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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4h

Seriously, unless you're going to call me a "scientist" for helping my son with his class volcano project and call me a "physician" because I applied a band-aid successfully, please please PLEASE stop calling any random crank who shits out a book about the past a "historian"

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 14m

Living history photography! Life of the Normans in the time of William the Bastard, re-enacted at historical park Ornavik in France. More accurate than most films/tv shows! Look, colour! © Barry's Photography Full set here: www.facebook.com/BarrysPhotog...

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Russty Russ @russtyruss.bsky.social · 2h

#OnThisDay 1961 : 65 years ago today, the first edition of Songs Of Praise was broadcast on BBC TV. #60s

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Philip Amies @philipamies.eurosky.social · 2h

Cheddar Man haplotype U5b1 Britain & Ireland ~1% to 4% Scandinavia ~5% to 15% Northern Scandinavia Saami ~40% to 50%+ link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Elaine Murphy @plymprivateer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

17th C research time at the Caird library today at the National Maritime Museum and I rather liked the rhino in Edward Barlows journal as well as the more obvious maritime scenes

Scene from Edward Barlow journal showing a ship and a Chinese junk

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Boydell & Brewer @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

📣 Call for Papers - Women in Maritime Business. Deadline 1 October. buff.ly/nqtJ04u #WomensHistory #Skystorians #MaritimeHistory #BusinessHistory

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Dr Scarybear 🏳️‍🌈 @jamiebear.uk · 4h

Sometimes it's nice to see proper old-fashioned truly terrible PhotoShop rather than just the default AI slop.

A bathroom, with shelves that are totally really there.

Impossishelves, with cats for some reason. Out of scale cats.

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 3h

Love this so much.

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 6h

A 'sweet spot' for early stage of life on Earth preceded LUCA Last Universal Common Ancestor Onset of "RNA World," a hypothetical time in Earth's very early history when RNA was the primary replicating substance. A Hadean timeline for the emergence of the RNA World🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Thermal modifications to the Hadean crust from impact bombardment.

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Daniel F Gosling @thegozfather.bsky.social · 3h

ALL Duchy of Lancaster Duchy Chamber pleadings for the reign of Elizabeth I (DL 1/41-213) are now item searchable on the catalogue by name, date, subject, and more. What a time to be a fan of Elizabethan litigation! discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/r/C...

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Adam Cain @adamcain.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I don't think one could use it before the Treaty of Verdun in 843; before then I think we have to talk about varieties of Franks. But it is an interesting one, including the context of Normandy - how exactly did the non-Norse population of Normandy identify, before and after Norse settlement?

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4u1e.bsky.social @4u1e.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Out of interest, when do we start speaking about the French, as opposed to Gauls or Franks? (Accepting that it's all artificial, that several terms will co-exist and will vary across space at any given time...). I've a vague assumption it must be around the 700s?

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Adam Cain @adamcain.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

By "French" I don't mean absolutely without Norse ancestry, but I do mean culturally French; and the insistence that they were "really Vikings" is essentially racist (which is why Goebbels liked it and C20th French medievalists rejected it.)

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Adam Cain @adamcain.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I had an interesting chat on this subject here a month or two back and revised upwards my assessment of just how many original settlers there were, but yes.

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4u1e.bsky.social @4u1e.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It's also long enough for those vikings who *had* initially settled in Normandy to forget sea-raiding and learn how to ride horses. 4-5 generations and out of living- or directly handed down memory.

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Adam Cain @adamcain.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The answer to both questions is easy enough if you accept that these French-speaking people from France were in fact French.

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Jonathan J Stedman @jjstedman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

As Normans, why did they so easily forget their sailing heritage from Scandinavia? Or were the 1st Normans Scandinavians who got sea sick & vowed to never get on a boat again. I can sympathise. From whom did they learn their equestrian skills, which are also not so easy to pick up quickly?

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Adam Chapman @adamchapman.bsky.social · 8h

From today's copy: rural housing policy in a nutshell: 'The [parish] council was opposed to the building of starter homes in the village because there were no jobs for young people there. In 1993 there was a further debate about starter homes but no decision was made.'

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Church Monuments Society @churchmonuments.bsky.social · 3h

Look at the prompts and see what you could post.

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Adam Chapman @adamchapman.bsky.social · 2h

Fantastic news, congratulations!

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Lloyd Bowen @lloydbowen.bsky.social · 3h

Congratulations!

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alice @alicebennett.bsky.social · 2h

congratulations!

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Lorna Richardson @lornarichardson.bsky.social · 3h

Congratulations!

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Clodagh Tait @clodaghtait.bsky.social · 3h

Congratulations!

