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Alice Marples

@alicemarples.bsky.social
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Research & Postgraduate Development Manager @britishlibrary.bsky.social. Historian of early modern science, communication & collections. She/her with 'Big North Energy'. Very personal.

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read
A printed poem which reads:

I hav for breakfast Weetabix

I hav for lunch some meat

I have for tea 2 sosajis and thats enuf to eat

Peter Hazel, 5
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National Library of Scotland @natlibscot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We’re excited to be hosting this event for early career researchers on Tuesday 3 November. Interested? Find out more at the link below 👇
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Ben Mechen @benmechen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Some fascinating Collaborative Doctoral Awards on offer here at the BL, including a great history of sexuality/book history/library history project relating to the Rund Collection of 19th/20thC erotic books and ephemera www.bl.uk/services/res...
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Collaborative Doctoral Landscape Awards
Fully-funded and jointly supervised studentships across four developing research areas.
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Centre for Place Writing @centreplacewriting.bsky.social · 19h
Coming up later this year @drdavidcooper.bsky.social will be celebrating the publication of his book Reading Place Writing: Geography, Form, Immersion 2010-2020 with a launch event with Jean Sprackland on 3rd December at Manchester Poetry Library. Book your place here: www.mmu.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
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Book Launch: Reading Place Writing by David Cooper, 03 Dec 2026
Book Launch, Manchester Poetry Library
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Creative Manchester @uomcreativemcr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Join The John Rylands Library for ‘Beyond Preservation: Innovation in Special Collections’. 📅 5 October, 2.30pm–4.30pm 📍 John Rylands Library 🎟️ ow.ly/et8m50ZSZAJ This event forms part of The University of Manchester’s Innovation Festival. Find out more: ow.ly/rNIy50ZSZBC
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Alice Marples @alicemarples.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Our fourth and final Collaborative Doctoral Landscape Award theme for this round is now published - all prospective academic supervisors welcome to apply.
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Linda Andersson Burnett @lindaaburnett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Instructing Colonial Natural History Seminar Series is back and we have a stellar line up: @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social, 6 Oct; @cberiksen.bsky.social, 28 Oct; Jim Endersby, 25 Nov; and Ma. Mercedes G. Planta, 9 Dec. All seminars are on Zoom, 15-16 CET
Poster for Instructing Colonial Natural History, Autumn Term 2026 seminar series. The design uses an 1785 watercolour by Sarah Stone showing the interior of Sir Ashton Lever’s Museum in Leicester Square, London: a dark green natural-history collection crowded with display cabinets, birds, shells, antlers and other specimens, with green curtains opening onto receding galleries and a large elephant on the right. Four online seminars are listed: Sadiah Qureshi, 6 October; Christoffer Basse Eriksen, 28 October; Jim Endersby, 25 November; and Ma. Mercedes G. Planta, 9 December. All seminars are on Zoom, 15.00–16.00 CET. Registration: instructingnaturalhistory@uu.se
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Nit Nurse With Wound @dannybirchall.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
next step ... ban everyone from the home counties www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Oxford Street to be pedestrianised from 26 October
Buses, taxis, bikes and other vehicles, will be banned from Orchard Street to Great Portland Street.
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BSECS @bsecs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Submissions are welcome for the London Topographical Society's Anne Saunders Prize: £1,000 for an original & unpublished research essay on the topography, development, or buildings of #London in any period. Details here: londontopsoc.org/about-us/ann... #skystorians 🗃️
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Ann Saunders essay prize - London Topographical Society
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Webinar Free for registered readers Wednesday 11 November 2026 · 10.00–11.30 UK time · streamed on this page UKRI, transformed www.researchagenda.news/events.html
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UKRI, transformed – a Research Agenda webinar
Wednesday 11 November 2026, 10.00–11.30. Four new buckets, whole budget lines ripped up, an industrial strategy to wrestle with: ninety minutes on a year of enormous change at UKRI. Streamed here, fre...
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Alice Marples @alicemarples.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Unexpectedly felled by the current London cold, which is a doozie. Be careful out there.
