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Dr. Rachel K. Bright
@rachelkbright.bsky.social
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Digital Historian of global Britishness, empire, gender, migration, labour. Keele University Senior Lecturer. Social History Society committee. Deviance strand convener. She/her.
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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 14d
Great new tool from Flickr foundation - the Data Lifeboat, to package up Flickr image collections and get them out of dodge quickly, with metadata and readmes. Speaking to urgency of portability of digital cultural heritage given current times. They need some testers to play and give feedback 👇
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Flickr Foundation @flickrfdn.bsky.social · 14d
Even great code has some bugs!

Be among the first to try out our new Flickr archiving tool Data Lifeboat, and help us find those bugs! Head over to datalifeboat.flickr.org to get started.

Original images from US National Archives and State Library of NSW on Flickr Commons.
A man in a suit makes an exaggerated - possible exasperated or confused -- facial expression with eyebrows arched and and eyes looking down and to the side. Three children running and smiling in bug-like costumes that include antennae. Transcript: Calling all bug hunters! Data Lifeboat Alpha Release is live!
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Stephen Clarke @stephenclarkenz.bsky.social · 21d
Hear! Hear! Dr Holbrook 👏 theconversation.com/the-australi...
The Australian War Memorial’s prize controversy betrays the institution’s purpose: to tell the messy truth about war
Chris Masters’ book on Ben Roberts-Smith was chosen to win the Australian War Memorial’s Les Carlyon Prize for Military History. But the prize wasn’t awarded. Why?
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · Jul 1
Laser Danger

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3-panel comic. (1) PERSON WITH SHORT HAIR to Person 2: Shining laser pointers at planes is a federal crime. It’s incredibly dangerous. PERSON 2: Oh, because it can blind the pilot? SHORT HAIR: That’s one reason… (2) [Laser pointed at flying airplane] (3) [Cat close to the size of the plane pouncing on airplane and taking it down]
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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · Jun 20
Today is World Refugee Day.

✊🗃 From the archive, a podcast episode by Ria Kapoor @riakapoor.bsky.social featuring Peter Gatrell, Pual Dudman @paulvdudman.bsky.social, Heather Faulkner and Mezna Qato @meznaqato.bsky.social, on creating Refugee Archives.

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#WorldRefugeeDay
Creating Refugee Archives
How can historians and archivists best document, preserve, and make accessible the voices and artifacts of refugee and migration experience?
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Chris Lombardi @chrisblue.bsky.social · Jun 14
I can't be outside but I'll be there! Join me and other #disabled folk fighting for our rights! I'm joining at noon tomorrow! #NoKings
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Donna Stern @dvsmemphis.bsky.social · Jun 13
Join our ONLINE NO KINGS PROTEST PARTY
Saturday, Jun 14 –
Monday, Jun 16
Google Meet joining info
Video call link: meet.google.com/vbg-fadp-jxt
Meet
Real-time meetings by Google. Using your browser, share your video, desktop, and presentations with teammates and customers.
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They Might Be Giants @tmbg.bsky.social · Jun 14
There is a No Kings protest happening within hours near YOU and we will be there too. Find your closest location and do what you can to speak up against the horribleness. www.nokings.org#map This is a link to locations...
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On June 14—Flag Day—Donald Trump wants tanks in the street and a made-for-TV display of dominance for his birthday. A spectacle meant to look like strength. But real power isn’t staged in Washington. ...
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Ria Cheyne @riacheyne.bsky.social · Jun 3
Applications close 5pm tomorrow for our first research and knowledge exchange workshop at Imperial War Museums on 4th July!
If you're a neurodivergent user of archives, or work in archives and heritage (ND or not), join us to explore neurodivergent archive accessibility.
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Ria Cheyne @riacheyne.bsky.social · May 28
🔔 Neurodivergent archive accessibility workshop! 🔔
Are you a neurodivergent researcher using archives, an archivist interested in accessibility, or a neurodivergent archivist?
Apply for our first 'Divergent Minds in the Archive' workshop at Imperial War Museums, London, on 4th July!
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Dr. Rachel K. Bright @rachelkbright.bsky.social · May 28
@k8lister.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social @historyworkshop.org.uk @royalhistsoc.org @enghistrev.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social @sslh.bsky.social @historytoday.com @transimperial.bsky.social @histedsocuk.bsky.social @urbanhistorya.bsky.social
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Dr. Rachel K. Bright @rachelkbright.bsky.social · May 28
This is my cat. In other news, if you have a chronic illness or identify as disabled and are in the UK, I've just co-founded a new support group, AccessingArchives. Instagram: www.instagram.com/aarchivesnet.... You can sign up here: forms.gle/5o8m8Jy9ux4B...
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Dr. Rachel K. Bright @rachelkbright.bsky.social · May 28
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Dr. Rachel K. Bright @rachelkbright.bsky.social · May 28
This is my cat. In other news, if you have a chronic illness or identify as disabled and are in the UK, I've just co-founded a new support group, AccessingArchives. Instagram: www.instagram.com/aarchivesnet.... You can sign up here: forms.gle/5o8m8Jy9ux4B...
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Dr. Rachel K. Bright @rachelkbright.bsky.social · May 28
This is my cat. In other news, if you have a chronic illness or identify as disabled and are in the UK, I've just co-founded a new support group, AccessingArchives. Instagram: www.instagram.com/aarchivesnet.... You can sign up here: forms.gle/5o8m8Jy9ux4B...
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · May 14
The Royal Historical Society currently invites applications for 9 fellowship and funding programmes to support historical research: bit.ly/4jWMCcQ

