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Lesley A Hall
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Archivist, historian, reader, Londoner, feminist
@erinacean
@[email protected]
www.lesleyahall.net
https://lesleyahall.blogspot.com/

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Lesley A Hall @erinacean.bsky.social · 1h
Doctor said 'that the play had to stop using real knives, I remember thinking: “You just don’t understand theatre.”' Who is it here who does not understand theatre???

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 1h
The irony is that one of the reasons Harriet Harman decided not to pursue Badenoch for hacking her website was a belief that more black women in politics was a good thing. So, in a small but salient way, Badenoch owes her position to the very solidarity she now mocks.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Badenoch defends calling chancellor 'spineless' in Budget row
The Conservative Party leader says she was
www.bbc.co.uk

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Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 1h
Is your child texting about Buckinghamshire Archives? Here are the signs to look out for:

BRB: Buckinghamshire records, blimey
LOL: Lots of ledgers
SMH: Some medieval holdings
WTF: Where's that folder?
ROFL: Researching our former lacemaking
IDC: Is Duke corrupt?
BTW: Big trees, Wendover

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Helen King @helenking.bsky.social · 1h
I’ve finally published a piece on the abuse of the Read sisters and the inadequacy of the review into the CofE’s response. viamedia.news/2025/11/28/s...
Safeguarding: How Can We “Learn Lessons” From the Read Sisters’ Case? - ViaMedia.News
by Professor Helen King, lay member of General Synod, Oxford Diocese When, in July 2025, the details of Revd Anne-Marie Ghosh’s emotional and physical abuse by her former husband were published by a B...
viamedia.news

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 2h
Oh boy
He followed his friends Andrew Doyle and Martin Gourlay, formerly of GB News, over here. They were hired by US comic actor Rob Schneider’s production company and put in a word for Linehan. He moved in March and works for Schneider too. Having co-created Father Ted in the 1990s and created The IT Crowd in the 00s, Linehan is co-creating a sitcom called Tenure – “Our academics are like Father Ted academics: they’re very old and musty” – with Doyle, Gourlay and British comedian Jonathan Kogan. They’ve written eight episodes.

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Jenny Crane @jennycrane.bsky.social · 2h
If anyone wants to form a panel where any of the following fit, please get in touch...

~in/out classifications (intelligence testing&its impacts)
~in/out of 'trauma' (reparative archiving around birth 'trauma' v. 'experience')
~in/out of the academy (expertise/engagement)

sshm.org/sshm-2026/
SSHM 2026: In/Out
Location: University of Leeds Dates: 30 June to 3 July 2026 Submission Deadline: 5.00pm (GMT) 11th January 2026 Conference Co-Convenors: Dr Alexia Moncrieff & Dr Katherine Rawling Conference Co…
sshm.org

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 2h
Can’t underline this enough really: these cases are a squillionaire giving crackpots money to seek out individual members of the public quietly going about their working day, so they can turn them into national hate figures, hand in hand with our utterly poisonous media outlets. That’s all it is.

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Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social · 2h
Long shot: I'm looking for someone who might know more than I do about the herb Summer Savoury. It's central to Newfoundland cooking & apparently also to Mennonite food & I've more recently learned its a major ingredient in Jamaican food. What trade winds blew this herb to these different places?

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Emma Jackson @emmakjackson.bsky.social · 3h
New policy discussion paper in this @britishacademy.bsky.social series by me and Louise Rondel on the need for policy makers to learn from place-based knowledges about urban rivers. www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publications...

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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 3h
🧵/ Today a damning parliamentary report on the state of palliative care services in England was published.

Services are patchy, underfunded & “ill-equipped” to address end-of-life needs.

Bereavement support is “frequently inaccessible.

The palliative care workforce is in a “critical” situation”.

