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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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Dr Lucy J.S. Clarke 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🌈 no human is illegal @lucyjsclarke.bsky.social · 17h

Oh my god the cringe turned me inside out.

Dr Lucy J.S. Clarke 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🌈 no human is illegal @lucyjsclarke.bsky.social · 17h

Eton Mess, or trifle. I’m never more evangelical about British culture than when recommending both.

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Brendan May @brendanmay.bsky.social · 1d

The worst use of quotation marks in the history of human civilisation is in.

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Dan McPainInTheKnees @danmckee.bsky.social · 1d

“What’s the charge? Eating a seal?”

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

my little girl started smiling at us properly, and we completed on a house!

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

my baby daughter has started smiling socially and it is the best. thing. ever.

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CeeJay Johnson-Yellow Hawk @adriftalchemist.bsky.social · 3d

poppy, who’s not a fan of baths, got 2 of them today: one in the sink and one from panzer #cleanboy

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Dr Lucy J.S. Clarke 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🌈 no human is illegal @lucyjsclarke.bsky.social · 2d

Oh this is such a great colour 😍

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BUCKERS @deathofbuckley.bsky.social · 5d

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 · 6d

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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 6d

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 · 7d

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 · 7d

this is horrifying. The NHS is failing trans people.

What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 7d

Gender Identity Clinic's Waiting Lists from Shortest To Longest

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 10d

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 · 10d

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 · 10d

Absolutely heinous.

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Dr Lucy J.S. Clarke 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🌈 no human is illegal @lucyjsclarke.bsky.social · 9d

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 · 9d

New Bibliography: Royal Proclamations

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#LegalHistory

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 · 12d

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

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Dr Lucy J.S. Clarke 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🌈 no human is illegal @lucyjsclarke.bsky.social · 15d

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 · 16d

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 · 24d

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

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

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 · 24d

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 · 27d

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

Jonathan Foyle @jonathanfoyle.bsky.social · 27d

AI is hilarious at period furniture

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28d

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