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Ellie Munro @elmunro.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Just had an procedural ethics approval through in minutes because it's an archives project - which is nice and all but we wonder why ethics is perhaps an underdone thing in the History discipline?

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 23/09/2026

OTD in 2019, Thomas Cook travel agency declared insolvency. In this piece from the archive, Alan McNee considers how the rise of Thomas Cook was perhaps the greatest force for popularising and democratising travel in the 19th century.

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We're All Going On A Summer Holiday: The Rise of Thomas Cook

After the recent dramatic collapse of the tour provider Thomas Cook, Alan McNee explores how the firm was perhaps the nineteenth century’s greatest force for popularizing and democratizing travel.

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Civil Society @civilsociety.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Staff at @icr.ac.uk have accepted a new pay offer, ending nearly three months of industrial action

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Long-running strike action at cancer research charity ends after pay offer agreed

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Ellie Munro @elmunro.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Cannot stop laughing at "The assessment did not consider the crocodiles". (BBC News - River home to 500 crocodiles chosen as Olympic rowing venue www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympi...)

The assessment did not consider the crocodiles but instead looked at "how the course would perform under a range of conditions, weather patterns, water levels and flood risk at both Games time and throughout the period leading into the Games".

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Daniel C. Blight @danielcblight.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

***URGENT PLEASE SHARE*** University of Brighton management have announced today that they ‘give notice of termination of all collective agreements’. This is a fundamental erasure of workers' rights. Management have announced the termination of all contractual documents, which includes:

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Ellie Munro @elmunro.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I'm staying in an Inn at Whitby which was built in 1681 and appears to be staffed by a single man from roughly the same year. The most Whitby.

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 10/09/2026

The Radar Key grants access to public toilets and is a small but crucial part of the history of disabled people demanding rights and independence in modern Britain. Kirstie Stage explores the little-known history of this radical object.

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Radical Object: The Radar Key

The Radar Key is a small but crucial part of the history of disabled people demanding rights and independence in modern Britain. Kirstie Stage explores the little-known history of this radical object.

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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

🧵In 1893, the Yorkshire coalfield was gripped by bitter industrial unrest. Around 300,000 miners were either locked out or on strike, depending on one’s loyalties after employers demanded a drastic 25% cut to the wage rates agreed in 1888. Tensions ran high throughout the summer,

This illustration depicts the violent clashes and troop deployment during the 1893 miners' strike at Ackton Hall Colliery in Featherstone. It was the scene of a tense stand-off and riot on 7 September. The tragic event The tragic event resulted in soldiers firing into the crowd of protesting miners, causing the deaths of two men. Image: Illustrated London News, September 1893, Public Domain

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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

🧵St Thomas the Martyr Hospital York was founded, c.1391, for the 'maintenance of poor persons of either sex dwelling in the neighbourhood of 'Mykyllythbar,' and especially for hospitality by day and night of all poor travellers and sick poor passing through York.'

This 1782 antique line engraving, titled "Micklegate Bar and the Hospital of St. Thomas, York", was drawn by artist Thomas Hearne and engraved by William Byrne and Thomas Medland. The print depicts the medieval gateway of Micklegate Bar in York alongside the old Hospital of St. Thomas, showing a horse-drawn carriage and pedestrians in the foreground. Noticeable in front of the main gate is the outer barbican, a defensive structure that stood until it was demolished in 1826. It was published as part of the creators' celebrated documentation of British antiquities and dedicated to the Reverend Dr. Richard Kaye. Image: Wellcome Trust

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/08/2026

I've never seen such an effort to censor a document as I have the Amnesty International report on gender critical groups because of JK Rowling. They removed the report from the Wayback Machine and now I got a DMCA strike on my Google Drive for having it. It was deleted and removed from my account.

A screenshot of an email viewed in dark mode with the subject line "Google DMCA Violation." The email from Google informs the recipient that they have received a notification under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) that some of their materials allegedly infringe on copyrights. It explains the removal process, mentions that notice details will be posted on Lumen, warns against repeated violations, and lists one affected Google Drive URL at the bottom

A nearly identical mobile browser screenshot of the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. It shows a search for the same Amnesty International UK resources URL, resulting in the same message: "This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine."

A mobile browser screenshot of the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. A URL for an Amnesty International UK resources page is entered in the search bar, but the page displays the message: "This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine."

