Lorna M. Hughes
@lornamhughes.bsky.social
Prof of Digital Humanities, Dean for Global Engagement, University of Glasgow. Memorial Device Alternative National Treasure #MDANT
Nobody wins unless everybody wins.
Nobody wins unless everybody wins.
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Lorna M. Hughes
@lornamhughes.bsky.social
· Nov 24
Our Heritage, Our Stories
ohos.ac.uk
Almost launch time for our Towards a National Collection Discovery project, opening up the wonderful Community Generated Digital Content of local archives and heritage groups across the UK ohos.ac.uk #ohos #TaNC @uofglasgow.bsky.social @historyhannahb.bsky.social
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This was the gateway drug to Bruce for me!
#ArtistFaveLP
Frankie Goes To Hollywood
Welcome To The Pleasuredome
Number 5
Born To Run
You know my top 4 just not the order. Having just watched this visceral, powerful, incredible performance it probably should be in there. Give yourself 5 minutes for this. HA!!
youtu.be/OXVUouuhg_Y?...
Frankie Goes To Hollywood
Welcome To The Pleasuredome
Number 5
Born To Run
You know my top 4 just not the order. Having just watched this visceral, powerful, incredible performance it probably should be in there. Give yourself 5 minutes for this. HA!!
youtu.be/OXVUouuhg_Y?...
Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Born To Run
YouTube video by marco righi - IPER
youtu.be
November 24, 2025 at 10:21 PM
This was the gateway drug to Bruce for me!
Travel on well, Jimmy Cliff m.youtube.com/watch?v=DyDY...
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band - Trapped (London Calling: Live In Hyde Park, 2009)
YouTube video by BruceSpringsteenVEVO
m.youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Travel on well, Jimmy Cliff m.youtube.com/watch?v=DyDY...
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Goodbye Jimmy Cliff. His vocal in this 1976 SNL performance, good lord---one of the best singers of his generation, of any generation. vimeo.com/155135842
many rivers to cross
jimmy cliff on saturday night live, 1976.
vimeo.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Goodbye Jimmy Cliff. His vocal in this 1976 SNL performance, good lord---one of the best singers of his generation, of any generation. vimeo.com/155135842
I feel seen
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 24, 2025 at 1:30 PM
I feel seen
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Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
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And another! Stories and interviews with the team behind one of the BBC's greatest ever TV dramas – "a revenge thriller, a mystical nuclear-and-environmental-apocalypse fable, a clear-eyed political document of the mid-1980s, a ghost story" – by me for @thequietus.com thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
Why Edge Of Darkness makes so much sense in 2025 | The Quietus
Judge Rogers speaks to several key members of the team who made the ecologically-minded thriller for the BBC
thequietus.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:38 AM
And another! Stories and interviews with the team behind one of the BBC's greatest ever TV dramas – "a revenge thriller, a mystical nuclear-and-environmental-apocalypse fable, a clear-eyed political document of the mid-1980s, a ghost story" – by me for @thequietus.com thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
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I don’t know who needs to hear this, but a day spent reading Agatha Christie in a Scottish Highlands Cottage in front of a crackling fireplace whilst indulging in a plate of emotional support scones will indeed fix you.
Anyone who tells you otherwise is not worthy of your friendship.
Anyone who tells you otherwise is not worthy of your friendship.
November 23, 2025 at 5:14 PM
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but a day spent reading Agatha Christie in a Scottish Highlands Cottage in front of a crackling fireplace whilst indulging in a plate of emotional support scones will indeed fix you.
Anyone who tells you otherwise is not worthy of your friendship.
Anyone who tells you otherwise is not worthy of your friendship.
And the UK Web Archive is still unavailable, webarchive.org.uk -nothing to see here (literally).
November 19, 2025 at 8:59 PM
And the UK Web Archive is still unavailable, webarchive.org.uk -nothing to see here (literally).
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I was just thinking the other day that it is mad that if this continues then the book I'm writing, about London 1560-1630, will contain basically no British Library manuscript material. Would have been unthinkable to me but there hasn't been a manuscript catalogue for two years now!
