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John Levin

@anterotesis.bsky.social
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Digital History, Radical History, Social History. Dadaists, Anti-Artists, Cultural Deserters. Coin clippers, Debtors escaping and imprisoned, Londoners. Critics and Critiques of Political Economy. Open Access, Public Domain, Hacking Around. And Cats.

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Dada @dadaists.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
New #OpenAccess volume, on the fab #MinaLoy: Travels with Mina Loy: Navigating the Avant-Garde Suzanne W. Churchill, Linda A. Kinnahan and Susan Rosenbaum www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono... #Dada
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Travels with Mina Loy: Navigating the Avant-Garde
Maps Mina Loy’s “long aesthetic itinerary,” providing an essential guidebook to her art and writing Artist and writer Mina Loy (1882-1966) traversed continents, participated in Futurism, Dada, and Sur...
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The Statutes Project @statutes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
New slavery trial reports: Alfred v. Fitzjames, 1799, a claim for back wages. Espinasse's probably dodgy account, and a contemporary newspaper's version: statutes.org.uk/site/slavery... #EnslavedHistory #LegalHistory
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John Levin @anterotesis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Public Record Office vols now released into the #PublicDomain List of Special Commissions and Returns in the Exchequer books.google.co.uk/books?id=PS0... Index of Inquisitions, v. 1: books.google.co.uk/books?id=GGM...
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John Levin @anterotesis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
William #Kentridge interviewed about his latest exhibition at the Goodman Gallery, London: artlyst.com/william-kent... Featuring #cats, including Begemot!
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William Kentridge: Interview of the Month, October 2026 – Paul Carey-Kent
Explore the William Kentridge Interview of the Month October 2026 with Paul Carey-Kent about his groundbreaking film and art.
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pasttensehistories.bsky.social @pasttensehistories.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
#OnThisDay in London anti-fascist history, 1936: 1000s of East Enders block Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists from marching into the East End. Local Jewish Communist Joe Jocobs’ account files.libcom.org/files/The%20...
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John Levin @anterotesis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
More South Wales Coal-field geology, now released into the #PublicDomain 1907, part 8, around Swansea: books.google.co.uk/books?id=zEM... 1909, part 10, around Carmarthen: books.google.co.uk/books?id=pas... 1932, part 5, around Merthyr Tydfil: books.google.co.uk/books?id=vGk...
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John Levin @anterotesis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The student protests in France reach the universities: wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/...
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What is going on with student protests in France?
For most of the past fortnight, the big education story in France has been about lycées – the upper secondary schools that take 15 to 18-year-olds through to the baccalauréat, the national school-leav...
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Richard Bell @richardbell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
My new book, Imprisonment in Early Modern England: Politics, Debt and the Origins of a Carceral Society, is (sort of) out now! Currently available online for anyone with institutional access: www.cambridge.org/core/books/i...
Book cover of Richard Thomas Bell, Imprisonment in Early Modern England: Politics, Debt and the Origins of a Carceral Society
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John Levin @anterotesis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
New report into #ImprisonmentForDebt in #Iran: iranhrdc.org/punishing-po... tldr: (re)established after the 1979 (counter) revolution, it's widespread. Digest: www.iranintl.com/en/202609301... #DebtHistory
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Punishing Poverty: Debtor Imprisonment in the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Urgent Case for Legal Reform - Iran Human Rights Documentation Center
Executive Summary This report examines the systemic reliance on imprisonment as a mechanism for enforcing financial obligations in Iran, a practice that necessitates fundamental legislative reform to align with international human rights standards. Under Article 3 of the Law on the Enforcement of Financial Judgments, a person who cannot satisfy a financial obligation may be …
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Dr Sarah J Young @sarahjyoung.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It’s my birthday and I got a really cool set of William Kentridge procession fridge magnets.
