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Joanne Begiato @jbhist.bsky.social · 1h

Check out this event and its details on our website: www.thevictorianhand.uk/alison-bashf...

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NPR @npr.org · 4h

NPR is highlighting Indigenous stories from across its network in celebrations of Indigenous Peoples Day. n.pr/47nGDK8

Highlighting Indigenous stories from across NPR's network

NPR is highlighting Indigenous stories from across its network in celebrations of Indigenous Peoples Day.

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Dinah Roe @preraphsrule.bsky.social · 8h

Are you looking to share your love of nineteenth-century art & poetry? Join the lovely folks @preraphaelitesoc.bsky.social, a warm and bright community who have supported my work since the beginning!

Pre-Raphaelite Society @preraphaelitesoc.bsky.social · 21h

Thanks so much to @preraphsrule.bsky.social for giving our Founders Day Lecture on Christina Rossetti and Caring at the Birmingham and Midland Institute yesterday. Just after our annual AGM.

Become a member of the society today to hear more about our other future lectures- link in our bio.

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John Vigar @johnevigar.bsky.social · 1d

My party learned about Martin Travers on their tour of Hampshire churches today. Here Sir Bedivere carries Arthur’s body. Cheriton Church. 17 churches visited 3 more tomorrow.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 1d

'Now, Alexandra Wilson’s new book, Someone Else’s Music, unpicks the myth that opera is alien to the working class. For much of the past century, Wilson shows, opera was a hugely important thread in working-class lives.'

It’s not opera that’s elitist but the idea that art is to...

The myth that culture has not been for the masses is debunked in a new book

observer.co.uk

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 1d

This is such a clever idea on taking kids to museums/galleries
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Nadia from London has an idea that sounds such fun you'll be booking a day out asap.
"I've always loved museums," she says,
"but they can be overwhelming for children. For decades now, I've done something called 'playing postcards'
We do
the museum backwards, visiting the gift shop first. Each child gets to choose three postcards. Then they take it in turns to find that particular artwork in the museum and give us a little information about the piece from the details on the postcard, or from any gallery plaque. At the end of this treasure-hunt-style activity, we vote for our favourite in the cafe."

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Blake Leyh @earlofedgecombe.bsky.social · 2d

If you think you know why US newspapers died, this feature documentary now streaming for free on PBS might surprise you. It wasn't the Internet. Newspapers were specifically targeted by vulture capitalists.

I composed the score for the film, which features electric cello & Crowfoot guitars.

Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink

A handful of journalists rebel against a hedge fund that is gutting newspapers nationwide.

www.pbs.org

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Goblin Gower, PhD (the Ph is for Phantasm) @medievaliste.bsky.social · 1d

“You can only teach/research the way I want you to” is bad whether it’s coming from right, left, center, your students, or your department chair.

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Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · 1d

You may call it ‘Chatfishing’, but I shall only refer to it as ‘Cyrano de Berger-App’
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

‘I realised I’d been ChatGPT-ed into bed’: how ‘Chatfishing’ made finding love on dating apps even weirder

Where once people were duped by soft-focus photos and borrowed chat-up lines, now they have to watch out for computer-generated charm. But it’s one thing to use a witty phrase – another thing entirely...

www.theguardian.com

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Kate Ozment @grubstreetwomen.bsky.social · 1d

Today's public library haul 🥰 I love trying out new cookbooks through the library. Sometimes they are a bust, sometimes I like 2 things, and sometimes they go on the "must buy" list. It helps keep me from buying $40 books I dislike after a few recipes.

Four books on a sunny table. They are Breaking Up With Dairy, The Yearlong Pantry, Big Veg Energy, and Beans and Grains

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 2d

Do I know anyone on here who has either applied for or received an AHRC Catalyst Award?

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Dinah Roe @preraphsrule.bsky.social · 1d

"The actress' legendary career also included other films like 'Annie Hall,' 'Something's Gotta Give' and 'The Godfather'"!? ALSO? What in the ChatGPT wrote this headline? 🤪

Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 1d

Terribly sad news about one of the greats. Diane Keaton has died at 79.
people.com/diane-keaton...

Diane Keaton, Famed for Roles in 'Father of the Bride,' 'First Wives Club' and More, Dies at 79 (Exclusive)

Diane Keaton has died at age 79. Keaton was best known for roles in movies like 'Annie Hall,' 'The First Wives Club,' 'Something's Gotta Give' and 'The Godfather.'

people.com

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 2d

For those working in HEI contexts bound by English law, it's also worth considering the legal implications of the use of AI in marking where academic judgment is exercised (e.g., there is not 1 single 'correct answer'). Keen to forfeit the courts' recognition of the exercise of expert judgment? Nah.

