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Murray Tremellen @drmtremellen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is a really important initiative. Russia's war against Ukraine isn't just about seizing territory--it's a neo-colonial attempt to erase Ukraine's cultural identity. Projects like this are one way in which we can help Ukraine fight back. museumsandheritage.com/advisor/post...

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New UK-Ukraine board launches with Kyiv photo conservation project

Pilot project pairs Historic England conservators with Taras Shevchenko National Museum to conserve 11 historic photographs.

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Murray Tremellen @drmtremellen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Really pleased to take delivery of Peter Lindfield and Dan Talkes' edited volume Revivalism and Architecture today--including my essay on James Wyatt's Westminster! 😊

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Victorian Commons @victoriancommons.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Died #OnThisDay 1852 Augustus Pugin, who was responsible for most of the interior decoration of the new Palace of Westminster constructed after the 1834 fire.

Head and shoulders painting of a man. He is dressed in black and has dark hair swept back from his forehead.

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Murray Tremellen @drmtremellen.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Simulated. That's the key word here. Because that's all GenAI does. It endlessly remixes all the previous work that real, human scholars have done (often by stealing from copyrighted work, BTW). It cannot generate any genuinely new insight. And that's what humanities are supposed to do.

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Murray Tremellen @drmtremellen.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I routinely get through every working day without using any AI tools, thank you very much.

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Murray Tremellen @drmtremellen.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Provocative thought for the day: the two easiest interventions to improve punctuality on Britain's railways would be 1. Reintroduce luggage vans on long-distance trains and 2. Reintroduce porters at major stations.

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Katie Fenn @katiefenn.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

The consequence of cancelling HS2 is that, with rocketing demand, there’s now no plan for dealing with overcrowding on Britain’s railway network. We’re facing a disaster in the next ten years. bsky.app/profile/gare...

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The Georgian Lords @georgianlords.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

#ICYMI last week Charles Littleton posted for the Georgian Lords on the role of the minority of bishops in the 1770s and 80s who opposed the ministry's line on the American war... #HistParl

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Murray Tremellen @drmtremellen.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Point 2 is perhaps the most important in all this. It's symptomatic of a wider failure of successive governments to check runaway executive pay, whilst the gap between rich and poor widens. If Burnham becomes PM, will he do anything about it?

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Murray Tremellen @drmtremellen.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Yep, gotta love climate-change-denying Gen X nostalgia 🙃

A screenshot from Facebook, showing a photograph taken during the 1976 heatwave, with the caption 'we all had a wonderful summer and survived'

A screenshot showing a comment posted on Facebook, saying, 'The 1976 heatwave caused 20% excess deaths and a significant increase in hospital emergency admissions compared to the same period in 1975 or 1974.'

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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Hear me out: what if we replaced rolling news with helicopter footage of trains every day? I don’t think anyone would actually be less well informed.

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Murray Tremellen @drmtremellen.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

A ridiculous illustration of the lengths our media will go to to find something, anything, visual to fill our 24hr rolling news channels. But look on the bright side: that footage will no doubt be an invaluable reference for railway historians in future... 😁

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neil guthrie @nguthrie.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Born #OTD in 1738, King George III (not really the tyrannical ogre he has been made out to be - and hey, Canadians remained loyal & I’d say it has worked out better for us). Wedgwood plaquette mounted in brass #c18 #c18th #18thc

Oval plaquette (5 x 4 cm) with a white cameo bust of the King facing right, natural hair tied back with a ribbon, laurel wrest about his head, on a typical Wedgwood blue ground, mounted in a brass frame with a beaded border and loop for suspension.

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Muspell Hillbilly @aldokelrast.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

We were making flyers with xerox machines and x-acto knives 30 years ago. If you're not that creative why even be in a band?

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Murray Tremellen @drmtremellen.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Heavens above. Does anybody seriously think that, just because he won a by-election in one constituency, Burnham now has a mandate to become PM, without even holding a leadership contest among the Parliamentary Labour Party? Can we please restore just a tiny bit of sanity to our politics? 😩

A quote from the BBC website, reading: 'A growing number of Labour MPs are urging Sir Keir [Starmer] to announce plans to hand power to the former Greater Manchester mayor [Andy Burnham], without the need for a potentially messy leadership contest.'

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Gareth Dennis @garethdennis.uk · 19/06/2026

if only we could have predicted this oh wait, the NEF did years ago

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was an anti-fascist German Lutheran pastor who opposed Hitler and the Nazi Party so effectively that they murdered him in 1945. He is only a bad guy if you literally spend all your time on far-right, neo-Nazi websites and have pickled your brain in fascist group chats.

