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Dr Lucy J.S. Clarke 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🌈 no human is illegal

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interdisciplinary historian of early modern England; Leverhulme ECF at Sheffield, working on 'Performing the early modern English state into reality, 1558-1641'. socio-legal history, practice-as-research as historical method. mum of cats and a small human.

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Dr Lucy J.S. Clarke 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🌈 no human is illegal @lucyjsclarke.bsky.social · Jul 1

the legitimacy of the police in the Anglophone world has been the subject of a lot of debate in recent years. I think early modern England has a lot to tell us about our relationship with the police.

blog here:

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Policing by consent: an early modern perspective

This post derives from some of the work I’ve been doing on my Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship over the last year and a half. For more on these themes, I’ve an article coming out in H…

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BUCKERS @deathofbuckley.bsky.social · 3d

Just seen a headline which asks "Thatcher was born 100 years ago and her reign feels a lifetime away. Why is her effect on the country still so huge?"

It's because she was a massive bastard. Hope that helps x

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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 4d

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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 4d

if you’ve ever watched the apprentice, that’s the world without arts or humanities degrees

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Dr Lucy J.S. Clarke 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🌈 no human is illegal @lucyjsclarke.bsky.social · 4d

a man in a white shirt is sitting at a table in a kitchen

ALT: a man in a white shirt is sitting at a table in a kitchen

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Dr Lucy J.S. Clarke 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🌈 no human is illegal @lucyjsclarke.bsky.social · 4d

this is horrifying. The NHS is failing trans people.

What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 5d

Gender Identity Clinic's Waiting Lists from Shortest To Longest

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 7d

My dad has turned up this photo from a visit "many years ago" to the Forth Bridge. I think it's taken from what he calls the howff, just below track level, used by the maintenance workers.

I guess when you're engaged in a proverbially endless task, you need a wee cup of tea once in a while.

Black and white photo showing a kettle on the sill of a very dirty window. Immediately outside the window is the very recognisable steelwork of the Forth Bridge.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 7d

When you drag a woman by the hair, beat her and force her to kiss your flag, that’s how you tell the world you are the Good Guys

Jordan Uhl @jordanuhl.com · 7d

Absolutely heinous.

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Dr Lucy J.S. Clarke 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🌈 no human is illegal @lucyjsclarke.bsky.social · 7d

finally had the chance to take my first hot bath since I got pregnant. no lobster was e’er more delighted to be boiled.

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The Statutes Project @statutes.bsky.social · 7d

New Bibliography: Royal Proclamations

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Proclamations

The canonical bibliography of Royal proclamations is that of the Earl of Lindsey’s commission, the two volumes of ‘Tudor and Stuart Proclamations 1485-1714’: Volume 1: England and…

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 10d

On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read

A printed poem which reads:

I hav for breakfast Weetabix

I hav for lunch some meat

I have for tea 2 sosajis and thats enuf to eat

Peter Hazel, 5

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Dr Lucy J.S. Clarke 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🌈 no human is illegal @lucyjsclarke.bsky.social · 13d

American Idiot really holds up over two decades later. concept album of the millennium?

Dr Lucy J.S. Clarke 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🌈 no human is illegal @lucyjsclarke.bsky.social · 13d

since I’ve had a baby I’ve read more news articles than ever before, simply because I need something one-handed to do at 2am when she’s feeding and I’ve stupidly forgotten to connect my earphones before latching her on

Dr Lucy J.S. Clarke 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🌈 no human is illegal @lucyjsclarke.bsky.social · 21d

Thanks Sara! We’re finding our way 🥰🥰🥰

Dr Lucy J.S. Clarke 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🌈 no human is illegal @lucyjsclarke.bsky.social · 21d

parenthood: trying to establish whether the scent of baby vomit has sunk into your cardigan or if it’s just the baby themselves (or a secret, worse third option)

Dr Lucy J.S. Clarke 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🌈 no human is illegal @lucyjsclarke.bsky.social · 21d

my kid straight up looking like Tony Soprano getting the newspaper

a small baby in a bodysuit and undone babygro. she bears a distinct resemblance to a disheveled James Gandolfini in a bathrobe.

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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 25d

So the DFS sale really has been going on as long as we thought

Jonathan Foyle @jonathanfoyle.bsky.social · 25d

AI is hilarious at period furniture

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 25d

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Dr Lucy J.S. Clarke 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🌈 no human is illegal @lucyjsclarke.bsky.social · 24d

day ??? of maternity leave. my house is an unending series of muslin hiding places and I’ve lost count of how many Waitrose mini sausage rolls I’ve eaten.

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milo edwards @miloedwards.bsky.social · 27d

imagine getting qt dunked by ed davey. unrecoverable. you’re furious and he is serenely going down a log flume in bognor regis.

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Cynthia Miller-Idriss @milleridriss.bsky.social · 29d

I wrote about the groypers and the Fuentes-Kirk fight years ago, in Hate in the Homeland. Cautioning here that there is still a lot to know about the shooter’s motivation, I’m sharing these two paragraphs here to set the history of this fight in context:

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 28d

I think about this poem by Ian Duhig — about Jo Cox, the Labour MP assassinated by a man shouting ‘Britain first’ — every day at the moment. No other contemporary poet has looked so clearly at the political reality of the far right as a minority who must always be appeased

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Rue Jo Cox, Députée Britannique, a street sign in Burgundy reads, Assassinée pour ses convictions.

No British road is named after her, I found on returning home, for fear it could have proved controversial.

I remembered in Shakespeare rue even for ruth, called 'herb of grace' because it was used in exorcisms,

by the angel to clean Adam's eyes, and Gulliver back home for his nose against the smell of his countrymen.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 28d

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 28d

Look I think valuing human life is a phenomenal, wonderful, fantastic idea and also that’s why everyone opposes the genocide in Palestine and the colonial violence in Haiti and Sudan and Congo right?

Oh oh you didn’t mean those lives I see

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Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 28d

Keir Starmer rushing out an immediate tweet bemoaning the death of a US fascist whose UK organization was a failure, but posting nothing about the UK fascist march at which the site he's posting on's owner called for a racist revolution.

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Dr Lucy J.S. Clarke 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🌈 no human is illegal @lucyjsclarke.bsky.social · 28d

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watching the world descend ever further into anti-democratic, fascist mania is doing my blood pressure no good.

Elon Musk calls for dissolution of parliament at far-right rally in London

US-based tech boss was addressing the ‘unite the kingdom’ protest organised by Tommy Robinson via video link