Stephanie
@stephanieoffer.bsky.social
Researching links between the Church of England in Croydon &the slave trade
Have ME, FM &mental health problems. Christian
Also into knitting, gardening #TheArchers
She/her
Formerly known as foggyknitter
Have ME, FM &mental health problems. Christian
Also into knitting, gardening #TheArchers
She/her
Formerly known as foggyknitter
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A charming story about Thanksgiving and clashing cultures (both US and U.K. and, more specifically, US Army versus British Army).
OK - pie discourse - best pie story:
In 2016, we were living in Andover, in the UK. My wife was assigned as an exchange officer at the Army Air Corps base at Middle Wallop (yes, really).*
The US Army has a tradition: senior leaders, in dress uniform, serve junior troops Thanksgiving dinner.
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In 2016, we were living in Andover, in the UK. My wife was assigned as an exchange officer at the Army Air Corps base at Middle Wallop (yes, really).*
The US Army has a tradition: senior leaders, in dress uniform, serve junior troops Thanksgiving dinner.
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November 26, 2025 at 8:55 AM
A charming story about Thanksgiving and clashing cultures (both US and U.K. and, more specifically, US Army versus British Army).
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It's easier to imagine the end of capitalism than the end of the freeze on fuel duty.
November 26, 2025 at 8:56 AM
It's easier to imagine the end of capitalism than the end of the freeze on fuel duty.
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If anyone has successfully explained to a STEM boss that, no actually humanities scholars don't need a team of postdocs to collect all the data for them & write their papers & it's completely normal to just... do all your work mostly by yourself with some peer insight & feedback, lmk what you said.
November 26, 2025 at 9:35 AM
If anyone has successfully explained to a STEM boss that, no actually humanities scholars don't need a team of postdocs to collect all the data for them & write their papers & it's completely normal to just... do all your work mostly by yourself with some peer insight & feedback, lmk what you said.
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if you are concerned that magistrates are being given more powers and you think that the demographics of magistrates might mean that these powers are unfairly deployed, a good thing to do is to look up the qualifications to become a magistrate and to think seriously about doing that yourself
November 25, 2025 at 11:16 PM
if you are concerned that magistrates are being given more powers and you think that the demographics of magistrates might mean that these powers are unfairly deployed, a good thing to do is to look up the qualifications to become a magistrate and to think seriously about doing that yourself
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25 NOVEMBER 1775, PHILADELPHIA: “The Characters of Gentlemen in the four New England Colonies, differ as much from those in the others, as that of the Common People differs, that is as much as several distinct Natures almost,” John Adams writes. founders.archives.gov/documents/Ad...
Founders Online: John Adams to Joseph Hawley, 25 November 1775
John Adams to Joseph Hawley, 25 November 1775
founders.archives.gov
November 25, 2025 at 11:30 PM
25 NOVEMBER 1775, PHILADELPHIA: “The Characters of Gentlemen in the four New England Colonies, differ as much from those in the others, as that of the Common People differs, that is as much as several distinct Natures almost,” John Adams writes. founders.archives.gov/documents/Ad...
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
Don't wildlife organisations usually film things like releases of beavers? #TheArchers
November 25, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Don't wildlife organisations usually film things like releases of beavers? #TheArchers
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Do you have questions you'd like us to tackle? Drop them in the thread below. We'll also take your questions live on air.
On December 2nd, join @lynnprobbins.bsky.social, @adamxmcneil.bsky.social, and me for a special LIVE episode of Revolutions in Retrospect.
We're taking your questions about what you learned, or didn't, from The American Revolution by Ken Burns.
Register here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/the-americ...
We're taking your questions about what you learned, or didn't, from The American Revolution by Ken Burns.
Register here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/the-americ...
November 24, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Do you have questions you'd like us to tackle? Drop them in the thread below. We'll also take your questions live on air.
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Don’t want to be too moralistic about this, but it is an active disgrace what people are doing to a profoundly liberational scheme that costs relatively piddling amounts on the basis of a couple of right wing shitposters misrepresenting it on Twitter.
November 25, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Don’t want to be too moralistic about this, but it is an active disgrace what people are doing to a profoundly liberational scheme that costs relatively piddling amounts on the basis of a couple of right wing shitposters misrepresenting it on Twitter.
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Thank you, Heather, for the firehose of mentions! I also like to inaugurate the holiday season with this piece from @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social about how the same people who invented Santa Claus distorted the Revolutionary history of NYC: ageofrevolutions.com/2022/12/05/m...
November 25, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Thank you, Heather, for the firehose of mentions! I also like to inaugurate the holiday season with this piece from @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social about how the same people who invented Santa Claus distorted the Revolutionary history of NYC: ageofrevolutions.com/2022/12/05/m...
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"My mentor always tells me, 'Kim, dogs don’t bark at parked cars." They’re coming after critical race theory, 1619, intersectionality because these ideas mobilized people. They gave them the language to actually articulate what they were seeing with their own eyes," says Kimberlé Crenshaw.
