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workingclasshistory.com
#OtD 27 Jan 2010 American libertarian socialist historian, World War II air force bombardier, and huge inspiration to us at the Working Class History, Howard Zinn, died aged 87. Listen to our podcast about his life and work: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e69-...
January 27, 2026 at 6:25 PM
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rachelschine.bsky.social
The fact that people in my field look at theory as unrigorous will never cease to irk me, even if I agree that knowing the sources backward and forward is the ultimate foundation. More is more.
Excerpt from a scholar's recent publication of 'rules' for Islamic studies academics. #58 advises that reading al-Ghazali does you fiftyfold more good than reading theorists of religion #59 is a weird adaptation of Jack and Jill where theory and method fall down the religious studies hill...
January 24, 2026 at 10:54 PM
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suewilkesauthor.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
'Extremely rare' Tudor map of Devon town to go on display
The Tudor map, which has been in private hands for 400 years, has been secured by a £17,691 grant.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 25, 2026 at 8:32 PM
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vcorenmitchell.bsky.social
But mine comes FREE with the licence fee! All you have to do is cut them out and stitch them together.

Paradise Lost concludes tomorrow night, after the Only Connect final,

8pm on BBC Two.
January 25, 2026 at 10:42 AM
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davidandress.bsky.social
Well.
Andy Burnham seeks permission to stand in by-election
He said in a statement that he wants to back the Labour government
www.bbc.co.uk
January 24, 2026 at 6:04 PM
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npr.org
When he spoke at Davos this week, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney referenced a 1978 essay by Vaclav Havel, written when Czechoslovakia was under Soviet control.
Opinion: Mark Carney's warning and its echoes from the past
When he spoke at Davos this week, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney referenced a 1978 essay by Vaclav Havel, written when Czechoslovakia was under Soviet control.
n.pr
January 24, 2026 at 8:38 PM
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lrb.co.uk
‘Did anyone lay the groundwork for MAGA more than Buckley? Would he, even in his prime, have denounced Trump for his authoritarian slide as he did Nixon? It seems unlikely.’

Thomas Meaney on William F. Buckley.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Thomas Meaney · I’d smash you in the face: MAGA’s Debt to Buckley
Anti-communist​ dandy, scourge of Ivy League administrators, magazine chieftain, amanuensis to Joe McCarthy, father-...
www.lrb.co.uk
January 21, 2026 at 2:45 PM
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simonjones.bsky.social
#OTD 18 January 1871 the Prussian king Wilhelm I was proclaimed German Emperor in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles. Exactly 48 years later in 1919, the Paris Peace Conference opened at the same location. Painting by Anton von Werner via commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_...
Oil painting German generals crowded round elderly king on a dais, Bismarck at bottom, in Hall of Mirrors.
January 18, 2026 at 12:47 PM
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wgrumblepants.bsky.social
Today’s beautiful cricket ground is the home of Frampton On Severn CC in Gloucestershire
January 18, 2026 at 6:38 AM
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ihr.bsky.social
Date for your diary - join us Join us for this online training session on 28th April, hosted by the @ihrlibrary.bsky.social team, which will bring together a panel of historians, librarians and subject specialists to discuss the History of Emotions
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Researching the History of Emotions
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www.history.ac.uk
January 18, 2026 at 10:01 AM
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georgeeaton.bsky.social
“Change begins with an argument, you don’t make progress without one”.

How Wes Streeting used the Progress 30th anniversary dinner to outline his own political and intellectual vision. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
Wes Streeting makes his pitch
In his Progress anniversary speech, the Health Secretary outlined his own political and intellectual vision
www.newstatesman.com
January 15, 2026 at 12:35 PM
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maaiked.bsky.social
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January 15, 2026 at 3:36 PM
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andrewteale.me.uk
A nice video from Durham, Smith Galer reflecting on her experiences with Christmas UC. A lot of this chimes with my own quiz experience (including taking home my name sticker, which is permanently displayed on my wall).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-N1...
What you don't see when you watch University Challenge (and reflections on my languages degree)
YouTube video by The Glottal Stop
www.youtube.com
January 9, 2026 at 9:33 PM
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kbneal.bsky.social
Shall we collect a thread of top cricket burns?
Aggers: "Jacks has dropped a chance there that you'd toss to your granny in the back yard." #Ashes
January 6, 2026 at 12:02 AM
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robertsaunders.bsky.social
This week on @ppfideas.bsky.social, we're exploring "Home Rule for Ireland!"

