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Ecclesiastical History Society @eccleshistsoc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Calling #Historians 📢 We're looking for academics & PGs to be authors for our winter blogpost series (Jan, Feb, Mar 2027)! If you would like to write for our blog on any topic of #churchhistory, please send a 100-word abstract to eccleshistsoc@gmail.com by 30 October. We hope to hear from you!

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Slough Town Football Club @sloughtownfc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Slough rescue a point late on courtesy of Keenan Quansah's 82nd minute effort. #OneSlough

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Slough Town Football Club @sloughtownfc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Matchday information ahead of tonight's match under the lights at Arbour Park. Read 👉 ow.ly/PWf550ZSyiB #OneSlough

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Slough Town Football Club @sloughtownfc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Our offer of 𝗛𝗔𝗟𝗙 𝗣𝗥𝗜𝗖𝗘 tickets continues for tomorrow’s home game against Ebbsfleet United! Use promo code 𝗦𝗧𝗙𝗖𝟱𝟬. ⚠️ This offer is only available online, ending at midday tomorrow. Get your tickets now 👉 ow.ly/UhKs50ZSlEu #OneSlough

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Slough Town Football Club @sloughtownfc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It’s 𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙘𝙝𝙙𝙖𝙮 in SL2 👊 #OneSlough

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Slough Town Football Club @sloughtownfc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

𝗛𝗔𝗟𝗙 𝗣𝗥𝗜𝗖𝗘 tickets during the International break! ⚠️ This offer is only available online, ending at midnight tonight for tomorrow’s match. Get your tickets now 👉 ow.ly/scch50ZQJLw #OneSlough

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Chris Hall @chrishall.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It is always good to see Station Jim at Slough station. #notjustadoginabox #gwr #slough

Taxidermed dog in a glass presentation case in a railway station platform.

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christs-college.bsky.social @christs-college.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This Friday Aberdeen's Dr Katherine Hockey will deliver the Christ's College Divinity Opening Lecture at 3pm in KCF7.

Flyer for University of Aberdeen Divinity's opening lecture which will happen on Friday, September 18th at 3pm in KCF7

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Chris Hall @chrishall.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Action from Newport v Amesbury in the Wessex League

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Chris Hall @chrishall.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Pilgrimage of sorts at the weekend to Hafod Copperworks, which is just a short walk from home. #History on the doorstep 😀

Engine building from disused copper works. Currently undergoing restoration

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Chris Hall @chrishall.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Bright but fresh morning in Sunny #Swansea

Morning sunshine through the trees on a quite lane with a high stone wall to the left

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Chris Hall @chrishall.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

@gwr.com why is your service so bad? When are you due to be nationalised? Standing room only in the middle of the day in Cardiff as you don't have enough carriages. 0/10

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The Dobson Family and Colin the Dalek @dobbersw.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Apart from that time Rory left the tap running for a couple of minutes, our local data centre uses very little water, but it does offer exceptionally accurate information and well-written, original literature. It's also free for everyone.

A picture of Worthing Library - it's not very pretty on the outside - concrete was all the rage when it was built, but inside it's a treasure-trove of the imagination and somewhere my boys love to visit

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Chris Hall @chrishall.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Ah. Only just seen this. Should have checked before I left Swansea this morning...

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Mark Avery @markavery.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Sunday book review: Unwilded by @alastairhumphreys.bsky.social Publisher: @eyebooks.bsky.social Review: markavery.info/2026/07/26/s... 'not very long but a very enjoyable read' #disconnect #reconnect

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Chris Hall @chrishall.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Visited 12th Century St Andrews Church, Penrice on the #Gower #Pilgrimage Way at the weekend. Beautifully kept.

Medieval church with tower, set in a grassy graveyard

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Ladybird endpapers, “Finding nature in towns and cities” (1980) Artist: Christine Owen 'Nature in the Town'

A patch of land in an urban landscape which has been left to grass and rubble. Wildflowers, insects and small creatures have begun to make it home

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James Nalton @jdnalton.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Wayne Rooney on the HT show on the BBC: "I like a lot of them artists, but I thought it was crap."

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Chris Hall @chrishall.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

For once I agree with Wayne #Rooney. That #worldcup show was crap. Not that I watched it. The whole concept is crap

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Chris Hall @chrishall.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

A bit cooler today, so a nice morning for a local walk in #Swansea

Reservoir with blue sky and hills in the background

Footpaths leading into low hills on a sunny day

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Chris Hall @chrishall.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I never thought I would say this but I can't remember the last time it rained in #Swansea

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Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Who doesn't love a bit of gossip?

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 14/07/2026

What determines relationships between interviewer and interviewee in oral history research? bit.ly/4gwipCy Nilakshi Das's new Transactions article questions the value of 'insider' status, arguing instead for models of positionality based less on identity than training and approach #Skystorians 1/2

Opening page of Dr Nilakshi Das's article in 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society': 'Positionality in Oral History Research:
Proximities and Paradoxes of ‘Insider’ Status'.

