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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 1d

'His book tour brought him to Cambridgeshire, where he would marry and have two children with Susannah Cullen, an Englishwoman from Ely. They settled in Soham, supported by a local network including abolitionist friends, safe...when reactionary “church and king” mobs were targeting reformers.' 1/3

Lost grave of daughter of Black abolitionist Olaudah Equiano found by A-level student

Fitzwilliam Museum has uncovered student’s work from 1977 that revealed Cambridgeshire location of child’s burial place

www.theguardian.com

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Ben Jerrit FCCT History Teacher @benjerrit.bsky.social · 1d

Fascinating story of #OlaudahEquiano and how student research helped bring to life the family history. #Skystorians. #HistoryTeacher

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Lost grave of daughter of Black abolitionist Olaudah Equiano found by A-level student

Fitzwilliam Museum has uncovered student’s work from 1977 that revealed Cambridgeshire location of child’s burial place

www.theguardian.com

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 2d

I visited Grand Street Senior Housing on the Lower East Side today and tried a little Bomba y Plena…

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d

I can answer this. I interviewed Peterson's tailor a few years ago, although the interview was never published because I fell behind on work. Here is the story of this suit. 🧵

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 3d

What is happening with this outfit?

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Ben Jerrit FCCT History Teacher @benjerrit.bsky.social · 3d

Fascinating thread

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d

JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.

Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵

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Ben Jerrit FCCT History Teacher @benjerrit.bsky.social · 3d

Read this and now you can too. Some case studies of leeches getting, um, where they shouldn't really be. But! A good overview of how they have been used in medicine thru time.
#Skystorians #HistoryTeacher

arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

Man accidentally gets leech up his nose. It took 20 days to figure it out.

Leeches have a long medical history. Here’s what happens if one gets in your nose.

arstechnica.com

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Ben Jerrit FCCT History Teacher @benjerrit.bsky.social · 3d

Read this and now you can too. Some case studies of leeches getting, um, where they shouldn't really be. But! A good overview of how they have been used in medicine thru time.
#Skystorians #HistoryTeacher

arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

Man accidentally gets leech up his nose. It took 20 days to figure it out.

Leeches have a long medical history. Here’s what happens if one gets in your nose.

arstechnica.com

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WildGorillaMan @wildgorillaman.bsky.social · 6d

You had me at “fancy cheese vending machine”

Picture of a vending machine stocked with fancy cheeses and bougie crackers

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 4d

Tough but essential history in @fxmc1957.bsky.social’s new history of the Holocaust.
It began with speech. It ended with bullets, bayonets and gas.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 4d

I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice.

This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 4d

There are people in office who are armored by incumbency who aren't a tenth as brave as this woman

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 4d

I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice.

This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.

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Ben Jerrit FCCT History Teacher @benjerrit.bsky.social · 4d

An easy read and helpful summary of medicine through the ages. Not really sure it told me anything I didn't know already but I may try to use bits in class with my students. #RoyPorter #Booksof2025. NO 16.

Cover of Blood and Guts, A Short History of Medicine by Roy Porter. Illustration is a painting of a gentleman in 18th Century clothes, long white socks, green trousers, waistcoat and suit. Parts of the body have the skin removed show human organs and the circulatory system.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 4d

The third and final part of our epic 'Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin' Origin Story. We're now at the point of total homicidal breakdown, burying into some of the darkest experiments in human history.

Origin Story @originstorypodcast.bsky.social · 4d

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 Welcome back to Origin Story: The Story of Socialism as we resume the story of Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin in part three @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social discuss Terror 👉 linktr.ee/originstoryp...

#originstory #lenin #trotsky #stalin

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Philippa East (Author) @philippaeast.bsky.social · 5d

Incredible work, everyone!
Over 6,500 letters sent, which means (on average) over 10 letters per MP!
If you haven’t written in and still want to, you can find @transactualuk.bsky.social’s easy-peasy tool here: actionnetwork.org/letters/scra...