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 24/09/2026
it saddens me that Taylor Swift has a new song coming out, I think that we, as free people, should be allowed to spend more than 17 minutes at a time without being made to think about Taylor Swift, her last tour lasted for 85 years, can she not rest for a little while longer
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Anna Cusack @annacusack.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Just a PSA: the RNLI website has some great Christmas items up... cards, decorations, gifts, etc. 100% of the profits from these items go towards supporting RNLI lifeboat crews and their search and rescue services.
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Dr Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull (He/They) 🏳️‍🌈 @benwt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Brilliant time yesterday at @awickenden.bsky.social and @oldfortunatus.bsky.social ‘s “Politics of Rare Books” event @crasshlive.bsky.social talking about/connecting with people working across all things rare books and colonial provenance with academics and librarians.
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 22/09/2026
Join us online at 1pm on Thursday (24th Sept) for 'Historical Context: The Climate Crisis' bit.ly/3V4lgKf With panellists @dagomardegroot.bsky.social, @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social and @ellydezateux.bsky.social. How does historical expertise help us understand the world today? All welcome #Skystorians
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Historical Context: The Climate Crisis
A panel discussion, hosted by the Royal Historical Society, in which expert historical researchers provide context for current events.
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British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
We’re delighted to announce Dr Paul Bate as the British Library’s new Chief Executive Joining us from the UK Space Agency, Paul brings experience supporting world-class research communities. We look forward to welcoming his expertise at the Library. Read the full announcement here link.bl.uk/fc6
A photograph of Dr Paul Bates stood in a stairwell at the British Library. He is a white man, with dark brown hair and wearing a white shirt and camel coloured chinos.
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Catherine Fletcher @catherinefletcher.info · 12/08/2026
My university (Manchester Met) is inviting expressions of interest for Leverhulme postdocs. If you have an innovative early modern European and/or public history project to put forward, please get in touch. Deadline for completed EOIs is 9 October.
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Early Career Fellowships | The Leverhulme Trust
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Russell Gascoigne @russgascoigne.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Morning
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
We really need a comprehensive (government funding bodies, charitable funders, universities, learned societies and ECRs) summit and plan for maintaining postdoctoral pipelines AND not letting the crises simply re-inscribe extant inequalities in the system.
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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
applications TRIPLED within 5 years
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Dr Eleanor Shaw @eleanorshaw.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Fancy coming to work with me at the British Library? Part time for 18 months, collecting oral histories about covid and thinking about covid commemoration. www.nationalmuseums.org.uk/jobs/job/228...
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Jobs - National Museum Directors' Council Website
Association of directors and chief executives of the UK's national museums, galleries, libraries and archives.
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Rebecca Whiteley @rebeccawhiteley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Anyone who is interested in Material Culture and the Medical Humanities should definitely come and join our new Collective! medhumsplatform.org/call-for-col... @annafranjam.bsky.social @harrietbarratt.bsky.social @drfijohnstone.bsky.social
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Call for collaborators – launching the Material Medical Humanities Collective | The Platform
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Alice Marples @alicemarples.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Yesterday, I got to say 'piss-pot prophets' on telly. Being a historian is good, isn't it?
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DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Leading a creative writing workshop on Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726) in Special Collections at Kent, writing objects and subjects big and small. Wed 28 Oct, 2pm until 4pm, Templeman Library. Email D.kavanagh@kent.ac.uk to reserve a place. #CreativeWriting #GulliversTravels
Writing Big and Small after Gulliver
A Creative Workshop
Dr Swift
First published in 1726, the first two books of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels turn on a single trick played in opposite directions: shrink the world around its narrator, and even the smallest objects and gestures of Lilliputian court life become petty and absurd; leave him ordinary-sized among the giants of Brobdingnag, and the plainest objects, and the bodies of the people who use them, become overwhelming, even repulsive, at close range. This workshop invites participants to think about their chosen objects or subjects in both big and small ways, using inspiration from the Special Collections holdings to write other worlds into existence.