A photo of four black silhouetted figures against a white background. The outer two are people carrying large loads on their backs, inner left is a man (Kentridge himself) walking and reading a book, and inner right is Gogol’s Nose riding a horse.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The "all anti-Zionism is always and forever antisemitism" people and the "all antisemitism becomes fine if we just say it's anti-Zionism, even if we're ranting about the Talmud" people reinforce one another, even if both sides utterly fail to see it.
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POP @populismblog.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
New book out 🔥 The Fascist Zeitgeist. Authoritarian Legacies and the Iberian Far Right. (Elements in the History and Politics of Fascism @universitypress.cambridge.org) How is the success of the Iberian far right linked to the memory of Franco and Salazar? doi.org/10.1017/9781009588072
The image shows, on the right half, the book's cover, with fascist architecture from Rome, which is the signature image used by the series on "The History and Politics of Fascism". The left half of the image shows the book's back, that includes the following summary: 
The far right is achieving unprecedented electoral success, even in countries once considered immune such as Spain and Portugal. For decades, the stigma surrounding the long dictatorships of António Salazar and Francisco Franco seemed to inoculate the Iberian Peninsula against far-right mobilisation, yet Chega and VOX have shown that collective memory evolves – and stigma fades. This Element argues that understanding the far right's global rise requires attention to authoritarian nostalgia: a longing for an idealised authoritarian past. When activated by credible political actors with sufficient media visibility, this sentiment can generate support for far-right movements even in societies with a collective memory firmly condemning their authoritarian past. Using original survey data, the Element shows how contemporary far-right forces mobilise the ghosts of authoritarianism to erode democratic norms, revealing the enduring power of collective memory in shaping political behaviour.
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The Statutes Project @statutes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There's an urban (rural?) myth that James I passed a law requiring the planting of Mulberry trees. He did promote them, but there was no statutory requirement. Rabbit hole here: shkspr.mobi/blog/2017/01... #History
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John Levin @anterotesis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Geology of the South Wales Coal-field, released from snippet view into the #PublicDomain 1909, part 1, around Newport: books.google.co.uk/books?id=cKg... 1912, part 3, around Cardiff: books.google.co.uk/books?id=16E... 1917, part 4, around Pontypridd: books.google.co.uk/books?id=5Gk...
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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
For 19 years the village of Llueves, Asturias has been commemorating "the first Spanish Republican": a bear which, so the story goes, killed King Fávila, son of Pelayo, who, "according to the Spanish monarchial tradition" began the so-called Reconquista and set off succession to today's monarchy
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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...
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Dr Sarah J Young @sarahjyoung.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Realized I’m not posting anywhere near enough cat pictures.
Three ginger cats with white bibs and paws waiting impatiently for their tea. They’re sat on a red rug with a flowered pattern.
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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 23/09/2026
So I think maybe I just figured out why @timeshighered.bsky.social has not reported anything negative about James Orr. I could very well be wrong, but here we go: In 2024, THE signed an agreement with Hungary's Culture and Innovation Ministry which oversees Hungarian higher education..
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Archie Hall @archiehall.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
My latest for @economist.com: AI writing is taking over politics. 10% of what was is said in Parliament is now AI-drafted, per Pangram. Yet more in the House of Representatives, or in Australia and Canada. Link: www.economist.com/britain/202... And a 🧵 below, w/ some main offenders
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John Levin @anterotesis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
More books released from snippet view into the #PublicDomain: Great Britain and the European Crisis, 1914: books.google.co.uk/books?id=qTO... Reports into Mines, 1914: books.google.co.uk/books?id=QQc... Public Bills, 1908: books.google.co.uk/books?id=3x5...
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The Register @theregister.com · 23/09/2026
Academic publisher Elsevier hit by LAPSUS$ redirect attack
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Academic publisher Elsevier hit by LAPSUS$ redirect attack
Customers got crime crew's calling card instead of access to journals
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John Levin @anterotesis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
More UK Census material now in the #PublicDomain: 1961 Census: Scotland. books.google.co.uk/books?id=JUM... Sample Census 1966, England & Wales: Radnorshire books.google.co.uk/books?id=AW-... Sample Census 1966, Scotland: Economic Activity Tables books.google.co.uk/books?id=60q...
