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Hello history of print folk! Is there something called a 'Faux printer' (or does 'Faux' belong to the place name before?) #EarlyModern 🗃️

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The Blue Vanguard is a monthly jazz club dedicated to bringing the finest national and international guests to our home town of Exeter. The club has run successfully since September 2011 and has a loyal following. 📅 27th March 2025 🕐 19:30pm 🎟 www.wegottickets.com/CygnetTheatre #exeter#jazz #music

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New project funded with £1 million by Lloyd's Register Foundation at @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy explores the history of transatlantic slavery. www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/m... 1/3

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I'm trying to decide which is funnier: • System of a County Down • The Blarney Stone Roses

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My poetry collection about teaching/education as English teacher and examiner over 40 years. Joys and despairs as poignant then as now, latter probably more for so many these days. An eclectic poetry mix, available at Wrecking Ball Press.

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Naughty Japanese Badgers - Artemis Storytelling double bill 📅 4th April 2025 🕐 7:30PM 🎟 www.wegottickets.com/cygnettheatre "Very funny, very entertaining. Two completely different shows, same storyteller" - Katy Cawkwell #exeter #devon #cygnettheatre #theatre #visitexeter #fyp #storytelling

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Thoroughly enjoyed watching @CountessLuann @swxbristol last night She’s camp, she’s loud & proud, the audience were adoring, participative An extraordinary presence And don’t forget her great band! www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rgz...

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If you're near #Bristol , come and join me this afternoon, to watch this great show swxbristol.com/events/count... which features my talented cousin Daniel Glass!

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Join us this coming Monday at #IAIS to discuss Vernon Schubel’s new work with him - the registration link is here: eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

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Everyone knows it was originally 'a norange' and 'a nuncle', but did you also know that it was originally 'a ninkjet printer'?

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This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as allude to slavery or the civil rights movement. The wholesale erasure of history in real time.

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This episode of Origin Story on the myth of "cultural marxism", a conspiracy theory with antisemitic roots, is essential listening. It's a phrase, alongside "critical race theory", that always indicates bad faith. @iandunt.bsky.social @dorianlynskey.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/1ywU...

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New podcast now out, on the largest successful POW escape of the Second World War - the Great Epinal Escape. You can find it on youtube, spoitfy and everywhere you find podcasts. 'Well that aged well' www.youtube.com/watch?v=uG4g...

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This should be fascinating... Nivedita Menon at Exeter uni in 2 weeks www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/keynote-se...

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This is gonna be brilliant! Student nurses at Exeter have been making artworks as part of their course 'Nurturing Creativity', this Friday 14th www.artsandcultureexeter.co.uk/events/5TvTX...

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A Friend read this poem at our #Quaker Meeting for Worship at Exeter University yesterday. Spot on, in my opinion www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFSu...

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ITV1, 9pm: 'Ayres & Graces'. This week our intrepid trio of Pam Ayres, Grace Jones & Grace Slick go down the Colorado River in a canoe

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A print journalist had once asked me if there were enough English translators of Indian language literature. I had told her the real question ought to be whether there were enough resources for existing translators. They didn't publish that interview 😂

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New podcast (1 of 2) has just gone live on youtube and spotify and elsewhere. Hosted by Erlend Hedegart Please check it out and do give me your feedback www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcFn...

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You're most welcome, Laura! It's a great space, at the heart of the university of Exeter. Do come and visit

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PERSON OF THE DAY. 3 February 1924. Leading historian Edward Palmer (“EP”) Thompson was born in Oxford. He’s best known for his seminal historical work on British radical movements, in the early 19th century, most notably, his landmark book The Making of the English Working Class.

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A good friend found these pages in a book in a street market in Chinatown in Singapore Can anyone identify what they might be, and indeed the language?

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See our latest book review by Dominic Alessio on Krishan Kumar's Empires: A Historical and Political Sociology (2021): doi.org/10.1080/0308...

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This is a word of warning to all of us. Left, right, or anything else. Constantly reevaluating and learning.

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PHOTO OF THE DAY. The Beatles last live performance in the rooftop concert #OTD in 1969. 📷 google images

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If you know any film-makers, producers or writers in South Asia, Europe or anywhere, please get in touch and/or pass this on!

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In a world painted with shades of sorrow, be an artist of joy – create your masterpiece of happiness and let its colours spill onto the canvas of others' lives. gurdeeppandher.substack.com

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How do I get a film made? I’ve written a book on a great, unknown story of the Second World War How do I go about getting that story made into a film?

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La Vie en Rose 📅 15th February 2025 🕐 7:30PM 🎟 www.wegottickets.com/CygnetTheatre #exeter #devon #cygnettheatre #theatre #arts #drama #music

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Who has written or studied the history of food in the UK?#History

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It's over there, guv'nor! Do you like British #films? Like to know more from those who know? Tune in to ‘Hooray for Pinewood’ podcasts – fantastic insights from Matt Diamond and chums Wherever you find your podcasts open.spotify.com/show/1e6geaF...

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📷 Galata Tower's Spire Before It Burned, 170 Years Ago (A Simit Seller in the Foreground), Istanbul, 1855 #history #1850s

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"There is no such thing as bad weather, just inappropriate clothing," as we like to say in the early years. #inauguration 😉🤷‍♀️

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Today in 1912 Scott got to the South Pole....Just one month after Amundsen had beat him to it. Amundsen had left a tent with a Norwegian flag flying above & inside, a letter for the Norwegian king with a covering note asking Scott to post it. Cold. Literally.

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The latest episode of @empirepoduk.bsky.social . The story behind the Taj - a tale of love and loss….

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■ Souvenir Photo of Sisters and Brothers, Istanbul, 1890s #history #oldphoto #photo #1890s

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KARIKAL MAHAL– 3part docudrama on CNA at 9pm Sing/1pm GMT Jan4-6, on the Indian cattle king Moona Kader Sultan & his seaside villa in Singapore, Karikal Mahal. Occupied by Indian troops during the war & then European civilians interned in 1942. #Indianarmy #SingaporeWW2 #WW2. PicRAFChangiAssocation

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La Vie en Rose 📅 15th February 2025 🕐 7:30PM 🎟 www.wegottickets.com/CygnetTheatre #exeter #devon #cygnettheatre #theatre #arts #drama #music

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Last recording of the year done with @gheebowman.bsky.social ! This will be an epic two parter about The Indian Army, and Indian POWs. The episode will not be out before late January, but I can promise you the wait is absolutely worth it!

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All born on Christmas Day: Humphrey Bogart (1899), Kenny Everett (1944), Annie Lennox (1954) and Shane MacGowan (1957).

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