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Dr Jenny Woodley

@jennywoodley.bsky.social
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Historian and Lecturer. US History. Race and Memory. Current project: Mourning at the Museum

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Dr Jenny Woodley @jennywoodley.bsky.social · 1h
They didn't just let their children die, they let them suffer. They watched them suffer. It is beyond barbaric. And state legislators who do nothing to protect those children are also culpable.
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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 07/10/2026
Currently suffering from a plague of rat. Yes, rat. Just the one, but it's very persistent.
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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Jeffrey Archer has died - here is the obituary of Monica Coghlan www.heraldscotland.com/news/1216989...
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Misogyny killed Monica many years before she died
When poor Monica Coghlan died in a car crash last week, it was a result both pitiful and inevitable. The rightful order had been restored. Justice had been done. Her sad, brief life was over: she had ...
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Dr Amy Fuller @amyfuller.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The next episode of #ChallengingHistories produced by @histfest.bsky.social is out now. I’m talking to the brilliant @manwithoutatan.bsky.social about the LGBTQIA community living in Weimar Germany. Available wherever you get your podcasts pod.link/6809223500
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Dr Jenny Woodley @jennywoodley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Closely followed by the first "book club" scam for my new book. 😂
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Dr Jenny Woodley @jennywoodley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Got my first scam email about my new book, so that's exciting! Not sure what is more amusing - that this literary agent (a real person, who presumably doesn't know their name is being used for this scam) has read my book or that 'they' think it holds "exceptional potential for a film adaptation"
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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Best of luck to @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social members going on strike for over a month. Nobody does this willingly - it’s a last resort, unlike that enormously rich university’s slash and burn tactics.
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Dr Jenny Woodley @jennywoodley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Finally found time to listen to the first episode. A really interesting discussion about food history, race, colonialism... Warning: Do not listen while hungry!
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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
As a special accessibility measure for people over - idk - 45? all short videos should come with a skimmable single paragraph of information that can, ideally, be half-read in the preview window of an email while completing another task.
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
1/2 We have vastly improved data now on British slave-owners (www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/search/) and slave-traders (britishslavetraders.org). Wonderful that this research has persisted despite all the fury of the nationalist right wing backlash.
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The Register of British Slave-Traders
The Register of British Slave-traders compiles and presents information on all known slave-traders in Britain who invested in the trafficking of captive Africans from 1563 to 1807.
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Dr Amy Fuller @amyfuller.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
In case you missed it, episode 2 of Challenging Histories (a @histfest.bsky.social production) is out now! I’m talking to Prof. Heidi Norman about Aboriginal Land Rights. Available wherever you get your podcasts
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Danny Cherry Jr (twitter/Insta/tiktok: @Deecherrywriter) @deecherrywriter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Yesterday was the 56-year anniversary of when the NOPD rolled into the Desire Projects of New Orleans with a tank & guns & had a stand-off with the NOLA Black Panthers, which I detail in the story linked in OP. It all started after the mayor had two Black police officers infiltrate the Panthers.
NOPD with a tank in the Desire Projects of New OrleansNOPD/Black Panther stand-offTwo Black spies from the NOPD: Melvin Howard, 20, and Israel Fields, 21.
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Mr too tired for a halloween name @laotianrockrat.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Ed Sheeran's agent: Ok fuck me that was a wild few days. Still we should be over the worst of it now...
Twitter post by that cunt Stephen Yaxley-Lennon expressing solidarity with Ed Sheeran (not reposting the exact text because fuck whatever he has to say)
