Dr Amara Thornton
@amalexathorn.bsky.social
Historian of archaeology, Co-Investigator of Beyond Notability @beyondnotables.bsky.social, Co-Editor (with Dr Katy Soar), Strange Relics (Handheld Press, 2022). Website: https://www.amarathornton.com/; Agent: @agentbal.bsky.social @mmagency.bsky.social
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'Experiences of precarity among early career academics are shaped by a lack of understanding from more senior colleagues'
Important new report out on precarious working conditions in Geography in UK HE. Sadly the nature and scale of the findings are grim but unsurprising. www.rgs.org/research/hig...
States of precarity in UK Higher Education geography
Findings from a discipline-focused research project exploring the lived realities of precarious academic work within UK Higher Education geography.
www.rgs.org
November 21, 2025 at 2:14 PM
'Experiences of precarity among early career academics are shaped by a lack of understanding from more senior colleagues'
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'Research-only staff face “acute insecurity”, the survey found, with 64 per cent on fixed-term contracts, and nearly two-thirds feeling insecure about their future.' 2/2
November 21, 2025 at 9:00 AM
'Research-only staff face “acute insecurity”, the survey found, with 64 per cent on fixed-term contracts, and nearly two-thirds feeling insecure about their future.' 2/2
This should be interesting...
Released today, the ‘Who Stays and Who leaves: Mapping Arts, Culture and Heritage Careers’ report.
@ncace.bsky.social
pec.ac.uk/state_of_the...
@ncace.bsky.social
pec.ac.uk/state_of_the...
Who Stays and Who Leaves? Mapping Arts, Culture and Heritage Careers - Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre
Read the latest State of the Nations research report from University of Sheffield on mapping arts, culture and heritage careers.
pec.ac.uk
November 19, 2025 at 1:25 PM
This should be interesting...
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I very much appreciate research at scale on the representativeness of and biases in digitized archival collections.
Some examples below.
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Some examples below.
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November 18, 2025 at 5:08 PM
I very much appreciate research at scale on the representativeness of and biases in digitized archival collections.
Some examples below.
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Some examples below.
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⏰NEW EPISODE OUT TODAY⏰
Austen and Brontë: Unmasking Slavery Heiresses
@willdalrymple.bsky.social and @anitaanand.bsky.social are joined by Dr Miranda Kauffman, to discuss the often-ignored connections between these famous authors and slavery heiresses.
Austen and Brontë: Unmasking Slavery Heiresses
@willdalrymple.bsky.social and @anitaanand.bsky.social are joined by Dr Miranda Kauffman, to discuss the often-ignored connections between these famous authors and slavery heiresses.
November 13, 2025 at 4:20 PM
⏰NEW EPISODE OUT TODAY⏰
Austen and Brontë: Unmasking Slavery Heiresses
@willdalrymple.bsky.social and @anitaanand.bsky.social are joined by Dr Miranda Kauffman, to discuss the often-ignored connections between these famous authors and slavery heiresses.
Austen and Brontë: Unmasking Slavery Heiresses
@willdalrymple.bsky.social and @anitaanand.bsky.social are joined by Dr Miranda Kauffman, to discuss the often-ignored connections between these famous authors and slavery heiresses.
What's this? @helleborezine.bsky.social in the Guardian! www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... @mjpcuervo.bsky.social
‘Demonic’ Wind in the Willows jumper banned from Westminster Abbey
Woman told to remove or cover up garment featuring 1908 illustration of Pan lest it offend worshippers
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:06 AM
What's this? @helleborezine.bsky.social in the Guardian! www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... @mjpcuervo.bsky.social
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Since it’s University Press Week #UPweek, a shout out to my amazing colleagues at University of London Press @uolpress.bsky.social. They are flying the flag for open humanities publishing.
November 10, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Since it’s University Press Week #UPweek, a shout out to my amazing colleagues at University of London Press @uolpress.bsky.social. They are flying the flag for open humanities publishing.