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Murray Tremellen @drmtremellen.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

You can say that again. It's not just the NHS that's struggling; all our public services are visibly creaking. And there's a feeling that the government still isn't doing anything to rein in corporate greed. It's not just low wages; it's the precarity of the gig economy that robs people of security

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The Beauty of Transport @thebeautyoftransport.com · 09/06/2026

You know all about those Art Deco London Underground stations from the 1920s/30s - but what was happening on the mainline railway? Let me tell you all about it... I'm giving a talk to @artdecosocuk.bsky.social on 28 July and it's open to everyone. Tickets at: www.artdecosociety.uk/events-2/

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Ant Dawson @railwayhobbit.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Happy Birthday to George Stephenson, born this day in 1781. Engineer. Inventor. A father of the locomotive (but not necessarily a good father to his son). And, of course, a Unitarian.

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Absolutely crucial piece of research on misinformation in local news on Facebook, X and Nextdoor by @smfthinktank.bsky.social Full report is here (www.smf.co.uk/publications...) but these are some key findings:

2 in 5 local Facebook groups and over four-fifths of X searches featured at least one piece of misinformation in their last 1,000 posts. Of 19 Nextdoor locations studied, 3 were found to contain misinformation.
Nearly 1 in 26 (4%) of news related posts on Facebook were misinformation; on X the ratio is over 1 in 4 (28%)
Places in local authorities with no or limited local news outlets (e.g. ‘news deserts’) had nearly 3 times as much fake news as a share of all posts as average on Facebook groups, albeit based upon 12 groups worth of data.
Conversely, places with a relatively high number of local news outlets (‘news oases’) have half as much misinformation as average, again based upon a limited sample (13 groups).
Places with local elections, on average, saw more misinformation in the run up to polling day than they did earlier in the year. Misinformation as a share of all posts increased from 0.12% to 0.15% (26% increase) and as a share of news grew from 8.2% to 12.9% (56%).
The rate of misinformation seen across four Gorton and Denton local Facebook groups was 26 times higher than in the wider Facebook analysis – 3% of 1,000 posts were identified as fake news, compared to 0.1% nationally. This is driven by far more news related posts on these groups, and a near doubling of the share of them being classified as misinformation.
Three in five misinformation posts (61%) in places with local elections in the week of the vote related to national politics or council issues, compared to 28% in the wider national analysis earlier in the year.
1 in 5 ‘fake news’ (19%) posts analysed on Facebook groups related to local issues, including planning, transport, local services and council politics. Our case studies revealed how planning applications could be misinterpreted into the “council selling off the beach”, or how local authority communications can be faked.
A third (32%) of misinformation found on X was anti-immigration or Islamophobic, far ahead of the next most common, h…

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C20 Society @c20society.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Monday blues: Bye-bye to Bath Fire Station (1938-39) How did it come to this? A rare pre-war building by a female architect, Molly Taylor; survived the Baedecker Blitz; located within two UNESCO World Heritage Sites; recommended for listing by C20 & Historic England, yet rejected by DCMS in 2025.

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Murray Tremellen @drmtremellen.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

If this guy wants free literature, there are any number of public-domain works which he can enjoy to his heart's content. LIVING artists and writers, however, deserve to be paid for their labour just like any other professional. To argue otherwise is to argue that their work is worthless.

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Historic Southampton @historicalsoton.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

‘Southampton Pub, D-Day Plus One’ by Lt Tom Wood, 1944. Canadian Tom Wood painted a scene of celebration in a Southampton pub one day after D-Day - 82 years ago today. There are Canadians and Americans, and the chap with the pom-pom is a Free French sailor.

Painting of a scene of celebration. People smile and smoke. There’s a woman amongst the soldiers. A Black serviceman plays the piano whilst one man dances and another listens. Pints of beer sit atop the piano.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

This is something the Victorians understood: that democracy is dangerously vulnerable to plutocracy, and that it needs to build defences against that. Our defences are in tatters. Rebuilding them is one of the most urgent tasks facing our politics.

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Murray Tremellen @drmtremellen.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Speaking as a former National Trust housekeeper, I'm not sure this method of dusting would be compliant with relevant risk assessments or manual handling guidelines. They should use a stepladder or scaffold tower. And I'm not sure their attire would comply with the uniform guidelines, either...! 😉

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Murray Tremellen @drmtremellen.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Reading the proofs for a book chapter today, and laughing at the irony of AI asking me if I'd like to read a summary of my own work... 🙃

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Alix Dunn @alixdunn.com · 31/05/2026

Oh hell yeah @amnesty.org comes out swinging: "Amnesty International finds that standalone generative AI systems... are fundamentally incompatible with IHRL. As such, Amnesty International is calling for a prohibition of such systems." www.amnesty.org/en/documents...

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Unlawful by design: Exposing the human rights costs of generative AI - Amnesty International

This briefing examines how standalone generative AI systems, based on unlawful web scraping, are in conflict with international human rights law (IHRL) and standards through their design, development ...

