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Wolfson History Prize @wolfsonhistory.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Go behind the book. Watch @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social read an exclusive extract of 'Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction', one of this year's standout history books. 🎧 You can read more on our website. ⬇️ bit.ly/47otGPo

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Sadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I still can’t believe this is true. If you’re curious, the paperback is out. A huge thanks to everyone who’s been in touch with kind words and congratulations. I’m deeply moved and honoured that my words are helping so many readers think about how to build a just future for all life on earth.

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

We are so excited to be in the UK and Ireland next week. Come hear us talk about the politicians, religious leaders, and tech oligarchs who want us to believe they can bring about the end of the world.

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

We’ll be in conversation with @nosheeniqbal.bsky.social, @davidolusoga.bsky.social, Ash Sarkar from and @sallyhayd.bsky.social. Appreciation to our hosts @theguardian.com, @dublinbookfest.bsky.social & @novaramedia.com There are still a few tickets available -- find them at naomiklein.org/events.

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Events – Naomi Klein

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 17/09/2026

Canongate has acquired L’Avventura, the first novel in 17 years by award-winning author Geoff Dyer. Canongate will publish in hardback in May 2027. 👇

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Canongate signs Geoff Dyer’s first novel in 17 years

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

To be eligible to apply for Elevate, first join the BA's ECRN. It's free and not complicated to join: you simply need to be a UK-based, postdoc within 10 years of your PhD (or equivalent, excluding career breaks) in the Arts, Humanities or Social Sciences: www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/early-career...

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Early Career Researcher Network

An inclusive, researcher-led network for UK-based early career researchers working in the humanities and social sciences

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Sadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Stunned and honoured by where my love letter to life living has reached. My profound thanks to everyone who made it possible: from beloveds who roared with me without reading a word, to the readers and judges who so kindly did, and found it worthwhile. I’m delighted to be in such company.

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Wolfson History Prize @wolfsonhistory.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The #WolfsonHistoryPrize 2026 shortlist is announced tomorrow! ⏰ Be sure to follow @wolfsonhistory.bsky.social to see the announcement as soon as it goes live.

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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Next month I'll be speaking about the Norman Conquest at the Mortimer History Society autumn conference. mortimerhistorysociety.org.uk/events/event...

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Peter Frankopan @peterfrankopan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Rogue swarms in 6-12 months; 10% chance of AI killing all humans in the next etc. It looks like a nightmare is around the corner 1/5

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

If you enjoyed Chris Packham's Evolution series - you'll love this! 4 billion years of evolution in one evening - I'm live on tour across the UK this November... www.alice-roberts.co.uk/tour

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Canongate @canongate.co.uk · 27/08/2026

Happy Pub Day to these wonderful authors! Erin Somers & @damianbarr.bsky.social Paperback editions of THE TEN YEAR AFFAIR and THE TWO ROBERTS are out now, available in your favourite local bookshop & online: uk.bookshop.org/lists/out-to...

Paperback copies of The Two Roberts by Damian Barr and The Ten Year Affair by Erin Somers floating against a grey background

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Jonathan Coe @jonathancoe.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Apparently this is the list of British films included in the booklet accompanying the British Citizenship test. Unfortunately, if familiarity with the films on this list is one of the criteria for being a British citizen I think we're going to have to deport everyone under the age of 50.

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Catch me on tour with my new novel! linktr.ee/thegoddessqu...

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Old Edinburgh Club @oldedinburghclub.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

If last night's programme piqued your interest about your own house in Edinburgh, why not delve into the records of Edinburgh’s Dean of Guild Court, 1700 to 1824? oldedinburghclub.org.uk/.../building... The planning and building control records of their day

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David Olusoga @davidolusoga.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The new series of A House Through Time - on at 9pm tonight - on BBC Two.

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Canongate @canongate.co.uk · 13/08/2026

Happy Publication Day! A massive congratulations to all our authors publishing today: Melissa Hogenboom, Natsuo Kirino, Gemma Cairney, Anna Holmes, @alycia.bsky.social & Jess Kidd! Order your copies now at your fav local bookshop, or online! uk.bookshop.org/lists/out-to...

a collection of hardback and paperback books publishing today, floating against a grey background

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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

As always, LOVE do @ppfideas.bsky.social and this is one of those topics that requires unpacking carefully. Genealogy is not inherently a bad idea: it’s a great way to study history; when personal ancestry becomes identity, here our troubles begin.

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Sarah Elizabeth Cox @oispooky.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I've spent 16 years in my day jobs working to get press coverage for other people and organisations. I am the behind the scenes woman. So yeah. This is f**king nuts, I'm sorry?!? 🫪 What am I doing on a HOMEPAGE. Solar eclipse! Strictly Come Dancing! Sarah Elizabeth Cox! Ridiculous 😂🤷🏻‍♀️ #VoteBinface

Screenshot of the Guardian homepage around 9pm showing headline story about the eclipse and two headline stories at the top - one is about dani dyer on strictly and one is Sarah and her silly 80s charity shop blouse with a column about Clacton

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Findmypast @findmypast.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

A peaceful protest. A violent charge. One man's fight for justice. A Family History of Peterloo: Britain's Forgotten Massacre tells the story of weaver William Cheatham and the events that changed his life forever. 🎙️ Listen wherever you get your podcasts.

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marybeard @wmarybeard.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

It's less than a week now till the Clacton byelection, so catch up with Count Binface's classical policies here! www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfMv...

