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Debbie Cooban

@debbiecooban.bsky.social
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I love books, cats, chocolate, coffee. Writer, stationery addict, OU Graduate, MA student UoB. Main interest European History #Historian #Ancient #Medieval #EarlyModern #Modern 🇪🇺 🔶

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Rachel Moss @menysnoweballes.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
The University of Northampton is making significant cuts that put many programmes at risk, including our MA in History. Our Union branch has started a petition about these cuts in general, please sign and share. chng.it/HmQLFK8Lry We also have letters from learned socs & groups supporting History. 🗃️
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Today we celebrate Boxing Day in the UK, so named because cats spend the day exploring empty boxes discarded from Christmas Day* *This may not be true
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Dr Jay Watts @shrinkatlarge.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Just a reminder: you are NOT unusual, weird, or unlovable if you have: - no one to see on Christmas Day, - no presents, or - no contactable relatives. Very few people live the idealised version on TV. Those of us who live differently—whether by choice or trauma—matter as much.
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
On the 11th day of Christmas my true love sent to me, 11 pipers piping, 10 lords-a-leaping, 9 ladies dancing, 8 maids-a-milking, 7 swans-a-swimming, 6 geese-a-laying, 5 GOLD RINGS, 4 colly birds, 3 French hens, 2 turtle doves & a partridge in a pear tree. 38 people watched me eat 23 birds to music
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
On the tenth day of Christmas my true love sent to me, 10 lords-a-leaping, 9 ladies dancing, 8 maids-a-milking, 7 swans-a-swimming, 6 geese-a-laying, 5 GOLD RINGS, 4 colly birds, 3 French hens, 2 turtle doves & a partridge in a pear tree. A lord landed on a French hen; feathers everywhere. Ate them.
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
On the ninth day of Christmas my true love sent to me, nine ladies dancing, eight maids-a-milking, seven swans-a-swimming, six geese-a-laying, FIVE GOLD RINGS, four colly birds, three French hens, two turtle doves and a partridge in a pear tree. 17 women had a front row seat of me eating 23 birds.
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Naomi Pullin @naomipullin.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Beat Kümin and I are accepting applications for our 4yr M4C fully-funded PhD Studentship for 2025/26 at Uni of Warwick and Warwick County Record Office "Warwickshire Identities: Early Modern Archival Perspectives" Get in touch with me for more info. Full details here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/his...
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
On the eighth day of Christmas my true love sent to me, eight maids-a-milking, seven swans-a-swimming, six geese-a-laying, FIVE GOLD RINGS, four colly birds, three French hens, two turtle doves and a partridge in a pear tree. Thanks maids, needed a drink after eating all those birds.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
He was the full Monty before.
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
On the seventh day of Christmas my true love sent to me, seven swans-a-swimming, six geese-a-laying, FIVE GOLD RINGS, four colly birds, three French hens, two turtle doves and a partridge in a pear tree. They're not a-swimming anymore. Ate them.
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
On the sixth day of Christmas my true love sent to me, six geese-a-laying, FIVE GOLD RINGS, four colly birds, three French hens, two turtle doves and a partridge in a pear tree. Goose, colly bird, hen, turtle dove, partridge and pear omelette. Yum.
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
On the fifth day of Christmas my true love sent to me, FIVE GOLD RINGS, four colly birds, three French hens, two turtle doves and a partridge in a pear tree. Ate the birds. Sold the rings. Bought more birds with the money. Ate them too.
Hand with 5 gold rings on one finger
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
On the fourth day of Christmas my true love sent to me, four colly birds, three French hens, two turtle doves and a partridge in a pear tree. Ate them. Tastier than calling birds.
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
On the second day of Christmas my true love sent to me, two turtle doves and a partridge in a pear tree. Ate them.
Two turtle doves
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
On the third day of Christmas my true love sent to me, three French hens, two turtle doves and a partridge in a pear tree. Ate them. Oh-la-la.
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Debbie Cooban @debbiecooban.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Yessss! Larry’s 12 Days of Christmas on Blue Sky
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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Word of the day is a favourite, from old Scots. To ‘tartle’ is to hesitate while introducing someone because you have completely forgotten their name.
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
SCANDAL as senior member of Downing Street administration caught breaking the rules... (Pic @pjrfoto.bsky.social)
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
You know what would **really** disrupt the publishing industry? Fair contracts and decent pay for authors. No AI training without the creator’s consent. Artists and translators on the cover. No NDAs for ghostwriters.