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Matterist Books @matteristbooks.bsky.social · 2d

Cool!
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/t...

Zora Neale Hurston’s Play Comes Alive for the First Time

www.nytimes.com

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Dr Susie Beckham @susiebeckham.bsky.social · 2d

Want to learn more about the fantastic artist Anna Alma-Tadema? Check out my piece for ArtUK!

artuk.org/discover/sto...

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 3d

Printing presses kept their letters in cases.

Capital letters went in the upper case.
Smaller letters went in the lower case.

This is why we say ‘UPPER CASE’ and ‘lower case.’

Ok, but what did we call them before the invention of the printing press?

MAJUSCULE and minuscule.

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Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 2d

Ok, did not expect “The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe” to feel quite so relevant to this moment.

Here’s Edmund, deciding to side with the leader who he’s been told disappears people.

He did want Turkish Delight and to be a prince (and later a king) and to pay Peter out for calling him a beast. As for what the Witch would do with the others, he didn't want her to be particularly nice to them - certainly not to put them on the same level as himself; but he managed to believe, or to pretend he believed, that she wouldn't do anything very bad to them, 'Because,' he said to himself, 'all these people who say nasty things about her are her enemies and probably half of it isn't true. She was jolly nice to me, anyway, much nicer than they are. I expect she is the rightful Queen really. Anyway, she'll be better than that awful Aslan!' At least, that was the excuse he made in his own mind for what he was doing. It wasn't a very good excuse, however, for deep down inside him he really knew that the White Witch was bad and cruel.

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Dinah Roe @preraphsrule.bsky.social · 2d

Wait what?
www.whatsonstage.com/news/the-los...

The Lost Boys musical announces Broadway plans and lead casting

The cult classic heads for the stage – could it be the next Outsiders or Death Becomes Her?

www.whatsonstage.com

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Dr McInnes’s Monster @drbeard79.bsky.social · 3d

Very excited to be hosting @drreznicek.bsky.social in a couple of weeks - join us for a discussion of extreme Romantic bodies 🖤💪🦵👀 - our seminars are free, online, open to all!

EHUNineteen @ehunineteen.bsky.social · 3d

We are delighted to announce the first seminar in our 25/26 series: the wonderful @drreznicek.bsky.social will be presenting on ‘Too Bodily: Disability, Care, & Belonging in Romantic Novels’ on Wednesday 29th October at 6pm.

Free! Online! All welcome!

Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

This is a sneak preview of our poster image as we finalise details - it’s a coloured etching by Thomas Rowlandson after G M Woodward from 1801 called ‘The Quack Doctor’s Prayer’ with a kneeling doctor praying over a box with a duck drawn on it. In the background there’s a candelabra and pink hangings.

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Clare Pollard @poetclare.bsky.social · 3d

Starts tonight. Let’s go! See you at Diane Seuss, Luke Kennard and Mona Arshi at 8.30pm? (Also live-streamed if you’d like to watch with wine and takeout) #winchesterpoetry www.winchesterpoetryfestival.org/what-s-on

What's on - Winchester Poetry Festival events in 2025

Details of our forthcoming events and collaborations. Winchester Poetry Festival runs 2-12th October

www.winchesterpoetryfestival.org

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Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 3d

Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.

Headline from an article in Nature this week that states "Prizes must recognize machine contributions to discovery. The future of science will be written by humans and machines together. Awards should reflect that reality."

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Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 4d

'London, a view of Somerset House seen through an arch of Waterloo Bridge' (c.1865) by Henry Pether

(Private collection)

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Dinah Roe @preraphsrule.bsky.social · 4d

Want to applaud the best of humanity (rather than doomscrolling about the worst)? Show your support for hospice care week:
www.hospiceuk.org/our-campaign...

Hospice Care Week

From 6 - 12 October 2025, help us celebrate hospice care across the UK along with our 200+ hospice members. This year's theme is: hospice care is more than you think.

www.hospiceuk.org

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Haunted Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website · 4d

nothing like watching a presentation about ed tech tools to radicalize you against them

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 4d

I, however,
Have such meagre power,

Clutching at a
Moment,

While you control
An hour.

But your hour is
A stone.

My moment is
A flower.

-Langston Hughes, "Poet to Bigot"
#everynightapoem As ever.

I have done so little
For you.
And you have do little
For me.
That we have good reason
Never to agree.

I, however,
Have such meagre power,
Clutching at a
Moment,
While you control
An hour.
But your hour is
A stone.
My moment is
A flower.
-Langston Hughes, "Poet to Bigot"

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