Eleanor Lucy Bird (@eleanorlucybird) 's Twitter Profile
Eleanor Lucy Bird

@eleanorlucybird

Canada and slavery, transatlantic print culture, nineteenth-century literature
Research Associate @davynotebooks

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British Association for Romantic Studies (@bars_official) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Exciting news! The BARS/Wordsworth Grasmere Fellowship is now open for applications - deadline 15 December. See the blog post below for more information! bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=4877

Exciting news! The BARS/<a href="/WordsworthGras/">Wordsworth Grasmere</a> Fellowship is now open for applications - deadline 15 December. See the blog post below for more information!
bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=4877
afua cooper (@afuacooper) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Announcement of the Lord Dal Report on Race & Slavery. As a result of my efforts, Dalhousie University issued an official apology to people of African descent on 5th Sept 2019. No other Canadian university has uncovered their links to slavery. I am honoured to have led this work.

MATTHEW DANIEL EDDY 🌻 @bookscribbler.bsky.social (@bookscribbler) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Fabulous to see the Guardian's article about the Sir Humphry Davy Notebooks Project - Prof Sharon Ruston Reams of secret poetry by pioneering British scientist finally come to light theguardian.com/science/2023/d…

Natasha Henry-Dixon, PhD (@nhenrydixon) 's Twitter Profile Photo

My chapter “Where, Oh Where, is Bet?”: Locating Enslaved Black Women on the Ontario Landscape” is in this phenomenal collection!

CLARE SAMBROOK (@claresambrook) 's Twitter Profile Photo

"I find the idea of people who are sitting on houses worth several times what they paid for them, wishing hardship upon the first generation to have things harder than their parents, really quite perverse.” David Olusoga in The Lead | theleaduk.substack.com thelead.uk/david-olusoga-…

Davy Notebooks Project (@davynotebooks) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We still have places available on our Davy Notebooks event at Lancaster Library on 21 March 12-2pm. Book your free ticket here: tinyurl.com/4rdmt4sz. Help us to research the people, places and chemical terms in Davy's notebooks and learn about the poetry we’ve discovered!

We still have places available on our Davy Notebooks event at Lancaster Library on 21 March 12-2pm. Book your free ticket here: tinyurl.com/4rdmt4sz.

Help us to research the people, places and chemical terms in Davy's notebooks and learn about the poetry we’ve discovered!
Lancaster Black History Group (@lancasterblack) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Join Lancaster Black History Group at LIT FEST Lancaster Litfest (online or in person) The Lancaster Slavery Business: Connected Histories of Commodities & Commerce with @ProfImogenTyler Alan Rice, @profgpw jamesfoxtextileart bella tyler 🍉 Lela Harris & Bronte Crawford crowdcast.io/c/xwbm4f1ex8tw

Prof Sharon Ruston (@sharonruston) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I've had an article published on 'Protean Forms in Humphry Davy's Notebooks' in Notes and Records of the Royal Society and it's open access: royalsocietypublishing.org/eprint/RSZVT9A…

Chemistry World (@chemistryworld) 's Twitter Profile Photo

A historian on the project to digitise and transcribe Humphry Davy's diaries, Eleanor Lucy Bird, discusses her thoughts on how we should curate his legacy, especially in light of some of the darker aspects of his life that have been revealed. chemistryworld.com/opinion/engagi…

Dr. Jim Downs (@jimdowns1) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Thrilled this is published. I explain how the transatlantic slave trade coincided w/ the rise of chemistry as a field, which crystalized ideas about oxygen.I then track ventilation from the c19 slavey to TB to CoVid to BLM. Thanks Jacob Steere-Williams &  Hirshbein for excellent

Thrilled this is published. I explain how the transatlantic slave trade coincided w/ the rise of chemistry as a field, which crystalized ideas about oxygen.I then track ventilation from the  c19 slavey to TB to CoVid to BLM. Thanks <a href="/steerewilliams/">Jacob Steere-Williams</a> &amp;  Hirshbein for excellent
C19Gender Studies (@c19gsjournal) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Consider submitting an article to Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies! We'd love to see your work. You can find our submission guidelines here: ncgsjournal.com/submissions.ht…

Cheryl Thompson (@drcherylt) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I am so excited to share that my book, Canada and the Blackface Atlantic is available for pre-order. This is one of the first books of its kind to use the stage as the platform to explain Canadian history!! @wlupress wlupress.wlu.ca/Books/C/Canada…. #NewBook #HistoryUncovered #PreOrder

Women's Studies Group 1558-1837 (@wsguk) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Our bursary scheme is now open for applications! ÂŁ750 available to early career researchers, independent scholars, or PhD students working on women's studies in our period (1558-1837). Deadline: 15 Dec 2024. Please spread the word! #funding #ECR #PhD womensstudiesgroup.org/bursary/

Jonathan Aitken (@drjonaitken) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Something a little different this weekend - on the BBC News Channel talking about the humanoid robots competing in the half-marathon in Beijing!

Something a little different this weekend - on the BBC News Channel talking about the humanoid robots competing in the half-marathon in Beijing!
Jonathan Aitken (@drjonaitken) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Great chatting about recent developments in AI and Robotics yesterday with the fantastic silé sibanda on BBC Radio Sheffield! The piece starts about 1:10:40 into yesterday's programme: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…