Susan Baddeley
@sbaddeley.bsky.social
Words, words, words..... From Newcastle, linguist and translator, researcher into 16th-century French-English cultural exchanges.
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Check out the Stuart Hall Archive Project! Amazing resource that includes not only digitisation, but tools and teaching resources too!
You can access the archive here: stuarthalldigital.bham.ac.uk
And this news article is a great intro read!
www.theguardian.com/society/2026....
You can access the archive here: stuarthalldigital.bham.ac.uk
And this news article is a great intro read!
www.theguardian.com/society/2026....
Thatcherism via the Walkman: Stuart Hall’s British cultural studies preserved online
Project lead says it celebrates ‘incredible contributions’ Jamaica-born sociologist made to Britain’s culture
www.theguardian.com
October 8, 2026 at 11:33 AM
Check out the Stuart Hall Archive Project! Amazing resource that includes not only digitisation, but tools and teaching resources too!
You can access the archive here: stuarthalldigital.bham.ac.uk
And this news article is a great intro read!
www.theguardian.com/society/2026....
You can access the archive here: stuarthalldigital.bham.ac.uk
And this news article is a great intro read!
www.theguardian.com/society/2026....
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Edward Wright baptized #OTD 1561. In 1599 he proposes the median as a measure of central tendency & methods of variance estimation for navigational application. He is also the first (& so far only) Fellow of Caius College Cambridge to be granted sabbatical leave to be a pirate.
October 8, 2026 at 10:25 AM
Edward Wright baptized #OTD 1561. In 1599 he proposes the median as a measure of central tendency & methods of variance estimation for navigational application. He is also the first (& so far only) Fellow of Caius College Cambridge to be granted sabbatical leave to be a pirate.
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Thou sayest the King grows mad, I’ll tell thee, friend,
I am almost mad myself.
I am almost mad myself.
October 1, 2026 at 6:18 PM
Thou sayest the King grows mad, I’ll tell thee, friend,
I am almost mad myself.
I am almost mad myself.
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Funded PhD opportunities with a short deadline. Join our early medieval cluster at Liverpool with 7 PhDs currently working with the Institute of Irish Studies on all aspects of Irish, British and Icelandic topics and connections
www.nationalgallery.org.uk/research/col... #museums #medievalsky
www.nationalgallery.org.uk/research/col... #museums #medievalsky
Collaborative PhDs | Research | National Gallery, London
As part of collaborative consortia, the Gallery hosts a cohort of PhD students funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council.
www.nationalgallery.org.uk
September 25, 2026 at 11:35 AM
Funded PhD opportunities with a short deadline. Join our early medieval cluster at Liverpool with 7 PhDs currently working with the Institute of Irish Studies on all aspects of Irish, British and Icelandic topics and connections
www.nationalgallery.org.uk/research/col... #museums #medievalsky
www.nationalgallery.org.uk/research/col... #museums #medievalsky
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This is a fabulous conference that has sustained me since I first started attending decades ago. The workshop/discussion-centered format is especially refreshing.
Please consider submitting something.
#earlymodern
www.ssemwg.org/attending-to...
Please consider submitting something.
#earlymodern
www.ssemwg.org/attending-to...
Attending to EMW 2027 CFP — Society for the Study of Early Modern Women & Gender
www.ssemwg.org
September 17, 2026 at 7:23 PM
This is a fabulous conference that has sustained me since I first started attending decades ago. The workshop/discussion-centered format is especially refreshing.
Please consider submitting something.
#earlymodern
www.ssemwg.org/attending-to...
Please consider submitting something.
#earlymodern
www.ssemwg.org/attending-to...
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The story of Jason Arday is the story of James Orr.
Of the ideology which has found a foothold in Cambridge University, fostering the sorts of ideas that formed the undercurrents – sometimes explicit; sometimes unconscious – against Arday.
I returned to my alma mater for an in-depth exploration 👇
Of the ideology which has found a foothold in Cambridge University, fostering the sorts of ideas that formed the undercurrents – sometimes explicit; sometimes unconscious – against Arday.
I returned to my alma mater for an in-depth exploration 👇
The Two Professors and a ‘War On Ideas’
The different stories of the Cambridge academics Jason Arday and James Orr reveal the wider cultural and ideological forces around hierarchies and structural power – and who gets to belong in our inst...
bylinetimes.com
September 17, 2026 at 10:25 AM
The story of Jason Arday is the story of James Orr.
Of the ideology which has found a foothold in Cambridge University, fostering the sorts of ideas that formed the undercurrents – sometimes explicit; sometimes unconscious – against Arday.
I returned to my alma mater for an in-depth exploration 👇
Of the ideology which has found a foothold in Cambridge University, fostering the sorts of ideas that formed the undercurrents – sometimes explicit; sometimes unconscious – against Arday.
I returned to my alma mater for an in-depth exploration 👇
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Fantastic programme of speakers - including my wonderful colleague Clare Egan and the equally wonderful @callanjd.bsky.social
Online registration available
👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇
@reedproject.bsky.social
REED 50th Anniversary Colloquium / September 19- 20, 2026 share.google/rkecbO66ktGE...
