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Lesley A Hall

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Archivist, historian, reader, Londoner, feminist @erinacean @[email protected] www.lesleyahall.net https://lesleyahall.blogspot.com/

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Lesley A Hall @erinacean.bsky.social · 5h

Next up, phlogiston?

Lesley A Hall @erinacean.bsky.social · 5h

I spend a lot of time going WHAT at people claiming things/people are 'neglected/forgotten/obscure' but this is in a class that reminds one of the children in the Emperor Frederick 's experiment (?reputed) brought up without human contact to see would they speak Edenic original language (they died).

Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 19h

This isn’t just “Charlie Brown had hoes” levels of wrong it’s “Charlie Brown never had a dog” levels of wrong

bendwalsh.bsky.social @bendwalsh.bsky.social · 21h

wtaf are you talking about

Lesley A Hall @erinacean.bsky.social · 5h

As I recall there are a few scenes in the local street market in this classic late 1940s British noir www.imdb.com/title/tt0040... (postwar austerity hangs over it)

It Always Rains on Sunday (1947) ⭐ 7.1 | Crime, Drama, Romance

1h 32m | Approved

Lesley A Hall @erinacean.bsky.social · 6h

Have you tried the Art Workers Guild in Queen Square Bloomsbury? (I think I've been to several, well, at least 2, book launches there) www.artworkersguild.org/room-hire/

The Art Workers’ Guild | Room hire

ArtWorkers' Guild

www.artworkersguild.org

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 6h

Ha!

Nobel Peace Prize 2025 live updates: Venezuelan democracy activist Maria Corina Machado wins

Nominations closed in January but US President Donald Trump had led a public campaign to win the award.

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Richard Hornsey @hornseyhq.bsky.social · 6h

I've written something new on British factory tours of the 1920s and 30s and their presentation of mass production as a social good academic.oup.com/tcbh/article...

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Peter Mandler @petermandler.bsky.social · 6h

Join us for a roundtable on 'The Modern British City' in January at Senate House, London, with Simon Gunn, Erika Hanna, Owen Hatherley, Peter Mandler, Otto Saumarez Smith and Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite, followed by wine! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Roundtable: 'The Modern British City'

www.history.ac.uk

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NewsThump @newsthump.com · 6h

NEWS! Fury as man who threatened to invade Greenland and who uses military against own people fails to win Nobel Peace Prize newsthump.com/2025/10/10/f...

Fury as man who threatened to invade Greenland and who uses military against own people fails to win Nobel Peace Prize

Donald Trump has once again been cruelly snubbed by the Nobel Peace Prize committee, despite what he insists was an “incredible” year of personal achievements in the field of “peace, which is very …

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 6h

Sighs of (relative) relief from universities across the country.

What the graduate unemployment story gets wrong

People with a degree are faring better, not worse than their non-graduate counterparts

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Petra Boynton @petraboynton.bsky.social · 7h

As my work's shifted dramatically these past 5+ years I'm noting key topics with the #WorldMentalHealthDay theme:
- prevention and planning are hugely underestimated
- seismic world events have major, long-term repercussions
- much support and care isn't fit for purpose
- we are #StrongerTogether

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Aaron Reeves @aaronreeves.bsky.social · 7h

If you know someone who is thinking about doing a PhD and who is interested in health then please share this advert with them. It is an ESRC funded PhD working on trade unions and health as part of a collaboration with me and the @tuc.org.uk @lsesociology.bsky.social www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...

LSE Collaborative Studentship with Trades Union Congress

LSE Collaborative Studentship with Trades Union Congress

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 7h

Spineless Wonders can be visited at Senate House Library until 29 November. Details here. 2/2

Spineless Wonders

Explore the riches held in Senate House Library’s collections of pamphlets and other unbound and ephemeral publications. This free exhibition is open from 18 June - 29 November.

www.london.ac.uk

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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 7h

A Welsh Reform councillor has defended a meeting she chaired with parents from a Swansea school and two notorious associates of Tommy Robinson ✍️ @emilypricejourno.bsky.social nation.cymru/news/reform-...

Reform councillor defends parents meeting with far-right group

Emily Price A Welsh Reform councillor has defended a meeting she chaired with parents from a Swansea school and two notorious associates of Tommy Robinson. Nation.Cymru reported on Wednesday (October...

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 8h

Ah, happy 88th anniversary of the day Oswald Mosley tried to sell fascism to Liverpudlians – and someone concussed him with a brick

A man in a suit stands at a microphone which has been mounted on the roof of a van. There are loudspeakers at his feet, and a building behind him. He has an arm raised, and is flinching as projectiles are hurled at him, because he's a fucking Nazi

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 8h

Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.

SHOCK POLL:
NIGEL FARAGE WILL BE PM TOMORROW
IN an amazing poll conducted
by The Pointless Polling Company, it was revealed that voters' intentions
may well change over the next three and a half years and at present it's 100 percent impossible to guess what the next government might look like.
However, 99 percent of journalists
agree that it would be much more fun if we had an election tomorrow and everybody resigned and everything was chaos and Farage had a go at being PM, just for the hell of it, because it was so much fun when
Brexit happened and then the government kept falling every five minutes and we could write endless pieces about (cont. p94)

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 8h

I like the idea that rich people never do anything for the money, because they already have enough. That’ll explain them never employing tax avoidance schemes, and all the redistributive wealth policies they lobby for.

