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David Amigoni

@amigonidavid.bsky.social
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Prof of Victorian Lit @Keele University and Dir of Institute of Social Inclusion. Loves doing cultural stuff in Stoke-on-Trent and beyond

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Dave 'Him Over There' Proudlove 🏴‍☠️ @daveproudlove.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The hat-trick
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Dave 'Him Over There' Proudlove 🏴‍☠️ @daveproudlove.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Two weeks today: #StreetFootball www.pitchpublishing.co.uk/shop/street-...
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David Amigoni @amigonidavid.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Great discussion
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David Amigoni @amigonidavid.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Rather chuffed and honoured to have received a review copy of @daveproudlove.bsky.social, congratulations to Dave on publication of his book about the grassroots of global football (note, FIFA)
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David Amigoni @amigonidavid.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Woore, Shropshire, 20 June 2026: Landscape with Machines, with a nod to L.T.C. Rolt
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David Amigoni @amigonidavid.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
How can it be on the hottest day of the year, there’s a light covering of snow on the footpath by the River Weaver, Nantwich? 🤔😜
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Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Jessica Corner to step down as Research England head. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
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Jessica Corner to step down as Research England head - Research Professional News
Executive chair announces planned 2027 departure after four-year term ends, as search for successor begins
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David Amigoni @amigonidavid.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
How to resist Donald Soprano
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David Amigoni @amigonidavid.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Important piece
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David Amigoni @amigonidavid.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Great postcard; love the connection to Leyton Orient @lucycmunro.bsky.social
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Patrick Leary @patrickleary.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Many thanks to Paul Lewis for making available the unannotated texts of all of the letters included in the magisterial Pilgrim edition of Dickens's correspondence. As that edition is paywalled, this will be very handy for scholars everywhere: victorianresearch.org/Dickens%20le... #Victorian
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David Amigoni @amigonidavid.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
A reminder that American foreign policy expertise can be grounded in knowledge and the calculation of risk
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David Amigoni @amigonidavid.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Congratulations! Can’t wait to read this work, based on a masterful PhD thesis
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Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Rather than concentrate on the wildfire war he's just started, Trump is spending his time on the phone with British journalists slagging off Keir Starmer. Their dictation skills turn out to be excellent www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/lab...
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How the right-wing British press became Trump’s trumpet
Fleet Street is happy to ignore the real history of transatlantic relations to score points against Keir Starmer
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UK Research and Innovation @ukri.org · 20/02/2026
Applications are now open for the International Placement Scheme 2026 Funded global research placements at leading cultural institutions for early career researchers and doctoral students - build expertise, networks and policy impact. Apply by 19 March 2026 More info: www.ukri.org/opportunity/...
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International Placement Scheme 2026
Apply to undertake a placement at an international cultural institution. You must either be:
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Come work with me! We are recruiting for a Head of Comms and Marketing to help us communicate the work of @britishacademy.bsky.social and the power of the humanities and social sciences in making sense of our changing world app.loxo.co/job/MzM2MzQt...
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The British Academy - Head of Communications and Marketing - £70,000 (London, ENG)
OUR CLIENT:The British Academy is the UK’s national academy for the humanities and social...
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Art UK @artukdotorg.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
For #AshWedneday – a few related artworks we found on Art UK 🖼️ 1) 'Ash Wednesday' by George Shaw (b.1966) © the artist. 📷 British Council 2) 'Great Gale at Yarmouth on Ash Wednesday' by John Berney Crome (1794–1842) 📷 Norfolk Museum 3) 'lantern slide' by Olive Edis (1876–1955) 📷 Cromer Museum
Painting of a bare tree in the center of a garden with houses behindStormy sea scene at the coast with heavy clouds and a boat in the waterLantern slide of Slide of religious text 'Ash Wednesday - the Collect'
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Useful new report from @rgs.org on the state of geography in HE based on a snapshot survey. Most striking for me are textual responses which suggest larger/Russell Group institutions expect to face similar pressures in the coming year already felt by smaller institutions www.rgs.org/about-us/our...
