He’s getting my vote for sure

If you only ever visit the Early Modern Female Book Ownership website once, now is the time. Read the eight posts we now have on Katherine Blount’s amazing collections. The evolution of scholarly debate since the first post in 2020 is why the website is so brilliant #HerBook

With another semester ending, here's your annual reminder that teaching evaluations systemically disadvantage women. Even when controlling for grades and other factors, students (esp. males) consistently give female professors lower scores. This can have serious ramifications.🧵

We're excited to share that @UCL and V&A are offering a fully funded doctoral studentship on the provenance of the V&A's Asia Collection. Open to both home & international applicants. Start Oct 2024. Apply by 19 May
ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/se…
#PhD #DigitalHumanities #Provenance

#Egyptology job alert! A 12-month Departmental Lecturer post in Egyptology University of Oxford. Please circulate and please apply!
(This post is thanks to a @BritishAcademy / The Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship).
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit…

If you want to avoid the hassle of showing ID to vote at the local elections you have four days to register for a postal vote where there are no checks bit.ly/3xA25fE don’t be disenfranchised by the new rules.

Are you a member of academic teaching staff at a university where arts/culture courses are being cut? Would like to hear from you. Drop me an email summarising what's being cut, impact & a contact number & will try to get back to you. Drop me a line at: [email protected]
thx

Whitehaven in the rain - easy to picture the port area in its C18th heyday

We are hiring! We are looking for a dynamic curator to join our team. Applications close on 14/04/2024. See more information here: ce0078li.webitrent.com/ce0078li_webre…

Registering to vote online is simple and only takes around five minutes 🗳️

If you are not already registered, make sure you do so by Tuesday, 16 April 2024 to be able to vote in the upcoming elections. Find out how 👇

studentnews.manchester.ac.uk/2024/03/27/reg…

Had an insightful
afternoon with the Scott Trust / Guardian Legacies of Enslavement team and cultural colleagues from across the city. Now giving this important job opportunity to uplift and connect work in Manchester a push jobs.theguardian.com/job/8931759/pr…

Water logged fields, rainbows and bright sunshine on the way to Whitehaven Archives

Who does the academic housework? A new study from Denmark reveals the strategies that mid career men embrace to avoid internal service work - ignoring emails (evasion) and cultivating a reputation for being disorganized. kifinfo.no/en/2024/03/wom…

#MISSING | Have you seen Leah?

Leah was last seen on Minerva Road, Bolton today (05/04/2024) at around 9pm.

Anyone with information about Leah’s whereabouts should contact police on 0161 856 65511 quoting log 3496 of 5/4/24.

Creative Industries make up 6% of our economy: more than car and oil industries together. They employ 2.3million people. To cut funding is fudge-brained, cack-hearted thinking pitched very much at the highest level of economic self-harm. theguardian.com/education/2024…

Are you looking for your next role? Interested in #history ?

We're recruiting a Comms & Wolfson History Prize Prize Officer to support our comms & publicity, including promoting & administering the #WolfsonHistoryPrize

Deadline soon: Monday 8 April, 10am

Pls spread the word!

Just home after a short archive trip of South Yorkshire. Never been to Doncaster before - Doncaster Minster really is something isn’t it?

People of #Manchester , this is for you!

I’m launching my new children’s book TOTALLY CHAOTIC HISTORY at Manchester Museum tomorrow at 3pm, with my fab co-author Dr Campbell Price. We’re doing a fun event & book signing, so come along to get an early copy! Cheers 🙏museum.manchester.ac.uk/event/totally-…

Explore the fascinating story of how Hungary’s greatest 20th Century composer left behind the folk songs of his homeland and devoted himself to those of West Yorkshire.

That’s ON ILKLEY MOOR BARTÓK, 9pm, BBC Radio 3

You have 4 weeks left to apply for free voter ID for the May elections 📢

The deadline to apply for free voter ID is 24 April. Find out which forms of ID are accepted and how to apply for free voter ID: electoralcommission.org.uk/voting-and-ele…