, actually.

The shop front of Burns the Bread's Glastonbury bakery: redbrick, glazed, maroon and cream signage, shelves of bread and cakes...

Estate agent: Bob Burns also lives in the village. Er, yes, and Nicolas Cage too, I think.

To the maker-happener of Glastonbury pasties & local research projects (including one of my own)!

A shop front, with the company, Perky Blenders' logo and the tag line "SPECIALTY COFFEE ROASTERS".