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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The fact that the National Park Service is being forced to place these signs at the Smithsonian is truly disgusting. www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...
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The Next Change Trump Has Planned for the Smithsonian
A letter from Interior Secretary Doug Burgum revealed new details about warning signs the White House will install near the American-history museum.
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Dr Jenny Woodley @jennywoodley.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
#OnThisDay in 1963, a bomb planted by the KKK exploded under Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, Birmingham, Alabama, killing Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Cynthia Wesley, and Carole Robertson.
Photograph of hole ripped in wall of church by bomb. In foreground is police officer and fireman. Photo credit Tom Self, Birmingham News (photo copied from wikicommons)
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De Gruyter Brill Language, Literature & Culture @dgb-langlitcult.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
❗🏅The European Association for American Studies (EAAS) invites submissions for the 2026 Rob Kroes Publication Award for an outstanding unpublished, English-language book manuscript in American Studies. ℹ️ For more information on eligibility and the application process, see below: ⬇️
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Dr Jenny Woodley @jennywoodley.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Checking the copy edits of my book and am reminded that Americans: are stricter about when to use that/ which, and don't like 'amongst' or 'towards.'
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Robin James: 'You're Very English'
ALT: Robin James: 'You're Very English'
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Dr Amy Fuller @amyfuller.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
🚨EPISODE ONE OF MY NEW PODCAST, CHALLENGING HISTORIES, PRODUCED BY @histfest.bsky.social IS OUT TOMORROW!!!! 🚨
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Annalisa Nicholson @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It's just weird isn't it when the British Museum is running a sold-out exhibition, when The Odyssey reports $1billion at the box office, when the V&A has just opened the most innovative and accessible museum model in Europe....and this is what our minister for research comes out with.
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Devin Burghart @dburghart.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Today, the Heritage Foundation, the org behind Project2025, took credit for driving Lonnie Bunch out the Smithsonian Institution. Bunch was the first African American and first historian to serve as head of the Smithsonian. But sure, tell me again how it’s not about racism.
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Sara Dybris McQuaid @saradm.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The CFP for the @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social 2027 conference is now open - the theme is Memory, Responsibility and Hope! please consider proposing a panel, paper, roundtable, workshop or play! www.memorystudiesassociation.org/call-for-pap...
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2027 - LUND - Memory Studies Association
MSA ANNUAL CONFERENCE, 14-18 JUNE 2027, LUND UNIVERSITY, SWEDEN Memory, Responsibility, Hope CONFERENCE PORTAL WILL BE AVAILABLE SOON  CALL FOR PAPERS   It is a well-established understanding wi...
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 08/09/2026
All else aside there is nothing I want or need genAI to do for me. I like reading. I like doing research. I like playing around in spreadsheets. I like interviewing people. I like writing. I like doing these things for myself because I take pleasure in the doing and they make me a better thinker.
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Dr Jenny Woodley @jennywoodley.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
My brilliant friend and colleague @amyfuller.bsky.social has a new podcast series and it promises to be excellent.
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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Everything is horrible, but CHALLENGING HISTORIES, a new #podcast from @histfest.bsky.social, hosted by @amyfuller.bsky.social, drops on 14 September! Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. It's never been more important to understand the past and its legacies. 🗃 #earlymodern #histsci #medieval
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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
saw some new (to me, at least) signage at site of former Confederate Memorial in Arlington It omits references to the Memorial's "highly sanitized depictions of slavery" & its "nostalgic, mythologized vision of the Confederacy" And it says the sculpture will return in 2027 L: Feb '26 R: Sept '26
photo of signage at the site of the former Confederate Memorial in Arlington National Cemetery from Feb 2026. 

