@jameskneale.bsky.social
Cultural/historical geographer at ucl working on drink/temperance, insurance, literary geographies, sf/fantastic/horror, &c. He/him. Author of Temperance Lives: Life Assurance, Drink and Medicine in Britain, 1840-1918 (Bloomsbury 2026)
@markbould.bsky.socialReposted by @jameskneale.bsky.socialSo I'm doing this next month
@princetonupress.bsky.socialReposted by @jameskneale.bsky.social"Highly readable and highly recommended.”—Sam Friedman, coauthor of Born to Rule
In Cancelled Futures, @amit-singh.bsky.social examines how experiences of class-based inequality work through race, place, & gender in different ways.
Out now. Read a free preview on our website: buff.ly/BMyZTR4
@jameskneale.bsky.socialA great list, including one spot - the Mackintosh Tearooms - that owes more to temperance than beer 🙂
@jameskneale.bsky.socialHappy birthday!
@manchesterup.bsky.socialReposted by @jameskneale.bsky.socialIn their new book Pubs for the people, @amit-singh.bsky.social & Sivamohan Valluvan make a heartfelt case for why the English pub still matters and how we can save it.
In conversation with Malcolm James (@sussex.ac.uk) & Phil Mellows in #Brighton on Nov 5th.
FREE tickets: tinyurl.com/3dh4284m
@jameskneale.bsky.socialA conference for some @drinkingstudies.bsky.social historians!
@urbanhistory.bsky.socialReposted by @jameskneale.bsky.social📣 Call for papers!
Next year's @urbanhistorygroup.bsky.social conference will be on the theme of Pleasure and the City
Submit your abstracts by 22 February 2027
Conference details:
🗓️ 2-3 September 2027
📍 @ljmuhistory.bsky.social, Liverpool
@jameskneale.bsky.socialthere's going to be a lot about this book here, sorry not sorry - like this great piece on PUBS FOR THE PEOPLE in the Camden New Journal: www.camdennewjournal.co.uk/article/the-...
@hpsvanessa.bsky.socialReposted by @jameskneale.bsky.socialhey so my friend Christine has a podcast which goes through each of the Hugo (scifi book) award winners and she has a smart discussion about them with some relevant person. Great if you like reading scifi, almost better if, like me, you don't but want to be culturally aware e.g. as a #histSTM person
@rgs.orgReposted by @jameskneale.bsky.socialAre you a researcher, student or teacher looking for funding to support a fieldwork project?
📣 Applications for our 2027 grants are now open!
Explore the funding opportunities available and how to apply: https://www.rgs.org/about-us/our-work/latest-news/apply-now-for-our-2027-grants
@pwhitewood.bsky.socialReposted by @jameskneale.bsky.socialA shadowy network of hedgehogs and owls, operating at the highest levels of the British establishment.
@amit-singh.bsky.socialReposted by @jameskneale.bsky.socialPubs for the People event in Manchester
📆 2nd of November
@manchesterup.bsky.social x @versobooks.bsky.social
📍TrackBrewing Co - Brewery & Taproom
We'll be chatting with Lewis Bassett, author of The Full English, about nationalism, food, pubs and more.
@uopmaritime.bsky.socialReposted by @jameskneale.bsky.socialCALLING RESEARCHERS, INNOVATORS, ARTISTS & POLICYMAKERS UNDER 40: Join our Europe-wide network to use arts & culture to help people reconnect with coastal places & each other. The project is part of a €690,000 COST Action bid for 4 years www.port.ac.uk/news-events-... @uophistory.bsky.social
@philmellows.bsky.socialReposted by @jameskneale.bsky.socialThis is an important contribution to the debate around pubs from @amit-singh.bsky.social and Sivamohan Valluvan. And it's a good read, too. I'll be chairing the Brighton launch event - but don't let that put you off | @britbeerwriters.bsky.social www.beerguild.co.uk/news/pubs-fo...
@jameskneale.bsky.socialDelighted to receive my copy of PUBS FOR THE PEOPLE from the hands of @amit-singh.bsky.social and Vallu themselves. Looks just as good as I thought it would. A Christmas smash, surely!
@allartmarkets.bsky.socialReposted by @jameskneale.bsky.socialI kind of also want to say it was probably 100000s, large OU foundation courses at their peak reached 10000 students a year and the course teams Stuart was part of spanned 18 years.
@jameskneale.bsky.socialInterested in talking to a community of well-informed and friendly scholars about many aspects of drinking (and not drinking)? Come to our conference at UCL next March!
@ucuedinburgh.bsky.socialReposted by @jameskneale.bsky.socialDay 9 of the UCU workers' strike at the University of Edinburgh. Camaraderie on the picketlines continues to blossom. Our canine friends are also there in support:
@long18thsem.bsky.socialReposted by @jameskneale.bsky.socialAUTUMN 2026-7 Term Card
Kicking off tonight at 5:30pm, we have a full slate of seminar papers planned for this term covering a range of topics across the long eighteenth century.
Registration to attend will be available at the following link:
@ducuuo.bsky.socialReposted by @jameskneale.bsky.socialDay 13 of 25. We are now halfway through our industrial action to rule out compulsory redundancies at the University of Dundee. Join us on our picket line today for a friendly atmosphere and chat. Bake sale tomorrow too.
