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The History team at Edge Hill University, West Lancashire, UK.

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Historic Society of Lancashire & Cheshire @historicsoclandc.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Most of this year's journal is open-access, and it's full of new research on one of the biggest industrial disputes of the 19th century, the Preston Strike and Lock-Out of 1853-54 -- inspiration for Dickens's Hard Times & Gaskell's North and South. www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/transact...
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Contents | Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire 173,
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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
A full-time, open-ended lectureship in Ancient History at Leeds! It's a different department to me but your duties will still include being asked interminable questions about ancient weirdos by me, your colleague with a healthy interest.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
'A new landmark book celebrating Māori art has clocked up a couple of impressive firsts: not only is it the most comprehensive account of creative work by Indigenous New Zealanders ever published, it is also the first wide-ranging art history written entirely by Māori scholars.'
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‘Our people were so innovative’: Māori art celebrated in landmark book
Toi Te Mana: An Indigenous history of Māori art showcases creative work across a diverse range of mediums
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History Cafe ☕ Ottoman Heritage @ottomanhistory.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
■ Marie-Adélaïde, Daughter of King Louis XV of France, in Ottoman Turkish Costume (France), 1753 #history #frenchhistory #1750s #18thcentury #portrait
Oil painting of Marie-Adélaïde on a sofa.
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Françoïs Guesnet @guesnet.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Call for submissions now open for the EAJS conference grant programme Apply for up to £ 9,500 for your conference/workshop/summerschool on a topic from the whole range of Jewish Studies Deadline 20 March 2025 www.eurojewishstudies.org/homepage-ann...
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EAJS Conference Grant Programme in European Jewish Studies – Call for Applications (2025-26) – European Association for Jewish Studies
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Alex Drace-Francis @alexdrace.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
A comic-strip's-eye-view of Operation Barbarossa - such a good theme (and much more important than it might seem at first glance)
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Francois Soyer @fsoyer.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
My review of Ivan G. Marcus, How the West Became Antisemitic: Jews and the Formation of Europe, 800–1500. in H-Diplo, H-Net Reviews. December, 2024. www.h-net.org/reviews/show...
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H-Net Reviews
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History@EdgeHillUniversity @edgehist.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Watch Rashid Khalidi speaking at our student-led conference on Palestine & the Palestinians ABT six weeks before 7 Oct 2023. youtu.be/6df_WGG1I64?...
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Palestinian Identity after 25 Years- A Lecture by Rashid Khalidi
YouTube video by EdgeHist
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History@EdgeHillUniversity @edgehist.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
'Racism is being ignored by historians-Orwell on the BBC' Prof James Renton, Director of our International Centre on Racism youtu.be/KBivE7NL0jA?...
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Racism is being ignored by historians - Orwell on the BBC
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History@EdgeHillUniversity @edgehist.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
PhD funding! Check out our new GTA/PhD job advert. Fields include: relational racism studies; the medieval Irish Sea, with Cardiff University; British politics & policymaking; History & cultural heritage. Deadline in Jan. www.edgehill.ac.uk/departments/...
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History and Politics - Edge Hill University
Apply for the History and Politics Research - Graduate Teaching Assistant PhD Studentship at Edge Hill University’s Graduate School.
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Briony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Another late 19th-century ballet costume design. This time: a sweet chestnut (pen and ink and watercolour on pencil, V&A)
Drawing of a ballet costume design for a sweet chestnut consisting of a green round fruit head with spikes and a body covered in green tights and leafy branches.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
'The show, which opens on 3 December and is called Picturing Excess, places the work in a historical context of rapid European expansion around the world, when the wealthy would flaunt their riches via the ostentatious displays painted by De Heem.'
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Still life quartet by Dutch golden age master to be shown together in Cambridge
Jan Davidsz de Heem’s four paintings of sumptuous food and luxury objects were produced as series
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History@EdgeHillUniversity @edgehist.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Medieval England was a diverse place - multilingual, in fact. Check out Dr Lindy Brady's important book: www.cambridge.org/core/element...
