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Very short notice (deadline 18 August) but we're advertising a 0.5fte lectureship in public history for next year. Covers my 3rd year undergraduate course on public history of Rome (ancient to modern) plus some MA public history teaching.

After the success of the 2026 sessions, and because fragments never rest, please have a look at our #medievalfragments session for #IMC2027! We are open to any type of fragments, from anywhere.. get in touch!

📚"Covers designed by folk who didn't bother to read the book" Episode 2: Henry James, 'The Turn of the Screw' (1898) The novel is a #C19th gothic tale of a governess caring for 2 cherubic children who may or may not be in league with ghosts. Also...that's a nut.

📚"Covers designed by folk who didn't bother to read the book" Episode 4: The Great Gatsby. “They say he killed a man, and bought that big-ass palace with the money he made from his Magic Mike themed speakeasy”

Monday 31st... On my return home, I found a letter also from Geo. Grant, requesting me to procure for his brother a work on Greek Coins in English, with a great many plates,- and of a small size. They are a couple of asses for their pains! ... #otd full entry: www.madden1826.com/31-july

Wednesday 2d... read a curious notice in the Asiatic Journal, of some Egyptian rolls of papyrus lately purchased by the K. of France, and also of a work written by a German (Seyffarth) against Champollier ... He is clearly wrong... #otd full entry: www.madden1826.com/2-august

Thursday 3d... went to the Western Institn. & ... took home with me the first Vol. of Taylor’s Transln. of Pausanias to read, 8° 1824 I find the transln. itself is written on so absurd a plan, that it confuses & obscures the description completely... #otd full entry: www.madden1826.com/3-august

Listening to Elisabeth van Houts talking about her new book on Empress Matilda on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social newbooksnetwork.com/empress-mati...

Definitely the case here. In two weeks we find which 9 of 12 in my group will be gone. The other 3 will then have a month to prepare and find hourly-paid replacements for all the classes across two degrees. And supervise 25 PhDs. Plus admin and pastoral care and research. Management doesn’t care.

Good to be back! We loved the current Love's Labours Lost. Giants! And a Hercules. A highlight of a good weekend. My ten year old even thought it worth standing for 2 1/2 hours...

July Statistics On 1 July Madden returned to London from Oxford. He spent most of the month working at the British Museum, and took new lodgings at 42 Half Moon Street, Piccadilly. He regularly dined (with or without his brother Henry) in Rupert Street, and occasionally walked to Fulham to visit…

July StatisticsOn 1 July Madden returned to London from Oxford. He spent most of the month working at the British Museum, and took new lodgings at 42 Half Moon Street, Piccadilly. He regularly dined (with or without his brother Henry) in Rupert Street, and occasionally walked to Fulham to visit his uncle. He crossed the Thames to Lambeth in search of the Archbishop of Canterbury, and went to the Haymarket Theatre.madden1826.com

Just gonna go ahead and share this again, 'cause it keeps being annoying relevant.

Students' subject choices have a lasting impact. Ensuring students can benefit from a broad and balanced curriculum must remain a priority. 🧵

Today university fees rise again, while thousands of academics across the country face job cuts, crushing workloads and shattered morale. Students deserve better than this broken system of unfair repayment that widens inequality. Abolish fees and fund universities properly!

Tuesday Aug. 1st. at Musm. from ½ past 9 till 4. Contd Subdivn. of Voyages & Travels in Class Catalogue. Dined in Rupert St. & sat in the Green Park till 9. I generally read Herodotus till eleven oC. #otd

I love capturing those moments where London Underground trains line up perfectly with station posters. With a little patience and a bit of luck, you can end up with some wonderfully amusing and unexpected shots.

hello hivemind. I’ve a wild plan to stage an apprentice riot from the 1590s, as part of a public practice-as-research event. unfortunately the original location, Tower Hill, is a no go. can anyone suggest venues with outdoor spaces (preferably London) that might be open to this sort of thing?

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NBD, just hanging out with the Cathach, @rialibrary.bsky.social MS 12 R 33 dating to 560-600 AD and the oldest extant Irish manuscript of the Latin Psalter 🤩📜

Let’s kill the creative industry in the UK shall we? I mean it’s not like everyone is relaxing by watching TV, listening to music, going to the theatre, critiquing Nolan’s Odyssey… even STEM folk like to unwind