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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 2d

If you can't see how this will end, then you're not paying attention (not least to what's going on on the other side of the Atlantic).

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

“No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” -Edward R. Murrow

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Dr Sara Lodge @victoriandetective.bsky.social · 1d

Launch day for the paperback of my book, The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective!

Humbug notes that it makes excellent bedtime reading.

Do you have a book club or local literary/historical society? I could drop by & give a talk or answer questions.

Will be doing a giveaway too.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 2d

You can have a situation with rising renewable absolute output and percentages of total (and falling emissions intensity!), but also stagnant or even rising greenhouse gas emissions: when *demand* itself is rising fast.

This is very clearly the case in Aus, and it should trigger alarm bells

IN GOOD NEWS...
Renewables overtake coal for the first time on a monthly basis in Australia's main grid!
CCLIMATE COUNCIL.ORG.AU
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. crowd-funded science information

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 2d

Who needs forests when we could turn everything into cornfields? 🤷🏻‍♂️

Outcry as Trump plots more roads and logging in US forests: ‘You can almost hear the chainsaws’

Critics say move to axe Bill Clinton’s ‘roadless rule’ that protected key old-growth forests will be devastating to environment

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Sara Lodge @victoriandetective.bsky.social · 5d

It is the AI of Sauron…

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Yale University Press London 📖 @yalebooks.bsky.social · 6d

In celebration of @victoriandetective.bsky.social’s book, The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective being shortlisted for the @wolfsonhistory.bsky.social 2025, we’re revisiting some of our prize-winning and shortlisted books — with an extract from each.
yalebooks.co.uk/celebrating-...

Celebrating the Wolfson Prize - Yale University Press London

In celebration of the announcement of the Wolfson Prize 2025 shortlist, we're revisiting some of our prize-winning and shortlisted books.

yalebooks.co.uk

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Noreen Masud @noreenmasud.bsky.social · 7d

found the last remaining pure place on the Internet and it seems to be a livestream of a waterhole in Namibia www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydYD...

Namibia: Live stream in the Namib Desert

YouTube video by NamibiaCam

www.youtube.com

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Dr Sara Lodge @victoriandetective.bsky.social · 8d

Thank you so much!

Dr Sara Lodge @victoriandetective.bsky.social · 8d

Thank you!

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Dr Sara Lodge @victoriandetective.bsky.social · 8d

Thank you! I hope things are going well in your own quarter.

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Dr Sara Lodge @victoriandetective.bsky.social · 8d

I’m incredibly honoured to be in this company of writers. It’s a wonderful confidence boost & I’m looking forward to meeting all of them.

Yale University Press London 📖 @yalebooks.bsky.social · 8d

Congratulations to Sara Lodge, The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective has been shortlisted for the 2025 #WolfsonHistoryPrize, the UK's most prestigious history writing prize.

The shortlist: www.wolfsonhistoryprize.org.uk

@wolfsonhistory.bsky.social @victoriandetective.bsky.social

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Dr Sara Lodge @victoriandetective.bsky.social · 10d

I have a secret: a lovely secret.

My book has been shortlisted for a major prize. I can’t say which. Soon, all will be revealed!

It’s an odd time to have good news, with the world burning, but I wanted you to share my delight. Thx to all my friends & those who helped get the book/word out. ❤️

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ALT: a close up of a man wearing glasses and a tie

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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 14d

A 7% decline in English birds in just 5 years is astonishing

The web of life is unravelling fast

Wild bird numbers continue to fall in UK with some species in ‘dramatic freefall’

Species index fell by 4% between 2019 and 2024 – although data shows woodland populations beginning to stabilise

www.theguardian.com

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 14d

Explained exactly this yesterday.
In the same studio

Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 14d

This is how it begins, with indirect insinuations and fake-humble pleas of uncertainty, as if online conspiracy theories, cranks and grifters carry equal weight to the overwhelming body of scientific evidence and medical expert opinion. Then they get into power and start shredding the health service

LBC @lbc.co.uk · 14d

"We were told thalidomide was a safe drug and it wasn't..."

Nigel Farage says he has 'no idea' if Donald Trump is right about paracetamol being linked to autism.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 17d

There is no obvious limit to how far Trump is prepared to go. He wants everything. He wants everyone to swear undying loyalty to him. He is prepared to do anything to get it. “Anything” might currently seem unimaginable to us. It's time we started imagining it. 4/4

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Matthew King @matthewkingauthor.bsky.social · Jul 23

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Dr Sara Lodge @victoriandetective.bsky.social · Sep 8

V grateful to @thevicsoc.bsky.social for sponsoring my conversation with Jojo Silva about Victorian Female Detectives at Chiswick Book Festival this Saturday 13th September. Please do come along at 12.30 pm and stay for a drink & a chat.