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Multilingualism in Early Medieval Britain
Cambridge Core - European History 450-1000 - Multilingualism in Early Medieval Britain
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ArthurJChapman @arthurjchapman.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
Great to see such a positive review of History Education and Historical Inquiry (2024) in the Teachers College Record. The book was a labour of love by many hand. Great to see the results so positively appreciated in a leading journal in the international educational community, therefore. 1/2
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Tom Ashbyトム アシュビー @tomaashby.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Newcomer! The International Society for Intellectual History is now here - welcome @isih-blueskye.bsky.social!
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History@EdgeHillUniversity @edgehist.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
At University College London, which is one of the partners in our new consortium on combating antisemitism and Islamophobia as a connected issue in the context of Palestine/Israel.
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Daniel Gilman @danielgilman.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
My first journal article is published! My research for @camhistory.bsky.social tells of a woman lost to history who spoke against the slave trade hours before Wilberforce’s 1st speech. Secret spy reports reveal the challenges women faced in public speaking: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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‘An Absurd Rage for Public Speaking’: An Abolitionist Fair Orator in the London Debating Societies, 1788–1791
On 11 May 1789, the night before Parliament’s first debate on ending the slave trade, a woman advocated for abolition before hundreds of Londoners at a debating society. Despite her compelling orat...
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The Historical Journal @historicaljnl.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
📣New HJ blog!✨ Harry Spillane (@camhistory.bsky.social) asks: how did Elizabethans deal with the co-existence of multiple translations of the Bible? #Bible #Protestant #Christianity #Language 16thc 📜📘🗃️ 👉Read here: www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...
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Bibles and Bible Translating in Early Modern England « History# « Cambridge Core Blog
There are some 6 billion bibles circulating across the globe and a further 100 million printed every year. Each of these copies, from the children’s illustrated editions to the grandly bound King Jame...
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The Historical Journal @historicaljnl.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
📣Out now on #firstview! Andrej Kotliartchouk (Uppsala University) on 'Understanding Stalin’s Terror against Western Minorities: The National Operations of the NKVD in Contemporary Academic Research' #Review #Russia #Europe #Archives 📜🗃️ 20thc 👉Read online here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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The Historical Journal @historicaljnl.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
📣Out now on #firstview! Eve Pennington (The University of Manchester) on 'Gender, Paid Employment, and Deindustrialization in New Towns in North-West England, c. 1970–1990s' #Economic #OralHistory #Urban #Work 👩‍🏭🏭🗃️ 20thc 👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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The Historical Journal @historicaljnl.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
📣New HJ blog!✨ Rosalind Moran explores Francesca Fuoli's (University of Bern) recent article on the role of banditry in pre-modern societies #Sovereignty #History #Society #Money 💰🗃️ 19thc 18thc 17thc 16thc 15thc 👉Read online here: www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...
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Prof. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
#skystorians 🗃️
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History@EdgeHillUniversity @edgehist.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Edge Hill - winter wonderland
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Dr Iain Nash @iainnash.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
So what is the best way to 'bookmark' posts here? Apart from liking them, has anyone got a good mechanism to store good posts and links? Any help fellow #academics?
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Lucie Matthews-Jones @luciejones83.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
Hello 👋 new followers! Just to introduce myself I’m a #skyhistorian researching the British Settlement movement. My book centres their houses & homemaking practices in urban w/c neighbourhoods. Currently writing chapter in rooms. I’ve also written on cross-class friendship in letters &photos. 1/
Black and white photograph from the end of the c19th. A group of 7 women stand and sit in front of Georgian house. A women holds a dog up in the left hand window.
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Hannah Barker @historyhannahb.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Always exciting to get cover proofs - this will be out next spring
Painting of a town featuring a central church next to smoking factory chimneys
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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
"Socialism and International Law: The Cold War and Its Legacies" is now available electronically from OUP and the hardback should be out on December 19! global.oup.com/academic/pro... Here is a thread on what we have put together:
Cover of the book Socialism and International Law: The Cold War and Its Legacies featuring an abstract piece of art by Kasimir Malevich
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History@EdgeHillUniversity @edgehist.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Reaching a global readership beyond the ivory tower. What's not to like? #OpenAccess
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Paula Kennedy @paulakennedy.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Interesting suggestions for #AcademicSky #PhDSky
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Jason Herbert @herberthistory.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
I’ve been waiting for this to arrive! Congratulations @maryhicks.bsky.social I’m so excited to read this!
