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Samantha :) @samanthabarker.bsky.social · 28d

Some images from my visit to the Vivienne Westwood exhibition in Liverpool, would highly recommend!

Black knee length tunic dress with silk shirt underneath. The green pattern at the bottom of the dress was done by Keith Haring.

Short black dress with four buttons on the bust and small white ruffles around the neckline.

Men’s navy blue tartan suit with gold buttons and matching flat cap hat.

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Soul Source - Northern Soul & Beyond @soulsource.bsky.social · Aug 17

BBC Almost Grown Music & Culture Northern Soul 1990 - www.soul-source.co.uk/videosdirect...
Broadcast around 1990,
includes clips from previous BBC programmes - Something Else - Skelmersdale and Omnibus (1978)
#northernsoul #video #soulsource

BBC Almost Grown Music & Culture Northern Soul 1990

Broadcast around 1990, this programme covers Ska, Reggae, Northern Soul, Punk, New Romantics, Hip Hop & Rave and more.This section features Reggae, Northern Soul, Old Skool Hip Hop, Breakdancing and.....

www.soul-source.co.uk

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Samantha :) @samanthabarker.bsky.social · Jul 28

Whilst on my holiday in Milan, I got to visit the Giorgio Armani Museum, and wow those dresses were dreamy! #fashion #museum #giorgioarmani #armani

Two Armani dresses, one blue and one orange

Extreme close up of embroidery on a dress

1920s, flapper style dress in black with beading

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Samantha :) @samanthabarker.bsky.social · Jul 11

Unintentionally taken my cat’s LinkedIn headshots this morning

Brown and white Tom Cat stood on grass meowing

Samantha :) @samanthabarker.bsky.social · Jul 4

My third and final day in London took me to @lselibrary.bsky.social to visit their newspaper clipping collections on fashion, art and homosexual community publications. What a fascinating end to my first official archive trip of my PhD!

Collection of newspaper clippings on a table relating to fashion in the 20th century

Two boxes and a notebook on a table with a pencil in its spine

Samantha :) @samanthabarker.bsky.social · Jul 3

Day two has landed my in @bishopsgateinst.bsky.social which holds a wonderful collection of ephemera relating to queer lives, plus the friendly and helpful staff made it a real joy to visit!

Collection of flies and a notebook (open) on a red table

The inside of the Bishopsgate institute. Lots of tables and chairs with pride flags

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Samantha :) @samanthabarker.bsky.social · Jul 3

@annaannawalsh.bsky.social knew it!

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Samantha :) @samanthabarker.bsky.social · Jul 3

Started my research trip this week with a visit to @queerbritain.bsky.social a powerful, thoughtfully curated space.

Inspiring and essential, it centres voices too often left out of the national story. The exhibitions offer rich insight into the UK’s LGBTQ+ history, activism, and everyday life.

A leather jacket with badges on. Covered with campaign badges, this jacket 'belongs' to Kate Charlesworth's cartoon character Auntie Studs.

The letter of the founding members of stonewall

Photographs of pride events. These particular look at the support gay communities gave miners in the 1980s.

Photograph of the first gay pride - The UK's first Gay Pride march went from Trafalgar Square to Hyde Park.

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David Desi Pubs Dason @davidjesudason.bsky.social · Jun 30

My theory that I can write no matter the circumstance is being tested by brain fog caused by heat

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Letterboxd @letterboxd.social · Jun 29

Masculin Féminin (1966)🧡

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Samantha :) @samanthabarker.bsky.social · Jun 27

I have had the most amazing time at my first @batw.bsky.social conference for the last three days!

My project, Soulful South Yorkshire: Tracing African American Influence in Rotherham's Northern Soul Movement looked at the transatlantic connection of African American music in the movement #batw2025

Chicken dinner on a white plate with potatoes and broccoli

Woman stood in front of some stairs with red carpet

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Samantha :) @samanthabarker.bsky.social · Jun 17

There is something about being on a train at golden hour that soothes the brain

Photo taken from the inside of a train out of the window showing tracks and countryside as the sun is setting

Photo taken from the inside of a train out of the window showing tracks the sun setting over some houses

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Deirdre O'Shaughnessy @deshocks.bsky.social · Jun 16

I might be getting a bit paranoid in my middle age but are the seagulls gone absolutely demented over the past few days or is it just me?

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · Jun 13

more crime in america

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · Jun 12

Transportation Sec Sean Duffy today. At least Zelensky wore socks.