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Marta Zboralska @marta-zboralska.bsky.social · 3h

Ah you have a wonderful orchard!

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 3h

You can now contact me here: www.worc.ox.ac.uk/about/our-pe...

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Dr Katrina Navickas - Worcester College

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Sara Charles @saracharles.bsky.social · 2h

Look what my fantastically talented and lovely friend @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social has been up to! This is SO exciting 🙌

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Rob Edmunds @vc28nature.bsky.social · 6h

Caloptilia fidella - mines hop and new to Norfolk this year. An adult has emerged today #norfolkmoths

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Tylan Berry @tylanberry.bsky.social · 5h

One of the most incredible photos I have ever been sent, courtesy of Chloë James of the Cornwall Wildlife Trust Seagrass Restoration Team. Yep, that's Philodromus margaritatus...under seawater using...an air bubble to breathe and move about. I am utterly speechless!! @britishspiders.bsky.social

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Philip Amies @philipamies.eurosky.social · 5h

Yes, also the plant and insect life, a different world.

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Peter Brash @peterbrash.bsky.social · 6h

I often see these things abandoned and wonder what the bird life was like the last time they were in use.

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Philip Amies @philipamies.eurosky.social · 7h

finger bar mowers were also in corners in farmyards, I don't recollect horse drawn tedders amongst the abandoned kit, maybe faulty memory or perhaps easier to scrap.

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Philip Amies @philipamies.eurosky.social · 7h

What I would see abandoned was tractor hay tedders.

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Philip Amies @philipamies.eurosky.social · 4h

Examples of much of the kit, an elevator and the metal tipping basket, a sledge like bogie, horse drawn rakes, tedder. blog.scottishagriculturalimplementmakers.co.uk/haymaking-ma...

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Haymaking machinery in 1914 – Scottish agricultural implement makers

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The British Broadcasting Century podcast @bbcentury.bsky.social · 4h

Writing tips from the BBC's first comedy-drama - we still rely on in shows we enjoy today... A Substack is based on our recent podcast on Gertrude Jennings' Five Birds in a Cage from Nov 1923, thanks to Prof Tim Crook, Dr Caroline Rance and Nicola Morgan paulkerensa.substack.com/p/writing-ti...

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Writing tips from the BBC’s first comedy-drama

Five Birds in a Cage was on the BBC in November 1923 - and sets the tone for so much we still enjoy today

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Prof Tracey Hill @tracelarkhall.bsky.social · 4h

Look at all those quill pens *without* feathers fao tv/film producers 🙄

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Andy AVAV Systems @avavsystems.bsky.social · 6h

Having a LaserDisc Day Enjoying a pile of Discs I picked up couple of months ago & put to one side Some cracking BBC Releases I’d not seen before. A 5” CDV Clip Disc & a VCD, along with a LaserJuke Video Jukebox NTSC 8” Also an Interactive CAV Disc of East of England Show 1984. Seems to be rare

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 7h

This book was so important for my terrible PhD. I should apologise to Susan Suleiman

AUTHORITARIAN
FICTIONS
The Ideological
Novel as a
Literary Genre
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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 7h

Still excellent though!

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Darryl Jones @profdarryljones.bsky.social · 7h

My goodness! The past!!

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 7h

Pretty much exactly what’s happening.

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Gledster @gledster.bsky.social · 8h

The photos with the white boxes show how much care is given for the Humanities in 2026. One sign on tons of sagging boxes in an office somewhere. "Yeah, just shove it in a box in the corner, that will do. Now, does anyone know how we can use AI to sack more people?"

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 7h

Sadly Latour is no longer with us "to visit successively and to document the different truth production sites that make up our civilisation". He'd have had things to say.

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Dr James Peate @jamesepeate.bsky.social · 11h

Burnham's speech gave me clarity over policy to cu the humanities - his focus on 'working class ambition' There's no path to working in humanities if you're working class - as this scheme shows you're better off studying in Russia than a UK university as its background not ability that's judged

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Philip Amies @philipamies.eurosky.social · 7h

Compared to horse drawn hay rakes which I used to see in a field corner rusting on most farms I don't recollect disused kit, used to see a fair few rotting threshing machines.

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Philip Amies @philipamies.eurosky.social · 7h

I don't recollect any of these, my family made small bale hay, then round bale plastic wrap haylage. Much silage made where I grew up but I only recollect forage harvesters, maybe I have forgotten older kit being used, or by chance did not see it in use. www.forum4farming.com/forum/thread...

forum4farming.com

the history of silage machines?

ok this is a tidied up version of a previous thread, using the info i recieved on several forums so hopefully i can pluck some more info & find the machines :D thanks http://www.forum4farming.com/foru...

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