Olga Prokopis
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Olga Prokopis
@olgaphoos.bsky.social
I live and work on unceded Brayakaulung country. Disabled scholar researching Shakespeare and Richard III. Graduate researcher in history at the Centre for Contemporary Histories Deakin University.
'Maintain your rage and enthusiasm.'
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November 20, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Physicians for Human Rights-Israel reveals torture, abuse carried out against Palestinians held in Israeli prisons in their new report Death Sentence for Palestinians in Custody.
Death Sentence for Palestinians in Custody
Physicians for Human Rights-Israel reveals torture, abuse carried out against Palestinians held in Israeli prisons in their new report Death Sentence for Palestinians in Custody.
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November 20, 2025 at 4:47 AM
The Times is at it again this week, insisting we disturb historical graves 'because DNA'. Here's me complaining back in 2015 about the same issue #richardiii

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The Princes in the Urn: Why it’s Time to Let Go of the Westminster Abbey Myth
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November 18, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Name: Theodore
Occupation: Wizard/Desk Frog
November 17, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Me: writing a completely unplanned paper for the first time

Me: Gosh I don't know if I can make the minimum 6k words

Me: Three months later at 9k with two sections left to write

(this happens when I plan papers anyway)
#academicchatter #writing
November 17, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Just added an article I wrote back in 2022 after watching Netflix's new adaptation of Jane Austen's Persuasion. With Netflix's new 'progressive' Pride and Prejudice coming up, I am still asking the same questions (and of course Shakespeare gets a mention)
From ‘Pride and Prejudice’ to ‘Persuasion’: Can Jane Austen Survive the Millennium?
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November 17, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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Today we remember William Bingham, the founder of God’s House in Cambridge, who died on 17 November 1451. The college is regarded as “the first secondary school training college in England. dottietales.wordpress.com/2015/12/01/w...
William Bingham
William Bingham – the founder of God’s House, “the first secondary school training college in England” While researching something completely different, I made the acquaintance of…
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November 16, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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Greek men of military age were denied passage out of #Turkey in Sep 1922 with their expelled families, regardless of their combatant status. They were marched into the interior where they were tortured before the majority were massacred. Over 100,000 Greek men met their fate in this way.
November 15, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Then, since the heavens have shaped my body so,
Let hell make crook’d my mind to answer it.
I have no brother, I am like no brother;
And this word “love,” which graybeards call divine,
Be resident in men like one another
And not in me. I am myself alone.

#HenryVI (3)5.6.79-84 #ShakespeareSunday
November 16, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Susu’s morning has been spent making sure her stash is returned to her after I sweep #cats
November 15, 2025 at 10:47 PM
November 15, 2025 at 9:08 PM
77 Years of Genocide: November 16th Newsletter #freepalestine #freepalestinegippsland
77 Years of Genocide: November 16th Newsletter
US highlights Gaza aid surge; Palestinians allege ‘engineered starvation
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November 15, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Miyazaki
November 14, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Richard II is my favourite Hollow Crown adaptation (don't tell the other Richard)
This weekend's #ShakespeareSunday theme is in celebration of #BBCShakespeare - THE HOLLOW CROWN PLAYS!
November 13, 2025 at 9:35 PM
My partner trying out a vintage lens (Minolta MD Rokkor 1:2 45mm if it's pertinent). She always poses for Father #cats
November 13, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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For those who will not be able to join us, here is an online exhibition with early modern Greek books, curated by the GrECI team: www.europeana.eu/en/galleries...

@uio.no @ec.europa.eu @nconstantinidou.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Marking the anniversary of the Miners' Strike of 1984/5, Keith Gildart reflects on a selection of recent titles in a new Review Article: 'Which Side Are You On Boys? Revisiting the History of British Coal Miners and the Strike of 1984/5'

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#MinersStrike
Which Side Are You On Boys? Revisiting the History of British Coal Miners and the Strike of 1984/5
The year 2025 marks the fortieth anniversary of the end of the bitter twelve-month miners’ strike of 1984/5. The dominance of coal in British energy produc
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November 13, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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📚💐 Bookshelf Wednesday! Week 3 of desert islands and the high seas! Take a look at Montgomery’s copy of Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe.

📲 To read "Robinson Crusoe", visit kindredspaces.ca/islandora/ob...

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#lmmontgomery #lucymaudmontgomery #danieldefoe #robinsoncrusoe #canadianliterature #jlmms
November 12, 2025 at 6:36 PM
I want in on this conversation
November 10, 2025 at 3:18 AM
This hand, which for thy love did kill thy love,
Shall for thy love kill a far truer love.

#RichardIII 1.2.175-6 #ShakespeareSunday
November 9, 2025 at 6:27 AM
November 8, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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The website for the Shakespearean Graves project is now live -- check it out!
shaxepitaphs.exeter.ac.uk
#ShaxEpitaphs
Shakespearean Graves
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November 7, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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