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Dr Cath Feely @cathfeely.bsky.social · 13h

Tom Daylee #CelebrityTraitors

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AAAAH-riadne Griffin @ariadnereviews.bsky.social · 13h

I would immediately write down Stephen's name just because of this #CelebrityTraitors

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Dr Cath Feely @cathfeely.bsky.social · 13h

I'm a massive ham #CelebrityTraitors

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Dr Cath Feely @cathfeely.bsky.social · 14h

Enjoying Celebrity Traitors but the funeral is just reminding me that the wake on #TraitorsIRL was one of the best things I've ever seen.

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Helen McCarthy @historianhelen.bsky.social · 1d

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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Dr Cath Feely @cathfeely.bsky.social · 16h

Really looking forward to working with you, Catriona! Congratulations.

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Prof. Catriona Pennell @teachlearnwar.bsky.social · 1d

Delighted to announce I’ve been elected as a Council member to @royalhistsoc.org until 2029. Thank you for the confidence you’ve put in me to advocate for our colleagues & our discipline. Looking forward to working with other members, including Dr Stella Fletcher and @davidhitchcock.bsky.social

two men in suits and ties are waving their hands in a room .

ALT: two men in suits and ties are waving their hands in a room .

media.tenor.com

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Dr Cath Feely @cathfeely.bsky.social · 16h

Really looking forward to working with you, Dave. Congratulations!

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Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 1d

I'm honoured to have been elected one of three incoming @royalhistsoc.org council members for a three year term. The Society does an immense amount of good for historians in the UK and beyond and I am flattered I get a chance to play a part in that work.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 2d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 2d

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Caitríona Beaumont @caitbeaumont.bsky.social · 9d

So grateful to @sonjatiernan.bsky.social & editors of #Saothar50 for opportunity to write on Irish housewives. By mad coincidence my ma was interviewed about her everyday experiences in 1968 & that features in my new article. #familyhistory #femaleactivism
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The Onion @theonion.com · 2d

Health Experts Recommend Standing Up At Desk, Leaving Office, Never Coming Back https://theonion.com/health-experts-recommend-standing-up-at-desk-leaving-o-1819577456/

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Laura Pye @laura-culture.bsky.social · 1d

Great news today for our brilliant civic museums 👇🏼

National Museum Directors' Council @nmdcnews.bsky.social · 1d

NMDC welcomes Museum Renewal Fund announcements: NMDC Chair Laura Pye said: "It’s fantastic to see Government’s commitment to protecting our world-class civic museums, which are facing an unprecedented set of economic pressures." www.gov.uk/government/n...

Millions of people to benefit from £20 million to keep local museums open and thriving

£20 million investment in civic museums to protect opening hours and jobs, as part of the government’s ongoing commitment to ensure museums can continue to tell our national story at a local level

www.gov.uk

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Dr Cath Feely @cathfeely.bsky.social · 1d

Honestly I cackled with him when he lifted his hood.

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Steven Perkins @stevenperkins.bsky.social · 1d

making Alan Carr a Traitor is the MESS option and I am so here for it #CelebrityTraitors

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Dr Cath Feely @cathfeely.bsky.social · 2d

This album reminds me of my toddler niece banging her head to it. She loved it. She is now 28.

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 2d

A Brief History of Men are Becoming Less Manly

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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 2d

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 2d

If you are still awake, take a moment you look up at the moon. Currently untroubled by living humans. Still a place of ghosts, gods and 20th century wreckage.

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 2d

I know this is uncomfortable to admit, but there is a small area in England's second city where people are just not integrated with the rest of society. Many of them hold views that arguably go against British values.

Yes, we need to talk about the Tory conference in Manchester.

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Ian McClellan @ianmac.bsky.social · 2d

BBC4 is showing a documentary this evening about the work of US Librarians amidst the conservative MAGA onslaught of book banning, censorship and harrassment.

Vital viewing.

A Storyville documentary that explores how librarians across the US are risking their safety to defend free speech as book bans and censorship threaten democracy from within.

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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 2d

As archaeologists we bear witness to the destruction of the natural environment. Up close. In real time. We are entangled in that destruction and it impacts us. A callous and uncaring approach to planning behind Reeve's comments should be sickening to everyone involved in such grave undertakings. 🏺

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 2d

"Rachel Reeves unblocked a development of 20,000 homes that were being held up by a rare snail, after being approached by a developer with whom she said, 'we have a good relationship'

Not only stupid and ignorant, but crooked with it

Indefensible

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Rachel Reeves clears planning blockage amid ‘good relationship’ with developer

Chancellor says 20,000 homes were being held up due to ‘some snails that are a protected species or something’

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Cath Feely @cathfeely.bsky.social · 2d

I have watched so much trash on Netflix 'in the background' - I am now down to a South African reality show about marriage counselling.

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