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Lucy Holehouse

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Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Early Modern Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London | researching the materials of Nationalism in C17th civic performance | she/her

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Lucy Razzall @lucyrazzall.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/professional... CFP! Spaces and Places of Care at The National Archives, UK Symposium: 7 Dec Proposals: 18 Sept We would love to hear from you if you work on archival collections and histories of care or welfare in any time period or global context. Please share!
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Talking Records
Talking Records is a collections-based symposium held at The National Archives every year.
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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I agree with all the takes about an attack on the humanities being an attack on critical thinking, &c. It’s also about joy, though. ‘Why bother studying that’ is always also a sneer at — why do you think you should get to do something you enjoy? Grow up and be miserable all the time!
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Rev. Dr. Liz Gloyn @lizgloyn.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Thrilled I've got 150 responses to my survey on personal tutoring! I'm aiming for 200 responses, so if you're an academic in UK HE who's had pastoral responsibility for students in the last five years, whatever that's called, with ten minutes spare, I'd love to hear from you. Do share if you can.
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The Role Of Interpersonal Relationships And Care In Personal Tutoring Within UK HEIS
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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
😍We are rejoining Erasmus. Official announcement tomorrow😍 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
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UK to rejoin EU’s Erasmus student exchange programme
Exclusive: British students will be able to participate in EU-wide scheme from January 2027, sources say
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The Met: Costume Institute @metcostume.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Barbe botfrens.com/collections/223/conten…
Gift of Mrs. Henry S. Redmond, 1947
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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Hey hey, it’s now official on Concordia UP’s website, 20% discount code KENNEDY2026 at CUP (CAN) or Chicago (USD, link in next post) for Illuminating Media: Transmitting the Renaissance in England, 1400-1550! concordia.ca/press/illumi...
A turquoise book cover with a orange-red design on the front, Illuminating Media: Transmitting the Renaissance in England, 1400-1550.
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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 06/12/2025
it might seem surprising that the people who said “look, let trans people live their lives, but i have Reasonable Concerns about sports and toilets” aren’t up in arms about this, but what you have to remember is that those people who said that are liars who were lying
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Jockyfox @jockyfox.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
@transparentaction.bsky.social @whatthetrans.com @heatherpaterson.co.uk A helpful link for young trans 🏳️‍⚧️ people and their parents woodcraft.org.uk/woodcraft-fo...
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Woodcraft Folk statement on the exclusion of trans children from Girlguiding - Woodcraft Folk
Woodcraft Folk stands in solidarity with every trans child, young person and volunteer who faces exclusion from Girlguiding UK following the announcement on Trans inclusion.  We recognise that Girlgui...
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Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Some stunning miniatures on show #philipmould philipmould.com/content/feat... My favourite, a love-locked, Hic Mulier inspired cat in a fab hat, c. 1615 ... 'young lady wearing a masculine-style black & orange doublet & black hat (with hat jewel) & an orange sash' ... brava!
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The Met: Costume Institute @metcostume.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
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Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Countess Edna E. de Frise, 1960
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Medieval and Early Modern Orients (MEMOs) @memorients.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
8 DAYS UNTIL CONFERENCE! Check out our online events offering throughout our four-day conference. We have poetry, theatre, conversation and much more- to view our full schedule visit our conference page. #memosconf2025 #shakespeare #Islam #renaissance #history #literature #theatre
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The Met: Costume Institute @metcostume.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Collar botfrens.com/collections/223/conten…
Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Robert B. Woodward, 1915
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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
you don’t hate pie, you hate the pie enjoyer’s zest for life
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Kathleen Commons @kabcommons.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
New post on refugeehistory.org: were there refugees in 16thC England? Answer: it's complicated - migrants and the state were in the process of negotiating a form of refugee protection, which helps us to complicate notions of Britain's "proud history of welcome": tinyurl.com/bdyevr4d
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When is a refugee not a refugee? — Refugee History.
England’s ‘proud history’ of welcoming refugees is regularly invoked in contemporary debates about refugees in Britain. Public and academic histories of pre-modern migration to England support this no...
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Dan Rebellato @danrebellato.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Just out. I've written a major report (with David Edgar) looking at the effect of Covid on British Theatre. You can download it here: www.britishtheatreconsortium.co.uk/britishtheat...
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British Theatre Before and After Covid
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Prof Tracey Hill @tracelarkhall.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
FREE talk next week, plus you'll get to see some of the most fascinating livery company mss and a couple of pageant books 🤩 (remote attendance is also an option) To book, go to www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/things-to-do...
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Claire Turner @claireturner.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
I'm planning an interactive workshop on the senses and medical humanities, to be held in Leeds in July 2026. It will involve creative practitioners, academics, and clinicians. If this is something you'd be interested in attending, please drop me a message or reply to this post and we can chat more!
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Eoin Price @eoinprice.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
