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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 6m

[my other key insight is that you can do 29 mph down the campus ring road which is both terrifying and the greatest]

Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 9m

Now I've had an ebike for a year I have 3 main conclusions:

1) Ebikes are the future
2) Let's place covered & secure bike parking everywhere, espec. in all car parks
3) We need to stop people riding ebikes on footpaths (not just pavements - no bikes in woods/fields/on coast paths etc)

Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 22m

it should be illegal to park a lime bike on a public pavement BUT it should be legal to park a lime bike anywhere a car can be parked

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 14m

You're very welcome! Very powerful the way you contrast the part Goldsmiths played in your success with the changes that continue to remove similar opportunities for others. Solidarity.

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 24m

Cartoon. Two people in lab coats, one is showing the other a beaker. The person on the left says "Can| bortow
your chloroform?". The other person replies "Go ahead, knock yourself out"

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 19m

Thanks to Jo for an important essay giving a first hand insight into the impact of a sector in crisis on academics and students 👇

Jo (unfunded hobbyist) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 3h

I wrote something on my time on returning to Goldsmiths as an associate lecturer, 17 years after graduating with my first degree. It’s a plea to Frances Corner’s successor to learn from mistakes made over the last 6 years and change course. #UCU #UKHE

ucucommons.org/2025/10/06/c...

Cutting Corners: a message to the next Vice Chancellor at Goldsmiths

On 1 October 2025, a short announcement was put on Goldsmiths’ website to say that Vice Chancellor Frances Corner was stepping down with immediate effect. This came off the back of an announcement …

ucucommons.org

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British History Online @bho.bsky.social · 34m

Bulletin of the John Rylands Library goes #OpenAccess

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2025/10...

#History 🗃️

BJRL Goes Open Access: Professor Carsten Timmermann on Manchester's Medical History - Manchester University Press

BJRL 87:1 is now Open Access on Manchesterhive.

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk

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The Material Culture of Wills Project @materialwills.bsky.social · 2h

There's still time to grab your ticket for a FREE 'WILLS PROJECT' EVENT

Join @lsangha.bsky.social & musician Chris Hoban this Saturday for a FREE performance of history & music inspired by #EarlyModern wills 📜🎵

📍Exeter Phoenix
📅Sat 11 Oct
🕐13.30

Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/stories-an...

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 2h

Emily's paper is today! DM me for a link to join online.

#EarlyModern 🗃️

Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 20h

📢REMINDER: CEMS SEMINAR TOMORROW📢

Can't wait to hear @emilymayvine.bsky.social discuss her new monograph:

Dr Emily Vine (Exeter), 'Birth, Death, and Domestic Religion in early modern London'.

📅Weds 8 Oct, 2.30-4pm.
📍Exeter Uni, Forum Seminar Room 5 / Teams.
#EarlyModern 🗃️

DM me for the link!

This paper will share some key findings from Emily's recently published book, Birth, Death, and Domestic Religion in early modern London. Early modern London has long been recognised as a centre of religious diversity, yet the role of the home as the setting of religious practice for all faiths has been largely overlooked. In contrast, the book offers the first examination of domestic religion in London during a period of intense religious change, between the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 and the Gordon Riots of 1780. It considers both Christian and Jewish practices, comparing the experiences of Catholics, Sephardi and Ashkenazi Jews, Huguenots, and conforming and nonconforming Protestants alike. Through its focus on the crowded metropolis as a place where households of different faiths coexisted, this study explores how religious communities operated beyond and in parallel to places of public worship. It demonstrates how families of different faiths experienced childbirth and death, arguing that homes became 'permeable' settings of communal religion at critical moments of the life cycle. By focusing on practices beyond the synagogue, meeting house, or church, this book demonstrates the vitality of collective devotion and kinship throughout the long eighteenth century.

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Ecclesiastical History Society @eccleshistsoc.bsky.social · 3h

📚 Love church #history? Join the Ecclesiastical History Society and connect with scholars, resources, and conversations that shape our understanding of the past.

Membership includes journal access, events & more!

🔗 ecclesiasticalhistorysociety.com/membership/a... #ChurchHistory #Skystorians

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 3h

old skool 🔥

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 3h

'It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense. It would be a description without meaning—as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.'

