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A beautiful, young Brown House Snake. This constrictor is an amazing hunter, operating mainly at night. We disturbed this young female while walking along a river and had to pull her fro the water. A favourite because of how it controls rodent pests.

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There's a painted hunting dog somewhere in this picture. Low light and hands shaking from excitement made for a poor picture. A perfect end to a very long day.

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I have become obsessed with the gorgeous butterflies encountered during a recent fieldwork trip. I think I more photos of them than the sites we encountered!

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Majesty. Such a glorious creature, unafraid as it hunted across our breakfast table.

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Beautifully put.

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Healthy, fairly young bull in full musth here.

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Back in the office for a while...

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🧵 on the interesting history of eggs: `1/? People have been eating eggs since there first started to be people, about six million years ago. Eggs have lots of protein, and they don’t fight back – you can get them just by climbing to where the nest is and picking them up. Easier than honey!

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Jacaranda blossom on grass. Can't believe these are still flowering four months after their usual peak season.

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Beautiful summary. In some ways, this clearly shows how western Christianity has poisoned ideas about gender for centuries to the detriment of so many.

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Can only appreciate the light with the shadow. #Bulawayo

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Noam Chomsky spoke the uncomfortable truth.

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'Tis the season

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Hell is empty, And all the devils are here.

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Zimbabwe post-coup

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Documenting the heritage of those evicted in the 1950s and 1960s to make way for the border delimitation of the Matobo Hills National Park. Several village remains discovered and mapped in the past two years.

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What a Beauty! I'm delighted to share the cover for my forthcoming book on Indian history... all of it. 5,000 years, dozens of languages and cultures, 1 author. Coming from @princetonupress.bsky.social to wherever you buy books on June 3, 2025. Preorder: princeton.press/8r8idcye

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What a beautiful idea.

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Truly delighted and humbled that John Eppel, Zimbabwe's greatest living poet, has chosen us to publish his newest collection, Flipping Words, featuring over 60 new poems. Very excited to see this appear this quarter, if all goes to plan. Some of his best work yet in my opinion.

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One of my favourite pictures that I've ever taken. Jurassic Rock, Matobo Hills, Zimbabwe.

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New publication out today! 🏺🗃️ This is my argument for an economic history of heritage-making in African states over the past 40 years, and how this speaks to themes like sovereignty, commodification of tradition, and (of course) the idea of usable pasts >>

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Great Zimbabwe in the ethereal mists, so common this time of year, is something else entirely.

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The comic that got us demonetised on Facebook back in August. (We’re no longer on Facebook).

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Doors of Beauty. A thousand, thousand stories in this one image, evocative if you went to school in Bulawayo with a deeper layer to do with racial practices in the country before 1979 and the struggle to build and keep a business in the period since 1999.

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Coming in 2025. Revised & updated with reference to the #RhodesMustFall movements & how Zimbabwe, in particular, engaged with this global event With thanks to Terry for giving me permission in perpetuity to publish his section as long as we kept it the same-I hope he would've liked the new section!

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As 2024 is coming to an end, I thought I would put together a thread of the top 10 visited collections from my list of online and open access collections of radical historical documents (with nearly 700 now listed and more to come). hatfulofhistory.wordpress.com/radical-onli...

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Not the best time of year to look for archaeological sites, but given the chance to take the dogs on a walk, and to be with my better half, I jumped at the chance to check a little known area in Bulawayo. Not much found apart from scattered Late Stone Age flakes, washed in from somewhere...

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Happy sightings in the Matobo Hills World Heritage Site

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Business is increasingly behind bars in Zimbabwe

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Loving our handmade gift from the kids

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The absolute best weather in Bulawayo. May our dams be filled and the drought lifted at last

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Early morning sky on the first day of the new year

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Happy new year to all. New life, new beginnings and hopeful times ahead.

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Rain-soaked granite in the Matobo Hills World Heritage Site

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A princess lies buried a short distance from these rocks...

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One of my favourite creatures, who was very patient as we watched and photographed for nearly 30 minutes today while in the Matobo Hills World Heritage Site.

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A small litter clean-up at Mpopoma Dam today in the Matobo Hills World Heritage Site. Didn't expect so find so much rubbish but fishermen who come here are clearly trashy idiots. (We only stopped because we ran out of garbage bags!)

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