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Prof. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Associate Lecturer in Conservation of Buddhist Heritage- Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London - Conservation #skystorians 🗃️ www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKU789/a...
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Associate Lecturer in Conservation of Buddhist Heritage at Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London
An opportunity for an academic position as a Associate Lecturer in Conservation of Buddhist Heritage is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.
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Prof. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Snr Research Fellow with Digital Skills for Historical Research UCL - SELCS-CMII #skystorians 🗃️ www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKU346/s...
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Snr Research Fellow with Digital Skills for Historical Research at UCL
Explore an exciting academic career as a Snr Research Fellow with Digital Skills for Historical Research. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.
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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Word of the day is ‘librocubicularist’: one who loves nothing better than reading in bed. (Not easy to say, but I’m glad to know it exists).
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
I have faced fascism before, in this very country. I was one of 120,000 Japanese Americans summarily rounded up and expelled from our homes at gunpoint, all for the crime of looking like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor. I spent my childhood behind barbed wire. My parents lost everything. 1/
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Debbie Cooban @debbiecooban.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
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Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
I've been thinking about why so many history students get themselves into a pickle by thinking an argument comes *before* research. More at my blog: catherinedenial.org/blog/uncateg...
A photograph of a jar of pickles on a small white plate, taken by JESHOOTS at pexels.com
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Debbie Cooban @debbiecooban.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Bacup snow 🌨️🥶
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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Please see attached a CALL FOR A DEPUTY EDITOR for 'Environment and History'. #envhist
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Dr. Joe Krulder @joekrulder.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
What's this? Free, open-source newspapers from 84 countries, some dating back centuries? 🗃️ For you, my #Skystorians friends! This quick blog contains the link that will have you diving into rabbit holes in no time. www.joehistorian.com/blog/2020/2/...
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Open Source Newspapers: Terrific for Family History or… for Clio’s sake — Dr. Joseph J. Krulder
A bonanza of data for family or history at Wiki's "Open Source Newspaper" Project
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Dr. Alexandra F. Morris @disabledarchaeo.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
CripAntiquity calling for papers for a hybrid conference for July of 2025! This conference is looking to examine disability in Greek and Latin literature, art, & archaeology in the ancient world, experiences of disabled scholars today, and reception studies of ancient disability.
CripAntiquity; Call for Papers!; Disability in the Ancient World". On the white backdrop, right beneath the banner, the text reads, "CripAntiquity is calling for papers for a hybrid conference in July 2025". Underneath that has the text "Topics can relate to ancient disabilities, disability reception, and the state of disabled scholars within Ancient Studies; Deadline for abstracts: Nov. 25, 2024; Email abstracts to: afm290@optimum.net and claudius.caecus@gmail.com"
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Rachel's Random Resources @rararesources.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Rachel's Random Resources is always on the look out for more #bookbloggers & #bookstagrammers to join our #blogtour hosting family. We organise tours across a whole range of genres for wonderful #publishers & #authors and would love to hear from you docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Dr Dan O’Brien @drdan.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
A skeleton with dart and hourglass on the copper halfpenny token of John Morse of Watford, 1666. The cheerful presence of death is a pun as 'mors' sounds quite similar to 'morse’ (From British Museum) #mementomori #skystorians
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Nina Baker @ninabake2.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
I have opened DMs so anyone can ask for a copy of this.
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Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts @elliemackinroberts.net · 16/11/2024
And, as I’ve not had time to go through my completely exploded followers list, if you’re a historian of Ancient Greece (Bronze Age - Roman Period, as long as its firmly Greek) - say hi and I’ll add you to this starter pack:
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Elisabeth J. Hobbes author @elisabethhobbes.co.uk · 25/10/2024
I'm so excited about this cover that I can't keep it secret any longer. Dance with the Fae is coming out in February and is available preorder now. mybook.to/DanceWiththeFae  #coverreveal #bookcovers #coverart #fairytales #romantasy #fantasybooks #fantasy #romance #fae #preorder
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Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts @elliemackinroberts.net · 15/11/2024
Save Undergraduate Education at Wales’s Historic Lampeter Campus
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Save Undergraduate Education at Wales’s Historic Lampeter Campus
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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
Would you like to join in our project to support & promote the teaching of Indigenous histories & perspectives in UK schools? We have paid opportunities for educators to make teaching resources, & a meeting next Monday to find out more about getting involved. Join us! docs.google.com/document/u/2...
