Neil Stewart

Why would you assume librarians don’t have thick skins?

Top three all time album for me, on the right day number one

The GOAT

Our fantastic library team have been working hard to make our collections even more accessible. Another reason to join @ihrlibrary.bsky.social

The Dr Williams’s Trust Library Bursaries for Mid-Career Researchers The Dr Williams’s Trust has generously provided funds to support the work of mid-career historians researching the British Protestant dissenting traditions.

Are you a mid-career historian researching 17th & 18th-century British Protestant dissenting traditions? 🏛️ Apply for the Dr Williams's Trust Library Bursaries at the IHR! Three awards of £3,500 are available to support your research in London libraries and archives www.history.ac.uk/fellowships-...

Important thread on the practicalities of actually dealing with with these issues

It’s that or the Noel Edmonds “Cosmic Ordering” spiritual enlightenment grift

“Needless to say, I had the last laugh”

Cut short for a Skunk Anansie power ballad :-/

Super Furry Animals on TOTP! With costumes, bongos and steel drums!

Albini Sessions (Benefit for Letters Charity), by Fugazi 12 track album

Holy heck, Fugazi just released the 1992 Albini sessions for Bandcamp Friday! Proceeds going to Letters Charity.

The 49th Latin and Palaeography Summer School, 27-31 July 2026 The School, formerly the Keele Latin and Palaeography Summer School, returns for its 49th year. In 2025 The Ranulf Higden Society took over the organisation of the Latin and Palaeography Summer Sch…

Many medievalists and early modernists have fond memories of the Keele Palaeography Summer School - it lives on! Now in the convenient location of central Birmingham, organised with help from @ies-sas.bsky.social and @ihr.bsky.social Booking open now!

palaeography.uk/study/short-...

"Hats off to Ian MacKaye: a Tell-All Memoir"

Smearing Sussex (and Me): Responding to Nigel Biggar’s Latest Attack in The Spectator The University of Sussex, Feb 2026, taken by the author. Alan Lester The Spectator has published an article by Nigel Biggar smearing the University of Sussex as repressing students who ‘don&#…

The Spectator published this attack on me & colleagues just as the High Court is considering Sussex’s request for review of the Office for Students fine. It accuses us of ‘repressing’ our students. The magazine ignored my request for to reply. Please disseminate.

alanlester.co.uk/blog/smearin...

We're looking for more book chapters! For anyone working with network analysis on any period in history: check it out! Deadline Friday 13th March - send abstracts to interlocked.universe@gmail.com #digitalhumanities #cfp #skystorians

So much for free speech and the marketplace of ideas!

Fondly remembering the time on Twitter I said Brendan O’Neill had a massive forehead and bad opinions, and he blocked me

Another simpering egg masquerading as a human

“Knows cooking of all cuisines” from a guy who subsists on Taco Bell

Epstein Family Values • EQUATOR The billionaire patriarchs of the American far-right want to rule an economy of masters and servants

Remarkable piece by @melindacooper.bsky.social for @equatormag.bsky.social

www.equator.org/articles/eps...

BOB THE BUILDER – "Mambo No. 5" [From March 2016] The last time we met Bob, I made a tantalising suggestion that his “Mambo No.5” was the superior version. This theory does not survive contact with reality. Whatever the merits of th...

a UK number one single no less popular-number1s.com/2016/03/05/b...

That Shellac 7” is 🔥🔥🔥

Roads to Santiago is a wonderful piece of travel writing

Goat is the GOAT

Form!

A new for of arithmetic has been discovered

“In Thielian terms, we call this going from zero to one…”

Look what they took from us etc.

I remember a US pol Bluesky remarking about Trump’s cognitive decline and madness: “no more catty remarks about off-Broadway show casts”, which for some reason stuck with me

"failure of moral seriousness" eh?