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John Levin @anterotesis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
UK Census material released from Snippet view into the #PublicDomain: The Coming Census, 1921: books.google.co.uk/books?id=mS9... Census 1921: London: books.google.co.uk/books?id=tTg... Census 1961: England & Wales: Socio Economic group tables: books.google.co.uk/books?id=QBN...
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Dada @dadaists.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Free online until 9th October: The Parisian Musical Avant-Garde during the Great War Jane Bathori’s Concerts in War and Peace by Barbara L. Kelly www.cambridge.org/core/element... #WW1 #MusicHistory
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The Parisian Musical Avant-Garde during the Great War
Cambridge Core - Music: General Interest - The Parisian Musical Avant-Garde during the Great War
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John Levin @anterotesis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This search for Salwick Strike in 1953 brings up 39 results: www.britishnewspaperarchive.com/search-newsp... I clipped a couple of them: www.britishnewspaperarchive.com/collections/...
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Salwick Tea break strike - Newspaper Collections | findmypast.britishnewspaperarchive.com
Disputes at the Salwick atomic energy plant near Preston, 1953.
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John Levin @anterotesis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Do you have access to the British Newspaper Archive? From a quick search, it seems that this strike was towards the end of a six month dispute that featured an overtime ban, working to rule, and wildcat afternoon teabreaks. Seems to have ended with a promised investigation into working conditions.
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Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Digitised and indexed by a private company that masses data over genealogy. Why does it feel likes this is gonna bite us in the future?
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John Levin @anterotesis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
From that 'Collection of English Proverbs': "He did me as much good as if he had piss d in my pottage" "Teach your grandame - to grope her ducks - to sup sowre milk " !! books.google.co.uk/books?id=TVI...
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John Levin @anterotesis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
More #c18th books, released from snippet view into the #PublicDomain A True Relation of that Honourable, Tho' Unfortunate Expedition of Kent, Essex and Colchester, in 1648: books.google.co.uk/books?id=uFc... A Complete Collection of English Proverbs: books.google.co.uk/books?id=TVI...
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John Levin @anterotesis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Various #c18th books, released from snippet view into the #PublicDomain The Beauties of England, Or, A Comprehensive View of the Public Structures: books.google.co.uk/books?id=Q-Z... Logick: Or, The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry After Truth: books.google.co.uk/books?id=L7Y...
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John Levin @anterotesis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Just realised I've previously collated links to complete sets of both series of these volumes: anterotesis.com/wordpress/hi...
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John Levin @anterotesis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Just realised I've previously collated links to these volumes: anterotesis.com/wordpress/hi... Hope this is of use.
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John Levin @anterotesis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Free to read and download until 15th October: The Fascist Zeitgeist Authoritarian Legacies and the Iberian Far Right by Luca Manucci #History #SpanishHistory #MemoriaHistorica #HistoricalMemory www.cambridge.org/core/element...
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John Levin @anterotesis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
More vols of the Manuscripts of the House of Lords, released into the #PublicDomain: Vol 8, 1708-10: books.google.co.uk/books?id=L8x... Vol 9, 1710-12: books.google.co.uk/books?id=uFZ... Vol 11, addenda: books.google.co.uk/books?id=Olp...
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John Levin @anterotesis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Released from Google Books' snippet view into the #PublicDomain, the Manuscripts of the House of Lords, new series: Vol 2, 1695-97: books.google.co.uk/books?id=404... Vol 3, 1697-99: books.google.co.uk/books?id=3T4... Vol 6, 1704-6: books.google.co.uk/books?id=TP4...
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John Levin @anterotesis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
17 July 1938. Very striking that they use the word 'Imperialism' rather than 'fascism'. Nehru said something similar at this event: "Fascism is new to you but we have been experiencing it for the last 150 years" nehruarchive.in/documents/gr... #History #RadicalHistory
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John Levin @anterotesis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
New #OpenAccess #History of #Spain: Iberian Crossroads A Global History of Modern Spain Pol Dalmau and Jorge Luengo global.oup.com/academic/pro... (I have only browsed it, but it looks very good indeed.)
