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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 2m

Please use in-text referencing

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 4h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 4h

"The chancellor approved it"

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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 17m

Yes, I always forget that Australian road safety ads can be brutal. But some are state specific, so some of the infamous ones (such as those made by the TAC) don’t get shown everywhere across the country.

Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 26m

But that had a jaunty jingle!

Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 1h

I know right!

Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 1h

Apparently there was a whole series of them in the 1990s-2000s. Has someone written about this? Would read.

youtu.be/9ciomPP8MyE?...

NZ ACC Thinksafe TV Ad Campaign from 1990s-2000s

YouTube video by Eddie Gardner

youtu.be

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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 1h

UK safety PSA ads from the 1970s-80s were infamously scary and bleak, but I just learnt today THAT THIS WAS A REAL AD IN NEW ZEALAND.

youtu.be/u51OxZF1ltI?...

New Zealand ACC Ad | Fruit - E - Bars

YouTube video by ET TV

youtu.be

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frankbongiorno.bsky.social @frankbongiorno.bsky.social · 2h

Past/Present is an Australian Historical Association initiative, in partnership with the Guardian, looking at current events in historical context. Here's an excellent piece by Roland Burke on early international efforts to deal with misinformation/disinformation.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The fledgling UN tried to rein in mass-scale misinformation. The world turned its back and is now paying the price | Roland Burke

The ruinous result of the US approach to freedom of information and media has made anti-democratic contagion impossible to ignore

www.theguardian.com

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Radical Online Archives @radonlinearchives.bsky.social · 3h

Hello BlueSky! Starting this account to showcase the ever growing list of radical online archives and collections. Nearly 1000 collections from the around the world are listed at the link below.

Please follow for updates and collection highlights!

hatfulofhistory.com/radical-onli...

radical online collections and archives

I am very interested in the growing amount of radical literature from around the world that is being scanned and digitised. As there are so many and from many different places, I thought it would b…

hatfulofhistory.com

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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, it was a gerontocracy and lumbering along at the stage. Even though people might think that Andropov being 69 when he died in power is not that old by today’s standards.

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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 1d

For comparison and using the original Andropov example, the average of the Soviet Politburo in the early 1980s was 69.

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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 1d

This got me interested in average age of politicians.

Since 1979, the average age of UK MPs in House of Commons has been between 48 and 52.

The average age of MPs in Australian federal parliament is 50.

The average age of a US Senator is 64 and for a member of the US House of Reps, it is 57.

Duncan Money @mininghistory.bsky.social · 1d

This is a good example of changing perceptions of old age and gerontocracy. Andropov was 69 when he died.

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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 1d

In the early 1980s, the USSR increasingly became a gerontocracy. After Yuri Andropov died in February 1984, the small US group, the Spartacist League, published this tribute to the dead Soviet leader. The line ‘He made no overt betrayals on behalf of imperialism’ is such an oddly phrased sentence!

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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 1d

Should the Online Radical Archives list have its own BlueSky?

Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 5d

#historians #history 🗃️

Once again I'm looking for recommendations of newly digitised archives/collections relating to radical history (broadly defined).

Nearly 1000 online and open access collections of radical historical documents already listed!

hatfulofhistory.com/radical-onli...

radical online collections and archives

I am very interested in the growing amount of radical literature from around the world that is being scanned and digitised. As there are so many and from many different places, I thought it would b…

hatfulofhistory.com

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Leroy @leroylynch.bsky.social · 1d

Escapee Australians became undercover agents in Yugoslavia during World War II
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10... #ozhist

How a hand-scribbled note helped reveal Australian undercover agents

It started a researcher down a rabbit hole "beyond anything anyone could ever dream up", involving deception, double agents, secret names and plans for a genocide.

www.abc.net.au

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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 2d

Like a bookshop or just a venue?

When last in UK, I did book launches at Housmanns, Bookmarks and Five Leaves (in Nottingham), as well as previous event at IHR in the seminar room.

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Ria Kapoor @riakapoor.bsky.social · 2d

I have a new article out.

TLDR: Actively courting deportation by air is a way to claim rights as a stateless person and even as a refugee.

academic.oup.com/past/advance...

Air Travel, Statelessness, and the Rights Claims of Ugandan Asians, c.1973*

Abstract. In the aftermath of Idi Amin’s expulsion of Uganda’s South Asians in 1972, some of those made technically stateless arrived in India unsupported

academic.oup.com

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 2d

Historical research often comes at an emotional cost.

To commemorate World Mental Health Day, here's a discussion from our archives on how ideas about wellbeing can shape the historian's craft in radical ways.

Emotions, Vulnerabilities and Care in Sensitive Research

Research is emotional. Five history researchers reflect on how new guidelines on wellbeing have shaped their practice in productive and radical ways

www.historyworkshop.org.uk

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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 2d

With the publication of our book 'In Solidarity, Under Suspicion: The British Far Left from 1956' next month, @manchesterup.bsky.social are offering a 30% discount using the discount code below!

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179593/

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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 2d

Melbourne University Publishing, NewSouth, Black Inc, Scribe, ANU Press

Also: UWA Press, La Trobe Press

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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 2d

This is one of the great things about historians on social media. The answer is solved in the subsequent thread.

Averill Earls @aearls.bsky.social · 2d

Help? Trying to figure out what the two words bracketed in red are. The rest of the clip says

Physically underdeveloped
______________ -- No development
secondary sex. characteristics

Any guesses?

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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 2d

Having recently filled my new book shelves after being in storage, I’ve decided to take a photo of an unpacked book a day. Going across my shelves, left to right, unit by unit.

Day 55 - External Mission: The ANC in Exile by Stephen Ellis

Join me for another each day (sometimes with a slight delay)

Cover of External Mission: The ANC in Exile by Stephen Ellis, with photo of ANC members in China in the early 1960s

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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 3d

When you pipe up with ‘I think we need to take a historical perspective’ in the project meeting

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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 2d

With the publication of our book 'In Solidarity, Under Suspicion: The British Far Left from 1956' next month, @manchesterup.bsky.social are offering a 30% discount using the discount code below!

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179593/

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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 2d

One for @maxrushden.bsky.social and @phlaimeaux.bsky.social

Shipwrecks and Sea Dogs Podcast @shipwreckspod.bsky.social · 4d

New episode! "Sir Ernest Shackleton: The Boss - Part 1." The first of a 2-part series about the life of the legendary explorer. Part 1 takes you from his birth through the end of his 2nd polar expedition aboard the Nimrod.

shipwrecksandseadogs.com/90

#maritimehistory #history #shackleton #podcast

Sir Ernest Shackleton: The Boss - Part 1

Sir Ernest Shackleton was an Anglo-Irish explorer best known for his daring Antarctic expeditions during the Heroic Age of Polar Exploration.

shipwrecksandseadogs.com

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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 3d

When you pipe up with ‘I think we need to take a historical perspective’ in the project meeting

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