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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 7h

#OtD 9 Oct 1945 the UK Labour govt defended its jailing of 226 Spanish Civil War and anti-Nazi resistance fighters, describing them as "members of an enemy paramilitary organisation". Some killed themselves, others were deported to Spain for execution stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1094...

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Andrew Hobbs @drewhobbs.bsky.social · 7h

Thanks Tony, I've now joined

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 21h

Someone had a right go at me because I said the Honey Monster definitely fucks and would be an attentive and enthusiastic lover with a willingness to experiment

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Ancestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳 @ancestralenq.bsky.social · 17h

Absolutely fascinating talk tonight by @drewhobbs.bsky.social for @wfdhistsoc.bsky.social about Lancashire newspaper proprietor Anthony Hewitson & the diaries he kept. Andrew detailed the partnership with Wakefield local newspaper proprietor Charles William Carr at the Wakefield & West Riding /1

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will o’the wisp pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 4d

and they’ll apply this to the asylum hotel protests and flag shaggers too right? right?

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Police to get broader powers to crack down on repeated protests

Officers will be able to tell organisers to move demonstrations if protests have caused "repeated disorder".

www.bbc.com

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 4d

"I see gangs of masked thugs roaming the streets rounding up anyone the wrong colour, and I think: *this* is what Britain needs."

Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 4d

Batshit.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 7d

Labour has a chance now to turn a corner and win support from people who want it to succeed. Or it can continue with this type of vicious populist filth and alienate everyone. It's your call guys.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Starmer to end asylum ‘golden ticket’ of resettlement and family reunion rights

People granted asylum will have to earn right to invite family in plan charities call ‘straight from populist playbook’

www.theguardian.com

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 7d

American Christians deciding the Pope doesn't know the Bible because he said immigrants are human is the perfect summary of the evangelist movement

worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 7d

really enjoying all the people trying to explain the bible to the pope today

Pope Leo XIV
Today, more than ever, we must return to the heart, the center of feeling and emotion, the locus of freedom. Though it includes reason, the heart transcends and transforms it. Only by returning to the heart can we undergo a true ecological conversion that transforms our personal

Austin
I reject this whole heartedly. What you fail to see Mr Pope, the Bible says

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Tom Jamieson @tomjam.bsky.social · 8d

What are my three favourite euphemisms for sex you ask?

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 9d

I dunno about the rest of you, but I want my cardiologist to relax and rest rather than spend her off-time picking litter and sweeping the streets.

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Andrew Hobbs @drewhobbs.bsky.social · 9d

Zotero, fully searchable, links your notes to bibliographical details, and does all the references for you in Word

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University of London Press @uolpress.bsky.social · 14d

Out today: British Working-Class and Radical Writing Since 1700 edited by John Goodridge & @adambridgen.bsky.social.

This book is published #OpenAccess, with funding from @acls1919.bsky.social 👏

'Workers, Radicals, Environmentalists and Feminists, Unite!'

uolpress.co.uk/book/british...

British Working-Class and Radical Writing Since 1700 - University of London Press

At a time when working-class writing is gaining long-overdue recognition and radical ideas may be more important than ever, this timely collection of eighteen essays examines the powerful intersection...

uolpress.co.uk

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Mark Crail @markcrail.bsky.social · 18d

James Watson, leader of the campaign for a free press, radical publisher, supporter of the Dorchester labourers and Chartist, was born #OnThisDay 21 September 1799
www.chartistancestors.co.uk/james-watson...

James Watson, 1799 - 1874 - chartist ancestors

James Watson was one of the quartet of radical London publishers who were at the heart of the battle of the unstamped press and later went on to form the London Working Men's Association. Influenced b...

www.chartistancestors.co.uk

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Dr Laura Eastlake @victorianmasc.bsky.social · 27d

Your La Vie Parisienne cover by birth month.