November 25, 2025 at 1:26 PM
"My mentor always tells me, 'Kim, dogs don’t bark at parked cars." They’re coming after critical race theory, 1619, intersectionality because these ideas mobilized people. They gave them the language to actually articulate what they were seeing with their own eyes," says Kimberlé Crenshaw.
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Sometimes wonder if what the UK needs is a thinktank that doesn't do any new research, it just repeats obviously true statements that people try to ignore because they're inconvenient.
International students cross-subsidise home students. Your pension is paid for out of general taxation.
International students cross-subsidise home students. Your pension is paid for out of general taxation.
November 25, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Sometimes wonder if what the UK needs is a thinktank that doesn't do any new research, it just repeats obviously true statements that people try to ignore because they're inconvenient.
International students cross-subsidise home students. Your pension is paid for out of general taxation.
International students cross-subsidise home students. Your pension is paid for out of general taxation.
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"Soothing to Old Maids & Bachelors" John Barrow shares an interesting article, with statistics of the state of English marriages. "Those who are really happy: 6." JB feeling vindicated that he never married. [JB's journal, 17 April 1879] #19thC
November 25, 2025 at 10:42 AM
"Soothing to Old Maids & Bachelors" John Barrow shares an interesting article, with statistics of the state of English marriages. "Those who are really happy: 6." JB feeling vindicated that he never married. [JB's journal, 17 April 1879] #19thC
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Highlighting these one last time:
A keynote from Prof. Eliga Gould, 'Lord Carlisle’s Union: Making Peace in America, Ireland, and Britain, 1778-1783’.
Brings up an interesting counterfactual: What if America had gone the way of Ireland and remained within empire?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv4F...
A keynote from Prof. Eliga Gould, 'Lord Carlisle’s Union: Making Peace in America, Ireland, and Britain, 1778-1783’.
Brings up an interesting counterfactual: What if America had gone the way of Ireland and remained within empire?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv4F...
Ireland and the American Revolution Keynote Address | Prof Eliga Gould
YouTube video by Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities
www.youtube.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Highlighting these one last time:
A keynote from Prof. Eliga Gould, 'Lord Carlisle’s Union: Making Peace in America, Ireland, and Britain, 1778-1783’.
Brings up an interesting counterfactual: What if America had gone the way of Ireland and remained within empire?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv4F...
A keynote from Prof. Eliga Gould, 'Lord Carlisle’s Union: Making Peace in America, Ireland, and Britain, 1778-1783’.
Brings up an interesting counterfactual: What if America had gone the way of Ireland and remained within empire?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv4F...
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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New publishing opportunity!
The London Record Society are looking for someone to edit a volume based on the archive of the Working Ladies' Guild, which supported impoverished women in late nineteenth-century Britain.
Further information and contact details in the text below.
The London Record Society are looking for someone to edit a volume based on the archive of the Working Ladies' Guild, which supported impoverished women in late nineteenth-century Britain.
Further information and contact details in the text below.
November 24, 2025 at 8:00 AM
New publishing opportunity!
The London Record Society are looking for someone to edit a volume based on the archive of the Working Ladies' Guild, which supported impoverished women in late nineteenth-century Britain.
Further information and contact details in the text below.
The London Record Society are looking for someone to edit a volume based on the archive of the Working Ladies' Guild, which supported impoverished women in late nineteenth-century Britain.
Further information and contact details in the text below.
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Buried in the BBC press rekease about Christmas content is the news that Steffan Rhodri will be doing an audio reading of CS Lewis' Narnia stuff.
Probably the thing worth keeping an eye (or ear) out for on the schedule. Doesn't specify what/when yet.
Probably the thing worth keeping an eye (or ear) out for on the schedule. Doesn't specify what/when yet.
November 25, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Buried in the BBC press rekease about Christmas content is the news that Steffan Rhodri will be doing an audio reading of CS Lewis' Narnia stuff.
Probably the thing worth keeping an eye (or ear) out for on the schedule. Doesn't specify what/when yet.
Probably the thing worth keeping an eye (or ear) out for on the schedule. Doesn't specify what/when yet.
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I went to a school named after JHN and we were read this description multiple times in assembly over the years i was there.
Always stuck with me.
Always stuck with me.
This reminds me of Cardinal John Henry Newman's book Definition of a Gentleman. I often cite Newman's book because it's so instructive. The term gentleman is so overwrought and frequently abused, but to the degree it means anything at all, I think Newman captures it here:
November 25, 2025 at 8:10 AM
I went to a school named after JHN and we were read this description multiple times in assembly over the years i was there.
Always stuck with me.
Always stuck with me.
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Friend of mine fell and broke his wrist while on holiday in New York last week. Had to have an x-ray and got bandaged up. His hospital bill was £7550. Just in case anyone was starting to buy into the current UK effort to privatise our healthcare and forgot how good we have it.