Aymer's wife Lucy is in our @beyondnotables.bsky.social database beyond-notability.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Item:Q3...
November 3, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Aymer's wife Lucy is in our @beyondnotables.bsky.social database beyond-notability.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Item:Q3...
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Lost grave of daughter of Black abolitionist Olaudah Equiano found by A-level student
Lost grave of daughter of Black abolitionist Olaudah Equiano found by A-level student
Fitzwilliam Museum has uncovered student’s work from 1977 that revealed Cambridgeshire location of child’s burial place
An A-level pupil found the lost grave of the Black abolitionist Olaudah Equiano’s daughter, revealing a story of love and solidarity in 18th-century rural England.
Olaudah Equiano (1745-1797), also known as Gustavus Vassa, escaped enslavement to become a celebrated author and campaigner in Georgian England. His memoir, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, was a bestseller. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 1, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Lost grave of daughter of Black abolitionist Olaudah Equiano found by A-level student
You'll find one of @antiquaries.bsky.social's housekeepers @beyondnotables.bsky.social database... bsky.app/profile/did:...
Our staff are fiendishly friendly today, ready to welcome you into the depths of our Library.....if you have the guts to enter....
October 31, 2025 at 6:06 PM
You'll find one of @antiquaries.bsky.social's housekeepers @beyondnotables.bsky.social database... bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Our staff are fiendishly friendly today, ready to welcome you into the depths of our Library.....if you have the guts to enter....
October 31, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Our staff are fiendishly friendly today, ready to welcome you into the depths of our Library.....if you have the guts to enter....
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Paintings of Stonehenge by Victorian women are rare, and these details are tantalising: could this be Elizabeth Russell, Duchess of Bedford (1818-1897) and her daughter Lady Ermyntrude Russell (1856-1927)? Such precious women's artwork needs to be in the Wiltshire Museum collection.
October 18, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Paintings of Stonehenge by Victorian women are rare, and these details are tantalising: could this be Elizabeth Russell, Duchess of Bedford (1818-1897) and her daughter Lady Ermyntrude Russell (1856-1927)? Such precious women's artwork needs to be in the Wiltshire Museum collection.
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Episode 180
EDITH NESBIT'S GHOST STORIES
Watch the interview and other content on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkDM...
Listen on the website:
www.thefolklorepodcast.com/episode-180....
Or via your podcast app
Join me and @clairelouiseamias.bsky.social to learn about Edith's gothic tales
EDITH NESBIT'S GHOST STORIES
Watch the interview and other content on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkDM...
Listen on the website:
www.thefolklorepodcast.com/episode-180....
Or via your podcast app
Join me and @clairelouiseamias.bsky.social to learn about Edith's gothic tales
October 21, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Episode 180
EDITH NESBIT'S GHOST STORIES
Watch the interview and other content on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkDM...
Listen on the website:
www.thefolklorepodcast.com/episode-180....
Or via your podcast app
Join me and @clairelouiseamias.bsky.social to learn about Edith's gothic tales
EDITH NESBIT'S GHOST STORIES
Watch the interview and other content on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkDM...
Listen on the website:
www.thefolklorepodcast.com/episode-180....
Or via your podcast app
Join me and @clairelouiseamias.bsky.social to learn about Edith's gothic tales
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A fascinating read about terminology in the archives and why it's so important to address, from @thelondonarchives.bsky.social
www.thelondonarchives.org/revisiting-t...
www.thelondonarchives.org/revisiting-t...
Revisiting the Cooper Family collection
Exploring the omissions, language and content in our catalogue descriptions at The London Archives. We take a closer look at the Cooper family collection.
www.thelondonarchives.org
October 21, 2025 at 12:05 PM
A fascinating read about terminology in the archives and why it's so important to address, from @thelondonarchives.bsky.social
www.thelondonarchives.org/revisiting-t...
www.thelondonarchives.org/revisiting-t...
