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Christina Riggs @christinajriggs.bsky.social · 5h

But don’t expect to be able to do a Microsoft scheduling poll in a group email: sometimes you have to Achieve less!

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Christina Riggs @christinajriggs.bsky.social · 5h

Howdy, STOKES! Gosh I think we’re achieving more already! 💪

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Christina Riggs @christinajriggs.bsky.social · 7h

No idea how I just managed to locate and edit a group of email contacts in Microsoft Outlook, but it earned me this warm personal greeting from the machine overlords. I'm touched.

Screenshot from Microsoft Outlook email app with the greeting 'Good afternoon, RIGGS,!' - suggesting that it only knows my last name... The second line reads 'Achieve more with Outlook Groups'.

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Christina Riggs @christinajriggs.bsky.social · 10h

Thanks Sarah - if you get a chance, feel free to point them in my direction. It’s a long time since I worked on this material, but the brain cells are still there. Especially after coffee.

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Christina Riggs @christinajriggs.bsky.social · 13h

But the label makes little sense … suggesting that identity was fixed into these categories, and implying that ‘eye makeup’ was real. I know labels are hard to write, but a university museum could perhaps offer more (here comes the dreaded word) nuance.

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Durham History @durhamhistory.bsky.social · 1d

History and art combine to bring hidden stories of Black communities to life – featuring our colleagues Amanda Herbert and Liam Liburd @liamliburd.bsky.social with Heworth Grange School in Gateshead

www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

History and art combine to bring hidden stories of Black communities to life - Durham University

www.durham.ac.uk

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Christina Riggs @christinajriggs.bsky.social · 1d

Happened in archaeology as well - image at end of this excellent article by Trinidad Rico and @mideastineurope.bsky.social

journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Counter-archives as heritage justice: photography, invisible labor and peopled ruins - Mirjam Brusius, Trinidad Rico, 2023

This article critically engages with photographs, the institutions that archive and curate them, and the uses to which they are put in the work of heritage pres...

journals.sagepub.com

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Dr JC Niala @jcniala.bsky.social · 1d

There are cities that are full of nature and we we learn to pay attention to it… we can make room for even more… for the next few days 25% off on pre order…

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Christina Riggs @christinajriggs.bsky.social · 2d

As if statues themselves have no history … but I wouldn’t expect more from a director of that institution.

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Christina Riggs @christinajriggs.bsky.social · 3d

I hadn’t realised: sincere condolences for your loss. Sepsis an awful thing, at any age.

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Christina Riggs @christinajriggs.bsky.social · 3d

I mean, the body language is hard to read - think I might need to up the Dreamies offer to be sure she’s enjoying herself 🤔.

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Christina Riggs @christinajriggs.bsky.social · 4d

This #Caturday, why not be more Mitzi? 🐈‍⬛

Long-haired black and white cat stretched on her back on green patterned sofa with her front legs relaxed and head tilted completely back.

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Christina Riggs @christinajriggs.bsky.social · 6d

Perfect timing ahead of a trip with students later this term to The Story, home of County Durham archives, where Mustapha's photographic images and life story feature as part of the Durham Light Infantry collection. 🗃️📜📷📸

Matthew Kilburn @matthewkilburn.bsky.social · 6d

A new ODNB article from me - James Francis [Jimmy] Durham, formerly Mustapha, a Sudanese boy 'adopted' in 1886 into the Durham Light Infantry. A tale of class and race, geography and the armed forces, music, and goodwill amidst the imperial assumptions: www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1...

www.oxforddnb.com

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Christina Riggs @christinajriggs.bsky.social · 6d

'Adopted' indeed: thank you, looking forward to reading in full and sharing with students.

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Aya Nassar @ayanassar.bsky.social · 6d

Just out paper which might be of interest to those who work on Urban Geograpy, Geographies of Home, and affective thinking (especially ambivalence).

It is a paper that considers the wonderful Iman Mersal's poetic oeuvre as a form of geography.

academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic...

