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Revolutions and rubles, godlings and fascist symbols, Shakespeare and silk: ten historians choose their favourite new history books of 2023. Read on at buff.ly/3RbfC4B

Fully funded PhD to study gender and early modern wills at the University of Exeter with our wonderful Leverhulme Trust 'Material Culture of Wills' project: details here exeter.ac.uk/study/funding/… Deadline 6 Feb

Looking forward to revisiting old work and thinking about new projects… still time to join!

Submit an essay for our Roy Porter Prize by 5pm 1 Feb for a chance to win cash prizes, mentoring for publication, and conference plenary! #DisHist #HistNursing #HistPsych #SciHist #Twitterstorians #AcademicTwitter #MedHist #HistSTM sshm.org/portfolio/priz…

The people who “ try to change what’s written in our history books” are called “historians.” It is literally the job description. There is also a word - several in fact - for the people who pretend not to understand this, as I’m sure you know

New article ahoy!

This looks great! ❤️ A new theatre group in Bristol for people with lived experience of self harm. Involving Alanna Skuse, Self injury Support and acta Bristol acta-bristol.com/get-involved/g… #Bristol #SelfHarm #Theatre

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan… Self injury Support SelfInjury SelfHelp Bristol Live Connecting Research Rethink Mental Illness UWE Bristol Women's Network Bristol SU

So excited to see this coming together… we will have a zine from the project coming soon, watch this space!

We are appealing to you to gather up general election leaflets & post them to us. We collect election-related materials for all the candidates in all the UK constituencies. Image: Leaflets from previous elections. See our blog: tinyurl.com/yeys5k93 #GE2024 #GeneralElection2024

Hi #twitterstorians ! Can anyone tell me what a 17thC ‘Caule’ might be? As in ‘their brains are beaten out with the butt end of a cauls’? (Yes, it’s my lovely flowery research topics again) #weaponshistory #earlymodern #seventeenthcentury

Much scepticism about the Olympia opening ceremony on here but it accurately highlighted the three keystones of French culture: beheading, threesomes and disco. #ParisOlympics2024 #OpeningCeremony

It’s up! A 12 month 0.5 FTE post on my project editing the letters of Hannah More. Based at Bristol, supported by me and Jenny Batt and the lovely ⁦The Hannah More Society⁩ team. If you have DH skills apply! Senior Research Associate at University of Bristol jobs.ac.uk/job/DKG535/sen…

In case @telegraph readers are interested, this is a response to the story re @CanterbruyCCUni's decision to close its excellent English dept.

So close to Chalke History Festival that I can almost smell the acrid smell of cordite... Can't wait till Monday when I will be talking to Alanna Skuse about Doctors, ancient and modern and our ongoing battle with ageing and quackery. Her book is brilliant too oneworld-publications.com/work/the-surge…

Today’s the day for my double bill at Chalke History Festival Alanna Skuse Hope to see you there! We're talking ageing and renaissance medicine