Another interesting-looking CFP for @drinkingstudies.bsky.social bods. Call for proposals for a special collection for the journal 'Women’s Health' entitled “Sober Shifts: Women, Alcohol, and the Rise of a New Culture of Choice.” More details here:
journals.sagepub.com/topic/collec...
Front page of 7 Days supplement with the cover line ‘Wet to your whistle! Britain’s best railway pubs.’.
I’m in iWeekend today with a pick of pubs by railway stations. And right now I just happen to be on a train!
Yes to this but also I'm teaching today so weekend is also week for me today which is also bewildering
Job: Stockholm. FT / 1-year post that comprises 70% teaching and 30% professional development. #C19th specialism.
su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Ha ha me too.
But the concrete cows alone surely make it worth a trip.
Illustration of two knights in armour drinking beer from flasks poured from outdoor barrel on cart
It’s time to party Medieval style! 🍻⚔️
tephraarts.etsy.com/listing/4483...
A6 card design adapted from: Gottinger MS Philos 63 Belliforts f.86, 1405
#medieval #knights #marginalia
Thank you Victoria!
My new (and first) book, The Drunkard in Victorian Fiction and Culture is out in May with @edinburghup.bsky.social. You can now pre-order which is pretty cool. Even cooler is that you can get 30% off with this flyer/code. Recommend to your university library if you think it will be of interest. 🍷
Montage of front covers from Salvation Army newspapers, The War Cry and The Social Gazette
🥳We're so pleased to announce that two Salvation Army periodicals are now available on the British Newspaper Archive.
'The War Cry' for 1879-1985 & 'The Social Gazette' for its entire run of 1893-1917. A total of more than 70,000 pages! 🙌
www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/titles/BL/war-cry 🔒
BARS 2026 Conference Registration now OPEN!
We are pleased to announce that registration for the 2026 BARS Conference, Romantic Retrospection, hosted by the University of Birmingham, is now open.
The SRS invites applications for its Postdoctoral Fellowships, ŵ a stipend worth £15,000. SRS Fellows can hold jobs alongside their fellowship provided they do not take up more than the equivalent of 3 days a week over the course of the academic year. Apply by 30 April
rensoc.org.uk/apply/postdo...
Postdocs X 2 in #History Åbo Akademi University. The location of work is in Turku, Finland.
abo.rekrytointi.com/paikat/?o=A_... #skystorians 🗃️
Reminder to get those abstracts in this weekend for GMS, folks!!
Fascinating programme on the cutteslowe walls that divided the cutteslowe estate from a 'wealthier' housing estate including roads and pavement with spikes on top from 1934-59. Amazing! I lived in that area for years after I moved to Oxford and had no idea....
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/serie...
Does anyone know if this is just in the US or also true in the UK?
Better late than never! 👋 I'm excited to have the Gender Studies list at Routledge here on BlueSky and to connect with the brilliant scholars working across gender studies, and to hear about the research and projects unfolding right now. ✨
#GenderStudies #SexualityStudies #QueerStudies
Thanks for being interested in attending - that is lovely in itself. Glad to hear that it was very important business (B&B are essential to a good life) and nothing too boring that prevented you from coming along. I'll ask Janine about a recording. Hope it makes a good seasoning for your lunch...
It was recorded in the night so I could ask Arnos vale if they would share it for a donation (as it was a fundraiser) or you can read the original article here which was very fun to research: share.google/QIIhEmQxoYLf...
Running a writers retreat today for our People Development team at Bristol today. Lovely views with plenty of mysterious fog....
Can anyone recommend any good neo-Victorian novels from the last two years that I might have missed?
It's so good, isn't it. Let's chat about it next week!
Anyone seeking funding to examine esoteric academic dress (from outside the UK & Ireland)?
Yes! I sometimes dream about mackerel & pickle sandwiches under the bridge in Istanbul; Malaysian curries and vietnamese hot pots. I also mourn closed restaurants - there was a place in Bristol that did amazing crispy noodles (hard to find good ones in the UK) which closed 5 years ago - still missed
Can anyone help?
🧵I think a major misunderstanding about science is that people think it's about "facts". It isn't. Scientists might have thought that once, and many still do. But the core of scientific methodology is to find predictive MODELS. And famously, "all models are wrong, but some are useful". 1/N
A line of ducklings following their mummy along the walls of the uni library
Studious ducklings heading for library 🦆
Yes, I agree. I love the random photocopying stats best though I'm not sure why they please me so much.
Did you find it? Happy to check via Bristol if you are still stuck but on a quick look its not in our usual newspaper databases so if you have a link?