Beware of wet stockings and putrid fevers.

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Teaching is a lot less like a play or a concert and a lot more like standup comedy with a little crowd work. You have your punch lines-the big takeaways you need to hit in each lecture. But the class response & questions can take the same lecture in very different directions in different classes.

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Burnham wants to end “40 years of neoliberalism”. Great. For universities, one very welcome - and stabilising - step would be the re-introduction of the student numbers cap. (Some would stop overflowing; some would stop shrinking; all of them would benefit). Is there a reason this isn’t an easy win?

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The Dictionary of Victorian London www.victorianlondon.org/index-2012.htm is now 25 years old. its been many years since I've added anything to it, but it keeps going and every now and then I hear from a writer (usally) who finds it invaluable.

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That wonderful/terrifying feeling when you realise you're only a quarter step ahead of your class this year, and you're one false move away from a "clever girl" Jurassic Park situation

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