Online registration available
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@reedproject.bsky.social
REED 50th Anniversary Colloquium / September 19- 20, 2026 share.google/rkecbO66ktGE...
Records of Early English Drama 50th Anniversary Colloquium - Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies
Location Emmanuel College, Room 119 75 Queen’s Park Cres E, Toronto, ON M5S 1K5 September 19–20, 2026University of Toronto Applying REED to Reality: Pedagogy, Performance and Data Futures The internat...
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September 17, 2026 at 6:36 AM
Fantastic programme of speakers - including my wonderful colleague Clare Egan and the equally wonderful @callanjd.bsky.social
Online registration available
👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇
@reedproject.bsky.social
REED 50th Anniversary Colloquium / September 19- 20, 2026 share.google/rkecbO66ktGE...
Online registration available
👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇
@reedproject.bsky.social
REED 50th Anniversary Colloquium / September 19- 20, 2026 share.google/rkecbO66ktGE...
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Tell me again that climate change is a hoax.
September 15, 2026 at 5:23 PM
Tell me again that climate change is a hoax.
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Marking the 350th anniversary of the oldest English book auction catalogue, this year’s book trade history conference returns to the theme of auctions. 🧑⚖️ 📚
London 22-23 November, book now at www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
London 22-23 November, book now at www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
47th Annual Conference on Book Trade History | Battling Over Books: Auction Catalogues and Their Contexts, 1676-2026
www.sas.ac.uk
September 14, 2026 at 9:13 PM
Marking the 350th anniversary of the oldest English book auction catalogue, this year’s book trade history conference returns to the theme of auctions. 🧑⚖️ 📚
London 22-23 November, book now at www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
London 22-23 November, book now at www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
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FYI: Free Online Lecture: An Introduction to Endangered Alphabets
FYI: Free Online Lecture: An Introduction to Endangered Alphabets
A 60-minute online presentation by Tim Brookes, founder of the Endangered Alphabets Project, suitable for undergraduate students of linguistics, anthropology, communication, human rights, history, social studies, writing, and languages
While the vital field of endangered languages study, including documentation and revitalization programs, has been embraced and established in higher education, the different but related field of endangered and emerging minority scripts has not.
Of the more t
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September 14, 2026 at 6:13 PM
FYI: Free Online Lecture: An Introduction to Endangered Alphabets
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I’ve been fiddling with this etymology project for like five years, and I need to get it and its research companion finally finished.
Go break this public one for me? I’m finishing up the fancy academic version.
Go break this public one for me? I’m finishing up the fancy academic version.
Diachronica — Word Stories
Every English word is an immigrant. Open one and follow its journey.
diachronica.com
September 14, 2026 at 6:39 PM
I’ve been fiddling with this etymology project for like five years, and I need to get it and its research companion finally finished.
Go break this public one for me? I’m finishing up the fancy academic version.
Go break this public one for me? I’m finishing up the fancy academic version.
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📢Here's a fully funded 4-year PhD position at Leiden within the ERC project LangPro led by Dr Alisa van de Haar, and co-supervised by yours truly, on professional opportunities for women in the early modern language sector: careers.universiteitleiden.nl/job/PhD-Posi...
Apply by 15 Oct 2026
Apply by 15 Oct 2026
PhD Position Women in the Early Modern Language Sector
PhD Position Women in the Early Modern Language Sector
careers.universiteitleiden.nl
September 14, 2026 at 9:00 AM
📢Here's a fully funded 4-year PhD position at Leiden within the ERC project LangPro led by Dr Alisa van de Haar, and co-supervised by yours truly, on professional opportunities for women in the early modern language sector: careers.universiteitleiden.nl/job/PhD-Posi...
Apply by 15 Oct 2026
Apply by 15 Oct 2026
Now that's what I call devotion
Experience: I’ve visited every motorway service station in Britain
Experience: I’ve visited every motorway service station in Britain
Some people don’t understand my lifelong enthusiasm for roadside stop-offs – now visiting and cataloguing them is what I do for a living
www.theguardian.com
September 11, 2026 at 6:49 AM
Now that's what I call devotion
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Anne Dacier, translator of Homer’s The Iliad and The Odyssey
by Marie Lebert
www.literaryladiesguide.com/author-biogr...
Books about Anne Dacier at PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/39843
#books #literature
by Marie Lebert
www.literaryladiesguide.com/author-biogr...
Books about Anne Dacier at PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/39843
#books #literature
September 10, 2026 at 8:34 AM
Anne Dacier, translator of Homer’s The Iliad and The Odyssey
by Marie Lebert
www.literaryladiesguide.com/author-biogr...
Books about Anne Dacier at PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/39843
#books #literature
by Marie Lebert
www.literaryladiesguide.com/author-biogr...
