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Jim Mussell
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Print work; digital work. C19th newspapers, periodicals, and all the rest. Prof University Of Leeds: https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/english/staff/1012/professor-james-mussell
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RIP Michael Slater www.bbk.ac.uk/about-us/fel...
Professor Michael Slater - Birkbeck, University of London
Professor Michael Slater, Fellow of the College.
www.bbk.ac.uk
November 27, 2025 at 4:56 PM
jimmussell.bsky.social
I like how the FT’s fiscal drag calculator assumes pay will rise with inflation
davidandress.bsky.social Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 6d
Enjoy speculating on what you might think you're entitled not to pay in tax, despite earning more money!
henrymance.ft.com Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 6d
try out the FT's fiscal drag calculator!
www.ft.com/content/54cb...
November 26, 2025 at 8:58 AM
jimmussell.bsky.social
Sorry to learn of Jimmy Cliff’s passing: www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
Star of The Harder They Come had hits including You Can Get It If You Really Want and I Can See Clearly Now
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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eicathomefinn.bsky.social
'It is notable that in the last Research Excellence Framework exercise the Department of American Studies at Nottingham was ranked third in the Area Studies unit of assessment and was one of the top-performing units across the whole of the University of Nottingham.' 1/2
hlmurray.bsky.social Dr Hannah Murray @hlmurray.bsky.social · 20d
RED ALERT: the University of Nottingham is threatening to close its Department of American Studies, putting all staff at risk of redundancy, and ending any American specialist knowledge in the Faculty of Arts.

Sign the petition here to save jobs:
www.change.org/p/save-ameri...
Sign the Petition
SAVE AMERICAN STUDIES TEACHING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM
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November 23, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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mkirschenbaum.bsky.social
This is a 52-pound 9000+ page accordion-bound artist’s book of Donald Trump’s lies, conceived, printed, and bound by Jill and Ray Nichols of @leadgraffiti.bsky.social in Delaware. Each of the 9000 pages has the text (per the Washington Post) of one or more of Trump’s lies; none are repeated.
The 9000-page 52-pound book, entitled LIAR, LIAR, on display today at the University of Maryland. Sample interior page. Front of a postcard describing the project. Photo of postcard describing project: “9,296 pages document 3o,573 false or misleading claims by Donald Trump from his first day in office, 2017, to his final day on January 20, 2020, when Joe Biden was sworn in as the country's next president. All that verbiage is s3" thick, weighs 52 pounds, and it started like this. The disolution of the Delaware College of Art & Design, to whom Lead Graffti had donated 1oos of design books over the past decade, brought an invitation to redaim them. We found a few, which brought us another interesting find — a blank Coppic-stitched book with a spine about 36 inches wide bound by Ema Ishii Holdredge for her BEA show at the Corcoran School of Art in 2008. That book haunted us for several weeks, and we decided it was too audacious not to give ita Lead Graffiti shot. For a while, we pondered how to fill a several thousand-page book with content that made a serious point. The notion of the presidential untruths came to mind, so maybe there was some documentation we could "borrow?" Sure enough, in a few Safari minutes, we found a downloadable PDE from The Washington Post that we could massage into a typographic form we could use. We were off. Ray undertook the ink-jet printing of the pages, folding and inserting the red cover-weight sheets for structural support, and gathering and punching the folds for sewing. Jill did 99.8% of the sewing. At a 3o2 United gathering, we encouraged attendees to give the book a stroke. Shown at right is the head of the Delaware ACLU, who has excellent technique. LEAD GRAFFITI | NEWARK, DELAWARE| LEADGRAFFITI.COM|RAY@LEADGRAIETTI.COM”
November 15, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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📖 Colby Book Prize nominations open today! We're accepting nominations from now until 31 Jan. 2026. The Colby Prize recognizes original book-length scholarship published in 2025 that most advances our understanding of the long #19thC British press. More info: buff.ly/LIi76WJ
The Robert and Vineta Colby Scholarly Book Prize – RSVP
The Colby Book Prize was endowed in 2006 in memory of Robert Colby by his wife, Vineta Colby, distinguished scholars and long-time members of RSVP. In 2011, following Vineta’s death, the Board of…
buff.ly
November 15, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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triproftri.bsky.social
Harry Hootman created a db of Faxon's print index of British & Am literary annuals for his dissertation, published it on a personal website, and created a boon of info. He passed away unfortunately and his website disappeared but I've got the data.