Home Rule shattered the Liberal Party, broke the women's suffrage movement, brought thousands onto the streets and drove Britain to the brink of civil war.

In the next two episodes, we ask why. So here a quick intro... 🧵
A selection of pro-Home Rule posters.
January 7, 2026 at 10:42 AM
dgj2026.bsky.social
Rather a fun distraction, although this did reveal a rather large gap in basketball knowledge...

Quizicle #51 4/5

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Quizicle
The daily machine-learning powered quiz/puzzle game. Deduce the answer from crossword-style clues with hot/cold feedback.
quizicledaily.com
January 6, 2026 at 11:39 PM
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jewelknightjess.com
I finished the Tau Empire Darkstrider today!

This was one of my Xmas gifts from @lenalavey.bsky.social (how has it been a WEEK since Xmas already??)

#WarhammerCommunity #PaintSlam25 #TauEmpire #tau #darkstrider
A Tau, a blue alien, bending down and releasing a group of small white drones.
December 31, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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alisonfisk.bsky.social
As the year draws to a close, I’m signing off 2025 with a magical find!

An ancient amber bear. Carved some 10,000 years ago, it washed up on a beach at Fanø, Denmark, from a submerged Mesolithic settlement in the North Sea.

✨ Happy New Year all! ✨

National Museum of Denmark
📷 by me

#Archaeology
My photo shows a small figurine of an amber bear carved some 10,000 years ago during the Danish Mesolithic period. The bear is seen in profile facing right. The legs are incomplete. The ears, muzzle, and mouth are defined. The figurine is displayed on a small metal stand. The display lighting shines on the bear’s head and neck enhancing the translucence of the orange amber. The neck of the bear has a polished groove indicating it was once suspended on a cord or string. Length 6.5cm. The Fanø bear was found in 1991 on a beach on the west coast of the Danish island of Fanø, located off the south-western coast of Jutland. In the Stone Age the Danish coastline was different from today. “Since then the coastline has been influenced by later changes to the sea level as well as the rising up of the land after the last Ice Age. This rising of the land is still going on today. North of a line on the map the land has risen up and south of the line the coast has become submerged because of the subsequent rise in sea level. Therefore a proportion of Stone Age settlements south of the “tilt line” now lie under water or at the edge of the beach. Thus objects can be washed out in the sea and later be found on the beach”. The Fanø bear is one of a small number of amber bear figurines from the Baltic Sea region which have been assigned to the Mesolithic period by means of a typo-chronological approach Amber has many amazing properties: it’s warm to the touch, it’s a glossy translucent colour when polished, it gives off a fragrant scent when burnt, and when rubbed against fur or hair it can produce static electricity which ‘magically’ emits green sparks in the dark and can make hair stand on end.
December 31, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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oculusimperia.bsky.social
Back in 2011 I visited Warhammer World, and they were showing these absolutely wonderful Blanche Necron concepts.
December 30, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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oldenoughtosay.com
pour one out to an icon

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Spanish woman who found fame for botching fresco restoration dies
Cecilia Giménez's effort to restore the painting Ecce Homo earned the artwork the nickname
www.bbc.co.uk
December 30, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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sansculottid.es
Today is Nonidi the 9th of Nivôse in the year 234.
Nivôse is the month of snow.
Today we celebrate saltpeter.#JacobinDay

More information on saltpeter
An old time-y illustration of a Saltpeter.
December 28, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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chrisbrooke.bsky.social
Bringing this energy into 2026.
December 27, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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ninjaweasel.bsky.social
The full advent collection! #MiniaturePainting #ReaperaMiniatures
December 25, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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lrb.co.uk
‘When Suleyman is not busy “bashing unbelievers” in The Golden Throne, he is sacking people for rudeness or watching prisoners be trampled by elephants.’

Helen Pfeifer on Suleyman the Magnificent.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Helen Pfeifer · Turn around and run: Suleyman the Magnificent
There is murder, sex, duplicity and betrayal, all taking place at the court of one of the richest and most powerful...
www.lrb.co.uk
December 25, 2025 at 5:10 PM