16M Yorkshire Records Online: Tragic and Touching Tales

Nearly 16M Yorkshire records spanning 7 centuries are online, revealing weddings, tragedies, and everyday lives of residents old and new.

Good News Post - inspiring stories, hope, positivity, well-being, and a happier outlook on life.
Today is a #PhD day.
I’ve got transcripts and readings a-plenty. I’ve got things-to-write galore. Want journal articles? I got 20 (thousand). I don’t neeeeeed morrrrrrrre
#phdlife #UniversityOfYork
My first Thesis Advisory Panel is tomorrow. Wish me luck. #phdlife #UniversityOfYork
Really good talk for #UK #LGBTHistoryMonth at #UniversityOfYork about her book "Before #Gender
Lost stories from #trans #history 1850-1950" By Eli Erlick https://elierlick.com/beforegender/
Before Gender - Eli Erlick

Explore the trailblazing lives of 30 trans people who radically change everything you’ve been told about transgender history

Eli Erlick -
I keep seeing placements for #phd researchers to go on placements for ~3 months. They sound like exciting things, particularly for researchers new to the jobs market. Although not for me, I keep getting struck by the number that offer no fee.
While if it’s part of a course for taught programmes, or contributing to research, that’s fine. But blanket “come work for us for three months cause we are great” — that seems incredibly financially discriminatory. #AcademicChatter #UniversityOfYork #UCU @ucu @ucupostgrads
It’s not easy being an English northerner surrounded by southerners. Here’s how we survive

University undergraduates are forming northern societies, but in other circumstances we find different ways to be ourselves, says Guardian north of England correspondent Robyn Vinter

The Guardian
‘Oh my gosh, they’re all from London and Cambridge’: York University’s northerners fight back

Lucy Morville, from Burnley, thought most students would be from the north and felt ‘culture shock’ surrounded by southerners

The Guardian

NHS drug deal to placate Donald Trump ‘will cost 15,000 British lives’

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/health/nhs-drug-deal-placate-donald-36338777

Good joint #UCU #Unison and #Unite #Union meeting today at #UniversityOfYork