Albert Einstein, from Max Born, Physik im Wandel meiner Zeit (Braunschweig: Vieweg, 1966).

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Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social · 4h

I want to tell all students of the so-called 'rip-off degrees' named below that your critical thinking is important and makes valid contributions to culture and society

Without your skills, we wouldn't be able to unpack toxic discourses and do something about them

Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 4h

This makes me so angry. These people view all life as training for lifelong servitude/work. There's no room for interest, enjoyment, and culture in their bleak vision of education. At least she'll never be in power to see it through. Though Reform are probably worse.

Badenoch: Curb students taking "rip-off" degrees such as English. The performing arts, sociology and anthropology are among the subjects the Conservatives would like to cut

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Rosemary Griggs @ragriggsauthor.bsky.social · 3h

I spy mermaids playing harps. Chair in Totnes museum.

#woodcarvingwednesday #woodensday

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 4h

Nice post! Thanks for sharing. I'd forgotten about the underwater theory...

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Stephen Gregg @shgregg.bsky.social · 4h

I love this bit of animal history - and wrote about Defoe’s thoughts on ‘our summer friends’. shgregg.com/2012/04/26/o...

Our Summer Friends the Swallows

It is a nice coincidence that I’m thinking about a scene concerning the migration of swallows in Defoe’s A Tour Thro’ the Whole Island of Great Britain just at the time when the swallows are return…

shgregg.com

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 4h

reminder that until quite recently, we thought that our summer visitors actually spent their winters being torpid in caves 🪶

Gilbert White @gilbertwhite.bsky.social · 2d

1776: Numbers of swallows & martins playing about at Faringdon, & settling on the trees. If hirundines hide in rocks & caverns, how do they, while torpid, avoid being eaten by weasels & other vermin?

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Sarah-Maria Schober @smschober.bsky.social · 17h

Want to work on the history of hair? I am looking for a doc and postdoc to join my project team researching #earlymodern hair, race, trade and multispecies history at the University of Lucerne.

Do apply and spread the word!

www.unilu.ch/en/universit...

www.unilu.ch/en/universit...

PhD position in History (100%, 4 years) - Vacancies - University of Lucerne

Assistant or doctoral positions, employment or internship: Looking for a job at the University of Lucerne? Find our listed open positions and apprenticeships here.

www.unilu.ch

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 17h

You are very welcome! It's a great article.

Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 18h

Perhaps we could recommend to the vendor: Hannah Lee, "Serving as Ornament: The Representation of African People in Early Modern British Interiors and Gardens", British Art Studies, Issue 21, doi.org/10.17658/iss...

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 18h

Thanks. And yes, but sadly Brooks Ghosts do also have a rolling toe and thick flat sole as well - that's the style I am trying to avoid.

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 19h

I suppose I could try trail shoes but my current older pair are so stiff & uncomfortable. Seems every brand has stopped selling older styles completely, but surely I can't be the only one who wants to connect with the ground under my feet and not feel like I am tipping off the end of my shoes?

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 19h

They look super light, great, but still have that 'roll' on the toe by the looks of it? I've been wearing these On Cloudflow the past few years but the latest update is super uncomfortable and feels so unnatural because of the curve on the sole.

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 19h

With a sole that has a pronounced curve so your foot 'rocks' - often with a really 'stacked' sole so the whole thing looks like a clown's shoe and gives you zero feel for the ground.

runrepeat.com/uk/guides/al...

All you need to know about rockered running shoes

Only a short while ago, running shoes had a simple design: mostly flat with

runrepeat.com

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 19h

can anyone recommed some running shoes that aren't rockered? i'm having no luck at all trying to find some. 👟

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 20h

📢REMINDER: CEMS SEMINAR TOMORROW📢

Can't wait to hear @emilymayvine.bsky.social discuss her new monograph:

Dr Emily Vine (Exeter), 'Birth, Death, and Domestic Religion in early modern London'.

📅Weds 8 Oct, 2.30-4pm.
📍Exeter Uni, Forum Seminar Room 5 / Teams.
#EarlyModern 🗃️

DM me for the link!

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