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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 3d

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

www.cbsnews.com

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 3d

CfP: Romantic Elements: Rocks, and Stones, and Soil, 1750–1850, Symposium at The University of Manchester, 25–26 June 2026. Deadline 30th January 2026. www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6185

CfP: Romantic Elements: Rocks, and Stones, and Soil, 1750–1850 – BARS Blog

www.bars.ac.uk

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Maureen Wright @drmaureenwright.bsky.social · 3d

I can't beat this one!

Rachel Gunter, Ph.D. 🗃️ @phdrachel.bsky.social · 3d

Reviewer 2 felt differently.

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 3d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 3d

People get so weird about blocking, as though it's punishment for something. And I understand. But also:

People have the right to curate their spaces. If someone needs to NOT have me in THEIR space for their peace, good for them! I don't have the right to be in someone else's space.

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Maureen Wright @drmaureenwright.bsky.social · 3d

Delighted you've found a good use for pigeons.

Maureen Wright @drmaureenwright.bsky.social · 4d

Looking forward to seeing you there.

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Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · 4d

It’s Bookshop Day! Go and support your local bookshop and help them resist the dominance of Amazon

And if you want personally signed and dedicated copies of any of my books, buy from the lovely Kirstie at @foxlanebooks.bsky.social

Fox Lane Books 🦊 (@foxlanebooks.bsky.social)

🦊Indie bookseller with an online shop📚Lots of signed books & special editions 🦊 Sale sections all year round with book bargains📚Gift packages, book subscriptions & E-gift cards available🦊Bookish gifts...

foxlanebooks.bsky.social

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Maureen Wright @drmaureenwright.bsky.social · 4d

After finding out hubby is eligible but not me I thought I'd investigate paying for a Covid-19 vaccine...
Not at these prices though! I'll just have to risk it.

Matt Green @mattgreencomedy.com · 4d

There’s a comment piece in The Times about sickness benefits mysteriously going up and no mention of Covid, long Covid, the effects of lockdown etc. Boosters help people stay healthy, but now they are only available to the very old or people who can afford them.

Jason Hazeley @jasonhazeley.bsky.social · 4d

It’s dispiriting that this is what getting a COVID vaccination now looks like to this chronic asthmatic.

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Maureen Wright @drmaureenwright.bsky.social · 4d

This is getting beyond silly.

Patrick Andelic @pkandelic.bsky.social · 4d

Simpsons screencap. Mr Burns wearing an obvious false moustache. Caption: "Bonjour, je m'appelle Monsieur Unrocel."

Maureen Wright @drmaureenwright.bsky.social · 4d

I was home from school with a lurg that day. Watched every moment on TV. Just brilliant. Never dreamt that 2 decades later I'd be studying history @UniversityofPortsmouth!

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History Rage Podcast @historyrage.bsky.social · 5d

🚨 BOOK LAUNCH🚨
Roger Moorhouse joins us to reveal why the U-Boat War was nowhere near the close-run thing we’re told – by 1943 the tables had turned dramatically. 🎙️⚓️

🎧 Listen 👉 pod.fo/e/339dda
📖 Buy the book: uk.bookshop.org/a/10...

#WWII #NavalHistory #Podcast @wmcollinsbooks

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Guy Walters @guywalters.bsky.social · 6d

Thanks to the peerless scholarship of Dr Jürgen Matthäus, we now know the identity of the murderer in this most notoriously iconic picture of the Holocaust. His name was Jakobus Onnen. He was a teacher. My piece in the Independent:
www.independent.co.uk/news/people/...

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Maureen Wright @drmaureenwright.bsky.social · 5d

Natch. The Star ⭐ always sits in the best seat!

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Jane Gulliford Lowes @lydiajane13.bsky.social · 7d

Thanks @danellin.bsky.social ! Really looking forward to giving this lecture at the wonderful International Bomber Command Centre in Lincoln in March. See you there !

Dan Ellin @danellin.bsky.social · 7d

I've just bought a ticket for this. @lydiajane13.bsky.social @nmtdambusters.bsky.social

IBCC Lecture & Supper Series - The Invisible Campaign - Bomber Command Gardening Operations 1940-1945. - International Bomber Command Centre

The Invisible Campaign – Bomber Command Gardening Operations 1940-1945 with author, Jane Gulliford-Lowes Aerial mining by RAF Bomber Command was a vital part of the Allied war effort, claiming far mor...

internationalbcc.co.uk

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Maureen Wright @drmaureenwright.bsky.social · 8d

Done.

Maureen Wright @drmaureenwright.bsky.social · 9d

BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cg...
Jilly Cooper: Best-selling author of Rivals dies aged 88 after fall - BBC News

Excellent tribute from HMTQ 👑 to her late friend. 👇

Jilly Cooper: Best-selling author of Rivals dies aged 88 after fall

www.bbc.co.uk

Maureen Wright @drmaureenwright.bsky.social · 9d

A real harvest feel.

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Maureen Wright @drmaureenwright.bsky.social · 11d

A valuable work space for scholars now open at the Bishopsgate Institute - I used the archives here while researching for my PhD. A positive development.

Bishopsgate Institute @bishopsgateinst.bsky.social · 11d

Somewhere free, quiet, and right next to Liverpool Street? 👀

Whether you’ve got a deadline looming, are polishing off a chapter on your lunch break, or hunting for a calm spot to do some work, our new Reading Room is open to you.

👋 https://www.bishopsgate.org.uk/whats-on/activity/reading-room/

Reading Room | Bishopsgate Institute

The Reading Room is separate to the Researchers’ Service, so if you’d like to look at our special collections and archives, you’ll need this instead https:

www.bishopsgate.org.uk

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Women's History Network @womenshistnet.bsky.social · 12d

This #BHM, learn about Mollie Hunte—educational psychologist from British Guyana, and a driving force in the Black Education Movement in the UK from the 1970s onwards. A true champion of Caribbean communities.
womenshistorynetwork.org/mollie-hunte... #GenderHist #WomensHistory

Mollie Hunte (1932-2015): Educator, Psychologist and Champion of Caribbean People, by Rebecca Adams

Mollie Hunte was an educational psychologist from British Guiana (now Guyana) born in 1932. She was a significant part of the Black Education Movement in the UK during the 1970s onwards and made a …

womenshistorynetwork.org

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Maureen Wright @drmaureenwright.bsky.social · 11d

How did that happen?

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Maureen Wright @drmaureenwright.bsky.social · 11d

Always to the Manor Born.

Maureen Wright @drmaureenwright.bsky.social · 11d

Auditioning for the next series of Riders, perchance?

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Maureen Wright @drmaureenwright.bsky.social · 11d

Congratulations 🎉

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The London Journal @thelondonjournal.bsky.social · 11d

The next in our series about standout articles from the journal's history, as chosen by members of of our editorial board, is Yihong Zhu's selection of Ellie Miles's 2013 article ‘A Museum of Everything’: Making the Pleasure Gardens inside the Museum of London' as her particular favourite. 🧵

‘A Museum of Everything’: Making the Pleasure Gardens inside the Museum of London

In 2010, the Galleries of Modern London opened at the Museum of London, and included a re-making of London’s Pleasure Gardens. Using an embedded ethnographic perspective at the museum, this paper e...

www.tandfonline.com

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 12d

"We live at a time of considerable uncertainty and peril. We believe this future will be easier (if never easy) to navigate with recourse to the skills and temperaments integral to a historical approach to life."

RHS President, Lucy Noakes, writes on the Society's blog bit.ly/3KBX7Fw #Skystorians

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