2022 - To Read

All plans cancelled pic.twitter.com/i0zoMWcGOT— lulah ellender (@LulahEllender) May 23, 2021

“social change is often slow and difficult. It rarely unfolds through absolute victories but through partial gains and subtle shifts in collective consciousness.” Excellent piece from @SimuChigudu https://t.co/RfrHkSDNUX @HaseebAhmad2 @herboo44— Tom Warner (@Warnerbro) May 24, 2021

Mesmerism, repetition, the discipline of writing, and...“unlocking your productivity.” @ENOgden this might well be a hate-read for you. https://t.co/sWAsjZCTpT— chad wellmon (@cwellmon) May 26, 2021

Announcing our third network event!Friday 18 June, 10am-12pm (BST):DECOLONIZATION AND DISCOMFORT with speakers @TanjaDreher (@UNSW) + @AntheaGarman (@Rhodes_Uni) in conversation with Poppy D'Souza (@UNSW)Free and open to all, please register and RT! https://t.co/L12LqaAhKN— Decolonising the Discipline (@DecolDiscipline) May 27, 2021

I write about academic labor, critical method, and the love of literature at @politicsslash—thanks for reading!https://t.co/GgtTreLJ1G— Jacob Romanow (@jake_romanow) June 1, 2021

Listen to this incredible playlist of work songs @NTSlive! It is so so rich, sensitive and informative. Thinking about the importance of including music in labour history.https://t.co/n1h4OuIUSd— Ellie Armon Azoulay, PhD_is on #UCUStrike & #ASOS (@Ellie_AA87) June 3, 2021

Following some lovely peer review comments, Feelings & Work in Modern History, edited by me & @alison_moulds, is going to be published by @BloomsburyHist in February 2022! Here's our lovely cover: pic.twitter.com/GT4ASx0PaZ— Dr Agnes Arnold-Forster (@agnesjuliet) June 4, 2021

Words don't mean what they say, no one is cis, and we could use the delightful perversion of reading right about now.

This is just a Jessa Lingel appreciation tweet. I mean look at how this absolute baller calls out Penn for gentrifying in the *acknowledgments* to her new book on gentrification. & o yah can we just defund the police too? k thx. pic.twitter.com/euNyT6i4Oo— whitney trettien (@whitneytrettien) June 8, 2021

Reading descriptions of the way humans become infested by parasitic flatworms, Daisy Lafarge experienced painful physical symptoms. Perhaps the very creature she was studying had invaded her body.

One of the best poems ever written. ‘Roast Potatoes’ from Gertrude Stein’s Tender Buttons pic.twitter.com/EjCvz9PVfz— Carrie Smith (@CarrieRSmith) June 10, 2021

At 17, biologist Juliane Diller was the sole survivor of a plane crash in the Amazon. Fifty years later she still runs Panguana, a research station founded by her parents in Peru.

A week or so ago I was helping to clear out a room in my mother-in-law’s house and I came across an example of one of my favourite kinds of text: the page of writing with, on its reverse, something from an apparently different world entirely. In this instance, on one side, the beginning of an article by art historian

The SAT is falling out of favor, but a study looking at essays suggests “soft factors” have their own issues.

ahem, I think there were lectures in Edinburgh a good while before this: https://t.co/OZZHVP5Mxg— Drew Milne (@GlamFuzz) June 29, 2021

'Book Theory'! Some thoughts on the state of the field of #bookhistory in theory and practice. Featuring QR codes, Derrida, unwieldly journals. https://t.co/kMJq1HeUNw— Georgina Wilson (@GeorginaEMW) July 6, 2021

The University of East Anglia - which boasts Nobel Prize laureate Kazuo - has branded English as a 'coloniser' language and will scrap teaching Shakespeare.

Finally getting some time to engross myself - rather than quickly dip into - Rothberg’s sublime writing on memory. Disciplinary backgrounds of those who write about the past always interest me and consistently the theorizing from literature are the most insightful. pic.twitter.com/Pb5NXsGVdm— Dr Laura McAtackney (@LMcAtackney) July 23, 2021

Comps, stone subs and a printer's pie... the lost jargon and practices of the pre-digital journalist sub-editor https://t.co/yM9PhCRyA5— Richard Fisher (@rifish) August 2, 2021

Delighted to see Shaul's book out in the world, former researcher on the early part of the Waiting Times project!"... a study of the hitherto unexplored significance of utopian visions of the state as a maternal entity in mid-twentieth century Britain". https://t.co/Fcj1lZwdRa pic.twitter.com/dt08iDtWNn— Waiting Times (@WhatIsWaiting) August 6, 2021

resources Hi there! This reading list highlights work about the history of the book that centers (and/or is authored by) people who have historically been excluded from the field. The list includes books, articles, and digital projects about all geographies and time periods, organized by region ...

My author copies have arrived! It looks SO GOOD! 🥳🥳🥳 pic.twitter.com/1Sv0e4GOYK— Dennis Duncan (@djbduncan) August 7, 2021

Terminology for Material Texts—An Explainer [This document was first prepared for graduate students in my Spring 2021 Approaches to Material Text seminar at University of Maryland. While some attempt at definition is necessary, the document is more concerned to map relations between what, to the...

How do we decode & communicate in the internet age? I codify two kinds of meme & place the memetic format in historical context.

It's fascinating, nuanced, extremely well research and yes it should have been at least on the Baillie Gifford, Wolfson, and other, history prizes shortlists.Sujit Sivasundaram's Waves Across The South: A New History of Revolution and Empire pic.twitter.com/SxWvh6siFC— Historian (@OlivetteOtele) August 14, 2021

Re-reading and resharing:Do Not ‘Decolonize' . . . If You Are Not Decolonizing: Progressive Language and Planning Beyond a Hollow Academic Rebranding https://t.co/Ae722GV5k8— Dr Folúkẹ́ Adébísí (@folukeifejola) August 16, 2021

Reminded, for some odd reason, of Ben Kafka's book "The Demon of Writing," a kind of psychohistory of bureaucratic paperwork, and one of my favorite first books by a scholar. Highly recommended: https://t.co/NSnykZnyI3— benjamin aldes wurgaft (@benwurgaft) August 27, 2021