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Ollie Douglas @olliedouglas.bsky.social · 10h

We develop amazing attachments to place. It took me years to work up the courage to take my kids to visit the farm I grew up on (we left there just as I hit my teens).

As for the tote, we have a very scruffy one at home. It makes me think about work!

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Ollie Douglas @olliedouglas.bsky.social · 20h

Thoughts with you.

I spy an @themerl.bsky.social tote bag there!

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Ollie Douglas @olliedouglas.bsky.social · 22h

We should all read this and then read it again.

Kubobukata @kubobukata.bsky.social · 22h

The Oatmeal, y'all.

theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal

This is a comic about AI art.

theoatmeal.com

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Ollie Douglas @olliedouglas.bsky.social · 5d

Latest episode folks. With thanks to @katrinanavickas.bsky.social and @joevaughan.net for general awesomeness!

The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 6d

New Absolute Units is live!

Join us and @katrinanavickas.bsky.social as we explore resistance to enclosure in the modern era: from riots, to raves, to Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.

Listen below, or search 'Absolute Units' wherever you get your podcasts!

merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...

Absolute Units - a podcast from The Museum of English Rural Life.

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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 6d

New Absolute Units is live!

Join us and @katrinanavickas.bsky.social as we explore resistance to enclosure in the modern era: from riots, to raves, to Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.

Listen below, or search 'Absolute Units' wherever you get your podcasts!

merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...

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Nicola Chester @nicolawriting.bsky.social · 8d

It’s book publication day for #GhostsoftheFarm! It’s been a lifetime’s companionable & instructional haunting, & I’m thrilled to bring these women from out the shadows, honour them & raise & address my own rural ghosts. Love & thanks to @chelseagreenbooks.bsky.social & my early readers too x

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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 12d

Our new season of free online art talks begins next week!

Join our friends at the University of Reading Art Collection (@unirdg-artcol.bsky.social) on the eve of Thurs 2 October for a Zoom call with Dr Henrietta Hammant.

Book online: merl.reading.ac.uk/event/conver...

Closer Look: Conversations with a Curator - The Museum of English Rural Life

Join us for our second season of exciting free online talks, where you’ll get the chance to dive deep into the world of art with our expert curators, conservators and scholars. Discover the stories be...

merl.reading.ac.uk

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Ollie Douglas @olliedouglas.bsky.social · 15d

This fine point is why I will never completely discount retrospective diagnosis. But to be fair to the wise historians who criticise it, this its value is rarely in producing better histories and much more about emphasising how the past can be mobilised in the present. Or indeed weaponised.

John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 15d

People say "autism never used to exist" and then you go to the Natural History Museum and the exhibit has a caption like "Born in 1762, The Revd [name] was famously irascible, steadfast in his routine, and dedicated his life to collecting 25,000 rare beetle specimens".

Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 15d

Fundamentally, the headbanging Right doesn't believe Autism (or ADHD) exists. Or in so far as it does exist, a human conspiracy has created it.

We're back to their core outlook that 'It didn't exist back in the good old days so can't exist now.'

'It must just be some modern woke Marxist nonsense'.

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Ollie Douglas @olliedouglas.bsky.social · 16d

Thank you!

Ollie Douglas @olliedouglas.bsky.social · 16d

Sounds awesome!

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Ollie Douglas @olliedouglas.bsky.social · 16d

I think we spoke briefly about the Wilderness at Whiteknights (please don’t judge my nonsense Katy - any rubbish I might spout is mine and mine alone!). :-)

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Ollie Douglas @olliedouglas.bsky.social · 16d

Also, teach-outs are a brilliant idea. Maybe we should host teach-outs at The MERL?!

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Ollie Douglas @olliedouglas.bsky.social · 16d

Is this impact?! Thanks for listening.

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Ollie Douglas @olliedouglas.bsky.social · 19d

The book is brilliant. An absolute must read!

Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 20d

I'm so proud to be on the MERL podcast, where I'll be discussing the opening chapters of my new book, which you can preorder now:
reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/contest...

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Ollie Douglas @olliedouglas.bsky.social · 20d

Thanks Ian!

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Ollie Douglas @olliedouglas.bsky.social · 20d

Looks (and sounds) amazing!

Ollie Douglas @olliedouglas.bsky.social · 20d

This one’s a good one. I would say that, of course, but @katrinanavickas.bsky.social is brilliant and her new book is a must read! Thanks as always to the brilliant @joevaughan.net.

The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 20d

New Absolute Units is live!

Join special guest @katrinanavickas.bsky.social as we delve into the commons: the history of shared resources, the historical forces that encroached upon them, and the fight to get them back.

Listen now wherever you get your podcasts.
merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...

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Ollie Douglas @olliedouglas.bsky.social · 20d

Brilliant. Paging @joevaughan.net for future potential podcastery!

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Ollie Douglas @olliedouglas.bsky.social · 20d

As I said to Jane, it would be amazing to get one of you on our podcast at some point to talk about the project and to highlight any juicy rural micro histories you have come across (that last bit is wishful thinking on my part, but someone has to be handing on their livestock, surely!)

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Ollie Douglas @olliedouglas.bsky.social · 20d

I just spotted that he was seated beside the Prime Minister at the state banquet. Wealth and influence.

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Ollie Douglas @olliedouglas.bsky.social · 26d

He giveth and he taketh away. But by the sound of things, mostly taketh.

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Ollie Douglas @olliedouglas.bsky.social · 26d

Is this the same Schwarzman who paid for the big new Humanities centre in Oxford?

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Ollie Douglas @olliedouglas.bsky.social · 26d

Another crossover would be awesome. I propose a movie or console game:

A dystopian future in which a small but dedicated band of (mutant) historians in spandex attempt to collect a record of agricultural change but are thwarted by a sinister regime hellbent on controlling (mutants and) heritage.

Ollie Douglas @olliedouglas.bsky.social · 26d

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tudorfarming.bsky.social @tudorfarming.bsky.social · Aug 20

Looking at the wills and inventories from the 16th century and came across this item "Item ix pere of shites xs". Pretty sure it refers to sheets but you never know...

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Ollie Douglas @olliedouglas.bsky.social · 26d

During a fascinating chat I got my recent will-related socials confused and told her I thought I had seen the project sharing an amusing message about ‘shites’. Turns out it was @tudorfarming.bsky.social!

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