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Edinburgh book launch! I’m going to be having an Edinburgh book launch for An Injury to All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class on the evening of Tuesday 27 October. Venue and time will be confirmed soon. Save the date! Get your tickets 🔽

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Argonaut Books - Leith's Independent Bookshop

We are Argonaut Books, a community bookshop for Leith, Edinburgh. We hold a curated selection of books; we only stock books that we are genuinely passionate about. We specialise in Science Fiction, Fa...

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 3h

There is still a massive queue round the block for that viral yoghurt place in Notting Hill. It was all the way down to the tube stop when it first opened and I was going past on the bus. I don't quite get it.

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 4h

Croydon Harvest festival with a portable bandstand

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I have seen more of a well respected and now retired academic in the last 3 weeks of conferences than I have in the last 20 years. Academic historians love spending their retirement discussing history with younger scholars.

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Ariadne Griffin @ariadnereviews.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Me returning home from a shop at Aldi #CelebrityTraitors

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My most recent book is in the Oxfam bookshop in Oxford. It seems both sad and hilarious at the same time.

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Owen Davies @odavies9.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Ghosts. One of 240 images from my forthcoming (2027) book on the global, visual history of ghosts. Franz Sedlacek "Ghosts on a Tree" (1933)

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Universities cannot expect researchers to take risks if they are repeatedly at risk of redundancy while losing professional services support, grappling with the gratuitous vagaries of home and international student number swings and both teaching and assessing in an age of unregulated AI.

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Richard Herring @herring1967.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Can't believe Richard E Grant allowed that episode to go out.

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

At the Maison Française today for a conference so going to go full mid century moderne

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Wow that Perfume Genius track is very Low adjacent

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The other running joke was the end of the RHLSTP podcast. At one point Richard made a joke about the new comics on SNLUK rising fast to replace the old guard like him, Ed and Nish. It reminded me of the two workshops I've attended, where I and my colleagues very much feel now like the old guard...

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Why on earth do you live in London?" Because I can pop into central on a Monday evening and watch Richard Herring discuss his appearance on the Pottery and Isy Suttie discuss the tasks on Taskmaster.

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Tried Uncle Roger's restaurant. It was OK.

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

On Friday I gave a @royalhistsoc.org lecture about the battle for rights of way in England and Wales: you can watch and listen here! Many thanks to the @ihr.bsky.social for hosting, and to @ukri.org for funding the project. Much more to come on this front. royalhistsoc.org/glen-ohara-g...

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Glen O'Hara gives latest RHS lecture on 'Rights of Way and the Battle for the Land' - RHS

On Friday 25 September the Society hosted the latest lecture in its 2026 programme. Our great thanks to Professor Glen O'Hara (Oxford Brookes University) who spoke on: ‘In All Our Footsteps? Rights of...

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Last three days as a lady of leisure. Off into central to RHLSTP this evening. Hoping Richard brings his pottery cat to show the audience.

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Simon is on strike ✊🏻 @simonxix.com · 28/09/2026

Historic England outsourced their digital image provision to a third-party company. Then the company went bust and now all their images are inaccessible. Tell me again how outsourcing to the private sector is sustainable?

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Johnny Mains @johnnymains.co.uk · 28/09/2026

Trish Keenan would have been 58 today. Everyone go listen to some Broadcast.

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

An interesting point that Kevin made when showing the Jencks' 1983 house was that although some of the interior was deliberately fake in order to encapsulate pomo representation (eg the marble spoons), much of the building was real and highly crafted (terrazzo inlay). Whereas

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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My old boss has asked me to give his new book a social media bump, because he has wisely chosen never to set up his own account! So I’m happy to announce that ‘Britain’s Slave Traders: A Hidden History’ is available today in all good bookshops! www.penguin.co.uk/books/460026...

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Ian @ianpatterson.com · 12/09/2026

And more …

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Ian @ianpatterson.com · 12/09/2026

Open House No 4 today, The Cloud House , Gospel Oak. Absokute joy to see - colourful as wotsit.

