Diana Wallis
@dianapwallis.bsky.social
A european in Yorkshire; a lawyer & I have been a politician (european) now indulging a love of history mainly medieval with a focus on the disputes of York’s 15th century Merchant Adventurers.
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When I said we weren't here to be disappointed with Labour but to replace them. I meant it.
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October 15, 2025 at 9:59 AM
When I said we weren't here to be disappointed with Labour but to replace them. I meant it.
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So here we go in Ljubljana!
#Disinfo2025 is officially here! 🎉 We're kicking things off with an incredible lineup of panels and presentations you won't want to miss. 𝑳𝒆𝒕'𝒔 𝒈𝒐! 🙌✨
October 15, 2025 at 11:14 AM
So here we go in Ljubljana!
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#Disinfo2025 is officially here! 🎉 We're kicking things off with an incredible lineup of panels and presentations you won't want to miss. 𝑳𝒆𝒕'𝒔 𝒈𝒐! 🙌✨
October 15, 2025 at 5:34 AM
#Disinfo2025 is officially here! 🎉 We're kicking things off with an incredible lineup of panels and presentations you won't want to miss. 𝑳𝒆𝒕'𝒔 𝒈𝒐! 🙌✨
Thx so much to the Elizabeth Salter Fund, this was a hugely positive experience!
Diana Wallis, CMS MA student, recently presented a paper at the ‘Reading Visual Devices in Early Books' conference in Turku, Finland. The trip was partially funded by a bursary from the Elizabeth Salter Fund, which supports research and career development of postgraduate students.
June 10, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Thx so much to the Elizabeth Salter Fund, this was a hugely positive experience!
Pics from exhibition launch yesterday evening historia.europa.eu/en/exhibitio...
March 28, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Pics from exhibition launch yesterday evening historia.europa.eu/en/exhibitio...
Back in Brussels yesterday evening to open this interesting and thought-provoking exhibition
historia.europa.eu/en/exhibitio...
historia.europa.eu/en/exhibitio...
Presence of the Past – a European Album
The first photographic exhibition organised by the House of European History reveals how Europeans engage with the past in their everyday lives. What are we searching for when we connect with history?...
historia.europa.eu
March 28, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Back in Brussels yesterday evening to open this interesting and thought-provoking exhibition
historia.europa.eu/en/exhibitio...
historia.europa.eu/en/exhibitio...
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What a depressing irony that my #Burningthebooks & seven of my scholarly articles have been pirated by Meta for LibGen. We are experimenting with AI @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social using only public-domain materials. This industry needs to be regulated! www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem
Meta pirated millions of books to train its AI. Search through them here.
www.theatlantic.com
March 20, 2025 at 8:49 PM
What a depressing irony that my #Burningthebooks & seven of my scholarly articles have been pirated by Meta for LibGen. We are experimenting with AI @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social using only public-domain materials. This industry needs to be regulated! www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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My statement on being denied tenure at the Medill School of Journalism drive.google.com/file/d/1BBBI...
March 20, 2025 at 4:10 PM
My statement on being denied tenure at the Medill School of Journalism drive.google.com/file/d/1BBBI...
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“We urge every attorney to join us and insist that our government, a government of the people, follow the law. It is part of the oath we took when we became lawyers… Americans expect no less.”
Never in its history has the ABA had to issue such a statement.
www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...
Never in its history has the ABA had to issue such a statement.
www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...
The ABA supports the rule of law
It has been three weeks since Inauguration Day. Most Americans recognize that newly elected leaders bring change. That is expected. But most Americans also expect that changes will take place in accor...
www.americanbar.org
February 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
“We urge every attorney to join us and insist that our government, a government of the people, follow the law. It is part of the oath we took when we became lawyers… Americans expect no less.”
Never in its history has the ABA had to issue such a statement.
www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...
Never in its history has the ABA had to issue such a statement.
www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...
At least somewhere is going in the right direction.
"Fossil fuels are losing their grip on EU energy. At the start of the European Green Deal in 2019, few thought the EU’s energy transition could be where it is today; wind and solar are pushing coal to the margins and forcing gas into structural decline"
Big new @ember-energy.org report on EU energy
Big new @ember-energy.org report on EU energy
European Electricity Review 2025 | Ember
The EU’s electricity transition continued at pace in 2024, as solar overtook coal for the first time and gas declined for the fifth year in a row.
ember-energy.org
January 23, 2025 at 10:53 AM
At least somewhere is going in the right direction.
Excellent news!
Historic wills saved for the nation as plans to destroy old records are cancelled
Government heeds uproar from historians who claimed that to digitise would be to ‘delete history’
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/01...
Government heeds uproar from historians who claimed that to digitise would be to ‘delete history’
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/01...
Historic wills saved for the nation as plans to destroy old records are cancelled
Government heeds uproar from historians who claimed that to digitise would be to ‘delete history’
www.telegraph.co.uk
January 9, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Excellent news!