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Samantha :) @samanthabarker.bsky.social · Jun 7

Great to attend the ‘Difficult Histories’ conference at the University of Liverpool yesterday, hosted by @livunihss.bsky.social and @ihr.bsky.social.

It was great to hear about the many ways to approach history, from oral testimonies and natural specimens, and the opportunities from the IHR! ✨

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Samantha :) @samanthabarker.bsky.social · Jun 3

Look at that filing system, this image is my office inspiration photo!

Wendy O'Rourke @wendyo.bsky.social · Jun 2

Monday

1960s woman sitting in an office setting holding the reciever of a white rotary phone. Multi-colored binders are behind her and there's a cup of tea in front of her. The image is from a German Euro Color postcard printed in Italy.

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Samantha :) @samanthabarker.bsky.social · May 25

Been diving deep into Northern Soul lately - a northern subculture with serious style. Seen loads of ads for “baggies”: ultra-wide trousers (think 36-inch hems!) made for spinning on the dancefloor. Yesterday I wore my first pair. Felt like I time-traveled straight back to the ’70s! 🕺✨ #northernsoul

An advert for northern soul clothing including baggies and jackets, found in the New Musical Express, August 31st, 1974

A northern soul suit made by Keith Mallinson, a Rotherham based tailor. The V&A states: Northern Soul was a music style that gave expression in its very own particular fashion. American Soul musicians found a warm welcome in England in the 1970s, especially in the northern cities of Wigan, Wolverhampton and Nottingham. This suit was worn by Soul enthusiast Peter Davies to Samantha’s Soul Club in Sheffield. Keith Mallinson of Rotherham made the suit especially for him. The suit’s high-collared shirt, with four buttons, was worn under the customised jacket. The outfits were modified to accommodate the energetic, sometimes frantic dancing which accompanied the music.

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Samantha :) @samanthabarker.bsky.social · Apr 24

This week I completed my first solo research trip to London (as someone terrified of public transport this was a personal victory) - I split my time between Bethnal Green, a little trip around Parliament and a fascinating look at The Face exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery

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Dr Amy Fuller @amyfuller.bsky.social · Apr 18

At what point are we going to define what a man is?

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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · Apr 18

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Why do I say Abolish Sex

Why do I say "Abolish Sex"

The purpose of this new blog is to expand on my previous feminist writing over on Medium and lay out what I hope will be a workable set of principles which articulate a feminist perspective on trans p...

abolish-sex.ghost.io

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Wendy O'Rourke @wendyo.bsky.social · Apr 16

Ducks are cool.

1970s Image of a woman sitting next to a white duck on a park bench. She's wearing a green dress with a white duck print and green tights.

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Liverpool John Moores University @ljmuofficial.bsky.social · Apr 14

Liverpool ONE has teamed up with our LJMU Fashion Communication students for a special headwear exhibition on Paradise Street. From flat caps to fascinators, explore Liverpool’s iconic styles through the ages—on display until the end of May.

Read more ➡️ www.ljmu.ac.uk/about-us/new...

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · Apr 10

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.

-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.

Original 1925 jacket cover of The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby
Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate a marvellous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period which reveals a hero like no other one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts.
"There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life. ..
It was an
extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again?"
It is the story of this Jay Gatsby who came so mysteriously to West Egg, of his sumptuous er-tertainments, and of his love for Daisy Buchanan a story that ranges from pure lyrical beauty to sheer brutal realism, and is infused with a sense of the strangeness of human circumstance in a heedless universe.
It is a magical, living book, blended of irony, romance, and mysticism.
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
The
GREAT GATSBY
FITZGERALD

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Samantha :) @samanthabarker.bsky.social · Apr 10

This is fascinating!!

Humanities & Social Sciences, UoL @livunihss.bsky.social · Apr 9

Challenging ageism and exploring ageing and identity, Prof Susan Pickard and the Centre for Ageing and the Life Course use the works of Simone de Beauvoir to re-evaluate society's views on ageing, advocating for recognition of the full humanity of older adults. www.liverpool.ac.uk/sociology-so...

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Samantha :) @samanthabarker.bsky.social · Apr 8

This afternoon I have my one year review for PhD - am I nervous? Yes. Have I done as much prep as I can? Yes. Have I had a good breakfast? It's a big yes now!
The Anglican cathedral is an underrated spot if you're ever in Liverpool!

A photograph of a breakfast on a white plate, a coffee cup and saucer and a glass bottle of sparkling water. On the plate is eggs benedict with mushrooms added! This is all on a wooden table situated in the sunshine

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