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Lesley A Hall

@erinacean.bsky.social

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Archivist, historian, reader, Londoner, feminist @erinacean @[email protected] www.lesleyahall.net https://lesleyahall.blogspot.com/

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Thomas D. Lee @thomasdlee.bsky.social · 26m

Anyone need a good proofreader or queer sensitivity reader? A friend of mine is going through a rough time at the moment and could do with some paid work. She has loads of experience with editing & proofreading, and I've paid her to do sensitivity reads for me in the past. DM me if interested.

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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 31m

The Government deserves credit for seeking expert advice on how the UK can adapt to climate change by 2050. With increasingly frequent and severe weather events driven by climate change, the need for urgent action is undeniable.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Government told to prepare for 2C warming by 2050

The Climate Change Committee said the UK should make climate change adaptions beyond the Paris Agreement.

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Petra Boynton @petraboynton.bsky.social · 1h

Don't know how many times I need to say it but advice giving and harm prevention are important, specialist skills. All of us can learn them, but automating 'help' via the massive environment-destroying plagiarism generator is not the answer and remains a danger.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

ChatGPT ‘upgrade’ giving more harmful answers than previously, tests find

Campaigners ‘deeply concerned’ about response to prompts about suicide, self-harm and eating disorders

www.theguardian.com

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 1h

All of this is being put out to placate the right wing press...

In the meantime, it's causing fear & confusion. As I understand it:

● this only applies to some people on skilled visas
● it's not "A level English" it's something called SELT
● much the same requirement exists elsewhere in EU

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 1h

The 'protect our women thugs' standing outside Asylum Seeker residences threatening women with rape while the Police do nothing.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 2h

Private equity takeover of US hospitals led to rise in patient deaths.

Cuts to staffing/investment; high debt, profiteering; worse patient outcomes.

More deaths in nursing homes, increased post-operative complications

Why is UK Govt handing the NHS to PE? Why no investigation of the impact of PE?

Private equity takeover of hospitals led to rise in Medicare emergency patient deaths, says study

Study found seven more deaths per 10,000 patients in private equity hospitals’ versus non-private equity hospitals

www.theguardian.com

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 3h

'The British Library...has taken years to recover from a major cyberattack that disrupted its services and restricted access to its collections. The walkout is set to take from 27 October to 9 November, coinciding with the two-year anniversary of the cyberattack.'

Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 17h

‘Livid’ British Library staff vote to strike over pay.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-c...

‘Livid’ British Library staff vote to strike over pay - Research Professional News

Two-week walkout planned on second anniversary of major cyberattack

www.researchprofessionalnews.com

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Warwick Anderson @wombatscholar.bsky.social · 7h

Unexpectedly, there's an 'education focused' job in HPS at Sydney! At snr lecturer/assoc prof level, which means associate professor in US terms. You'll need to scan down below ruminant science etc to see it, though (perhaps a message there?):
#STS #bioethics #histstm #histsci #histmed

Education Focused Academics (Sydney Horizon Educators) Faculty of Science

Full time and Part-time continuing (tenure-track) academic Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor (Education Focused) positions at The University of Sydney Opportunity for the best and brightest talented...

usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com

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Matt Round @mattround.com · 11h

OpenAI’s strategy is very clear, it’s trying to get people - especially young people - so reliant on its products intellectually & emotionally (& now sexually!) that going without them becomes unthinkable. And they need signs of that strategy working to keep the funding flowing in

Lesley A Hall @erinacean.bsky.social · 14h

Yes, her work was heavily featured in the 2023 Rossettis exhibition www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tat...

The Rossettis | Tate Britain

www.tate.org.uk

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Karl Ittmann @kittmann.bsky.social · 14h

My discussion with Mark Klobas about my new book Fueling Empire: The British Imperial Oil Complex 1886-1945 is now posted on the New Book Review website newbooksnetwork.com/fuelling-emp.... @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social

Karl Ittmann, "Fuelling Empire: The British Imperial Oil Complex, 1886-1945" (Oxford UP, 2025) - New Books Network

newbooksnetwork.com

Lesley A Hall @erinacean.bsky.social · 15h

I have found an attribution to Christopher Morley, in Mandarin in Manhattan, 1933.

Lesley A Hall @erinacean.bsky.social · 16h

I'm now trying to track down a comic piece of verse I read when I was quite young, about Siddal posing for Millais, with the lines 'it's enough to congeal ya, posing for Ophelia'.

Lesley A Hall @erinacean.bsky.social · 16h

I sometimes wonder who, that I have always considered A Well-Known Figure in History, is going to be next up for rediscovery. But maybe I have just bin arahnd a bit and seen previous iterations of Lizzie emerging from under DGR's and the rest of the Pre-Raphs' shadow? (bios novels exhibitions)

Emory 🩶 @emory-f8.bsky.social · 1d

Did you know?

In the Victorian era, Elizabeth Siddal became one of the most famous models of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.

She posed for John Everett Millais’s Ophelia, lying for hours in a bathtub filled with water so the artist could capture the drowned heroine.

#Victorian #history

It shows a portrait of Elizabeth Siddal.

