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Londonist @londonist.com · 7h

We've just done a major update to the map of London bookswaps -- 25 new locations and lots of photos. Is there a free bookswap near you that we've missed? londonist.com/london/maps/...

A Map Of London Bookswaps

Little Libraries around the capital | Londonist.

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Michelle Gwynn @michgreig.bsky.social · 1d

Brilliant - thanks. It is outside the remit of my research, but would be good for me to get a better understanding.

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Michelle Gwynn @michgreig.bsky.social · 1d

Have you any reading on it you could shove my way? Thanks for this!

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Michelle Gwynn @michgreig.bsky.social · 1d

ha ha! Yeah. I remember that being called out at the time though.

Michelle Gwynn @michgreig.bsky.social · 1d

And the acceptance of it, the normalisation of it.

Michelle Gwynn @michgreig.bsky.social · 1d

....i've never thought about animals getting lost in the smog before.

Michelle Gwynn @michgreig.bsky.social · 1d

Last story. London Smog, 1950s woman walking to pub, can only see a few feet in front. Hears her footsteps & heavy breathing. Freaks out, begins to speed up, panting intensifies, gets to the pub, runs in terrified - turns around - panting was the pubs dog that was lost and following her to the pub.

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Michelle Gwynn @michgreig.bsky.social · 1d

I was told it was because they were catholic and couldnt divorce, but I guess you get told what the community needs to hear. It is interesting thought that it was totally accepted.

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Michelle Gwynn @michgreig.bsky.social · 1d

Also, interesting chat about a boy in the fella's street who had two dad's in the 1960s - it was because they were catholic and the first husband was missing in action, the wife remarried, then the husband resurfaced. They all lived together in a flat and got on really well. Anyone heard similar?

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Michelle Gwynn @michgreig.bsky.social · 1d

Had a long conversation today about when Butchers stopped putting sawdust on the floor. I think it was the 1980s. I remember it in rough bars as well in the 1980s, shuffling in with it on my shoes and getting dragged out. It was the 1980s wasnt it?

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Colm Murphy @colmpm.bsky.social · 1d

*Calling PhD students of modern British and imperial history in London*

The @ihrbritainseminar.bsky.social's first session this Thursday (9 Oct.) is dedicated to PhDs, at any stage, for elevator pitches and meet-and-greet. Do come along! Details in the link.

www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

New PhD Student Session

For the first session of term we will be hosting a meet and greet at the IHR for all PhD students in modern British and imperial history.

www.history.ac.uk

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Jon Patience @smoulderstoat.bsky.social · 2d

Blimey, the French media didn't even have time to pop down to Carrefour for a lettuce.

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Michelle Gwynn @michgreig.bsky.social · 2d

After 2 weeks of being sneezed on by a boy, then by an adult selfish bellend - I am now also ill and considering packing a bag, hitching my skirts and heading to the hills, never to be sneezed on again. If anyone needs me, today I shall mainly be snorting lines of lemsip and seething.

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Michelle Gwynn @michgreig.bsky.social · 3d

I'm onboard with that. Preferably in his sharpe era

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Michelle Gwynn @michgreig.bsky.social · 3d

Ha ha ha whaaaaat?

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Michelle Gwynn @michgreig.bsky.social · 3d

I wrote 80 per cent of my MA at working mens clubs and sticky surfaced trampoline and soft play. My son is now a bit older, I'm not required to wipe kids noses and I'm delighted to be writing the PhD when waiting on him in places with spritzers, waiter service and heating. Result.

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Society for the Study of Labour History @sslh.bsky.social · 3d

We offer #bursaries up to £900 for PhD students, post-graduate researchers and independent scholars engaged in postgraduate-level research in the field of labour history to fund essential archive or library research. Find out more sslh.org.uk/bursaries-gr...

Bursaries

The Society for the Study of Labour History offers financial support to PhD students, post-graduate researchers and independent scholars engaged in postgraduate-level research, as well as to BA and…

sslh.org.uk

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Society for the Study of Labour History @sslh.bsky.social · 3d

We offer #bursaries up to £500 for final-year undergraduates or taught Masters students to support archival and library research that will contribute to a dissertation on a labour history. Find out more sslh.org.uk/bursaries-gr...

Bursaries

The Society for the Study of Labour History offers financial support to PhD students, post-graduate researchers and independent scholars engaged in postgraduate-level research, as well as to BA and…

sslh.org.uk

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Michelle Gwynn @michgreig.bsky.social · 3d

Found out yesterday that the LDDC got a payphone call from Broadmoor during the 1980s over this youtu.be/EVdOrAZ73Dw?...

LDDC Crows 3

YouTube video by Dave Trott

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Michelle Gwynn @michgreig.bsky.social · 4d

At a conference & utterly absorbed in a speech by an elderly gentleman (it was genuinely riveting) in which he overshot by 10 mins, got a warning, carried on, by the second warning responded: "I'll finish when I finish dear boy, this is interesting stuff" Damn right. Content & attitude was en point

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Michelle Gwynn @michgreig.bsky.social · 4d

Off on a detour as trains being cancelled. Two teenage girls got on 11 minutes ago and have been talking at each other non stop & I genuinely can't figure out when either of them are taking breaths. I'm hyperventilating just listening. It's genuinely impressive. They should be deep sea free divers.

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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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Michelle Gwynn @michgreig.bsky.social · 5d

As Tim Burton argued... NOooooo, Tim Burrows Tim Burrows. Find and Replace 4. Bloody Hell. I almost let that through. Although Tim Burton may have some amazing insights into Essex. Highly reccomend The Invention of Essex by Burrows through. And Pee Wee's Big Adventure.

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ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk · 5d

In memoriam...

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Andy Aydın-Aitchison @andy8chi.bsky.social · 5d

Thinking of a Social Science PhD in Scotland?

Need funding?

@sgsss.bsky.social open-competition details are available here, and it's worth linking up with departments and potential supervisors already.

www.sgsss.ac.uk/studentships...

#PhDchat #SocSciSky

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Student-led Open Competition 2024/25 - Scottish Graduate School of Social Science

SGSSS STUDENT-LED OPEN COMPETITION 2025/26 THE 25/26 CALL IS NOW OPEN FOR ELIGIBLE APPLICANTS The Scottish Graduate School of Social Science is delighted to announce the launch of the Student-Led Open...

www.sgsss.ac.uk

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