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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

🧵The Grunwick strike began OTD 20 August in 1976, when a small group of workers walked out of the Grunwick Film Processing Laboratories in Dollis Hill, London. Led by Jayaben Desai, the predominantly South Asian female workforce revolted against low pay, rigid bathroom rules, racism, and a

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Ellie Munro @elmunro.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Myriad problems with autotranscription obviously, but why does MS Teams automatically censor the swearing?

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Samira Ahmed @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Fascinating @c20society.bsky.social talk Sep 2 upcoming about GLC poster design from the 80s. In person or online: And on the right is one I kept as a teenager and still have framed at home. secure.c20society.org.uk/Default.aspx...

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Ellie Munro @elmunro.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

If I were still doing PGR organising, I might muse that PGRs could use their spurious classification as "students" and take this to the OfS, and see how they react to it in light of recentish statements and actions on students' rights as consumers of Higher Education.

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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

🧵The so called Battle of New Wortley Railway Bridge occurred during the 1890 Leeds Gas Workers Strike. The conflict erupted after the Leeds Corporation Gas Committee sought to impose contract changes, including reduced summer wages and extended shifts. When workers resisted, management locked them

The illustration depicts the Battle of New Wortley Railway Bridge during the 1890 Leeds Gas Workers Strike. This original print comes from The Graphic, a popular illustrated British weekly newspaper. It was published shortly after the event occurred in July 1890

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Museums Association @museumsassociation.org · 06/08/2026

News | Union members to strike at National Galleries of Scotland NGS says colleagues, visitors and the art it cares for remain its “top priorities” Public and Commercial Services Union

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Union members to strike at National Galleries of Scotland - Museums Association

NGS says colleagues, visitors and the art it cares for remain its “top priorities”

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Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The Archive but it's a videogame from 1998.

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Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick @mrcwarwick.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

We're starting early for #YorkshireDay with a plug for our digitised archives on Yorkshire Miners, 1811-1945 A selection of branch membership records, publicity material and more all online at wdc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...

Recruitment leaflet for the Yorkshire Mineworkers' Association, c.1928.

Advert for 'Special excursion train' to Ashbury for the Belle Vue Gardens, laid on by the Committee of Workmen at Wharncliffe Silkstone Collieries.

Leaflet for the lock-out at the Rock Colliery, Leeds.

Commemorative membership certificate for the Yorkshire Miners' Association, including images of leading union officials, the YMA headquarters and work in the coal industry.

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

If you want to read more on the earlier history of protest clothing see my article #SewingBee www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Ellie Munro @elmunro.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Double woah - I've just realised, two years on, that what we went through with the PGR campaigning work was total movement capture, with all the textbook results of that *mind blown* Having some real moments today.

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Sheffield Tribune @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

“It’s such a waste to take something so innovative, so special and so unique — and destroy it,” says artist Brett Payne. At least from the outside, YAS certainly doesn’t look destroyed. But within the city’s tight-knit artistic community, whispers have been circulating.

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Ellie Munro @elmunro.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Wooooahhh I just found a whole report with my name on it that I have zero memory of writing. The pandemic/being Mad was a whole time ey. cris.brighton.ac.uk/ws/portalfil...

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Last week, about a third of the History department were able to gather together on graduation day. Rather than lend our intellectual authority to the official procession and ceremony we invited our students to come and celebrate their achievements with us in a shady courtyard. They came. 1/

A group of world leading historians in their finery, some in gowns, stand together under a tree. Some carry signs saying 'Historian at risk', other raise a glass to the camera.

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Community Development Journal @cdjplus.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

[OPEN-ACCESS] Alice Butler-Warke and Ciara Bradley write in the Editorial for our latest themed section, introducing articles on the theme of polycrisis #CDJ #Editorial

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Celebrating 60 years: community development in the age of the polycrisis

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Disability Rights UK @disrightsuk.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

😱The Relationship Between Disability and Horror: Blog for Disability Pride Month Despite horror's history of dehumanising depictions of Disabled people, the genre can "challenge convention around what is considered abnormal, scary, and strange." Blog 👇 www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/explori...

Image of trees in a darkened forest, symbolising something spooky!

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Ellie Munro @elmunro.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Just learnt from some 1990s archives that Sheffield used to be home to an economic initiative called Technopole and I imagine that did precisely nothing for its desired image as a centre for digital innovation.

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Ellie Munro @elmunro.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Ending a day when I am **definitely too Mad to be working** in an empty meeting room blasting Petrol Girls is at least a good way to end it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8TZ...

