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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 11m

It was Sam the Eagle, that’s also where he got the eyebrows from.

Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 26m

I don’t want to over-romanticise it but North London has been so relaxedly diverse for so long that this kind of thing sounds especially ridiculous in the context. My Dad once told me about the conductor on the bus to Camden Town jokingly announcing “Last stop: Nicosia city centre” back in the 70s.

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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 36m

Yep, people I’ve spoken to about growing up there in the 60s and 70s routinely talked warmly about just what a melting pot it was.

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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 45m

My great uncle and aunt had moved there from Cyprus 56 years ago and all.

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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 11h

Yep exactly this. Guy had a photo of Art Garfunkel on his door (because he looked like him) and had a very ‘working-class intellectual’ vibe. I enjoyed his classes generally but my principal memories of him are of anecdotes about sport and pubs.

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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 11h

This is really jarring because as a kid I just thought “oh yeah, they were like the rhinos and hippos of their day”, seemed like the most ‘modern animal’-like of the dinosaurs.

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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 11h

I used to have one like this for English. Loved that guy.

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The Childhood, Law & Policy Network (CLPN) @clpn.bsky.social · 11h

Call for chapters for an edited collection: "Mapping Childhoods: Creative Co-Design of Space and Place." Abstracts are due by 29 November.

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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 11h

Crinkley Bottom cops, Crinkley Bottom cops, Crinkley Bottom cops – ain’t too smaaaaart

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Tyron @tyron.bsky.social · 20h

people never talk about his later work

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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I’m not sure I wanna know about whatever “sticky biological reality” this guy’s getting all over his books.

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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Fond memories of it adorning my cousins' school jotter covers back in the early 90s.

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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

But yes, now I vaguely remember that, you were commissioning someone else to do it.

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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Possibly. You didn't use my De Gaulle picture anyway, despite its incredible likeness.

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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Tbf you did grow up in the shadow of brand design greatness

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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

IIRC you designed the new logo for SSFH a few years back? (after rejecting my proposed sketch of Charles De Gaulle that I drew in 5 mins on MS Paint)

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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Not giving Dion a million pounds would be ‘missed opportunity’, says Dion

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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Twas once a man who dreamt he’d go far Not writing plays while driving a car But composing poems in mid-air He wrote this limerick there Wait, who’s flying this AAAAARGHHHHH

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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I’m so glad I’m not alone in the “two entirely different careers in one” category.

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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Would obviously land the plane to write the poems down, there’s a safety limit to what multitasking looks like at 30,000 feet.

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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Poetry pilot. As in someone who writes poems and also flies a plane.

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Andrew WM Smith @smidbob.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

On Monday 19 Oct, we welcome Venita Datta (Wellesley) to the @ihr.bsky.social Modern French History seminar to speak on 'French Celebrity Politics and Mass Culture at the Fin de Siècle: General Georges Boulanger'. Come along or sign up via zoom: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... 🗃️ #skystorians

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French Celebrity Politics and Mass Culture at the Fin de Siècle: General Georges Boulanger

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Alex Prichard @profalexp.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Ruth and I wrote a blog for the Cambridge University Press website about anarchism and constitutions. Link to the newly published Constitutionalising Anarchy at the foot of the page. Hands up who thinks anarchism is a constitutional theory?

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Hands up who thinks anarchism is a constitutional theory?

Our guess is that most people’s arms are still bolted tightly to their sides. If so, this book is for you.

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Dr Aidan Norrie 🦄 @aidannorrie.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Welcome back to #LisaFest. Day 9 features the excellent Jessica Dyson, who has wrestled with some pirates and revealed what lies behind their boisterous personas. The Golden Age of Piracy might be associated with the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, but for a nation proud of its...

Chapter 9

Piracy and the Edges of Gender, Nation, and Faith: Heywood’s The Fair Maid of the West, Part 1 and Massinger’s The Renegado

Jessica Dyson

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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

“Why does Sudowoodo have a podcast?” It’s 2026 kids, everyone has a podcast.

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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Playing ‘Guess the Pokémon’ on the school run and the kids didn’t have an answer to the question “Which Pokémon was recently cancelled for making controversial comments about bug-types on Sudowoodo’s new podcast?”

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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Pre-emptively: this is a dig at Jamie Carragher, Gary Neville, and Peter Drury. Not a genuine comment on US politics or that orange clown in the White House.

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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

This is going to get reposted out of context and I'm going to have half of America in my mentions aren't I.

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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

One thing you've got to say about Donald Trump, however he's made his money, he's always hired the best lawyers.

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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

And whenever they attempt to they cannot help but cheapen themselves by trying to reorient what happens off the pitch back towards what happens on it.

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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Ultimately, people who are paid by broadcasters (rather than newspapers) to talk about football are utterly uncomfortable talking about anything beyond the incredibly narrow purview of the football itself, sans context, and that's downfield from their employers having a stake in the product itself.

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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

You can just say Rayan Cherki is great at football because he is, that he's a joy to watch because that too, you absolutely don't have to reverse engineer from that to make light of the charges against his employer.

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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Kind of ridiculous to hear Carragher say 'whether they spent it legally or illegally, City have bought great players' - like what are we even doing here, you absolutely don't have to hand it to them for that! Better off saying nothing than that sort of cod-philosophical nonsense.

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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Dulwich Hamlet, which is actually set in Denmark (Hill)

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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Michael Oliver Twist, which has a trick ending based around a lengthy VAR check.

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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

He was dressed exactly as you would expect him to dress on a night out as well, like casual but still stylish.

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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Just walked past this afternoon’s goalscoring hero and possessor of outrageously perfect cheekbones Riccy Calafiori in the West End. 😍

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Ewan Gibbs @ewangibbs.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Today’s Daily Record has a feature about my research on the closure of Cardowan colliery in Lanarkshire. It was pivotal in the build up to the 1984-85 miners’ strike and breaking union power. For more on Cardowan, read my new book, An Injury to All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class.

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Dr Aidan Norrie 🦄 @aidannorrie.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Welcome to day 8 of #LisaFest, featuring the excellent Andrew Hiscock. Andrew's chapter is the most Shakespeare-heavy in the volume (I have forgiven him tho), but in putting Shakey's Coriolanus in dialogue with Alexandre Hardy’s contemporary Coriolan, he emphasises the shared source material for...

Chapter 8

“Hence, and shut your gates upon’s”: The Bitter Politics of Welcome in Shakespeare’s Coriolanus and Alexandre Hardy’s Coriolan

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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It’s like imagine if yeah Peter Parker could secretly climb walls and jump with incredibly agility and sense danger coming but his day job is he’s a photographer and he actually couldn’t take a decent picture to save his life. That’s what the ADHD superpower is.

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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Yeah, like sure I benefit from being able to think laterally and see connections where maybe others don’t but life also expects me to be able to concentrate and self-regulate a lot better than I can so some superpower.

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