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ZimboGuide @zimboguide.bsky.social · 22h

For what good it might do, this is part of the legal text we're now inserting in every book we publish going forward.

ZimboGuide @zimboguide.bsky.social · 1d

The Pupu battlefield memorial near Lupane, Zimbabwe

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ZimboGuide @zimboguide.bsky.social · 2d

On Friday I read a 2025 article about this monument in Zimbabwe which has irked me so much that I have written a 3500 word response to correct errors, misattribution, deliberate erasing of aspects of its history & more. Now to see if the journal in question will publish it!

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ZimboGuide @zimboguide.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you!

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ZimboGuide @zimboguide.bsky.social · 4d

Does anyone know of any literature on the role of cultural tour guides as educators & communicators about history at the sites and places they work?
Glimmerings of the idea of a publication here based on my own knowledge and experiences but seeking examples from everywhere I can.

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 4d

Happy Anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street, to all decent people.

Plaque "THE BATTLE OF CABLE STREET
The people of East London rallied to Cable Street on the 4th October 1936 and forced back the march of the fascist
Oswald Mosley and his Blackshirts through the streets of the East End.
"THEY SHALL NOT PASS""

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ZimboGuide @zimboguide.bsky.social · 6d

Awesome news. Any idea if it'll be available in Zimbabwe?

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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 6d

It really cannot be stressed how much the current AI push is working in tandem with the rise in fascism around the world.

These freaks are coming together over mass dehumanisation and rejection of humanity as anything worthwhile in this world.

Bloomberg Opinion @opinion.bloomberg.com · 6d

Tilly Norwood raises the question of who will be the first to win an Oscar for best AI in a leading role

Tilly Norwood Is Expensive, Even for Hollywood

The “synthetic actress” may be cheaper to cast than Leonardo DiCaprio, but AI’s footprint carries major economic and environmental costs.

bloom.bg

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ZimboGuide @zimboguide.bsky.social · 7d

3/Two related to postal activities for the Pan African Postal Union (PAPU), although strangely not featuring an actual post office. Interesting imagery comparing the PAPU tower to Great Zimbabwe, also strangely labelled on the stamp itself.

ZimboGuide @zimboguide.bsky.social · 7d

2/Mugabe gets on a Zim stamp for (I think) only the second time in his life, the first being in 1990. It took four years after his death for this to appear, compared to VPs within a year!
Desperate to find the double printing error of "Mugabe's ghost" on the b&w E value.

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ZimboGuide @zimboguide.bsky.social · 7d

1/Went to my local post office to stock up on missing first day covers for my collection. Shocked they are now $8 each!
A rather odd compendium of instruments, although I would disagree that a microphone is a musical instrument, rather a medium of recording and transmitting sound.

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ZimboGuide @zimboguide.bsky.social · 7d

The Gukurahundi genocide which directly impacted my family is one of the most heartbreaking stories in a country awash with them for a century
The callous violence, murderous intent & complete lack of accountability make for queasy but necessary reading
Bravo @thecontinent.org for talking about it!

The Continent @thecontinent.org · 7d

On the night of 30 January 1985, Anna Ndebele’s husband Cephas was taken in for questioning by state agents in Silobela, in Zimbabwe’s Midlands province, along with 10 other men. They were never seen again. Thirty years later, the 74-year-old still doesn’t know where the remains of her husband lie.

Gukurahundi’s horrors obscured by ‘dignity’

Zimbabwe is once again trying to reach for reconciliation and healing, but authorities don’t want anyone looking too closely.

continent.substack.com

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ZimboGuide @zimboguide.bsky.social · 7d

My main article is: Hubbard, P. & Burrett, R. 2012. A Clash of Ideologies: Zimbabwean Archaeology at the Fringe. In From Archaeology to Archaeologies: the 'Other' Past. Simandiraki-Grimshaw, A. & Stefanou, L. (eds), 45-55. Oxford: BAR International Series 2409.
I can email you a copy, no problem.

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ZimboGuide @zimboguide.bsky.social · 8d

Fantastic read. Thank you for sharing!

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ZimboGuide @zimboguide.bsky.social · 8d

Looking forward to this talk a great deal.

I've published on pseudo archaeology and its use and abuse in far right politics in Zimbabwe over the last 150 years so am sure this will help broaden my knowledge and interest!

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ZimboGuide @zimboguide.bsky.social · 9d

The past is always visible and relevant no matter what is done to ignore or cover it up! Amused that this sign has been like this for over 5 years now

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ZimboGuide @zimboguide.bsky.social · 9d

Love this time of year

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ZimboGuide @zimboguide.bsky.social · 9d

You folks and the work you do is incredible & magnificent!
No words can express how grateful I am for the archiving you do as well as making it all available.
I have found the Wayback Machine to be an invaluable tool for serious research (history mainly) & for fun as I find websites from my youth.

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ZimboGuide @zimboguide.bsky.social · 9d

The Matobo Hills truly are the pinnacle of creation. My photos never do justice to the magnificent beauty that is this landscape, its history and people.

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ZimboGuide @zimboguide.bsky.social · 9d

Yup. It was a good night listening to the erratic patter of raindrops on the tin roof of my home

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ZimboGuide @zimboguide.bsky.social · 10d

Overly excited to be asked to write a story for an African Travel magazine on the main sites of the Zimbabwe Culture with my beloved wife. Tight word count which is a challenge but it has promoted clarity in what to include and how. Alway feel like I've left so, so much out though!

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ZimboGuide @zimboguide.bsky.social · 12d

My church

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ZimboGuide @zimboguide.bsky.social · 17d

I have just read an article about the Ndebele people that has so deeply annoyed me, I have written to the editors to ask for the right of response to its many incorrect assumptions, use of outdated reference materials & failure to fully engage with current thinking and theory on African colonisation

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ZimboGuide @zimboguide.bsky.social · 19d

Just completed a brief biography of L.S. Jameson for a new book on View of the World and its complicated, contested history. Certainly a fascinating character whose life and attitudes inspired Kipling's poem, "If..."

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ZimboGuide @zimboguide.bsky.social · 19d

Life among the vines.

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