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Dr. Erika Graham-Goering @jeanneologist.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Very cool getting to finally see the source of our cover image up close! (In facsimile, of course) A morning well-spent at the Universitätsbiblothek Heidelberg!
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Prof. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Associate Lecturer (Teaching) in United States History- UCL - History Department #skystorians 🗃️ www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKW041/a...
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Associate Lecturer (Teaching) in United States History at UCL
Discover Associate Lecturer (Teaching) in United States History jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.
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Joe Saunders @joesaunders1.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Public service announcement that Charles Booth's 'Maps Descriptive of London Poverty, 1898-9' have been uploaded by LSE archive online to be viewed and reproduced freely. 🗃️ unsplash.com/collections/...
Map of London, East. Colour coded.
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History@EdgeHillUniversity @edgehist.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Here is this morning's In our Time episode on the Hanoverian succession with @profelainechalus.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Charlotte Gauthier @faraiunvers.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
I love a book launch! Fabulous party at Yale HQ tonight. Andrew Jotischky’s new book The Monastic World covers 1200 years of monasticism - East and West, male and female. So looking forward to reading it. #skystorians #medieval #nuntastic
Andrew Jotischky’s new book The Monastic World, published by Yale
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Sara McDougall @sarannmcd.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Please read and share this nice write up of just some of the great work by @jeanneologist.bsky.social #skystorians
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Dr Christina Wade 👻🍺 @braciatrix.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
The Medieval Women exhibition at @britishlibrary.bsky.social was unreal. So many connections to beer history that I'll dig into for you next week. & picked up a few books from their Tales of The Weird Collection, including Dead Drunk from @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social. Can't wait to get stuck in!
Three books stacked on top of each other from the British Library's Tales of The Weird collection: from top to bottom Dead Drunk- black background with red illustration of a chalice with a creepy hand reaching out; next The Uncanny Gastronomic; and on bottom Tales of The Tattooed.
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The Material Culture of Wills Project @materialwills.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
📢 NEW Will of the Month Blog Post! 📢 November's post explores the will of a Tudor capmaker from Gloucester who left several of his 'beste' caps 🧢 to friends and those who cared for him in his final sickness sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult... #skystorians #EarlyModern #History
A drawing of John More, son of Sir Thomas More, wearing a felted wool cap. Detail from the drawing by Holbein in the Royal Collection, Windsor (1526). http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/collection/912226/john-more
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Prof. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Excellent volume in our Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Cultures & Societies series to be published this week: Letters and the Body, 1700–1830 Writing and Embodiment Edited By Sarah Goldsmith, Sheryllynne Haggerty, Karen Harvey #skystorians #c18th #c19th www.routledge.com/Letters-and-...
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Letters and the Body, 1700–1830: Writing and Embodiment
This collection explores the multifaceted relationship between letters and bodies in the long eighteenth century, featuring a broad selection of women's and men’s letters written from and to Britain, ...
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Dr Dan O’Brien @drdan.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
The rabbit funeral procession from the Gorleston Psalter. The rabbits have a processional cross and a series of wax tapers to light the way. The rabbit priest sprinkles holy water on the coffin. Two dogs carry the bier. 14th cent. Add 49622 @britishlibrary.bsky.social #skystorians #medieval
A funeral procession performed by rabbits. The rabbits carry bells, a cross and wax tapers before the coffin which is carried by two dogs. A lone rabbit sits on the coffin blowing a trumpet. The rabbit priest stands before the coffin in full vestments and sprinkles the coffin with holy water.
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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
"The Alchemist", a painting from Mattheus van Helmont from mid seventeenth century, is rich in detail, and full of #earlymodern paper details. Here is a 🧵, dear #skystorians, unfortunately not about the large écorché figure, a distillation apparatus over a fire, but about #paperhistory. Enjoy.
Painting from Mattheus van Helmont: "The Alchemist". mid c17.

A room with a working table is shown: an old man works at the table which is full of objects and books. Assistants are too working in the busy alchemist's shop.
