Lucy Faire
@drlucyfaire.bsky.social
Historian of everyday life; enthusiast for adult education and cooperation; personal account
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Awesome from the chemistry department students at @sheffielduni.bsky.social in support of @sheffielducu.bsky.social 👌
youtu.be/TxdDV0G9Ys0?...
youtu.be/TxdDV0G9Ys0?...
Express support for our chemistry lecturers!
YouTube video by Hector HH
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December 10, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Awesome from the chemistry department students at @sheffielduni.bsky.social in support of @sheffielducu.bsky.social 👌
youtu.be/TxdDV0G9Ys0?...
youtu.be/TxdDV0G9Ys0?...
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Ongoing decimation of British universities part 252:
Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email.
Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email.
Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
December 11, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Ongoing decimation of British universities part 252:
Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email.
Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email.
Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
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Really excited to share that the first episode of my podcast with @universityofleeds.bsky.social Cultural Collections is now live! 🎧
Based on my 2024 Bedford Fellowship research into emotion in advertising. This episode looks at fairy lights — a Christmassy listen ✨
Based on my 2024 Bedford Fellowship research into emotion in advertising. This episode looks at fairy lights — a Christmassy listen ✨
Selling Sentiment 1: Comfort and Joy
Podcast Episode · Gloves Off: Stories from Cultural Collections & Galleries at the University of Leeds · 11/12/2025 · 37m
podcasts.apple.com
December 12, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Really excited to share that the first episode of my podcast with @universityofleeds.bsky.social Cultural Collections is now live! 🎧
Based on my 2024 Bedford Fellowship research into emotion in advertising. This episode looks at fairy lights — a Christmassy listen ✨
Based on my 2024 Bedford Fellowship research into emotion in advertising. This episode looks at fairy lights — a Christmassy listen ✨
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It’s arrived!
December 12, 2025 at 12:01 AM
It’s arrived!
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New Episode! "Recovering Black Mariners in the Atlantic World with Mary Hicks"
Check out my conversation with Dr. Hicks about the stories she tells in Captive Cosmopolitans Black Mariners and the World of South Atlantic Slavery @uncpress.bsky.social
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Check out my conversation with Dr. Hicks about the stories she tells in Captive Cosmopolitans Black Mariners and the World of South Atlantic Slavery @uncpress.bsky.social
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December 9, 2025 at 12:30 PM
New Episode! "Recovering Black Mariners in the Atlantic World with Mary Hicks"
Check out my conversation with Dr. Hicks about the stories she tells in Captive Cosmopolitans Black Mariners and the World of South Atlantic Slavery @uncpress.bsky.social
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
Check out my conversation with Dr. Hicks about the stories she tells in Captive Cosmopolitans Black Mariners and the World of South Atlantic Slavery @uncpress.bsky.social
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
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Last week, staff at the University of Derby were out on strike over more than 250 planned redundancies.
Yesterday’s Canary piece digs into what happened on the picket lines, from student support to staff anger at the chaotic, unclear process from management.
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
Yesterday’s Canary piece digs into what happened on the picket lines, from student support to staff anger at the chaotic, unclear process from management.
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
UCU members strike at Derby University over 'punitive' job cuts
UCU members at Derby University worry about losing their jobs before Christmas, as one person says "we are here to defend our colleagues"
www.thecanary.co
December 8, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Last week, staff at the University of Derby were out on strike over more than 250 planned redundancies.
Yesterday’s Canary piece digs into what happened on the picket lines, from student support to staff anger at the chaotic, unclear process from management.
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
Yesterday’s Canary piece digs into what happened on the picket lines, from student support to staff anger at the chaotic, unclear process from management.
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
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Randalls Department Store, Uxbridge
1938
William L. Eves
www.modernism-in-metroland.co.uk/randalls.html
1938
William L. Eves
www.modernism-in-metroland.co.uk/randalls.html
December 5, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Randalls Department Store, Uxbridge
1938
William L. Eves
www.modernism-in-metroland.co.uk/randalls.html
1938
William L. Eves
www.modernism-in-metroland.co.uk/randalls.html
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NEW: Strike ballot opens Monday at Northumbria Uni
Management is forcing staff out of the industry standard Teachers' Pension Scheme through the threat of a pay freeze.
Our members say no!
@ucunorthumbria.bsky.social
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1428...
Management is forcing staff out of the industry standard Teachers' Pension Scheme through the threat of a pay freeze.
Our members say no!
@ucunorthumbria.bsky.social
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1428...
Strike ballot launched at Northumbria University in pay and pensions row
Staff at Northumbria University will be balloted for strike action in their fight against plans to pressure them to leave the Teachers' Pension Scheme.
www.ucu.org.uk
December 5, 2025 at 11:15 AM
NEW: Strike ballot opens Monday at Northumbria Uni
Management is forcing staff out of the industry standard Teachers' Pension Scheme through the threat of a pay freeze.
Our members say no!
@ucunorthumbria.bsky.social
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1428...
