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Andy Lock

@bigandylock.bsky.social
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Great War, History, & Rugby. PhD @ University of Suffolk, BEF Infantry tactical development 1916-1917. Guiding battlefields, Germany and London. @howtodohistory Director. Karaoke hound.

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Think of all the mediocre white men with their plagiarism/stealing student work/sexual harassment who kept their jobs or quietly retired but are alive. Jason Arday’s situation did NOT have to play out or end this way, no matter his errors. And the media and everyone with a hot take is responsible.
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Nettlecake @nettlecake.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.
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Dr David S Anderson @dsaarchaeology.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Original Tweet from @Mantia: What’s something that seems obvious within your profession, but the general public seems to misunderstand?

Quote tweet from @hwitteman: That $35 that scientific journals charge you to read a paper goes 100% to the publisher, 0% to the authors. If you just email us to ask for our papers, we are allowed to send them to you for free, and we will be genuinely delighted to do so.
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Andy Lock @bigandylock.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Hydration break. #electrolytes
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Shana Gadarian @sgadarian.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Book vending machine! Best idea ever.
Vending machine that dispenses books.
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Andy Lock @bigandylock.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
This is why we need to save pubs. They can be awesome for bringing communities together, or at least getting people offline and meeting others.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/04/2026
The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.
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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 08/03/2026
The absolutely disgusting rot at the heart of British media summed up in a single headline. A wretched clique of pathetic, racist, servile dogs.
Two Israeli soldiers killed as latest attacks in
Lebanon leave nearly 400 dead
Israel has been carrying out a military operation in southern Lebanon for more than a week, with three airstrikes hitting Sir El Gharbiyeh village on Sunday.
• Sunday 8 March 2026 17:17, UK
雪貨
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Andy Lock @bigandylock.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Teeing up another couple of generations of conflict in the region 👍
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
It'd basically be impossible to live through this and not become a hardcore fundamentalist, right? Like, what are you going to do, say blocking the damn sun with smoke and flame which taint the air you breathe and water you drink is a very non-Great Satan like activity for somebody to do?
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Mark Williams @mrfw17thc.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
I can very capably blame both.
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The Great War Group @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
We're thrilled to announce that our annual WW1 weekend will take place in Leeds at the Royal Armouries - Here is a taste of who to expect on the Friday. @seaspitfires.com @fxmc1957.bsky.social Stay tuned for the Saturday lineup! Sign up for further updates via the link: mailchi.mp/cf06a5e0b392...
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The Great War Group @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
We're thrilled to announce that our annual WW1 weekend will take place in Leeds at the Royal Armouries - Here is a taste of who to expect on the Saturday, with more names to come! @seaspitfires.com @peterhart.bsky.social Sign up for further updates via the link: mailchi.mp/cf06a5e0b392...
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Andy Lock @bigandylock.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Well we did want to know what victory would look like for him.
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Sam @spinebusterkeaton.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Reform win a seat: The true Volk have spoken and we all must listen. Greens win a seat: Early reports that Muslims may have ‘voted’ (an ancient Islamic practice designed to steal elections). How severely should the franchise be limited in response?
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Andy Lock @bigandylock.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
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Andy Lock @bigandylock.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
As I’ve said before, the variety of sources sets this book well apart. More colour than any comparable book on the time.
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Andy Lock @bigandylock.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
"Friends" is a beloved American sitcom that aired from 1994 to 2004, following six young adults—Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe—living in New York City. The show explores their friendships, romances, careers, and personal growth over ten seasons.
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Andy Lock @bigandylock.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Bugs Bunny’s Barber of Seville is a work of art.
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Andy Lock @bigandylock.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
A thousand times yes
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
The initiative will provide €325 (£283) a week to 2,000 eligible artists based in the Republic of Ireland. This follows a pilot (for which 2,000 artists were randomly selected from 8,000 applicants). ‘The scheme recouped more than its net cost of €72m’ www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
theguardian.com
Ireland’s basic income for the arts scheme becomes permanent
When piloted, initiative that provided €325 a week to eligible artists recouped more than its net cost, study shows
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Peter Hart @peterhart.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
In our series Beggar Me! I'm a Prisoner! we've reached the point where the POWs reach the camp and we look at the privations they will face. It was a miserable life. Please share! Not the life - the podcast! open.spotify.com/episode/1BgF...
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Ep263: Beggar Me - The POW Camp
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The Great War Group @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
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Andy Lock @bigandylock.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
*endless very hard banging of head on desk* Just say you’ve given up 🤷🏻‍♂️
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Jim Smithson @jimsmithson.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Great new addition to the Great War family here - do follow! @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social
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Andy Lock @bigandylock.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Where’s that episode of Black Books when you need it
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Andy Lock @bigandylock.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
At last, some sensible policies
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Andy Lock @bigandylock.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Blocked 👍
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Juan Pablo De Wes @juanpablodewes.eurosky.social · 12/01/2026
London - a massive multi-cultural success of a city ❤️ “Last year, London had the lowest homicide rate per capita on record - 1.1 per 100,000, according to the Met. This is lower than other major global cities including New York at 2.8, Berlin at 3.2 and Paris at 1.6 per 100,000, the force said.”
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Andy Lock @bigandylock.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
FINALLY some good news.
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 12/11/2025
Something I do wish non-historians would internalise is that (modern) historians are not (generally) just making shit up. We do in fact have sources and evidence and proof of things which have happened in the past
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Andy Lock @bigandylock.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
This looks good.
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Welsh Bollocks @welshbollocks.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
116 children didn't come home from school that day. Never forget. Aberfan 💔
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Andy Lock @bigandylock.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Well that’s that. Very officially done and dusted PhD. Cheers.
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Nicolai Eberholst (Pike Grey 1914-1918) @pikegrey1418.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
@bigandylock.bsky.social in action at the 2025 @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social conference in Bristol! Great stuff!
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The Great War Group @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
The eagerly awaited Great War Group conference opens tonight with a talk by Phil Watson on Haig’s command Philosophy.
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Andy Lock @bigandylock.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Just having a lil cigar after a nice win on the road at Old Elthamians. A few scrums won against the head today, quite a few tackles and carries, loads of rucks hit. Very acceptable on a lovely autumn day. 🤘
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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy: www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."
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Andy Lock @bigandylock.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Pitchforks at dawn #oldfarmderby
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Judith Jones @jellyjudith.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
There’s still room to squeeze in a few more at the Great War Group Conference. Tickets available from www.greatwargroup.com/shop We’d love to see you there!
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Feminist Legal Studies @flsjournal.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
📣🏳️‍⚧️ Call for Papers We are inviting papers for our special issue, “Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope.” The issue will be dedicated to trans-inclusive feminist legal analysis that addresses attacks on trans rights & lives. Details below. Please share.
Call for Papers: Special Issue of Feminist Legal Studies 

Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope

Amidst continuing backlash against trans rights, recognition and inclusion, two recent decisions from the UK have substantially impacted not only trans people’s legal status but also legal and social narratives of sex, gender and identity. The narrative that trans inclusion has a chilling effect on the rights of others, particularly women, has been adopted uncritically by both the UK Supreme Court in For Women Scotland and the Office for Students in its finding that the University of Sussex’s trans-inclusion policy had a chilling effect on free speech. These cases highlight a backlash that has been ongoing for some time, and sparks debates and fear of what may lie in the near future for trans people and kin, as well as other gender-variant persons, not only in the UK, but across jurisdictions and in a global perspective. The discourse of the ‘gender critical’ movement is splintering both the feminist and LGBT+ movements globally, with some aligning politically with the Far- and Christian Right against trans rights, adopting their terminology of ‘gender ideology’ and potentially posing a wider threat to sexual and reproductive rights.  

While this a difficult situation for trans people, kin and allies, this special issue seeks to emphasise that legal battles – including battles (temporarily) lost – are also an opportunity to seek to reinforce old alliances and to form new ones, to find new legal frontiers and imaginaries, to reinforce the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of legal arguments as well as intergenerational memory of what feminist legal work is, has been and should be about. How, we ask, do these decisions (and those like them globally) reflect and reproduce structures of coloniality, heteronormativity and cisnormativity? What do these decisions add to critiques of legal feminism? What would be construct…
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Ed Davey, "I'm afraid Nigel Farage should be apologising for helping cause this problem in the first place" "Before Brexit we didn't have a small boats problem because we had 27 return agreements with EU countries and we could return people" -Maybe we should call them Farage's Brexit Boats
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Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Flag of the Arab Revolt, flown from a house occupied by Faisal bin Hussein bin Ali al Hashemi in Damascus in September 1919, and given by Faisal to T E Lawrence. IWM FLA 592
A flag of the Arab Revolt
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Morning Bluesky. Lib Dem leader Ed Davey is going full-on in tackling Musk. "He [Musk] is actually, I think, committing crimes," he told Laura Kuenssberg.
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Ed Davey urges regulator to go after Elon Musk over X 'crimes'
The Lib Dem leader urges Ofcom to launch an investigation into the tech mogul and his social platform.
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Andy Lock @bigandylock.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
‘The wrath of Gough’ was the working title for this talk very briefly. No spoilers here though.
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Alex Churchill @alexchurchill.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Our conference is a month away! With many talks and seminars to choose from. Friday night will see a focus on Haig and leadership during #WW1, and @bigandylock.bsky.social will be talking about decision-making during Third Ypres
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Alex Churchill @alexchurchill.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
The @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social conference is a month away! So many talks to choose from. Antonia Newell will be talking about the incredible Agnes Bennett, a doctor and the first female commissioned officer in the British Army. She eventually ran the Ostrovo Unit in Salonika. Ticket details 👇🏼
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Alex Churchill @alexchurchill.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
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