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Kari Lancaster @karilancaster.bsky.social · 3h
5 year STS post doc at ANU Canberra, with international ERC funded team jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/researc...
Research Fellow, Ethnography and Sociology of the Artificial Cryosphere - Canberra / ACT, ACT, Australia
Classification: ANU Academic Level BSalary package: $118,632 - $134,507 per annum plus 17% superannuationTerms: Full-time, Continuing (contingent funded) This position is continuing (contingent funded...
jobs.anu.edu.au

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Beau @drbeaubeaumont.bsky.social · 4h
And still, there are those who say that Americans can’t do irony.
A post from the US Homeland Security, reading “This Thanksgiving, there is no room at the table for invaders.”

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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 4h
Now available online! www.cambridge.org/core/books/h... 🌿📚💚🪲

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Prof. Ben Pohl @benpohl.bsky.social · 5h
Only a genuine idiot or a nasty piece of work could think that making one’s country less welcoming and hospitable so fewer people want to come and live there constitutes an achievement worth bragging about.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 12h
“An infant in Kentucky who was unvaccinated against pertussis, or whooping cough, has died, marking the third death from the deadly bacteria in the state this year. Before 2025, Kentucky had last recorded an infant whooping cough death in 2018.”
Third infant in Kentucky dies of whooping cough as national cases stay high for second year in a row
www.cidrap.umn.edu

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Michael Lombardi-Nash @lombardinash.bsky.social · 14h
The significance of translations of Early #GermanGayRightsMovement texts, by Magnus Hirschfeld and Karl Ulrichs, is their relevance to contemporary discussions on sexuality and rights. #glbtqHistory Transgender & Intersex Studies #MagnusHirschfeld 🌈🏳️‍⚧️Ο www.amazon.com/dp/B0F1Y41JRL
Gedenkschrift Celebrating the Bicentennial Birthday Anniversary of Karl Heinrich Ulrichs (1825-1895): Architect of LGBT Pride, Community and Movement
A memorial piece that introduces Karl Heinrich Ulrichs (1825-1895) through an eclectic collection of writings by and about Ulrichs. Pieces penned by Paul J. Nash, Vern L. Bullough, Magnus Hirschfeld, ...
www.amazon.com

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Museums Association @museumsassociation.org · 14h
News | Budget 2025: ‘Far more ambitious action’ needed for culture sector 💼

How museum and culture sector leaders have responded to this year’s budget

#AutumnBudget2025 #Budget2025
Budget 2025: ‘Far more ambitious action’ needed for culture sector - Museums Association
How museum and culture sector leaders have responded to this year’s budget
www.museumsassociation.org

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 15h
This is off the top of my head.

These sorts of inefficiencies happen on quite literally a daily basis. Everybody in the system knows this. Everyone.

Yet what is the government’s diagnosis?

“Juries. They are the problem. Get rid of juries.”

It is absolutely mind-boggling.

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 15h
14. The government artificially restricting court “sitting days” - effectively closing perfectly usable courtrooms and forcing judges to stay at home, to make a tiny saving on court staff.

This happened regularly under the last government. The new lot are still doing it.

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 15h
10. Not enough barristers to cover cases. Often - especially in serious, specialised and difficult work such as Rape and Serious Sexual Offences - the CPS will not be able to find an available barrister, due to so many having quit. www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/barrist...
Barristers to quit RASSO work, survey suggests
Barristers cite poor pay and emotional exhaustion for wanting to quit rape and serious sexual offences work.
www.lawgazette.co.uk

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 15h
Here is a list of reasons why some of my hearings and trials this year have been delayed and kicked off into the long grass, stuck in our record court backlog. Serious allegations which will now be tried *years* after the event. 🧵👇

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Ben Jennings @bjennings90.bsky.social · 16h
Latest @theguardian.com cartoon

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 17h
What makes historic collections difficult? And how do researchers work with “difficult” collections?

New CFP from Paper Trails here:

blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll...