“Giving up the Idea of Home”: Ambivalent Geographies, Geopoetics, and Resisting Capture in the Cities of the Middle East

Abstract. This paper sits with the geopoetics of the Egyptian poet and writer Iman Mersal to grapple with affective ambivalence towards common objects of d

academic.oup.com

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Liam J. Liburd @liamliburd.bsky.social · 7d

York people, I'm giving a paper at the Uni History Department's research seminar on Wednesday 15 October. Particularly keen for feedback from historians of crime, historical criminologists, and criminologists.

An Accidental History of Prisons and Race in Late Twentieth Century Britain

Join us for research seminars hosted by the Department of History with a selection of visiting academics, alongside University of York researchers. All students and staff are very welcome.

www.york.ac.uk

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Christina Riggs @christinajriggs.bsky.social · 8d

All my knowledge of the British political system comes from that and has not failed me.

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Angela Marques Filipe @angelaofthenorth.bsky.social · 8d

Want to do a PhD in social science at Durham? Are you interested in health and mental well-being? Or in environmental and planetary health? Our ESRC NINE DTP scholarships come w/ a range of pathways and perks: call now open for 2026-27! Get in touch.
www.ninedtp.ac.uk/the-application-process/

Prospective Students - NINE DTP

The competition for 2026-27 is open Tuition FeesHome fees (£5,006 in 2025-26) covered for all students. Additional support for international students facilitated through university agreements.StipendT...

www.ninedtp.ac.uk

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Liam J. Liburd @liamliburd.bsky.social · 8d

I'm in episode one and if you're interested in the research behind my contribution, you can read about it here: academic.oup.com/tcbh/article...

Sadiah Qureshi @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 8d

Now would be a great time to check out this BBC radio 4 series on the far right and racism in Britain by the amazing Camilla Schofield.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - Britain's Fascist Thread

Camilla Schofield explores the unbroken thread of fascism in Britain.

www.bbc.co.uk

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 8d

'English statesmen were embroiled in debates about land and plant cultivation, but we are less likely to remember the Indigenous expertise that lay behind this rapid escalation.'

Lauren Working and Stephanie Pratt on the global history of a country house in Kent:

Indigenous Plant Stories in an English Treasure House

Delve into the links between Knole and Indigenous American histories as we investigate its colonial connections.

www.historyworkshop.org.uk

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Christina Riggs @christinajriggs.bsky.social · 10d

Foot warmer! My newly adopted girl wants to drape her furry self over my feet while I work - and I say YES! But to myself so I won’t disturb her…

Black cat squeezed in to lie next to (and over) sock-clad feet under a pale painted desk. Pale carpet.

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Christina Riggs @christinajriggs.bsky.social · 11d

Storm Amy is still blowing outside, but Mitzi is safe under the early 20th-cent Liberty side table. The girl has style. 🐈‍⬛ #caturday

Black and white long-haired cat seated upright on lower shelf of wooden side table. Pale carpeting, and a desk in background.

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Christina Riggs @christinajriggs.bsky.social · 13d

Helen Strudwick is a 🌟

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Christina Riggs @christinajriggs.bsky.social · 13d

Great film! Makers of Lord Carnarvon’s camera (he of Tutankhamun fame), though the story of why I never made it to Downton Abbey/Highclere Castle to see it and other photo material can’t be conveyed in public. Aristocratic archive access is … quite something. 📸📷🏺🗃️

SOURCE Photographic Review @sourcephoto.bsky.social · 13d

Charming BBC archive film about Gandolfi Cameras from 1974.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4nf...

1974: Gandolfi Brothers Handmade Cameras | Industrial Grand Tour | Making of... | BBC Archive

YouTube video by BBC Archive

www.youtube.com

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Fatema Ahmed @hekale.bsky.social · 13d

Where do objects come from? No, where do they *really* come from? I spoke to Hew Locke for the October issue of @apollo-magazine.com about small boats, decorating statues and why Empire needs new clothes. apollo-magazine.com/hew-locke-pa...

Hew Locke and the Empire’s new clothes

On the eve of a major US survey, the artist talks to Fatema Ahmed about decorating statues and the ornamental side of the British Empire

apollo-magazine.com

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