All information on the flier is at the link in the post, and here: https://docs.google.com/document/u/2/d/e/2PACX-1vQd1xU8HD17dkYm2XzUO4e98vNhHk7XYFx5ybKqEB3Jun6dtAxTw6vjCSRTULV0jQ/pub?urp=gmail_link
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Debbie Cooban @debbiecooban.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Tfw you’re looking for books published in the last 10 years for your first History MA assignment - and the majority were published a lot earlier 😩
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Beth Gaskell @bethgaskell.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Thought I’d make my first post both positive and useful-so here’s a list of all of the free-to-view titles now available on the British Newspaper Archive: blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/2024/09/19/a...
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List of Free to View Pages | British Newspaper Archive
Working in partnership with the British Library, here we present a list of all newspaper pages included in our free to view newspaper collection.
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James Stark @kingtekkers.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Postgraduates in history of science, technology and medicine: come to Leeds in April to meet likeminded souls and give a paper about your research! Such a friendly and supportive atmosphere at this PG-only conference #histsci #histSTM #HPS
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 14/11/2024
Māori MPs briefly suspended the Aotearoa parliament’s attempts to reinterpret their founding treaty in the most bad ass use of the Haka I’ve ever seen.
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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Now that @thehistoryguy.bsky.social, @katewilliamsme.bsky.social, @helencarr.bsky.social & so many other great historians have joined #BlueSky today, I'm re-upping my #starterpacks on Historians in Britain! There's still room on the 2nd list. Part 1: go.bsky.app/Fpw6Tvr Part 2: go.bsky.app/8aaAtPg
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Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼‍♂️😉 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Folks if you’re account now says “invalid handle” on here see this👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
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Stay European #RejoinEU 🇪🇺 #FBPE @stayeuropean.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
✍️ SIGN: "Apply for the UK to join the European Union as a full member as soon as possible" We are supporting this #RejoinEU petition on the official Parliament e-petitions website. Please sign and share: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
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Petition: Apply for the UK to join the European Union as a full member as soon as possible
I believe joining the EU would boost the economy, increase global influence, improve collaboration and provide stability & freedom. I believe that Brexit hasn't brought any tangible benefit and there ...
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Carol Hedges @riotgrandma.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
📚♠️♦️📚♠️♦️📚♠️♦️ Your reminder: this is the ‘day job’. I am an #indieauthor: that means every book you read is all my own work ( apart from the lovely covers). I am your ‘small artisan business’. Your support is always appreciated.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 24/07/2024
Lily is a heroine with a deep sense of social awkwardness, and I extremely love her for it. Her story is coming in under a week! Preorder links in next post!
Social was not Lily’s forté. It was not even her pianissimo.

Cover of The Earl who Isn't by Courtney Milan: an asian couple embracing, looking into each other's eyes.
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Dr Angela Muir @drangelamuir.bsky.social · 17/07/2024
Please share this amazing opportunity widely! 3 funded MA studentships in Black British Local History for the coming academic year based at the Centre for Regional and Local History at the University of Leicester in partnership with the Black Cultural Archives! le.ac.uk/english-loca...
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Gladstone's Library @gladlib.bsky.social · 02/07/2024
Words of wisdom. 😊
The image is a meme. It shows a message from @sketchesbyboze on Twitter which says: "We lose the habit of reading because we're afraid of wasting our time. We think we need to be productive and 'on the go' at all times. But people are not machines, and you are nourished by naps and fiction and basking in sunlight no less than by food and drink."
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Writing & Editing @wrtrstat.bsky.social · 30/06/2024
Characters are always more powerful when they move and react in your writing and story to show how they feel about things, adding to the telling of the reader how they feel. It gives it an honest feel, describing it visually. - Wrtr #amwriting ~ #writing #author
Writing is a lifetime adventure. - Wrtr ~ Background shows a photo of a tan colored map with photographs of places spread across it, a camera sitting in the corner of the map waiting to be used..
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Writing & Editing @wrtrstat.bsky.social · 30/06/2024
“A writer's life. Writing is uniquely personal to every author and how they do it. What we write and how we write are a part of us, it is a part of our stories.” - Wrtr #amwriting ...Be Writing #writing #author
You are never too old (or too young) to set another goal or to dream a new dream. - Les Brown - Be Writing. ~ Background shows a photo of a cool tree in wintertime covered with clear crystal ice making it look like a glass sculpture, along with the trees surrounding it.
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Jenni Keer Author @jennikeer.bsky.social · 30/06/2024
🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺 Lovely to see a BESTSELLER flag as this book climbs up the charts today! 99p! 😲 99p! 😲 99p! 😲 🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺 mybook.to/strokemidnightsocial
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