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In a library. Most likely just off Queen's Lane. #PrintHistory #Time #Newspapers https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/an-inky-business-a-history-of-newspapers-from-the-english-civil-wars-to-the-american-civil-war-matthew-j-shaw/5911999?ean=9781789143867
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Glad I saw this after we stayed on Karl-Popper-Straße

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Lunch in a Cologne beer cellar, packed full of carnivalers #interrail

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Better advertising to come, but I’m excited to announce that registration is now live for our very heavily subsidised Teaching Indigenous Histories & Perspectives Conference on 28 June! Bursaries for travel are available plus free follow-up support. Please do share with all your teacher networks!

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Train ladder #interrail

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Sheku Kenneh-Mason was in town #interrail

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Hello Prague #interrail

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Goodbye Vienna #interrail

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I've just cleared a few to-do list items and been alerted that the first pre-ordered copies of Postal Intelligence have arrived (!) so now seems like as good a time as any to share some exciting and troubling tidbits from my ten years with Europe's postal technocrats 1/? #earlymodern 🗃️

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By the same team that made John Company, another 18th century banger.

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#CFP #18thC #skystorians 'Gilbert Whilte and his Contexts', 3-5 June 2025 at Selbourne (Hampshire) Proposals welcomed for 20min papers, panels of 3 speakers, or roundtables of 5 speakers. Please submit abstracts (300 words) by 4 April 2025 to [email protected] gilbertwhite.org.uk

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On y va #interrail

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This is what higher ed administrators are reading this weekend. Basically, anything that could be perceived as involving race could result in the loss of federal funding. It's an expansive Dear Colleague letter from ED, to be sure. www.ed.gov/media/docume...

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The most photographed man in history

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Let’s hear it for George Gorton Machine Co.

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There are now few pleasant ways out of this. American politicians need to find one of those ways.

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Just watched the Boo Radleys play Lazarus at the Moth Club and am going interrailing tomorrow. Long live the 90s.

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Tens of thousands of American children studying in Pentagon schools serving US military families have had all access to library books suspended for a week while officials conduct a “compliance review” under Donald Trump’s crackdown on DEI and gender equality www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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They're legendary disease detectives: The CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service. Very little may be left of it after today, writes @helenbranswell.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/t...

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