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Peter McCullough @mcculloughp.bsky.social · 3d

If transitory things, which soon decay,
Age must be loveliest at the latest day.
(Donne, ‘The Autumnal’)

View down a gravel garden path toward hedges and trees in autumn gold, set off by dark storm clouds beyond.

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 7d

Minority representation on TV causes outrage

From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 7d

If the model here is that you let a private company conquer a country, co-opt local elites to exploit it for profit and govern it by force, while providing no public services and never worrying about elections, then, yes - this is a really good analogy, Mr Kruger.

"Britain used to administer an empire from a company building around Downing Street in the 1820s,” the Reform MP for East Wiltshire said during a press conference, arguing that in the past the number of staff needed to run departments was far fewer than today."

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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 10d

My Dad used to show me the constellations, but I don’t remember them, apart from the Plough and the North Star

Need something like this for next time I’m in Mayo

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History Cafe ☕ Ottoman Heritage @ottomanhistory.bsky.social · 17d

📷 Traditional Architecture in #Jeddah, Arabia, c. 1910 #Architecture

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James Harland @jmharland.bsky.social · 17d

Took a while but nice to get my author’s copy!

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Anita Hoffmann @17cmedicalwomen.bsky.social · 18d

#earlymodern ads are never boring!

An ox on the way to slaughter ran into a house... created a mess! Good on you Mr Ox! 🐂 🩲👖👗🧦🪟

St James's evening Post, May 6, 1729.

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Caitríona Beaumont @caitbeaumont.bsky.social · 18d

Great new exbo at my place of work #LSBU on community activism in SE1 in 1970s @se1.news. Free to all so come along to Borough Road Gallery at 103 Borough Road, SE1 0EH 😊. #localhistory @chppc.bsky.social

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London Topographical Society @londontopsoc.bsky.social · 24d

We have just joined BlueSky! Since our foundation in 1880, we have reproduced an unrivalled selection of historic maps, plans and views of London. We also publish books and monographs containing original research. See more of what we have to offer at: londontopsoc.org

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MedievalWomenSpeak @medievalwomenspeak.bsky.social · 26d

I have discovered that women are more than capable of undertaking any task which requires physical strength or of learning any discipline which requires discernment and intelligence. Books which say otherwise were definitely not written by women.

- Christine de Pizan, b. 1365

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 26d

The advice I give young people on choice of degree programme. Choose something you love. You’ve got the rest of your life to be frustrated and miserable.

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Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social · 26d

About to teach the first class for our wonderful MSc in English Local History at @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social - including a discussion of some of my favourite local history sources, like this 1586 map of the Isle of Purbeck.

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Helen McCarthy @historianhelen.bsky.social · 27d

Wisdom, moral imagination, an enlarged sympathy for those who live or have lived differently from yourself. This is what you get from studying the Humanities. So quite important, actually.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 28d

Excellent letter from the Bishop of Birmingham to Robert Jenrick.

At a time when so many other voices have been silent, the bishops have been admirably outspoken against attempts to stir up division.

The churches do a lot of community cohesion work & do not want to see this trashed for party gain.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 28d

The Bishop of Birmingham has written to the Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick about his comments about Handsworth

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 29d

I'm guessing Robert Jenrick might be hard-pressed to see a black face if he walked round his own constituency of Newark for 90 minutes, given the ethnic minority population of its main town looks to be smaller than the white population of Handsworth. (Source: citypopulation.de/en/uk/eastmi...)

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Laura @lauropea.bsky.social · 29d

it's ridiculous how some people seem to think the only possible reason to do a humanities phd is to become a tenured professor. i use the considerable fruits of my philological training all day every single day to overanalyse every word anyone says to or around me within an inch of its life

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Dr Laura Varnam @drlauravarnam.bsky.social · Oct 3

When I heard the news this morning I made virtually this same comment to my husband! If we women are good enough for the risen Christ himself…

Catherine Clarke @cathamclarke.bsky.social · Oct 3

So the church (C of E, anyway) has finally caught up with the very first moments of Christianity as a faith, in which women were the first witnesses and teachers.

Large group of male disciples to three women: 'So ladies, thanks for being the first to witness and report the resurrection and we'll take it from here'. Cartoon by @nakedpastor: https://nakedpastor.com/

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University of London Press @uolpress.bsky.social · Oct 2

We too are very excited for the publication of the latest #OpenAccess book in our #NewHistoricalPerspectives series, Atlantic Isles by @grod.bsky.social!

Published with the @ihr.bsky.social and @royalhistsoc.org with funding from @jisc.bsky.social.

Read more:
uolpress.co.uk/book/atlanti...

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Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford @hmcoxford.bsky.social · Oct 1

📢 Today we welcome our new Principal, @breezephilanthropy.bsky.social, to HMC. Beth joins us from @kent.ac.uk, where she was Professor of Philanthropic Studies and the founding Director of the Centre for Philanthropy. See full story 👇 tinyurl.com/5622usr5

HMC gives warm welcome to new Principal, Beth Breeze

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · Sep 28

Golden hour, autumn bursting through, and a rainbow. Doesn’t get much better than that, does it?

Picture from Greenwich park, you see early onset colours of autism in the threes, a very warm light of the later afternoon suns, and a rainbow above the scenery to finish it off.

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Dr. Erika Graham-Goering @jeanneologist.bsky.social · Sep 26

Absolutely unacceptable behaviour from a publisher. Gross.

Rutger K. 🟥 @anotheraspirin.bsky.social · Sep 26

This is a problem.

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · Sep 24

Linguistics.

Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · Sep 24

They've lost the 9yos

JA Westenberg
@Daojoan@mastodon.social

My 9 year old and his classmates have started using “that’s AI” to mean “I don’t believe you.”

Me: we’re having dinosaur meat for dinner

Kiddo: that’s AI
Sep 24, 2025, 07:36 AM

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Dr Rebecca Warren @drrjwarren.bsky.social · Sep 23

5000 years ago, someone carefully made this bowl, put some food inside it and placed it in a stone-lined tomb, in a glen in Argyll.

And I wonder, was it to sustain the dead? Or to appease them? Or for some other now-unknowable, now unreachable reason?

(📷 mine, Kilmartin Museum).

Pale brown pottery bowl, size of a bowler hat, slightly uneven, with a wide lip around the top. In a glass display case.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · Sep 22

History curious? You don't need to be in London (or the UK) to attend many Institute of Historical Research seminars, although if you're in Bloomsbury you'll enjoy doing so. Most are hybrid (online/in person). They're free, usually fortnightly and open to the public.

Starting this week:

Events

Stay up to date with the upcoming events organised or hosted by the Institute of Historical Research

www.history.ac.uk

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Martine van Elk @martinevanelk.bsky.social · Sep 17

Today on the blog: @franceswolfreston.bsky.social discusses several women who may be the Lady Bellamount who signed this book, each one fascinating earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com/2025/09/17/p... #HerBook #EarlyModern

Thomas Pierce, Philallelia, or, The Grand Characteristick Whereby a Man may be Known to be Christ’s Disciple (1658)

Today’s featured book has three contemporary owners’ signatures crammed onto the upper fifth of its title page, Edward Wilmot and the signature of “Lady Bellamount,” which is bifurcated by the sign…

earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com

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