Screenshot of the landing page of the above link, showing the total letters sent sitting at over 6800

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 6d

In @yougov.co.uk polling of the trans community, to the best of our knowledge the first of its kind ever conducted, an astonishing 84% said Britain is “fairly unsafe” or “very unsafe” for trans people.
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‘Abject terror’: survey shows 84% of trans people feel Britain is unsafe

YouGov poll reveals safety crisis for trans people in the UK

goodlaw.social

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Justine Pick @justinepick.bsky.social · 9d

There is still time to enter the Midland History essay prize
£400 first prize and opportunity to publish in a peer reviewed journal
Closing date for entries 31 October 🎃
#phd #ecr #postgrad

Midland History Journal @midlandhistory.bsky.social · Aug 12

To enter the Midland History Essay Prize, the essay must be a genuine work of original research, not published or accepted for publication as an article or a chapter in an edited collection book. Max. 10,000 words, including footnotes, tables and figure captions (2/2)
More Details 👇

Flyer advertising Midland History Essay Prize 2025. Black background with text in while and image of journal front cover.
Email j.pick@bham.ac.uk for more details or enquiries.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 7d

"No longer should we think about our political process as settling for the lesser of two evils. We can demand a greater good.

And in doing so, we can make City Hall a place from which New Yorkers expect change, not failure."

Zohran at the podium looking to the left.

Zohran, Bernie and AOC holding hands on stage.

Zohran on stage with people seated on the sage behind me.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 7d

Ominous - threats of retaliation deterring challenges against the government is a key mechanism of democratic downfall

Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 7d

We have reached the point where the *American Bar Association* cannot find attorneys willing to represent them in litigation against the Trump administration.

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Trump’s orders unnerved many in the industry and appear to have discouraged some large firms from taking on cases they would otherwise have backed, lawyers say. That has dried up a formerly reliable supply of help from large law offices for people and institutions challenging government policies.

The American Bar Association, which joined or filed four lawsuits against the Trump administration, “has experienced difficulty finding previously willing law firms to represent it,” its attorneys wrote in court papers. In one case, the organization said, it was unable to join a lawsuit challenging the administration because it could not get attorneys in time.

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Ben Jerrit FCCT History Teacher @benjerrit.bsky.social · 7d

A good short summary of WW1. Some cracking moments even if I feel that there are more areas of debate than Stone mentions here. Will use bits and pieces for short quotes in lessons I suspect. #NormanStone #Booksof2025 No.14

A book cover; Norman Stone's World War One, a short history.
The image is of a German soldier on horseback. He wears a gasmask and holds a pike. The horse doesn't have any gas protection which does rather make the whole issue a problem and less than ideal in a war situation.

Ben Jerrit FCCT History Teacher @benjerrit.bsky.social · 7d

Thanks. I'll take a look

Ben Jerrit FCCT History Teacher @benjerrit.bsky.social · 7d

Adult Ed language courses sound like a good option. That and encouraging students to take languages in the Sixth Form ( even if not at a whole A Level). Love the IB as it gets students to tale a language.
Most of my students want to do Business, Ma, or Ec to go into a finance job and earn 💰. *sigh*

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Ben Jerrit FCCT History Teacher @benjerrit.bsky.social · 7d

The article does have a point that the app has lost its focus on language learning and it now about gamification. I'm still doing it and I do actually enjoy using languages. But I'm learning the tricks of the app rather than really properly the language itself. Where else can I get this experience?

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edmuir.bsky.social @edmuir.bsky.social · 9d

Now witness the power of this fully operational ball room

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 9d

A very offline cousin sent this to fam group chat. This story is breaking containment.

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mjburnage.bsky.social @mjburnage.bsky.social · 9d

We are BACK.

7th February 2026.

You are not going to want to miss this #Soane26

www.eventbrite.com/e/ark-soane-...

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