James Kneale
@jameskneale.bsky.social
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
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
go.bsky.app/4zgBneK
See me - this is poorly phrased
November 28, 2025 at 4:39 PM
See me - this is poorly phrased
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The Deansgate Temperance Hotel in Manchester opened at the end of 1895 and survived until 1940, when it was destroyed by enemy action.
It features in 'Temperance Lives: Life Assurance, Drink and Medicine in Britain, 1840–1918' (Bloomsbury, 2025) as part of a tour of temperance Manchester... 1/4
It features in 'Temperance Lives: Life Assurance, Drink and Medicine in Britain, 1840–1918' (Bloomsbury, 2025) as part of a tour of temperance Manchester... 1/4
November 27, 2025 at 4:16 PM
The Deansgate Temperance Hotel in Manchester opened at the end of 1895 and survived until 1940, when it was destroyed by enemy action.
It features in 'Temperance Lives: Life Assurance, Drink and Medicine in Britain, 1840–1918' (Bloomsbury, 2025) as part of a tour of temperance Manchester... 1/4
It features in 'Temperance Lives: Life Assurance, Drink and Medicine in Britain, 1840–1918' (Bloomsbury, 2025) as part of a tour of temperance Manchester... 1/4
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New policy discussion paper in this @britishacademy.bsky.social series by me and Louise Rondel on the need for policy makers to learn from place-based knowledges about urban rivers. www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publications...
November 28, 2025 at 8:35 AM
New policy discussion paper in this @britishacademy.bsky.social series by me and Louise Rondel on the need for policy makers to learn from place-based knowledges about urban rivers. www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publications...
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Totally unexpected and an absolute honour to reveal this 🥰
it’s now time to share The Michael Jackson Award for Beer Writer of the Year
This is the final award of the evening, and it goes to…
🏆 Winner: David Jesudason
#BGBW25
This is the final award of the evening, and it goes to…
🏆 Winner: David Jesudason
#BGBW25
November 28, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Totally unexpected and an absolute honour to reveal this 🥰
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I work at CCCU so I can add a bit of detail. The huge majority of these additional students for us are not on-site, typical full-fee paying, they are 'partnership' students where the actual degree they study is franchised or validated from CCCU, but taught elsewhere.
'11 universities expanded by more than 11,000 students over the past decade, while the three institutions with the biggest growth expanded by more than 20,000 students – BPP University (28,915 more students), Canterbury Christ Church University (22,410) and UCL (21,490).' 3/3
November 28, 2025 at 8:29 AM
I work at CCCU so I can add a bit of detail. The huge majority of these additional students for us are not on-site, typical full-fee paying, they are 'partnership' students where the actual degree they study is franchised or validated from CCCU, but taught elsewhere.
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it’s now time to share The Michael Jackson Award for Beer Writer of the Year
This is the final award of the evening, and it goes to…
🏆 Winner: David Jesudason
#BGBW25
This is the final award of the evening, and it goes to…
🏆 Winner: David Jesudason
#BGBW25
November 27, 2025 at 9:39 PM
it’s now time to share The Michael Jackson Award for Beer Writer of the Year
This is the final award of the evening, and it goes to…
🏆 Winner: David Jesudason
#BGBW25
This is the final award of the evening, and it goes to…
🏆 Winner: David Jesudason
#BGBW25
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We are running a free workshop at @tandfresearch.bsky.social's office in South London on 30 January 2026 to support early career scholars in developing their work into a publishable journal article. Expressions of interest due by 16 January. See here for more details (and please share widely!)
thelondonjournal.org
November 27, 2025 at 5:57 PM
We are running a free workshop at @tandfresearch.bsky.social's office in South London on 30 January 2026 to support early career scholars in developing their work into a publishable journal article. Expressions of interest due by 16 January. See here for more details (and please share widely!)
