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pasttensehistories.bsky.social @pasttensehistories.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Good stuff on the building! A post here which also puts in context of Peterloo and links to uprisings originally planned to join a revolt across several places - Scotland, Manchester, Yorkshire… wp.me/p74yfw-Gq
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Today in London insurrectionary history, 1820: Cato Street conspirators arrested, plotting to assassinate the cabinet & launch revolution
Great periods of social unrest which contain a strand of revolutionary politics, when faced with heavy repression, often end in clandestine terror plots or furtive conspiracy… Something to do with …
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Dr Alan Montgomery @classicalalan.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
High on a Northumberland hillside near the Roman fort of Bremenium and the ancient road we call Dere Street are the remains of a mausoleum. It is probably the finally resting place of a high-raking Roman soldier and a couple of its stones still feature enigmatic carvings #TombTuesday
The foundations of a circular Roman mausoleum. Its stones are covered in lichen and there is grass growing out of the top.A relief carving on one of the stones of the mausoleum which resembles the head of a horned animal.
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Dr Will Wyeth @willwyeth.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
“Historians perform a more important service by challenging commonplace assumptions and hierarchies of knowledge and power. Works that appeal to the privileged and powerful tend to be precisely those that condense and confirm their ways of seeing the world.” Worth a read.
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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
He isn't. What this is is one of those treaties the East India Company signed with princely states, taking over all their valuable bits in return for "protection". Almost like some kind of... racket...
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
We are inclined to think of misinformation as a particularly modern phenomenon but it has been with us through the ages. Join us on Tues 25 Feb as we have a panel of experts guide you through the history of misinformation (online only - in person tix gone) www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/the-a...
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The History of Misinformation
Delve into historical tales of distorted truths and alternative facts with renowned Academy Fellows – and find out how the past can help us to combat the challenges we face today.
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Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
On advance access "‘Pirates’, Potentates, and Merchant Petitioning in the Early Nineteenth Century Straits Settlements" by Scott Connors (@caiuscollege.bsky.social @camhistory.bsky.social) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...
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‘Pirates’, Potentates, and Merchant Petitioning in the Early Nineteenth Century Straits Settlements*
Abstract. In the nineteenth century Straits of Malacca, one of the globe’s most significant trading crossroads, merchants were integral to imperial stabili
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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Nazis. They're Nazis.
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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
History of UK HE in the last 30 years follows the repeated sequence (1) politicians demand universities act in a certain way (2) uni managements comply against academic misgivings (3) effects are uncongenial for politicians (4) pundits denounce universities for acting that way, echoed by politicians
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Durham and Cardiff universities to cut hundreds of jobs
The Russell Group universities, which also plan to cut courses such as nursing and music, are struggling with a funding shortfall
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Jim Clabs Woodcraft @jimclabs.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
The process of turning a bowl on a pole lathe in my woodland workshop. #polelathe #woodturning #greenwoodworking #griefwork #nature #craft
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John McDonnell @carljunglebhoy.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
*been planning
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Ole Birk Laursen @olebirklaursen.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Israeli forces have killed at least 88 Palestinians in a day across Gaza. They bombed the enclave more than 100 times in just three days, killing more than 200 Palestinians, with women and children making up a majority of the victims. www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
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Eighth Gaza baby freezes to death as Israel kills 88 Palestinians in a day
Israeli forces launch over 100 attacks in three days as US proposes $8bn weapons sales amid ongoing ceasefire talks.
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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Watching Labour struggle to deal with Elon Musk now is just very much of a piece with the wider tendency of the liberal/social democratic establishment to be incapable of dealing with global ideological realignment out of sync with the geopolitical architecture their predecessors built.
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RNIB @rnib.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Don't tell anyone, but this is the first time we've posted about Bluesky's alt text reminder this year! Find it in Settings > Accessibility and tick "Require alt text before posting."
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Robert @gruffexterior.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
As Dawn once said, there is not an arse that his guy will not kiss.
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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
In the space of three days, Elon Musk has posted 200 TIMES about the UK grooming gangs on Twitter, including calls for: • The king to dissolve parliament 🙄 • @jessphillipsmp.bsky.social to be jailed • Government officials to "hang" • ...and the UK to be "liberated" www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
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Elon Musk Is Posting Nonstop Falsehoods About 'Grooming Gangs'
Musk’s posts, which have racked up hundreds of millions of views on X, are his latest effort at inserting himself into UK politics.
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The London Economic @thelondoneconomic.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
The dinner was hosted just days after Liz Truss and Boris Johnson laid wreaths at the cenotaph during remembrance commemorations and Nigel Farage had kicked off about not being invited. They were all in attendance here 👇 www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/ins...
