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Gwen Jones

@gwenyth.bsky.social
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Archival researcher, editor. Favourite pasttime: learning languages. Part-time collector of martial arts maxims: be like the fan on the wall gwenjones.de

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Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
according to wikipedia AB "read modern history at Balliol College" so imho it's possible that Balliol College encouraged this conviction of being right about everything and having the confidence to tell everyone all about it 🌴
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Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Oh VERY good work! What a resource. The digital archive was run through a programme that poisons the data for bots to ensure “it doesn’t replicate the exploitation of people of colour and their cultural heritage that technology has historically enabled”. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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Thatcherism via the Walkman: Stuart Hall’s British cultural studies preserved online
Project lead says it celebrates ‘incredible contributions’ Jamaica-born sociologist made to Britain’s culture
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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
🚨 ALERT 🚨: All of Stuart Hall's notebooks have been digitized and are freely available to browse and read??? stuarthalldigital.bham.ac.uk/archival_mat...
Stuart Hall notebook: NOTES ON THE REPRODUCTION OF IDEOLOGIES AND THE MEDIA (Orange notebook, "Summit Students Pad")Stuart Hall notebook page with headline: "Problems for a Marxist Theory of the Media" and a series of bulletpoints. Lined notebook paper with black handwriting.
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Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This is good - and any alt word processor that actually works well with Zotero will earn my undying loyalty
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Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“They have had remarkably little trouble from awkward guests – she called the police once, much against her principles, only to find that the chief inspector was a Crass fan.” observer.co.uk/style/homes/...
observer.co.uk
Inside an open house in Epping founded on radical kindness
An anarchist punk legend opened his Essex farmhouse to strangers. Nearly 60 years later, the experiment is still alive
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Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The mighty Sarajevo Inn in Grunewald is no more. Even Vučko has gone. So sad. What happened to the lovely people who ran it, I wonder, and where are they now?
Wooden gate to a Bosnian restaurant in Berlin, now closed
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Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Genau up your Straße
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Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Yes that's exactly who they are!
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Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
BSW poster now with added black and yellow AFD-verbot.de tape, the campaign to ban the AfD
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Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
BSW election poster for the Berlin Senate with the slogan "criticism of Israel is not antisemitism" and graffiti "Fake Friedens Ficker" (Fake Peace Fuckers)
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Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A selection of anonymous public editing work on BSW election posters in Berlin. Translations in alt text
Photo of 3 BSW candidates with graffiti "Putin Knecht" (Putin Lackey), Wagenknecht's name edited to "Putin Knecht" (Putin Lackey)
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Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Conway Hall has form!
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Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I used to go to this! In my day it was at Conway Hall on Red Lion Square. There will be many many zines
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Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We are all ten years younger now
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Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
New Welsh entries in the OED: boys bach, now in a minute, and twpsyn (or twp for short) which means not very bright
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Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
#AICouldNever www.youtube.com/watch?v=d108...
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John Coltrane – Alabama (1963) | A Historic Performance
YouTube video by Dan's Jazz Journey
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Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Wtf are they talking about now
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Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Saleh's masterful essay on Chomsky (whom he translated into Arabic), also in New Lines newlinesmag.com/review/choms...
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Chomsky's America-Centric Prism Distorts Reality
A leading Syrian intellectual takes on the famous linguist, arguing that Americentrism blinds the latter from the reality of the revolution
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Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Yassin al-Haj Saleh: "There is something intellectually and morally fossilized in Western tankies — American ones in particular — connected to their inverted imperialism: their subordination of every struggle to one enormous struggle they imagine themselves to be waging."
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 17/09/2026
New cat just dropped. Landed on its feet, it’s fine.
nationalgeographic.com
Meet the First New Cat Species Discovered in 100 Years
A small, spotted tiger cat from Bolivia may just be the beginning of a wave of new small cat species.
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Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Searching for L'Unità foreign correspondent Giuseppe Boffa in the Soviet Red Archives at @archivum.org and came across a file on James Bond. Tldr: Pravda et al found Sean Connery "cruel as an animal and spiritually poor" and much preferred Roger Moore
Soviet press clipping files on James Bond, Martin Bormann, and Willy Brandt
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Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It's the translators I feel sorry for. Translating János Kádár is like translating Trump or indeed any elderly statesman high on his own supply and averse to the rules of grammar. The opera dramatised Kádár's last speech but sadly without arias or full orchestra www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VaQ...
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Kádár (leg)utolsó beszéde
YouTube video by Magyar Állami Operaház | Hungarian State Opera
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Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Absolutely dreadful news, I'm so sorry. My condolences to both of you
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Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Not any more now we've rumbled them
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Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I got the same letter six years later!
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Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
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David Lynch as Gordon Cole: Cranked Up to the Max!
Alt: David Lynch as FBI chief Gordon Cole: Cranked Up to the Max!
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Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Maybe in November! I love shitty weather. We could have a shindig
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Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
And from our Canadian pals engageq.notion.site/unplug-full
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Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Handy list of alternatives in case you don't already know it european-alternatives.eu
european-alternatives.eu
European Alternatives
We help you find European alternatives for digital service and products, like cloud services and SaaS products.