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Mark Doyle @markdoyle.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Was very happy to beam into QUB today to launch the Africans in Ireland website that I and a number of colleagues have been working on for years. Maps, database, & other resources documenting the African presence in Ireland from the late 16th to early 20th centuries. africansinireland.com
A right-facing silhouette of the Black preacher and seaman John Jea, Methodist preacher and seaman, from his 1816 book The Life, History, and Unparalleled Sufferings of John Jea, the African Preacher
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John Levin @anterotesis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Registrar General's reports, released from snippet view into the #PublicDomain Scotland, 1968, part 1: Mortality Stats: books.google.co.uk/books?id=RYB... Statistical Review for 1972: books.google.co.uk/books?id=dDU... Annual Estimates of the Population, 1973: books.google.co.uk/books?id=42k...
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John Levin @anterotesis.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Entry for John Lade has a (plain text) link to HistParl: britishslavetraders.org/individual/s... But sourcing generally is poor, and no discussion of their methodology.
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John Levin @anterotesis.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
There's very little information about the project as a whole, its methodology &c. Sourcing is poor; seemingly no clickable links; wikipedia & wikidata links would be useful. Parts of the site look rushed and incomplete. It's early days. Let's hope there are plans for its long-term continuance.
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charlesmatthews.bsky.social @charlesmatthews.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
So we can compare britishslavetraders.org/individual/p... with en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_...
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Thomas Parke (Sr)
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John Levin @anterotesis.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Guardian explainer on the new Register of British Slave-Traders: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026... #History #EnslavedHistory
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What is the Register of British Slave Traders and who does it identify?
Three years of research has uncovered 13,000 people who invested in Britain’s trafficking of enslaved Africans
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John Levin @anterotesis.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Launched today: The Register of British Slave-Traders "presents biographical data related to each of the known investors in the transatlantic traffic in enslaved African people from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries." britishslavetraders.org/about-us/ #History #EnslavedHistory
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John Levin @anterotesis.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
We already have a packed Kentridge schedule next year: Brussels and Lisbon! So we will probably skip Greece. Cc @sarahjyoung.bsky.social
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John Levin @anterotesis.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
William #Kentridge in Athens next year, twice over: streamlinefeed.co.ke/news/athens-... www.athens24.com/news/william...
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Athens National Archaeological Museum to Host William Kentridge Exhibition
The National Archaeological Museum in Athens will present a major exhibition of contemporary works by South African artist William Kentridge, displayed...
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John Levin @anterotesis.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This looks fantastic: Transgressive Memory Festival, Berlin "Nothing about Memory is Neutral" www.transgressivememoryfestival.com#info I'd love to see something similar in London / UK. #History #HistoricalMemory
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Transgressive Memory Festival 2026 – 12–13 Sept, Berlin
Transgressive Memory Festival, 12–13 September 2026 during Berlin Art Week at silent green Kulturquartier Berlin. Exhibition, performances, films and talks on memory, archives and digital media. Free ...
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John Levin @anterotesis.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
UK Govt publications, released into the #PublicDomain: The Weather Map, 1918: books.google.co.uk/books?id=aUo... Weather of the British Coasts: books.google.co.uk/books?id=8Xh... Geological Survey of Great Britain and the Museum of Practical Geology, 1958: books.google.co.uk/books?id=Mnt...
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John Levin @anterotesis.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
And two more V&A volumes released into the #PublicDomain: Guide to the #BayeuxTapestry: books.google.co.uk/books?id=o51... Guide to the Collection of Carpets: books.google.co.uk/books?id=lJk...
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
'Around two-thirds of professional and support staff at UK universities say change and uncertainty over the past five years have had a negative impact on them, the Higher Education Policy Institute has found.'
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