Sue Jones
@suejonze.bsky.social
Usually lurking by the water. Knows some stuff about early modern piracy, among other things.
Thames or Humber
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People who aspire to be academics: I wish to live a life of the mind
Actual academics:
Actual academics:
I have a weird question for the #bird people on here. Do you think someone could tell that a book was pooped on specifically by a sparrowhawk (or perhaps hawks generally) just from the feces? I'm looking at a 16th c. case where witnesses claim books were pooped on specifically by sparrowhawks!
December 18, 2025 at 3:34 PM
People who aspire to be academics: I wish to live a life of the mind
Actual academics:
Actual academics:
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Don't steal pies this Christmas.
December 16, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Don't steal pies this Christmas.
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Loving this. "Antirender" engine converts architects presentation drawings into the likely reality of the designs :)
antirender.com
antirender.com
December 15, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Loving this. "Antirender" engine converts architects presentation drawings into the likely reality of the designs :)
antirender.com
antirender.com
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‘A sound archivist told me he and his colleagues could earn more in the private sector but they work here for less pay because “we believe in what we do.”’
Anna Aslanyan on the picket line at the British Library, from the blog.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...
Anna Aslanyan on the picket line at the British Library, from the blog.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...
Anna Aslanyan | On the Picket Line
On Monday morning, more than a hundred people formed a picket line outside one of the entrances to the British Library...
www.lrb.co.uk
December 11, 2025 at 12:10 PM
‘A sound archivist told me he and his colleagues could earn more in the private sector but they work here for less pay because “we believe in what we do.”’
Anna Aslanyan on the picket line at the British Library, from the blog.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...
Anna Aslanyan on the picket line at the British Library, from the blog.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...
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I gave up and started writing about the end of the world owen-booth.com/2025/12/07/h...
How the World Ends #53: Ghosts
The world ends when the spirits of the unforgotten dead grow so huge in number that there’s no room left for the living. Nobody knows why. The list of ghosts includes: The ghosts of everyone who ev…
owen-booth.com
December 8, 2025 at 5:11 PM
I gave up and started writing about the end of the world owen-booth.com/2025/12/07/h...
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Reading Rooms at the British Library are closed *all week* because so many of its workers refuse to work for pitiful wages in a contemptuously authoritarian and obliviously managed environment.
We need leaders who get it and are big enough to sort it out!
It’s a mess and a disgrace.
Lift it up!!
We need leaders who get it and are big enough to sort it out!
It’s a mess and a disgrace.
Lift it up!!
December 8, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Reading Rooms at the British Library are closed *all week* because so many of its workers refuse to work for pitiful wages in a contemptuously authoritarian and obliviously managed environment.
We need leaders who get it and are big enough to sort it out!
It’s a mess and a disgrace.
Lift it up!!
We need leaders who get it and are big enough to sort it out!
It’s a mess and a disgrace.
Lift it up!!
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5/12/25 - nocturn
December 5, 2025 at 7:27 PM
5/12/25 - nocturn
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British Library workers withdraw their labour again!
Mon 8th to Sun 14th!
Improved offers (“we have no money”) are inadequate!
Fair demands for fair(er) pay are reiterated!
Please support the strike!
Cancel / postpone!
Visit the picket (in Midland Road)!
If you are a Reader please join for a chat!
Mon 8th to Sun 14th!
Improved offers (“we have no money”) are inadequate!
Fair demands for fair(er) pay are reiterated!
Please support the strike!
Cancel / postpone!
Visit the picket (in Midland Road)!
If you are a Reader please join for a chat!
December 5, 2025 at 10:41 AM
British Library workers withdraw their labour again!
Mon 8th to Sun 14th!
Improved offers (“we have no money”) are inadequate!
Fair demands for fair(er) pay are reiterated!
Please support the strike!
Cancel / postpone!
Visit the picket (in Midland Road)!
If you are a Reader please join for a chat!
Mon 8th to Sun 14th!
Improved offers (“we have no money”) are inadequate!
Fair demands for fair(er) pay are reiterated!
Please support the strike!
Cancel / postpone!
Visit the picket (in Midland Road)!
If you are a Reader please join for a chat!
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In 2019 a group of Bolivian indigenous women aka the “Climbing Cholitas” summitted Mount Aconcagua, Argentina (highest point - Southern Hemisphere) The women had previously worked for years as cooks for mostly rich male mountaineers. They climbed in traditional dress #WomensArt
December 5, 2025 at 6:18 AM
In 2019 a group of Bolivian indigenous women aka the “Climbing Cholitas” summitted Mount Aconcagua, Argentina (highest point - Southern Hemisphere) The women had previously worked for years as cooks for mostly rich male mountaineers. They climbed in traditional dress #WomensArt
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2/12/25 - nocturn
December 2, 2025 at 6:21 PM
2/12/25 - nocturn
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Are you a PhD student & interested in using museum collections in your teaching or research?
