Pam Lock

My brilliant friend, Jules, created this video for me if my @britishlibrary.bsky.social book, Dead Drunk, in their bookshop last year and I had to share it on here

This looks brilliant and I know @jlares.bsky.social will be a brilliant host too. I wish I could sneak away from teaching to attend but you should all go @drinkingstudies.bsky.social people: events.tuni.fi/premoderndri...

Interesting-looking post doc teaching fellow at Liverpool if anyone is looking for more teaching experience/an interesting post in a great place: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DST427/a...

These niche courses are what make students fall in love with a subject! Small class sizes, intense focus - it’s a love story waiting to happen. In the UK, unfortunately, many unis are moving away from specialist modules to compulsory, broad, generic modules. To everyone’s detriment.

Don't forget to sign up to my online writers' retreat - still some places left - starts tomorrow at 9.15am. If you are feeling stuck, need motivation, or like the idea of writing with others to a schedule then register now. Details and sign up here: writingwithpam.wordpress.com/online-write...

Do I happen to know anyone who knows about hats in France during the reign of Louis XIII...? 🗃️

Next week's online writers' retreat is starting to book up. Come and join us on Thursday to find your focus and get some writing done from the comfort of your favourite writing spot. Share this with your favourite writers. writingwithpam.wordpress.com/online-write...

Anyone interested in suicide studies/suicide prevention and looking for an RA post - this post looks very interesting: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Such a wonderful evening (even in 43-degree Paris)! A big thanks to Pam, who encouraged me to apply 🍻

Fancy joining me for one of my writers' retreats but live outside Bristol? I'm doing an online retreat for a small fee on 27 August. Suitable for academics and creative writers - all welcome. i'm help you get those words on the page. More info here: www.eventbrite.com/e/writers-re... Please share

The cool thing about this PhD (beyond the funding) is you'll get to design your own project but also be part of a small team. It's associated with my project on the history of activism around AIDS denial wellcome.org/research-fun... & in September 2027 a postdoc will also join the project! #HistMed

Fancy joining me for one of my writers' retreats but live outside Bristol? I'm doing an online retreat for a small fee on 27 August. Finish your summer of writing with a bang or get the autumn started. More information and sign-up here: www.eventbrite.com/e/writers-re... Please share or recommend

Spontaneous combustion in Dublin, Irish Times 12 May 1970. I like that the coroner is called Dr Bofin.

AI isn't inevitable. You know what is? Having a great time when you visit The Museum of English Rural Life. merl.reading.ac.uk/visit/

Meoghan Cronin discussing narrators of ‘The Signal-Man’ and Sarah Smith’s ‘The Traveling Post-Office’ of Mugby Junction: each narrator has a compulsion to solve the mystery. They imagine they are subjective but they are not. #Dickenssociety2026

My most recent ed collection with the brilliant Katie Brown (Exeter). Lots of amazing work in here across so many different arts.

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An album of over 200 pressed seaweeds arranged by an anonymous Victorian collector. A transcribed poem is pasted as title page, it begins: “Oh call us not weeds, we are flowers of the sea.” UW-Madison Special Collections. #naturalhistory #seaweed #pressedseaweed #seaweedalbum #herbarium

Woo go Dr Amy! One of our amazing speakers at a previous She Drinks Beer anniversary brewday, and excellent host/interviewer of @braciatrix.bsky.social for our first Think While You Drink last year, and that's just the extra-curricular stuff with us - what a woman! 🙌🏻

In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light. In summer, quite the other way, I have to go to bed by day… —Robert Louis Stevenson, “Bed in Summer” from A CHILD’S GARDEN OF VERSES (1885) #BookWormSat #poem #poetry #kidlit www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43190/...

Job Opportunity! Assistant Professor in European and or Global History (pre-1800) University of Limerick - School of History and Geography www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRU993/a...

My team is hiring a permanent lecturer: -> Lecturer Digital Culture & Society Deadline 28 June 2026. Please share with friends. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

IT'S PUBLICATION DAYYYYYYYYYY!!!!! Download 'The King's Dinner: family, nation, and identity on the British table, 1760-1820' here FOR FREE and read all about George III's eating habits over breakfast! uclpress.co.uk/book/the-kin... #skystorians #openaccess #18thC #foodhistory 🗃️

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Thanks to the brilliant @devikanarayan.bsky.social for snapping this lovely short of @deborahlam.bsky.social interviewing me at my lovely book launch this week. Loved celebrating with you all, thank you.

Congratulations to the amazing Dr Pam @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social on the publication of her book, which we celebrated yesterday. This is the Think While You Drink team (Bob, Pam, Sam, me!), and yes we ARE plotting more TWYD - watch this space! @drinkingstudies.bsky.social

Nanako Matsuda

#MusicHallMonday 🎶🍺 Featuring The Barman, sung with great success by Wilkie Bard. As we prepare for our 3rd conference in Nov. 2026, we’re inviting proposals on the theme: CATERING for People’s Desires and Needs in the Music Hall See Call for Papers on our website: buff.ly/35wQKXA

#CfA 📢 Job opportunity: Lecturer in Medieval/Early Modern History 🏫 Lancaster University (UK) ⏰Application deadline: Tuesday 19 May 2026 🔗 www.hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

If anyone in government has a few minutes to run the country in between plotting leadership challenges, could they please cast their eye over the devastation of Higher Education in the UK. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Amazing opportunity for an archivist here, especially if you're interested in Sherlock Holmes; a bit buried in the details, but part of your role would be looking after Portsmouth's Arthur Conan Doyle Collection (Richard Lancelyn Green Bequest). searchjobs.portsmouth.gov.uk/jobs/job/Por...

Wow this looks like a very cool option.

Hi all, I need help with late 18th-century theology, specifically: was universal salvation a crackpot idea or widely accepted (c. 1790); what the likely interpretation of Romans 11 might've been then ('until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. And so all Israel shall be saved') Help appreciated!

📣Calling all graduate students! @vpreditors.bsky.social is now accepting nominations to its annual VanArsdel Prize! The prize seeks the best graduate student essay that investigates the #19thC press. Turn your latest term paper into a published essay! More details here: rs4vp.org/awards/vanar...

One for @drinkingstudies.bsky.social bods. Long term DSN member Mareen Heying talks about her ongoing research.

Great paid opportunity for Global London #Heritage #Trainees as part of #Thames Festival, working with mudlark finds. Do note that the deadline is soon: thamesfestivaltrust.org/about-us/joi...

one for @drinkingstudies.bsky.social bods?

This video looked so familiar - so I looked up an Esther Averill book and found the image: If you haven't read Esther Averill's books, we can highly recommend them.

Gutted to be missing the Fortnum and Mason Food and Drink Awards 2026 tonight, but incredibly honoured that Filthy Queens: A History of Beer in Ireland made the shortlist amongst so many great books. Best of luck to everyone!

This is my regular reminder that I'm for hire if you want to give your staff or PGRs a facilited writing day this summer. They're is a great way to provide time and space to write in a structured and healthy way, and to spend time together in a way that builds relationships in a positive way.

Look what just arrived!! Advanced author copies of my next book. I’m so thrilled to see it in the flesh - 5 years & hundreds of transcribed household bills later! #17thc #18thc #earlymodern #Herstory

Great article out this week by the brilliant Geoffrey Hunt on the myth of the naturally sober woman. doi.org/10.1080/1478...

Amazing - order it for your libraries now!