Dawn Saunders
@dawnsaunders.bsky.social
Historian of colonialism and genocide. Doing time in (Royal) Holloway. Here for history stuff, bookish stuff, arty stuff and dogs.
Oooh love a new book delivery 🚚
November 12, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Oooh love a new book delivery 🚚
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On this day in 1938, Ernst Vom Rath, a German official, was murdered in Paris, shot by Herschel Grynszpan, a Jewish teenager whose aim was to bring the world’s attention to the plight of his family and other Jews during the Polenaktion.
📸 Polish Jews being deported from Germany, October 1938
📸 Polish Jews being deported from Germany, October 1938
November 7, 2025 at 2:48 PM
On this day in 1938, Ernst Vom Rath, a German official, was murdered in Paris, shot by Herschel Grynszpan, a Jewish teenager whose aim was to bring the world’s attention to the plight of his family and other Jews during the Polenaktion.
📸 Polish Jews being deported from Germany, October 1938
📸 Polish Jews being deported from Germany, October 1938
Which books have you read at least twice?
I am interested in your favourite reads
I am interested in your favourite reads
November 10, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Which books have you read at least twice?
I am interested in your favourite reads
I am interested in your favourite reads
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Happy 423 years of us! 🎉 📚
The Bodleian Libraries opened for the first time on 8 November 1602...
This means, we're older than the refracting telescope (1608), the publication of Shakespeare's Hamlet (1623) and Sir Isaac Newton's apple (1666)! 😅
The Bodleian Libraries opened for the first time on 8 November 1602...
This means, we're older than the refracting telescope (1608), the publication of Shakespeare's Hamlet (1623) and Sir Isaac Newton's apple (1666)! 😅
November 8, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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An archivist has just sent me an email saying there are ‘other files’ regarding a person I am researching but ‘probably not relevant’. That’s it, that’s the sum total of her email.
Arms Fold Moira GIF
ALT: Arms Fold Moira GIF
media.tenor.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:24 PM
An archivist has just sent me an email saying there are ‘other files’ regarding a person I am researching but ‘probably not relevant’. That’s it, that’s the sum total of her email.
❤️Chaucer Doth Tweet ❤️
"Ich askid ChatGPT." Well *Ich* askid the stones, and the forest, and the starres, and the mountaynes, and what thei seyde was learninge, and dreames, and growinge thinges, and makinge art, and a worlde wher we talke to each othir and care about each othir.
November 6, 2025 at 6:53 AM
❤️Chaucer Doth Tweet ❤️
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Fancy spending the summer at the University of Oxford learning about the Stuarts? Look no further! My summer course is now open for applications ⬇️
The Stuarts: The Fall, Rise and Revolution of a Dynasty, 1603-1714
lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/courses/the-...
The Stuarts: The Fall, Rise and Revolution of a Dynasty, 1603-1714
lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/courses/the-...
The Stuarts: The Fall, Rise and Revolution of a Dynasty, 1603-1714
This course investigates the story of the Stuarts (1603 to 1714) in the context of the political, social, religious, economic and cultural history of seventeenth century England.
lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk
November 3, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Fancy spending the summer at the University of Oxford learning about the Stuarts? Look no further! My summer course is now open for applications ⬇️
The Stuarts: The Fall, Rise and Revolution of a Dynasty, 1603-1714
lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/courses/the-...
The Stuarts: The Fall, Rise and Revolution of a Dynasty, 1603-1714
lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/courses/the-...
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The University of Antwerp‘s own little quad in the autumn sun
November 4, 2025 at 3:10 PM
The University of Antwerp‘s own little quad in the autumn sun
I’m not sure why but I absolutely love this…
Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.
November 4, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I’m not sure why but I absolutely love this…
MA student has just expressed total incredulity at the fact that I have never been in a Wetherspoons
a woman is laughing while sitting at a table in front of a bookshelf .
ALT: a woman is laughing while sitting at a table in front of a bookshelf .
