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Chris Kempshall @chriskempshall.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

There is a multi-page spread on ‘Gallipoli: Ottoman Fronts’ by @blackmillgames.bsky.social in the latest edition of ‘Britain at War’ magazine. So check it out to see how we made this amazing game! 🗃️

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Karl Reid @karlreid.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

My new album is out now! The album is called Big Sky Please share, I am so grateful ❤️ Spotify - open.spotify.com/album/133YSy... Apple Music - music.apple.com/us/album/big... Deezer - www.deezer.com/us/album/868... Youtube - www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3fw... Linktree - linktr.ee/KarlReid

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Jack Blackburn @hackblackburn.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Striking photo. Looks like Farage has just said they’ll honeymoon in Southend.

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Jack Blackburn @hackblackburn.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

For Holocaust Memorial Day, the extraordinary story of Peter Kien, the Jewish artist who depicted life in the Theresienstadt Ghetto and the 55 year-long battle to retrieve them. His artworks will now be held by the @wienerlibrary.bsky.social www.thetimes.com/article/517f...

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Holocaust victim’s rescued artwork captures life in a Jewish ghetto

The works of Peter Kien, a Jewish painter and writer who died in Auschwitz, have been reunited after more than 80 years thanks to a love passed down generations

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Danielle Terrazas Williams @drdanielletw.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

PhD Funding! University of Leeds The School of History invites applicants from Black, Asian and other minoritised ethnic groups who wish to study for a PhD commencing in the academic year 2026/27 to apply for the School of History Access to Research Scholarship. phd.leeds.ac.uk/funding/387-...

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Project opportunity - School of History Access to Research Scholarship 2026/27 at the University of Leeds

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Maureen Wright @drmaureenwright.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Feeling very much like I'm "To the Manor Born" at a #Christmas party yesterday. Bring on the champagne 🍾🥂

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Maureen Wright @drmaureenwright.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Excellent weekend including a visit to Round Chimney's Farm near Howell for their Lambing Event and Woolly Workshops hosted by Millie at The Slipped Stitch. The farm's café is excellent as is their home-bred Aberdeen Angus beef. #Farm #ShopLocal

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Gary Sheffield @profgsheffield.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Grateful for reposts!

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

YES INDEED

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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

The contempt that university managers have for their academic staff here in the UK is *off the scale*.

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Talking Pictures TV @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

A warm festive stocking of Yuletide nostalgia, with a little "Bah, Humbug," this Christmas on #TPTV The nation's favourite channel with #TommyCooper #DavidNixon #ManFromUncle #DameEdna #Scrooge and so much more!

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Paul Reed @sommecourt.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Fantastic to see The Old Front Line featured and reviewed in this weeks Radio Times!

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Maureen Wright @drmaureenwright.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Thank you @georgewalkley.com for this, but surely it's not just novelists who should be concerned. Writers in all disciplines will almost certainly be impacted by AI, if not now then in the future. I am a writer of History non-fiction and pretty sure I'm not alone in being concerned.

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Maureen Wright @drmaureenwright.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

I seem to have acquired almost 50 new followers this week. Welcome everyone. I'll give you a book recommendation for the weekend. It's Tim Bouverie's Allies at War & it's won a place as one of my top 5 books of 2025. As stunning an account of the diplomatic history of #WW2 as you could ask for.

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The Wiener Holocaust Library @wienerlibrary.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

In her new book, People Without History are Dust, Dr Anna Hájková explores same-sex desire in the Holocaust, telling the gripping stories of queer Jews that have been long silenced by the homophobia of survivors. Sign up now to hear Dr Hájková speak about this important new work:

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Book Talk: People without History are Dust, Anna Hájková - The Wiener Holocaust Library

The Holocaust and Genocide Research Partnership is delighted to host Dr Anna Hájková in conversation with Dr Christine Schmidt about Dr. Hájková’s new book, People without History are Dust: Queer…

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JMcN @jmcn.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

A terrific book. #histbookchat

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History Rage Podcast @historyrage.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

🚨 THIS WEEK🚨 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Thomas More wasn’t just a statesman — he was a devoted dad. @drjoannepaul.bsky.social shares how he championed his daughters’ education in a world that didn’t. 🎧 History Rage tells the untold story. pod.fo/e/34939e #ThomasMore #JoannePaul #TudorWomen #WomensHistory

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Julie Cupples @juliecupples79.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

This is so wrong, utterly heartbreaking.

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Maureen Wright @drmaureenwright.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Superb day at the IWM for their first Podcast Live event. So good to catch up with some of the greatest historians today. @tessadunlop.bsky.social @claremulley.bsky.social @historywithjackson.bsky.social Ian Pegg, Oliver Webb Carter, Jack Bowsher

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Maureen Wright @drmaureenwright.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

It's all true! Go if you can. The hotel in Poland is gorgeous & serves an excellent Negroni.

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

The hypocrisy of Reform going on TV to allege that certain groups are constantly over represented on TV is truly epic.

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Maureen Wright @drmaureenwright.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Superb talk @YeovilLiteraryFestival last night by the wonderful @garethrussell.bsky.social Thank you for a totally awesome look into the life of James VI and I. Look for Gareth's book 📚, Queen James, in all good bookshops.

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Maureen Wright @drmaureenwright.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

photos.app.goo.gl/JZc2LLhaqEbi... At 9.40 pm, 83 years ago a barrage of900 guns opened the 2nd Battle of El Alamein. This is my father. L/Vpl Ron Smith, 104th Regt, Royal Horse Artillery, who was there. May we remember all those who carried the scars of that battle, or made the ultimate sacrifice.