Management is forcing staff out of the industry standard Teachers' Pension Scheme through the threat of a pay freeze.
Our members say no!
@ucunorthumbria.bsky.social
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1428...
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My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.
December 4, 2025 at 9:38 PM
My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.
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Zack P: When are we going to have a cost of living special...?
Fiona Bruce: ...we talk about cost living every week..not sure why we need a special programme for it.
You talk about immigration every week. Yet, here we are, with a question time special on...immigration. Not sure that logic follows.
Fiona Bruce: ...we talk about cost living every week..not sure why we need a special programme for it.
You talk about immigration every week. Yet, here we are, with a question time special on...immigration. Not sure that logic follows.
December 4, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Zack P: When are we going to have a cost of living special...?
Fiona Bruce: ...we talk about cost living every week..not sure why we need a special programme for it.
You talk about immigration every week. Yet, here we are, with a question time special on...immigration. Not sure that logic follows.
Fiona Bruce: ...we talk about cost living every week..not sure why we need a special programme for it.
You talk about immigration every week. Yet, here we are, with a question time special on...immigration. Not sure that logic follows.
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Delighted to be supporting the launch of @togetheralliance.bsky.social
Together we need to take on the far right.
Togetheralliance.org.uk
Together we need to take on the far right.
Togetheralliance.org.uk
December 2, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Delighted to be supporting the launch of @togetheralliance.bsky.social
Together we need to take on the far right.
Togetheralliance.org.uk
Together we need to take on the far right.
Togetheralliance.org.uk
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The Vaughan City Explorers exploring the Belgrave Road, Leicester - art, architecture and lots of history both ancient and recent!
#DiscoveryCircles
#DiscoveryCircles
December 2, 2025 at 12:52 PM
The Vaughan City Explorers exploring the Belgrave Road, Leicester - art, architecture and lots of history both ancient and recent!
#DiscoveryCircles
#DiscoveryCircles
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This Friday (5 December) at 1pm the Vaughan Exhibition Visitors are viewing the Exhibition 'Mary Linwood: Art, Stitch and Life'.
Meet in Soft Touch Arts Cafe at 1pm.
www.leicestermuseums.org/MaryLinwood
Meet in Soft Touch Arts Cafe at 1pm.
www.leicestermuseums.org/MaryLinwood
December 2, 2025 at 1:04 PM
This Friday (5 December) at 1pm the Vaughan Exhibition Visitors are viewing the Exhibition 'Mary Linwood: Art, Stitch and Life'.
Meet in Soft Touch Arts Cafe at 1pm.
www.leicestermuseums.org/MaryLinwood
Meet in Soft Touch Arts Cafe at 1pm.
www.leicestermuseums.org/MaryLinwood
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In the spirit of this motion supporting Leicester - please support the petition they have to keep Geography
c.org/7Bn9Lh22YX
c.org/7Bn9Lh22YX
Sign the Petition
Save Geography at the University of Leicester
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November 26, 2025 at 1:46 PM
In the spirit of this motion supporting Leicester - please support the petition they have to keep Geography
c.org/7Bn9Lh22YX
c.org/7Bn9Lh22YX
Depressing letter although I thought worship of the liberal arts stopped long ago, at least in the UK.
It’s time to stop worshipping the liberal arts | Universities | The Guardian share.google/KpfvVDi6wbJD...
It’s time to stop worshipping the liberal arts | Universities | The Guardian share.google/KpfvVDi6wbJD...
It’s time to stop worshipping the liberal arts | Letters
Letters: While such institutions have intrinsic value, that doesn’t mean they are entitled to be socially favoured or economically exceptional for ever, says Jianyang Geng
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November 26, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Depressing letter although I thought worship of the liberal arts stopped long ago, at least in the UK.
It’s time to stop worshipping the liberal arts | Universities | The Guardian share.google/KpfvVDi6wbJD...
It’s time to stop worshipping the liberal arts | Universities | The Guardian share.google/KpfvVDi6wbJD...
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The COP30 deal has fallen short.
Morally, economically, environmentally and scientifically. There are reports that a record number of fossil fuel lobbyists (1,600) attended this UN climate summit.
Banning vested interests from the COP process is long overdue.
Morally, economically, environmentally and scientifically. There are reports that a record number of fossil fuel lobbyists (1,600) attended this UN climate summit.
Banning vested interests from the COP process is long overdue.
November 24, 2025 at 1:41 PM
The COP30 deal has fallen short.
Morally, economically, environmentally and scientifically. There are reports that a record number of fossil fuel lobbyists (1,600) attended this UN climate summit.
Banning vested interests from the COP process is long overdue.
Morally, economically, environmentally and scientifically. There are reports that a record number of fossil fuel lobbyists (1,600) attended this UN climate summit.
Banning vested interests from the COP process is long overdue.
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Everything must be THE MARKET!!!!
November 24, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Everything must be THE MARKET!!!!
