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Duncan Hamilton @dnhamilton.bsky.social · 5h

I only started watching this for David Olusoga but I regret to admit that I'm quite enjoying it

Duncan Hamilton @dnhamilton.bsky.social · 9d

Manchester historians!

@historylabplus.bsky.social and @porticolibrary.bsky.social are uniting again for another History Open Mic Night! Come down on Dec 11th to hear brilliant speakers from the Manchester history scene on a range of topics - book below!

www.theportico.org.uk/event-calend...

FastHistory — The Portico Library

Listen to a series of quickfire talks with specially invited guests from across the history and heritage sector, then take to the stage yourself to share your own historical passions!

www.theportico.org.uk

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Duncan Hamilton @dnhamilton.bsky.social · 15d

Big day - my parents inform me that it is finally the start of Long Dog Jumper Season

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Duncan Hamilton @dnhamilton.bsky.social · 18d

I think there's another anti-immigration protest going on in my locale tomorrow, which makes it all the more appropriate to be spending this evening reading my grandfather's own immigration paperwork. Yes, his profession is listed as 'hockey player', he was the most Canadian man to ever live

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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 19d

After something to listen to over the weekend? Our newest podcast with @katrinanavickas.bsky.social dropped yesterday!

We talk about the history of the commons (communal resources), enclosure, and resistance to that encroachment. Plus, Untitled Goose Game.

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Absolute Units - the official podcast of The Museum of English Rural Life.

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Duncan Hamilton @dnhamilton.bsky.social · 19d

Slow Friday. Trying to distract myself from the Your Party discourse (which I am FAR too proximate to) by writing up a few of my earlier thoughts on how Thomas Cooper felt about my favourite place in the world, the Lake District:

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‘The unburied giants of old Cumbria’: Thomas Cooper and the Lake District

[Editor’s note: 179 years ago in 1846, Thomas Cooper was expelled from the National Charter Association’s annual Convention for proposing a series of controversial motions implying some…

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Duncan Hamilton @dnhamilton.bsky.social · 19d

What he means is "I don't like people going to university as anything other than a stepping stone into the petit-bourgeois because that is the only demographic I have ever given any consideration to on matters of policy."

Duncan Hamilton @dnhamilton.bsky.social · 19d

Everything I hear out of Peter Kyle's mouth makes me dislike him more. God forbid, people go to a research institution to conduct research!

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British students lack ‘drive’ of their American peers, says Business Secretary | LBC

The Business Secretary has defended comments he made at a meeting with investors where he said British students lack the ‘drive’ and ‘vigour’ of their American peers.

www.lbc.co.uk

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Duncan Hamilton @dnhamilton.bsky.social · 20d

My instinct over the management of party finances - and the instinct I choose to follow - is to back Sultana's advocacy for a fund in trust to Driscoll, Winter and Feinstein, all of whom have excellent democratic credentials.

Duncan Hamilton @dnhamilton.bsky.social · 20d

Predicting a further split on the Corbyn wing, when it transpires that an alliance over international causes such as Gaza fractures on contact with domestic policy - as pro-Corbyn progressives find themselves sharing a bloc with MPs from staunchly socially conservative Muslim constituencies.

Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 20d

The split in Your Party has broken into the open.

Jeremy Corbyn urges supporters not to donate to the link promoted by Zarah Sultana. Sultana responds calling it a "sexist boys club."

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 21d

No words.

The lives of those living in Gaza are deemed less important than maintaining relations with Israel and, by proxy, the US. At the personal level, on Labour's doorsteps, this approach plays out in the most callous of ways. Dalloul al-Neder is a Palestinian refugee from Gaza, who was a constituent of the former deputy prime minister, Angela Rayner.
He got to know her, meeting several times: she visited his takeaway shop in 2019 and posed for pictures, declaring "Palestine must be free". She took him on a tour of parliament.

PHOTO: Dalloul al-Neder, who lives in Manchester, with an image of his late mother - he has lost several family members in Gaza bombings.
Photograph: Sean Hansford/MEN Media

Within weeks of the genocide beginning, in October 2023, his mother, brother, sister-in-law and two young nieces were killed by an Israeli airstrike. Desperate to evacuate his wife and four-month-old daughter - who had been buried under rubble three times by Israeli attacks - he emailed Rayner twice to seek help evacuating his family. He says received no response.

In January 2024, he attended a Labour fundraiser in Stockport addressed by Rayner and her colleague, Jonathan Reynolds, and got to his feet, clutching pictures of his dead mother, begging her to support a ceasefire, emotionally declaring "I lost my family in Gaza". The whole tawdry episode is on camera: he was aggressively ejected from the meeting and on to the street. Rayner did nothing, except to say "thank you, you've made your point". She then unfollowed him on social media. Days later, she was interviewed by Sky News' Beth Rigby, who framed the incident as an example of the threats politicians face, linking it to the murder of the MPs Jo Cox and David Amess.
Since then, so many of Neder's relatives have been slaughtered by the Israeli state that their names take up three pages of a notebook.

