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Matthew Kelly @matthewjkelly.bsky.social · 13h

Fascinating. For me, particularly struck by material on how promoted healthy working environment: light & fresh air. Factory floor as permeable rather than sealed off from the outside. Not really thought about Port Sunlight as a title before… Congratulations!

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Matthew Kelly @matthewjkelly.bsky.social · 14h

Great piece from @marthagill.bsky.social on the state of Britain’s National Parks. Shocked highest levels of sewage discharge are on Dartmoor. Good account of historical reasons park authorities have such limited powers to manage greatest threats to park ecologies.

observer.co.uk/news/columni...

In our national parks sewage flows while the funds for co...

Underfunded, over-farmed and politically sidelined, Britain’s most treasured landscapes need more than protection

observer.co.uk

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Matthew Kelly @matthewjkelly.bsky.social · 1d

Agree, & what I certainly admired abt My Struggle is how it captures the range of childhood & young adult experience, especially moments of happiness, even rapture, amid the ordinary or grim day to day. That, to my mind, is his achievement & I think why the sequence resonated so.

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Matthew Kelly @matthewjkelly.bsky.social · 1d

KOK is highly observant & has an almost superhuman capacity for putting words on the page, but if a great novelist makes the world anew, KOK leaves the reader where they started!

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Matthew Kelly @matthewjkelly.bsky.social · 1d

Good characterisation in this one but is it because he does ordinariness so well? Their thoughts are ordinary, they muse on stuff as we all do. And when the prose is descriptively adorned, it‘s with commonplace images and metaphor.

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Matthew Kelly @matthewjkelly.bsky.social · 1d

Read 1000s of pages of this guy & still can’t decide if he‘s any good. The thought essays are sophmoronic, & the supernatural aspects in this one tedious, but the quotidian banalities & anti-style style do compel, though Claire Lowdon’s take in the TLS hits a target. Is this reading as scrolling?

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Matthew Kelly @matthewjkelly.bsky.social · 2d

Immediately want to backtrack on ‘favourite’, but it’s a good un.

Matthew Kelly @matthewjkelly.bsky.social · 2d

Ha ha. Such a good example
of the weird little worlds social media creates. Given Bluesky interactions more sparing than the old place, hard to imagine how many people found this funny. I did.

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Matthew Kelly @matthewjkelly.bsky.social · 2d

Subsequent editions. I prefer the second, though lived with the Jack Yeats original for years.

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Matthew Kelly @matthewjkelly.bsky.social · 2d

A fresh look at development. What happened on the ground? How did local people interact with and exercise influence over development agencies?

Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · 5d

New on advance access: "Vernacular development, drought, and US technical assistance in postcolonial Lebanon"

by Owain Lawson (Lehigh University)

doi.org/10.1093/past...

Vernacular development, drought, and US technical assistance in postcolonial Lebanon*

Abstract. Between 1951–55, the US Bureau of Reclamation conducted research in Lebanon to plan a hydroelectric and irrigation scheme using Lebanon's largest

doi.org

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Matthew Kelly @matthewjkelly.bsky.social · 2d

Rethinking labour politics, political violence, and brutalisation thesis!

Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · 10d

On advance access: "Spanish Pistolerismo and Labour Violence in Post-War Europe, 1917–1923"

by Arturo Zoffmann Rodriguez (University of Lisbon)

doi.org/10.1093/past...

Spanish Pistolerismo and Labour Violence in Post-War Europe, 1917–1923*

Abstract. Political violence in Europe in 1917–23 has typically been associated with the destabilizing impact of the First World War. However, some forms o

doi.org

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Matthew Kelly @matthewjkelly.bsky.social · 2d

A big, bold #envhist article on the seismic impacts of big infrastructure. You’ll
feel the earth move as you read.

Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · 4d

From the current issue: “Dams and the Deep Earth: The 1967 Koyna Earthquake and Human Agency in the Anthropocene”

by Elizabeth Chatterjee and Sachaet Pandey-Geeta Mantraraj (University of Chicago)

doi.org/10.1093/past...

Dams and the Deep Earth: The 1967 Koyna Earthquake and Human Agency in the Anthropocene*

Abstract. On 11 December 1967, a large earthquake devastated the village of Koynanagar in Maharashtra, western India. Many blamed the new Koyna hydroelectr

doi.org

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Matthew Kelly @matthewjkelly.bsky.social · 2d

Delighted to see this out!

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 2d

It's also not "just another" extinction, it's the first from mainland Europe in centuries. CENTURIES.

And there will be others within our lifetime.

That's biodiversity loss.

