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Prof Tracey Hill
@tracelarkhall.bsky.social
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Sweary prof, iconoclast, and non-league football nut (Larkhall Athletic FC 💙). Lives in early modern London; citizen & Founder. Bossed by cats. I mean it about the swearing 🤬
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Prof Tracey Hill @tracelarkhall.bsky.social · Nov 7
Well hello new people! Hope you like cats, football and random snippets of early modern London
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Mon 8 Dec @ 6.30pm online

BEASTS OF BANKSIDE
Dr Liam Lewis, Dr Lizzie Wright
& Professor Hannah O’Regan

The @archaeobears.bsky.social team share their latest research into the lives of the animals performing in the bear-baiting arenas that stood next to The Rose.

www.roseplayhouse.org.uk/whats-on
Infographic with a woodcut showing dogs attacking a bear taken from Antibossicon by William Lilly, published in 1521. (Used by permission of the Folger Shakespeare Library under a Creative Commons license). The text reads: Researching The Rose Monday evening online talks. Dr Liam Lewis, Dr Lizzie Wright & Professor Hannah O'Regan. "Beasts of Bankside" 6.30pm online, Mon 8 Dec
November 27, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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thelondonjournal.bsky.social
We are running a free workshop at @tandfresearch.bsky.social's office in South London on 30 January 2026 to support early career scholars in developing their work into a publishable journal article. Expressions of interest due by 16 January. See here for more details (and please share widely!)
thelondonjournal.org
November 27, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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St Lawrence Jewry - where Middleton was baptised - at nightfall
November 27, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Over 200 people signed up 😳
tracelarkhall.bsky.social Prof Tracey Hill @tracelarkhall.bsky.social · 22h
Still full of cold bleurgh but just about well enough to don the frock and get a later train to London for tonight's talk. Who's in?
November 27, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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I feel this too
drleonj.bsky.social Leon Jackson @drleonj.bsky.social · 1d
You know what we won't need once handwriting recognition software has done its thing? Archivists, curators, conservators, catalogers, codicologists, or paleographers. We won't need archives either. We won't need diplomatics, editorial theory, book or media history, or material culture studies 🗃️🧵
November 27, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Still full of cold bleurgh but just about well enough to don the frock and get a later train to London for tonight's talk. Who's in?
November 27, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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JIM 🐈 🥰
cabinetstories.bsky.social cabinetstories.bsky.social @cabinetstories.bsky.social · 1d
Jim needs to be immortalised in his own children's book. and possibly a major motion picture. I have offered to represent him, and to negotiate a really spectacular deal.
dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 1d
THREAD.

3 years ago, with no warning, a brilliant orange farm cat wandered over from the draughty barn where he had been living, in rural Cornwall, and decided he wanted to live with us instead.

We decided to call him Jim.

This is the first photo I took of him, on that night: December 1st, 2022.
November 26, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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I'm sure I'm not the only one who is increasingly likely to be regarded as an unworldly weirdo for objecting to casual use of AI
davidveevers.bsky.social David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 1d
Seeing a fair few academics saying things like ‘sure I know AI is terrible and the people who designed it are terrible and the impact it has on the planet is terrible…but how might *I* be able to use it in a non-terrible way?’
November 26, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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💗
6music.bsky.social 6music @6music.bsky.social · 2d
“Writing” by Elton John #nowplaying #6music
November 25, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Chris Difford of Squeeze 🤩 loves Elton's best album 🥰
November 25, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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My mate Steve 🤩
ianmartin.bsky.social Ian Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social · 3d
Look look! SpaceHive knocked the £1.4k contingency fund off, some holy angel sent from God called Stephen Longstaffe dropped 350 quid on us and we are THERE. I promise, this film is going to be epic. Thank you everyone, come on ANGELINE, you stroppy Edwardian MINX!
www.spacehive.com/angeline#/la...
Angeline - A film by Dallas Road Primary
'Angeline', a film by Dallas Road Primary School, created with Lancaster Film Initiative and Ian Martin.
www.spacehive.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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@gwr.com why is it impossible to change my password?! It's beyond infuriating
November 24, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Aw, I used to love Prefab Sprout 🥰
6music.bsky.social 6music @6music.bsky.social · 3d
“When Love Breaks Down” by Prefab Sprout #nowplaying #6music
November 24, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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This Thursday! It would be great to see some familiar faces 😊
November 24, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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Just realised that I've eaten out 4 times this week, 3 at the Rose and once at Founders. Ah well
November 23, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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It was a complete joy to work with my friend Andy on our special issue of @thelondonjournal.bsky.social in 2022, and I am very proud of the introductory essay we co-authored: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Rest in power, dear friend
www.tandfonline.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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Fuck you, cancer, you ABSOLUTE BASTARD
November 21, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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These students are so lucky to have such a kind, thoughtful, and rigorous tutor
gregjenner.bsky.social Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · 6d
Well worth a read. It’s so sad what AI is doing to students’ ability to think for themselves👇
earlymodjustice.bsky.social Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social · 7d
To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.”