Date: Wednesday 28 October 2026
Time: 2.00pm - 4.00pm
Venue: Special Collections & Archives, Templeman Library, University of Kent,
Canterbury
Led by: Dr Declan Kavanagh
Places limited - materials provided - all levels welcome
To reserve a place, email D.kavanagh@kent.ac.uk
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The state we are in. 7.28m hospital appointments awaited. 4m waiting for a social home. Universities in financial crisis. Rivers polluted with sewage. Half of schools unfit for use. Manufacturing declined from 30.1% of economic output in 1970 to 8.5% by 2026. Must abandon neoliberalism.
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Here’s how the chancellor can raise the billions needed to improve the quality of life of millions
Prem Sikka is an Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of Essex and the University of Sheffield, a Labour member of the House of Lords, and Contributing Editor at Left Foot Forward. Mi...
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Building the Angel of the North, 1998, photo by Trevor Ermel.
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Laura Cleaver @laurajcleaver.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Marking the 350th anniversary of the oldest English book auction catalogue, this year’s book trade history conference returns to the theme of auctions. 🧑‍⚖️ 📚 London 22-23 November, book now at www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
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47th Annual Conference on Book Trade History | Battling Over Books: Auction Catalogues and Their Contexts, 1676-2026
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 11/09/2026
Applications now invited for the Society's next round of research funding: for Postgraduates, studying for a PhD, and Early Career Historians, within 5 years of completing a doctorate: bit.ly/4ywZi0S Grants of £500-£1000 to pursue research. Closing date 4 December 2026 #Skystorians 1/2
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Calls for research funding from the Royal Historical Society: December 2026 deadlines - RHS
The Society invites applications for the following three schemes — open to historians at a range of career stages — with closing dates from 4 December 2026. Postgraduate Research Support Grants, 2026-...
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Dee Lomas @deelomas.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The RNLI volunteer has told us that donations usually run at £20,000 per day. Currently running at £100,000 per day! Bloody brilliant!
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Rachel Moss @menysnoweballes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Excited to share my @britishacademy.bsky.social event in collaboration with @wienerlibrary.bsky.social - www.northampton.ac.uk/research-blo... 🗃️ Please share!
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CFP: Far-Right Archives in the Digital Age | UON
Wiener Holocaust Library, London. Friday 27 November 2026, 10.30am-4pm Improved digital access to far-right material at archives, libraries, and beyond...
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Alice Marples @alicemarples.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Can I recommend Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed during these troubled times? Rereading it now and I can almost literally feel the strength returning to my body.
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Ben Mechen @benmechen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I should say here that the BL are looking for EOIs from academics who might come on board as supervisors for projects like this one
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The Royal Society @royalsociety.org · 09/09/2026
Are you an early career researcher in the history of science? The Lisa Jardine Grant Scheme is now open for applications, giving early career scholars the opportunity to exploit history of science collections in support of their research. Find out more and apply now: royalsociety.org/grants/lisa-...
A promotional image for the Lisa Jardine Grant Scheme. On the left is a photo of a woman smiling and gesturing towards the camera in a library setting. On the left is text describing the scheme and the Royal Society's logo.
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Ian Rennie @theangelremiel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Nathan Fielder and Elizabeth Holmes doing the "we're just normal men" meme
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Lucy Snow @lucysnowy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Last week, I had the pleasure of attending the BSECS PGR/ECR conference in Montpellier, and presenting a paper entitled ''Your long detention of a parcel of old musty Parchments': Stagnant Collaboration in Acquisitions to the Harleian Collection'. It was great meeting so many like-minded academics!
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Catherine Angerson @sonofanger.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
@susanreed.bsky.social and I are looking for academic co-supervisors for a collaborative PhD project on the German friendship albums (alba amicorum/ Stammbücher) at the British Library. Please share with anyone who might be interested! Details on the website: www.bl.uk/services/res...
Papercut artwork in the friendship album of Georg Eringshausen. Egerton MS 1311, f. 74Embroidery of sunflowers in the friendship album of Magnus Weickmann. Egerton MS 1451, f. 9.Friendship album of Christoph Carl Clausner with a painted portrait on the left and German inscription on the right. Egerton MS 1467, f. 1v-2r.Friendship album of Jobst Wilhelm Munker with inscription in Latin on the left and painting of three men smoking pipes on the right. Egerton MS 1427, ff. 29r-30v.
