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Ann Laura Hughes @annlaurahughes.bsky.social · 2d

Wonderful tour of Iceland with intrepid.
A foss everyday for a week

Mary Fissell @maryfissell.bsky.social · Jul 10

Hey! Want to get my book with FREE SHIPPING? And not from The Behemoth? For the next 31 hours, you can get it from Bookshop.org !! And any any other book they carry!
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Pushback: The 2,500-Year Fight to Thwart Women by Restricting Abortion

The 2,500-Year Fight to Thwart Women by Restricting Abortion

bookshop.org

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christywang.bsky.social @christywang.bsky.social · Jun 13

CfP due 15 July! On 4–6 September, @kyamamoto.bsky.social and I will co-host "Providence, Propaganda, and Profit in the Early Modern English World" at UTokyo. Keynote speakers: @annlaurahughes.bsky.social, Shusaku Kanazawa, Keiko Kawawake, and Peter Lake. See poetsutokyo.wixsite.com/conference20...

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Justine Pick @justinepick.bsky.social · May 25

🎙️More podcasts 🎙️ added to the The World Turned Upside Down

A unique free open access resource for everyone interested in the people, events and ideas of the British Civil Wars - explored and explained by leading historians
Take a look👇

Programmes - The World Turned Upside Down

Educational Series Join our mailing list to be notified when new programmes are released Register now REGISTER NOW Stephen K. Roberts Royalist

www.worldturnedupsidedown.co.uk

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Ann Laura Hughes @annlaurahughes.bsky.social · May 20

Very excited to be involved with this!

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Ann Laura Hughes @annlaurahughes.bsky.social · Apr 12

Lichfield City FC winning the league!!

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Ann Laura Hughes @annlaurahughes.bsky.social · Apr 9

Brilliant night launching our Camden volume. Thanks to @royalhistsoc.org and Warwick Castle

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Ann Laura Hughes @annlaurahughes.bsky.social · Apr 9

Fantastic evening. Thankyou

Ann Laura Hughes @annlaurahughes.bsky.social · Mar 25

Come and see your local Labour councillors

Lichfield & Hatherton Canals Restoration Trust @lhcrt.org.uk · Mar 22

We had a lovely time at @sandfieldsps.bsky.social - very appropriate for #WorldWaterDay

Lots of people came to talk to us, and a lot of them joined as members to support us. 👍

#Lichfield #WeDigCanals #Staffordshire

Volunteers pointing at a display, the display has a map of the Lichfield Canal route and other details.

The equipment of the pumping station: pistons and other engine parts.

The equipment of the pumping station: pistons, pipes and other engine parts.

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Ann Laura Hughes @annlaurahughes.bsky.social · Mar 18

Wonderful to hear @maryfissell.bsky.social on woman’s hour

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Ann Laura Hughes @annlaurahughes.bsky.social · Mar 15

A timely piece from Alice Cust Hughes in latest edition of Impact journal @collegeofteaching.bsky.social
Very proud!

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Ann Laura Hughes @annlaurahughes.bsky.social · Jan 31

A book launch!

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Ann Laura Hughes @annlaurahughes.bsky.social · Jan 14

Wow! A Camden volume. Such a pleasure to be involved

Cover of latest volume in Camden Society. Household accounts of Lord and Lady Brooke. Edited by Stewart Beale, Andrew Hopper and me

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Ann Laura Hughes @annlaurahughes.bsky.social · Jan 12

After 50 years my Kenwood mixer has finally given up - catching fire after mixing too heavy a batter. RIP

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Ann Laura Hughes @annlaurahughes.bsky.social · Jan 10

Blue skies and ducks enjoying the ice. #Lichfield #DarwinPark

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Ann Laura Hughes @annlaurahughes.bsky.social · Dec 25

Brilliant present!!!

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Ann Laura Hughes @annlaurahughes.bsky.social · Dec 22

Tree from places of welcome

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Ann Laura Hughes @annlaurahughes.bsky.social · Dec 22

Wonderful light show at @lichfieldcathedral.bsky.social and inside trees decorated by schools, businesses and charities

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Ann Laura Hughes @annlaurahughes.bsky.social · Nov 28

Looking forward to seeing this in print - great fun contributing to it

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Ann Laura Hughes @annlaurahughes.bsky.social · Nov 25

Storm Bert couldn’t stop us campaigning in Stowe!

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Ann Laura Hughes @annlaurahughes.bsky.social · Nov 22

Add me if you’ve room please

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Ann Laura Hughes @annlaurahughes.bsky.social · Nov 21

Fabulous paper by @angelamcshane.bsky.social on the wonderful 100 ballads website

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Ann Laura Hughes @annlaurahughes.bsky.social · Nov 20

Well worth braving the cold night for launch of excellent volume from Bucks Record Society - first of series edited by Rosemary O’Day

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · Nov 20

Launched today, this British Academy's pilot project maps changes in provision of UK undergraduate courses in Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences. 'Cold spots in SHAPE subject access matter. These subjects play a vital and vibrant role in university life, developing critical thinking'. 1/3 #UKHE

There are cold spots in arts, humanities, and social sciences provision

New British Academy interactive maps reveal cold spots in social sciences, humanities and arts in UK higher education – especially affecting disadvantaged students. Ruairi Cullen explains

wonkhe.com

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · Nov 19

If you bring central London to a halt in order to campaign against catastrophic climate change then you're a "barmy" eco "fanatic" who deserves to be locked up.

If you do the same to hang on to your multimillion pound inheritance tax exemption then you're a brave freedom fighter defying the odds

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Ann Laura Hughes @annlaurahughes.bsky.social · Nov 17

I won an Italian food hamper at the fundraiser for Dr Milleys’s hospital Lichfield! Great night with the rock choir

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Ann Laura Hughes @annlaurahughes.bsky.social · Nov 17

Fantastic news - that will be really useful

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Ann Laura Hughes @annlaurahughes.bsky.social · Nov 17

Good to be in the vanguard for once

Richard Price @journoontheedge.bsky.social · Nov 14

Since my previous post, the other Staffordshire councillors I’ve noticed on here are: @sue-woodward.bsky.social @theaardvark.bsky.social @annlaurahughes.bsky.social and @lichfieldruss.bsky.social from Lichfield as well as @cllrstubbsnul.bsky.social from NuL and @laurend2212.bsky.social from SoT.

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Richard Price @journoontheedge.bsky.social · Nov 14

Since my previous post, the other Staffordshire councillors I’ve noticed on here are: @sue-woodward.bsky.social @theaardvark.bsky.social @annlaurahughes.bsky.social and @lichfieldruss.bsky.social from Lichfield as well as @cllrstubbsnul.bsky.social from NuL and @laurend2212.bsky.social from SoT.

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