It includes references to "Divisive History," and to the memorial's "nostalgic, mythologized view of the Confederacy," and its "highly sanitized depictions of slavery" that were present in the former signagephoto of signage at the site of the former Confederate memorial in Arlington National Cemetery, from Sept 2026. It omits references to "Divisive History," and to the memorial's "nostalgic, mythologized view of the Confederacy," and its "highly sanitized depictions of slavery" that were present in the former signage
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Pitt Rivers Museum @pittriversmuseum.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
“Repatriation, for the Nagas, is not simply about bones and ancestral remains finding their way back to the land… it is about memory returning to where it belongs.” - Recover, Restore and Decolonise (RRaD) www.morungexpress.com/british-muse...
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British museum to return Naga human remains
Human remains allegedly taken away by colonial administrators as oriental curiosities will now be returned to the source community. The Pitt Rivers Museum (PRM), University of Oxford, United Kingdom, ...
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Dr Jenny Woodley @jennywoodley.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Beautiful evening light on the world's greatest cathedral
View across Palace Green to Durham cathedral in soft evening light.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
it's a monday afternoon at the end of july, of course we're writing syllabi against-a-i.com is here for you! and if you're a humanities teacher who's developed materials you'd like to contribute as we glow up for fall, PLEASE SEND! against-a-i.com
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AGAINST AI -
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Emma Jacobs @emmavj.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Every commentator saying too many kids go to university has to tell their own kid to not do a degree
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Once more: Mamdani understands that you can't just do things in politics and expect voters will notice on their own and thank you for it. You've got to work just as hard selling yourself to voters once you're in office as you did selling yourself to them to get into office. This is the way.
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Dr Jenny Woodley @jennywoodley.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
One of the greats of wildlife broadcasting. Also, one of the funniest examples of misheard lyrics... 🎵Bill Oddie, Bill Oddie, put your hands all over my body🎵
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
When the story of why humanity didn't stop climate change is written, it will feature front pages like this. Even as the skies blacken with climate change-induced wildfires, right wing media continue their relentless crusade against measures to tackle it.
The Times: Net zero risks blackouts. Below a photo of French wildfires.
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Hannah Murphy @hsmurphy.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Please share! A rare PhD studentship @kingshistory.bsky.social *fully* funded by @slaveryinwar.bsky.social to work with myself and Maeve Ryan, supported by a broader community of experts in Caribbean history, transatlantic slavery, and the history of war. www.kcl.ac.uk/study/fundin... 🗃️
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AHRC Studentship: Slavery and the Seven Years’ War within and across the Caribbean Archipelago | King's College London
The Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War (CRSW) is pleased to announce the availability of a fully funded AHRC doctoral studentship, to be jointly supervised across History and War Studies
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Marianne Dhenin @mariannedhe.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I edit over at the Urban History Association's (@urbanhistorya.bsky.social) blog, The Metropole. We run standalone contributions, series, a grad student blog contest, and, of course, book reviews! Here are some titles we're interested in. If you'd like to review one (and get the book free), lmk! 🧵
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Read the Foreword by @sathnam.bsky.social and the Introduction by me for free here:
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Legal C @legalclaret.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
This disingenuous commentary doesn’t help anyone. Frauds start unravelling pretty quickly. That you apparently cannot afford to put your oven or treat yourself is quickly undermined by the question “so why are you spending £50 per week on petrol?” Then, it turns out, she has an agent and /1
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Lewis Baston @lewisbaston.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Messi is like the soft-spoken gang boss who says things like, “While I personally abhor violence, some of my associates may be less fastidious.”
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
senior male academics giving a conference paper, after being shown the "one more minute" sign
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Dr Jenny Woodley @jennywoodley.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Argentina cannot be allowed to win this match.
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Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Post-92s have seen a 25% fall in the number of staff teaching history. 25% since 2018-19.
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Dr Jenny Woodley @jennywoodley.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Exciting to read about these plans. MASS Design Group designed the National Memorial for Peace and Justice (aka the Lynching Memorial) in Montgomery.
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Dr Jenny Woodley @jennywoodley.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Just watched this 10 times in a row.
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Catherine Fletcher @catherinefletcher.info · 07/07/2026
History books by women are also available
Screenshot of Facebook post from Magdalen College reading:

