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She's quite a remarkable person. Alma's Not Normal is a masterpiece.

Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

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Solidarity with all at University of Nottingham combatting this violent dismantling of their university

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I am so incredibly sorry. Solidarity with you all.

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It's Monday of Week 3 and somehow it feels like Week 23. Is anyone else extra exhausted already?!

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Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 05/10/2026

That is quite an impressive rip ...

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Amazing! Apparently, we can blame a lack of recruitment of overseas student on universities not spending enough money on consultants. Government immigration policy & hostile environment not mentioned (Covid & Brexit given a nod). Less of an article more of a plea to give parasitic consultants cash.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Lots of useful information & links to key resources for #Skystorians, but NB the Enslavement Registers did not make the records of 4 million enslave people searchable to the public: that was done by Ancestry partnered with UCL Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery historians.

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Can teaching schoolchildren about Britain’s role in the transatlantic slave trade remain optional? | Morgan Ofori

Mounting evidence about how slavery shaped Britain shows that teaching about its history cannot be a matter of choice

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Support the National Trust by voting for Council members by 11:59pm on 30 October 2026. Quickvote is convenient if you're short of time or worried about inadvertently voting for Restore Trust's Bonigala, Cristea, Goldman, Mealing or Omrani. In our often bad times, the Trust's doing good things.

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Dr Cath Feely @cathfeely.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Oh I will. Just won't dress up. My husband infamously came to a fancy dress party as Milk Tray Man oncezl, wearing a black polo neck and carrying said chocolates.

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Dr Cath Feely @cathfeely.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I have some old friends who I love deeply. However, we are going on a weekend away, which happens to coincide with Halloween & someone has mentioned fancy dress. I want to go on the sort of luxury weekends they go on on Four Seasons. Instead I'm going to be an Air BnB in Solihull dressed as a witch.

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Dr Cath Feely @cathfeely.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Why? Why would you want this on the internet forever? Every time you go for a job? Go for a date? This following you?!

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“Hang on to your hope.” E. B. White in 1973.

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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

An entire generation of faculty and students (rightfully!) fully internalized “the institution cannot love you” and institutional leaders wonder where trust went 🙄

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Dr Cath Feely @cathfeely.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Oh I love it there! Added to things to try! Thank you.

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Dr Cath Feely @cathfeely.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Where do you go for koftas? Always looking for good places.

Dr Cath Feely @cathfeely.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I have a big soft spot for Dame Sarah Storey because her golden postbox is outside my mum's house. #Strictly

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Mo Moulton @momoulton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The new edition of A Practical Guide to Studying History is out, just in time for anyone starting a history degree. Want to see my material on trans history? Check out 'Identities' in the Activities and Annotated Bibliography sections. www.bloomsburyonlineresources.com/a-practical-... 🌈🎓

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A Practical Guide to Studying History - Home

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Some weeks I have Mondays free. Just got to get into a better routine with teaching prep.

Sam ooOOooOoo Turner @renrut-mas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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I'm not sharing the Braverman posts because every single one of them addresses the wrong problem. The problem is not a fringe politician expounding on her 19th century racial science theories. The problem is a publicly funded broadcaster platforming and normalising them. Several times a day.

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 02/10/2026

'History and Archives in Practice' 2027: calls for panels now invited for our annual meeting of historians and archivists, with @ihr.bsky.social and TNA. Closing date: 16 October HAP27 focuses on connecting past and future with sessions on advocacy and applied history bit.ly/3RGHbWy #Skystorians

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'History and Archives in Practice' (HAP), 2027. Call for participation now open - RHS

History and Archives in Practice (HAP) is an annual partnership event, co-hosted by the Royal Historical Society, The National Archives, and the Institute of Historical Research. Now in its fifth year...

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It's a non-teaching day for me but I have come to realise that it doesn't work as a research day.

I realise I'm being very original here.

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 29/09/2026

Life would be so much better if we just all had Fridays off.

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Submissions are now invited for the Society's 2027 First Book and Early Career Article Prizes - covering monographs and articles published in 2026 bit.ly/4z45bD8 The closing date for submissions is 14 December 2026. Judging begins in early 2027 with winners announced next July #Skystorians 1/2

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Royal Historical Society Book and Article Prizes, 2027: submissions now invited - RHS

The Royal Historical Society invites applications for its First Book Prize, 2027 and Early Career Article Prize, 2027. The call for submissions opened on Monday 28 September 2026 and runs to Monday 14...

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Dr Cath Feely @cathfeely.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'd be that paranoid if I was once married to Rebecca Brooks too. #traitors

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Stephen Green @stephenrgreen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

UoN: "While we know many of our students will be unaffected by this action, the timing of this to deliberately disrupt the start of the new academic year for our students is particularly disappointing.” What about your timing to decide to fire a quarter of the academics at your university?

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

York-born poet W.H. Auden died on this day 1973 (photo by Jane Bown). On former lead mines of the north Pennines: In Rookhope I was first aware Of Self and Not-Self, Death and Dread: There I dropped pebbles, listened, heard The reservoir of darkness stirred.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

'The Westminster government’s contribution to funding domestic undergraduates studying in England fell in real terms from £8.9 billion in 2012-13 to just £3.3bn in 2024-25, a drop of more than 60 per cent, an analysis has found.'

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It combines the two things I have most recently been writing about!

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What's your Glastonbury, Cath? Well, it's a local history fair with an exhibition about BOTH Civic Week and Manchester Tramways.

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Currently plotting to drop all responsibilities at short notice to go to the hundredth anniversary of Manchester Civic Week. I think I may have a problem.

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