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Aaron Sheridan @acsheridan.bsky.social · 17h

This is highly disturbing. The IDF have used, among many other third-party digital creations, open-access scans from the Scottish Maritime Museum to construct fictional Hamas compounds and create pretext for their genocide of Palestinians.

theferret.scot/idf-scottish...

The Israel Defense Forces used a Scottish museum’s 3D models in propaganda videos – The Ferret

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Johnnie Anderson @johnnieandphd.bsky.social · 19h

A supportive, encouraging and inspirational team doing hugely important work. Grateful to have this wonderful institution on my doorstep to learn from! www.thenational.scot/news/2552704...

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Aaron Sheridan @acsheridan.bsky.social · 20h

Magic Charlie!

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Charlie Lynch @charlielynch.bsky.social · 20h

And now on website: www.thenational.scot/news/2552704...

Thirty years of the Scottish Oral History Centre

ORAL history is the practice of gathering, preserving and interpreting the voices and memories of people, communities and participants

www.thenational.scot

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Aaron Sheridan @acsheridan.bsky.social · 20h

Great write up from @charlielynch.bsky.social in The National yesterday covering the upcoming 30th Anniversary of the Scottish Oral History Centre. My brilliant advisor and Director of the Centre @ymcfadden.bsky.social front and centre alongside the bona fide legend and founder Arthur McIvor!

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 3d

Jarrow ladies fire brigade, 1916 (Tyne & Wear Archives & Museum).

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The Wiener Holocaust Library @wienerlibrary.bsky.social · 4d

At the Battle of Cable Street on 4 October 1936, at least 100,000 people, including Jewish residents, Irish dock workers, Communists and Labour Party members prevented a march by Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists (BUF) from passing through the East End...

Pamphlet - They did not pass : 300,000 workers say no to Mosley. A souvenir of the East London workers' victory over fascism, produced by the Independent Labour Party. Wiener Holocaust Library collections.

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 6d

We've updated our three BlueSky starter packs for historians.

Our principal list now includes details of 130+ societies and networks, based in the UK and Ireland, that advance the study, research and promotion of history go.bsky.app/AZaYQDd

Please let us know if there are gaps.
#Skystorians 1/2

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 6d

#OtD 3 Oct 1937 almost a year after their defeat at Cable St, Mosley's Blackshirts attempted to march through Bermondsey, South London. Met with strong local opposition and barricades in the streets, the march never arrived at its intended destination workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e35-...

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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 16d

Confirmation that Trump will be signing an executive order designating "antifa"—i.e., opposition to fascism—as "a domestic terrorist organization."

What this will mean concretely has yet to be seen. For now, read this guide to preparing communities to endure repression:

crimethinc.com/Safeguarding

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Katherine Mackinnon @kamack.bsky.social · 16d

Learned a lot from this show sharing music from countries that were colonised by Portugal - Guinea Bissau, Mozambique, Angola etc. Lots of great anticolonial tunes soundcloud.com/clydebuiltra...

sangoma! (7/9/25)

Listen to sangoma! (7/9/25) by Clyde Built Radio #np on #SoundCloud

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Mark McGeoghegan @markmcgeoghegan.bsky.social · 20d

It's publication day for British By-Elections! I publish a lot of writing, but this is the first book contribution I've had published, so it's very exciting!

The perfect accompaniment to party conference season for you politics nerds, you can get a copy at: www.politicos.co.uk/products/by-...

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Charlie Lynch @charlielynch.bsky.social · 28d

“We have a new way of understanding the social history of post-war Scotland. Our book challenges and complicates stereotypes, especially of working-class life.”

Historians, Valerie Wright and Alistair Fair spoke to me about ‘Building Modern Scotland.’ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 www.thenational.scot/news/2545606...

Building of Scotland's modern towns explored in new book

Between the late 1940s and the 1960s, new towns were built in Scotland as part of a government-led programme to provide housing and jobs ...

www.thenational.scot

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Aaron Sheridan @acsheridan.bsky.social · 23d

Had a fantastic time presenting and attending the @womenshistscot.bsky.social conference on Saturday. Congratulations to all the speakers and particularly @vawright10.bsky.social for her in depth history of women’s housing activism in Scotland. Thanks to @ymcfadden.bsky.social and the team

A group of people attending the plenary lecture at the 2025 Women’s History Scotland conference at Kinning Park Complex. Historian Valerie Wright is delivering the Sue Innes Memorial Lecture on the long history of women-led housing activism in Scotland.

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Aaron Sheridan @acsheridan.bsky.social · 23d

An underrated thing about coming from Scotland's central belt is that several times in your life there will be a news article on whether or not your hometown is the "ugliest in Scotland".

www.dailyrecord.co.uk/scotland-now...

Lanarkshire town with 'war zone' town centre named among ugliest in Scotland

It was also criticised for its "shabby streets".

www.dailyrecord.co.uk

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Charlie Lynch @charlielynch.bsky.social · 25d

This year’s Sue Innes Memorial Lecture at @womenshistscot.bsky.social conference given by @vawright10.bsky.social on ‘Housing as a ‘Women’s Issue’: Women and Housing Activism in Twentieth Century Scotland.

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Women's History Scotland @womenshistscot.bsky.social · 25d

Fantastic session of Lightning Talks at the WHS conference. Thank you to our speakers! 👏👏

Wonderful to hear about wide-ranging projects—from activism at Sellafield, to research methodology in community archives, to increasing the visibility of women nurses on Wikipedia with @histnurse.bsky.social

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Aaron Sheridan @acsheridan.bsky.social · 26d

Thanks Nicky!

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Aaron Sheridan @acsheridan.bsky.social · 26d

Thanks Peter! It's quite short - just a little snapshot with plenty more to come.

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Aaron Sheridan @acsheridan.bsky.social · 26d

Absolutely will, thanks Andy!

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Aaron Sheridan @acsheridan.bsky.social · 26d

Thanks NCD!

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Aaron Sheridan @acsheridan.bsky.social · 26d

Thanks Katherine! It's framed as a "useable" history, so I hope its of use to yourself and folk in the tenants' movement

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Aaron Sheridan @acsheridan.bsky.social · 26d

My first journal article, "Resistance and Resilience in Edinburgh's Council Housing Schemes, 1919 - 1999", has been sent off to the editors! Should be available online (open access) in the coming months.

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Duncan Money @mininghistory.bsky.social · 26d

A relic from a different era at the offices of the Mineworkers Union of Zambia.

Old, torn poster on a white noticeboard. The poster has red edges. I nthe middle is a drawing of a miner and a policeman on horseback with a truncheon raised. The slogan on the poster reads "Hands off British National Union of Mineworkers"

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Belfast Telegraph @belfasttelegraph.co.uk · 29d

Horrors of Trump detention centre: Lisburn man tells his story after arrest for 'looking like a Mexican'

Lee Stinton was lifted by US immigration police on an American street — in an incident he compared to a kidnapping.

Here, he tells us his story.

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