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Murray Tremellen @drmtremellen.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

THIS ⬇️ I'm not anti-business or anti-technology, but I've always believed that the state's role is to regulate business and technology to ensure they serve the interests of the people. Too often, in recent years, they have done the opposite.

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Museums Association @museumsassociation.org · 27/05/2026

Analysis | Is industrial heritage heading down the wrong track? 🚂 If museums can’t find a way to arrest falling visitor numbers, some important sites could be lost for ever. By Rob Sharp

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Is industrial heritage heading down the wrong track? - Museums Association

If museums can’t find a way to arrest falling visitor numbers, some important sites could be lost for ever. By Rob Sharp

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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

🇭🇺🤝🇵🇱🚄Peter Magyar starts his first foreign trip today - to Poland. Many symbolic moves by the new Hungarian PM, including visiting the resting places of Queen Jadwiga and Stefan Batory, both very PL-HU history coded figures, but the real gem is that Magyar will go from Kraków to Warsaw *by train*.

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Historic Southampton @historicalsoton.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

It must have been a proud moment for Leonard Cropp when he became Mayor of Southampton in 1727. The Daily Post made an unfortunate typo when reporting on the appointment.

They wrote Crapp instead of Cropp. Daily Post, 23 September 1727.

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Murray Tremellen @drmtremellen.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Next time anyone in Reform UK tries to talk about 'Millennial Snowflakes'...just remind them of this.

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JenOnTheMove 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @jenonthemove.com · 16/05/2026

Tries to get bus back from the hospital… no luck, it left 5m early. Fine, I’ll walk round and get a tram. Oh yeah, Burnham forgot about the trams so it’s on reduced frequency for an unspecified number of months! Hospitals _should_ be the easy by public transport. They never are @garethdennis.uk

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 11/05/2026

Israel’s efforts to influence the vote for the Eurovision Song Contest to improve its international reputation were far broader than previously known, a New York Times investigation found. Here is the inside story of the controversy that almost broke Eurovision. nyti.ms/3Rellcg

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Chris Howe (Rail Focus) 🏳️‍🌈 @railfocus.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

All with Government support. Job removal scam ✅ Making taxis less accessible ✅ Making congestion worse ✅ Endangering lives ✅ Breaking laws ✅ Wealth transfer to tech giants ✅ Literally zero redeemable features

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Murray Tremellen @drmtremellen.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

I spent most of my teenage years playing this game. Je ne regrette rien.

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Sophie Coulombeau @sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Calling A-level English teachers! Do you teach Austen, Brontë, or other 18thc stuff? Could you use a set of free research-informed teaching materials, which support students' historical, literary, & linguistic understanding, & foster debate about misogyny, consent, & healthy relationships? (1/?)

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Teaching and learning materials
We have produced a set of resources for A-level English teachers. They focus on an extraordinary sequence of letters written between Mary Hamilton - then a governess to the daughters of George III and Queen Charlotte - and the young Prince of Wales, the future George IV.

Using the supporting resources, these letters can be studied as a powerful narrative with modern-day #MeToo echoes, as contextualising support for Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte;'s novels, or as examples of eighteenth-century English.

To access the free resources, please register below (you will only be asked to provide your name, school and email address). You will then be directed to a download page.

Handwritten note from Mary Hamilton Papers
Access teaching and learning materials
To access the free teaching and learning resources for 'Unlocking the Mary Hamilton Papers' please register here.

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

crucial context: Peter Mandelson was sacked from the first New Labour government for having a £373,000 *loan* (not a gift) from a Labour colleague (Geoffrey Robinson) to buy a house

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Once more, for visibility: "Bullet trains will wipe out short-haul flights."

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Murray Tremellen @drmtremellen.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Spineless politicians: 'We hAvE t0 bAcK AI beCauSe iT's go0d for busInEsS' Businesses:

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Murray Tremellen @drmtremellen.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Can you imagine if a headteacher said 'we're not going to provide ramps for wheelchair users because it will make them more resilient and equip them for the real world'? That's the level of bulls*** we're talking about here. Stop denying autistic people the adjustments we need.

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Murray Tremellen @drmtremellen.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

A 'Rocket' for Star Wars day. A recent photograph of the original 1829 Liverpool & Manchester Railway locomotive at the National Railway Museum.

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Dr. Jude Seal - 'Unfunded Hobbyist' @judeseal.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Quote 1 is Pope Urban II's speech at the Council of Clermont - which launched the First Crusade and called for a 'holy war' against Muslims. Quote 2 is from Enoch Powell's 'Rivers of Blood' anti-immigration speech. Quote 3 is a fake Dostoevsky quote which never appears in his work.

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Murray Tremellen @drmtremellen.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Born #OTD 1769, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington. He was Charlotte Brontë's childhood hero and was fictionalised in the siblings' juvenile writings, known as the 'Glasstown saga'. This bust is on display at York Mansion House.

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