ON STRIKE AGAIN BECAUSE THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH REFUSES TO RULE OUT COMPULSORY REDUNDANCIES!
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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Maybe we should bring back wearing "a Choice Sort of Black Inck in Hard Balls, with that Conveniency, that you may wear them about you, without any Damage to the Inck, or your Linnen." just mix with any water or wine (except red)!
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Robert Pask Stationer, at the Stationer's Arms and Inck-Bottle on the North side of the Royal Exchange, London: Hath made a Choice Sort of Black Inck in Hard Balls, with that Conveniency, that you may wear them about you, without any Damage to the Inck, or your Linnen. Cut a little of it into fair Water, or any Wine (except Red) and it will be immediately fit to write with. It is brought to that Goodnefs, it is fit for Records. The longer you keep it in Ball, Liquid, or in Writing, the better it grows. The Price is Six Pence a Ball. And they are for Quality and Quantity cheaper than any other Inck. Sold only at his own shop.
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Cristina León Alfar, PhD 🐈🎭📚🌻💃🏻🐈‍⬛ @cristinalalfar.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
So the onus has to *also* be on students to want to learn and not just teachers whose labor is spread thin already between teaching, scholarship, and committees. We all bear a responsibility to guard our education and humanity (broadly defined) from bots. 3/3
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Mo Moulton @momoulton.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Some big news: the University of Birmingham is launching a new MA in Gender & Sexuality. It's interdisciplinary, with a focus on combining theory & practice. It's going to be amazing. I'm convening it: message or email with questions. www.birmingham.ac.uk/study/postgr... @unibirmingham.bsky.social
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Gender and Sexuality MA - University of Birmingham
Course information for prospective postgraduate students on our MA History taught masters degree programme at the University of Birmingham.
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Nora J. Williams @norajw.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
One of the most important things I have learned in my life is that how someone attempts to insult you says an awful lot about them. This weekend, someone in my local community tried to insult me by saying I must be "an illegal" - that is, an undocumented immigrant. 1/
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Claire Turner @claireturner.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
My profile is now viewable on the Rylands Institute website: www.library.manchester.ac.uk/rylands/abou... I'll be based at the Rylands from December (2025) to May (2026) undertaking research on sensory experiences and perceptions of cancer. If you're in Manchester during that time, let me know!
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Claire Turner (The University of Manchester Library)
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Jonathan Willis @drjpw.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Are you curious about the potential for archival practices to shape the study of emotion; why there are letters in the English State Papers labelled 'mad'; or how the culture & politics of Elizabethan England shaped people's experience of distress? Find out here! doi.org/10.1017/S008... #earlymodern
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‘your poore distressed suppliant’: ‘Madness’, Emotion and the Archive in Early Modern England | Transactions of the Royal Historical Society | Cambridge Core
‘your poore distressed suppliant’: ‘Madness’, Emotion and the Archive in Early Modern England
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Edmond Smith @edmond-smith.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
One of my RAs landed a permanent job in Madrid (which is awesome!) so I'm now advertising for a new one! It's to work on my INTRECCI project on global histories of capitalism. Please share with anyone interested and happy to answer questions. www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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Research Associate in Early Modern Global History:Oxford Road
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Claire Turner @claireturner.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
I'm chuffed to announce that I've just signed a contract with Manchester University Press to publish my book 'Plague and the Senses in Early Modern London'.
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Lucy Holehouse @lucyholehouse.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
So so excited to announce that I'll be staying on @royalholloway.bsky.social for the next two years as a Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Early Modern Studies! ☺️🤸‍♀️
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Society for Iberian Global Art @siga.spainculture.us · 11/08/2025
✨ CFP: The Odorous Object ✨ Perfumed letters, scented ceramics, fragrant glass vases — from the visible vessel to the invisible scent, olfactory objects carry histories of art, science, power, and imagination. (1/4)
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Hester L-J @starcrossed2018.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Stop doing this! Whoever is paying @timeshighered.bsky.social‬ for story after story is also funding environmental vandalism on a catastrophic scale. This isn't journalism, it's naive ethical bankruptcy - and intellectually and pedagogically obtuse.
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Lucy Holehouse @lucyholehouse.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Spending some time working on the 'doublet with a satten forepart and a Canvas back’ in Middleton's Hengist today, and the more I think about it the more I realise just how ridiculous it would have looked. Wondering if it was made specifically for this play...
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Polly Hember @pollyhember.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
I'm currently looking for visiting lecturing/tutoring work for the autumn 💛 I've worked in English, Media Arts and Liberal Arts departments, and have taught poetry, literature, film, television and critical theory. If you know of any vacancies, or anyone that might be looking, please let me know 😊
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Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
#EarlyModern history PhD students around London: the 'Society, Culture and Belief, 1500-1800' seminar @ihrscb.bsky.social at @ihr.bsky.social is looking for a postgrad convenor for 2025/26. Stipend of £300/yr and a chance to get involved in a great seminar!
The ‘Society, Culture and Belief, 1500-1800’ seminar at the Institute for Historical Research would like to appoint a doctoral student as a stipendiary postgraduate seminar convenor for 2025/26. You would be an active member of our lively, friendly seminar. Your main responsibilities would be to contribute to our social media presence, encourage other postgrads to attend the seminar, and occasionally assist with minor administrative tasks to help the seminar run smoothly. The expectation would be that you would come to the seminar as often as possible.