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New report on The State of Geography in UK Higher Education
UK universities are facing a financial crisis, with over 40% of institutions experiencing deficits. Others will likely face similar challenges.
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David Amigoni @amigonidavid.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
They were written to be heard
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The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · 18/02/2026
The court found Palestine Action’s activities had not yet reached the level, scale and persistence that would justify proscription.
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Palestine Action: why the High Court ruled against the government, and what it means for the future of protest
The court found Palestine Action’s activities had not yet reached the level, scale and persistence that would justify proscription.
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Angela Wright @angelawright1794.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Essaka Joshua’s wonderful study Disability and the Gothic has just been published! Even better, it’s free online from today until the 3rd March 2026: www.cambridge.org/core/element... @dalegothic96.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org @igagoths.bsky.social
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Disability and the Gothic
Cambridge Core - English Literature: General Interest - Disability and the Gothic
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David Amigoni @amigonidavid.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Important work from @keeleuniversity.bsky.social, School of Life Sciences
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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Lost my phone in London, with four credit cards and £150 cash in the case. Returned to me within 21 minutes. This hellhole of a city eh.
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David Amigoni @amigonidavid.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Even if you just read 5 of them, you’ll not regret it!
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David Amigoni @amigonidavid.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Late pm, walking in Aston Village near Market Drayton, I could almost believe spring was on its way!
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Dave 'Him Over There' Proudlove 🏴‍☠️ @daveproudlove.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
So what is holding us back? Mainly political will
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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 10/01/2026
To say I am excited about this would be an understatement. To say I am a little bit terrified would not! Actually, just really looking forward to it -- and really pleased to see SHARP continuing its accessible practices. eve.gd/2026/01/10/i...
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In conversation with Matthew G. Kirschenbaum
The inaugural SHARPIES, a global book history festival celebrating work in book history from around the world, will take place from July 7–9, 2026 (although ...
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Macclesfield Town (National League North) beat FA Cup holders Crystal Palace. First non-league team to beat FA Cup holders in the century since third division added to Football League (1920) Crystal Palace (Southern League) last did so in 1909 v Wolves bbc.com/sport/football/videos/cql46e5g552o
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FA Cup: Macclesfield FC v Crystal Palace
Shortly after adjusting the bandages on his head after picking up an injury early in the match, Paul Dawson nods home Macclesfield's opener to put them ahead against Crystal Palace.
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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Have a #painting. "The Long Walk II" My Galway city painting that I'll never tired of telling people it prompted a friend's young son to ask why there were giraffes walking down the street, and ever since that's all any of us can see. It hangs in his home. He's a man now. #art #JanuArty #SpeirGhorm
Landscape format in acrylics on canvas. Against a dark blue painterly background in a band across the centre is a bright terraced row of houses, 2 and 3 stories high, simplistically rendered in plain rectangles with soft corners and similar single-colour marks for windows and doors. Below them runs a wide very dark blue band of a quayside wall, and below it the dark, though not quite as dark, blue of the water with very slight hints of reflections. Each house is topped with a slanted very dark blue roof. Left to right the houses are white, grey, red, ochre, yellow, white, pink, deep yellow, pale yellow, light blue, cream, and red-brown. All windows are doors are dark blue except for the grey house where they are off-white, and the centre white house where the door is red. Roofs of other houses behind are visible. Signed bottom right in yellow, Liam Daly
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Paul Williams @paulwilliams207.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
A new era for ceramics? As the only historic place-based industrial cluster of significant scale in the UK, the Potteries is ideally positioned to help the government deliver several of the ‘IS-8’ growth-driving sectors set out in its Modern Industrial Strategy.
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David Amigoni @amigonidavid.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/j... The Ashes loss: a perspective
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England ruthlessly privatised cricket – Australia embraces it with constant public displays of affection | Emma John
If there is one takeaway for England from this Ashes tour it should be how cricket thrives in a nation where it is readily and freely available as the dominant summer pastime
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David Amigoni @amigonidavid.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
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Trump’s territorial ambition: new imperialism or a case of the emperor’s new clothes?
