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Olga Prokopis

@olgaphoos.bsky.social

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I live and work on unceded Brayakaulung country. Researching Shakespeare and Richard III. Graduate researcher in history at the Centre for Contemporary Histories Deakin University. 'Maintain your rage and enthusiasm.'

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Olga Prokopis @olgaphoos.bsky.social · Apr 29

My latest paper, ‘Un-disabling the King: Richard III and the ‘New Evidence”’ has just been published in Rethinking History @tandfresearch.bsky.social. In it, I revisit the 2014 documentary that claimed #RichardIII was 'dissolute' and 'not disabled'.
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Un-disabling the King: Richard III and the ‘New Evidence’

This article examines an information cascade surrounding King Richard III of England that was created by a chain of communicative events in popular media. The discovery of his lost grave in 2012 an...

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Olga Prokopis @olgaphoos.bsky.social · 4h

Richard: Madam, my mother, I do cry you mercy;
I did not see your grace. Humbly on my knee
I crave your blessing.
DUCHESS OF YORK God bless thee, and put meekness in thy breast,
Love, charity, obedience, and true duty.
#RichardIII 2.2.104-108

#ShakespeareSunday

Olga Prokopis @olgaphoos.bsky.social · 4h

BOY Then you conclude, my grandam, he is dead.
The King mine uncle is to blame for it.
God will revenge it, whom I will importune
With earnest prayers all to that effect.
DAUGHTER And so will I.

#RichardIII 2.2.12-16.

Clarence's unnamed children in a rarely performed scene #ShakespeareSunday

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Olga Prokopis @olgaphoos.bsky.social · 4h

Shylock: If a Jew
wrong a Christian, what is his humility? Revenge! If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example? Why, revenge! The villainy you teach me I will execute, and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.

MOV 3.1.56-60. #ShakespeareSunday

Olga Prokopis @olgaphoos.bsky.social · 9h

77 Years of Genocide: October 12th Newsletter #freepalestine

77 Years of Genocide: October 12th Newsletter

Israel plans to maintain military presence at 3 strategic sites in, around Gaza after prisoner deal: Report

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Diana B. Greenwald @dbgreenwald.bsky.social · 6d

Important new piece by Jo Kelcey and Anne Irfan: academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-...

Rescuing the UNRWA Archive: Saving Palestinian History amidst the Gaza Genocide

Abstract. Israel’s genocide in Gaza has entailed extensive attacks on Palestinian heritage and history, including institutional archives which preserve his

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lmmipei.bsky.social @lmmipei.bsky.social · 6d

📚✍️ For author C. E. Gatchalian, Anne Shirley embodies resistance. Born into a society that preferred boys, Anne offers an imaginative counterworld - one of beauty, transcendence, and creative defiance.

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Olga Prokopis @olgaphoos.bsky.social · 6d

Poor Susu still getting the stinkface #cats

Olga Prokopis @olgaphoos.bsky.social · 7d

Grim-visaged war hath smooth'd his wrinkled front;
And now, instead of mounting barbed steeds
To fright the souls of fearful adversaries,
He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber
To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.
#RichardIII 1.1.10-14

#shakespearesunday

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Olga Prokopis @olgaphoos.bsky.social · 7d

#freepalestine

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Olga Prokopis @olgaphoos.bsky.social · 7d

If you're in Gippsland today #freepalestine

Olga Prokopis @olgaphoos.bsky.social · 8d

‘Relatives had destroyed letters from the eastern front from Onnen in the 1990s. But they still had pictures of him, which the Bellingcat volunteers were able to use for an AI image analysis.’

Historian uses AI to help identify Nazi in notorious Holocaust murder image

Jürgen Matthäus has for years been investigating the killer – and is confident he has finally solved the mystery

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 10d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Medievalist.net @medievalists.bsky.social · 10d

Medieval Scholar Called Out the Shroud of Turin as a Fake, Study Finds www.medievalists.net/2025/08/medi... #shroudofturin

Medieval Scholar Called Out the Shroud of Turin as a Fake, Study Finds - Medievalists.net

A new study reveals that Nicole Oresme, one of the great minds of fourteenth-century France, denounced the Shroud of Turin as a fake decades before its famous 1389 controversy. His writings highlight…

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Olga Prokopis @olgaphoos.bsky.social · 11d

This prophecy survived in oral tradition in Chester for two centuries after #RichardIII's death, eventually appropriated by John Oldmixon for one of the Georges in the 18th century #history

Olga Prokopis @olgaphoos.bsky.social · 11d

I have set myself up a new work station (on the dining table) and Susu has decided this is an ideal spot for attacking feet. #cats #writing

Olga Prokopis @olgaphoos.bsky.social · 14d

Historical List of Killings and Massacres Carried Out by Israel on the Palestinian People #freepalestine

List of Killings and Massacres Carried Out by Israel on the Palestinian People

This is a list of some of massacres carried out by Zionist terrorist groups and the state of Israel on the Palestinian people from the early 20th century onwards.

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Olga Prokopis @olgaphoos.bsky.social · 14d

722 Days of Genocide: September 28th Newsletter #freepalestine

722 Days of Genocide: September 28th Newsletter

Australia formally recognises state of Palestine as Anthony Albanese arrives in US

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Olga Prokopis @olgaphoos.bsky.social · 14d

Current Australian Parliament E-Petitions on the Gaza Genocide - links on our Facebok page #freepalestine #genocide

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Olga Prokopis @olgaphoos.bsky.social · 16d

“The Man Show, created by Adam Carolla and Jimmy Kimmel, harnessed male resentment towards women and turned it into “comedy,” propelling Kimmel to late night stardom[…]
Proudly crass, racist, and transphobic, the show also celebrated chauvinism by treating women as disposable fuck puppets.”
(2018)

The Most Revolting Moments from Jimmy Kimmel's 'The Man Show'

Before Jimmy Kimmel was hosting the Oscars, he hosted a show where he humped women on camera, made fun of their weight, and joked that Oprah had to do "a little more sock washing."

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Olga Prokopis @olgaphoos.bsky.social · 19d

Nami getting some Me time
#cats

Olga Prokopis @olgaphoos.bsky.social · 25d

Study finds alarming rise in self-censorship among German academics researching Israel, Palestine

76% of German academics self-censor on Israel-related topics, most commonly at public events and in media contributions, amid authorities' pressure to silence criticism of Israel - Anadolu Ajansı

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Olga Prokopis @olgaphoos.bsky.social · 25d

We spend a lot of time complaining about Bloom, but I feel like Tillyard doesn't get enough ire.

#shakespeare #academicchatter

Olga Prokopis @olgaphoos.bsky.social · 27d

#shakespeare #richardiii

Olga Prokopis @olgaphoos.bsky.social · 27d

I shall despair. There is no creature loves me,
And if I die no soul will pity me.
And wherefore should they, since that I myself
Find in myself no pity to myself?

The Tragedy of #RichardIII 5.3.212-215
#ShakespeareSunday