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Sarah Wride
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Cultural & intellectual historian @york.ac.uk, @ihr.bsky.social, & in the wild | hows, whys, & effects of re-imagining historical homicides | #YWES editor | committee @historylabplus.bsky.social & @capnetwork.bsky.social | sarahwride.co.uk/historianforhire
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Of the small Mendip village of Priddy 👇
Photograph of a rusty street sign for Priddy Good Farm and Cafe, with the farm address, "OPEN", and "BREAKFAST, TAKEAWAYS", "COFFEE & TEA".
November 26, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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Small cylinders of butter wrapped in grease-proof paper, the front label of each reads "Wee Knob of BUTTER", with "ARTISAN MADE", "EST. 2021", "SCOTTISH", and "SALTED".
November 26, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Amazon Prime lorry with "There's more to Prime. A truckload more." and the Amazon logo on the back.
November 26, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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In New Cumnock, on the River Afton 👇
Photograph of signage for Afton-Glow Grooming, above the shop, reading "AFTON-GLOW GROOMING", with a dog icon, and "Fully Qualified & Experienced", "Holistic Groomer", "K9 Teeth Cleaning", and social media links.
November 26, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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Photo of some food packaging from The Vegetarian Butcher: "WHAT THE CLUCK" is described as "Soy based chicken style chunks", with "VEGAN" and a picture of the chunks in action.
November 19, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Screenshot of a Bosch advert featuring the advertising slogan, "Like a Bosch".
November 19, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Upon plundering @scotsman.com's top-notch album of wordplays past & present (shorturl.at/Cikvt) 👇
Image of Natural Born Grillers' shopfront, including the company name, "HOT & COLD FOOD", & "SIT IN & TAKEAWAY". Image of The Lunatic Fringe's shopfront, including the company name, "HAIRDRESSING", "Est 2005", & a phone number. Image of Reservoir Logs' logo: the company name in white, with stacks of green-bagged logs in the background. Image of a white transit van in the snow with a small advert for "BONNIE TILERS" & "wall & floor tiling", with a name & contact number.
November 11, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Image of the sign above the business entrance, including a logo for “ACCAMERON BLACKWATERFOOT”, then “ON A ROLL HOT & COLD FOOD TO GO”.
November 9, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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Screenshot of a company webpage, including “COHEN.TV AERIALS est. 1962”, with the tagline “Satisfaction With Every Erection” (followed by “A highly respected family business”).
November 9, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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Found it!
Image of “Wesley Snips Barber Chop” shop front.
November 7, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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An image of a shop front, with “AYR FRYERS collection & home delivery” & a telephone number.
November 7, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Image of a secured shop window, with “AYR CUTS BARBERSHOP”, a barber’s pole icon, & social media information.
November 7, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Tea & coffee merchants on Victoria Street in #Edinburgh 👇
Shop front of “Cuttea Sark”.
November 6, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Image of a business logo on a window: including “The THAILANDER”, “Authentic Street Cuisine Since 2015”, and “25-27 Brougham Street Edinburgh EH3 9JT”.
November 6, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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The cacti are just starting to feel a *smidge* aggressive now…
A fireplace mantel with a horse sculpture in the middle, and ceramic pots at either end, each containing a cactus. The cacti both have a number of low ‘knuckles’ with one tall ‘finger’ sticking up…
November 5, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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I’m getting lovely family-run Arran business…
I’m also getting serial killer roaming the hills…
Image of an advert on the side of a white transit van. It reads: “THE ARRAN BUTCHER”, “QUALITY MEAT, FISH & HOME-MADE PRODUCE”, and “Award winning family butcher Est. 1964”, with a silhouette of the Isle of Arran.
November 3, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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It looks great. Cannot wait to read about @collinjennings.bsky.social's Enlightenment Links, @josephhone.bsky.social’s (timely!) ‘Pope’s Scrapes and Ghosts’, & more!

