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Hannah Ayres @hannahva390.bsky.social · 2h

My first journal article has officially been published! If you want to know more about trans museology and especially the Museum of Transology, check it out here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A “weapon of survival”: the importance of material culture in trans re/presentation

The Museum of Transology contains the UK’s largest collection of objects re/presenting trans, non-binary and intersex people’s lives. It is a project that fosters and centres community for trans pe...

www.tandfonline.com

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Chris(tyn) Parkes @parkesland.bsky.social · 3h

What a collection to have at your fingertips!

LSE Library @lselibrary.bsky.social · 3h

New online: The Gay Liberation Front (GLF) collection is now available on LSE Digital Library! We’ve digitised and published the GLF Diaries and the GLF newspaper Come Together. Further series from the archives will be added as digitisation continues.
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digital.library.lse.ac.uk/collections/...

Cover image of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) Diary, December 21-30, 1972. A purple and green poster-style image featuring text and a leafy plant design.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 1d

Watching the Bibi & Don Show treat this like some grand victory, while people returning to northern Gaza dig the rubble for loved ones' remains, is pretty revolting.

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Matt Houlbrook @tricksterprince.bsky.social · 3h

#20s30s

Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 3h

'Crossroads from My Window', Battersea Rise (1932) by Leonora Kathleen Green

(Wandsworth Heritage Collection)

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Peter Mitchell @pdkmitchell.bsky.social · 4h

This is an incredible thread, and if you live in Newcastle and want to hear more about it, next Tuesday evening at the Hancock, and book your place immediately (I can give you a discount code to get it free), I might not have to cancel it for lack of uptake www.nhsn.org.uk/events/richa...

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Jack Saundrs @jacksaundrs.bsky.social · 4h

No one should be held hostage and I'm glad they're free, but man, the front pages of every newspaper today are galling when you think of the millions of Palestinians, whose suffering has *never* been presented in that urgent, humanising way at any point in the last two years.

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Matt Houlbrook @tricksterprince.bsky.social · 3h

Congratulations @dudleymarianna.bsky.social - this looks wonderful!

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Marianna Dudley @dudleymarianna.bsky.social · 4h

It sure is! Thanks to everyone who helped me make this book. I'm reminiscing today about field trips to Orkney, Shetland & the Outer Hebrides, islands which swept me up in their windy history, and offered new perspectives on 'national' narratives & global challenges. (And plotting ways to return!)

Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 4h

It's Electric Wind publication day!💨

Join @dudleymarianna.bsky.social for the launch of her new book, online and at @bookhaus.bsky.social.

Details on the MUP Events page🎟️👇

A cutting-edge history of wind power in Britain from the industrial revolution to the present.

Electric Wind is out now💡

Promotional image for Electric wind. Purple background with an image of rolling hills and a blue sky, wind turbines dot the hills. Book cover sits in centre of image. Text reads: How has energy shaped a nation? Electric Wind Out Now.

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Matt Houlbrook @tricksterprince.bsky.social · 4h

It was! I can't quite remember how I met him - maybe talking about dissertation ideas? - but Keith Wrightson also sent me a really lovely note after he marked two of my exam papers.

Matt Houlbrook @tricksterprince.bsky.social · 4h

And I was really inspired by working with people like Steve Hindle (in the second term of my first year), Betty Wood on colonial America, Brian, and Vic Gatrell.

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Matt Houlbrook @tricksterprince.bsky.social · 4h

Sometimes sad to have moved forward! I can't remember doing any early modern at school at all - perhaps that's why I ended up doing so much at uni.

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History: The Journal of the Historical Association @hisjournalha.bsky.social · 4h

It's interesting how few historians move across periods, really. Barry Reay exceptional for moving across centuries and topics across a long career. Can't think of many others.

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Matt Houlbrook @tricksterprince.bsky.social · 4h

I certainly don’t think I could manage it now.

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Matt Houlbrook @tricksterprince.bsky.social · 4h

The road not taken!

I even had funding to start a PhD on early modern agrarian protests.

How different things might have been.

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Matt Houlbrook @tricksterprince.bsky.social · 4h

I did a very similar module on death in early modern England (with Brian Outhwaite in Cambridge) as an undergraduate!