Grants are open to historians across a range of career stages and professional backgrounds. Applications between late May and September 2025 #Skystorian
Image of bowl with a scholar, anon, c.1575-99, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, public domain. Text reads: Calls for Royal Historical Society Research Funding, May to September 2025
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · May 13
If you're working in museum collections, digital storytelling, or on projects exploring migration history, join the Migration Network on 20 May 2025, 10:00-12:30 for this online event.
Digital Journeys: Preserving & Sharing Migration Collections
Join us for our first Migration Network event dedicated to exploring collections - funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
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Dr. Rachel K. Bright @rachelkbright.bsky.social · May 12
Self-advocacy can feel like screaming into a void.'
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What Accessibility Means For A Neurodivergent Person
We experience significant barriers in the systems we engage with to meet our basic everyday needs
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Dr. Rachel K. Bright @rachelkbright.bsky.social · May 12
'When you have an invisible disability and look like everyone else, there is an onus on you... Telling people you have different or additional needs can be perceived as a sense of entitlement, as though you’re asking for special treatment...
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Yianni Cartledge @yiannicart.bsky.social · Mar 26
Our new edited book 'Forced Migration' is out in ebook form, with hardcopies coming very soon! Many thanks to my tireless co-editors @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social & @evansmithhist.bsky.social - check it out here: brill.com/display/titl...

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Forced Migration: Exiles and Refugees in the UK and the British Empire, 1815–1949
"Forced Migration: Exiles and Refugees in the UK and the British Empire, 1815–1949" published on 24 Mar 2025 by Brill.
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Dr. Rachel K. Bright @rachelkbright.bsky.social · Apr 2
I'll be your huckleberry.
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Dr. Joe Krulder @joekrulder.bsky.social · Apr 2
Hey, Adjuncts!!!
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American Historical Association @historians.org · Apr 1
The AHA seeks to collect information about the working conditions of historians employed as contingent faculty. We hope the survey results will empower faculty to engage in evidence-based negotiations about their working conditions. 🗃️
AHA Surveys: Historians Teaching Off the Tenure Track - AHA
Goals of the Surveys The Professional Division of the American Historical Association seeks to collect and collate information about the working conditions of historians employed as contingent faculty...
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · Mar 21
Interested in promoting Humanities (including Languages) as well as Arts? Here's the British Academy's take on the interim report on the DfE's curriculum review:
Curriculum Review: The case for broadening - not abolishing - EBacc
Would removing EBacc increase access to arts and other SHAPE subjects? It’s not clear that it would.
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Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · Mar 21
The UK has just increased the naturalisation fee to £1735.

In the Netherlands this costs € 1091, also v high, following a fee hike in 2010/11. This jump in costs resulted in lower naturalisation rates, especially for migrants from low-income households (7 pp).

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Application fee for a single naturalisation request in the Netherlands over time. Bar chart with strong increases in 2010 and 2011.
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Dr. Rachel K. Bright @rachelkbright.bsky.social · Mar 17
I really get how difficult it can be to focus on research and writing when there is so much happening. Through my teaching and research, if I manage nothing else, I try to emphasise nuance. Most public discussions thrive on simple binaries. The world just isn't actually like that.
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · Mar 12
As universities contract radically, academic mental health is now a serious concern. Experts in these matters recommend: say no to new work; find some meaning in what you do; look after your body and your mind. Advice below. 👇
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Dr. Rachel K. Bright @rachelkbright.bsky.social · Mar 11
Super excited that my article with Esme Cleall and Jen Kain is out. And thanks @isrfoundation.bsky.social for funding the project. academic.oup.com/migration/ar.... #MIGRATION #HISTORY
Reconsidering the history of eugenics and discrimination in migration control
Abstract. Recent work on migration has increasingly demonstrated that, in order to understand the complexity of the current border regimes, we must take th
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Tim Sherratt @wragge.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · Mar 10
The NLA's suspension of my #trove API access has been picked up in this news story from the Australian Computing Society: https://ia.acs.org.au/article/2025/national-library-cracks-down-on-public-data-access.html #glam #OpenData
National Library cracks down on public data access
Archives are throttling access to data that was supposed to be open.
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