Watching Bettany Hughes💙 ‘ prog on Estonia and they found a14th C boat w a COMPASS! The compass somehow seems incredibly exciting! And the boat too

It’s fair that Angela Rayner is subject to scrutiny – but not if it’s based on snobbery | Gaby Hinsliff theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

#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…

Hmmm I wonder who decided on these sexually dimorphic kits?

I’m pleased to say that English Literature at the University of Glasgow are advertising two new permanent posts. Applications for the James Murray Beattie Lectureships in Victorian Literature, and in Fantasy Literature, close on 6th May 24. More info here: gla.ac.uk/explore/jobs/

Apply!

I'm proud to stand with the two dozen Jewish faculty who have written to our President to condemn the weaponization of antisemitism and the congressional attack on our campus and higher education across the country | Columbia Spectator columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2024/0…

1. If you walk through the cobbled alleys of occupied East Jerusalem's Muslim quarter, you will come across a community of Afro-Palestinians. Their history is closely linked to one of the holiest sites in Islam.  A thread by the BBC’s Reha रेहा.

Effanineffable

I am not sure if anyone cares
what a 27 year old with autism
and special needs has to say,
but I want to help inspire others.
I lost both my parents when
I was 19. I was attacked
and bullied.
But it hasn’t broken me.

Can you retweet this
if you care what I have to say?

1/ Hebrew is deserting me. Reading about Gaza in the Hebrew media, talking to people about Gaza, I see and hear words the meaning of which I used to know, but realize that this meaning has changed utterly. It is self-defeating to write about Hebrew in English, but here goes. --->

Self Portrait (oil on canvas) |🎨 Arthur Shilling (Anishinaabe) 1941-1986

Final Works | Thunder Bay Art Gallery

Israeli Gideon Levy delivers one of the greatest speeches in modern history…🇮🇱🇵🇸

#Medusa

We are urgently seeking new volunteers to help at our stay and play groups. No experience necessary, all training given. Find out more below
#Volunteer #Volunteer ing #Volunteer Oxford #OCVA

Fancy some paid work experience in Institute of Classical Studies (ICS) Classics Library this summer? Come and help us to enrich and expand the catalogue of the #Ehrenberg ceramics collection! Applications deadline 14 April. ics.sas.ac.uk/news/paid-work…

The poet Edward Thomas was killed by a shell on this day in 1917 near Arras at a dangerous forward observation post. This recently discovered photo of him and his delightful wife Helen was taken a few months before. Her books about him, As It Was & World Without End, are superb.

New on Language: a feminist guide: the Garrick Club controversy has brought some old ideas about language and gender back into the spotlight--so, time for a reminder of what's wrong with them
debuk.wordpress.com/2024/04/08/tim…

We either legally enshrine our right to reproductive freedom, or accept the increasing chipping away of abortion access and increasing post-miscarriage criminalisation*.

*Since 2020, police demanded records from UK abortion provider 32 times.
BPAS
theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…