Ironically everything I did as a student was early modern - I'd never looked at anything 20th century until I started my PhD.

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Matt Houlbrook @tricksterprince.bsky.social · 5h

All that wonderful history yet you still became an early modernist...

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UHIHistory.bsky.social @uhihistory.bsky.social · 5h

You can also join our Dr Jim MacPherson for a walking tour of Dornoch to discover how the town and its people were involved in the British Empire since the eighteenth century.

📆 Tuesday 28 October
⏰ 11am
📍Dornoch

Numbers are limited, so buy your ticket now, bit.ly/4nofyvY.

The History of Dornoch and the World since the 18th Century

Talk and walking tour with Dr Jim MacPherson from the Centre for History, University of the Highlands and Islands.

bit.ly

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Justin Colson @justincolson.bsky.social · 6h

At @ihr.bsky.social we can now offer PhD by Publication in History! For those with a substantial body of existing published research (within past 10 years), but without a PhD, should be of particular interest to #heritage professionals and independent scholars!

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JT Welsch @jtwelsch.bsky.social · 5h

My book on poetry & suicide isn't out until April with @manchesterup.bsky.social, but you can pre-order it 25% off from @waterstones.bsky.social this week only. The idea of it as a real book is still scary, so I'm reassured by the thought of it in friends' hands.

www.waterstones.com/book/the-poe...

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 5h

I got my first taste of archival research when visited the BBC written Archives as a 3rd year undergrad in 2001 to research my dissertation.

I studied the papers relating to radio programme 'Ack-Ack Beer-Beer', broadcast in WWII for Anti-Aircraft and Balloon Barrage personnel.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 5h

For reasons, it would be v. helpful to have information from a broad range of academic and non-academic (incl. GLAM) users of the BBC Written Archives OTHER THAN historians, briefly on: 1) What you've used it for and 2) How the proposed changes would impact on your research.

Reposts welcomed.

Historians dismayed by ‘scandal’ of BBC cutting access to...

Critics say new limit to trove of information sounds knell for independent research

observer.co.uk

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will o’the wisp pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 7h

one of the astonishing things about working in a UK uni in the last decade is complete DISCONNECT between (on one hand) hostile media stories, ill informed govt policy, end of unis as we know them

and (on the other) the joyful work of actually talking w/students and discovering new things together

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Dan Grey @dangrey.bsky.social · 7h

Reform don't want to know

Reform UK-run Lincolnshire County Council scraps flood committee

The work will be incorporated into another committee despite all other parties opposing the change.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Laura Tisdall @lauratisdall.bsky.social · 7h

Hello all! You can get 25% off the already surprisingly reasonable price of WE HAVE COME TO BE DESTROYED if you pre-order at @waterstones.bsky.social between 14th and 17th October using the discount code OCTOBER25! Pls share. Link here: www.waterstones.com/book/we-have... #skystorians #histchild 🗃

Waterstones flyer with cover of book and description of deal as explained in text.

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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · 7h

Fix the economy, Starmer.

We have no power over changing the economy; to blame universities for its ills and using it to hit us (& get ever more culture warriors on us) is just bullying.

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 7h

'A “challenging” graduate labour market in the UK could further erode trust in the higher education sector, with the “bad times” showing little sign of ending.'

All the more reason to have a serious, nationwide discussion of what universities do and what they are for.

Faith in universities ‘at new low’ as graduate jobs dry up

Challenging economic conditions may have led to bump in student recruitment numbers this year but experts fear long-term damage after institutions pegged futures to employability agenda

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Matt Houlbrook @tricksterprince.bsky.social · 7h

That’s Mass Observation.

#20s30s

Mike Jones @mikejonesphd.bsky.social · 9h

Reading a news report from 1932 on the secretary of the British Museum lamenting the loss of a "great body of social history of the most curious kind." His suggestion? Concealing microphones and talkie cameras in the bars of country pubs and other places to capture the life of the people.

a woman is sitting at a desk with her eyes closed and the words `` that 's creepy '' written on the screen .

Alt: A gif of a woman sitting at a desk turning to a person standing beside her and saying "That's creepy."

media.tenor.com

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