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Dr Fabiola Creed @fabiolacreed.bsky.social · 3d

📙 Bluesky is the only platform where I haven’t circulated my book, as I’d recently joined and was waiting for the physical copy. So here it is (last book post, I promise) 📙

☀️ Sunbed in Britain: Tanning Culture from Fad to Fear is free to download via: dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781...

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Richard Hornsey @hornseyhq.bsky.social · 1d

Huge thanks to @uoyborthwick.bsky.social plus staff at Unilever, Cadbury and Bristol Archives.

Richard Hornsey @hornseyhq.bsky.social · 1d

I've written something new on British factory tours of the 1920s and 30s and their presentation of mass production as a social good academic.oup.com/tcbh/article...

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Helen McCarthy @historianhelen.bsky.social · Jun 3

OUP's new AI editorial assistant will help in the 'assessment' of manuscripts, apparently. This strikes me as a very bad idea. Peer review is something academics do for free as a service to their discipline, and last time I checked 'Alchemist Review' is not my scholarly peer.

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Richard Hornsey @hornseyhq.bsky.social · Jan 29

Ooh, what year is that? Tell us more about Charlie. He sounds fab!

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Sarah Kenny @drsarahlkenny.bsky.social · Jan 29

My book, Growing Up and Going Out: Youth culture, commerce, and leisure space in post-war Britain comes out with @manchesterup.bsky.social in less than two weeks! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526152640/

Manchester University Press - Growing up and going out

Growing up and going out - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of Growing up and going out by Sarah Kenny

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk

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Richard Hornsey @hornseyhq.bsky.social · Dec 11

We're hosting an online workshop tomorrow on "Selling Health, Hygiene and Beauty in the Long C20th". 7 wonderful speakers (email for programme). Sign up at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/online-wor...

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Richard Hornsey @hornseyhq.bsky.social · Nov 25

Great to see you tonight. Sorry to have to run off. Hope the event was swanky.

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Richard Hornsey @hornseyhq.bsky.social · Nov 25

👋🏽 Morning!

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Borthwick Institute for Archives @uoyborthwick.bsky.social · Nov 20

Today from the Terry's of York company archive - this rather lovely sketch of the grand staircase for the main administrative block of the factory at Bishopthorpe Road. Built in 1924 it was supposedly modelled on the famous staircase on the RMS Titanic and also boasted a similar glass dome above.

pencil sketch of a grand staircase sweeping up to a central point with two further staircases leading off to the left and right. A woman is walking down the stairs carrying papers and against the back wall there are several portraits hanging and a central clock. The staircase rails are art deco in design.

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Richard Hornsey @hornseyhq.bsky.social · Nov 16

Hello! ❤️

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Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social · Nov 12

“This plays on a feeling that new towns simply should not be. Towns should grow over the course of decades, over centuries – not overnight...”

precastreinforced.co.uk/2022/07/16/u...

Unhomely: new towns on film

On film, the post-war British new town is an uncanny space – heaven, hell, or somewhere between, but certainly not quite real.

precastreinforced.co.uk

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archivetvmusings @archivetvmusings.bsky.social · Nov 9

Nigel Kneale's 1954 adaptation of Nineteen Eighty Four is repeated next Sunday (17th, at 10.00 pm) on BBC4.

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K Biswas @bizk.bsky.social · Nov 8

I’m the guest editor of the current issue of @culturalstudies.bsky.social looking at the worldwide legacy of the great Stuart Hall.

You can read the entire series & my introduction here for free: www.stuarthallfoundation.org/resource/int...