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A definition of White British which, aside from everything else, includes Gerry Adams but excludes King Charles.

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The clever people told us that there is nothing outside of the text and all was intertextuality and no words necessarily corresponded with [scare quotes] "reality" but we now have loads of text which does not correspond with reality but only with other texts and all we have is AI generated slop.

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Rachel Reeves has signed off plans to spend billions of pounds on a new railway line between Manchester and Liverpool and other urban transport upgrades as part of next week’s government spending review www.ft.com/content/9e2d...

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Hi, I'm currently looking into the impact of the PIP cuts on carers for the Big Issue: I'm interested in speaking to anyone receives PIP and Carer's Allowance, and who is potentially at risk from the new "four point rule" please repost for circulation

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Fan #artbots #themet https://botfrens.com/collections/223/contents/101752

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The blog's first participant contribution is online! csherbook.hypotheses.org/314 Read about the copy of the Württemberg hymnbook in which @sparrersway.bsky.social found the beautiful pressed edelweiss flower I posted the other day. #herbook #bookhistory

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Well, no need to water the garden this evening. #cheshire

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Labour are ****ing useless, episode 99.

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Calling UKRI-funded doctoral students interested in migration! Apply for an internship with the Migration Advisory Committee - deadline 8th Sept www.ukri.org/apply-for-fu...

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Walking the Medellín hill, a vital part of the battlefield of Talavera, 1809. The British occupied here, but were attacked at night (the day before the expected battle), in an unexpected and rare action in the dark! youtube.com/shorts/6i_3B...

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This is an encouraging development.

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ICYMI: A survey has explored how people in the publishing trade are using AI at work, with some accusing it of ’hallucinating sources’ and ’introducing racist stereotypes’ and other describing it as ’life-changing’ 👇 #BookSky

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Phrazle 976: 2/6 🟪🟪🟨🟪⬜🟪⬜ 🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜🟪⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 #phrazle solitaired.com/phrazle

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JASNA News on 'Jane Austen and Lord Byron' 'well-written & enjoyable, containing fresh observations even for those very familiar with Austen’s work and the Regency period. The correspondences between Austen’s life and Byron’s are fascinating and thought-provoking.' www.bloomsbury.com/jane-austen-...

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#OnThisDay, 3 Jun 1924, Alfonsina Strada crosses the finish line of the Giro d'Italia. She remains the only woman to have officially ridden the full length of a Grand Tour. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #GiroDItalia #Cycling 🗃️ 1/2

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Why are steel and fishing the only industries politicians care about? What about the ones that make real money? | Zoe Williams

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Delight as The Tomb of Eagles will Reopen theorkneynews.scot/2025/06/03/d...

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🥲 ‘This feels more like an execution than a shutdown.’ The Droitwich long wave signal fades – and with it, decades of everyday history. 📢 David Jobbins tells why it matters

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#Finds The magic of metal. This object is a cast copper axe-head dated to the Early Bronze Age (2350-1600 BC). This was one of the earliest types of metal object made in Britain. #Collection #Museum #CopperAxe #BronzeAge #Metal #Neolithic #metaldetectorist

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Ladybird Nature Corner. Once a common sight: The Elm (Common Elm and Wych Elm, 1963) Artist: SR Badmin

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www.northwichguardian.co.uk/news/2520859... #cheshire

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Small Elephant Hawk-moth (Deilephila porcellus) - County Donegal May 2025. It hsa been a few years since I've seen a fresh one of these stunners. #gcampbellphoto #moths #mothsmatter #teammoth @ulsterwildlife.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social @europebutterfly.bsky.social

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Disused colliery winding house & pit head structure circa 1900, modernised in 1956 at the former Barnsley Main Colliery. It's the last surviving structure with historical connection to the 1866 Oaks Colliery Disaster. The site was mined for over 170 years until closure in 1991. /1

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Wordle 1,445 2/6 ⬜⬜🟨🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Roman mosaic fragment of a cockerel from Italy. Dating to around 100 BC, the fragment is part of the collections at the Burrell Collection in Glasgow. 📷 My own. #MosaicMonday

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A #MosaicMonday peacock in honour of Juno and the month named for her. She was the goddess of marriage, childbirth and fertility. Peacocks were sacred to her and drew her chariot. Peacock, Detail of Mosaic - 4th century CE., Bardo Museum, Tunis #classicsbluesky #ancientbluesky

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Did the British republican tradition endure through the Cold War? 'Reassessing E. P. Thompson’s Political Thought: The Case for Radical Republicanism' 6 June, 3.00pm, London WC1E EPThompson.eventbrite.co.uk @mileendinstitute.bsky.social @bbkhistorical.bsky.social @qmul.ac.uk @qmpoliticsir.bsky

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'Working Boats' Some nice light & lovely cloud formations here on the Island on Sunday evening. #Sharemondays2025

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An urgent call to action, here about teaching History, but which is highly adaptable to English too @univeng.bsky.social @englishassociation.bsky.social. I chose a History & English degree because both made me think. Both can be about meaning-making: how others have made meaning + how we can too.

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Our brand-new Dye Garden is coming to life! With guidance from colleagues across the UL, and @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social, our Conservation team has planted traditional dye plants once used in manuscript painting. 🎨 #CambridgeUniversityLibraries #CULconservation #DyeGarden

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Ancient Greek clay aryballos (perfume flask) in the shape of an owl, c. 640 BC 🦉❤️ The Louvre, Paris 📷 by me #OwlishMonday #Archaeology

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@thegenealogist.bsky.social releases over 100,000 occupational, engineering and scientists' records including #apprentices at Petters Ltd of Yeovil; British Association for the Advancement of Science, and Junior Institution of Engineers. #ancestors

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'A yellow spotted muslin dress', and an 'Aboukir hat of straw'. Morning dress for June 1801, Lady's Monthly Museum. #fashion #history

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New MSE Guide. Check now if you're due up to £70 from Mastercard - even if you've NEVER had one. Millions are in line for compensation after the card firm settled a landmark legal case against it out of court. www.moneysavingexpert.com/reclaim/mast...

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