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Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Attn samizdat fans: hybrid conference 28-29 January 2027 at Blinken OSA Archivum, Budapest. Submit your abstract by 27 September this year archivum.org/news/cfp-con...
archivum.org
Cfp: Conference “Uncensored Literature Across Borders”
“Uncensored Literature Across Borders” Transnational Exchange, Text Migration and Archival Practices during the Cold War
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 07/09/2026
I found the best book: a 1963 dictionary of Italian hand gestures
Supplemento al dizionario italiano, by Bruno Munari, a white paperback with a photo of a hand giving the classic Italian finger-purse “Che vuoi” hand gesture
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Marianne Dhenin @mariannedhe.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The Battle of Algiers debuted 60 years ago this August. I wrote a historian's guide to the now classic film. Read it here:
newsletter.mariannedhenin.com
A Historian's Guide to The Battle of Algiers
Pontecorvo and Saadi Yacef's now-classic film debuted 60 years ago this August. Here's everything you need to know about it.
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Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
C21 version of "gullible isn't in the dictionary"
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Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Great news, long overdue. Foreign agents!
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Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Still, not being paid for at least two months is good preparation for former MCC staff who will now be freelancers
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Krsto Lazarević @krstorevic.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Ratko Mladić ist tot. Kein Grund zur Trauer. Gedenken sollten wir den Menschen, die auf seinen Befehl ermordet, vertrieben und gefoltert wurden. Er selbst verdient nur Verachtung. Möge er ewig in der Hölle verroten. www.zdfheute.de/politik/ausl...
zdfheute.de
Mladic: Ex-bosnisch-serbischer Armeechef und Kriegsverbrecher tot
Der frühere bosnisch-serbische Armeechef Ratko Mladic ist tot. Wegen Kriegsverbrechen war er zu lebenslanger Haft verurteilt worden.
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Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
And a photographer too! This 1958 self-portrait was the 100,000th photo published by Fortepan fortepan.hu/hu/photos/?i...
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Fotók
A Fortepan egy szabad felhasználású, közösségi fotóarchívum, ahol több mint kétszázezer archív fényképet böngészhet és tölthet le ingyenesen, jó minőségben.
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Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Sadly he did not wear the embroidered Big B satin jacket while conducting at the Erkel youtu.be/7tAEl9_MjKo
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Bernstein in Budapest - Bartók, Bernstein, Schumann - Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
YouTube video by bassist
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Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Big B
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Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Now retired but thanks for the memories youtu.be/NMme06iJuog?...
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Nomeansno - It's Catching Up Live In Groningen 1989
YouTube video by livencuddly
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Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
On the 58th anniversary, I have an article in Slovak on the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia and the reactions of Western CPs (but no gift link yet) www.tyzden.sk/spolocnost/1...
tyzden.sk
Dilemy východných aj západných komunistov po invázii
V roku 1968 päť krajín Varšavskej zmluvy na čele so Sovietskym zväzom napadlo Československo. Surovo tým ukončili Pražskú jar, Dubčekov pokus o reformu socializmu.
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Kriszta Satori @fulelo.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Live stream of the partial solar eclipse from the Royal Observatory on this link of the Royal Museums Greenwich: youtube.com/live/ngUPAl-... Starting in about an hour 🙌
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Partial solar eclipse live stream, 12 August 2026 | Quiet feed | Live from the Royal Observatory
YouTube video by Royal Museums Greenwich
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Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
#InternationalCatDay here is my rescue cat Bobby. You can tell she's a she because she has three colours. Over the past five years she slowly came out of her shell. She has very soft fur and doesn't talk much. No interest in middle-class cat food. Hobbies include running really fast and staring.
Three-coloured cat sitting on a kitchen table staring at you
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Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
the table in The Office of the Hungarian Government.
a huge, long wooden panelled table with a slit in the middle to reveal folksy red carpet
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Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Ordnung muss sein! The Fidesz fetish for enclosing all green life within walls and borders will never be satisfied. Contemporary statue of the Virgin Mary complete with runic script. It is all quite insane. Other visitors were visibly shaken and appalled (they said so).
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Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
From the library. Ancient books by the kilo. Which of these men ever had any thoughts they simply had to put down on paper while seated at a walnut desk.
a desk in a library, old books are arranged in series on the wall shelves behind
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Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
No expense was spared. Some useless details give the game away. Six hand-carved ogee panels inside each and every oak door. Technically extremely difficult, therefore prohibitively expensive, also quite pointless, but who cares. These people hallucinated themselves as royalty.
an oak door with six interior panels
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Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Anyone in or travelling to Budapest soon should go see the renovated Carmelite monastery in the Buda Castle district where Orbán had his personal offices. The guided tour is free and lasts around one hour. It is in Hungarian. szabadkarmelita.jegy.hu/dates/tickets/
szabadkarmelita.jegy.hu
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Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
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Mark E Smith The Fall Band
Alt: Mark E Smith from The Fall singing into a microphone
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Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Saw this headline while five chapters into re-reading Leonardo Padura's brilliant novel The Man Who Loved Dogs. Trotsky is currently exiled in Istanbul while his friends are all being shot or turned against him in order to stamp out the bloody tentacles of his movement (which barely exists)
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