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Kirsty Finn @kirsty-finn-mcr.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Really good piece. We wrote something similar ish about institutional belonging work in HE. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The contemporary contradictions of belonging in higher education: successful transitions in times of crisis
Educational transitions have way-markers and objective milestones as students enter, move through and exit institutional spaces within a normative timeframe. Increasingly, however, scholarship has ...
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Alice Marples @alicemarples.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
See below for collaborative project outlines inviting UK PhD supervisor proposals - deadline is 27 Nov 2026. Happy to answer any queries and please do repost/pass on to all interested parties!
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Alice Marples @alicemarples.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
See below for collaborative project outlines inviting UK PhD supervisor proposals - deadline is 27 Nov 2026. Happy to answer any queries and please do repost/pass on to all interested parties!
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Alice Marples @alicemarples.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
@britishlibrary.bsky.social were grateful to receive a large allocation of studentships as part of the AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Landscape Award scheme. We have 4 exciting new studentships starting in Oct 2027 - 3 are now open for prospective HEI supervisor proposals! www.bl.uk/services/res...
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Collaborative Doctoral Landscape Awards
Fully-funded and jointly supervised studentships across four developing research areas.
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Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Are you starting a PhD this academic year in history &/or a history-related discipline? If so, join us on 7 Oct for this fantastic Workshop for New Research Students. Learn more about the range of resources we offer to help you in your research journey. @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social shorturl.at/ymJpr
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IHR Workshop for New Research Students in History | 2026
IHR Research Training
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
It's (almost) that time of year again: Inaugural Lectures season is nearly upon us. What better way to tip ones toes back in the water that Prof Simon Werrett's 'At Length did Cross an Albatross: Science and Seabirds in the Eighteenth Century'. Free and open to the public, 21 October. #Skystorians
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STS Inaugural Lecture Series: Professor Simon Werrett
“At Length did Cross an Albatross”: Science and Seabirds in the Eighteenth Century
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Gareth Millward @millieqed.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I've also received solicitations to write for journals (real) from people (also real), but which are "off" like this here. The first time was quite convincing, and it was only the fact it had been flagged by spam and the domain of the address wasn't the official one that tipped me off.
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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 03/09/2026
As someone who has been tweeted about personally by Rowling. And who spends my whole life trying to fight the damage caused by the litigation she funds. I think, personally, I would be less harmed by you giving me an actual kick in the ribs than watching the new Harry Potter & trying to justify it.
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Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Sign up now for our 2026-27 IHR short courses, including: 19 Nov Sources to Data: Excel and Alternatives for Historians w/ @justincolson.bsky.social 27 Nov Masterclass in Public Speaking and Presentation Skills for Historians 8-11 Dec Databases for Historians Info: www.history.ac.uk/study-traini...
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Research Training and Short Courses
We deliver high-quality training programmes and unique learning opportunities to a wide community of historians of all career stages and historical interests.
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Creative Manchester @uomcreativemcr.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Creative Manchester has appointed Professor Ana Carden-Coyne as Academic Research Lead for our new Activating Collections Research Theme to explore how our archives can inspire new research, partnerships and collaboration. Read more: ow.ly/Qpvw50ZHG78 School of Arts, Languages and Cultures
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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
In today's blog, Kélina Gotman reflects on social media, public life, Hannah Arendt's 'dark times', and why thoughtful living may be more necessary than ever, manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2026/09...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Officially, the water industry in England is regulated. Practically, it's unregulated. There's no difference between what it does under the eye of the Environment Agency and what it would do if the EA did not exist. The EA is completely useless, by design. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Dry weather sewage discharges soar as water companies face scrutiny
Exclusive: 7,280 suspected illegal spills in rivers and sea recorded in first five months of 2026
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Alice Marples @alicemarples.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
"it's the scrag-end of the summer holidays" Just heard someone say this on telly and am unreasonably delighted.
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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Tim. Fucking. Curry. I've said it before and I'll say it again...he played every single role like it was the role he'd been waiting his entire life to play. Brilliant and weird and sexy and hilarious. There'll never be another. RIP to a true (see pic) legend.
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