We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.
Find out more:
collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/
We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.
Find out more:
collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/
November 25, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Are you a PhD student & interested in using museum collections in your teaching or research?
We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.
Find out more:
collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/
We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.
Find out more:
collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/
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24/11/25 - nocturn
November 24, 2025 at 7:25 PM
24/11/25 - nocturn
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The judges asked Thiess why he had become a werewolf – what benefits did it bring? Thiess recalled that he took on his new identity calmly, but ‘hadn’t thought it would involve so much evil’.
@earlymodernjohn.bsky.social on a Livonian werewolf, from 2022.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@earlymodernjohn.bsky.social on a Livonian werewolf, from 2022.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
John Gallagher · Where wolf? Everyone knows I’m a werewolf
That he was a werewolf seems to have been common knowledge and Thiess himself freely admitted it – in fact, he said,...
www.lrb.co.uk
October 31, 2025 at 7:55 PM
The judges asked Thiess why he had become a werewolf – what benefits did it bring? Thiess recalled that he took on his new identity calmly, but ‘hadn’t thought it would involve so much evil’.
@earlymodernjohn.bsky.social on a Livonian werewolf, from 2022.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@earlymodernjohn.bsky.social on a Livonian werewolf, from 2022.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Dance yourself dizzy this Halloween
Happy Halloween!
We recorded the ACTUAL Dance of Death (via music from a #NewberryLibrary book c. 1650) for your listening pleasure! Read all about it while you listen to the recording in my latest blog post!
www.newberry.org/blog/spooky-...
We recorded the ACTUAL Dance of Death (via music from a #NewberryLibrary book c. 1650) for your listening pleasure! Read all about it while you listen to the recording in my latest blog post!
www.newberry.org/blog/spooky-...
October 31, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Dance yourself dizzy this Halloween
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To mark #Halloween & publication of 'The Experience of Work in #EarlyModern England', (now available in print & free online), this blogpost revisits the magiconomy.
🧙🎃
Highlights include a magical service paid for with bacon and pigeons.
🥓🪶
#history
ludicrushistories.wordpress.com/2025/10/30/t...
🧙🎃
Highlights include a magical service paid for with bacon and pigeons.
🥓🪶
#history
ludicrushistories.wordpress.com/2025/10/30/t...
The Magiconomy of Early Modern England
This post is part of a series marking the print and online Open Access (free) publication of The Experience of Work in Early Modern England. The book is co-authored by Jane Whittle, Mark Hailwood, …
ludicrushistories.wordpress.com
October 30, 2025 at 11:59 AM
To mark #Halloween & publication of 'The Experience of Work in #EarlyModern England', (now available in print & free online), this blogpost revisits the magiconomy.
🧙🎃
Highlights include a magical service paid for with bacon and pigeons.
🥓🪶
#history
ludicrushistories.wordpress.com/2025/10/30/t...
🧙🎃
Highlights include a magical service paid for with bacon and pigeons.
🥓🪶
#history
ludicrushistories.wordpress.com/2025/10/30/t...
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Save the East Midlands Parkway cooling towers!
Sign the @c20society.bsky.social petition about the Ratcliffe-on-Soar site in Nottinghamshire.
👉 www.change.org/p/save-brita...
Sign the @c20society.bsky.social petition about the Ratcliffe-on-Soar site in Nottinghamshire.
👉 www.change.org/p/save-brita...
October 8, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Save the East Midlands Parkway cooling towers!
Sign the @c20society.bsky.social petition about the Ratcliffe-on-Soar site in Nottinghamshire.
👉 www.change.org/p/save-brita...
Sign the @c20society.bsky.social petition about the Ratcliffe-on-Soar site in Nottinghamshire.
👉 www.change.org/p/save-brita...
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More of this sort of thing.
A great story about the positive effect being part of a supportive hobby can have on your mental well being.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Spalding Wargames Club putting mental health on the front line
Members of a wargaming club say the support they have been getting from the sessions are 'crucial'.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 8, 2025 at 10:00 AM
More of this sort of thing.
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7/10/25 - nocturn
October 7, 2025 at 6:50 PM
7/10/25 - nocturn
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Couple moved in next door. Old bloke lived there before had a beautiful garden. He spent every day in it. New guy ripped out everything & put fake grass in. So I've planted trees next to the boundary that will fill his lawn with dead leaves in the autumn. This one's for you Alf
October 6, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Couple moved in next door. Old bloke lived there before had a beautiful garden. He spent every day in it. New guy ripped out everything & put fake grass in. So I've planted trees next to the boundary that will fill his lawn with dead leaves in the autumn. This one's for you Alf
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Probably the loveliest thread you will read today, full of beauty and kindness and improvised owl physio
Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.
After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵
After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵
October 5, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Probably the loveliest thread you will read today, full of beauty and kindness and improvised owl physio
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