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History@EdgeHillUniversity @edgehist.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Congratulations to Prof Chalus, our neighbour. Looking forward to this episode of Bragg's fabulous gift to the BBC
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Ferris Jabr @ferrisjabr.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
I was deeply disappointed by the lack of nature/science/climate/enviro on many major end-of-year book lists—so I decided to make my own! Introducing: ✨🎁📚 The 2024 Holiday Gift Guide to Nature & Science Books ✨🎁📚 Please share: Let's make this go viral in time for Black Friday / holiday shopping!
A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Atlas Obscura Wild Life, Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party, Every Living Thing, Alien Earths, Becoming Earth, and Deep WaterA collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Frostbite, The Inner Clock, How to Kill an Asteroid, The Great River, The Last Fire Season, and Hoof BeatsA collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are The Serviceberry, Not the End of the World, Nature's Ghosts, Meet the Neighbors, The Light Eaters, and Our MoonA collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Turning to Stone, The Weight of Nature, What If We Get It Right?, Waves in An Impossible Sea, The Tree Collectors, and Why We Remember
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Federica Signoriello @0fed0.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Just in case you're wondering (if you're here, you know already, ahah) James Bisbee and Kevin Munger at the EUI already published an #OA article about this: The vibes are off : did Elon Musk push academics off Twitter?https://cadmus.eui.eu/handle/1814/77385
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The vibes are off : did Elon Musk push academics off Twitter?
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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
*VERY EXCITING VACANCY* Join our team behind the superb Renaissance Studies as editor -- guided expertly by Wiley. Ability to combust into flames and shrug it off not a requirement. #EarlyModern excitement is Deadline: 31 Jan 2025 All info: rensoc.org.uk/vacancy-edit...
Renaissance Studies is one of the leading journals in the field of Renaissance studies, with an interdisciplinary emphasis, and a worldwide readership. Established in 1987, Renaissance Studies is published in partnership by the Society for Renaissance Studies and John Wiley & Sons Ltd (Wiley).

The Council of the Society for Renaissance Studies (SRS) seeks to appoint an Editor for Renaissance Studies to succeed Professor Kevin Killeen, who retires as Editor in December 2025.

It is hoped that the new editor(s) will be able to take over responsibility from 1 January 2026 and serve for a 5-year term until 19 December 2031. Interviews will be held online in February/March 2025.

The Editor is responsible for the editorial content of the journal, for obtaining peer reviews of articles submitted, and for the supply of edited copy to Wiley. The Editor works with, and leads, a team consisting of an Associate Editor (whose main responsibility rests with the Special Issues of the journal), Book
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Federica Signoriello @0fed0.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
In Florence, pass by the Riccardiana library to see: Commodities and Environments: Florence and the Indo-Atlantic World, 1500-1800, curated by the CAPASIA project at the European University Institute 19/11/24 - 10/1/25 www.capasia.eu/commodities-... blogs.eui.eu/library/book... #earlymodern
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Commodities and Environments: Florence and the Indo-Atlantic World, 1500-1800
Dates: 19 November 2024 - 10 January 2025 Venue: Biblioteca Riccardiana, Via de' Ginori, 50123 Florence View exhibition catalog This exhibition explores the knowledge that Europeans gained from the ...
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History@EdgeHillUniversity @edgehist.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
With our very own Dr Sarah Fox, rewriting the history of childbirth in Britain😊😊😊
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Helen Smith @wordsmith.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Call for submissions! *Embodied Knowledge & Making Texts: A Handbook* Please spread the word to academics & practitioners - @georginaemw.bsky.social and I have been overwhelmed and delighted by the response so far. It's going to be great! www.thinicepress.org/research/cal...
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Call for submissions — Thin Ice Press
Call for contributors! We’re looking for craftspeople and academics to be part of an exciting volume on embodied knowledge and making texts.
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Prof Bob Nicholson @digivictorian.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Hello! I’m a historian who loves to unearth surprising new stories about the Victorians. You’ll usually find me posting about weird things I’ve found in archives, or getting mad about bad newspaper props in period dramas. I also presented this BBC podcast! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/k...
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Introducing Killing Victoria
Podcast Episode · Killing Victoria · 12/03/2023 · 4m
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