We normally host nine seminar talks over the course of the academic year. In 2024/25, we hosted talks by Rachel Winchcombe (Manchester), Fara Dabhoiwala (Princeton), Will Tullet (York), Tiéphaine Thomason (Cambridge), Nikki Clarke (Birkbeck), and Juliet Atkinson (Leeds).

The Institute will provide you with a stipend of £300 (£100/term) and will cover the cost of your meals if you attend post-seminar dinners.

The current convenors are Holly Fletcher (UCL), Laura Gowing (KCL), Kate Hodgkin (East London), Eva Johanna Holmberg (Queen Mary), Tiéphaine Thomason (Cambridge), Emily Vine (Exeter), Brodie Waddell (Birkbeck) and Roisin Watson (Open University).

To apply, please send a cover letter (max one page) indicating why this opportunity is of interest and a CV (1-2 pages) to b.waddell@bbk.ac.uk by September 1st.
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Lucy Holehouse @lucyholehouse.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Material culture folk and dress historians: do we know anything about what a 'Fool's Coat' may have looked like in late C16th to early C17th England?
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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
🎓 We're delighted to announce the new Doctoral School for Arts & Humanities here @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social The new school is a major investment into the postgraduate research environment for the arts and humanities by King's. Read more👇 www.kcl.ac.uk/news/kings-l...
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reedproject.bsky.social @reedproject.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
We are delighted to announce the publication this month of the ninth digital edition in the REED series, the collection of the Newington Butts Playhouse records, edited by Sally-Beth MacLean. Check it out here: ereed.org/collections/...
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REED Online: Collection: Newington Butts Playhouse
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Daniel F Gosling @thegozfather.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
And the STAC 5 data enhancements are complete. You can now search the whole of STAC 5, nearly 40,000 items for Elizabethan Star Chamber proceedings, by short title, plaintiff, defendant, case code, and more. Enjoy! discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C1...
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Court of Star Chamber: Proceedings, Elizabeth I | The National Archives
The official archive of the UK government. Our vision is to lead and transform information management, guarantee the survival of today's information for tomorrow and bring history to life for everyone...
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Polly Hember @pollyhember.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Great article from Nick Lee that came out of one of his lectures on media and class for Royal Holloway's Introduction to Media Histories that I was teaching on this year: theconversation.com/who-represen...
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Who represents Britain on screen? UK film and TV culture still has a worrying class problem
The narrowness of this field is bad news for diversity – we need greater breadth and depth when it comes to British culture and those who produce it.
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Madeline Potter @madelinepotter.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Thank you Literary Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social for running a little extract from my book 👇 ‘In From the Margins: On Letting the Roma Narrate Their Own Story’ lithub.com/in-from-the-...
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In From the Margins: On Letting the Roma Narrate Their Own Story
From a very young age I was drawn to the world of fiction. Every day my grandfather would walk me home from nursery and tell me a story as we walked along the lifeless streets. I wish I could remem…
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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 15/07/2025
2/ Background It has been published following a consultation that was begun under the last Conservative government, which promised to bring in what many in the community saw as another 'Section 28'. It goes almost as far as adopting the conservative's line www.wearequeeraf.com/schools-in-e...
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Schools in England to be banned from teaching “about the concept of gender identity”
