Mark Doyle
@markdoyle.bsky.social
Historian & writer. Britain, Ireland, empire, music. Latest book is on John Cale's Paris 1919 for 33 1/3. Next: histories of African people/music in Ireland. “Pipe-sucking radical”-Mail on Sunday. Views here are my own, not my employer's.
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Mark Doyle
@markdoyle.bsky.social
· Oct 19
This is an essay I wrote about music and grief and sunsets and water and grief and brothers and grief. It’d mean a hell of a lot if you set aside a little time to read it.
The Consolations of Waterloo Sunsets
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The Consolations of Waterloo Sunsets
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Not enough chatter on my timeline about the upcoming centenary of the 1926 UK General Strike. This'll fix that. youtu.be/jcrQvxteO08?...
General Strike Number 1 (1926)
YouTube video by British Pathé
youtu.be
February 12, 2026 at 11:30 PM
Not enough chatter on my timeline about the upcoming centenary of the 1926 UK General Strike. This'll fix that. youtu.be/jcrQvxteO08?...
Reposted by Mark Doyle
As ever, when sport is underway, we turn to the expertise of Sportfolio for that peak period in the 1890s when moustaches and sporting endeavour combined
London skaters Hiam & Syers struck a pose in 1896, "despite...our climate" & the routine absence of snow
mrc-describe.epexio.com/records/CTC/...
London skaters Hiam & Syers struck a pose in 1896, "despite...our climate" & the routine absence of snow
mrc-describe.epexio.com/records/CTC/...
February 10, 2026 at 1:45 PM
As ever, when sport is underway, we turn to the expertise of Sportfolio for that peak period in the 1890s when moustaches and sporting endeavour combined
London skaters Hiam & Syers struck a pose in 1896, "despite...our climate" & the routine absence of snow
mrc-describe.epexio.com/records/CTC/...
London skaters Hiam & Syers struck a pose in 1896, "despite...our climate" & the routine absence of snow
mrc-describe.epexio.com/records/CTC/...
Reposted by Mark Doyle
Tom Alter was a tenured professor at Texas State University until September 2025 when he was fired after a pressure campaign led by a right-wing agitator who had secretly recorded and edited comments he made at an online socialist conference.
Listen to his story.
Listen to his story.
February 2, 2026 at 7:03 PM
Tom Alter was a tenured professor at Texas State University until September 2025 when he was fired after a pressure campaign led by a right-wing agitator who had secretly recorded and edited comments he made at an online socialist conference.
Listen to his story.
Listen to his story.
"Public colleges and universities are among the last remaining institutions dedicated to truth-seeking and civic education, and attacks on academic freedom are attacks on democracy itself."
On the Elimination of Tenure at Oklahoma Regional Universities and Community Colleges
The removal of these protections will directly undermine educational quality, weaken faculty recruitment and retention, and deprive students of learning environments grounded in intellectual rigor and...
www.aaup.org
February 10, 2026 at 1:28 AM
"Public colleges and universities are among the last remaining institutions dedicated to truth-seeking and civic education, and attacks on academic freedom are attacks on democracy itself."
Critic's Pick: '33 1/3' Author Panel
6:30 p.m. Feb. 11 at The Bookshop
www.nashvillescene.com
February 9, 2026 at 7:59 PM
So you're telling me there weren't any good bunnies available to perform at halftime?
February 8, 2026 at 8:53 PM
So you're telling me there weren't any good bunnies available to perform at halftime?
Excellent, thanks. This is a club gig, so I just might go for it.
February 7, 2026 at 5:39 PM
Excellent, thanks. This is a club gig, so I just might go for it.
Anybody seen Dry Cleaning (the band, not the genre of laundry service) in concert? They're coming to Nashville and I'm considering it...
February 7, 2026 at 5:29 PM
Anybody seen Dry Cleaning (the band, not the genre of laundry service) in concert? They're coming to Nashville and I'm considering it...
