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Christina de Bellaigue @cadebellaigue.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Also making the pedestrian crossing unusable

Christina de Bellaigue @cadebellaigue.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Forgot alt tex: picture of a wet road with the cycle and bus lane almost fully submerged in a large puddle extending 30m, ready to drench any pedestrians walking past as a bus comes by

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Christina de Bellaigue @cadebellaigue.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Thanks for doing such a great job @thameswater.bsky.social if by some miracle you were moved to do sthg about this, it’s Woodstock Road in oxford

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Christina de Bellaigue @cadebellaigue.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This is very cool - full disclosure - it’s my spouse 😀https://www.reddit.com/r/oxford/comments/1wwnv7e/i_walked_every_road_in_oxford/

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Christina de Bellaigue @cadebellaigue.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This is my spouse - very proud 👏 and encouraging him to make an app for those who’d like to try it in their town but don’t have the tech know how www.reddit.com/r/oxford/com...

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From the oxford community on Reddit: I walked every road in Oxford

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Christina de Bellaigue @cadebellaigue.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Unclear. It's so hostile and gross. There's also a building on our street that has one of those alarms that only kids and teenagers can hear. I take some consolation in the fact that the teens who still use it as a weed-smoking hang have persisted and just play music to drown it out.

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Christina de Bellaigue @cadebellaigue.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Not sinister at all (sound up) - Old Marston in Oxford.

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Christina de Bellaigue @cadebellaigue.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Looking forward very much to working with you!

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Christina de Bellaigue @cadebellaigue.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Don’t ever ever let a Boston friend send the ‘present’ of Make Way for Ducklings - iykyk

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Christina de Bellaigue @cadebellaigue.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

@deathcabforcutie.bsky.social really enjoyed your gig at Troxy tonight - music was great and atmosphere so good

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Sadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Doing this before the start of autumn teaching, if it’s possible for you, makes the world of difference.

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Christina de Bellaigue @cadebellaigue.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

💯 it’s migraine central all the time

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Sam Rutherford (he/him) @echomikeromeo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The window of my local queer bookshop was smashed last week. They're fundraising to install shutters so they can keep themselves and their community safe. Support this one-of-a-kind place, its one-of-a-kind proprietors, and the whole Glasgow queer & trans community: www.gofundme.com/f/categoryis...

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Donate to Help Category Is Books Get Shutters!, organized by Category Is Books

For the past eight years, Category Is Books has been able to comfortably oper… Category Is Books needs your support for Help Category Is Books Get Shutters!

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Christina de Bellaigue @cadebellaigue.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This is so sad and bad and it’s pathetic & insulting that the newly issued encouragement For schools to extend their enrichment programmes has no funding attached to it

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I had the pleasure of reading this book in manuscript and enjoyed it hugely. It's a really original and engaging take on the soundworld of Chartism - itself one of the great subjects of modern British history. Warmly recommended to anyone with an interest in Britain's greatest democratic movement.

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Friends of the Earth @friends-earth.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The UK urgently needs a clear plan for data centres. The current free-for-all isn't sustainable or sensible. They place huge demands on electricity and water, with major impacts on communities, nature and our climate if their growth isn't properly managed. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iimh...

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The controversial place a data centre may be built | In Case You Missed It

YouTube video by BBC News

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Long Nineteenth-Century Network @ Manchester Met @l19cmanmet.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Manchester Met is currently inviting expressions of interest for Leverhulme Early Career fellowships. If you're an early career researcher interested in proposing a long C19 project, please get in touch. The deadline for completed EOIs is 9 October. www.mmu.ac.uk/research/fel...

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Fellowship opportunities

We're committed to the development of early career researchers and support outstanding candidates to apply for externally funded research schemes.

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Christina de Bellaigue @cadebellaigue.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Lyme Regis cobb last week, health and safety has improved since Jane Austen was there.

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Christina de Bellaigue @cadebellaigue.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Since it seems we have similar taste in reading, to return favour - check out @lauratisdall.bsky.social ´s blog - great place for reading ideas

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Christina de Bellaigue @cadebellaigue.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Oh i absolutely loved that - got it as audiobook last year - such a lovely evocation of friendship

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Christina de Bellaigue @cadebellaigue.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Great to have your rec Helen - I’ve been meaning to ask for this for my birthday

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

On a 30 per cent turn out the question is moot anyway, but to strike over pay when thousands of academics are losing their jobs and large numbers of departments are threatened with closure would seem… a choice.