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Inside Carlton Club bash where guests laugh at Hitler jokes and sing 'we're all racist now'
The dinner was attended by Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage, Liz Truss, Robert Jenrick and Lee Anderson among other high-profile political figures.
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Fantastic essays- read ‘em all. @drsepinwall.bsky.social 2 of top 10! 👏👏👏 See revisited pieces too esp love from @juliehardwick.bsky.social & @profchrisadams.bsky.social! 🗃️
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Adrie van der Luijt @traumainformedcontent.com · 22/12/2024
What is the most effective way to share research on Bluesky? Various tools are available to turn articles into threads, but would a series of threads of - say - ten posts a day work? #history #localhistory #OnePlacestudy #skystorians 🗃️
Archive photo of people standing in a village street.
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Tony Harcup @writerlytone.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
'Hill wrote a sometimes abrupt column titled ‘To Readers and Correspondents’ in which he answered readers’ questions, issued short announcements, rejected poems that were not up to standard, and ticked off contributors for failing to get their reports in on time.' Lovely stuff on the Northern Star ⬇️
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Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Hi folks. I wanted to share my thoughts on the recently published Snettisham Hoards volumes (link to an online copy of the books is in the blog). Thank you for reading 😊 #Archaeology #Torcs #Snettisham #BritishMuseum #Gold #IronAge #Prehistory bigbookoftorcs.com/2024/12/11/t...
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The Snettisham torcs and the British Museum
by Tess Machling [A download/print PDF version can be found at the end of the paper] Introduction The recently published Snettisham hoard volumes are long awaited, and contain much that is of use a…
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Stephen Baker @stephenbaker.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
It’s weird how things went from student protests at the hike in fees in 2010 - I recall parliament forced to meet behind barricades - to students using food banks in 2024. Where’s the student/campus movement fighting this?
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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
During Great Historical Revolutions of The Past That Get People All Excited, somewhere around 70 to 80 percent of the population just stayed at home & grew their own food until the worst passed*. That won't happen now. *Or, if they were unlucky, turned up on their doorstep & killed them.
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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Notice that all these graphs start shooting up at the time of widespread adoption of fossil fuels. This is why "Ponzi Scheme" is a useful frame to understand modernity - HUGE benefits, the illusion they will continue forever, but the reality that all the gains are hollow, & doomed to collapse.
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Mark Crail @markcrail.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
#Chartism #C19th Feargus O’Connor enjoyed huge success with the Leeds-based Northern Star - but running a London evening newspaper defeated him. I’ve been doing a bit of digging into the Evening Star, and blogged about it here… www.chartistancestors.co.uk/the-evening-...
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The Evening Star: Feargus O'Connor's short-lived daily newspaper for London's Chartists - chartist ancestors
Launched in July 1842, the Evening Star swiftly caught the attention of Feargus O’Connor, who
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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
I’ve reported on homelessness for years and met many, many people who have found themselves in awful situations Every single one of them had more decency and integrity than this privileged plutocrat
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Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
'The humble peticion of about an hundred Burgesses' of Ludlow, submitted to Queen Elizabeth in c.1596, claimed that the town's 'greedey' leaders had set up an 'unlawfull government' to 'oppresse' the townspeople and enrich themselves. #EarlyModern #PowerOfPetitioning in Shrops Archives, LB/7/737 🗃️
Photograph of a 17th-century manuscript which begins 'The humble petition of about an hundred burgesses of your highness's town of Ludlow'
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David @archaeomather.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Thinking about catfish in Minnesota archaeology- rock art image from a cave and an effigy mound likely depicting catfish, both from southeastern Minnesota near the Mississippi River where catfish are still common.
Rock art image of a catfish recorded by T.H. Lewis in the late 19th century, showing its large head and fins, long body and forked tail, with details of the gills and one eyeMap of a group of burial mounds above the edge of a steep slope. Most are round but one in the center is long with protuberances that seem like a catfish’s fins. A road and railroad line are also shown on the map.
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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 10/12/2024
Letters, food and ephemera - material objects have acted as radical agents in history. In this thread, explore some radical objects: How do we determine whether an object is radical? Ruth Mather on the Farmer's Arms jug at the People's History Museum. www.historyworkshop....
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Radical Objects: A Radical Jug?
How do we determine whether an object is radical? Ruth Mather on the Farmer's Arms jug at the People's History Museum.
