A close-up of a person wearing teal gloves holding a small metal type punch engraved with an ampersand symbol. In the background, part of the person’s face is softly out of focus.
A bearded man wearing teal gloves uses a green rubber air blower to clean a small metal type punch. He sits at a desk with an open wooden case filled with neatly arranged metal punches, while a computer monitor displaying a magnified image is visible in the background.
🔎 Rare 18th-century punches used to create the original Baskerville typeface have been digitised and released online.
Designers, historians and the wider public now have the opportunity to study the physical tools that shaped modern typography.
🔗https://loom.ly/1ulLaFI
02.03.2026 06:12
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In person early modern metals event in London next month with me, @laurenworking.bsky.social, and Lubaaba Al-Azami. Please repost and share widely! And register here -- forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...
02.03.2026 17:06
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Folk thynke that innovacioun yn academia will come from technologye. It will come ynstead from settinge asyde olde assumptions and hierarchies and givinge people more chances to trulye and radicallye thynke wyth each othir wyth no specific outcome yn mynde.
20.02.2026 21:58
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Newberry Library Receives $4 Million Grant
Funding will expand access to Indigenous collections, enable community-led research, and strengthen tribal partnerships.
We’re excited to share today that the Newberry has received a $4 million grant from the Mellon Foundation to expand access to our Indigenous Studies collections and strengthen collaboration with tribal nations. www.newberry.org/news/newberr...
03.02.2026 17:42
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If you embroider or cross-stitch & are interested in mutual aid, I think that I'm going to organize an event where folks can sell their work and donate a percentage of proceeds to a couple of local mutual aid groups. May 16 or 23. I need to find a location here in NYC. I'll circle back with details.
30.01.2026 00:45
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Race and the Early Modern — CEMS KCL Blog
Delighted to announce the launch of a new seminar - Race and the Early Modern - in collaboration with @folger.edu.
A monthly, transatlantic, online seminar for research on race, racialisation, and racemaking across #earlymodern Studies.
Sign up to attend!
kingsearlymodern.co.uk/race-and-the...
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Really pleased to be co-organising this seminar alongside Dr. Eli Cumings, with support from colleagues at CEMS and the Folger. Do sign up! We're hoping this will be a supportive space for work in progress. If you'd be interested in presenting, please do reach out.
15.01.2026 17:04
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The Library of Early Modern Women's Marginalia
The Library of Early Modern Women's Marginalia.
This is a stunning resource, beautifully presented - congratulations to Ros Smith Kathy Acheson and their team emwmlibrary.com
11.01.2026 11:03
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Thrilled to see this Review Essay nearing publication in postmedieval. In 'Whiteness made visible: Recent Work in Premodern Critical Race Studies', I review four fascinating books on whiteness in art history, fiction, and drama, ranging from the medieval period to the twenty-first century.
04.11.2025 12:30
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On the Marginalisation of Women in Philosophy and Science
Looking forward to participating in this conversation about the role of women in science and philosophy, past and present, on October 27th with @cescapeacock.bsky.social and @jennmpark.bsky.social #womeninSTEM www.thephilosopher1923.org/events/on-th...
15.09.2025 14:09
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A pink and purple background with an image of a medieval manuscript in the centre, containing an illustration of a closed castle. A woman at the top of the castle looks down at a man outside the castle. A modern additional image of a ramp has been placed at the doors of the castle, extending out of the medieval border of the illustration.
Delighted to share the beautiful cover for our volume, Towards An Accessible Academy: Perspectives from Disabled Medievalists, edited by Alexandra R. A. Lee, E. R. P. Champion, and me.
Coming soon from @mip-medpub.bsky.social for the Premodern Transgressive Literatures series ✨
26.02.2025 11:37
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Select tickets – MMoR Conference: Medicine, Slavery, and Race in the Atlantic World – The Council Room, King's College London
After four full years, the initial funded stage of Medicine and the Making of Race comes to a close in September 2025. To mark ...
FINAL PROJECT CONFERENCE! Register to attend Medicine, Slavery, and Race in the Atlantic World, bringing together longstanding project collaborators and exciting, new interlocutors. Spaces are *extremely* limited, so do sign up... see the programme at www.mmor.co.uk/events/confe...
#EarlyModern 🗃️
30.04.2025 11:32
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Congratulations to Prof. Miles Grier, whose book Inkface: Othello and White Authority in the Era of Atlantic Slavery won the Early American Literature @early-am-lit.bsky.social 2024 Book Prize and the Shakespeare Association of America @saaupdates.bsky.social 2025 First Book Award!
30.04.2025 18:05
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A reminder that workshop and course proposals for our pilot anti-criminalization Communiversity are due this Friday, April 25th! We are looking for proposals that offer engaged and creative ways for people to think and to learn together. Learn more and apply ⬇️
22.04.2025 20:04
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UCU stands with trans people, today and every day.
The Supreme Court ruling is not just wrong, it’s dangerous.
We will never stop fighting for trans rights and equality.
#TransRightsAreHumanRights #Solidarity
17.04.2025 09:30
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17.04.2025 18:05
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Israel murdered this beautiful soul. Remember Fatima Hassona. Watch and spread the film "Put your soul on your hand and walk". And never stop fighting the mass murdering death machine that is the Israeli state.
She was 25.
18.04.2025 09:13
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We're tracking the number of international students whose visas have been revoked by the State Department. We've confirmed over 300 so far and there are likely many more. Get in touch if you've got information you'd like to share with us www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...
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UCU Campaign for GTAs
Calling for Fair Pay, Equal Pay, Secure Pay
Fair pay: To eliminate the endemic overworking of GTAs expected to perform tasks not within those stipulated as their responsibility in their employment contracts – particularly, but not limited to, extra administrative work and contributions to the creation of course content.
Equal pay: To raise allocated preparation time to a reasonable level which truly represents the work that GTAs must devote to delivering pedagogically sound teaching. There should be transparency of workload models for GTAs, e.g. preparation time, marking time and end discrepancies in pay rates and time allocations for different tasks across colleges.
Secure pay: To ensure all GTAs are issued initially with two-year contracts, as per the University’s policy.
🚨 Support our Graduate Teaching Assistants!
This year has seen a spate of cuts in real terms to GTA pay and conditions across many departments that left an already underpaid and overworked workforce at breaking point.
Sign our petition to support crucial staff: speakout.web.ucu.org.uk/gta-glasgow/
10.04.2025 11:00
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US Applicant Week
“From April 14-18, select UBC graduate programs at UBC Vancouver will re-open their applications for US citizens to be considered for Sept 2025 or Jan 2026 entry - they are ready to provide quick admissions decisions for these applicants“ #gradstudent #gradschool
www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant...
08.04.2025 03:23
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10% of the gaza population is either killed, injured, missing, or detained.
60,250 killed:
54,044 civilians
18,600 children
12,430 women
210 journalists
40,000 orphaned
121,000 injured
4790 disappeared
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Three people in pink hats, holding flyers which say Stop the Cuts, behind a table with big pink posters and a laptop.
Busy stall outside Main Gate yesterday as we sought to gain signatures to the national @ucu.org.uk petition to #StopTheCuts
Thanks to Diarmid, Jenny, Lina and Rory for donning the pink to support the branch ✊
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