Whether you’re coming up to Oxford, going to another uni, or just thinking about applying to study history, these books should help!

If you are studying at Magdalen from October, please note that this is not the official reading list, just some suggested summer reading, although there may be some overlap.

Here’s the list:
1) the Past and the Present by Lawrence stone - a thematic collection of essays that explore how history as a discipline has evolved, coving traditional methodologies and new social science approaches

2) history and social theory by Peter Burke - an interdisciplinary text looking at the relationships between history and the social sciences - looking at what social theory can offer historians

3) A History of Histories by J W Burrow - a whirlwind tour through 2500 years of historiography looking at how epics, chronicles, monographs, and professional histories have shaped cultural memory and identity


4) The Pursuit of History by John Tosh - is one of the most widely used introductions to historiography, it’s an accessible yet comprehensive guide to the fundamental questions, methods, and evolving practices of historical scholarship.

5) Studying History by Jonathan Black and Donald MacRaild - a well respected guide to studying history at university.

As well as reading these, which should help you study history, you should read as much as you can about anything that excites you. Ask yourself “what’s my Roman Empire”… is it the Roman Empire? Is it the relationship between fashion and politics? Is it the enclosure act, or the Russian royal family? Whatever it is, read as much as you can about it. 

Happy reading! 

#magdalencollege #oxford #bookstagram #historystudent
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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I don’t ever ever ever ever want to hear one more ignorant person saying “hurp durp more vocational training”. If nursing ain’t that then nothing is. This Labour government do not want our young people educated. Period.
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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
This has been the most spiritually bankrupt celebration of anything I've ever seen and that's it, that's our 250th. We don't get to go back and redo it, this one's in the books: Temu Arch, cheesy architecture, horrible displays, AI everywhere. Far right propaganda. Jokes at our expense
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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Hi hello I was going to do a full thread on the Great American State Fair later but it seems I'm starting early: why in the fuck are PragerU, Patriot Academy, and other far right groups the ENTIRETY of the Department of Education booth
Two banners

First banner reads:

Welcome to the Great Experiment

250 years of American invention - a story still in the making

Two hundred and fifty years ago, America made a bet: that ordinary people with extraordinary ideas could build a nation unlike any before. That bet is still paying off.

The Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention presents this exhibit in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Commerce - home of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, the institution that turned creative freedom into economic fuel.

At the Cade, we believe so deeply in thinking and acting like an inventor that we gave it a name: Inventivity.® This exhibit is brimming with it.

The race is well underway, but it's never too late to jump in. So gear up, strap in, and take a lap

GEORGE WASHINGTON April 30, 1789 - March 4, 1797

Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefito, and humbly to implore his protection and favor

SERVICE

"Let me serve voluntarily; then I will, with the greatest pleasure in life, devote my services to the expedition without any other reward, than the satisfaction of serving my country"

RELIGION

"Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports."

CHARACTER

"To the distinguished Character of Patriot, it should be our highest Glory to add the more distinguished Character of Christian."the journey continues from here" with QR codes to Wallbuilders, the American Journey Experience, Patriot Academy, PragerU, and AmericanMinute.comStickers with a QR code to sign up to be a constitution coach with Patriot Academy
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 06/07/2026
A broadside assault on truth that must be taken seriously. This administration wants to replace independent scholarship and curation with propaganda and Prager U. drivel. The Kennedy Center was bad enough. This is worse.
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White House Criticizes Smithsonian Museum for ‘Extreme Political Activism’
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NTU News @ntunews.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
USA at 250: the Black American struggle for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, by @jennywoodley.bsky.social for @theconversation.com #AmericanHistory #USAat250 🗽🏛️📚 theconversation.com/usa-at-250-t...
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USA at 250: the Black American struggle for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness
From the very earliest days of independence, the struggle of African Americans for their rights has defined the idea of freedom in the United States.
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The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · 03/07/2026
From the very earliest days of independence, the struggle of African Americans for their rights has defined the idea of freedom in the United States.
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USA at 250: the Black American struggle for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness
From the very earliest days of independence, the struggle of African Americans for their rights has defined the idea of freedom in the United States.
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Andrew Defty @adefty.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Yesterday 142 academic staff at the University of Lincoln were put at risk of redundancy including the entire Politics and International Relations team. This follows cuts since 2024 which have already seen over 500 people leave the university. This is the 'University of No Regrets'.
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