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Postdoc for hire. Troublemaker. Children's lit, archives, visual culture, theory. Ex @unirdg_englit, @7stories & @ncl_english. Founder: @wethehumanities.

UK
Joined January 2010
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I need a military historian in the U.K. (20th century) who would be interested in working with me to access an archive (mainly uncatalogued)
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Gotta admire the speed with which this Child's Guide to Knowledge gets from 'What is the world' to mildew and smut.
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Here is the poster! Please help by sharing it, posting it, putting it up in a shop window.... If you'd like an A4-sized PDF please DM.
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Fellow academics: what do you do to get back on track during rough times? Responses and RTs could make a really powerful resource for all.
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Jodie Whittaker is #DoctorWho13, folks! 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 teapawt.net/bbcdoctorwho/status/88…
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Who remembers the brilliant thischarmingcharlie.tumblr.c…? Peanuts meets The Smiths lyrics - genius!
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So I checked with the Bod. In the 5 years after your DPhil you published 4 books. The book of your thesis, and books of 28, 194 and 6 pages. teapawt.net/andrew_adonis/status/8…
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"I just wrote a nursery rhyme. Can I get some feedback?" "Sure." "Ok. It's raining, it's pouring-" "-nice" "-thanks. The old man is snoring"
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So. My parting message is, although humanities is *technically* an academic thing, they are about being human and they can be more than that
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To me, being human is a glorious thing and it's mostly fun, so humanities should be fun and giggly and loud and messy and glorious too.
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Today is my book club day & I want to talk about them so this thread could not have come at a better time! teapawt.net/alice/status/882901714…
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This is a really great interview about tabletop gaming and stories and identity and cultural theory firstpersonscholar.com/the-p…
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Funded PhD in Creative Economy ‘Making Art and Making a Living: The role of festivals in contemporary arts careers’ eca.ed.ac.uk/scholarship/ahr…
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Jacob Rees-Mogg is not amusing. Jacob Rees-Mogg is cruel, deplorable and dangerous.
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A little FYI for JRM and the daily mail.The so called Ethiopian spice girls, was a communication project that saved millions of girls #bbcqt
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Woman on a bus: I love summer. Women's clothes come off so quickly. Man: Jane! Tell the bus what you do. Woman: Oh, ha! I'm a sonographer.
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Today @7Stories are part of @EngSharedFuture! At 10:30, see collections with @AcademicJess & a talk by @WendyMeddour englishsharedfutures.uk/prog…
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I have a twitter list of Roman accounts that I am constantly learning new things from teapawt.net/NuclearTeeth/lists/rom…
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I have been laughing at this for days now and will possibly never stop teapawt.net/euanroger/status/88088…
Replying to @katemond
The lines of text say 'my lord's is like this...but Gerard's is like this...' literally my favourite document of all time! #ClassicGerard
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