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Vanda Wilcox @vandawilcox.bsky.social · 22h

it's always disconcerting when you're grading a student's essay and they cite your published work. I was about to say 'good point!' then I realised it was originally my point so maybe best not 😂

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Vanda Wilcox @vandawilcox.bsky.social · 1d

Reminded of this article again after finding an Italian colonial army payroll today, where ascari acknowledged receipt of payment with their fingerprint

A hand written accounts book: first a list of names of East African soldiers, with sums paid in the next column and a blue ink finger print in the final columns

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Vanda Wilcox @vandawilcox.bsky.social · 1d

Apart from anything else, this is really, really not good history

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Vanda Wilcox @vandawilcox.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting!

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Vanda Wilcox @vandawilcox.bsky.social · 1d

Am now looking forward to disinfecting my laptop thoroughly

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Vanda Wilcox @vandawilcox.bsky.social · 1d

Reminded of this article again after finding an Italian colonial army payroll today, where ascari acknowledged receipt of payment with their fingerprint

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Vanda Wilcox @vandawilcox.bsky.social · 1d

Update: definitely mould, alas. The next file was more mould than paper

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Vanda Wilcox @vandawilcox.bsky.social · 1d

Archival mysteries of the day:

Slightly singed or just natural, health-giving black mould?

A pile of documents, badly damaged and eaten away on the right, with a crumbling black edge

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Vanda Wilcox @vandawilcox.bsky.social · 1d

Ponte Milvio in the morning means it's an archive day!

A pale brick and stone bridge with multiple low arches spanning a river, leafy trees all around it

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Vanda Wilcox @vandawilcox.bsky.social · 2d

I literally taught this class session last month! Students goggled at it in consternation

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Vanda Wilcox @vandawilcox.bsky.social · 4d

😬😬

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Vanda Wilcox @vandawilcox.bsky.social · 6d

Such an amazing story

Dr Pete Olusoga @dr-peter-olusoga.bsky.social · 6d

8. Abebe Bikila 🏃🏿🇪🇹

🥇First Ethiopian to win an Olympic gold

Running barefoot, Bikila won the marathon at the 1960 Olympics in Rome and then became the first athlete ever to defend an Olympic marathon title, taking gold in Tokyo in 64

Oh and he broke the world record both times.
#blackhistorymonth

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The Octopus Gallery @octopusgallery.bsky.social · 6d

Good news for sewists: the paper pattern company feared lost to bankruptcy has been saved as an independent company.

craftindustryalliance.org/sewing-patte...

Sewing Patterns Rise from DGA Bankruptcy Ashes - Craft Industry Alliance

The “Big 4” sewing patterns are saved. Simplicity, McCall’s, Vogue & Butterick get new life under Rubelmann Capital.

craftindustryalliance.org

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Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 6d

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Vanda Wilcox @vandawilcox.bsky.social · 6d

Looking forward to seeing this book out very soon now!

Dr Aimée Fox @draefox.bsky.social · 7d

Only a month 'til the publication of “Framing the First World War: How Divergent Views Shaped a Global Conflict”, edited by me, @mpmfinch.bsky.social & @dmorganowen.bsky.social!

US readers: get 30% discount (code: FRAMINGWWI) & free shipping if you order direct from @univpressofkansas.bsky.social

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Vanda Wilcox @vandawilcox.bsky.social · 6d

Very excited to see you succeeding, Sofya! And looking forward to what your presidency will bring

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Vanda Wilcox @vandawilcox.bsky.social · 8d

important reflections on the colonial archive and how we might use it, from @camilleriana.bsky.social - makes me wonder how to get myself over to Eritrea!

Dónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social · 8d

A great new post on researching the history of former Ascari in Eritrea by our own @camilleriana.bsky.social. colvet.eu/338-2/

Dr Nicola Camilleri, ‘Former Eritrean Soldiers in the Italian Colonial Army: Fragments of Life and Documentation’. | Colvet.eu

colvet.eu

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Vanda Wilcox @vandawilcox.bsky.social · 8d

today I have a list of admin & emailing as long as my arm but I forced myself to leave it all til this afternoon and first spend 4 hours working on my book project while I'm still mentally fresh

trying to prioritise important even if not urgent over the urgent but very unimportant stuff!

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Vanda Wilcox @vandawilcox.bsky.social · 8d

tag yourself, I'm "sick foreigner"

list of poorly translated ways you could get a residency card in France

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Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 9d

Epic; no notes

Headline from the Times: "Bestselling novelist Jilly Cooper dies in fall aged 88", illustrated with a rather famous black and white picture of Virginia Woolf

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Vanda Wilcox @vandawilcox.bsky.social · 8d

Reposting for no reason at all 🙃

McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 8d

“Keeping It Together: How Not to Get So Burned Out That You Walk Out in the Middle of Class” will now be a slideshow presented in the haunted auditorium by Jim “Flip” Philips, head coach of the varsity TP team.

The Faculty Mental Health Fair Has Been Postponed Again

Dear Faculty: Due to concerns expressed by the students, parents, and staff, you are invited to attend a mandatory emergency mental health fair in ...

buff.ly

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Ben Whitham @drbenwhitham.bsky.social · 10d

Men in balaclavas set fire to a mosque in East Sussex last night. It's only appearing on the BBC's local coverage, rather than its main national headlines, despite coming just a week after the (also under-reported) firebombing of an asylum hotel in London last week
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Peacehaven: Fire at East Sussex mosque probed as 'hate crime'

Video appears to show two people in balaclavas at the mosque before a large blaze spreads.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Vanda Wilcox @vandawilcox.bsky.social · 10d

It *could* be genius but unless I had loads of surplus fabric to hand I'd not want to cut into it and find out the hard way it doesn't work!

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Vanda Wilcox @vandawilcox.bsky.social · 10d

I would be a little concerned about how it would behave on the bias myself - it could work with a fine corduroy but with a thick grain it might be tricky?

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Vanda Wilcox @vandawilcox.bsky.social · 10d

Including Mt Olympus, which would be pretty cool!