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Tuesday my union offered to call off 2 weeks of strikes, in return for postponing the redudnacy of, maybe, 5 people for three months. Yesterday the uni wrote to all staff saying "not interested", unless we completely caved. Today we toured picket lines across campus:
@sheffielducu.bsky.social
@sheffielducu.bsky.social
November 27, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Tuesday my union offered to call off 2 weeks of strikes, in return for postponing the redudnacy of, maybe, 5 people for three months. Yesterday the uni wrote to all staff saying "not interested", unless we completely caved. Today we toured picket lines across campus:
@sheffielducu.bsky.social
@sheffielducu.bsky.social
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Would anyone be interested in being part of a roundtable on Working-Class Victorians in heritage/fiction/public imagination today at next year's BAVS conference?
Let me know if you're keen 😁
Let me know if you're keen 😁
November 27, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Would anyone be interested in being part of a roundtable on Working-Class Victorians in heritage/fiction/public imagination today at next year's BAVS conference?
Let me know if you're keen 😁
Let me know if you're keen 😁
The Deansgate Temperance Hotel in Manchester opened at the end of 1895 and survived until 1940, when it was destroyed by enemy action.
It features in 'Temperance Lives: Life Assurance, Drink and Medicine in Britain, 1840–1918' (Bloomsbury, 2025) as part of a tour of temperance Manchester... 1/4
It features in 'Temperance Lives: Life Assurance, Drink and Medicine in Britain, 1840–1918' (Bloomsbury, 2025) as part of a tour of temperance Manchester... 1/4
November 27, 2025 at 4:16 PM
The Deansgate Temperance Hotel in Manchester opened at the end of 1895 and survived until 1940, when it was destroyed by enemy action.
It features in 'Temperance Lives: Life Assurance, Drink and Medicine in Britain, 1840–1918' (Bloomsbury, 2025) as part of a tour of temperance Manchester... 1/4
It features in 'Temperance Lives: Life Assurance, Drink and Medicine in Britain, 1840–1918' (Bloomsbury, 2025) as part of a tour of temperance Manchester... 1/4
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Comrades out in force on the pickets today @sheffielducu.bsky.social
November 27, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Comrades out in force on the pickets today @sheffielducu.bsky.social
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A special moment.
Thank you Baroness Burt of Solihull for addressing links we identify in our research and book between domestic abuse (DA), debt, and homelessness – and for calling on government to ensure that DA survivors are not disqualified from social housing by debt accrued through DA.
Thank you Baroness Burt of Solihull for addressing links we identify in our research and book between domestic abuse (DA), debt, and homelessness – and for calling on government to ensure that DA survivors are not disqualified from social housing by debt accrued through DA.
November 27, 2025 at 1:41 PM
A special moment.
Thank you Baroness Burt of Solihull for addressing links we identify in our research and book between domestic abuse (DA), debt, and homelessness – and for calling on government to ensure that DA survivors are not disqualified from social housing by debt accrued through DA.
Thank you Baroness Burt of Solihull for addressing links we identify in our research and book between domestic abuse (DA), debt, and homelessness – and for calling on government to ensure that DA survivors are not disqualified from social housing by debt accrued through DA.
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This was thought-provoking: 'When everything turns into television, every form of communication starts to adopt television’s values: immediacy, emotion, spectacle, brevity'.
November 27, 2025 at 7:15 AM
This was thought-provoking: 'When everything turns into television, every form of communication starts to adopt television’s values: immediacy, emotion, spectacle, brevity'.
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Retraction Watch has covered the problem of the “national IQ” database. Should be noted I’m far from alone in working to remove these publications. The spreadsheet of pubs which use NIQ - linked to in the article - was started by @kohngregory.bsky.social; a project also worked on by Cathryn Townsend
. @rebeccasear.bsky.social is on a mission to get all studies using a database linking #IQ and race retracted. I spoke to her for @retractionwatch.com to find out more: retractionwatch.com/2025/11/25/m...