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Shabana Mahmood's Indefinite Leave To Remain Culture War
3 years - if you're earning £125k+
15 years - if you're e.g. a nurse, or a teacher
Labour's two tier system which rewards high earners and insults those who work just as hard but don't earn as much - really sad to see Labour fall
3 years - if you're earning £125k+
15 years - if you're e.g. a nurse, or a teacher
Labour's two tier system which rewards high earners and insults those who work just as hard but don't earn as much - really sad to see Labour fall
November 20, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Shabana Mahmood's Indefinite Leave To Remain Culture War
3 years - if you're earning £125k+
15 years - if you're e.g. a nurse, or a teacher
Labour's two tier system which rewards high earners and insults those who work just as hard but don't earn as much - really sad to see Labour fall
3 years - if you're earning £125k+
15 years - if you're e.g. a nurse, or a teacher
Labour's two tier system which rewards high earners and insults those who work just as hard but don't earn as much - really sad to see Labour fall
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Lancaster University UCU members have beaten back compulsory redundancies.
After weeks of pressure management has agreed to halt all forced job cuts until July 2026.
This is a victory for jobs and every branch fighting cuts across the sector. We are the university.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
After weeks of pressure management has agreed to halt all forced job cuts until July 2026.
This is a victory for jobs and every branch fighting cuts across the sector. We are the university.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Strikes suspended in Lancaster University staff job cuts row - BBC News
The university is trying to save £30m amid rising costs and a fall in international student numbers.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Lancaster University UCU members have beaten back compulsory redundancies.
After weeks of pressure management has agreed to halt all forced job cuts until July 2026.
This is a victory for jobs and every branch fighting cuts across the sector. We are the university.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
After weeks of pressure management has agreed to halt all forced job cuts until July 2026.
This is a victory for jobs and every branch fighting cuts across the sector. We are the university.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Compare and contrast the Government language.
£3,750 EV grant on a £35k car: ‘helping families’.
Cycle to Work: ‘subsidising leisure’.
And yet cycling delivers TEN TIMES the impact of electric cars for reaching net zero. It’s almost like narrative, not data, is driving policy.
£3,750 EV grant on a £35k car: ‘helping families’.
Cycle to Work: ‘subsidising leisure’.
And yet cycling delivers TEN TIMES the impact of electric cars for reaching net zero. It’s almost like narrative, not data, is driving policy.
November 21, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Compare and contrast the Government language.
£3,750 EV grant on a £35k car: ‘helping families’.
Cycle to Work: ‘subsidising leisure’.
And yet cycling delivers TEN TIMES the impact of electric cars for reaching net zero. It’s almost like narrative, not data, is driving policy.
£3,750 EV grant on a £35k car: ‘helping families’.
Cycle to Work: ‘subsidising leisure’.
And yet cycling delivers TEN TIMES the impact of electric cars for reaching net zero. It’s almost like narrative, not data, is driving policy.
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Today's demo in support of colleagues @leicesterucu.bsky.social ✊🩷💜 Great to see so many people there
here's our branch banner at De Montfort Square
November 12, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Today's demo in support of colleagues @leicesterucu.bsky.social ✊🩷💜 Great to see so many people there
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Petition started by students in Modern Languages at the University of Leicester. The department has been told it will close despite its stellar NSS record and brilliant teaching and research - the same devastating short-term thinking as elsewhere. Please sign and share www.change.org/p/save-moder...
Sign the Petition
Save Modern Languages courses at the University of Leicester
www.change.org
November 12, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Petition started by students in Modern Languages at the University of Leicester. The department has been told it will close despite its stellar NSS record and brilliant teaching and research - the same devastating short-term thinking as elsewhere. Please sign and share www.change.org/p/save-moder...
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What's lost when we lose staff, departments, programmes and faculties in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, and what's that got to do with organ donation?
Amid the looming losses faced by Cardiff, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Leicester and Nottingham (among many others), here's a worked example. 1/8
Amid the looming losses faced by Cardiff, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Leicester and Nottingham (among many others), here's a worked example. 1/8
The organ donation ‘opt-out’ has been a fatal failure | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 10:10 AM
What's lost when we lose staff, departments, programmes and faculties in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, and what's that got to do with organ donation?
Amid the looming losses faced by Cardiff, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Leicester and Nottingham (among many others), here's a worked example. 1/8
Amid the looming losses faced by Cardiff, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Leicester and Nottingham (among many others), here's a worked example. 1/8
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We remind all members that we want to have a large show of solidarity - as large as possible - for our colleagues across the city. Please join us next Wednesday!
UCU (@ucu.org.uk) has called a national demonstration against the planned redundancies at the University of Leicester.
Please come and march alongside us in Leicester on 12 November.
All welcome!
Please come and march alongside us in Leicester on 12 November.
All welcome!
November 4, 2025 at 6:12 PM
We remind all members that we want to have a large show of solidarity - as large as possible - for our colleagues across the city. Please join us next Wednesday!