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
See me - this is poorly phrased
November 28, 2025 at 4:39 PM
See me - this is poorly phrased
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
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
Admiring this handsome 500pp collection from Cork University Press, with a few names I recognise (Elizabeth Malcolm for eg) and lots of others that are new to me. Lots of beautiful colour plates too, and plenty of index entries for 'snugs' #drinkingstudies
November 21, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Admiring this handsome 500pp collection from Cork University Press, with a few names I recognise (Elizabeth Malcolm for eg) and lots of others that are new to me. Lots of beautiful colour plates too, and plenty of index entries for 'snugs' #drinkingstudies
Lovely (tiny) exhibition of Ursula Le Guin's maps--some reproduced as cyanotypes-- and some sketches of landscapes.
The list of authors whose maps I, a literary geographer, would be interested in is vanishingly small... but this is wonderful. See it at the Architectural Association
The list of authors whose maps I, a literary geographer, would be interested in is vanishingly small... but this is wonderful. See it at the Architectural Association
November 13, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Lovely (tiny) exhibition of Ursula Le Guin's maps--some reproduced as cyanotypes-- and some sketches of landscapes.
The list of authors whose maps I, a literary geographer, would be interested in is vanishingly small... but this is wonderful. See it at the Architectural Association
The list of authors whose maps I, a literary geographer, would be interested in is vanishingly small... but this is wonderful. See it at the Architectural Association
Now that you can read /both/ indexes for Temperance Lives, expertly crafted by @helenglew.bsky.social, I can draw your attention to some of the individuals featured in the book.
Tony BENN is there because his uncle Ernest was a director of the largest temperance assurance firm in the 1950s... 1/7
Tony BENN is there because his uncle Ernest was a director of the largest temperance assurance firm in the 1950s... 1/7
November 6, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Now that you can read /both/ indexes for Temperance Lives, expertly crafted by @helenglew.bsky.social, I can draw your attention to some of the individuals featured in the book.
Tony BENN is there because his uncle Ernest was a director of the largest temperance assurance firm in the 1950s... 1/7
Tony BENN is there because his uncle Ernest was a director of the largest temperance assurance firm in the 1950s... 1/7
If you want a sneak peek at my forthcoming book, Temperance Lives: Life Assurance, Drink and Medicine in Britain, 1840-1918, you can read part of the introduction and check out the contents and indexes with this widget bloomsburycp3.codemantra.com/viewer/690c7... @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 12:00 PM
If you want a sneak peek at my forthcoming book, Temperance Lives: Life Assurance, Drink and Medicine in Britain, 1840-1918, you can read part of the introduction and check out the contents and indexes with this widget bloomsburycp3.codemantra.com/viewer/690c7... @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social
Just over a month until Temperance Lives comes out in print!
Anyone interested in buying the hardback can use the discount code GLR AT8 to save 35% on the price - to do that and for more details, see bloomsbury.com/9781350529717
@bloomsburyhist.bsky.social
Anyone interested in buying the hardback can use the discount code GLR AT8 to save 35% on the price - to do that and for more details, see bloomsbury.com/9781350529717
@bloomsburyhist.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Just over a month until Temperance Lives comes out in print!
Anyone interested in buying the hardback can use the discount code GLR AT8 to save 35% on the price - to do that and for more details, see bloomsbury.com/9781350529717
@bloomsburyhist.bsky.social
Anyone interested in buying the hardback can use the discount code GLR AT8 to save 35% on the price - to do that and for more details, see bloomsbury.com/9781350529717
@bloomsburyhist.bsky.social
Happy Hop tu Naa for those who celebrate, from everyone at Kneale University
October 31, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Happy Hop tu Naa for those who celebrate, from everyone at Kneale University
Very much enjoying @tricksterprince.bsky.social's new book. Perhaps not surprisingly, it reminds me of Judith Walkowitz's excellent Nights Out, though Seven Dials is less storied than Soho, and this account is a more original study as a result. The libel case at the heart of the story, ... (1/2)
October 30, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Very much enjoying @tricksterprince.bsky.social's new book. Perhaps not surprisingly, it reminds me of Judith Walkowitz's excellent Nights Out, though Seven Dials is less storied than Soho, and this account is a more original study as a result. The libel case at the heart of the story, ... (1/2)
In the past week I've taught 200+ first-year students in the "forgotten", "lost" map library at @uclgeography.bsky.social with the help of some great PGTAs.
Imagine what we could do with this collection if we could only find it! 🤔
Imagine what we could do with this collection if we could only find it! 🤔
October 23, 2025 at 5:13 PM
In the past week I've taught 200+ first-year students in the "forgotten", "lost" map library at @uclgeography.bsky.social with the help of some great PGTAs.