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St. Oswald’s Church Lythe, just up the coast from Whitby, has an incredible location. And it has a pretty nifty exhibition of the Anglo-Norse grave markers (hogbacks) too. (h/t Mrs A for the pix)
January 6, 2025 at 9:40 PM
St. Oswald’s Church Lythe, just up the coast from Whitby, has an incredible location. And it has a pretty nifty exhibition of the Anglo-Norse grave markers (hogbacks) too. (h/t Mrs A for the pix)
1st Dec. So it begins - discovering old treasure
December 1, 2024 at 2:19 PM
1st Dec. So it begins - discovering old treasure
Excited to have abstract accepted to participate in conference on ‘Reading Early Visual Devices’ in Turku, Finland next May, I shall be examining the Heptarchy diagrams of Matthew Paris
November 29, 2024 at 7:07 PM
Excited to have abstract accepted to participate in conference on ‘Reading Early Visual Devices’ in Turku, Finland next May, I shall be examining the Heptarchy diagrams of Matthew Paris
Across the rooftops the ‘other’ Yorkshire Minster - quite splendid!
September 2, 2024 at 7:29 PM
Across the rooftops the ‘other’ Yorkshire Minster - quite splendid!
The scissor arches at Wells Cathedral are mid-blowing when you consider they were built in the 14th Century.
August 28, 2024 at 6:04 PM
The scissor arches at Wells Cathedral are mid-blowing when you consider they were built in the 14th Century.
This is so important, this is our national cultural heritage, both its conservation & our access to it are paramount.
Agreed. I wrote this in January to try to get some attention on the issue. It’s going to cost the BL a great deal more than £400k … www.standard.co.uk/comment/brit...
August 22, 2024 at 11:30 AM
This is so important, this is our national cultural heritage, both its conservation & our access to it are paramount.
Early morning dog walk.
August 18, 2024 at 11:21 AM
Early morning dog walk.
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From Angus Young, a journalist of 40+ years (who likes writing for us as a volunteer!):
“The offences which took place in [Hull], proudly twinned with Freetown in Sierra Leone, were effectively 12 hours of racist hate-fuelled mob violence.” John Thackray KC
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/region/hulls...
“The offences which took place in [Hull], proudly twinned with Freetown in Sierra Leone, were effectively 12 hours of racist hate-fuelled mob violence.” John Thackray KC
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/region/hulls...
Hull’s most senior judge sentences rioters
Justice is being carried out quickly and efficiently in Hull, but the deeper wounds caused by racial hatred will take much longer to heal
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
August 17, 2024 at 4:20 PM
From Angus Young, a journalist of 40+ years (who likes writing for us as a volunteer!):
“The offences which took place in [Hull], proudly twinned with Freetown in Sierra Leone, were effectively 12 hours of racist hate-fuelled mob violence.” John Thackray KC
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/region/hulls...
“The offences which took place in [Hull], proudly twinned with Freetown in Sierra Leone, were effectively 12 hours of racist hate-fuelled mob violence.” John Thackray KC
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/region/hulls...
Interesting article piece on Jane Austin and anti-slavery. I started following this after reading the superb ‘The Garden against Time by Olivia Lang’ which drew me in turn to read Mansfield Park then this popped up theconversation.com/3-of-jane-au....
3 of Jane Austen’s 6 brothers engaged in antislavery activism − new research offers more clues about her own views
The author of ‘Pride and Prejudice’ and other classic novels used the words ‘slave’ and ‘slavery’ nearly a dozen times in her books.
theconversation.com
August 17, 2024 at 8:32 AM
Interesting article piece on Jane Austin and anti-slavery. I started following this after reading the superb ‘The Garden against Time by Olivia Lang’ which drew me in turn to read Mansfield Park then this popped up theconversation.com/3-of-jane-au....
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UK self-sufficiency in fresh vegetables is at its lowest since records began in 1988. We produce 53% of the vegetables we consume (inc non indigenous).
farminguk.com/news/uk-s-se...
Too much policy focus is on meat/dairy. This is the critical piece of food security we need to urgently address.
farminguk.com/news/uk-s-se...
Too much policy focus is on meat/dairy. This is the critical piece of food security we need to urgently address.
UK’s self-sufficiency in fresh vegetables hits record lows
The new government has been urged to help ensure self-sufficiency doesn’t drop any further as new figures show levels for some food are at the lowest.
farminguk.com
August 14, 2024 at 8:03 AM
UK self-sufficiency in fresh vegetables is at its lowest since records began in 1988. We produce 53% of the vegetables we consume (inc non indigenous).
farminguk.com/news/uk-s-se...
Too much policy focus is on meat/dairy. This is the critical piece of food security we need to urgently address.
farminguk.com/news/uk-s-se...
Too much policy focus is on meat/dairy. This is the critical piece of food security we need to urgently address.
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Damn right.
It was a travesty that government lawyers ever pursued this case against a climate activist merely holding a sign.
It was a travesty that government lawyers ever pursued this case against a climate activist merely holding a sign.
Government drops appeal over climate activist who held sign outside UK court
Judge had thrown out case against Trudi Warner, whose sign told jurors they had a right to acquit ‘according to conscience’
www.theguardian.com
August 15, 2024 at 4:15 PM
Damn right.
It was a travesty that government lawyers ever pursued this case against a climate activist merely holding a sign.
It was a travesty that government lawyers ever pursued this case against a climate activist merely holding a sign.
Seems I’m part of a big move, intriguing.
August 15, 2024 at 7:56 AM
Seems I’m part of a big move, intriguing.
Another exile from X - thought I’d give this a try.
August 14, 2024 at 7:55 PM
Another exile from X - thought I’d give this a try.