November 24, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Friend of mine fell and broke his wrist while on holiday in New York last week. Had to have an x-ray and got bandaged up. His hospital bill was £7550. Just in case anyone was starting to buy into the current UK effort to privatise our healthcare and forgot how good we have it.
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24 NOVEMBER 1775, BURLINGTON, NEW JERSEY: The provincial assembly votes to ask London merchant Dennys DeBerdt, Jr., (brother-in-law of Washington’s military secretary Joseph Reed) to succeed Benjamin Franklin as their agent in London.
November 24, 2025 at 8:43 PM
24 NOVEMBER 1775, BURLINGTON, NEW JERSEY: The provincial assembly votes to ask London merchant Dennys DeBerdt, Jr., (brother-in-law of Washington’s military secretary Joseph Reed) to succeed Benjamin Franklin as their agent in London.
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I can’t even begin to line out the torment and torrent of anguish and won’t - because it satisfies the desire for ever more cruelty but Dan is right, the only purpose served is cruel and degrading punishment - the definition of mass torture. That’s now government policy.
Labour's anti-asylum policies are already fundamentally inhumane and discriminatory. Applying them retrospectively is pure cruelty though. It serves absolutely no purpose. Meanwhile it will increase the costs and bureaucracy of an already dysfunctional Home Office.
www.thetimes.com/article/6f83...
www.thetimes.com/article/6f83...
November 24, 2025 at 3:27 PM
I can’t even begin to line out the torment and torrent of anguish and won’t - because it satisfies the desire for ever more cruelty but Dan is right, the only purpose served is cruel and degrading punishment - the definition of mass torture. That’s now government policy.
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Performative cruelty to appeal to voters who won’t vote for you anyway is just another level of moral decrepitude
Labour's anti-asylum policies are already fundamentally inhumane and discriminatory. Applying them retrospectively is pure cruelty though. It serves absolutely no purpose. Meanwhile it will increase the costs and bureaucracy of an already dysfunctional Home Office.
www.thetimes.com/article/6f83...
www.thetimes.com/article/6f83...
November 24, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Performative cruelty to appeal to voters who won’t vote for you anyway is just another level of moral decrepitude
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William Fatt, a chimney sweep from Pye St, Westminster voted in the 1749 Westminster by-election for George Vandeput.
It seems likely this is the same Mr Fatt noted in the press as sweep to the royal palaces (1739) and would make him the second identified Black voter in that election.
#HistParl
It seems likely this is the same Mr Fatt noted in the press as sweep to the royal palaces (1739) and would make him the second identified Black voter in that election.
#HistParl
July 1739: the General Evening Post reports the death of Mr Kent, holder of the office of chimney sweeper to the king's palaces 'a place of considerable profit'. He is succeeded in the post by a Mr Fatt. Both are described as being Black, so presumably of African heritage.
November 24, 2025 at 5:54 PM
William Fatt, a chimney sweep from Pye St, Westminster voted in the 1749 Westminster by-election for George Vandeput.
It seems likely this is the same Mr Fatt noted in the press as sweep to the royal palaces (1739) and would make him the second identified Black voter in that election.
#HistParl
It seems likely this is the same Mr Fatt noted in the press as sweep to the royal palaces (1739) and would make him the second identified Black voter in that election.
#HistParl
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How is this not the top story on every news bulletin?
This has been happening for years and instead of doing anything to protect children successive governments have made the situation worse. This isn't just on councils. It is part of failings on a State level.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
This has been happening for years and instead of doing anything to protect children successive governments have made the situation worse. This isn't just on councils. It is part of failings on a State level.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
More then 2,000 trafficked children and lone child asylum seekers missing from UK councils’ care
Charities say vulnerable young people are being failed by local authorities, the police and central government
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:43 AM
How is this not the top story on every news bulletin?
This has been happening for years and instead of doing anything to protect children successive governments have made the situation worse. This isn't just on councils. It is part of failings on a State level.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
This has been happening for years and instead of doing anything to protect children successive governments have made the situation worse. This isn't just on councils. It is part of failings on a State level.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Instead of plunging some of the country’s elite learning institutions into financial chaos and ruin, could the Treasury please consider taxing Starbucks more than £7m a year.
(Same applies for all American mega-corporations operating in U.K.)
(Same applies for all American mega-corporations operating in U.K.)
These are HEPI estimates of the 20 institutions affected: I think this illustrates the impact if the tariff is absorbed in full by institutions.
What share of the 6% tariff different universities may try to pass on to fees - or the impact might be on demand if they did - is not publicly known.
What share of the 6% tariff different universities may try to pass on to fees - or the impact might be on demand if they did - is not publicly known.
November 24, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Instead of plunging some of the country’s elite learning institutions into financial chaos and ruin, could the Treasury please consider taxing Starbucks more than £7m a year.
(Same applies for all American mega-corporations operating in U.K.)
(Same applies for all American mega-corporations operating in U.K.)