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The Times and Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 22/10/2025

🔺 BREAKING: Trump announces new raft of sanctions against Russia The development comes amid reports that the US has green-lit Ukraine’s use of long-range missiles — which Trump has denied 🔗 Tap the link for updates

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Trump to announce new raft of sanctions against Russia

The development comes amid reports that the US has green-lit Ukraine’s use of long-range missiles — which Trump has denied

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Ian McClellan @ianmac.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Set a PB at #ParkRun this morning. #10DaysOf5k for @cancerresearchuk.org Chilly but felt good going round this morning. #LoveParkRun

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The Wiener Holocaust Library @wienerlibrary.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

📍This year we launched a new digital archive putting significant collections from our archive at the hands of researchers worldwide For the past 8 months we have continued to add new collections to the site, now totalling 215,000 pages of crucial evidence from the Holocaust and the Nazi era...

A graphic featuring images from the Eichmann trials collection of the Wiener Holocaust Library

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Suzy Henderson @suzyhenderson.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

#Free on KindleUnlimited To the Gestapo, she was enemy No. 1. To her husband, she was everything. In war-torn France, Nancy must outwit the Nazis—or lose it all. "An incredible story!" 5-Stars mybook.to/madamefiocca #histfic #Booksky #womensfiction

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt: “The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist." www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

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Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

CfP: Romantic Elements: Rocks, and Stones, and Soil, 1750–1850, Symposium at The University of Manchester, 25–26 June 2026. Deadline 30th January 2026. www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6185

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CfP: Romantic Elements: Rocks, and Stones, and Soil, 1750–1850 – BARS Blog

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 12/10/2025

People get so weird about blocking, as though it's punishment for something. And I understand. But also: People have the right to curate their spaces. If someone needs to NOT have me in THEIR space for their peace, good for them! I don't have the right to be in someone else's space.

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Maureen Wright @drmaureenwright.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

After finding out hubby is eligible but not me I thought I'd investigate paying for a Covid-19 vaccine... Not at these prices though! I'll just have to risk it.

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History Rage Podcast @historyrage.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

🚨 BOOK LAUNCH🚨 Roger Moorhouse joins us to reveal why the U-Boat War was nowhere near the close-run thing we’re told – by 1943 the tables had turned dramatically. 🎙️⚓️ 🎧 Listen 👉 pod.fo/e/339dda 📖 Buy the book: uk.bookshop.org/a/10... #WWII #NavalHistory #Podcast @wmcollinsbooks

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Guy Walters @guywalters.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Thanks to the peerless scholarship of Dr Jürgen Matthäus, we now know the identity of the murderer in this most notoriously iconic picture of the Holocaust. His name was Jakobus Onnen. He was a teacher. My piece in the Independent: www.independent.co.uk/news/people/...

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Jane Gulliford Lowes @lydiajane13.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Thanks @danellin.bsky.social ! Really looking forward to giving this lecture at the wonderful International Bomber Command Centre in Lincoln in March. See you there !

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Maureen Wright @drmaureenwright.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cg... Jilly Cooper: Best-selling author of Rivals dies aged 88 after fall - BBC News Excellent tribute from HMTQ 👑 to her late friend. 👇

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Jilly Cooper: Best-selling author of Rivals dies aged 88 after fall

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Maureen Wright @drmaureenwright.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

A valuable work space for scholars now open at the Bishopsgate Institute - I used the archives here while researching for my PhD. A positive development.

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Women's History Network @womenshistnet.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

This #BHM, learn about Mollie Hunte—educational psychologist from British Guyana, and a driving force in the Black Education Movement in the UK from the 1970s onwards. A true champion of Caribbean communities. womenshistorynetwork.org/mollie-hunte... #GenderHist #WomensHistory

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Mollie Hunte (1932-2015): Educator, Psychologist and Champion of Caribbean People, by Rebecca Adams

Mollie Hunte was an educational psychologist from British Guiana (now Guyana) born in 1932. She was a significant part of the Black Education Movement in the UK during the 1970s onwards and made a …

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The London Journal @thelondonjournal.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

The next in our series about standout articles from the journal's history, as chosen by members of of our editorial board, is Yihong Zhu's selection of Ellie Miles's 2013 article ‘A Museum of Everything’: Making the Pleasure Gardens inside the Museum of London' as her particular favourite. 🧵

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‘A Museum of Everything’: Making the Pleasure Gardens inside the Museum of London

In 2010, the Galleries of Modern London opened at the Museum of London, and included a re-making of London’s Pleasure Gardens. Using an embedded ethnographic perspective at the museum, this paper e...

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 03/10/2025

"We live at a time of considerable uncertainty and peril. We believe this future will be easier (if never easy) to navigate with recourse to the skills and temperaments integral to a historical approach to life." RHS President, Lucy Noakes, writes on the Society's blog bit.ly/3KBX7Fw #Skystorians

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 03/10/2025

We've updated our three BlueSky starter packs for historians. Our principal list now includes details of 130+ societies and networks, based in the UK and Ireland, that advance the study, research and promotion of history go.bsky.app/AZaYQDd Please let us know if there are gaps. #Skystorians 1/2

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Maureen Wright @drmaureenwright.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Going to read on the strength of this review.

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Guy Walters @guywalters.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Maybe, just maybe, it's time to realise that WW2 shouldn't be treated as a foundation for defining nationhood. History should never be forgotten, but I would prefer to define Britishness through values and not victories, friendliness and not flags, and harmony rather than heroes.

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