Meet the researcher aiming to halt use of ‘fundamentally flawed’ database linking IQ and nationality
Rebecca Sear Rebecca Sear is on a mission to convince publishers to retract articles that use a database that purports to rank countries based on intelligence. To maintain the integrity of scientif…
retractionwatch.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Retraction Watch has covered the problem of the “national IQ” database. Should be noted I’m far from alone in working to remove these publications. The spreadsheet of pubs which use NIQ - linked to in the article - was started by @kohngregory.bsky.social; a project also worked on by Cathryn Townsend
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Another incredible day of solidarity during out rally yesterday.
November 26, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Another incredible day of solidarity during out rally yesterday.
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The opportunity for Black UK-domiciled students to undertake PhD research at @uofglasgow.bsky.social is still available!
Apply by 31 January 2026 for entry to our Scholarships in October 2026.
@uofgstem.bsky.social
@uofgmvls.bsky.social
@uofgartshums.bsky.social
@uofgsocsci.bsky.social
Apply by 31 January 2026 for entry to our Scholarships in October 2026.
@uofgstem.bsky.social
@uofgmvls.bsky.social
@uofgartshums.bsky.social
@uofgsocsci.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 3:40 PM
The opportunity for Black UK-domiciled students to undertake PhD research at @uofglasgow.bsky.social is still available!
Apply by 31 January 2026 for entry to our Scholarships in October 2026.
@uofgstem.bsky.social
@uofgmvls.bsky.social
@uofgartshums.bsky.social
@uofgsocsci.bsky.social
Apply by 31 January 2026 for entry to our Scholarships in October 2026.
@uofgstem.bsky.social
@uofgmvls.bsky.social
@uofgartshums.bsky.social
@uofgsocsci.bsky.social
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Call for PhD Student!
I'm recruiting a PhD student to work with me on a project related to my Future Fellowship at Monash University on the political economy of insurance, risk technology, climate governance, and the crisis of uninsurability. Here's the overview of my fellowship.
I'm recruiting a PhD student to work with me on a project related to my Future Fellowship at Monash University on the political economy of insurance, risk technology, climate governance, and the crisis of uninsurability. Here's the overview of my fellowship.
November 25, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Call for PhD Student!
I'm recruiting a PhD student to work with me on a project related to my Future Fellowship at Monash University on the political economy of insurance, risk technology, climate governance, and the crisis of uninsurability. Here's the overview of my fellowship.
I'm recruiting a PhD student to work with me on a project related to my Future Fellowship at Monash University on the political economy of insurance, risk technology, climate governance, and the crisis of uninsurability. Here's the overview of my fellowship.
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Tomorrow, Wednesday 26 November, #Canterbury - open to the public and all welcome!
www.canterbury.ac.uk/events/2025/...
www.canterbury.ac.uk/events/2025/...
November 25, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Tomorrow, Wednesday 26 November, #Canterbury - open to the public and all welcome!
www.canterbury.ac.uk/events/2025/...
www.canterbury.ac.uk/events/2025/...
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Equal Pay Act 1970, Sex discrimination Act 1975 and Race Relations Act 1976. Women’s Archive Wales want to understand more about the impact of these legislations on women in Wales.
Contact Ffion Fielding, by emailing [email protected], before 15th December 2025.
Contact Ffion Fielding, by emailing [email protected], before 15th December 2025.
November 23, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Equal Pay Act 1970, Sex discrimination Act 1975 and Race Relations Act 1976. Women’s Archive Wales want to understand more about the impact of these legislations on women in Wales.
Contact Ffion Fielding, by emailing [email protected], before 15th December 2025.
Contact Ffion Fielding, by emailing [email protected], before 15th December 2025.
Solidarity with @imperialucu.bsky.social, picketing as I pass up Exhibition Road
November 25, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Solidarity with @imperialucu.bsky.social, picketing as I pass up Exhibition Road
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Delighted to welcome this into the world. Paperback for £9.99 or kindle for £8.99.
Hope you’ll treat yourself to an early Christmas present 📚🎄
Please repost this if you can.
#Chartism #C19th #History
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G3Q7PR7Y
Hope you’ll treat yourself to an early Christmas present 📚🎄
Please repost this if you can.