Imposing the detrimental impact of Section 28 on a new generation, the Conservative party have announced plans to ban schools from talking about "gender identity"
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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 15/07/2025
🆕🚨 New statutory Relationships and Sex Education guidance published today will: - Restrict schools from using materials that "encourage pupils to question their gender" - Teaches children the laws about "biological sex" - Removes all references to the word transgender What we know so far 🧵
Logo of the Department of Education. Title: Relationships Education, Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) and Health Education. Subtitle: Statutory guidance for governing bodies, proprietors, head teachers, principals, senior leadership teams, and teachers. Dated July 2025
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Dr Richard Asquith @richardasquith.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Today! There's still time to join us! www.history.ac.uk/events/estat...
Title slide for presentation "'A certeynte of trouthe': the accounts of the executors of Sir Ralph Verney, Mayor of London (d.1478)". Includes a 15th-century manuscript illumination of the Court of Chancery.
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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
hello. if you work at a university please ask your library to buy my book. it is all about books and libraries and also plants, museums, the Royal Society, and the ways we learn. I think it will be interesting to lots of people, hopefully. thank you www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...
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Hans Sloane's Library Collection and the Production of Knowledge | Cambridge University Press & Assessment
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The Material Culture of Wills Project @materialwills.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
📢 A NEW WILLS PROJECT EVENT! 📢 📅 Thursday 24 July 🕐 1-4pm BST Join us online or in person in Exeter for a hybrid wills Transcribathon 📜✍️ Transcribe on Zooniverse alongside like-minded volunteers & help transcribe as many wills as possible! Sign up here: willstranscribathon.eventbrite.com 🧵1/2
A poster advertising the 'Wills Project Transcribathon' on Thursday 24 July, 1-4pm BST, in the Digital Humanities Lab at the University of Exeter, and on zoom. The poster features black text on green and yellow backgrounds, and three images - a box of folded will manuscripts, an unfolded will manuscript, and the painting Thomas Braithwaite of Ambleside making his will, Abbot Hall, 1607. Photo: Lakeland Arts. 

The poster text reads: ' - Transcribe on Zooniverse alongside like-minded volunteers, - Learn more about English wills from 1540-1790 during talks from the experts, - Share & discuss interesting discoveries, - Attend for all or part of the event, - Contribute to academic research & help make these remarkable documents more accessible for all'. 
Details of the event can be found at this address: https://willstranscribathon.eventbrite.com
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Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
After 201 Years the 1824 Vagrancy Act is dead. Let's savor a moment spent kicking its corpse.
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After 201 years, the 1824 Vagrancy Act is finally dead | Expert comment
As the Vagrancy Act is set to be scrapped, Dr Dave Hitchcock explains its history and influence for the last 200 years. Yesterday, the Labour government announced that it was scrapping the 1824 Vagran...
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Lucy Holehouse @lucyholehouse.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Clare's talk is now sold out in-person 😱 There are still tickets available for online, though! Follow the link below to hear all about early modern London's rope dancers from the comfort of home next Thursday 🤸‍♀️
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Gwrach Gymraeg @cherylmorgan.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Oh, and point three: previous interpretations of the Equality Act were not “lies”, they were very clearly following legislative intent, which would have been explained to the Supreme Corrupt had they not refused to hear any evidence that would threaten the verdict they wanted.
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