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 14/08/2026

The UK is in its fifth heatwave. Wildfires. Drought. Record-breaking heat. Exeter University’s response? Close Geography in Cornwall and put vital climate expertise at risk. We need this expertise more than ever. #DefendExeterUni

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Martin Hewitt @vicmanch.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Still plugging the short survey on the future of the Curran Index. Interestingly, have had almost as many retweets of my original post as there have been actual completions of the survey. Closes on the 10th, so if your work touches at all on nineteenth century periodicals please have your say!

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Christina de Bellaigue @cadebellaigue.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

No way! I read all Robertson Davies I could find in my early 20s (it prob factored into being w a canadian for my first ltr) but never meet other readers or even ppl who are aware

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Michael Love @elkmovie.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I’m on a small-ship Alaska cruise with my son; our boat rescued a stranded vessel last night and apparently we did that after the Coast Guard radioed Mark Zuckerberg’s yacht - which was closer - and they repeatedly refused to respond. (There was near unanimous booing when the captain announced this)

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Christina de Bellaigue @cadebellaigue.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

@rspb.bsky.social a flock of parakeets has arrived in Oxford - they’re already very dominant & I’m worried about impact on bird diversity - are there projects to study/manage/contain the parakeets?

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Christina de Bellaigue @cadebellaigue.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Hi Carrie, so enjoyed meeting you and this paper - wanted to invite you to present at Oxford History of Childhood seminar but think my emails not getting through. Could you drop me a line from your email so I can send you details? Email in my profile on Oxford History Faculty webpage - thx !

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The Material Culture of Wills Project @materialwills.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

📢PROJECT UPDATE📢 You may have seen the news that the University of Exeter, home of the wills project, has placed 500 academics at risk of redundancy. The project leader Prof. Jane Whittle & project co-investigator Dr Laura Sangha are both at risk, alongside almost all of the History department. 1/

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Christina de Bellaigue @cadebellaigue.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

This Is a false argument & you know better - it’s 💯 true & tragedy that vulnerable ppl & WC children were failed. But that was not a corollary of decision to lockdown. The failure was&is the failure to devote sufficient care & resource to reduce neg impacts of lockdown (or end inequality b4 & since)

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Christina de Bellaigue @cadebellaigue.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

as part of a STEM/A&H couple in my private life, I am daily reminded that the answer to this is overall NO, and that it has a huge impact on day to day functioning which is not acknowledged by current systems of reward/funding/everything/publication which assume a STEM model across the board.

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Please read this thread from another of my colleagues, whose intellectual distinction was just recognised in her election to the British Academy Fellowship, and who is also at risk of redundancy. 👇

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

And not just Exeter. At least 2 History Leicester FBAs have had to leave the University to stay in the profession due to risk of redundancy, and they won't be the only ones. The much broader issue affects thousands of excellent academics across a spectrum of disciplines (including STEM ones). 1/2

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New British Academy fellows at risk in Exeter jobs cull

Being at the ‘top of your game’ no guarantee of job security, warns decorated historian now facing the chop

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Christina de Bellaigue @cadebellaigue.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I’m so sorry. One of the many awfulnesses of the state of academia is the repeated forced fracturing of community and relationships

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petercracknell.bsky.social @petercracknell.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

If you're a #British citizen, or a #UK resident, consider signing & sharing this UK Parliament petition, created by Chris Packham, which calls for the UK Government to hold a UK-wide briefing on climate & nature risks. #climate & #nature petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

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Petition: Hold a UK-wide briefing on climate and nature risks

The UK faces growing risks from climate and nature breakdown - from extreme weather to economic disruption and national security threats. Yet the public has never been given a clear national briefing ...

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Lee Savage @leesavage.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

We're cutting an internationally important part of British scientific infrastructure for the sake of £2.8m a year. That's essentially loose change. We are not a serious country www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Jodrell Bank's Lovell telescope faces axe in science cuts, BBC understands

Astronomers warn it would tear the heart out of UK science, and leave a generation untrained.