Ah, that album has one of my favorite Kinks songs on it (high bar): Sweet Lady Genevieve
February 7, 2026 at 5:20 PM
Ah, that album has one of my favorite Kinks songs on it (high bar): Sweet Lady Genevieve
This. Interesting (& timely) study of design in the service of totalitarianism.
February 7, 2026 at 2:55 AM
This. Interesting (& timely) study of design in the service of totalitarianism.
This is deeply troubling. OK is probably not the only domino that's gonna fall.
Tenure Eliminated at Oklahoma Colleges
Regional and community colleges professors will no longer receive tenure; research university faculty are spared, with some exceptions. https://bit.ly/4tlEtUq
#EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd
Regional and community colleges professors will no longer receive tenure; research university faculty are spared, with some exceptions. https://bit.ly/4tlEtUq
#EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd
February 6, 2026 at 3:12 AM
This is deeply troubling. OK is probably not the only domino that's gonna fall.
Mine's in the mail - should be here any day. Proud to be one of the first on this side of the Atlantic to #GetKeshed!
February 6, 2026 at 12:40 AM
Mine's in the mail - should be here any day. Proud to be one of the first on this side of the Atlantic to #GetKeshed!
& tbh I've rarely felt so productive. My rule (in case this is useful) is to have each project in front of my face at least once a day. It can be 5 minutes or it can be 2 hours. Writing new stuff, tinkering with a word, whatever--I pull it off the back burner once a day, and so we inch along.
February 5, 2026 at 11:18 PM
& tbh I've rarely felt so productive. My rule (in case this is useful) is to have each project in front of my face at least once a day. It can be 5 minutes or it can be 2 hours. Writing new stuff, tinkering with a word, whatever--I pull it off the back burner once a day, and so we inch along.
I started noticing it when I moved to the south (2009) and assumed it (along with "you're fine"- pronounced "fahn") was a southern thing, but I've started hearing it elsewhere too. And it kind of irks me for reasons I can't quite explain.
February 5, 2026 at 2:34 AM
I started noticing it when I moved to the south (2009) and assumed it (along with "you're fine"- pronounced "fahn") was a southern thing, but I've started hearing it elsewhere too. And it kind of irks me for reasons I can't quite explain.
Another day of incremental progress on half-a-dozen projects. There's a Paul Durcan poem called A Snail in My Prime - that's me.
February 5, 2026 at 1:20 AM
Another day of incremental progress on half-a-dozen projects. There's a Paul Durcan poem called A Snail in My Prime - that's me.
People calling 9-1-1 on ICE. ICE calling 9-1-1 on people. This is such a depressing and important picture of what's happening under our noses. www.thisamericanlife.org/880/what-is-...
What Is Your Emergency? - This American Life
911 calls unlike any we’ve heard before, and other stories about immigration agents sweeping through America.
www.thisamericanlife.org
February 3, 2026 at 12:56 AM
People calling 9-1-1 on ICE. ICE calling 9-1-1 on people. This is such a depressing and important picture of what's happening under our noses. www.thisamericanlife.org/880/what-is-...
Fun to see the right blaming the widespread & ongoing power outages in Nashville on DEI workshops at the power company. If they had spent more time preparing for heavy rainfall followed by freakishly low temperatures instead of having DEI workshops, we wouldn't be in this situation, etc.
January 30, 2026 at 6:51 PM
Fun to see the right blaming the widespread & ongoing power outages in Nashville on DEI workshops at the power company. If they had spent more time preparing for heavy rainfall followed by freakishly low temperatures instead of having DEI workshops, we wouldn't be in this situation, etc.
Just snagged some tickets to see them in March. I'm eager to see if he can remember all those lyrics.
January 30, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Just snagged some tickets to see them in March. I'm eager to see if he can remember all those lyrics.
Now's a good time to cancel that Prime membership. www.immigrantdefenseproject.org/wp-content/u...
January 29, 2026 at 10:39 PM
Now's a good time to cancel that Prime membership. www.immigrantdefenseproject.org/wp-content/u...