Imagine what we could do with this collection if we could only find it! 🤔
Imagine what we could do with this collection if we could only find it! 🤔
Delighted to announce the return of the Bloomsbury Geographer, the student-run journal of @uclgeography.bsky.social! Some of the new team of editors and authors met today to plan new posts for the journal. We will keep you informed when we have that new material for you on bloomsburygeographer.com
October 22, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Delighted to announce the return of the Bloomsbury Geographer, the student-run journal of @uclgeography.bsky.social! Some of the new team of editors and authors met today to plan new posts for the journal. We will keep you informed when we have that new material for you on bloomsburygeographer.com
Welp, I'm sure my cultural references from a 1983-84 ad campaign - the East End gangsters the Crow Brothers, Wedgie Crow and Wally Crow - landed pretty squarely with this international audience of 18-year-olds
October 13, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Welp, I'm sure my cultural references from a 1983-84 ad campaign - the East End gangsters the Crow Brothers, Wedgie Crow and Wally Crow - landed pretty squarely with this international audience of 18-year-olds
I may have just shouted 'ave it!' at the 14.52 mark of 'The People Matter' on @warringtonruncorn.com's brilliant new album 'Public works and utilities'.
October 10, 2025 at 9:09 PM
I may have just shouted 'ave it!' at the 14.52 mark of 'The People Matter' on @warringtonruncorn.com's brilliant new album 'Public works and utilities'.
I don't think we talk enough about Bakhtin's analysis of the 'sausage series' in Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel.
From 'Forms of Time and of the Chronotope in the Novel' in The Dialogic Imagination, ed. Michael Holquist, translated Caryl Emerson & Michael Holquist.
From 'Forms of Time and of the Chronotope in the Novel' in The Dialogic Imagination, ed. Michael Holquist, translated Caryl Emerson & Michael Holquist.
September 9, 2025 at 11:34 AM
I don't think we talk enough about Bakhtin's analysis of the 'sausage series' in Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel.
From 'Forms of Time and of the Chronotope in the Novel' in The Dialogic Imagination, ed. Michael Holquist, translated Caryl Emerson & Michael Holquist.
From 'Forms of Time and of the Chronotope in the Novel' in The Dialogic Imagination, ed. Michael Holquist, translated Caryl Emerson & Michael Holquist.
Nearly ten years ago @martinaustwick.bsky.social and I summoned a pod of Nosferatu at the heart of my institution. They're still there, under the vanity landscaping project, and you can make up your own punchline about UKHE.
July 22, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Nearly ten years ago @martinaustwick.bsky.social and I summoned a pod of Nosferatu at the heart of my institution. They're still there, under the vanity landscaping project, and you can make up your own punchline about UKHE.
On my way to hear and chat about @thurnellreadsoc.bsky.social and @robertdeakin.bsky.social 's excellent After Last Orders? pub closures project, and the platform at Loughborough station reminds me that there is no drink history without temperance history
July 15, 2025 at 10:35 AM
On my way to hear and chat about @thurnellreadsoc.bsky.social and @robertdeakin.bsky.social 's excellent After Last Orders? pub closures project, and the platform at Loughborough station reminds me that there is no drink history without temperance history
"Pagan atrocities in the Outer Hebrides, anyone?"
EastEnders continues to inform, educate and entertain me
EastEnders continues to inform, educate and entertain me
June 25, 2025 at 10:33 PM
"Pagan atrocities in the Outer Hebrides, anyone?"
EastEnders continues to inform, educate and entertain me
EastEnders continues to inform, educate and entertain me
...and the winner of the Arthur C. Clarke award for 2025, in a strong year, is Sierra Greer for Annie Bot
@clarkeaward.bsky.social
@clarkeaward.bsky.social
June 25, 2025 at 7:07 PM
...and the winner of the Arthur C. Clarke award for 2025, in a strong year, is Sierra Greer for Annie Bot
@clarkeaward.bsky.social
@clarkeaward.bsky.social
The shortlist - lots of great discussions out there, but this is very good fivebooks.com/best-books/b...
June 25, 2025 at 6:38 PM
The shortlist - lots of great discussions out there, but this is very good fivebooks.com/best-books/b...
Delighted to be at the @clarkeaward.bsky.social again at Rich Mix, thanks to Andrew M. Butler, non-voting chair of the judges...
June 25, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Delighted to be at the @clarkeaward.bsky.social again at Rich Mix, thanks to Andrew M. Butler, non-voting chair of the judges...
Going to catch up with this afternoon's papers at #womenandalcohol #dangerouspleasures when I can, but I just wanted to share some more images of this beautiful space
June 20, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Going to catch up with this afternoon's papers at #womenandalcohol #dangerouspleasures when I can, but I just wanted to share some more images of this beautiful space
Of course my favourite representation of the drunkard's progress is this cracker, from (I think) the US in 1887
June 20, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Of course my favourite representation of the drunkard's progress is this cracker, from (I think) the US in 1887
I was chairing the first panel so you will just have to take my word for it when I say that the papers by Vanessa Höving, Marta Ramón García, Katie Snow were all brilliant... here's Marta in our very fancy room at the Museum of Literature #womenandalcohol #dangerouspleasures
June 19, 2025 at 10:50 AM
I was chairing the first panel so you will just have to take my word for it when I say that the papers by Vanessa Höving, Marta Ramón García, Katie Snow were all brilliant... here's Marta in our very fancy room at the Museum of Literature #womenandalcohol #dangerouspleasures
We're just about to begin the first day of 'Women and alcohol: dangerous pleasures?' at the Museum of Literature, Dublin, #womenandalcohol @drinkingstudies.bsky.social
June 19, 2025 at 8:19 AM
We're just about to begin the first day of 'Women and alcohol: dangerous pleasures?' at the Museum of Literature, Dublin, #womenandalcohol @drinkingstudies.bsky.social