Books about Anne Dacier at PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/39843
#books #literature
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Whenever we see someone post that they're stopping their donation to the RNLI, like some right-wing virtue-signalling flex, we can't help but think of this. You can donate to the RNLI here: buff.ly/bsku22S
September 10, 2026 at 6:50 AM
Whenever we see someone post that they're stopping their donation to the RNLI, like some right-wing virtue-signalling flex, we can't help but think of this. You can donate to the RNLI here: buff.ly/bsku22S
When you know there's an H somewhere in that damned word but aren't sure where to put it
September 9, 2026 at 1:55 PM
When you know there's an H somewhere in that damned word but aren't sure where to put it
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"A memorable exchange regarding the SPLENDOR poems was when we decided on the pronoun 'it' for the human being observed from a jellyfish’s perspective," Eunice Lee reflects on her translations featured in SPLENDOR, alongside Olivia Lasky & Kit Maude. Read the interview in full: buff.ly/zvLQ9Jr
Splendor: An interview with translators Olivia Lasky, Kit Maude, & Eunice Lee
With a luminous introduction by Rickey Laurentiis, the new Calico title presents five poets with previously unpublished translations from Argentina, Denmark, Korea, Norway, and Quebec.
www.catranslation.org
September 3, 2026 at 7:15 PM
"A memorable exchange regarding the SPLENDOR poems was when we decided on the pronoun 'it' for the human being observed from a jellyfish’s perspective," Eunice Lee reflects on her translations featured in SPLENDOR, alongside Olivia Lasky & Kit Maude. Read the interview in full: buff.ly/zvLQ9Jr
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PhD researcher Stephanie Lamy’s forensic breakdown of exactly what happened to Prof Jason Arday should be required reading. Explains how he was targeted by a well-funded, racist, eugenicist network and why his fear and ‘paranoia’ were completely justified.
broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-killin...
broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-killin...
The killing of a black man
A French researcher exposes the network of “race realists” who hunted Jason Arday like prey and the media who fell into their trap
broligarchy.substack.com
September 3, 2026 at 7:15 AM
PhD researcher Stephanie Lamy’s forensic breakdown of exactly what happened to Prof Jason Arday should be required reading. Explains how he was targeted by a well-funded, racist, eugenicist network and why his fear and ‘paranoia’ were completely justified.
broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-killin...
broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-killin...
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We have INCREASED the value of 2 of our awards!
The BSECS-Bodleian Fellowship is now worth £2,000, & the BSECS-Georgian Papers Fellowship is now £1,250.
The deadline is the 1 February 2027.
#18thC #skystorians #PGR #ECR
Details of all our awards available here: www.bsecs.org.uk/prizes-and-a...
The BSECS-Bodleian Fellowship is now worth £2,000, & the BSECS-Georgian Papers Fellowship is now £1,250.
The deadline is the 1 February 2027.
#18thC #skystorians #PGR #ECR
Details of all our awards available here: www.bsecs.org.uk/prizes-and-a...
Prizes and awards Archive - BSECS
www.bsecs.org.uk
September 3, 2026 at 5:22 AM
We have INCREASED the value of 2 of our awards!
The BSECS-Bodleian Fellowship is now worth £2,000, & the BSECS-Georgian Papers Fellowship is now £1,250.
The deadline is the 1 February 2027.
#18thC #skystorians #PGR #ECR
Details of all our awards available here: www.bsecs.org.uk/prizes-and-a...
The BSECS-Bodleian Fellowship is now worth £2,000, & the BSECS-Georgian Papers Fellowship is now £1,250.
The deadline is the 1 February 2027.
#18thC #skystorians #PGR #ECR
Details of all our awards available here: www.bsecs.org.uk/prizes-and-a...
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You have 29 more days to submit an application for the short-term Nottebohm Fellowships for #Bookhistory research in Antwerp! Come do research in the collections of the Plantin-Moretus Museum and/or Hendrik Conscience Library!
consciencebibliotheek.be/en/fellowshi...
consciencebibliotheek.be/en/fellowshi...
Nottebohm Fellowship for Book Historical Research | Erfgoedbibliotheek Hendrik Conscience
Every year, the Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library and the Museum Plantin-Moretus offer a short-term Nottebohm fellowship to two researchers, with the gracious support of the Thierry and Frédéric Not...
consciencebibliotheek.be
September 2, 2026 at 6:30 AM
You have 29 more days to submit an application for the short-term Nottebohm Fellowships for #Bookhistory research in Antwerp! Come do research in the collections of the Plantin-Moretus Museum and/or Hendrik Conscience Library!
consciencebibliotheek.be/en/fellowshi...
consciencebibliotheek.be/en/fellowshi...
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Haha, a more fitting logo for Google.
August 31, 2026 at 6:53 PM
Haha, a more fitting logo for Google.
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📣 Apply Today! RSA Fellowships support scholars at all career stages conducting research in Renaissance studies (1300–1700) across many fields. Award Amounts of $2,000, $3,000, or $3,750 depending on the fellowship type. Take a look: www.rsa.org/news/news.as... #earlymodern #RenTwitter #fellowships
August 26, 2026 at 2:55 PM
📣 Apply Today! RSA Fellowships support scholars at all career stages conducting research in Renaissance studies (1300–1700) across many fields. Award Amounts of $2,000, $3,000, or $3,750 depending on the fellowship type. Take a look: www.rsa.org/news/news.as... #earlymodern #RenTwitter #fellowships