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Wait…an editorial on universities that doesn’t blame staff and actually thinks we suffer as a result of the problems in the sector?! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Alexa play “My Happy Place” by @divinecomedyhq.bsky.social merciiiiii

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Saw this on the other place. Immediately thought of @onslies.bsky.social. #nuntastic

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“We should ask not whether what unfolded in 🇩🇿 is especially similar to 🇵🇸, but how reading these histories together might help us consider what decolonization feels like not as an end point, but as an ongoing process.” The always-great @arthurasseraf.bsky.social on Algeria and Palestine.

submitted 28 days ago • 2 comments

Question: does anyone know if there are decent digitised runs of 1950s/1960s British women’s magazines - not for me, for a student? Woman’s Own seems only to exist in hard copy in various libraries…

submitted 28 days ago • 2 comments

THIS FRIDAY! It's going to be spectacular, so don't miss out! #LowCountries #EarlyModern #FoodHistory #SkyStorians

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

It’s started: ICE raided a Chicago-area hospital emergency department today and showed up at Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan last week. Share this with any health workers you know. We must know how to respond when ICE comes for our patients and coworkers. jacobin.com/2025/01/hosp...

submitted 29 days ago • 37 comments

Goodbye to the lost children of Gaza. You were loved, you are remembered, you did not deserve it | Nesrine Malik

submitted 29 days ago • 36 comments

Me, writing my book, 4 years in, and still not being quite sure what it is.

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Extremely hot book cover klaxon! “Napoleonic Objects and their Afterlives”, edited by @matildagreig.bsky.social and Nicole Cochrane, coming on 6 February (and featuring a chapter from me on Napoleonic performance w/Albert Dieudonné as key case study). www.bloomsbury.com/uk/napoleoni...

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21 January: execution of Louis XVI. “Something for crowned jugglers to ponder”, as this contemporary print warns. Mort aux tyrans, indeed…

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Search engines exist. Calendars and reminders are already on your phone and email client. No one needs to use immense amounts of energy and water and stolen IP to make a worse version!

submitted 41 days ago • 7 comments

J'ai évoqué Los Angeles, ses écosystèmes et l'histoire des incendies dans la ville sur RTS, la radio préférée de mon oncle zurichois 📻🎙️

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Pour les blueskyeurs français, j'ai évoqué la situation à Los Angeles ce matin avec Guillaume Erner sur France Culture. Petite erreur dans son intro: Mike Davis a écrit son texte "Faut-il laisser Malibu brûler?" dans les années 1990 (pas 70). www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

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🎶just little bits of history repeating🎶

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My niece is going through a pear phase. “Draw one with a happy face. Okay now a sad face. Okay now a mad face.” This is proof that research is transferable in the most unexpected circumstances, I think. 🍐 #ifyouknowyouknow #channellingphilipon

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Happy 2025 everyone!🧡🌿🏺 I’m excited to spend this new year illustrating the ancient Mediterranean world, and also learning more about my own local folklore🌿 Any shares so i can reach my audience on this new platform are greatly appreciated 🧡🧡🧡 #artvsartist #illustration #ancientbluesky

submitted 49 days ago • 7 comments

Ridiculously proud that this is out in the world! Thank you @enghistrev.bsky.social and the many people who helped with this work along the way.

submitted 50 days ago • 4 comments

The very amazing Emma Nagouse is on Headliners (with Dan Smith) on @bbc5live.bsky.social tonight, talking about their work on the Muses podcast! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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For whatever reason, RTÉ seems to show Close Encounters every year between Christmas and New Year and I’m always grateful for the opportunity to just enjoy the Truffaut/Balaban vibes.

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I love a pre-Christmas byline, me. My review of Sebastian Smee’s “Paris in Ruins” in this week’s @thetls.bsky.social www.the-tls.co.uk/arts/visual-...

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Rowlf’s absence (apart from a brief non-speaking role) from the Muppet Christmas Carol always struck me as odd, until I learnt that it was deliberate, as no-one felt comfortable recasting him so soon after Jim Henson’s death. Watch it again, through a lens of collective grief. It’s masterful.

submitted 63 days ago • 1 comment

Brilliant critique of Say Nothing (both book and show) by Jack Sheehan for @thebaffler.com. thebaffler.com/latest/codes...

submitted 65 days ago • 13 comments

It’s genuinely obvious that we are well past the point of no return.

submitted 68 days ago • 1 comment

Ethics in historical research is becoming ever more important. Hear @tomhulme.bsky.social @earner.bsky.social Kate Chatfield, Holly Smith & me tease out some of the challenges on @ihr.bsky.social @cont-brit-hist.bsky.social roundtable. @royalhistsoc.bsky.social. www.history.ac.uk/podcasts/res...

submitted 69 days ago • 3 comments

The extraordinary “Nae Pasaran!” is still on iPlayer for 20 days and it comes highly recommended. What an incredible example of “ordinary” activism and international solidarity. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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Fave detail from @rpanchasi.bsky.social's excellent interview w/ @michaelgvann.bsky.social: his Hanoi rat project emerged out of boredom in the colonial archives in Aix. Every afternoon just for some fun diversion Vann would call up a file w/ a quirky name. One of those files led to this great book🗃️

submitted 71 days ago • 2 comments

I’m sorry to bring a Twitter screenshot into your timeline but this is just so amazing. It’s like a Rubik’s cube of the most uninformed opinions on the planet. All blue ticks too, of course, and one of them was nearly just made Attorney General of the US.

submitted 71 days ago • 24 comments

Big stupid fat tears rolling down my face during the last 15 minutes of Wolf Hall. I swear I’m normal, honest.

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It's not nothing that defenders of Israel, formally incapable of seeing Ireland's position on Palestine as rooted in (ongoing!) colonial experience, nonetheless trade freely in British colonial images of Ireland as a place of primitive hatreds, a backwater, a people incapable of reason etc.

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The Christmas story!!! Guardian comic from yesterday

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The rather cosmopolitan themes of the Letter to the Ephesians (just read) and of the Archbishop’s sermon are rather at variance with the values of the assembled ethnonationalist exclusionists.

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It is so nice to hear and see Emmanuel, the bourdon bell, ring again. #notredame

submitted 80 days ago • 1 comment

…why is Elon fricking Musk at the reopening of Notre-Dame, exactly??

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