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Duncan Hamilton @dnhamilton.bsky.social · 22d

Did I say tomorrow? I meant Tuesday. They both begin with T, after all. One for the blog on some thoughts I had about Thomas Cooper and local river phenomena, after an interesting tour of his hometown as part of Gainsborough Wordfest 2025!

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Duncan Hamilton @dnhamilton.bsky.social · 22d

It BEGINS!

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Duncan Hamilton @dnhamilton.bsky.social · 23d

Oof, don't envy you that one - but I'm pleased to hear you've been participating in Austrian culture 😂

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Duncan Hamilton @dnhamilton.bsky.social · 23d

"We do not like the nomenclature of this novelist. It is too literally allegorical."

Finally, a literary critic with the pluck to call Cooper out on his bullshit character naming conventions (I'm still not over the gardener, Eli Grubroot, and doubt I ever will be).

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Duncan Hamilton @dnhamilton.bsky.social · 23d

Unsure whether I find the view or the cow more spectacular

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 24d

The drop in price in Coke, and increasing purity of supply, is definitely playing a role in *gestures at everything*.

Martin Robbins @mjrobbins.com · 24d

See also the *massive* cocaine epidemic among 40- to 50-something men. The media keeps talking about young people and drugs but peak deaths are among 40-49 year olds now.

James Ball @jamesrball.com · 24d

The discourse is all around deradicalising young men and the crisis among young men.

The discourse would be much better targeted if it was about deradicalising boomers (and increasingly Gen Xers).

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 25d

If he'd been radicalized by a leftist professor the bullet engravings would have been an unreadable 90,000 word rebuttal to another leftist academic over a purely semantic disagreement they've been arguing back and forth since the 70's and he'd have shot Reviewer 2.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 26d

It was sly, scheming leftist professors.

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Duncan Hamilton @dnhamilton.bsky.social · 26d

Back in the home of Thomas Cooper for reasons that I will make clear tomorrow... I don't think he would approve of the vulgar gesture but I'm cooler than him, so.

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Duncan Hamilton @dnhamilton.bsky.social · 29d

Fantastic write-up of a fantastic day. Of course, Chartism Day is always a fantastic day. Already looking forward to next year - hopefully with more cataloguing ventures to report on!

Society for the Study of Labour History @sslh.bsky.social · 29d

Our report from #ChartismDay 2025. Includes contributions from @vjctorianist.bsky.social @drdavesteele.bsky.social @markcrail.bsky.social @dnhamilton.bsky.social and others
sslh.org.uk/2025/09/09/c...

Chartism Day 2025 report: landscape and the crowd, emancipation and revolution

Academic and independent historians, Chartist enthusiasts and the Chartism curious gathered in Huddersfield for the annual Chartism Day event, the latest in a series of conferences that first ran i…

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Duncan Hamilton @dnhamilton.bsky.social · Sep 8

Views from the top of Pontcysyllte Aqueduct - built 1805, 126ft up

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Duncan Hamilton @dnhamilton.bsky.social · Sep 7

In Chester station for the alert test. I think about four phones went off? I wonder what decides who lives and who dies in the apocalypse

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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · Sep 7

My new piece on children's TV theme tunes, and how the changes in the music, lyrics, and credit sequences opening and closing shows like Postman Pat, Fireman Sam, and Thomas & Friends reflect huge shifts in the ideas and structures behind their production. 🧵

#skystorians #polisky #socsky

Changing the Tune

The evolution of the theme tunes of popular British children’s television programmes offers a useful prism for looking through at processes of ideological change and globalisation.

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Jane Donaldson @janeydonald.bsky.social · Sep 6

@dnhamilton.bsky.social in action

A man presents to an audience. A screen displaying a picture and text is behind him

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Duncan Hamilton @dnhamilton.bsky.social · Sep 7

The Chartism and Co-operation subject guide is one of the things I'm proudest of making on my academic journey! Anyone interested in exploring points of overlap between two of Britain's most important 19th century political movements would do well to check it out at the link in Jane's post :)

Jane Donaldson @janeydonald.bsky.social · Sep 6

Super Chartism Day in Huddersfield. A great set of speakers and subjects.

PhD student dnhamilton.bsky.social worked over the summer at the Co-op Archives and produced an extensive subject guide on Chartism available on the website. www.co-operativeheritage.coop/collection-2

Special Collections Subject Guides and Articles

A series of subject guides and links to articles

www.co-operativeheritage.coop

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