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Dorothy Berry @dorothyjberry.bsky.social · 3h

I am beyond excited (and nervous!) to announce that my first book, "The House Archives Built and Other Thoughts on Black Archival Possibilities" is available for sale!

This series of essay includes reworked talks, new reflections, and a lot of my heart

weherespace.myshopify.com/products/the...

light skinned Black woman with natural hair parted down the middle (me!) wearing gold earrings and an orange-red dress, holding a small paperback book with a mint green-blue cover and a variety of vintage + antique photos

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 6h

Very quick update on Covid in England from latest UKHSA hospital data. Looks like current Covid wave *might* have peaked, and also that flu season is starting a little earlier than normal.

If you can get vaxxed for either, I'd do it!

christinapagel.substack.com/p/very-quick...

Very quick update on Covid in England

Covid wave has possibly peaked and flu looks like it's starting early

christinapagel.substack.com

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steven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social · 7h

In 2024, I wrote a story for Texas Monthly about Michelle Haas, whose complaints resulted in the removal of books about slavery from historic Texas slave plantations. Haas sued us, alleging defamation, and was represented by the preferred lawyer of billionaire J.P. Bryan. Today, we won on appeal.

The header of the appeals court decision:

NUMBER 13-25-00005-CV

COURT OF APPEALS

THIRTEENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS

The conclusion of the appeals court decision, which states: The trial court's judgment is reversed. We remand the cause to the trial court with

instructions to (1) grant appellants' TCPA motion to dismiss, (2) award court costs and reasonable attorney's fees to appellants in accordance with the statute, (3) consider whether to assess sanctions against Haas in accordance with the statute. See TEX. Civ. PRAC. & REM. CODE ANN. § 27.009(a).

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Lesley A Hall @erinacean.bsky.social · 11h

It might be shyness and the feeling that they need to go via somebody who already has a 'connection'? Or the people who do reach out accruing a sense of power in their connections? (My thinking on this is I think heavily inflected by the group reading I'm in of A Dance to the Music of Time!)

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Lesley A Hall @erinacean.bsky.social · 11h

Sigh

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Lesley A Hall @erinacean.bsky.social · 11h

How recent? that reads like C19th sexology, I'm pretty sure I came across something about Russian marriage in pretty much exactly those terms quoted somewhere - Havelock Ellis? Iwan Bloch? Edvard Westermarck?

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Lesley A Hall @erinacean.bsky.social · 11h

I'm now wondering if this was actually their practice in the case of any reader who became or turned out to be convicted of a crime (would make an interesting study if so??? 'Criminals in the Round Reading Room'....) Or was it just the high profile of the Oscar scandal?

Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 12h

Enjoy the detail that he almost certainly never knew he'd had it taken away....

Chris Louttit @drchrislouttit.bsky.social · 12h

Happy Birthday to Oscar Wilde, whose British Library reader pass is being reinstated today.

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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 11h

🐏 New Absolute Units 🐏

Same-sex relationships have always been part of rural England, but they've been underrepresented in our collections.

In the first of 2 episodes, @timjerrome.bsky.social shares his work tracing queer rural lives in The MERL archives.

merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...

The Absolute Units art. Three giant sheep hover over the English countryside.

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Michael Lombardi-Nash @lombardinash.bsky.social · 11h

“The layman reassures himself that man is either male or female, whereas science recognizes ever more clearly the intermediaries between the two sexes.” ─Dr. W. Bode (1901), in Annual IV, Part 3, ed. Magnus Hirschfeld 🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ #MagnusHirschfeld
www.amazon.com/dp/B0DJSJHRG4

Annual of Sexual Intermediaries Volume IV Part 3 of 3 (1902)

Annual of Sexual Intermediaries Volume IV Part 3 of 3 (1902) [Hirschfeld, Magnus, Lombardi-Nash, Michael] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Annual of Sexual Intermediaries Volume IV Part 3 of 3 (1902)

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 12h

Predictions about aging societies tend to assume mortality rates will continue their long-term decline, but mortality decline has recently stagnated in countries like the UK: "Our medical colleagues suggest large future gains in older-age survival are unlikely given current health system pressures"

Are We Still Living Longer? What Longevity Trends Mean for Pensions and Insurers - Longevity & Mortality Investor

The success story of rising life expectancy is far from over, but it is evolving. For pensions and insurance, the challenge is to reflect short-term headwinds without losing sight of long-term potenti...

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 12h

Enjoy the detail that he almost certainly never knew he'd had it taken away....

Chris Louttit @drchrislouttit.bsky.social · 12h

Happy Birthday to Oscar Wilde, whose British Library reader pass is being reinstated today.

British Library to reinstate Oscar Wilde’s reader card 130 years after it was revoked

Exclusive: Pass to be presented to playwright’s grandson after original cancelled over conviction for gross indecency

www.theguardian.com

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Society for Army Historical Research @societyarmy.bsky.social · 12h

PLEASE TAKE OUR MONEY!
With the new academic year now well under way, a reminder that we offer University Research Grants of up to £1,000 for students carrying out research on the British Army or of the land forces of the British Empire & the Commonwealth.
Details at: www.sahr.org.uk/university-r...

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 12h

"Titan submersible imploded due to poor engineering, say US officials."

Also experts, amateurs, people consigned to asylums for congenital lunacy, people who've never heard of submersibles before, a tortoise called Alan and literally anyone else hearing the vaguest description of it.

BBC headline - Titan submersible inked sure to poor engineering, say US officials - above an image of the submersible in happier times, eg when it hadn't yet imploded and turned its occupants into a seawater-flavoured paste.

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Will Jennings 🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 12h

It's important to remember that despite Reform leading in the polls that Nigel Farage is not popular - and this hasn't changed since the general election.

YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 12h

Nigel Farage favourability rating (13-14 October 2025)

Favourable: 30% (no change from 10-11 Sept)
Unfavourable: 63% (+2)
Net: -33 (-2)

yougov.co.uk/politics/art...

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Dr Susan Greaney @suegreaney.bsky.social · 12h

Bit niche, but does anyone know of good publications or sources of information on historic aerial photography in India, for archaeological purposes? Presumably Archaeology Survey of India did a lot? cc @martynjb.bsky.social

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 13h

Nigel Farage is cosying up to the US anti-abortion group that challenged Roe v Wade. Women in Britain should know that | Zoe Williams

ADF, a conservative Christian lobby group that counts among its allies JD Vance, has stated that its goal is to see abortion rights curtailed in Britain, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

www.theguardian.com

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Danny Birchall @dannybirchall.bsky.social · 13h

skeeters, anyone who's ever met me irl will know I know nothing about fashion -- but if *you* know about fashion, what are your favourite/best digital resources etc for fashion *history*?

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 14h

In today's least surprising news

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Justine Pick @justinepick.bsky.social · 14h

#Job opportunity
Lecturer in early modern history
Full time - permanent

Lecturer in Early Modern History at Liverpool Hope University

An academic position as a Lecturer in Early Modern History is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportunities.

www.jobs.ac.uk

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Justine Pick @justinepick.bsky.social · 14h

#Job opportunity
Assistant Professor in Modern History
Full time - fixed term

Assistant Professor in Modern History at University of Sussex

Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Assistant Professor in Modern History on jobs.ac.uk!

www.jobs.ac.uk

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Women of South London @womenofsouthlondon.bsky.social · 14h

1/3 Poet, journalist, broadcaster & activist, Una Marson born Jamaica 1905 arrived in London 1932. She initially stayed with Dr Harold Moody, founder of League of Coloured Peoples, in Peckham and finding the racism in London a shock she joined him in addressing racial issues

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will o’the wisp pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 15h

“Histories of friendship… are a way of multiplying connection; a way of making real, small, and embodied solidarities echo louder down the years.”

I really enjoyed @lauracforster.bsky.social new article on histories of/ friendship/ as methodology 🗃️

williamgpooley.wordpress.com/2025/10/16/f...

Friends In Deed

In a new article in History Workshop Journal Laura Forster asks: how is history like friendship with the dead? It is easy, she points out, to scorn the idea of making friends with the past, and to …

williamgpooley.wordpress.com

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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 16h

Every decade, university administrators excite themselves over the prospects of firing all the faculty and 95% of the staff.

Early 2020s: LLMs
Early 2010s: MOOCs
Early 2000s: Wikis

ktb ⧉ @kevinbaker.bsky.social · 16h

In ways that we haven't fully internalized, LLM discourse is reanimating key features of 2004ish Wikipedia discourse.

Vlad 🐸 Țepeș @porcupunk.bsky.social · 20h

Wow. Just wow.

"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."

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alina @ramshackle78.bsky.social · 16h

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ktb ⧉ @kevinbaker.bsky.social · 16h

In ways that we haven't fully internalized, LLM discourse is reanimating key features of 2004ish Wikipedia discourse.

Vlad 🐸 Țepeș @porcupunk.bsky.social · 20h

Wow. Just wow.

"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."

When Knowledge is Free, What are Professors For?

Higher Education Must Stop Competing with AI on Information and Start Teaching What Machines Can’t Do

www.forbes.com

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Daniel Rück @danrueck.bsky.social · 21h

The Jesuit Archives are offering a new $2500 grant focused on Indigenous researchers investigating Indigenous topics. This is a very rich archive with much Indigenous language material. archivesjesuites.ca/en/indigenou...

NEW: Indigenous Research Grant, 2025-2026 | The Archive of the Jesuits in Canada

The latest news from the Archive of the Jesuits in Canada. Get updates on the latest exhibitions, blogs, press releases, and videos today.

archivesjesuites.ca

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Barbara Sobel @barbarasobel.bsky.social · 22h

RFK Jr: We need to stop trusting the experts... Trusting the experts is not a feature of science or democracy, it's a feature of religion and totalitarianism.

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Royal College of Nursing Library and Museum @rcnlibraries.bsky.social · 23h

Black History Month at the RCN Library and Museum

This October, we're celebrating the powerful stories of Black nurses through publications from our collections.

🔍 Explore this history yourself! Browse Historic Nursing Journals here: https://bit.ly/4eiLixy

#BlackHistoryMonth #HistNursing

A faded journal cover. Four nurses standing around a table with bottles and packets on it. Three are observing the fourth decanting medicine.

Journal cover with a red banner along the top. Title in the centre reads 'Salute To Women'.

Blue journal cover; a red ribbon running bottom left to top right, with the insignia of the Zambian Nurses Association.

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 23h

What's that I see before me? A new Romancing the Gothic conference! Celebrating the 200th anniversary of Radcliffe's last publications with a conference on the work of women and people of marginalised genders in the Gothic and horror...

romancingthegothic.com/2025/10/15/r...

Romancing the Gothic 2026 Conference CFP

More Terrors than her Reason Could Justify A 200th Anniversary Celebration of Ann Radcliffe’s Posthumous Publications 2026 marks the 200th anniversary of the publication of Ann Radcliffe’s final po…

romancingthegothic.com

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OutHistory @outhistory.bsky.social · 1d

In 1925, Eve Adams risked all to write and publish a book titled Lesbian Love. Two years later, she was deported following an obscenity trial. In 1943, she was murdered by Nazis in Auschwitz.

Head to the links in our bio to learn more.

Eve Adams Archive 1891-1943 by Jonathan Ned Katz Out History

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