Post title: "Sooner or Later it All Gets Done: How History Emerges from Small Details"; image of a 16th c prayerbook manuscript page with a tab in the margin, VLB HS 17 fol. 216

History is sometimes an act of accumulation: 397 folios. Hundreds of candles. Countless tiny details.

Today’s blog post discusses reading for details that earlier editors thought didn’t matter.

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In defence of boredom – Why the social sciences need time to “waste” - Impact of Social Sciences Why has boredom, or simply the opportunity to linger over research, become a key issue in shaping the kinds of knowledge academics produce?

💥New: In defence of boredom – Why the social sciences need time to “waste”

✍️ Madiha Tariq

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This week I’ve got stuck into working on a piece of research I started writing up in 2012 – it’s on my favourite short-lived paragraph of the Immigration Restriction Act 1901. My last attempt at finishing it was in 2020, but this time it’s for real! #slowscholarship 🗃️

The Bartender and the Lost Literary Masterpiece How a Manchester native rescued “Caliban Shrieks,” Jack Hilton’s working-class opus.

A great article exemplifying research skills that go beyond a google search ... #slowscholarship #detectivework #recoveryresearchpraxis www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...

we’re hosting a form re: moral injury in academia to discuss the (traumatizing) effects of managerialism and neoliberalism in general on our research. Care, compassion and breaking isolation are needed 💔 #SlowScholarship

Solidarity in #slowscholarship 🙌

Love this. I also value #slowscholarship and having the time to think and not just do.

Coffee cup and printed draft on front of a cafe window - showing green plants in the foreground and a footpath outside the window

Finishing our chapter edits - just the right coffee and space needed! #writing #slowscholarship #getthemanuscriptout #collaboration

And then there's granting agencies that see history only as 'outreach' and insist their funded scientists produce historical material without advanced training, because, well, humanities are easy and science isn't. Aargh! #slowscholarship #bogushierarchies