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James Kneale
@jameskneale.bsky.social
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Cultural/historical geographer at ucl working on drink/temperance, insurance, literary geographies, sf/fantastic/horror, &c. He/him. Journal of Victorian Culture co-editor @jofvictculture.bsky.social Drinking Studies Network starter pack gardener
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James Kneale @jameskneale.bsky.social · Nov 10
Inevitably, I've made a Drinking Studies Network starter pack based on the DSN's members list (drinkingstudies.wordpress.com/members-2/) If you don't want to be included, or if you see people I've missed and could add, please let me know!
go.bsky.app/4zgBneK
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James Kneale @jameskneale.bsky.social · 1h
Listening to someone talk about beer and remembering the old adage "never watch the Mummy with an Egyptologist"
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 1d
For reasons, it would be v. helpful to have information from a broad range of academic and non-academic (incl. GLAM) users of the BBC Written Archives OTHER THAN historians, briefly on: 1) What you've used it for and 2) How the proposed changes would impact on your research.

Reposts welcomed.
Historians dismayed by ‘scandal’ of BBC cutting access to...
Critics say new limit to trove of information sounds knell for independent research
observer.co.uk
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Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 1d
ONLY migrants though, no one else is to study English because it's a rip off and a waste of time, am I getting this right.
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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 1d
Well this will certainly do it www.gov.uk/government/n...
Migrants will be required to pass A Level standard of English
Migrants will be required to pass tough new English language requirements under a law introduced in Parliament today.
www.gov.uk
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Amílcar E. Challú @amilcarchallu.bsky.social · 2d
Question for #envhist and humanities peeps: I’m working on an outreach plan supporting a wetland restoration project. Does anybody have recommendations of authors or projects using history to increase public awareness on restoration projects?
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James Kneale @jameskneale.bsky.social · 2d
Source: www.hatads.org.uk/catalogue/re...
London Docklands Development Corporation (LDDC) Commercial: Crows III | Catalogue | History of Advertising Trust
www.hatads.org.uk
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James Kneale @jameskneale.bsky.social · 2d
Welp, I'm sure my cultural references from a 1983-84 ad campaign - the East End gangsters the Crow Brothers, Wedgie Crow and Wally Crow - landed pretty squarely with this international audience of 18-year-olds
Two humanoid crows wearing hats and dark glasses sit in an East End pub drinking lager.
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James Kneale @jameskneale.bsky.social · 4d
I may have just shouted 'ave it!' at the 14.52 mark of 'The People Matter' on @warringtonruncorn.com's brilliant new album 'Public works and utilities'.
The cover of the album Public Works and Utilities, showing an office with lots of files on shelves and some people at a table
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Sarah Dempster @dempster2000.bsky.social · 4d
7 reasons why The Thing (1982) is a Christmas film:

1) snow
2) bearded men concealing surprises
3) compulsory party games
4) introverts shunning group activities
5) digestive issues
6) revellers bursting open to reveal partially assimilated canine lifeforms
7) knitwear
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Cultural Geography Specialty Group @culturalgeogsg.bsky.social · 5d
Email CGSG Awards Director ([email protected]) with questions!
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e. kinkaid (they/them) @queergeog.bsky.social · Sep 11
New pub alert! Check out our reflections on how to reach the history of geography in more critical and inclusive ways! An all-star cast of commentators! Conceptual reorientations and practical strategies! www.tandfonline.com/eprint/C7HMD...
Whose Geography, Whose History? Reimagining How We Teach the History of Geography
In this roundtable, we share our reflections on how to teach more critical histories of geography in Anglo-American institutions. Ashutosh offers a contrapuntal reading of the history of geography,...
www.tandfonline.com
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James Kneale @jameskneale.bsky.social · 5d
Ignore the naff contemporary title and the 7 minute running time, this 1976 Nationwide film about a crofter cycling 22 miles offroad over the Cairngorms to his local is both charming and terrifying. Like much of the 1970s, really. youtu.be/cZk2jV5gJbM
1976: BIG JIM's Big BOOZY Bike Trip to Braemar | Nationwide | Weird and Wonderful | BBC Archive
YouTube video by BBC Archive
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 5d
UK Universities cut 12,000 jobs, more on the way.

40% of Unis in financial crisis.

Major exporter destroyed by successive govts

Obstacles for foreign students.
Low fees in England, lack of govt funding.
£267bn student debt.
Home student numbers down.

