Dr Alice Marples @alicemarples.bsky.social
@alicemarples
Research & Postgraduate Development Manager @britishlibrary. Historian of early modern science & collections. She/her with 'Big North Energy'. Very personal.
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'It probably amounts to cultural vandalism'.
The BBC reports on the planned closure and demolition of Sunderland's National Glass Centre.
Save the National Glass Centre
Haven't got a chance yet to read #Gopolitics of #DigitalHeritage ? 📢 All insights are in the 30 min chat podcast with Liz Stainforth, masterfully recorded by Dave O'Brien at New Books Network 📚 . Listen here 👇
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Julia Black The British Academy: 'we need an urgent review and thorough overhaul of the way government engages with universities, including a robust, independent regulator responsible for the system as a whole – both teaching and research.' 1/2
My new report out today – the first in a two-year research programme into precarious work here at Resolution Foundation, supported by Unbound Philanthropy – looks at employers’ use of variable-hours and temporary contracts. A thread on some key findings 🧵 … resolutionfoundation.org/publications/f…
Excited for the launch of Beyond The Bassline British Library this evening. Also gassed to see my book chapter in print.
Congratulations to Dr Mykaell Riley and Dr Aleema Gray for their hard work in bringing this to life🥳
#BlackMusic #BlackBritishMusic theguardian.com/music/2024/apr…
AHRC-funded Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) PhD Studentship at University of Central Lancashire @UCLAN and The British Library British Library:
'Creative Writing and Atlantic Slavery Through Library Collections'
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The phenomenal Dr Katrina Foxton (@MOLArchaeology) is presenting about the work she's leading on values-based research frameworks at this forthcoming Towards a National Collection Arts and Humanities Research Council online free event.
Wed 1 May 2024
14.00-15.30 BST
Register👇
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JOB ALERT: Post Doctoral Researcher on the IrishResearchCouncil Laureate project MALCONTENTS: Order and Disorder in the Early Modern World of Learning. Deadline 14 May '24. Please Retweet.
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I’m really looking forward to this. It’s going to be a fantastic opportunity to explore the potential of #place based #history in #interdisciplinary #research . It’s a huge pleasure to work with Dr Kathy Davies to organise it. #twitterhistorians & social scientists please share.
New The Collection Ecologies Research Collective Consortium #HistSTM seminar on 11 April at 8am EDT/1pm CET! 🕷️🪲
@dominikhhh.bsky.social 🏳️🌈, Karina Lucas Silva-Brandão, Christian Reiß & Xiaoya Zhan will present “Reevaluating Insects as Archives – Collection Ecologies as Multidisciplinary & Multipractice Conversation 🦋🐞 /1