Full abstract: "A long-standing debate in oral history centres on the researcher’s positionality as either an ‘insider’ or ‘outsider’ to the research participants. This comment argues that insider
status is not a stable but a relational category, one that must be critically interrogated to avoid privileging insider perspectives. Reflecting on thirteen life-history interviews with South Asian scientists who undertook postgraduate training at post-war British universities, I examine how the normative assumption of a shared ‘South Asianness’ shaped my negotiation of the insider/outsider positionality continuum. My positionality as a South Asian researcher in the UK studying previous generations of South Asian students certainly reduced
intersubjective distance with interviewees. However, the presumption of insider status also exposes the instability of identity-based claims to authority. The immense heterogeneity of nationality, language, age, class, gender, occupation, educational and migration trajectories of the interviewees complicated any straightforward claim to insider status on my part. By examining how shared identity both enabled and complicated the research encounter, this comment destabilises the insider/outsider dialectic underpinning research positionality, arguing instead that positionality is a shifting intersubjective condition, constituted through
an iterative process of reflexive praxis within historical research and analysis."

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Katrina Hall @trinahall101.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

@nhswaleslibservice.bsky.social & @nhswaleselibrary.bsky.social poster at 14th International Congress on Medical Librarianship in Glasgow #icmlhlg

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Chris Hall @chrishall.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Do you need to travel to the ends of the earth to find a thin place? My latest paper has been published. #pilgrimage #thinplace doi.org/10.1177/0040...

Screenshot of an academic journal article with the title and abstract.

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Chris Hall @chrishall.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Wild flowers looking good in the sunshine the park in #Swansea this morning

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Cardiff University Libraries @cardiffunilib.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Designated 'Historic Asset'! We always suspected it, but now it's Cadw official! 🙏🍾 Our Arts & Social Studies Library received it's Grade II listing on Wednesday last week, noted as a key example of a twentieth century university library in Wales.

Cadw Grade II listed.

Arts & Social Studies Library. Date of designation: 24 June 2026.

A key example of a twentieth century university library in Wales, designed by Harry Faulkner-Brown an influential figure in library design and demonstrating his ‘ten commandments’ with clarity and finesse in its Brutalist design.

An important aspect of Wales’ cultural history as an important university library and the last major building of the postwar expansion in tertiary education in Cardiff commenced before the economic shocks of the 1970s.

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Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

How UK higher education -- and education policy/the country in general -- is viewed in Germany. Wie peinlich. What a mess.

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Has the Guardian discovered the massive proportion of students who attend their local university because they’re working-class and have done for years? Of course not. It’s another way to bash non-Russell Group universities as a poor second-best chosen by the desperate. With friends like this…

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Chris Hall @chrishall.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

It's warm already in #Swansea. Some welcome shade on today's morning #walk

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Slough Town Football Club @sloughtownfc.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Watch the first training session of the new season at Arbour Park this evening, followed by England v Ghana in #FIFAWorldCup Group L, live in REBELS 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 #OneSlough

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Saving Wildcats @saveourwildcats.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

pspspsps 🖐 Cute? Yes. Touch? No 🚫 If you’re lucky enough to spot a potential wildcat kitten in the Cairngorms National Park, please give them space. Mothers may leave their kittens for a period of time to hunt for food. Find out what to do next ➡️ savingwildcats.org.uk/haveyouseenawildcat

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Alastair Humphreys @alastairhumphreys.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Irony: 1. The only realistic way I'm going to find readers of a book about turning off your phone and going outside is by pestering you on your phones. 2. This video promoting a book about paying attention is almost three minutes long... and therefore guaranteed to be watched by almost nobody.

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University of London Press @uolpress.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

'This ... makes 'Innovations in Teaching History' a timely publication that should be at the top of any list of reading materials, not just for scholars teaching the 18th century but those teaching history in any capacity.' uolpress.co.uk/book/innovat... #OpenAccess Thanks @bsecs.bsky.social!

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Innovations in Teaching History - University of London Press

An essential teaching companion offering practical strategies for enhancing learning for all teachers of history in higher education. The study of the eighteenth century has been a growth area in univ...

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Catherine Clarke @cathamclarke.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Interested in #medieval #humour? #Borders and #borderlands? The #Marches of #Wales? Please give my PhD student @jasmine-celtel.bsky.social a follow! She's working with me & @adamchapman.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social on this fascinating project - and will have lots to share... #history #skystorians

Detail of Kilpeck Church - romanesque stone sculpture (a marcher location!)

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Chris Hall @chrishall.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Stopped here for lunch on Gower.

The sea with rocky cliffs in the foreground

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Chris Hall @chrishall.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Square sausage in honour of Scotland's victory #scotland #worldcup

Square sausage in a morning roll on a plate

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Chris Hall @chrishall.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Nice spot for lunch on the Gower Pilgrimage Way. #gower #pilgrimage

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Saving Wildcats @saveourwildcats.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

📣Job alert ‼️ Join the team as a full-time wildcat keeper - your responsibilities will include: 🔸 Delivering the highest standard of animal husbandry 🔸 Behavioural monitoring 🔸 Contributing to enclosure design, maintenance, and enrichment Interested? Apply NOW ➡️ bit.ly/wildcat-keep...

A wildcat is lying on grass with its paws out front, staring intently with bright green eyes. The cat appears playful and ready to pounce.

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