#editing
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Images of the covers from the following studies: Nicolle Jordan’s Prolific Ground: Landscape and British Women's Writing, 1690–1790; Chantel Lavoie’s Writing through Boyhood in the Long Eighteenth Century: Age, Gender, and Work; Dayne C. Riley’s Consuming Anxieties: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Trade in British Satire, 1660-1751; and, Collin Jennings’s Enlightenment Links: Theories of Mind and Media in Eighteenth-Century Britain.
October 29, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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A huge range of studies covered by @charlottegoodge.bsky.social & Thomas Leonard-Roy, from @brycchancarey.bsky.social’s The Unnatural Trade to @rhyskamjones.bsky.social's ‘Queering Thomas Gray’s Celticism’. Itching to get reading & #editing!

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Images of the covers for the following studies: Brycchan Carey’s The Unnatural Trade: Slavery Abolition, and Environmental Writing, 1650-1807; Alison O’Byrne’s The Art of Walking in London: Representing the Eighteenth-Century City, 1700-1830; Thomas Gray among the Disciplines, edited by Ruth Abbott and Ephraim Levinson; and a special issue of Eighteenth-Century Life, entitled ‘The Manuscript Book in the Long Eighteenth Century’, edited by Alexis Chema and Betty Schellenberg.
October 29, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Anyone else automatically read this as the men & women really thought things through on those holidays?
Image of text from Ronald Hutton's excellent The Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year in Britain. It reads, "There was a tendency for the men's clubs to process on Whit Monday, and those of the women on the Tuesday."
October 26, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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A Google 'AI overview' gem is foisted upon me as I try to identify the backing dancer in Fun magazine's April 1884 May Day satire...
#c19th 🗃️ #folklorethursday
Search terms: "gladstone cabinet 1884 fun" Google AI Overview starts with the following sentence: "There was no specific 'fun' associated with Gladstone's 1884 cabinet, which was instead a serious, high-stakes government focused on significant political reforms, most notably the Reform Act of 1884, which extended the right to vote to approximately two-thirds of adult males in Britain."
October 9, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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I can't stop thinking Inigo Jones and the Temple of Doom.

(I know, I know: the massive boulder wasn't in that one.)
Image from The Designs of Inigo Jones (1727), showing Jones's design for a simple circular temple with steps and a small colonnaded portico, including an elevation and (of particular interest to me here) a top-down view, basically a massive, bold circle, with a lighter rectangle protruding from its base ...as though falling on the page's final elevation...
October 1, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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YES.
This is definitely a thing.
Part of the floorplan, showing an L-shaped "Lounge/Diner" measuring in at a whopping 12.66m by 3.76m. The other end of the same room, also packed with the owner's lovely things: a dining area, separated from the longer lounge area by Gothic style wooden paneling. An unexpectedly long and narrow lounge area, with the owner's lovely things, and glowing with sunlight. The chairs are lined up along each of the long walls, Plato's-cave-style.
September 30, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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Cover of Gladys Mitchell’s When Last I Died, the recent Vintage edition
September 27, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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I've just learned from Ian Kershaw's warm obituary (bitly.cx/1JCz) that the wonderful Frank O'Gorman died this August, & wanted to remember to #AcademicSky his Voters Patrons & Parties ...game-changing for me & so many #HistParl & electoral culture #Skystorians. What a loss!
👇one choice comic moment
“Many of those who could not be profitably employed by ingenious committee men still make their appearance in election accounts under headings like 'gifts to poor freemen', 'money to the poor'. If even these categories would not suffice, then injuries, or alleged injuries, received during the election might cover the case in hand." Then, highlighted, "Lord Milton's carriage appears to have been so carelessly driven around Yorkshire during the election of 1807 that a large number of people received fairly serious injuries, for which they had to be suitably compensated."
September 18, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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📣CFP: 'Byron and Identity', 2026 Newstead Abbey Byron Conference, deadline 1 January 2026
👉 www.thebyronsociety.com/call-for-pap...

#AcademicSky #Romanticism #LordByron

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Portrait of Lord Byron in a heavy gilded frame; it hangs from chains on a wall in Newstead Abbey, covered in cream and red, strapwork wallpaper A view of Newstead Abbey from the far side of Eagle Pond
September 15, 2025 at 7:19 AM