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 9h

Reform Defunding Schools

Reform UK’s Flagship Kent Council is planning to take £2 million from schools’ already-squeezed budgets to pay for vital services it can no longer afford.

Linden Kemkaran, Reform’s Kent Leader is failing.

schoolsweek.co.uk/reform-run-k...

Reform-run Kent council plans £2m school budget raid

Leaders say proposals fly in face of pre-election pledges to identify efficiencies from 'DOGE' unit

schoolsweek.co.uk

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Schools Week @schoolsweek.bsky.social · 9h

Exclusive: Teachers will use 'deepfake' technology to create an AI avatar of themselves to deliver catch-up lessons for pupils who have missed school

Watch one of the school’s ‘deepfake’ teachers in our story below

schoolsweek.co.uk/schools-trus...

'Deepfake' teacher avatars to help pupils catch up

Academy trust staff to use AI generator to introduce resources for pupils returning to school

schoolsweek.co.uk

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 9h

'Nigel Farage [serving the interests of his Clacton constituents in Michigan] has claimed teachers would go on strike within weeks of a Reform UK election win, and accused them of “poisoning our kids” by telling them that black children are victims and white children oppressors.' 1/2

Nigel Farage accuses teachers of ‘poisoning our kids’ on race issues

Exclusive: Reform UK leader’s remarks at event for private US college criticised as ‘grossly irresponsible’ by NEU leader

www.theguardian.com

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Janet Golden @jgolden08.bsky.social · 13h

The new scientific method. @defendpublichealth.bsky.social

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History Australia @historyaustralia.bsky.social · 14h

#invest in your next #historyaustralia read! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... New from Grant Fleming, Zhangxin (Frank) Liu, David Merrett and Simon Ville #openaccess

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Samantha.B [Goose.Mother] @sbakey.bsky.social · 15h

I am so happy to announce that my first peer-reviewed research paper is finally out! It is open access, so please have a read and let me know your thoughts!

Thank you so much to the lovely people at Australian Feminist Studies.

doi.org/10.1080/0816...

#AcademicSky #FeministSky #queeracademia

Roberta Perkins: Sex Work, Feminism, and the Dawn of Transgender Activism in 1980s Australia

In the 1980s, Australia witnessed the rise of its first transgender advocacy organisations. The most radical and pathbreaking of these was the Sydney-based Australian Transsexual Association (ATA)....

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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 16h

I know this case is all over - & it should be - but Turning Point USA has waged a harassment campaign against faculty for more than a decade. I know of at least a half dozen other faculty, personally, who have received death threats and several of those who felt so unsafe they too left their homes

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 16h

Are we great yet?

Mark Bray, a Rutgers University professor and expert on anti-fascist groups, is fleeing to Spain with his family due to death threats that stem from a campaign by Turning Point USA and other conservative groups to get him fired, falsely labeling him as an antifa member.

Antifa expert at Rutgers University says he is moving to Spain because of death threats

An expert on anti-fascist groups who teaches at New Jersey’s flagship state university is moving his family overseas.

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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 18h

One day - *one day* - a UK newspaper will do a similar count of motor vehicles speeding inside a 20mph zone.

In 60 minutes I saw 172 cyclists run these lights – it’s a matter of time before they kill someone

The offenders included Lime bike riders, school children and a woman in high-heeled boots

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 18h

1. A new journal report in the prestigious Medical Journal of Australia eviscerates the Cass review, saying it is filled with fallacies and launders anti-trans disinformation.

It methodically goes through each problem in the review.

The latest from S. Baum.

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New Journal Report: Cass Review “Echoes Fallacies Promoted By Anti-Trans Disinformation”

While American lawyers pushed the anti-trans Cass Review this week, Australia’s top scholars rebuked it.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 18h

reactionary centrists insist trans acceptance went too far & generated a backlash

but the UK legal transition for 20 years, it wasn't an issue until the press made it one

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Christopher McKnight Nichols @cmcknichols.bsky.social · 18h

The History Department at The Ohio State University is searching for an assistant professor of modern Japanese history, check it out, share, apply! #OhioState #ModernJapan #history 🗃️ jobs.chronicle.com/job/37884726...

Assistant Professor of Modern Japanese History - Columbus, Ohio job with The Ohio State University, Department of History | 37884726

The Department of History at The Ohio State University invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor of modern Japanese history.

jobs.chronicle.com

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perfect knight @shiningknightx.bsky.social · 18h

"we cant uninvent ai" no we cant but we couldnt uninvent nfts either and nobody gives a fuck about them anymore

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 19h

This isn’t just “Charlie Brown had hoes” levels of wrong it’s “Charlie Brown never had a dog” levels of wrong

bendwalsh.bsky.social @bendwalsh.bsky.social · 21h

wtaf are you talking about

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 19h

The advice I give young people on choice of degree programme. Choose something you love. You’ve got the rest of your life to be frustrated and miserable.