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Dr Nicole Willson

@nlwillson.bsky.social

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Haiti/Black Atlantic scholar, poet and mummy. Passionate about public heritage and outreach, collabs and excavating the histories of Haiti's rebel women. AHRC CATALYST BUILDING A BLACK NATION COMMENCING FALL 2025. https://linktr.ee/fanmrebel.

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Dr Nicole Willson @nlwillson.bsky.social · Jul 31

NEWS KLAXON 📢📢📢
I’m delighted to announce that I’ve been awarded a major AHRC Catalyst award for my project “Building a Black Nation: Haitian Dynasties of the (Long) Nineteenth Century”.

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Dr Nicole Willson @nlwillson.bsky.social · 3d

TFW you wake up with the “thousand pies” song in your head from Octonauts and the Great Barrier Reef.

Dr Nicole Willson @nlwillson.bsky.social · 22d

Going to hospital four times in two weeks is four times too many.

Dr Nicole Willson @nlwillson.bsky.social · 24d

I shudder at the very thought of it. What times we’re living through.

Dr Nicole Willson @nlwillson.bsky.social · 24d

That’s awful. I hope your friend is okay. Solidarity and love to them.

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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 26d

In the 1950s-60s, British fascists, such as Oswald Mosley, were invited to speak at various university campuses. They used these invitations to portray themselves as part of a legitimate debate (while also courting infamy), but their speeches were often opposed.

hatfulofhistory.com/2021/06/06/w...

When the fascists went to university (and the campaigns to keep them out)

Recently there have been several mentions of Oswald Mosley being invited to speak at universities in the early 1960s. One from a piece in The Times opining for the ‘lost days of campus free s…

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TheParisAngel @theparisangel.bsky.social · 25d

I mean, call me a Loony Lefty if you want, but it *is* starting to look a bit weird arresting disabled pensioners protesting peacefully one day and telling coked up bellends attacking you to “calm down” another day the same month.

Obviously, just my opinion. I might have got it wrong.

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 25d

Today people went around my neighborhood in north east London spray painting St George’s crosses onto people’s homes. Many of these houses have non British people living in them.

This is getting very dark, very quick.

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 25d

Meme; far right extremist shoots another far right extremists and then says "Why did trans people do this?"

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Dr Nicole Willson @nlwillson.bsky.social · 25d

My friend was travelling in from Bromley, where there was a flag waving maniac stood outside the station with a BB gun and accosting every black and brown person who passed him. She reported to BTP and they said they’d had hundreds of reports like hers.

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Dr Nicole Willson @nlwillson.bsky.social · 26d

I really hope not either 😩

Dr Nicole Willson @nlwillson.bsky.social · 26d

With the recent news about Greenwich and Kent I think this is honestly what they think the solution is.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 26d

UCL, Kings and LSE are so close you can walk between all three without finishing your coffee. Which one of you is closing your history department then, lads?

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Dr Nicole Willson @nlwillson.bsky.social · 27d

Can anyone on here recommend an audio transcription platform (I don’t mind it not being free but don’t have a budget for a person to do it right now, because the audio is 1h long and that would be £££) that transcribes in Haitian Kreyòl?

Dr Nicole Willson @nlwillson.bsky.social · 27d

are more centred in these discussions? Not always the case of course, but I would think very much the case in this institutional example.

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Dr Nicole Willson @nlwillson.bsky.social · 27d

I guess in the context of the graffiti (a radical act of defiance/subversion done in isolation) there is no opportunity for dialogue about what might be wrong with its messaging (before that act has taken place). In the case of a cultural institution, there is, and ethics of care and community…

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Nikita Gill @nikitagill.bsky.social · 27d

Today’s discovery is everyone who was too scared to speak up about against fascism or genocide has found their voice when condemning the death of a far right figure.

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Dr Nicole Willson @nlwillson.bsky.social · 27d

Thank you David. It never rains but it pours!

Dr Nicole Willson @nlwillson.bsky.social · 27d

I’m not very good at looking after myself, I’m told!

Dr Nicole Willson @nlwillson.bsky.social · 27d

Thank you!

Dr Nicole Willson @nlwillson.bsky.social · 27d

Thanks Rebecca! Timing is terrible with the start of my new project, but when is there ever a good time for these things to happen?!

Dr Nicole Willson @nlwillson.bsky.social · 27d

What a wild week. In and out of A&E and urgent care with a fractured leg and suspected thrombosis. I would say “stick a fork in me, I’m done”, but please don’t as I am now on blood thinners.

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Dr Nicole Willson @nlwillson.bsky.social · Aug 27

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Dr Nicole Willson @nlwillson.bsky.social · Aug 1

Thank you Miranda!! Would love to have you involved!

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Dr Nicole Willson @nlwillson.bsky.social · Aug 1

😂 going to make this my auto reply.

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · Aug 1

Again and again the press runs these numbers, and again and again they fail to point out that the foreign-born prison population is LOWER than the native-born, proportionally.

Because if they stated that basic fact, they wouldn't have a story, because the only story they want is "racism is right".

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · Aug 1

Over 11 million people were born abroad: more than 1 in 6 (ONS)

The Times is conflating "foreign-born" and "foreigners" when approx 4/10 people born abroad are British citizens now. (Oxford)

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