How will the UK compete with other nations?
Thousands more university jobs cut as financial crisis deepens
University workers will vote on national strike action this month over a 1.4% pay offer made in the summer.
www.bbc.co.uk
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Dr Claire Markham @culturalclare.bsky.social · 8d
It was great to be part of this podcast

Has the price of a pint become unaffordable? www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/Article/2025...
Has the price of a pint become unaffordable?
The Lock In podcast explores the escalating price of a pint and asks the questions - has the pint become unaffordable?
www.morningadvertiser.co.uk
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James Kneale @jameskneale.bsky.social · 5d
...and then there's @ruthslatter.bsky.social and Edward Brookes' introduction to the @areajournal.bsky.social 'Participatory historical geographies' special section, which I am very much looking forward to reading rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... (1/2)
Area | RGS Geography Journal | Wiley Online Library
Over the past two decades, historical geographers have increasingly embraced participatory methods to challenge dominant narratives and engage communities in the production of historical knowledge. T...
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James Kneale @jameskneale.bsky.social · 5d
Some great historical geography papers on @areajournal.bsky.social's early view pages - Ben Newman's paper 'Making geography move: The Royal Geographical Society and the exchange of periodical knowledge, 1830–1900' for one... rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... ... (1/2)
Area | RGS Geography Journal | Wiley Online Library
This paper examines how the Royal Geographical Society's (RGS's) Library and Map Committee disciplined the exchange of the first English-language geographical journal in the nineteenth century. The p...
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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 6d
Many congratulations to my colleagues in the Forms of Labour project team on the publication of their new monograph! 🗃️👏🎉

Brilliantly, The Experience of Work in #EarlyModern England is available open access:

www.cambridge.org/core/books/e...

news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...
A woman’s place was not in the home: New book challenges assumptions about women’s work in early modern history
New research has revealed that women played a fundamental role in the development of England’s national economy before 1700. Far from being the unpaid homemakers and housewives of traditional historic...
news.exeter.ac.uk
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James Kneale @jameskneale.bsky.social · 7d
The Abba holograms will soundtrack the heat death of the universe
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 7d
you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones
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James Kneale @jameskneale.bsky.social · 7d
We heard about smoking rooms and smoking jackets...
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James Kneale @jameskneale.bsky.social · 8d
Enjoyed Ivan Marković's seminar on the 'atmospheric politics of smoking in modern Britain' at today's @lghgseminar.bsky.social seminar, the first in this term's 'Bad Habits' series. Three stories from his book, prompting many questions & thoughtful answers www.bloomsbury.com/uk/atmospher...
An Atmospheric History of Smoking in Modern Britain
This book studies the historiography of smoking in modern Britain, with a focus on the social, cultural, and emotional aspects of the practice.Centring on four…
www.bloomsbury.com
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Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social · 8d
Think While You Drink on Thurs features Local Archaeologist & Brewer Nick Fitzgerald and Heritage Brewer @beernouveau.co.uk. Together, they'll explore what early (pre-historic) beers might have tasted like, and what flavours are still used today.

goodchemistrybrewing.co.uk/pages/think-...
Think While You Drink
Join Good Chemistry and Drinking Studies Network for a series of free talks designed to make you THINK WHILE YOU DRINK! Bringing interesting talks on beers, brewing, pubs, the industry and wider drink...
goodchemistrybrewing.co.uk
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Ben Mechen @benmechen.bsky.social · 9d
On Weds we welcome @katrinanavickas.bsky.social to IHR @cont-brit-hist.bsky.social seminar

Katrina will talk abt "Public space + popular protest in 20thC England: enclosure, resistance + commoning"

In-person/hybrid. All welcome, register here!
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

@ihr.bsky.social
Public space and popular protest in 20th century England: enclosure, resistance and commoning
This session draws from the book, Contested Commons: a History of Protest and Public Space in England
www.history.ac.uk
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Colm Murphy @colmpm.bsky.social · 8d
*Calling PhD students of modern British and imperial history in London*

The @ihrbritainseminar.bsky.social's first session this Thursday (9 Oct.) is dedicated to PhDs, at any stage, for elevator pitches and meet-and-greet. Do come along! Details in the link.

www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
New PhD Student Session
For the first session of term we will be hosting a meet and greet at the IHR for all PhD students in modern British and imperial history.
www.history.ac.uk
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James Kneale @jameskneale.bsky.social · 8d
Thanks Pam!
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James Kneale @jameskneale.bsky.social · 8d
Another fantastic online seminar from the Women and Alcohol cluster of the @drinkingstudies.bsky.social coming up in November!
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Women & Alcohol (DSN Research Cluster) @womenandalcohol.bsky.social · 8d
Our next online seminar will take place on 6 November at 12.00 midday. Louisa Niesen, European University Institute will speak on 'Alcohol Consumption among Women Tourists, 1880-1914'. This event is online. More information and how to get the zoom link here:

www.womenandalcohol.net/2025/10/onli...
Online seminar - Alcohol Consumption among Women Tourists, 1880-1914
Project: Between the drunken ‘mother of destruction’ and the sober ‘angel of the house’.
www.womenandalcohol.net
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