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November 4, 2025 at 2:58 PM
MA student has just expressed total incredulity at the fact that I have never been in a Wetherspoons
Fab picture of Royal Holloway when it was a college for ladies - a place to learn and benefit from the country air
Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @royalholloway.bsky.social
Founded in 1879 by Thomas Holloway, who had made his fortune selling patent medicines, it was one of @londonu.bsky.social's colleges for women
If you like this image, please retweet it - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm
Founded in 1879 by Thomas Holloway, who had made his fortune selling patent medicines, it was one of @londonu.bsky.social's colleges for women
If you like this image, please retweet it - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm
November 4, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Fab picture of Royal Holloway when it was a college for ladies - a place to learn and benefit from the country air
Off to the Imperial War Museum today to view this temporary exhibition
www.iwm.org.uk/events/unsil...
www.iwm.org.uk/events/unsil...
Unsilenced: Sexual Violence in Conflict
Throughout the history of war, sexual violence has been perpetrated on a mass scale. It is built into stories of invasion and wartime suffering from the First World War, through the Second World War and into the present day.By increasing public awareness and understanding, Unsilenced: Sexual Violence in Conflict aims to empower survivors, inform visitors, and contribute towards meaningful change in the fight against this pervasive issue.
www.iwm.org.uk
October 31, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Off to the Imperial War Museum today to view this temporary exhibition
www.iwm.org.uk/events/unsil...
www.iwm.org.uk/events/unsil...
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Composing an essay constitutes an advanced form of thinking that will become extinct if outsourced to an automated word dispenser.
Learning to write an essay was more than an academic rite of passage. It was about learning to make an argument, support it with evidence, and articulate it clearly and maybe even with style. Many students still want to learn how to do that for themselves, despite AI.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...
Opinion | Why Even Basic A.I. Use Is So Bad for Students
www.nytimes.com
October 30, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Composing an essay constitutes an advanced form of thinking that will become extinct if outsourced to an automated word dispenser.
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Have you visited our innovative online #RefugeeMap?
Through documents from our unique family papers collections, the map tells the stories of refugees from Nazi persecution, and traces their routes of escape www.refugeemap.org
Through documents from our unique family papers collections, the map tells the stories of refugees from Nazi persecution, and traces their routes of escape www.refugeemap.org
Refugee Map | Documents from the Wiener Holocaust Library
www.refugeemap.org
October 29, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Have you visited our innovative online #RefugeeMap?
Through documents from our unique family papers collections, the map tells the stories of refugees from Nazi persecution, and traces their routes of escape www.refugeemap.org
Through documents from our unique family papers collections, the map tells the stories of refugees from Nazi persecution, and traces their routes of escape www.refugeemap.org
That feeling you get when the very old book you want is £145 on Bozzo website and then you find an internet copy and book it for two weeks
Elaine Seinfeld GIF
ALT: Elaine Seinfeld GIF
media.tenor.com
July 3, 2024 at 4:19 PM
That feeling you get when the very old book you want is £145 on Bozzo website and then you find an internet copy and book it for two weeks
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Ten shows about the Tories’ time in power:
10. Meal or No Meal
9. Mock the Weak
8. Never Mind the Buzzwords
7. Whose Lie is it Anyway?
6. Who Wants to Be a Billionaire?
5. Last of the Summer Wine and Cheese
4. White Line of Duty
3. Faulty Powers
2. Have I Got an Excuse for You?
1. 8 Out of 10 Prats
10. Meal or No Meal
9. Mock the Weak
8. Never Mind the Buzzwords
7. Whose Lie is it Anyway?
6. Who Wants to Be a Billionaire?
5. Last of the Summer Wine and Cheese
4. White Line of Duty
3. Faulty Powers
2. Have I Got an Excuse for You?
1. 8 Out of 10 Prats
July 3, 2024 at 8:25 AM
Ten shows about the Tories’ time in power:
10. Meal or No Meal
9. Mock the Weak
8. Never Mind the Buzzwords
7. Whose Lie is it Anyway?
6. Who Wants to Be a Billionaire?
5. Last of the Summer Wine and Cheese
4. White Line of Duty
3. Faulty Powers
2. Have I Got an Excuse for You?
1. 8 Out of 10 Prats
10. Meal or No Meal
9. Mock the Weak
8. Never Mind the Buzzwords
7. Whose Lie is it Anyway?
6. Who Wants to Be a Billionaire?
5. Last of the Summer Wine and Cheese
4. White Line of Duty
3. Faulty Powers
2. Have I Got an Excuse for You?
1. 8 Out of 10 Prats
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Tewkesbury Abbey has a lovely cluster of chantry chapels around the east end.