#periodicals
#dataethics
November 14, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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britishlibrary.bsky.social
We’re launching our new catalogue on Monday 8 December.

To keep our collections safe while we do this, access and ordering will be suspended for a week before launch and all requests for 8 December onwards must be made on the new system when it launches.

Find out more: bit.ly/CollectionSu...
A person reaches for an item from a shelf of books.
November 11, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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danielwilson.bsky.social
!Stop Press! Article on bias in digitised newspaper collections: ’Whose News’, in the new journal of @comphumresearch.bsky.social by Kaspar Beelen, @jonhistorian61.bsky.social, @kmcdono.bsky.social and me. See blog for summary & 🧵 1/7

Article doi.org/10.1017/chr....

Blog is.gd/2IFc30

#dh #c19 🗃️
Whose news? Critical methods for assessing bias in large historical datasets | Computational Humanities Research | Cambridge Core
Whose news? Critical methods for assessing bias in large historical datasets - Volume 1
doi.org
November 11, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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victorianlondon.bsky.social
"What shall we go with on the first issue cover, Dave?"
"Yeah, I'm thinking a gothic vibe."
November 6, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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timhitchcock.bsky.social
Really pleased to announce the launch of the all-new, all-dancing, London Lives website - www.londonlives.org It has been thoroughly re-engineered to facilitate more types of search, and redesigned for phones and tablets. The team very much hopes peope like it. 1/
London Lives
www.londonlives.org
November 5, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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drchrislouttit.bsky.social
Very happy @matthewchambers.bsky.social has proposed this @englishstudies.bsky.social special issue! One for SHARPists & scholars of bookselling across periods & Anglophone cultural contexts:
November 3, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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bldigischol.bsky.social
Work at the British Library on pulling structured information from scanned card catalogues:

https://web.archive.org/web/20250805102551/https:/blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2023/09/convert-a-card-past-present-and-future-of-catalogue-cards-retroconversion.html [1/2]
October 31, 2025 at 1:22 PM
jimmussell.bsky.social
I enjoyed being interviewed about Adelaide Anne Procter, the English Woman's Journal, and the Victoria Press by Lizzie Ludlow and Amanda Vernon for their podcast Adelaide Anne Procter: Victorian Poetry, Faith, and Fundraising. First episode here (I'm in no. 3): open.spotify.com/episode/7iHS...
Episode 1: Introduction
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October 31, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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rs4vp.org
📣BREAKING NEWS! We've extended our CFP deadline for #RSVP2026 "Movements and Migrations"! Proposals now due 21 November 2025. Full CFP and more details about all things conference on our website: rs4vp.org/rsvp-confere...
Black-and-white printed image of crowd of people overlaid with CFP announcement that says "Movements and Migrations Trinity College, Dublin, 23-25 July 2026 New proposal deadline 21 November 2025"
October 29, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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lcsleeds.bsky.social
So excited to launch our new MA in Classics and Ancient History now recruiting for 2026 entry! 🎉💐🥳
leedsclassics.bsky.social Classics at Leeds @leedsclassics.bsky.social · Oct 27
New MA in Classics and Ancient History at Leeds - we are thrilled to announce the launch of our new MA in Classics and Ancient History, *now recruiting* for September 2026!