Trump’s attack on Venezuela suggests expansionism is under way but some argue it is simply standard US foreign policy stripped of hypocrisy
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The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · 08/01/2026
A world without a world order is a much greater problem for Europe than for any other economy of the world.
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As the US eyes Greenland, Europe must turn a global problem into an opportunity
A world without a world order is a much greater problem for Europe than for any other economy of the world.
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David Amigoni @amigonidavid.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
It is snowing steadily in North Shropshire
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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 01/01/2026
A post about pirate book archives, their inevitable demises, and continuity and complexity of catalogues as new sites emerge. (As well as musings on the challenge of resourcing and financing such illegal [in many jurisdictions] operations at the scale that is needed.) eve.gd/2026/01/01/t...
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The Lineages and Inheritances of Shadow Libraries and their Documentation
Shadow libraries, that is, illegal massive repositories of books of all kinds, are of course prone to takedowns by police and disappearance from the internet...
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David Amigoni @amigonidavid.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Nice post on Arnold’s legacy, possibly for Gramsci. Not sure he was one of the most attractive cultural critics (in my book, anyway) but very important
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Roger Luckhurst @theprofrog.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...
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Michael Slater obituary
Scholar of Charles Dickens who wrote a definitive biography and shone a light on the writer’s more neglected works
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The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · 26/12/2025
Could the UK’s traditional system of two-party politics continue to survive? tcnv.link/99h9szL
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How Britain’s new political divide delivers voters to Reform and the Greens
Voters are now split on social identity. This new division, combined with distrust in established parties, is proving fertile ground for challenger parties.
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Over 24 years, Louise Cocker has captured almost half a million Norfolk Gravestones. ‘As a result, she has produced a remarkable dataset… which experts consider one of the most comprehensive photographic records of gravestones and memorials in England.’ www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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‘The hidden engine room’: how amateur historians are powering genealogical research
Wealth of datasets compiled as private passions are now a goldmine for those hunting for their ancestors
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David Amigoni @amigonidavid.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
De-coupling and other radical possibilities in publishing and open access
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David Amigoni @amigonidavid.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/n...
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Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriter
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David Amigoni @amigonidavid.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
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All the president’s millions: how the Trumps are turning the presidency into riches
From Vietnam to the Balkans, Donald Trump’s family has launched a global dealmaking blitz since his re-election
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Wonkhe @wonkhe.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Last week on Wonkhe: This week’s card from Hugh Jones’ postbag takes us to a college with an aeronautical bias
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Higher education postcard: the University of Hertfordshire
This week’s card from Hugh Jones’ postbag takes us to a college with an aeronautical bias This week’s card from Hugh Jones’ postbag takes us to a college with an aeronautical bias
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
I fear that if Johnson were asked this today, there would be lot of umming & erring, some guff about "the custard of conciliation" & "the tiramisu of time", but he would refuse to answer. That a US President tried to overthrow an election is now unsayable on the British Right & in much of the media
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
"The oddity of the late 2020s is that the populist right has given the centre and centre-left a lifeline" Interesting post from Geoff Mulgan on the risks of a hollow centre - and the perhaps temporary respite of a populist 'enemy' to rally against geoffmulgan.substack.com/p/hollowed-o...
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Hollowed out: can the centre hold?
Can the centre hold and resist the far right?
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David Amigoni @amigonidavid.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Enjoying some late Autumn sun
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Kathryn @katcedro.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Absolutely this👇
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David Amigoni @amigonidavid.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
A fascinating visit, as with every site in this unique national asset and UNESCO World Heritage site.
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Victorian Commons @victoriancommons.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Several MPs were among those present when Queen Victoria visited Liverpool #OnThisDay 1851. She commissioned this painting of St. George’s Hall as a souvenir of her visit. www.rct.uk/collection/9...
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William Wyld (1806-89) - St George’s Hall, Liverpool
A watercolour depicting the exterior view of a classical neo-grecian building, with columns at the front and on the side, designed by Harvey Lonsdale Elmes. Figures and carriages are visible in the fo...
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