#Chartism #C19th #History
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G3Q7PR7Y
November 24, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Delighted to welcome this into the world. Paperback for £9.99 or kindle for £8.99.
Hope you’ll treat yourself to an early Christmas present 📚🎄
Please repost this if you can.
#Chartism #C19th #History
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G3Q7PR7Y
Hope you’ll treat yourself to an early Christmas present 📚🎄
Please repost this if you can.
#Chartism #C19th #History
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G3Q7PR7Y
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New publishing opportunity!
The London Record Society are looking for someone to edit a volume based on the archive of the Working Ladies' Guild, which supported impoverished women in late nineteenth-century Britain.
Further information and contact details in the text below.
The London Record Society are looking for someone to edit a volume based on the archive of the Working Ladies' Guild, which supported impoverished women in late nineteenth-century Britain.
Further information and contact details in the text below.
November 24, 2025 at 8:00 AM
New publishing opportunity!
The London Record Society are looking for someone to edit a volume based on the archive of the Working Ladies' Guild, which supported impoverished women in late nineteenth-century Britain.
Further information and contact details in the text below.
The London Record Society are looking for someone to edit a volume based on the archive of the Working Ladies' Guild, which supported impoverished women in late nineteenth-century Britain.
Further information and contact details in the text below.
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Two #histmed CFPs with deadline for abstracts Jan 2026!
Life Histories in Mind: Mental Ill Health and Learning Disability in Context (Manchester) &
Blood is the price of coal: Coal communities, health and welfare in Britain and beyond from the 19th century to the present (Warwick)
For more details 👇
Life Histories in Mind: Mental Ill Health and Learning Disability in Context (Manchester) &
Blood is the price of coal: Coal communities, health and welfare in Britain and beyond from the 19th century to the present (Warwick)
For more details 👇
History of Medicine CFPs
If you wish to share your CFPs on the SSHM website please contact the Exec Sec, Dr Justine Pick [email protected] Life Histories in Mind: Mental Ill Health and Learning Disability in Context Location:…
sshm.org
November 24, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Two #histmed CFPs with deadline for abstracts Jan 2026!
Life Histories in Mind: Mental Ill Health and Learning Disability in Context (Manchester) &
Blood is the price of coal: Coal communities, health and welfare in Britain and beyond from the 19th century to the present (Warwick)
For more details 👇
Life Histories in Mind: Mental Ill Health and Learning Disability in Context (Manchester) &
Blood is the price of coal: Coal communities, health and welfare in Britain and beyond from the 19th century to the present (Warwick)
For more details 👇
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In issue 66.3 of EXTRAPOLATION, I review two new installments in Palgrave’s book series SFF A New Canon: J.G. BALLARD’S CRASH by Paul March-Russell and WILLIAM GIBSON’S NEUROMANCER by Graham J. Murphy. Both highly recommended.
liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/extr/66/3
@livunipress.bsky.social
liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/extr/66/3
@livunipress.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 1:57 PM
In issue 66.3 of EXTRAPOLATION, I review two new installments in Palgrave’s book series SFF A New Canon: J.G. BALLARD’S CRASH by Paul March-Russell and WILLIAM GIBSON’S NEUROMANCER by Graham J. Murphy. Both highly recommended.
liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/extr/66/3
@livunipress.bsky.social
liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/extr/66/3
@livunipress.bsky.social
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If you’re in or near @uonresearch.bsky.social tomorrow (Tuesday 25/11) then why not come along and see me present research, jointly undertaken with @allanwatson1.bsky.social, on music and platforms. The Music Dept is an important part of UoN’s research & teaching ecosystem: long may it continue!
November 24, 2025 at 3:49 PM
If you’re in or near @uonresearch.bsky.social tomorrow (Tuesday 25/11) then why not come along and see me present research, jointly undertaken with @allanwatson1.bsky.social, on music and platforms. The Music Dept is an important part of UoN’s research & teaching ecosystem: long may it continue!