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How many more times do I have to uninstall / deactivate CoPilot, Apple Intelligence etc. which keeps on being foisted on my devices without my consent? Practically malware at this point

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Just realised what a juxtaposed story the coasters and pen pot on my desk at work tell ...

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So much this!

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📢WILLS PROJECT PROGRESS 📢 📜353,402 lines transcribed 🙋2,582 volunteers ⌛7,816 hours 23 minutes of work We're staggered by the engagement with our wills. Thank you to every single person who has transcribed a line for us! 👏🙏🙌 #EarlyModern 🗃️ @leverhulme.bsky.social @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social

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🚨 Less than one week to go to submit your abstracts for #UHG2025 🚨 The Urban Commons: Rights and Citizenship in the City from the Medieval to the Modern New Researchers' sessions on any #UrbanHistory topic 4-5 Sep 2025 Leicester Deadline: 24 Feb 2025

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New FREE exhibition coming up at The London #Archives (formerly LMA) from the 24 February - including #WW2 bomb damage #maps of London, Anthony Heap's diaries, and post-air-raid photos from Cross & Tibbs. One for the diary methinks 👇 #history

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This coming Monday (17.02) I’ll be launching my book and talking about memory politics at the @ihr.bsky.social together with the amazing @saraharens.bsky.social and @mideastineurope.bsky.social with all the drinks afterwards. In London? Come! Online? That’s ok too! www.history.ac.uk/events/book-...

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Last week @davidolusoga.bsky.social gave the annual National Humanities Lecture at the University of London. This was a superb account of how public history promotes and communicates academic research beyond HE. David's lecture is now available and is highly recommended bit.ly/3Qd1x5i #skystorians

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Call for Sessions - EAUH 2026 Conference City Networks in Europe and Beyond 17th International Conference on Urban History Barcelona, 2-5 September 2026 Call closes on 15 April 2025 More information: www.uantwerpen.be/en/centres/e....

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Publicado recentemente! Uma nova tradução da lição @proghist.bsky.social de @justincolson.bsky.social https://doi.org/10.46430/phpt0051 Estamos gratos ao Luanna Kaori pela sua tradução. Obrigado a Diogo Paiva + Luis Ferla pelas revisões, e obrigado a Joana Vieira Paulino pela edição.

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"theirs is the capitalism of the school bake sale – someone else buys all the ingredients and does most of the cooking, and the kids then claim they have turned a profit for the good of humanity." Marina Hyde nails it again

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London Record Society book launch at Guildhall School of Music 29 Jan: Sarah Clarke (ed), "The Periodicals of Ferdinand Pelzer (1833-1837), A German Musician in London", talk by editor + performances by Declan Hickey (guitar), Ally Dunavant (soprano). Free tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launc...

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History & the Humanities Research Training for Feb - March 2025. Our second online session on 18 February will focus Map Making for Beginners in History and Humanities with tutor @justincolson.bsky.social www.history.ac.uk/events/map-m...

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NEW TRAINING SESSION ANNOUNCEMENT: Join us in March to learn more about how to research place-based religious histories beyond the parish church. Everyone is welcome for this free training. www.history.ac.uk/events/resea...

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Hello All. Finally gotten over the backlog of e-mails and other bits and bobs. So today I can get back into the process of Georeferencing the 1st Edition 25" OS Maps, starting with the beautiful county of Flintshire. Haven't done this since Anglesey last year so looking forward to cracking on!

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The UK's "creative industries" represent a solid 5%+ of the whole economy. They employ 2.4 million people. It better be a big bus. lordslibrary.parliament.uk/contribution...

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'At Oxford, Merton College...has deleted its X account...Harris Manchester...last posted on Nov. 15 and asked followers to find it on other platforms....Falmouth University last posted to X in September, while Plymouth Marjon University said it will no longer use it.' Just do the right thing.

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It feels like a good time to reduce my use of US-owned big tech. Stopped using Facebook years ago, and Twitter months ago. Switched from Chrome to open source Firefox and from Google search to privacy focused DuckDuckGo recently, and haven't looked back - genuinely more relevant results!

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Job Opportunity! Werner Scheltjens, my AHRC-DFG co-lead on "Unlocking Upcycled Medieval Data: North Sea Networks, People, and Commodities in the London Customs Accounts 1380-1560" is advertising for a 2 year post-doctoral researcher role in Bamberg. Looking for medieval/early modern + DH experience

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Excited to have received funding from @ukri.org AHRC and @dfgpublic.bsky.social to work with Werner Scheltjens at Univ. Bamberg for our project Unlocking Upcycled Medieval Data: North Sea Networks, People, and Commodities in the London Customs Accounts 1380-1560'

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NEWS // Do Not Pass Go: C20 has joined other heritage campaigners in strongly objecting to the revised development proposals that are playing Monopoly with London’s Liverpool Street Station. Read more: c20society.org.uk/news/do-not-...

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With news of the historian and resistance fighter #MarcBloch being inducted into the Panthéon, we wanted to let our readers know they can explore his works in our collections and give thanks to the donations he made when the Institute's library was being established.

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Celebrating the iconic @vchlondon.bsky.social "Big Red Books" with 3D printed book "baubles" for the @ihr.bsky.social Christmas tree! 🎄

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The Pre-Modern Towns Group is now part of the Urban History Group Conference! Looking forward to a good selection of Medieval and Early Modern urban history submissions - on any town or city!

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Hello! We are over here now. Come and explore our more than 400 historic maps of London available to view on our website. Which is your favourite? layersoflondon.org/map?layers=t... #Maps #GIS #HGIS #SpatialHumanities #DigitalHumanities #GeoHumanities #StoryMaps #MapMonday

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Finally pulled the trigger and left Twitter. Felt less momentous than I expected ...

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Hullo #earlymodern ists, our next Society, Culture, & Belief, 1500-1800-seminar is this Thursday 14 at the IHR. We have Juliet Atkinson from Leeds speaking on 'Gendered Identification and Mobile Individual's Experiences of Authority in 17th c London. Sign up below: www.history.ac.uk/events/gende...

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📢 TOMORROW: Wills Project Webinar 📢 We're hosting a webinar on Tuesday 12 November at 15.30 to mark the launch of our 'Zooniverse' site ✍️📃 Find out how to join us here: sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult... @cemsexeter.bsky.social @leverhulme.bsky.social #history #blueskystorians #skystorians

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My fav photo of me

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📢 New Seminar resources!!! 📢 Do you teach early modern history or palaeography? ✍️ We've put together a freely available Wills Project 📃seminar outline, with resources for tutors (a seminar plan and a PowerPoint): sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...

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So much this! And also the historical city-building games - Caesar II & III, Zeus, Pharaoh ...

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