W4 was crawling with 19th-c sleuths...🕵️

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Victorian Periodicals Review @vpreditors.bsky.social · Jul 16

Sara Lodge @victoriandetective.bsky.social analyzes how Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett's detective stories, published as a series in local papers, interrogate capitalism from a feminist and socialist viewpoint. Read more in VPR 57.4: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org

Image of an advertisement for The Adventures of Dora Bell, Detective, by Mrs. George Corbett, Author of “Secrets of a Private Enquiry Office,” &c. from the Fife Free Press and Kirkaldy Guardian, December 30, 1893. At center of ad is a head-and-shoulders sketch of Burgoyne Corbett. Accompanying text says: Sara Lodge, “Cash for Questions: Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett’s Female Detectives, Journalism, and the Case of the Missing Income,” Victorian Periodicals Review, Volume 57, Number 4, Winter 2024.

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Dr Sara Lodge @victoriandetective.bsky.social · Jul 9

Do come along to Chiswick Book Festival! All proceeds to charity, so you can bookishly do good & get lit simultaneously.

Lots of fabulous writers will be there including Petroc Trelawny, William Dalrymple, & Kathy Lette. And me! I will be there talking about Victorian female detectives.

Jenny @primarylibrarian.bsky.social · Jul 8

Book now!! Fantastic children’s events with #axelscheffler @evewersockimorris.bsky.social @kevfcomicartist.bsky.social @ponddipper.bsky.social #zohranabi @bobtregoning.bsky.social #jonathansellars @mariesadulak.bsky.social #natelessore #nathanellessore #tomkerss @jprosewriter.bsky.social
#kidslituk

chiswickbookfest.bsky.social @chiswickbookfest.bsky.social · Jul 4

🎟️Tickets sales are open for the 17th Chiswick Book Festival

🗓️10–15 Sept 2025

📚An inspiring mix of speakers, workshops & children’s events. Something 4 every booklover!

💛Festival is a not-for-profit community event, raising funds for our charities

Book now www.chiswickbookfestival.net/tickets/

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Dr Sara Lodge @victoriandetective.bsky.social · Jun 24

A very kind recommendation.

nicola @gleanniucha.bsky.social · Jun 8

Recommended ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The Mysterious Case of the Female Victorian Detective”

By Sara Lodge, Senior Lecturer of English, St Andrews University.

Silhouette of Woman in Red Victorian dress on a black background.

'Who were these women? What kind of work did they do?
Here they are, materialised from the archive - carrying out sting operations and undercover work, catching sugar-thieves, abortionists, fraudulent businessmen and dodgy bus conductors. With this scholarly and richly entertaining book, Lodge has done more than answer that question - she has cracked the case.'
MATTHEW SWEET, author of Inventing the Victorians

'A fascinating and eye-opening account of fictional and real-life female detectives and their sleuthing activities.
Meticulously researched, this is a thought-provoking and comprehensive book, and a compelling read.'

ANGELA BUCKLEY, author of The Real Sherlock Holmes

'Brilliantly well-suited to its subject, lit with flashes of inspired deduction, and adept at building a complete picture from fragments of evidence, it combines cultural criticism with social history to shed light on a neglected but fascinating feature of Victorian life.'

SIR ANDREW MOTION, poet, novelist and biographer

'Zippily written, deeply researched, game-changingly original, and full of clear-eyed wisdom about why the female detective matters, Lodge's book races along like the detective stories at its heart. It will transform your view of the Victorian detective.

NOREEN MASUD, author of A Flat Place

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Dr Sara Lodge @victoriandetective.bsky.social · May 22

Fabulous & dark & twisty things at the Royal Academy exhibition of Victor Hugo’s artistic experiments. A huge atomic mushroom atop an apocalyptic landscape. Roiling seas. Inky castles caught in moonlight. Octopi.

Writing & drawing are like speech & song: twins always tugging at each others’ hair.

Victor Hugo huge mushroom with a face, looming over a town.

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Dr Sara Lodge @victoriandetective.bsky.social · May 22

That’s very cheering! Lovely research assistant. Mine (Humbug the cat) has a worrying tendency to walk on the delete button when bored…

Dr Sara Lodge @victoriandetective.bsky.social · May 18

Although there is still too much of it, I think that domestic violence has also become far less acceptable in this period. Thanks to feminism, legislation, consciousness-raising about childhood trauma, & other sensible & sensitive aspects of ‘woke’ culture for which the lord be thanked.

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Dr Sara Lodge @victoriandetective.bsky.social · May 16

So true. I reflect that terminology (‘grit’ vs ‘snowflake’) obscures the fact that both of these phenomena arise organically, but one is more useful to capitalism. Gritstone was used to mill flour & pulp wood: it’s industrial sandstone. If we were Inuits & built w ice, snowflakes might seem tough.

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