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Daniel Wilson @danielwilson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

UCL East gleaming high modernism, new academic year energy as undergrads arrive; Eternal October.

UCL East Marshgate by the River Lea; blue sky.

Marshgate Close up; New Student ID collection.

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Daniel Wilson @danielwilson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Huge, if true (talk about 'Impact'!) ℅ @the-syllabus.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/new-german-c...

Summary of new article about Frankfurt School Conspiracy Theorising

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Daniel Wilson @danielwilson.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Lookalikes, from the upside-down world (with apols to @privateeyenews.bsky.social)

Side-by-side headshots of Henry from Stranger Things aka Vecna on earth, and Leopold Aschenbrunner

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Daniel Wilson @danielwilson.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Have been looking forward to this terrific sounding volume from @petermandler.bsky.social @osaumarezsmith.bsky.social & Gunn, with many pieces from friends & mentors. As an urban history dabbler, I appreciate the h/t to HJ Dyos in this @lrb.co.uk review… but £65?? Come on lads: spread the love!

Pedersen reviews Gunn et al.’s Modern British City. Fabulous photo of modernist Runcorn estate

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Daniel Wilson @danielwilson.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Second day working productively in jail, research rehabilitated.

Lancaster university rooms in the castle

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Daniel Wilson @danielwilson.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

A pitstop in beautiful Lancaster for a workshop on historical maps with @kmcdono.bsky.social on route to #hss2026. Thankful the temperature no longer begins with a '3'. It's still warm up north, but not in Edinburgh! 😰

Max weather forecasted in London, Lancaster and Edinburgh (28, 24, 18 degrees respectively)

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Daniel Wilson @danielwilson.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

... the closure of which has made the whole surrounding areas more pleasant, with pubs and cafes benefiting from pedestrians feeling safe; and the kicker: traffic on neighbouring bridges down too.

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Daniel Wilson @danielwilson.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

The real victims will be those no longer able to sell junk to addled children. ‘But won’t this just force them underground?’

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Daniel Wilson @danielwilson.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

After a long few weeks of torrential rain, headaches and late nights working, final student marks are all uploaded and that’s it (nearly) for the year. Sun just came out. Small beer cracked.

Small beer (to some people)
, on a sunny table.

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Daniel Wilson @danielwilson.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Standing room only tonight for @petermandler.bsky.social’s Neale Lecture at @uclhistory.bsky.social, a Tour de Force on the rise (& fall?) of History and its place in/as education.

Peter lecturing about why students have chosen History

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Daniel Wilson @danielwilson.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

ICYMI: 11 days left to apply for this fully funded PhD at UCL with me and @jameselder.bsky.social working on BT's extraordinary film collection – which records the birth of the information society. For details and how to apply: www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

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Daniel Wilson @danielwilson.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

'Moving the Frame': a fully-funded PhD Studentship at UCL. Film, 20th century history of technology, computational methods and more... Fabulous! is.gd/gn4wMm

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Daniel Wilson @danielwilson.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Come and do a PhD with me and colleagues at UCL! Fully funded thanks to the @ukri.org : computational approaches to a UNESCO-accredited moving-image archive at British Telecom. #dh

flyer for a fully-funded PhD project at UCL and BT Archives: includes QR code for this link: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanities/news/ahrc-collaborative-doctoral-partnership-cdp-studentship-0. Deadline 24 April. A 20th century London scene with BT Tower towering.

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Daniel Wilson @danielwilson.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

TFW when you come home to find the official journals of @londoncycling.bsky.social and @camraofficial.bsky.social have both arrived and you know you must be a beardyman🍺🚲

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Daniel Wilson @danielwilson.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Sydenham’s Mike Gavin take a bow for this letter in @lrb.co.uk, after which Chas n Dave will forever be Chestertonian in my mind. And who could disagree? Gertcha!

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Daniel Wilson @danielwilson.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Smidgen of sunshine and Bloomsbury turns Glastonbury

Gordon Square, London. Sun-deprived students.