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Classic Chats: Count Binface (Bonus episode)

YouTube video by Instant Classics

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

"Nine Famous White Britons Who Won't Pass Rupert Lowe's 'White Briton Test'" Ridiculously, the right-wing Restore Britain leader has refused to say that the King is a white Briton. Who else would he struggle to accept? From Zeteo UK: zeteo.uk/p/nine-famou...

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Nine Famous White Britons Who Won't Pass Rupert Lowe's 'White Briton Test'

Ridiculously, the right-wing Restore Britain leader has refused to say that the King is a white Briton. Who else would he struggle to accept?

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Migration Museum @migrationmuseum.org · 04/08/2026

Major funding secured! 🏛️💛 We’re thrilled to share that the @wolfsonfdn.bsky.social has committed £600,000 as a Founding Partner to help make our new permanent home in the City of London a reality. We're one step closer to bringing the UK’s missing museum to life in Spring 2028! 🧵👇 📸 Unknown Works

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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Next month I'll be chatting about the Bayeux Tapestry with Michael Lewis, curator of the British Museum's exhibition, at the Queen's Park Book Festival. queensparkbookfestival.co.uk/collections/...

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The Bayeux Tapestry: A QPBF Special Event

In September 2026 The Bayeux Tapestry - one of the most important and unique cultural artefacts in the world - will return to the UK for the first time since it was created almost 1,000 years ago. To ...

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Canongate @canongate.co.uk · 03/08/2026

PUBLISHING JOB! We're hiring a Publishing Operations Assistant to play a supporting role in our ops team, based out of our Edinburgh office full time - if you're highly organised, detail-orientated and passionate about books take a look!: canongate.co.uk/about/jobs/

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Jobs at Canongate

Current vacancies at Canongate – the award-winning independent book publisher based in Edinburgh and London.

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Findmypast @findmypast.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

What was the moment you realised you were into family history? 🤔

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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 30/07/2026

“Who is above the law? If the answer is ‘no one,’ congratulations, you’re free. If the answer is ‘someone’—you have a king, whatever you call him.” Sarah Churchwell asks what Thomas Paine would make of America at 250:

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The Paine threshold for today’s America

What would one of the founding thinkers of the republic make of Trump’s reign? We already know: he wrote it all down

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Matt "Winter is here" @mattrobb.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

If you're not following Emma, why are you on Bluesky at all?

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Natalie Haynes @nataliehaynes.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Thank you all for listening! Today's episode will be repeated on Friday at 9pm, and is available on BBC Sounds. No big deal or anything, but next week is our Nero episode, with guests prof Llewelyn Morgan and CHRISTOPHER BIGGINS!! Be there or be poisoned...🏛️📻 🎧 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

No, European heatwaves are not CAUSED by a fall in air pollution. The word CAUSED is doing an awful lot of heavy lifting here! Let's look at what the study being 'reported' on was actually researching and what it found🤓 1/22 🧵

Telegraph Headline:

Heat waves caused by fall in pollution.
Met Office and Spanish researchers conclude cleaner skies since the 1980s allow more of the sun's heat to reach the Earth's surface.

Red Monk Debunked stamp over the text

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Findmypast @findmypast.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

How did the First World War affect your family? ❤️ 🎖️ It began on this day in 1914 and would result in millions of deaths over the next four years. Families lost fathers, sons, brothers, and husbands. And life was never quite the same for those who made it home.

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

When the story of why humanity didn't stop climate change is written, it will feature front pages like this. Even as the skies blacken with climate change-induced wildfires, right wing media continue their relentless crusade against measures to tackle it.

The Times: Net zero risks blackouts. Below a photo of French wildfires.

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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

And here’s the dodgy screen capture video with sound slightly out of sync!

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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Here’s a new trailer for You’re Dead To Me (in which you can see me wearing an authentic 18th century corset!) This clip will only play outside the UK youtube.com/watch?v=NelK...

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You're Dead To Me | Season 12 | Trailer

YouTube video by BBC Podcasts

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marybeard @wmarybeard.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i... Charlotte and I turn a classical eye on the Odyssey movie, not to quibble about archaeological detail, but to ask what more you can get out of the film (for better or worse) if you know the poem. Pedants revolt but not too pedantic!!

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Christopher Nolan's Odyssey 3: The Pedants Revolt

Podcast Episode · Instant Classics · 23 July · 57min

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Hurst Publishers @hurstpublishers.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

PB edition of the critically acclaimed ‘The Truth About Empire’ edited by @alanlester.bsky.social w/foreword by @sathnam.bsky.social out now! ‘Book of the Year’ @historyextra.bsky.social Extracted in @theguardian.com Sample 👉 tinyurl.com/38u2ndw3 & use code TRUTH20 for a 20% off in buy link.

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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Very pleased to see this out in paperback. Unfortunately it remains as pertinent as ever, as right wing populists continue to deny, disavow and distort the colonial past (and present). Read what the experts say!

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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

A morsel of personal news. I joined the UCL genetics dept as a 1st year undergraduate in 1994, then the Galton Laboratory. Today I became a Professor of Genetics in the same dept, thus proving that if you hang around long enough they eventually concede.

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Dan Grey @dangrey.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Badenoch just said, on national TV, that UK's carbon emissions have gone up "in total" because of the 2008 Climate Change Act. They have, in fact, declined by more than half. Did #Kuenssberg break in to point this basic fact out? Of course not

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