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:51 PM
I was just thinking the other day that it is mad that if this continues then the book I'm writing, about London 1560-1630, will contain basically no British Library manuscript material. Would have been unthinkable to me but there hasn't been a manuscript catalogue for two years now!
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It's that magical time of the year again! Our winter lights are officially on in the Cloisters ✨
November 19, 2025 at 10:24 AM
It's that magical time of the year again! Our winter lights are officially on in the Cloisters ✨
Lots of happy Scottish people and friends of Scotland today ❤️
November 19, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Lots of happy Scottish people and friends of Scotland today ❤️
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Great to see on waking up that it is still true and was not just a dream!🏴
November 19, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Great to see on waking up that it is still true and was not just a dream!🏴
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Good to see the problems facing our colleagues @britishlibrary.bsky.social being raised here by @hetanshah.bsky.social (of @britishacademy.bsky.social). If this had happened in France it would be considered a national problem to be urgently addressed! www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Good to see the problems facing our colleagues @britishlibrary.bsky.social being raised here by @hetanshah.bsky.social (of @britishacademy.bsky.social). If this had happened in France it would be considered a national problem to be urgently addressed! www.cityam.com/the-british-...
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Bruce played his first show overseas on this day 50 years ago, in London. The music he and the E Street Band performed — later released as "Hammersmith Odeon, London ’75" — struck different notes: bold, confident and unmistakably ready for the world, prepared by years of rough gigs.
Spirit In the Night (Live at the Hammersmith Odeon, London '75)
YouTube video by BruceSpringsteenVEVO
youtu.be
November 18, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Bruce played his first show overseas on this day 50 years ago, in London. The music he and the E Street Band performed — later released as "Hammersmith Odeon, London ’75" — struck different notes: bold, confident and unmistakably ready for the world, prepared by years of rough gigs.
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I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:27 AM
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
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Here’s the Second Avenue Theater, later the Anderson, and for about a week the CBGBs Theater. It was the first place “Because the Night” was ever performed live, Bruce Springsteen joining the Patti Smith Group onstage, before the NYFD showed up & shut things down
November 16, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Here’s the Second Avenue Theater, later the Anderson, and for about a week the CBGBs Theater. It was the first place “Because the Night” was ever performed live, Bruce Springsteen joining the Patti Smith Group onstage, before the NYFD showed up & shut things down
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Garbage - Only Happy When It Rains
YouTube video by GarbageVEVO
youtu.be
November 15, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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"What is certain, and felt instinctively by almost everybody, is that things cannot go on in their present way" – The Times, May 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
November 14, 2025 at 9:13 AM
"What is certain, and felt instinctively by almost everybody, is that things cannot go on in their present way" – The Times, May 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
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Liverpool. June 4, 2025. 📸: Rob DeMartin
November 13, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Liverpool. June 4, 2025. 📸: Rob DeMartin
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This Waitrose ad is better than the majority of movies I've seen this year.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sOy...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sOy...
Keira Knightley stars in Waitrose’s Christmas ‘mini romcom’ ad
YouTube video by Daily Record
www.youtube.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:43 PM
This Waitrose ad is better than the majority of movies I've seen this year.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sOy...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sOy...
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Meanwhile, here's an example of the horrendous things found in Hillary Clinton's emails—the only story worth covering for any serious news outlet in 2016, apparently.
This email is also regarding a child who suffered abuse from a grown man.
This email is also regarding a child who suffered abuse from a grown man.
November 13, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Meanwhile, here's an example of the horrendous things found in Hillary Clinton's emails—the only story worth covering for any serious news outlet in 2016, apparently.
This email is also regarding a child who suffered abuse from a grown man.
This email is also regarding a child who suffered abuse from a grown man.
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One of my earliest moments of radicalization was in 2005 when Larry Summers said that women biologically have less aptitude for science than men. Following that, scores of equally unimpressive people wrote pieces trying to explain or justify his remarks, when they should have called for his removal.
November 12, 2025 at 5:13 PM
One of my earliest moments of radicalization was in 2005 when Larry Summers said that women biologically have less aptitude for science than men. Following that, scores of equally unimpressive people wrote pieces trying to explain or justify his remarks, when they should have called for his removal.