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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 11/12/2024
The 1950s "happy housewife" was central to #ColdWar propaganda, in contrast to Soviet working women. An American studies professor examines the reality behind this image: buff.ly/3ZPQ4OY Oana Godeanu-Kenworthy @miamiuniversity.bsky.social 🗃️ #GenderStereotypes
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Links between gender stereotypes and American patriotism date from the Cold War − but weren’t true then either
Traditional ideals of gender roles hark back to a time of extreme American nationalist sentiment in the face of a significant international threat.
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Carve Her Name @carvehername.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
#OnThisDay, 11 Dec 1983, tens of thousands of women take part in 'reflect the base' at Greenham Common, UK. They encircle the 9 mile fence of the nuclear missile base, tearing it down in at least one place. Hundreds of women are arrested. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory 🗃️ 1/2
A black and white photo of some woods in winter. A long chainlink fence, topped with barbed wire, stretches from the rightmost corner to the horizon, following dips and hollows in the land. Along its entire length, as far as the eye can see, women are standing along the fence.
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John McDonnell @carljunglebhoy.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
If you haven't already seen the Kneecap movie, make sure you go ASAP. It's funny, raw, real, & innovative. It might even win the "foriegn language" film Oscar. Not exactly my genre, but I even liked the music. I went with an American friend & both she and all the Dutch people behind us all loved it!
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Jeremy Scahill @jeremyscahill.com · 05/12/2024
This is just an unspeakable horror.
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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 05/12/2024
It is amazing that in 2024 we are still pretending liberal democracies as they *really* exist are defending the rights of individuals and minorities after years of heightened securitisation and scapegoating by mainstream leaders It takes a serious suspension of disbelief to argue this
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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Looking like it was definitely a political assassination. That there Trumpist billionaire class is going to be living in bunkers...
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
BREAKING: Amnesty International says Israel is committing genocide in Gaza in new report:
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BREAKING: Amnesty Concludes Israel Is Committing Genocide
“We will look back and say, ‘Why did we not do more earlier?” Amnesty's director tells Zeteo.
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Judith DeGroat @jdegroat.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
My latest blog post: Remembering and Forgetting Violence in Nat Turner's Virginia 🗃️ kevinmlevin.substack.com/p/rememberin...
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Remembering and Forgetting Violence in Nat Turner's Virginia
People have strong views when it comes to Nat Turner.
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Constance Bantman @constancebantman.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Hello everyone! So, here I talk quite a lot about this and that, but mainly about late 19th anarchism and political exiles. My main book on the topic is 👇 I have also written a biography of the French anarchist writer Jean Grave, who rarely left Paris but was highly influential before 1914
Book Cover, The French Anarchists in London, 1880-1914Book photo, Jean Grave and the Networks of French Anarchism
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Walk Talk Tours @walktalktours.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
More George Wyllie at University of Strathclyde. Sculpture ‘Air Stone Equlibrium' - part inspired by the work of Joseph Beuys - is a comment on the need to live in balance with nature. Not quite in plain sight at 75 Collins Street, Glasgow. His work is celebrated at the @wyllieum.com in Greenock
Sculture tripod with needle in centre and anchored by a stone at base.
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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Israel's police minister has banned the Muslim call to prayer because it 'disturbs' residents of nearby Jewish communities. Meanwhile, Israel continues to 'disturb' Gaza's residents by bombing, starving and torturing them. More here: www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-...
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Israel bans Islamic call to prayer
Ben Gvir stops mosques from playing the adhan, saying it 'disturbs' Jewish residents
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Dr Andrew S. Roe-Crines 🏳️‍🌈 @andrewcrines.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
"Yoon said he had no choice but to resort to martial law, but did not say in the address what specific measures will be taken." #SouthKorea www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn...
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South Korea's president declares emergency martial law - live updates
In a surprise late night television address he says the move was necessary to protect the country from North Korea's communist forces.
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Claire Boardman @claireboardman.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
An often overlooked aspect of experiencing landscapes: wind. Fascinating blog from Nature Scot. 'In #Gaelic tradition there are certain winds that are named and recognised. Read about them in our latest blog from Ruairidh Maclean:" scotlandsnature.wordpress.com/2024/11/29/g...
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Gaels and Winds
Roddy Maclean looks at the winds recognised and named in Gaelic tradition
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Jon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
#TombTuesday 👀 In 1843 whilst digging a pit for his new business premises, a #German wagoner found a large slab.The subterranean #burial chamber (hypogaeum) dates back to the 2nd century. It is a stone-modeled version of a triclinium, a #Roman dining room. #Archaeology #Köln #History #Germany
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Christine Johnson @christinkallama.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
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