For more information and to apply, please visit:
courses.leeds.ac.uk/k149/classic...
Classics and Ancient History MA | University of Leeds
The Classics and Ancient History MA is unique to Leeds and explores the ancient Mediterranean world, spanning literature, history, philosophy, religion and material culture.
courses.leeds.ac.uk
October 27, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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zacharylesser.bsky.social
This is delightful
October 26, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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emmabolland.bsky.social
The Public Dream 21–23 November 2025. Delighted to be working on this project with THE ART HOUSE. Transforming the Main Gallery into a live working studio from 10 Nov and unveiling fully with extended opening hours during the Light Up festival (21–23 November). the-arthouse.org.uk/news/autumn-...
An image of a hand holding a torch shining a coloured light on to a wall covered with layers of coloured chalk made from palimpsests of writing, with a panel of text that reads 'Emma Bolland: The Public Dream, 21–23 November 2025. Unveiled during Light Up Wakefield, Bolland transforms the Gallery into a poetic installation of drawing, light, and text. Developed through a live working residency, the work explores archives, dreams, and speculative futures, offering audiences the chance to step into a space where imagination takes form.
October 26, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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sarahjeong.bsky.social
when I visited korea last year I went to haeinsa temple to see the tripitaka koreana, a set of 80k+ wooden printing blocks for buddhist scriptures, made in the 13th century en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripita...
Tripitaka Koreana - Wikipedia
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October 25, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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drewhobbs.bsky.social
New open-access article on a peculiar type of periodical, the county magazine:
Rural Modernity in an Interwar English County Magazine: Cheshire Life, 1934–39
doi.org/10.1080/1478...
In Cultural and Social History
Rural Modernity in an Interwar English County Magazine: Cheshire Life, 1934–39
There are some eighty-five county magazines across England, read by millions. This case study of 1930s Cheshire Life explains their appeal and demonstrates their value for twentieth-century social ...
doi.org
October 22, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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heikebauer.bsky.social
Join us for the 2025 Annual Graduate Lecture in the Humanities & Social Sciences featuring award-winning historian Julia Laite on 'Stories at the Edge of Empire: Newfoundland, 1763-1829'.

19 November 2025, 18.00, Birkbeck, London.

All welcome but please register:
www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
October 23, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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emmamerkling.bsky.social
Calling all c19 art and queer theory ppl! @frankiedytor.bsky.social and I are still welcoming proposals for our #AAH panel on c19 British art after trans studies: see CFP below. #c19 #lgbtqhistory
Call for papers: “The nineteenth century saw profound transformations in how being and embodiment were figured across British culture. Art and science were at the forefront of these changes. As new forms of subjectivity were being formulated, the relationship between the self and the body, and between the body and life itself, were being reconfigured in visual productions and scientific writings alike. These transformations were entangled with new, ambivalent, and profoundly modern ways of thinking about gender, sexuality, form, and the nature and limits of the human. In Victorian art, the body was opened up to forces and flows which constituted and exceeded it. This panel invites papers which centre trans studies as a lens through which to explore these turbulent transformations in nineteenth-century art. What modes of…” “… embodiment, being, or becoming come into view when Victorian visual culture is approached via trans theory? What kinds of subjects and materials come to matter differently? What are the uses of transness— attuned to transition, indeterminacy, multiplicity, and bodily change—as a theoretical and historical framework? We invite 20-minute papers exploring British art (broadly conceived) in the long nineteenth century through the lens of trans theory and/or from trans perspectives. Topics might include, but are not limited to: • The (un) making of the human; nonhuman bodies; monstrosity; animality • Ecology, metamorphosis, bodies and environments • Racialization of sex, gender, and embodiment • Coloniality of gender; imperialism and difference • Transness and disability; mutable, prosthetic, and anomalous bodies • Fairytales, folklore, myth, and transformation • Spirituality and immaterial bodies • Sexology and medical imaging”
October 20, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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groomb.bsky.social
Tetley Malthouse, Mill Street, Leeds, winter 1973, photo by Peter Mitchell.
October 19, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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triproftri.bsky.social
Help: I need photos of *Bengal Annual* 1831, 1832, 1833, 1834 & 1836 at @britishlibrary.bsky.social
BL isn't doing digital scans for remote patrons, tho
a/o in London who mt be able to get to the BL?

@rs4vp.org @victstudies.bsky.social @jimmussell.bsky.social
October 17, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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openresleeds.bsky.social
🗣️Speakers:

🗽Melanie Chambliss, Assistant Professor of History (Rochester)

💂‍♂️Bridget Bennett, Professor of American Literature and Culture (Leeds)

🗽Autumn Haag, Assistant Director, Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation (Rochester)

💂‍♂️Kate Dossett, Professor of American History (Leeds)
October 17, 2025 at 7:58 AM