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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 · 1h

And also to point out that there was a lot more out there than one much-cited work....

Lesley A Hall @erinacean.bsky.social · 1h

Noticed that's it World Mental Health Day: posting here for info my webpage of bibliography and other sources on Victorian psychiatry (in the UK) which grew out of answering v similar questions on the subject back in the day of listservs www.lesleyahall.net/victpsyc.htm

Victorian Psychiatry

www.lesleyahall.net

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Charlie Lynch @charlielynch.bsky.social · 3h

“I knew that homosexuality was a sin - I didn’t want to be homosexual. I went to my G.P and said I had read Freud’s book on dreams, that I suffered from homosexuality, and that I would like to change.”

My new article now out in Irish Historical Studies:

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Between sickness and sin: models of male homosexuality in Northern Ireland c.1960-1990 | Irish Historical Studies | Cambridge Core

Between sickness and sin: models of male homosexuality in Northern Ireland c.1960-1990

www.cambridge.org

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Social Science History Association @socscihistory.bsky.social · 3h

Our 50th Meeting program is nearly complete. If you plan to come to the conference, book your hotel soon as the special rate ends on October 15th. To find out how and to register for the conference, visit: ssha.org/conference/t...

Travel and Hotel Information | Social Science History Association

Travel and Hotel Information SSHA 2025 will be held at the Palmer House Hotel in downtown Chicago, a usual stop for the SSHA. Rooms are $199 (USD) per night ...

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joshuatj @joshuatj.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 5h

Woohoo! Great #digipres story @makethecatwise
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20251009-rescuing-knowledge-trapped-on-old-floppy-disks

A digital dark age? The people rescuing forgotten knowledge trapped on old floppy disks

From lectures by Stephen Hawking to the letters of British politician Neil Kinnock – it's a race against time to save the historical treasures locked away on old floppy disks.

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Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social · 6h

Today is World Mental Health Day. Through the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH), you can research the history of mental health. BBIH’s free reading list on the history of emotions highlights some recent scholarship on the history of mental health in the UK and Ireland buff.ly/OK5HSbu

Engraving of an 18th century building in a pastoral landscape

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

Next up, phlogiston?

Lesley A Hall @erinacean.bsky.social · 7h

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 · 21h

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 · 22h

wtaf are you talking about

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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 7h

It's important to focus on who won, not who did not.

Nobel peace prize 2025 live: María Corina Machado wins for work promoting democratic rights in Venezuela

US president had been conducting campaign to influence prize committee

www.theguardian.com

Lesley A Hall @erinacean.bsky.social · 7h

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

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 7h

"We document the participation of women in European academia [from the year 1000 to 1800]. A total of 108 women taught at universities or were members of academies of arts and sciences. Comparing them with 58,995 male scholars, we find that they were on average better."

doi.org/10.1093/ereh...

table 1 from David de la Croix, Mara Vitale, Women in European academia before 1800—religion, marriage, and human capital, European Review of Economic History, Volume 27, Issue 4, November 2023, Pages 506–532, https://doi.org/10.1093/ereh/heac023

Lesley A Hall @erinacean.bsky.social · 7h

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 · 8h

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 · 8h

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 · 8h

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 · 8h

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 · 8h

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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Simon Briercliffe @simonbriercliffe.bsky.social · 8h

I have a set of hand-drawn comics/gossip sheets/newspapers donated alongside our aluminium foundry at @bclivingmuseum.bsky.social, dating from (I think) late 1940s. Does anyone know any lit that will help me explore this as a source? I've found work on company mags but this is very different.

Excerpt from handwritten zine-style text entitled "Burglar's editorial"

Hand-drawn comic panel showing workman thumping a desk and shouting "I demand shorter hours" - the caption reads, "whadoya want then = fifty nine minutes"

Hand-drawn caricature of Ernest Bevin, reading "Bevin says - even Russians read this paper"

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Petra Boynton @petraboynton.bsky.social · 8h

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 · 8h

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 · 9h

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 · 9h

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 · 9h

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 · 10h

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 · 10h

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 · 11h

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 · 11h

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 · 11h

'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 · 14h

The new scientific method. @defendpublichealth.bsky.social

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History Australia @historyaustralia.bsky.social · 15h

#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