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Daniel Wilson @danielwilson.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Nicolas Cage does David Hume. ‘What is Causation?’

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Daniel Wilson @danielwilson.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Ye of little faith, dry and bright. (You can give the £ to charity)

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Daniel Wilson @danielwilson.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

On the way to the TaNC Conference. 'Avanti' West Coast defying low expectations to get out of frozen London only 20 minutes late so far... Contractually obliged to show Bletchley Park environs, which are not as pretty as Scotland.

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Daniel Wilson @danielwilson.bsky.social · 27/08/2024

New Sydney Metro, woof. #🏙️🚋

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Daniel Wilson @danielwilson.bsky.social · 06/08/2024

… it means humans and machines.

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Daniel Wilson @danielwilson.bsky.social · 02/07/2024

Long Island, seen from Brooklyn (not that one) at dusk.

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Daniel Wilson @danielwilson.bsky.social · 07/01/2024

Final session of #AHA24, suitably optimistic about the need for historians to be part of building a data science that works for the world, with @kmcdono.bsky.social and @nolauren.bsky.social in particular knocking it out of the park. 🗃️

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Daniel Wilson @danielwilson.bsky.social · 07/01/2024

Quick visit to the Center for the Book, where movable type and beautiful book-binding still alive, before a panel on the automation of work. #AHA24 🗃️

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Daniel Wilson @danielwilson.bsky.social · 05/01/2024

Very humbling to pick up the Roy Rosenzweig award at the #AHA24 last night among such brave and inspiring scholars, often under physical attack for doing public history. Proud of our ‘MapReader’, but seems a bit trifling by comparison. 🗃️

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Daniel Wilson @danielwilson.bsky.social · 07/12/2023

Just in time for CHR. Coincidence?

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Daniel Wilson @danielwilson.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

So glad that public institutions in France do not (yet) see coffee as an opportunity to gouge addicts. Also: no discrimination based on size or type 👍

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Daniel Wilson @danielwilson.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

Sad I will miss this festival of cheese

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Daniel Wilson @danielwilson.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

Not exactly ‘a beaker full of the warm south’, but I wasn’t expecting this when I left the house without my sunglasses

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Daniel Wilson @danielwilson.bsky.social · 06/11/2023

Great to be back at the BnF after many years, here for the final workshop of the impressive SoDUCo project on the c19 history of cities. In their case, Paris; in mine, learning new methods for working with British directories. soduco.geohistoricaldata.org

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Daniel Wilson @danielwilson.bsky.social · 01/11/2023

Passing Bletchley Park at 125mph is the closest I’ll get to the AI summit today. Not sure which of Sunak or Musk is most desperate to save their career. Fireside chat on X not a great look. Prepare for Musk to blame everyone else. Glad Connor Leahy is in the room; Nick Clegg, not so much.

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Daniel Wilson @danielwilson.bsky.social · 08/09/2023

I thought I couldn’t have any more love for Radio France, but then I saw their new T&Cs on curation and privacy (tl;dr: it’s done by hand not algorithm)

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Daniel Wilson @danielwilson.bsky.social · 30/08/2023

Brooding sky at Bawdsey Manor in Suffolk where I met a surveyor measuring dramatic coastal erosion. This gothic Victorian building, crucial site of WW2 development of Radar, looks likely to be swallowed by the North Sea.

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Daniel Wilson @danielwilson.bsky.social · 25/08/2023

Happy to publish in *Technology & Culture*, having read so much amazing work there over the years. Hoping History & STS will engage with the question of language models. Thanks to my wonderful co-authors. Explanatory 🧵 was here: zirk.us/@LivingWithM... muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

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Daniel Wilson @danielwilson.bsky.social · 25/08/2023

Another day, another platform! I don't have a cat, but can share a picture of this tree in Essex I'm often looking at, in front of some bsky this week.

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