Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 07/10/2026according 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 🌴 110
Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Oh 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...theguardian.comThatcherism via the Walkman: Stuart Hall’s British cultural studies preserved onlineProject lead says it celebrates ‘incredible contributions’ Jamaica-born sociologist made to Britain’s culture 020
Reposted by Gwen JonesNathan 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... 4350197
Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 06/10/2026This is good - and any alt word processor that actually works well with Zotero will earn my undying loyalty 000
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.ukInside an open house in Epping founded on radical kindnessAn anarchist punk legend opened his Essex farmhouse to strangers. Nearly 60 years later, the experiment is still alive 000
Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The 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? 000
Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026A selection of anonymous public editing work on BSW election posters in Berlin. Translations in alt text 100
Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I used to go to this! In my day it was at Conway Hall on Red Lion Square. There will be many many zines 100
Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 23/09/2026New Welsh entries in the OED: boys bach, now in a minute, and twpsyn (or twp for short) which means not very bright 000
Reposted by Gwen JonesKate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 17/09/2026#AICouldNever www.youtube.com/watch?v=d108...youtube.comJohn Coltrane – Alabama (1963) | A Historic PerformanceYouTube video by Dan's Jazz Journey 0104
Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Saleh's masterful essay on Chomsky (whom he translated into Arabic), also in New Lines newlinesmag.com/review/choms...newlinesmag.comChomsky's America-Centric Prism Distorts RealityA leading Syrian intellectual takes on the famous linguist, arguing that Americentrism blinds the latter from the reality of the revolution 042
Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Yassin 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." 142
Reposted by Gwen JonesAna Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 17/09/2026New cat just dropped. Landed on its feet, it’s fine.nationalgeographic.comMeet the First New Cat Species Discovered in 100 YearsA small, spotted tiger cat from Bolivia may just be the beginning of a wave of new small cat species. 502780593
Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Searching 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 031
Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 15/09/2026It'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...youtube.comKádár (leg)utolsó beszédeYouTube video by Magyar Állami Operaház | Hungarian State Opera 000
Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Absolutely dreadful news, I'm so sorry. My condolences to both of you 010
Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 12/09/2026static.klipy.comDavid Lynch as Gordon Cole: Cranked Up to the Max!Alt: David Lynch as FBI chief Gordon Cole: Cranked Up to the Max! 021
Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Maybe in November! I love shitty weather. We could have a shindig 100
Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 10/09/2026And from our Canadian pals engageq.notion.site/unplug-full 110
Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Handy list of alternatives in case you don't already know it european-alternatives.eueuropean-alternatives.euEuropean AlternativesWe help you find European alternatives for digital service and products, like cloud services and SaaS products. 000
Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Attn 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.orgCfp: Conference “Uncensored Literature Across Borders”“Uncensored Literature Across Borders” Transnational Exchange, Text Migration and Archival Practices during the Cold War 000
Reposted by Gwen JonesJoshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 07/09/2026I found the best book: a 1963 dictionary of Italian hand gestures 842684491
Reposted by Gwen JonesMarianne Dhenin @mariannedhe.bsky.social · 04/09/2026The 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.comA Historian's Guide to The Battle of AlgiersPontecorvo and Saadi Yacef's now-classic film debuted 60 years ago this August. Here's everything you need to know about it. 03014
Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Still, not being paid for at least two months is good preparation for former MCC staff who will now be freelancers 000
Reposted by Gwen JonesKrsto Lazarević @krstorevic.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Ratko 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.deMladic: Ex-bosnisch-serbischer Armeechef und Kriegsverbrecher totDer frühere bosnisch-serbische Armeechef Ratko Mladic ist tot. Wegen Kriegsverbrechen war er zu lebenslanger Haft verurteilt worden. 1844071
Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 26/08/2026And a photographer too! This 1958 self-portrait was the 100,000th photo published by Fortepan fortepan.hu/hu/photos/?i...fortepan.huFotókA Fortepan egy szabad felhasználású, közösségi fotóarchívum, ahol több mint kétszázezer archív fényképet böngészhet és tölthet le ingyenesen, jó minőségben. 120
Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Sadly he did not wear the embroidered Big B satin jacket while conducting at the Erkel youtu.be/7tAEl9_MjKoyoutu.beBernstein in Budapest - Bartók, Bernstein, Schumann - Bavarian Radio Symphony OrchestraYouTube video by bassist 000
Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Now retired but thanks for the memories youtu.be/NMme06iJuog?...youtu.beNomeansno - It's Catching Up Live In Groningen 1989YouTube video by livencuddly 021
Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 21/08/2026On 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.skDilemy východných aj západných komunistov po inváziiV roku 1968 päť krajín Varšavskej zmluvy na čele so Sovietskym zväzom napadlo Československo. Surovo tým ukončili Pražskú jar, Dubčekov pokus o reformu socializmu. 000
Reposted by Gwen JonesKriszta Satori @fulelo.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Live 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 🙌youtube.comPartial solar eclipse live stream, 12 August 2026 | Quiet feed | Live from the Royal ObservatoryYouTube video by Royal Museums Greenwich 31613
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. 0102
Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Ordnung 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). 100
Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 06/08/2026From 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. 110
Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 06/08/2026No 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. 100
Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Anyone 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 120
Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 06/08/2026static.klipy.comMark E Smith The Fall BandAlt: Mark E Smith from The Fall singing into a microphone 151
Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Saw 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) 000