It shows a woman floating on her back in a river.

Ophelia by John Everett Millais (1852)

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 18h

Tell me your most life-affirming literary opinion.

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LSE Library @lselibrary.bsky.social · 22h

New online: The Gay Liberation Front (GLF) collection is now available on LSE Digital Library! We’ve digitised and published the GLF Diaries and the GLF newspaper Come Together. Further series from the archives will be added as digitisation continues.
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digital.library.lse.ac.uk/collections/...

Cover image of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) Diary, December 21-30, 1972. A purple and green poster-style image featuring text and a leafy plant design.

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Dr Jennie Orr @drjenniferorr.bsky.social · 23h

We will soon be announcing a new Fellowship through the British Association for Romantic Studies which supportsthe work of independent researchers. It's a tight deadline but if you fall into this category or know anyone who does, watch this space @bars.bsky.social

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AMARC @amarc.bsky.social · 23h

🚨AMARC GRANTS: upcoming deadline🚨

We give grants of up to £500 to projects that promote the accessibility, preservation and study of manuscripts and archives.

📅Deadline: 1 November

Read more on our website: amarcsite.wordpress.com/grants/

AMARC awards small grants in support of initiatives that are in line with our objective of promoting the accessibility, preservation and study of manuscripts and archives of all periods. AMARC invi…

amarcsite.wordpress.com

Lesley A Hall @erinacean.bsky.social · 1d

Literary fiction is actually several genres concealed in a trench-coat. Most of these genres would probably be vastly improved if they got wise to the fact and played around with their tropes a whole lot more.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

Lesley A Hall @erinacean.bsky.social · 1d

Nah: writing satirical poems concealing their fellow authors under funny names which everyone can decode, hand-printing them, and leaving them on the tables at the most populart coffee-houses.

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Justine Pick @justinepick.bsky.social · 1d

#jobs
Permanent part-time departmental tutor in archaeology with Oxford Lifelong Learning

Departmental Tutor at University of Oxford

Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Departmental Tutor on jobs.ac.uk!

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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

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Joanna Bourke @joannabourke.bsky.social · 1d

Looking forward to speaking at the 20th anniversary of the Centre for the Social History of Health & Healthcare at University of Strathclyde, alongside the incredible Tracey Loughran. I speak about violent women and medical profession. Join us, 29th Oct: from 3.30pm: www.strath.ac.uk/humanities/d...

Centre for the Social History of Health & Healthcare seminar series | University of Strathclyde

www.strath.ac.uk

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Dr Jessamy Carlson @jessamycarlson.bsky.social · 1d

Want to learn more about tracing people in the past for your research? I’m running my life course tracing sessions again this year and more details are available here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/practical-...

Do come along and join in!

Practical Archival Skills Training: Life Course Tracing (19th and 20thC)

Eventbrite - The National Archives: for academic and research communities presents Practical Archival Skills Training: Life Course Tracing (19th and 20thC) - Thursday, 27 November 2025 - Find event an...

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Chris Kempshall @chriskempshall.bsky.social · 1d

I need to see things through the eyes of people who see topics in ways I can't. I need to think about things in different ways. I need to discover new sources and ideas from different people. Nothing can take place in a vacuum. There are historuy books I really don't like. At all. But...

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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 1d

It's Ada Lovelace Day, so worth noting that the era during which coders were mainly women (starting with her machine-language explication of the Bernoulli sequence in 1843) lasted about 130 years whereas the male-dominated period has lasted less than half that long

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 1d

Now open: call for the Royal Historical Society's First Book and Early Career Article Prizes, 2026.

Eligible titles, published in 2025, may be submitted by the author before the closing date of 15 December. Further details and how to apply: bit.ly/3KnR47v

#Skystorians

Royal Historical Society Book and Article Prizes, 2026: submissions now invited - RHS

The Royal Historical Society invites applications for its First Book Prize, 2026 and Early Career Article Prize, 2026. The call for submissions opens on Monday 29 September 2025 and runs to Monday 15 ...

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Dr Cath Feely @cathfeely.bsky.social · 1d

A Foundation student wrote in her weekly blog that she wasn't expecting to enjoy History but she had written a line from a speech from Sojourner Truth on a post note and put it on her wall as a personal reminder to herself of what is important. It sounds twee. It's keeping me going.

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will o’the wisp pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 1d

there are so many people doing amazing work. we can frame that in the language governments and uni leadership prefer - excellence, innovation etc etc - but mostly it is smaller, specific or personal even. a student was changed/themselves by an educational experience! that’s what it’s actually about

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 1d

And, fwiw, how is the labour market universities’ fault? It isn’t, and it would be very useful if people understood this.

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 1d

'A “challenging” graduate labour market in the UK could further erode trust in the higher education sector, with the “bad times” showing little sign of ending.'

All the more reason to have a serious, nationwide discussion of what universities do and what they are for.

Faith in universities ‘at new low’ as graduate jobs dry up

Challenging economic conditions may have led to bump in student recruitment numbers this year but experts fear long-term damage after institutions pegged futures to employability agenda

www.timeshighereducation.com