www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
November 21, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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Signed up for a very interesting sounding "webinar". Turns out if requires you to download an AI version of zoom so nope 👎
November 20, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Cammy is our longest-serving and most annoying player. He rarely scores but this is a screamer of a midfield punt 🔥
November 20, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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What a goal! 🙌

youtu.be/TAIJmoMCJOs?...
Goal! Jack Cammy Cam Cam
YouTube video by Larkhall Athletic FC
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November 20, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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thelondonjournal.bsky.social
Call for papers for our new special issue on 'Nocturnal London', edited by Maurizio Cinquegrani, Yihong Zhu, and @mcmccluskey.bsky.social. Abstracts due in by 31 March 2026.

All submissions and reposts much appreciated.
Nocturnal London: From Torches to Neon Signs in a City After Dark Edited by Maurizio Cinquegrani, Yihong Zhu and Michael McCluskey The editors of this special issue, Maurizio Cinquegrani, Yihong Zhu and Michael McCluskey invite submissions on the theme of London nights. This volume of the London Journal will examine the histories of the city after dark, from its origins in Roman London to the present. Often overlooked, night has long been an essential dimension of urban life: as the city’s appearance change in the lightening of torches, oil lamps, gaslight, incendiary bombs and neon signs, nocturnal imagery, sounds, smells and professions – legal and not legal – emerge from the darkness. For Londoners, the night was never simply the absence of day; it was a time of danger, sociability, and creativity; a theatre of crime and vice, but also of performance, work, and pleasure. The special issue will place particular emphasis on moments when the character of London’s nights was especially contested, including – but not limited to – the Elizabethan, the eighteenth century, the Victorian, the wartime and the postwar city. The Elizabethan period witnessed the emergence of the city’s playhouses, taverns, and nocturnal entertainments, alongside concerns about disorder and moral decline. Eighteenth-century coffee-houses and club meetings reflected the nocturnal city’s uneasy mix of polite sociability and transgressive undercurrents, while pleasure gardens flourished as spaces of spectacle, employment, cross-class mingling, and erotic charge under cover of darkness. In the Victorian era, the introduction of gaslight transformed both the material and imaginative experience of the night, making the city’s streets newly navigable while also exposing poverty, vice, and vulnerability to the gaze of reformers, police, photographers, and journalists. Wartime London, by contrast, was marked by darkness and silence imposed from above: the blackout and the Blitz remade the urban night as a zone of danger, solidarity, and belonging. The postwar decades, and especially the 1960s, brought the era of Swinging London, in which nightlife became emblematic of youth, fashion, music, and cultural revolution. Equally important are the particular districts that have defined London’s reputation after dark, including – but again not limited to – the West End and the East End. The East End has been imagined as a zone of poverty, danger, and cultural resilience, alive with street-level economies that flourished under cover of night. The West End has long been associated with theatres, clubs, and the rituals of fashionable display. Soho, especially in the twentieth century, became a microcosm of cosmopolitanism, transgression, and reinvention, providing a home for migrants, artists, musicians, and London’s gay community, who together redefined the possibilities of nocturnal sociability. Beyond districts and periods, we also invite reflections on the people who navigated, transformed, and reimagined the nocturnal city. The editors are especially keen to foreground questions of diversity and difference. How have London’s nights been inhabited, shaped, and contested by women, by queer citizens, by migrants and racialised communities, and by those whose working lives were tied to the hours of darkness? How was night both policed and celebrated? How did nocturnal spaces serve as arenas of negotiation between surveillance and resistance, authority and anonymity, privilege and precarity? How have representations in literature, theatre, music, art, and film contributed to the cultural meanings of the nocturnal city? We welcome submissions from across the disciplines, including history, literary and cultural studies, art history, archaeology, urban geography, sociology, performance and media studies, as well as ecology, environmental humanities, and architecture and urbanism. Interdisciplinary approaches are encouraged, as are contributions that combine archival research with theoretical or methodological innovation. Abstracts of 300–400 words, accompanied by a short biographical statement, should be submitted by 31 March 2026. Full-length articles will be in the range of 6,000–8,000 words and are due by 31 March 2027. Please send proposals and queries to Maurizio Cinquegrani, Yihong Zhu, and Michael McCluskey (m.cinquegrani@kent.ac.uk, scarlett.zhu24@gmail.com, and m.mccluskey@northeastern.edu) with the subject line Nocturnal London Special Issue.
November 20, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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Sick of grappling with this useless slow hard-driveless chromebook so have *gulp* bought a Macbook Air
November 20, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Tuuuuunnnneee
6music.bsky.social 6music @6music.bsky.social · 7d
“E=MC²” by Big Audio Dynamite #nowplaying #6music
November 20, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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Gonna get a lot of use of this new black frock *with pockets* 🙌
November 20, 2025 at 12:54 PM