June 26, 2024 at 6:14 AM
Tewkesbury Abbey has a lovely cluster of chantry chapels around the east end.
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The first review for MARY is in - and oh wow: "A romp" "A magnificent debut" "Original... supple... smartly self-conscious" "Mary and the Rabbit Dream is a delight: cunning, curious, cunicular."
www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-t...
www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-t...
The woman who gave birth to rabbits – or so England thought
Mary and the Rabbit Dream, a magnificent debut novel by Noémi Kiss-Deáki, fictionalises the strange 18th-century tale of Mary Toft
www.telegraph.co.uk
June 28, 2024 at 3:53 PM
The first review for MARY is in - and oh wow: "A romp" "A magnificent debut" "Original... supple... smartly self-conscious" "Mary and the Rabbit Dream is a delight: cunning, curious, cunicular."
www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-t...
www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-t...
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Rishi is asking us to judge him by what he did during Covid. I do. It was called Eat Out to Help Out and it *killed* people #ITVdebate
June 4, 2024 at 8:14 PM
Rishi is asking us to judge him by what he did during Covid. I do. It was called Eat Out to Help Out and it *killed* people #ITVdebate
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The anecdote about Joseph Heller & Kurt Vonnegut seems especially apt right now.
Self-help-to-success books will tell you never to settle for ‘enough.’ But I think you’re better off learning the difference between hunger & gluttony
Self-help-to-success books will tell you never to settle for ‘enough.’ But I think you’re better off learning the difference between hunger & gluttony
Every time I read articles about extremely wealthy people/companies engaging in unethical behavior to become even more wealthy, I think about this excerpt from the book the psychology of money.
The endless quest for more is so damaging, especially when pursed by those who already have enough.
The endless quest for more is so damaging, especially when pursed by those who already have enough.
June 5, 2024 at 7:40 AM
The anecdote about Joseph Heller & Kurt Vonnegut seems especially apt right now.
Self-help-to-success books will tell you never to settle for ‘enough.’ But I think you’re better off learning the difference between hunger & gluttony
Self-help-to-success books will tell you never to settle for ‘enough.’ But I think you’re better off learning the difference between hunger & gluttony
Nice
It's here!!
*The Power of Petitioning in Early Modern Britain*
Published #OpenAccess by @uclpress.bsky.social, with chapters from @lloydbowen.bsky.social, @ellyrobson.bsky.social, @sharonhoward.bsky.social & many more: petitioning.history.ac.uk/blog/2024/05...
#EarlyModern #PowerOfPetitioning 🗃️
*The Power of Petitioning in Early Modern Britain*
Published #OpenAccess by @uclpress.bsky.social, with chapters from @lloydbowen.bsky.social, @ellyrobson.bsky.social, @sharonhoward.bsky.social & many more: petitioning.history.ac.uk/blog/2024/05...
#EarlyModern #PowerOfPetitioning 🗃️
May 23, 2024 at 9:59 AM
Nice
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Day-to-Day of a Historian
#skystorians #archivliebe #archiv #archive #research #AcademicTwitter #academicchatter #research #research #humor
#skystorians #archivliebe #archiv #archive #research #AcademicTwitter #academicchatter #research #research #humor
May 19, 2024 at 12:42 PM
Day-to-Day of a Historian
#skystorians #archivliebe #archiv #archive #research #AcademicTwitter #academicchatter #research #research #humor
#skystorians #archivliebe #archiv #archive #research #AcademicTwitter #academicchatter #research #research #humor
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I know there aren’t so many locals here but this is probably on its way to London for resale so please look out for it for sale anywhere.
(Is there a cycling bsky community?)
(Is there a cycling bsky community?)
Longshot but Brummies if you see this bike (with orange shocks) anywhere - including FB marketplace!- please message me urgently. Creeps followed B home and stole it from him on our drive in B13. still paying it off on finance 😭
RTs and shares elsewhere deeply appreciated.
RTs and shares elsewhere deeply appreciated.
May 18, 2024 at 7:20 AM
I know there aren’t so many locals here but this is probably on its way to London for resale so please look out for it for sale anywhere.
(Is there a cycling bsky community?)
(Is there a cycling bsky community?)