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William Carruthers

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Lecturer in Heritage @phaisessex.bsky.social . ‘Flooded Pasts: UNESCO, Nubia, and the Recolonization of Archaeology’ out now with Cornell UP. Fellow, RHistS. https://williamcarruthers.co.uk // williamcarruthers.wordpress.com

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 3d

Going to re-post this occasionally, with added mention that I’m very happy to do more talks about it

William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 23d

In better news my book is coming out in paperback next March (pre-orders now available)! www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Flooded Pasts by William Carruthers | Hardcover | Cornell University Press

Flooded Pasts examines a world famous yet critically underexamined event—UNESCO's International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia (1960–80)—to show how the project, its genealogy, and its...

www.cornellpress.cornell.edu

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 42m

But I fear I just talked at the receptionist to do it.

William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 43m

Yes, amazingly.

William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 2h

I told my GP ‘that I got one last year’ and it worked; I’m now really concerned that they eon’t give me one (this was for flu as well)

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 2h

More important to get the logo right on the Powerpoint/come up with your project acronym these days

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 2h

the compulsory, post-2000 academipreneur mindset (noted by @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social the other day and staring Matt in the face below) is both socially grotesque and also the death of all thought

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 2h

Achieve more!

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 2h

This has passed by fairly quietly on here, but is interesting news for lots of reasons: english.aawsat.com/culture/5194...

UNESCO Nominates Egypt’s Khaled el-Anani as its New Director

The United Nations’ cultural agency is slated to have its first director from the Arab world after an Egyptian former tourism and antiquities minister, Khaled el-Anani, was nominated by the UNESCO's e...

https://english.aawsat.com/culture/5194474-unesco-nominates-egypt’s-khaled-el-anani-its-new-director

William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 3h

I guess my other point is that mega-projects/‘big question’-type stuff isn’t all that useful given an interlinked set of fields with a very material basis that is crumbling. People need to do something about that first.

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 3h

It’s beyond me.

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 5h

Fair

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 6h

I've officially reached the point in my career where I can hear budget cuts as a background soundtrack to my life.

This mid-week post is half-primal scream, half-essay and almost entirely about the national delusion that we can keep "doing more with less."

Welcome to the edge - there's snacks.

The Ceaseless Snip-Snip-Snip of a Dying State

Fifteen years of cuts have left the UK trying to "efficiency" its way out of a collapse - and somehow still expecting growth to show up as well.

www.bearlypolitics.co.uk

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 6h

I would also like to know about this

William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 6h

We can’t have futures without examining these issues, essentially, and this is pretty clearly a time of crisis (manufactured or otherwise)

William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 6h

My feeling with heritage these days (I know you all care) is that there needs to be less emphasis on futures, more on the building blocks of the here and now, which both attest to futures made impossible and also to the steady erosion of possibility.

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 7h

The Metropolitan Line is a conspiracy theory anyway

William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 7h

I’d say this is always the case: the NHS’s critical care facilities are somehow unsurpassed even as everything else creaks. I’ve seen this in action a bit recently for various reasons snd at its very best it’s incredible, at its worst just miserable.

Paul Marshall @pmarsha11.bsky.social · 1d

Embarrassing Jeremy Clarkson u-turns on his criticism of the NHS after receiving urgent treatment his private care couldn’t provide.

Jeremy Clarkson reneges on NHS criticism after needing urgent treatment

Presenter, who called service ‘a creaking monster’, says he’s ‘eternally grateful’ to medics who aided him

www.independent.co.uk

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 7h

That means they actually all live in Pinner where it all gets filmed

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 7h

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 7h

No - her speech and the CCHQ briefing had basically no detail in it, the English, Anthropology stuff is solely about some media outlets trying to impose coherency where there was none.

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 7h

The Competence Competence Framework

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 8h

If it’s anything like all citation generators, it also won’t actually work

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 8h

It would be good if academia celebrated competence, wouldn’t it?

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 8h

Always amused to come across people who have ‘published 300 articles’

William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 8h

I’ll be wittering on at this!

Margot Tudor @drmargottudor.bsky.social · 9d

Interested in the transitory nature of academia and how this shapes scholarship on internationalism? Come along to our virtual conference, 'Blind Spots and Buzzwords in Internationalism' on 5th and 6th Nov 👁️. Get your tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/blind-spot...

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Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 9h

This is AMAZING

Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 9h

"Creating Horrid Henry’s gang of characters with alliterative names (Moody Margaret, Anxious Andrew, Sour Susan, Lazy Linda), each with a unique characteristic, was directly inspired by the medieval concept of the four humours" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Kemi Badenoch wants to end ‘rip-off degrees’ – but I wouldn’t have created Horrid Henry without mine | Francesca Simon

I studied Old and Middle English. Although I didn’t know it, I couldn’t have chosen a better subject to train me to become a children’s author, says author Francesca Simon

www.theguardian.com

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Matt Houlbrook @tricksterprince.bsky.social · 10h

I guess the countdown to publication day has well and truly begun ...

Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 10h

'An essential insight into the voices that are often silenced by a city's ego, and a timely spotlight on a political agenda that is ever-present today.' - @thecrackmagazine.bsky.social

The untold story of a remarkable neighbourhood and the battle to define modern London. #booksky #London

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