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Catching up on Grand Designs about the Cloud House in Gospel Oak. Kevin briefly said it took 4 years to get through planning. The programme never goes into the planning process any more. I want to know more.

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Proof that Billy bookcases have a self refilling mechanism. I filled 20 boxes of academic books, and yet...

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I'm on an out and back route along the Sputh Downs Way but I've gone so far that I wonder I should push on and get to Chanctonbury Ring.

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Lunch first. Last gasp of a long summer.

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 26/09/2026

Glen's lecture opened the Society's autumn programme of lectures taking place in London, Glasgow and Bristol, and online. Further details of upcoming events, including lectures by Meleisa Ono-George, Sathnam Sanghera, Hanna Diamond and Amy Froide bit.ly/3VQUTYs 2/2

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Autumn lecture programme from the Royal Historical Society - RHS

The Society's autumn lecture programme offers lectures by six leading historians working in British, European and world history. The autumn lecture programme begins on Friday 25 September and runs to ...

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 26/09/2026

Our great thanks to Prof Glen O'Hara for his excellent RHS lecture yesterday evening: ‘In All Our Footsteps? Rights of Way and the Battle for the Land after the 1949 National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act’ Recordings now available bit.ly/4ySyB6W #Skystorians @gsoh31.bsky.social 1/2

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Glen O'Hara gives latest RHS lecture on 'Rights of Way and the Battle for the Land' - RHS

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Going for a solo walk on the South Downs today. The train is very busy.

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Sarah Elizabeth Cox @oispooky.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

2yrs after I finished my MA History at Goldsmiths, my research rights were bought and I was hired to work as historical consultant on this TV show. It's had BAFTA and International Emmy nominations. I got a book deal, too. Goldsmiths: "No point in MA History, let's fire everyone and delete it."

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University of Nottingham UCU branch @uonucu.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Our massive strike action for the fall begins on Wednesday, but we will be facing some intense financial hardship to do so. Please consider supporting our members by donating to our solidarity fund. www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...

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Help raise £10000 to support the Nottingham UCU hardship fund – JustGiving Crowdfunding

Iʼm raising money to support the Nottingham UCU hardship fund. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Great lecture. The IHR is clearly the place to be on a Friday after work.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Full house for Glen O'Hara at the @royalhistsoc.org lecture at the IHR

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

At the IHR for Glen O'Hara's RHS lecture

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 24/09/2026

‘Britain’s political class remains unified in its belief that energy infrastructure must be owned by the private sector. Since privatisation in the 1980s, successive leaders have rejected any suggestion of nationalisation.’ @arthurdowning.bsky.social: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Arthur Downing · Asset Sweating: Britain’s Energy Crisis

Britain has private ownership while making the state responsible for planning via subsidies. The result is a zombie...

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 24/09/2026

'AI and History Teaching in UK Higher Education': today we launch a new autumn series on the Society's blog, with perspectives from historians as teachers bit.ly/4htgtcT We start with the first three posts, offering personal commentaries on current challenges and practice #Skystorians 1/2

Images of three opening blog posts for the RHS series 'AI and History Teaching in UK Higher Education', with contributions by:

> 'History is a Human Craft' by Dave Hitchcock

> 'The Machine’s Silences: Teaching History with AI', by Jesus Sanjurjo

> 'Generative Artificial Intelligence and the Evolving Arms Race in History Assessment & HE Policies' by Miguel Hernandez

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Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

'History is a Human Craft'. In piece about ethics, our classrooms and AI, I suppose I've put up my barricades and drawn my lines. I suggest 8 'considerations' before we do any teaching with AI. This is part of a new @royalhistsoc.org short series on 'AI and History Teaching' in Transactions.

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History is a human craft | Historical Transactions

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

cities that are much nicer for a wander than their reputation would have you believe, number 726 in a continuing series: having a lovely afternoon in Newport

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Iain AF Fleming 🐧 @legalweasel.uk · 24/09/2026

I hold to the maxim: "Once you've shed your preconceptions, everywhere is interesting" - Jonathan Meades.

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