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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 10h

An observation test for you - for your inner 8 year-old

“The artist has hidden 12 things in this picture. How many can you find?”

Treasure magazine, 1964
Official answers coming soon

(Even if you don’t reply, could you please ‘like’ or share this one? 🙏)

Black-and-white picture of two children playing in woodland. Also in the picture, there are 12 hidden animals including an owl, a bat and a squirrel.

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 1d

📢 Last call for Stories and Songs: Wills as Windows onto Past Lives 📢

Join musician Chris Hoban and I at #Exeter Phoenix to see these remarkable documents transformed into music.

Staurday 11 Oct, 1.30 - 3pm
FREE tickets, claim yours here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/stories-an...

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 1d

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English Faculty Library @eflcam.bsky.social · 1d

👋Oh, hello #OpenAccess @universitypress.cambridge.org text challenging #EarlyModern historical gender assumptions through primary source materials.📖

We've been waiting for you. ❤️

Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 2d

Many congratulations to my colleagues in the Forms of Labour project team on the publication of their new monograph! 🗃️👏🎉

Brilliantly, The Experience of Work in #EarlyModern England is available open access:

www.cambridge.org/core/books/e...

news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...

A woman’s place was not in the home: New book challenges assumptions about women’s work in early modern history

New research has revealed that women played a fundamental role in the development of England’s national economy before 1700. Far from being the unpaid homemakers and housewives of traditional historic...

news.exeter.ac.uk

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 2d

For a taster of this pathbreaking new research, one of the authors (@markhailwood.bsky.social) has written a series of short blog posts on the experience of work in #EarlyModern England.

Today's post:

manyheadedmonster.com/2025/10/09/t...

The Experience of Work in Early Modern England II: Family Fortunes

This post is part of a series that marks the publication of The Experience of Work in Early Modern England. The book is co-authored by monster head Mark Hailwood, along with Jane Whittle, Hannah Ro…

manyheadedmonster.com

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 2d

Come along on Saturday to see me wave my arms around while Chris scratches his head in bemusement!

A FREE performance of history & music inspired by #EarlyModern wills 📜🎵🗃️

📍 #Exeter Phoenix Auditorium
📅 Sat 11 Oct
🕐 13.30
Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/stories-an...

Photos: Steven Haywood.

A person pulling a bit of a face with their arms outstreched, gesturing.

A person standing with an red accordian strapped to their front that they are playing.

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 2d

Many congratulations to my colleagues in the Forms of Labour project team on the publication of their new monograph! 🗃️👏🎉

Brilliantly, The Experience of Work in #EarlyModern England is available open access:

www.cambridge.org/core/books/e...

news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...

A woman’s place was not in the home: New book challenges assumptions about women’s work in early modern history

New research has revealed that women played a fundamental role in the development of England’s national economy before 1700. Far from being the unpaid homemakers and housewives of traditional historic...

news.exeter.ac.uk

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Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social · 2d

One week to go until Lyndal Roper's talk at @ihr.bsky.social!

Register for the hybrid event here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

And check out our other talks by @emilymayvine.bsky.social and @nailyas.bsky.social here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 2d

Come along on Saturday to see me wave my arms around while Chris scratches his head in bemusement!

A FREE performance of history & music inspired by #EarlyModern wills 📜🎵🗃️

📍 #Exeter Phoenix Auditorium
📅 Sat 11 Oct
🕐 13.30
Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/stories-an...

Photos: Steven Haywood.

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 2d

I do think that modern nature writing would be greatly improved if we were given more sense of what a plant looked like when it is growing on the skull of a man

[John Gerard, The herball or Generall historie of plantes, 1633]

An illustration from a 17th century book depicting a clump of moss, with the skull of a man below, with some moss growing on the top of it. A caption reads 'Mosse growing upon the skull of a man'.

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 2d

well guess what Internal Systems, i think you might be a Robot

Screenshot showing a message reading 'Our internal systems think you might be a Robot'.

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 2d

watch out sparrows

A sparrowhawk - a smallish bird of prey with brown wings and head, and bright yellow legs - sits on a metal fence.

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 2d

Enjoyed this will!

Though I did think that compared to 17th-century spiritual diaries this one was extraordinarily rich even without the body/lists/drawings 😄

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will o’the wisp pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 2d

“I often tell students that source analysis is about the skills and imagination the historian brings, rather than just the nature of the source”

New post on a brilliant article from Michaela Kalcher on a 1790s diarist

williamgpooley.wordpress.com/2025/10/09/u... 🗃️

Unverbal Diarier

‘Céléstin Guittard de Floriban did not leave much of a mark on history,’ writes Michaela Kalcher. What this unremarkable bourgeois did leave, however, was a day-by-day account of the Fr…

williamgpooley.wordpress.com

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 2d

'let's get ice off our streets and into our beverages man'

Two stills from a video of the actor Jeff Bridges, wearing the iconic brown cardigan that the character 'the Dude' (also known as His Dudeness, or Duder, or El Duderino, if you're not into the whole brevity thing) wears in the Coen brothers film 'The Big Lebowski'.

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 2d

Prettty sure Chancellor Wm Hague will be all over this

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 2d

Free speech news: www.theguardian.com/education/20...

UK universities offered to monitor students’ social media for arms firms, emails show

Loughborough, Heriot-Watt and Glasgow corresponded with companies concerned about campus protests

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 3d

Yes, so heavy! I took a while to get used to switching between my pedal bike and back again. I just use my ebike to get around the city, can see the weight makes other journeys tricky.

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 3d

what's on your slides will? unusally I am not being facetious - over time I've moved to virtually no text (just dates, names, quotes), all images & diagrams. Logic: everything is recorded so they don't need bullet points, images convey info differently/help to fix & remember ideas.

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 3d

ha ha 'brakes', of course

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 3d

I still very much ride the breaks all the way down Fore Street (though to be fair, so many potholes!)

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 3d

[my other key insight is that you can do 29 mph down the campus ring road which is both terrifying and the greatest]

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 3d

Now I've had an ebike for a year I have 3 main conclusions:

1) Ebikes are the future
2) Let's place covered & secure bike parking everywhere, espec. in all car parks
3) We need to stop people riding ebikes on footpaths (not just pavements - no bikes in woods/fields/on coast paths etc)

Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 3d

it should be illegal to park a lime bike on a public pavement BUT it should be legal to park a lime bike anywhere a car can be parked

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 3d

You're very welcome! Very powerful the way you contrast the part Goldsmiths played in your success with the changes that continue to remove similar opportunities for others. Solidarity.

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 3d

Cartoon. Two people in lab coats, one is showing the other a beaker. The person on the left says "Can| bortow
your chloroform?". The other person replies "Go ahead, knock yourself out"

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