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Nicholas Allen

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‘Somewhere, well out, beyond’ Late Heaney (Oxford University Press, January 26, https://bit.ly/40oRn76) Archipelagos/ Coasts/ Oceans

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 4h

‘Historians who address such topics as extinction, which straddle the history of humans and of the Earth, face the additional challenge of scale: the mismatch between our decades and centuries and the Earth’s epochs and aeons.’

Lorraine Daston in the new issue: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Lorraine Daston · Kaboom! Slow-Motion Extinction

Historians who address such topics as extinction, which straddle the history of humans and of the Earth, face the...

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Nicholas Allen @dedalusdenaries.bsky.social · 5h

the city of dreaming spires eh

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Helen Gittos @helengittos.bsky.social · 7h

Thomas Keyes demonstrating how manuscripts like the Book of Kells and Lindisfarne Gospels were made. Videos from a Lottery funded project based at the Tarbat Discovery Centre. Thanks to @victoriawhitworth.bsky.social for the link www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSJd...

Stories on Skins: Calligraphy

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Nicholas Allen @dedalusdenaries.bsky.social · 6h

My lovely friend is traveling and just met a man from Cookstown, who told him 'We're not aggressive like Dungannon, and we're not up ourselves like Magherafelt.' So there you go boy.

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Arlen House @arlenhouse.bsky.social · 7h

A magical event in Cork celebrating Arlen House at 50, honouring Catherine Rose, Ireland's first feminist publisher; plus launching the biggest anthology of Irish women poets ever published ‒ Washing Windows V ‒ with an amazing speech by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin + stunning readings from contributors.

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Nicholas Allen @dedalusdenaries.bsky.social · 11h

Such variety

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This is really fabulous Kelly

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Nicholas Allen @dedalusdenaries.bsky.social · 21h

Been reading old Len Deighton spy novels and wishing we could have author photos on our academic books

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Nicholas Allen @dedalusdenaries.bsky.social · 1d

‘Antonio (died circa 1782), Venetian sailor, robbed at Kinsale’

Etching, National Portrait Gallery, London

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Nicholas Allen @dedalusdenaries.bsky.social · 1d

Bravo!

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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 1d

Milei looks like all the cast of Are You Being Served in one

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Seán Thomas Kane @sthosdkane.bsky.social · 1d

Does anyone have recommendations on sources concerning South Atlantic ocean currents and navigational routes in the 16th century? I see a lot of maps showing how Europeans got to Brazil, but not the return voyage. #earlymodern #histsci #skystorians

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Nicholas Allen @dedalusdenaries.bsky.social · 1d

You wouldn’t think it from the radio!

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Geg

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They should be all year

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Wonderful

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Chris Murray @chris-murray.bsky.social · Jan 6

'I feel the energy of the light that makes the stone break into music.' Nelly Sachs in a letter to Paul Celan, from 'Flight and Metamorphosis' tr. Joshua Weiner (F,S &G, 2022)

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John Hughes @johnmelhughes.bsky.social · 2d

A friend of mine took this photograph in the Mournes today.

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Nicholas Allen @dedalusdenaries.bsky.social · 2d

Do you know the work @feinsod.bsky.social is doing, might help, also if you look up the geographer Nik Heynen and his Shell to Shore projects on Sapelo Island, quite a lot of this in the US south east