We'll never hear this sound, ever again xeno-canto.org/398794

XC398794 Slender-billed Curlew (Numenius tenuirostris)

Awful wind noise in the original! See sonogram and notes of the recording circumstances on p12 of Gretton A. (1991) The ecology and conservation of the Slender-billed Curlew (Numenius tenuirostris). ...

xeno-canto.org

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Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · 2d

New on advance access: "Air Travel, Statelessness, and the Rights Claims of Ugandan Asians, c.1973"

by @riakapoor.bsky.social (@qmul.bsky.social)

#OpenAccess

doi.org/10.1093/past...

Validate User

doi.org

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 2d

Well, it's official. After our paper last year (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....), the Slender-billed Curlew is officially declared Extinct today.

Scientists dream of describing new species, not writing their obituary and epitaph, knowing that they are gone forever #ornithology

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Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · 4d

From the current issue: “Dams and the Deep Earth: The 1967 Koyna Earthquake and Human Agency in the Anthropocene”

by Elizabeth Chatterjee and Sachaet Pandey-Geeta Mantraraj (University of Chicago)

doi.org/10.1093/past...

Dams and the Deep Earth: The 1967 Koyna Earthquake and Human Agency in the Anthropocene*

Abstract. On 11 December 1967, a large earthquake devastated the village of Koynanagar in Maharashtra, western India. Many blamed the new Koyna hydroelectr

doi.org

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Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · 5d

New on advance access: "Vernacular development, drought, and US technical assistance in postcolonial Lebanon"

by Owain Lawson (Lehigh University)

doi.org/10.1093/past...

Vernacular development, drought, and US technical assistance in postcolonial Lebanon*

Abstract. Between 1951–55, the US Bureau of Reclamation conducted research in Lebanon to plan a hydroelectric and irrigation scheme using Lebanon's largest

doi.org

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Matthew Kelly @matthewjkelly.bsky.social · 6d

This is from the Addison Report on National Parks (1931).

He was not wrong.

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Matthew Kelly @matthewjkelly.bsky.social · 8d

This is a very clear account of how government policy has already reduced access to degrees in History & other SHAPE subjects for members of marginalised communities and how new moves risk making matters worse still.

Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 8d

This week, the Society's President Lucy Noakes wrote in response to Bridget Phillipson's Labour conference speech - and its implications for history and the humanities in UK higher education bit.ly/3KBX7Fw

#Skystorians

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 8d

This week, the Society's President Lucy Noakes wrote in response to Bridget Phillipson's Labour conference speech - and its implications for history and the humanities in UK higher education bit.ly/3KBX7Fw

#Skystorians

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Matthew Kelly @matthewjkelly.bsky.social · 9d

I hear the echoes of Dangerfield…

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Matthew Kelly @matthewjkelly.bsky.social · 9d

A strand in the historiography suggests that the argument for enfranchising woman had been won by the 1910s, but the politics at Westminster- Tory opposition, actively hostile Liberal PM - didn’t allow the passage of a bill.

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Matthew Kelly @matthewjkelly.bsky.social · 9d

This is the key article:

academic.oup.com/ehr/article-...

An Examination of Suffragette Violence

Abstract. This article offers the first fully researched analysis of political violence on the part of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) and it

academic.oup.com

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Matthew Kelly @matthewjkelly.bsky.social · 9d

Sorry, just seen your longer thread. You got it covered!

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Matthew Kelly @matthewjkelly.bsky.social · 9d

Interesting / troubling. Not read the report. Are they claiming biodiversity gains bc brings some of that intensively farmed field into the development? Need cast iron guarantees no additional pollution impact on river, stretch falls within development. Much increased footfall, plus dogs & cats.

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Northumbria History @northumbriahistory.bsky.social · 10d

📖 Forthcoming this month, a new book from our colleague, Dr Gareth Roddy (@grod.bsky.social), "Atlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880-1940." Pre-order your copy now from @uolpress.bsky.social!
uolpress.co.uk/book/atlanti...

Atlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880–1940 - University of London Press

The west has long gripped the imagination. In Atlantic Isles, Gareth Roddy examines the cultural and political prominence of the ‘westward gaze’, which flourished in late-nineteenth century Britain an...

uolpress.co.uk

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Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · 10d

On advance access: "Spanish Pistolerismo and Labour Violence in Post-War Europe, 1917–1923"

by Arturo Zoffmann Rodriguez (University of Lisbon)

doi.org/10.1093/past...

Spanish Pistolerismo and Labour Violence in Post-War Europe, 1917–1923*

Abstract. Political violence in Europe in 1917–23 has typically been associated with the destabilizing impact of the First World War. However, some forms o

doi.org

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Dominique Reill @dominiquereill.bsky.social · 14d

So excited to announce Daniel Banks has been awarded the SIHS Modern Italian History article prize for his Past&Present piece "Ships, Guns and Money: The Logistics of Revolution and Garibaldi’s Campaign of 1860." More here: www.italianhistoricalstudies.org/events-award...

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Matthew Kelly @matthewjkelly.bsky.social · 15d

I agree with all of this, Philip!

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