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Sat up late tonight to complete first draft of a book chapter

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@skentelbery.bsky.social from BBC Radio Cornwall in conversation w/ @exeter.ac.uk Professor @fancynahyan.bsky.social on our new publication on plague's spread prior to the Black Death. www.instagram.com/p/DGi5JIgNlpG/ 8 mins well worth your time. Here's the paper: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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“The coroner also criticised NHS 111 for “misleading” the public by calling its call handlers “health advisers”. This title, she said, “implies professionalism which is untrue given their underlying skills and unsubstantiated given it is their role to complete an algorithm”.”

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Morning! At 10am, BBC Radio 4 will play the edited 30 minute version of You’re Dead To Me about ancient Cuneiform writing! It features @moudhy.bsky.social & Phil Wang, and is very funny and informative! The full length podcast is on BBC SOUNDS now

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Signs of hope on a misty morning walk

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My first visit to St Benedict's Abbey, Ealing - designed by Frederick Walters, who was also the architect for Buckfast Abbey

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In case you do not know yet, dear #skystorians, there's an online anthology called "Material Histories of Paper", with lots of open access texts and resources around the topic of the history of paper. Enjoy this: www.livingbooksabouthistory.ch/en/book/hist... #PaperHistory #BookHistory

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It was a bitter disappointment upon waking to realise that none of this was real, Bagnale's life and death being entirely an invention of my subconscious

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Just awoke from a dream about Persianist & explorer Daniel Mary Abagnale, who drowned in the ornamental pool of a urban shopping centre after a sellout lecture on his Afghan travels, drunkenly trying to save a statue in the water he mistook for a woman in distress

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If you get a chance, go and see the work of Iraqi artist Sadik Kwaish Alfraji, and others in the Jameel 'Moving Images exhibition at the V&A. His poignant & personal multimedia animations explore his parent's lives, dreams & hardships in both text and image

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good morning! www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/20...

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Katja Lang, Road to E. (2022) #WomensArt

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Busy #archive day in London today

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Working on some Palestinian archive material today. Last week I was reading through a diary by a British official there covering the years from 1943 to 1949' that had been prefaced later with the sombre comment: ‘A few leaves had been extracted & burnt: it is better so.

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Reddit user u/onestonewithlichen 's Mum has brought some of the Luttrell Psalters' marginalia monsters to life via the medium of wool-felt.

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Exeter folk - HASS Exeter are here! 👇

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I very much enjoyed hearing @moudhy.bsky.social on the radio this morning talking about the role of cuneiform tablets in the writing of history. About 30 years ago I tried to teach myself cuneiform & related scripts, travelling to Oxford to see the Weld-Blundell prism & to Durham for the Gulbenkian

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Reading this a few months ago I thought it an evocative yet pointed critique of the personalities of that era, but the last few weeks have got me thinking much more about Sykes-Picot in the present

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Still, there's time to improve.

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SUPPORT THE EDUCATIONAL BOOKSHOP! We would hugely appreciate any support you are able to give at this time. Find out more here: www.gofundme.com/f/jerusalems...

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Castlerigg Stone Circle, Cumbria. #standingstonesunday

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London, 2 March. Book now. It's going to be quite an event actionnetwork.org/ticketed_eve...

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Having recently finished Elizabeth Peters' The Dead Sea Cipher, I now find myself reading another thriller set in the world of late 1960s Biblical antiquarianism in which political intrigues of Palestine & her neighbours swirl around the quest for ancient artefacts and\or manuscripts

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There are books, and there are books, and this is an extremely important one 🙏 If you still haven’t got it, now is the perfect time to show your support for Mahmoud Muna 📖 @matthewteller.com @saqibooks.bsky.social @stanfordstravel.bsky.social

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Wonderful thread #paperhistory

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Devon panorama

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Devon portal

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I've added another 49 photographers using alt.text to my original list. Why 49? Because one is an artist - eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social - who writes possibly the best alt.text on Bluesky, and I want people to see what he does and take a big hint, because visually impaired Blueskyers need it!!

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I don't want to be on ghastly x anymore but it's where a lot of my sales come from so this post is a brazen request for shares to spread the word about my work on a kinder platform that isn't run by a dangerous megalomaniac! www.etsy.com/uk/shop/Sara... #selfemployedartist #ukgifthour #shopindie

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Hello brave new world. I’m Gemma, a printmaker in Somerset UK. My prints are a collection of weird and curious beasts born out of a love of history, folk and craft. And Snabbits.

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The fallen menhir from the intertidal landscape at Greve d'Azette, Jersey 🇯🇪 Peats under the sand here are part of the lightly-forested landscapes of the Neolithic that fringed the coast 5-6k yrs ago. A special stone raised as the sea was rising, And then lost to it 🏺 #StandingStoneSunday

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#standingstonesunday Trowlesworthy rows and cairn circle, Dartmoor

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Siblyback menhir (ironically not that near Siblyback - that would be Tregarrick menhir) on a spring day last year, with Kilmar Tor in the background. #StandingStoneSunday #Cornwall

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🚩Anyone working on protest/spatiality/protest camps/urban protest and planing to attend MESA this year? @myriahmed.bsky.social are putting together a panel and still have two empty slots!

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