🦴 Fully funded PhD: The Long Afterlife – charnelling practices & cadaveric agency in medieval Scotland ⛪ Whithorn, Auldhame, Isle of May 🌊 With @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social & National Museums Scotland. Starts Sept 2027, apply by 5 Jan 2027 👉 tinyurl.com/longafterlife #Archaeology #PhD #osteology

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In the late nineteenth century, Black American missionaries began to work within King Leopold's Congo. For Black History month, Adrita Mitra explores how women like Nora Gordon navigated the tensions between emancipation and colonial rule.

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It exists! With MANY thanks to Graham @themhra.bsky.social, 'Doing Things With Literature: A Toolkit' is out in record time @mroussill.bsky.social @gemmatidman.bsky.social Emma Herdman & I will be launching it into the world @mfoxford.bsky.social on 30/10 at 5.30pm.

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Literacy Stories, my undergrad seminar, just did a "Book Traces" event with Andy Stauffer from U Va. Our spelunking in the old Widener stacks yielded some unexpected, delightful finds, including this 📗 belonging to Thomas Wentworth Higginson: a vol. of Walter Scott, w/ ivy 🍃plucked from Kenilworth!

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#BookHistory pals, if you don't know Andy's Book Traces project, you should! booktraces-public.lib.virginia.edu

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