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Christina de Bellaigue @cadebellaigue.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

These are the most recent in the distressing series of cuts to History and the Humanities at other institutions including to our friends and colleagues at Oxford Brookes, QMUL, Goldsmiths, Nottingham, Wolverhampton, Kent which we also deplore & we extend our solidarity to all those affected.

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Christina de Bellaigue @cadebellaigue.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Today, Filippo de Vivo, Martin Conway, @faridahzaman.bsky.social and I, along with 30 other members of the Faculty of History at the University of Oxford have written to the leadership of the University of Exeter to express our deep concern about the proposed cuts to Humanities and Social Sciences

We write to express our profound concern at the proposed redundancies at the University of Exeter...History at Exeter has built a global reputation in recent years through its outstanding scholarship, major international research projects, and research-led teaching./We in Oxford have benefitted enormously from collaborations and exchanges with colleagues at Exeter, including on the Socialism Goes Global project, and on a developing programme of research focusing on Downward Social Mobility, and we frequently draw on the excellent work that your department members publish. The Exeter Centre for Global History in particular, has been world-leading in the field and stimulated our work in Oxford, as has the department’s long-established excellence in European, Imperial and Military history, Economic and Social History and the History of Science. We note too, the recent election to Fellowship of the British Academy of Professor Jane Whittle and Professor Mark Jackson, whose work has also inspired and guided ours. We have seen our undergraduates go on to prosper as graduate students in Exeter’s School of Archaeology and History, and recruit Exeter students to our own graduate programmes with enthusiasm, knowing they will have had excellent preparation for their studies. These strengths have taken decades to establish but could be undermined in a matter of months. Such losses would diminish the University’s academic standing, weaken its ability to attract outstanding staff and students, and jeopardise the reputation on which the University’s long-term institutional success depends./The case for cuts of this scale is difficult to reconcile with the University’s own recent financial position or with the continued strength of the disciplines most heavily affected. Rather than protecting Exeter’s future, these proposals, and the consequent restructuring and generalising of the curriculum, risk causing lasting reputational and financial harm while reducing the quality and bread…

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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

your regular reminder that the UK"s second largest city has been without a domestic recycling service for 17 months, and no one cares. ps: Shabana Mahmood is one of our local MPs, as is everyone's favourite Jess Philips. Minds on higher things, I guess.

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Jane Winters @jfwinters.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Royal Historical Society open meeting (online) for historians working in universities, 4 Aug 2026 - ‘The crisis in UK higher education: the future for history’ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-crisis.... It’s a definite sign of the times that places are almost gone.

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The Crisis in UK HE: the Future for History

An open meeting for historians in UK higher education on what is needed to best support and protect the profession and discipline.

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

"And I’ve thought about this, and the answer is yes. I will still be a historian. Because being a historian is about how you engage with the world, it’s about being curious about the people and the environment around you, and asking questions about it'. 3/

A crowd of students in gowns and family members in summery outfits stand listening to a speech by a historian.

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

The Dutch equivalent of Cass, (except it’s a proper scientific review not pseudoscientific drivel like Cass) has wholeheartedly endorsed puberty-blockers and full gender affirming care for young trans people.

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Landmark Official Dutch Review Recommends Trans Youth Care, Call For Expanding Treatment

The review finds that wait times must be shortened, that few people detransition, and that trans youth care has enormous benefits.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

'Government investment in defence-related higher education recognises the need for engineering, computing, cyber, robotics and autonomous systems. But if universities educate the next generation of defence specialists while weakening subjects that teach conflict resolution' [continued] 1/3

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What universities count – and what they cannot afford to ignore - HEPI

This blog was kindly authored by Anna Zimdars, Christopher Playford, Eve Worth, Luke Graham, Joanna Merrett and Joseph Crawford, members of the Centre for Social Mobility, University of Exeter. He tha...

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Christina de Bellaigue @cadebellaigue.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Please can someone help me find the next bit of @trungles.com ’s amazing P&P thread? I’ve got to the bit where Lydia is revealed as a typical American teenager after her marriage but can’t for life of me see how to get to next bit of thread and I NEEED the rest

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