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Petrol Girls - Touch Me Again (Official Video)

YouTube video by Bomber Music

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Ellie Munro @elmunro.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

An excellent, restorative morning at Mayday Rooms - an archive of radical movements and subcultures - getting to know the lovely people there and flicking through some eco activism material. Also turned up some stuff on radical gardening for one of my fringe projects.

Article in a paper magazine called "a gardeners guide for survival in the modern world"

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Leonie V. Hicks @lvhicks.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

He means institutions like mine. Would Birmingham be on the list to close its research? Doubt it. People are not automatically better researchers because they work at the Birminghams of this world.

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Ellie Munro @elmunro.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Reading annual reports from a community centre in the 1960s in the city archives and someone from the Council Education Committee has gone through and circled all the grammatical mistakes, which is pleasingly petty.

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Ellie Munro @elmunro.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Class of 29 goblins gets on my bus. Driver panics a bit about how to do the tickets but 5 minutes later we're on the move again. Next stop: 41 more goblins.

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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

We stand in solidarity with our colleagues at Lincoln University, who are once again facing redundancy! We also updated our #UKHE Shrinking list. Check it out to get a full picture of the systematic destruction of the sector: qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...

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UK HE shrinking

a live page of all the redundancies and restructures happening across UK Higher Education. Page is updated regularly.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

'“I couldn’t believe it when I heard the news,” said Richard J. Roberts, who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1993, on recently announced proposals to cut about 20 per cent of posts at Sheffield’s renowned chemistry department where he took his undergraduate degree and PhD'.

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University of Sheffield’s Nobelist brands chemistry cuts ‘insane’

Genetics pioneer Richard J. Roberts criticises plans to cut posts at ‘brilliant’ department that launched his scientific career

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Ellie Munro @elmunro.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

(And Glasgow. And Birmingham. And Edinburgh. And - in other circumstances - the entire post-92 sector.)

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Community Development Journal @cdjplus.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

@pinaraksu.bsky.social presents Cycle of Migration, a powerful legislative theatre performance that draws out the ways legislative and social systems fail and harm refugees and asylum seekers, and asks the audience to think about change #WCDC26

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Disability Rights UK @disrightsuk.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Our Living Archives Black Disabled Grief Project ❤️‍🩹 This project is part of OLA's attempt to trace and record some of the realities of Black Disabled grief within the archive. Register your interest using the form below docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Ellie Munro @elmunro.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Alison sparked a wonderful link in my head to some of the "radical gardening" thinking I've been doing. In fact ideas of collective green spaces, reclaiming & reseeding, has been v strong all week. Fully teared up as she was given a standing ovation for messages of mourning, hope & action #WCDC26

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Ellie Munro @elmunro.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

More conferences should have brass bands

Brass band dressed in lots of gold items playing jazzy tunes outside a University building

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Ellie Munro @elmunro.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

More conferences should have drum troupes

Women's drumming group She Booms dressed in red, with lots of drums

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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Onto the second plenary at the World Community Development Conference: "Shaped by the past, co-creating the future: community development in a turbulent world". Hosted by @cdjplus.bsky.social - the journal I edit! It celebrates our 60th anniversary, with speakers from India, Bangladesh, Australia.

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Ellie Munro @elmunro.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

The colonial mindset, as illustrated by Peter Westoboy

A presentation slide with a picture of lunch on one side and a toilet on the other. Text is: 2026 Fracture #1. I am between you, the lunch and a toilet break. We are in a mind-body split moment... and usually in our lives the mind wins OVER the body... which of course plays out in our practice. Some suggest this is the essence of the colonial mindset.

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Ellie Munro @elmunro.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Lingering imposter syndrome immediately demolished this morning by an opening talk on the history of the Glasgow University Settlement. My whole bag! I first learnt about the Settlement Movement (& voluntary action history) in Economic & Social History classes here at Glasgow. Happy WCDC!

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Ellie Munro @elmunro.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Look it's where we got kettled that time!

Photo of a street looking up towards Strathclyde University. Lots of the walls have murals now.

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Ellie Munro @elmunro.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Riding into Glasgow to You Held The World In Your Arms and greetin with the best of them.

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Ellie Munro @elmunro.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

My 8 hour long standard listening playlist, on shuffle has -no word of a lie - so far offered up Spook School, Bis and Arbor Green. *Must* know I'm headed north... 👻😱

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