Deadline for proposals 31/1/2026
🗃️
Call for Papers: Difficult Collections | UCL UCL Special Collections
UCL Homepage
blogs.ucl.ac.uk

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Shoshana 🏳️‍⚧️ @shoshana.bsky.social · 17h
Right-wing men love testosterone replacement therapy for when their hormones aren't quite reich
Robert F Kennedy Jr is currently receiving gender-affirming care. Yes, really
Robert F Kennedy Jr, the anti-trans US health secretary, is currently undergoing hormone replacement therapy (HRT)
www.thepinknews.com

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Tom Hulme @tomhulme.bsky.social · 17h
I heard a story about a female academic giving a paper at the IHR who, after receiving a long and aggressive question from a senior male professor, simply leaned back with her hands behind her head and replied “Oh, do fuck off.”
plashingvole.bsky.social Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 19h
One of my colleagues went to a seminar at Berkeley and when someone asked a question Derrida brushed it off saying ‘what you ask may be important but it is not interesting’.
sanho.bsky.social Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 1d
This path leads to chaos.

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Institute for Public Policy Research @ippr.org · 19h
70% of the additional spending from removing the two-child limit will go to families who are in work. This is targeting support for low-income working households who are being priced out of a decent standard of living despite doing everything asked of them.

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Mark Watson: MURDER OF A FAMOUS BASTARD @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 19h
Honestly, it is possible to think 'I work hard to earn money; I deserve that money' and *also* 'it would be good if we created a more equal society: I'll help'. Exhausting to see everything presented as a fight to the death between those two ideas, seemingly forever.

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RN ship losses @rnshiplosses.bsky.social · 22h
27 Nov 1703 (O.S.) // The Great Storm of 1703 swept across southern England from the Bristol Channel to the Thames Estuary during the night of 26/27 November. Damage was widespread and many ships were lost, wrecked, and sunk, including the following 13 vessels of the #RoyalNavy. [1/9]
'The Great Storm Nov'ber 26 1703 Wherein Rear Admiral Beaumont was lost on the Goodwin Sands', National Maritime Museum, public domain image via Wikimedia Commons.

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Lesley A Hall @erinacean.bsky.social · 22h
Up to #10 in Upton Sinclair's Lanny Budd novels - O Shepherd, Speak! (1949).

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HistoryLab @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social · 23h
🌟 Exciting news! The deadline for the Olivette Otele Prize has been extended to Friday 12th December! Don't miss out on this fantastic opportunity for a fast-tracked publication, apply now! 📝
Olivette Otele Prize 2025/26 Open for Submissions! DEADLINE EXTENSION! We have extended the call for abstracts to Friday 12th December 2025 for our annual Olivette Otele Prize! The prize offers the chance for fast-tracked publication of an article and a cash prize of £250 and is open to Black UK-based PhD students working in history or related disciplines, exploring any place or period. We invite you to submit an abstract of no more than 400 words for a 40 minute paper by Friday 12th December 2025 to ihrhistorylab@gmail.com. Timeline: Abstract deadline of no more than 400 words due by Friday 12th DECEMBER 2025 Shortlisted scholars will be notified by Friday 19th December 2025 and asked to submit a full paper of no more than 8000 words by Friday 27th February The winner will be announced by the end of March 2026 Prize and Recognition The winner will receive a £250 cash prize, will be invited to speak at History Lab’s annual conference in summer 2026, and to submit their paper to Historical Research, the leading generalist historical journal and flagship publication of the Institute of Historical Research. Shortlisted scholars will receive a £30 book voucher and the opportunity to present their research at a History Lab seminar. About the Prize The Olivette Otele Prize was created in 2020 in response to the Royal Historical Society’s ‘Race, Ethnicity and Equality Report’ which highlighted racial inequality in the field of history. The prize was named after the UK’s first Black woman history professor and was designed to both raise participants’ profiles as well as financially reward labour involved in academic research. We look forward to reading your applications!