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Now going on display www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
London museum identifies black Waterloo veteran in rare 1821 painting
‘Honourable’ bandsman Thomas James will feature in display at National Army Museum highlighting service of black soldiers in Napoleonic wars
www.theguardian.com
October 21, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Now going on display www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
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Congratulations and happy Pub Day to @ktgerbs.bsky.social "Archival Irruptions" tells a new history of Obeah, an Afro-Caribbean religion that was criminalized in 1760 after the largest slave revolt in the 18th century British Empire
www.dukeupress.edu/archival-irr...
www.dukeupress.edu/archival-irr...
Archival Irruptions: Constructing Religion and Criminalizing Obeah in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica
www.dukeupress.edu
October 15, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Congratulations and happy Pub Day to @ktgerbs.bsky.social "Archival Irruptions" tells a new history of Obeah, an Afro-Caribbean religion that was criminalized in 1760 after the largest slave revolt in the 18th century British Empire
www.dukeupress.edu/archival-irr...
www.dukeupress.edu/archival-irr...
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We aren’t hosting a November event as so many of the co-convenors will be speaking at NACBS, but you can book now for our December event will be a discussion of the new book ‘Teaching Slavery: New Approaches to Britain’s Colonial Past.’ www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Book talk: Teaching Slavery: New Approaches to Britain’s Colonial Past
www.history.ac.uk
October 18, 2025 at 4:45 PM
We aren’t hosting a November event as so many of the co-convenors will be speaking at NACBS, but you can book now for our December event will be a discussion of the new book ‘Teaching Slavery: New Approaches to Britain’s Colonial Past.’ www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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These books will also be on display in our Ubunto: Pan African Congress 80 exhibition, inspired by the 80th anniversary of the October 1945 Pan-African Congress in Manchester, a landmark gathering that reshaped the global fight for Black liberation and independence.
uk.bookshop.org/lists/pan-af...
uk.bookshop.org/lists/pan-af...
Pan African Conference 80: Black History Month titles 2025
Book recommended by people from the African diaspora at the Portico Library that have shaped them and are on display in our Ubunto: Pan African Congress 80 display.
uk.bookshop.org
October 14, 2025 at 3:56 PM
These books will also be on display in our Ubunto: Pan African Congress 80 exhibition, inspired by the 80th anniversary of the October 1945 Pan-African Congress in Manchester, a landmark gathering that reshaped the global fight for Black liberation and independence.
uk.bookshop.org/lists/pan-af...
uk.bookshop.org/lists/pan-af...
Article includes a photo of a US naval base in Trinidad under construction. My Grenadian grandfather, a building contractor, moved to Trinidad during the war to work on the construction of US bases.
New film explores how Caribbean workers helped win second world war
New film explores how Caribbean workers helped win second world war
Commissioned by the Imperial War Museum, Cornwallis Cloth ends ‘archival silence’ around invaluable West Indian contribution to war effort
www.theguardian.com
October 10, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Article includes a photo of a US naval base in Trinidad under construction. My Grenadian grandfather, a building contractor, moved to Trinidad during the war to work on the construction of US bases.
This sounds superb!
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October 8, 2025 at 11:39 AM
This sounds superb!
Good advice generally for personal archiving (not just for romance authors)!
It's October, aka American Archives Month, and while it's been a bit warm to don our cardigans, the shrines to Henry from RED are up and it's time to remind romance authors (and authors of all stripes!) about what kinds of things they ought to be preserving. romancehistory.com/2021/10/15/a...
Archives Month: Tips for romance authors (and others!)
October is always American Archives Month, which is of course when archivists don their colorful costumes and dance in the stacks after assembling their shrine to Henry the Record Keeper, as portra…
romancehistory.com
October 7, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Good advice generally for personal archiving (not just for romance authors)!
Very much enjoyed yesterday's Black British Folk Takeover @cecilsharphouse.bsky.social yesterday. Some absolutely beautiful music.
October 5, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Very much enjoyed yesterday's Black British Folk Takeover @cecilsharphouse.bsky.social yesterday. Some absolutely beautiful music.
October 5, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Had it with admin
October 3, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Had it with admin