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Maureen Wright

@drmaureenwright.bsky.social

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Historian, author and Spaniel lover. WHW IC. Specialism: Women's Suffrage movement. Things of historical interest: just about anything. Currently working on becoming a theologian (MA 2024) and tracing my father's service journey in #WorldWar2

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History Rage Podcast @historyrage.bsky.social · 2h

🚨 BOOK LAUNCH🚨
Roger Moorhouse joins us to reveal why the U-Boat War was nowhere near the close-run thing we’re told – by 1943 the tables had turned dramatically. 🎙️⚓️

🎧 Listen 👉 pod.fo/e/339dda
📖 Buy the book: uk.bookshop.org/a/10...

#WWII #NavalHistory #Podcast @wmcollinsbooks

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Guy Walters @guywalters.bsky.social · 9h

Thanks to the peerless scholarship of Dr Jürgen Matthäus, we now know the identity of the murderer in this most notoriously iconic picture of the Holocaust. His name was Jakobus Onnen. He was a teacher. My piece in the Independent:
www.independent.co.uk/news/people/...

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Maureen Wright @drmaureenwright.bsky.social · 2h

Natch. The Star ⭐ always sits in the best seat!

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Jane Gulliford Lowes @lydiajane13.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks @danellin.bsky.social ! Really looking forward to giving this lecture at the wonderful International Bomber Command Centre in Lincoln in March. See you there !

Dan Ellin @danellin.bsky.social · 1d

I've just bought a ticket for this. @lydiajane13.bsky.social @nmtdambusters.bsky.social

IBCC Lecture & Supper Series - The Invisible Campaign - Bomber Command Gardening Operations 1940-1945. - International Bomber Command Centre

The Invisible Campaign – Bomber Command Gardening Operations 1940-1945 with author, Jane Gulliford-Lowes Aerial mining by RAF Bomber Command was a vital part of the Allied war effort, claiming far mor...

internationalbcc.co.uk

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Maureen Wright @drmaureenwright.bsky.social · 3d

Done.

Maureen Wright @drmaureenwright.bsky.social · 3d

BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cg...
Jilly Cooper: Best-selling author of Rivals dies aged 88 after fall - BBC News

Excellent tribute from HMTQ 👑 to her late friend. 👇

Jilly Cooper: Best-selling author of Rivals dies aged 88 after fall

www.bbc.co.uk

Maureen Wright @drmaureenwright.bsky.social · 4d

A real harvest feel.

Maureen Wright @drmaureenwright.bsky.social · 5d

A valuable work space for scholars now open at the Bishopsgate Institute - I used the archives here while researching for my PhD. A positive development.

Bishopsgate Institute @bishopsgateinst.bsky.social · 5d

Somewhere free, quiet, and right next to Liverpool Street? 👀

Whether you’ve got a deadline looming, are polishing off a chapter on your lunch break, or hunting for a calm spot to do some work, our new Reading Room is open to you.

👋 https://www.bishopsgate.org.uk/whats-on/activity/reading-room/

Reading Room | Bishopsgate Institute

The Reading Room is separate to the Researchers’ Service, so if you’d like to look at our special collections and archives, you’ll need this instead https:

www.bishopsgate.org.uk

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Women's History Network @womenshistnet.bsky.social · 6d

This #BHM, learn about Mollie Hunte—educational psychologist from British Guyana, and a driving force in the Black Education Movement in the UK from the 1970s onwards. A true champion of Caribbean communities.
womenshistorynetwork.org/mollie-hunte... #GenderHist #WomensHistory

Mollie Hunte (1932-2015): Educator, Psychologist and Champion of Caribbean People, by Rebecca Adams

Mollie Hunte was an educational psychologist from British Guiana (now Guyana) born in 1932. She was a significant part of the Black Education Movement in the UK during the 1970s onwards and made a …

womenshistorynetwork.org

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Maureen Wright @drmaureenwright.bsky.social · 5d

How did that happen?

Maureen Wright @drmaureenwright.bsky.social · 5d

Always to the Manor Born.

Maureen Wright @drmaureenwright.bsky.social · 6d

Auditioning for the next series of Riders, perchance?

Maureen Wright @drmaureenwright.bsky.social · 6d

Congratulations 🎉

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The London Journal @thelondonjournal.bsky.social · 6d

The next in our series about standout articles from the journal's history, as chosen by members of of our editorial board, is Yihong Zhu's selection of Ellie Miles's 2013 article ‘A Museum of Everything’: Making the Pleasure Gardens inside the Museum of London' as her particular favourite. 🧵

‘A Museum of Everything’: Making the Pleasure Gardens inside the Museum of London

In 2010, the Galleries of Modern London opened at the Museum of London, and included a re-making of London’s Pleasure Gardens. Using an embedded ethnographic perspective at the museum, this paper e...

www.tandfonline.com

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 6d

"We live at a time of considerable uncertainty and peril. We believe this future will be easier (if never easy) to navigate with recourse to the skills and temperaments integral to a historical approach to life."

RHS President, Lucy Noakes, writes on the Society's blog bit.ly/3KBX7Fw #Skystorians

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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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Maureen Wright @drmaureenwright.bsky.social · 6d

You got this via ChatGPT! Amazing. Psychologists, it seems, can b*g off. Can't help wondering what it might say to me...lost 4 skins...1 to go. Might be fit to be seen with soon.

Maureen Wright @drmaureenwright.bsky.social · 7d

True...you should have been a member of Spandau Ballet in their early days. (Extra marks for spotting my clever pun.)

Maureen Wright @drmaureenwright.bsky.social · 8d

You've bowled all the maidens over again! Natch.

Maureen Wright @drmaureenwright.bsky.social · 8d

But not very often seen!

Maureen Wright @drmaureenwright.bsky.social · 8d

Midlife? Guy is permanently 39.

Maureen Wright @drmaureenwright.bsky.social · 12d

Oh. My.

Maureen Wright @drmaureenwright.bsky.social · 17d

Going to read on the strength of this review.

Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 17d

Over on 'All Old Strange Things' I've written a new free-to-read post reflecting on @peteralanross.bsky.social's thought-provoking book 'Upon A White Horse': substack.com/home/post/p-...

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Maureen Wright @drmaureenwright.bsky.social · 17d

I'm seriously impressed. You can't have gone to the same clerical educational institution as my husband. Not that he's a team sport player.

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Maureen Wright @drmaureenwright.bsky.social · 17d

Champagne proof trousers will also be necessary for your book launch.