Some silliness from the historical periodicals for your #Friday. #c19th

Your La vie Parisienne cover by birth month. On left is an image of a woman in a billowing shirt, breeches and striped stockings and a jaunty hat, holding an artists palette. On right in an Amazon, clad in helmet and Minoan style two-piece, brandishing spear and shield

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 29d

Yes. TAMU tape can be paired w countless memoirs of Red Guards calling out teachers for deviation from Great Leader Thought during Cultural Revolution catastrophe. "According to Our President, this is illegal."

Cancellations at West Point (Tom Hanks!) and USAFA

Cultural Revolution is the parallel

Navin Pokala 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱 @navinpokala.bsky.social · 29d

On the 49th anniversary of his death, Republicans in America are taking inspiration from Chinese Communist Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution that set China back for decades. www.texastribune.org/2025/09/08/t...

Video of clash over gender-identity content in Texas A&M children’s lit class leads to firing, removals

After the video fueled outrage, a professor was fired and two college leaders removed from their administrative roles for approving content inconsistent with the course’s description.

www.texastribune.org

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Priti Joshi @pritijoshi.bsky.social · Sep 5

What's not to like about this amazing opportunity for a dedicated periodicals studies scholar! Apps due by Oct 15.

Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · Sep 4

💼 We're hiring! RSVP seeks a new Editor or pair of Co-Editors to lead the Curran Index into its next phase. Many many thanks to our outgoing Editors, @emilyjlm.bsky.social+Lars Atkin for their dedication to this ongoing DH project. Applications due 15 October! rs4vp.org/curran-edito...

Lead the Curran Index as Our New Editor – RSVP

RSVP seeks a new Editor or Editors to lead the Curran Index! Applications should be sent to VP Alison Chapman by October 15.

rs4vp.org

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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · Sep 4

💼 We're hiring! RSVP seeks a new Editor or pair of Co-Editors to lead the Curran Index into its next phase. Many many thanks to our outgoing Editors, @emilyjlm.bsky.social+Lars Atkin for their dedication to this ongoing DH project. Applications due 15 October! rs4vp.org/curran-edito...

Lead the Curran Index as Our New Editor – RSVP

RSVP seeks a new Editor or Editors to lead the Curran Index! Applications should be sent to VP Alison Chapman by October 15.

rs4vp.org

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · Sep 4

The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · Sep 2

Myers-Briggs types I’d like to see

NCFS - never too cold for shorts
PTHC - a pleasure to have in class
GDNR - gives directions for no reason
HDAY - halloween decorations all year
VAEN - volume always on even numbers

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · Sep 2

When I voted Labour, I didn’t really want them to follow Suella Braverman’s policies.

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · Sep 2

Keen to reach new audiences? We are offering up to £8k to humanities and social sciences researchers to deliver public engagement projects working in partnership with a gallery, archive, library or museum. Deadline 15th Oct
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/shap...

SHAPE Involve and Engage

A funding programme for innovative public engagement from the British Academy.

www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk

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CerberusXt @cerberusxt.bsky.social · Sep 2

Really makes you think.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · Sep 2

The body of evidence showing that when centrist parties adopt the priorities and talking points of the far right, they torpedo themselves is vast and powerful. Yet Keir Starmer's Labour Party seems determined to ignore it.
A few examples in 🧵:
theconversation.com/how-should-l...

How should Labour and the Tories respond to the populist right? Lessons from Europe

The evidence suggests traditional parties that ape the populist radical right’s policies risk boosting their rivals instead of reclaiming voters.

theconversation.com

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · Sep 2

What does it take to move 1000 people? Better infrastructure supporting mobility choices that don’t take up so much space (or produce so much emissions/pollution, cost so much public money, etc).

Graphic via Seattle Subway based on a Sydney graphic I spread around years ago.

How do you move 1000 people? One link train with four cars, 15 buses, or 625 cars requiring over 5 acres of parking at both start and destination.

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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · Sep 1

The likely impact of introducing even more barriers to safe family reunification for refugees is that MORE people will instead take dangerous smugglers’ routes to reunite with their loved ones.

& then Labour, Tories & Reform can demonise THEM on #r4today too. Yay.

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