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Dr Lucy J.S. Clarke 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🌈 no human is illegal

@lucyjsclarke.bsky.social
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interdisciplinary historian of early modern England; Leverhulme ECF at Sheffield, working on 'Performing the early modern English state into reality, 1558-1641'. socio-legal history, practice-as-research as historical method. mum of cats and a small human.

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Dr Lucy J.S. Clarke 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🌈 no human is illegal @lucyjsclarke.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I wish that there was a simple way to express the grief for a parent from whom you were functionally estranged, a parent who you could not forgive but still loved, without feeling either that you’re eliding the truth or being a hypocrite.
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Dr Lucy J.S. Clarke 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🌈 no human is illegal @lucyjsclarke.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
as far as I’m concerned, any respectable institution ought to reimburse the travel expenses of interviewees, especially when the position is only for ECRs. but that’s none of my business.
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Kermit The Frog Sips Lipton Tea Meme
ALT: Kermit The Frog Sips Lipton Tea Meme
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Dr. Will Green @drwillgreen.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Let my CFP go forth into the world! Naturally, if you know me, you'll know my own research has focused on guildhalls for a couple of years now - but I've long wanted a book that considers other "theatres" of the Renaissance. So please, come and join me in proposing chapters 🙏
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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Trying to describe what it’s like working inside British universities at the moment is very hard. One small vignette: not a single week of my teaching this semester looks the same as any other. We have virtually no courses/modules that are taught by
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Dr Lucy J.S. Clarke 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🌈 no human is illegal @lucyjsclarke.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
gotta say that the day I found out second hand that I didn’t get the job I interviewed for and that my father had had a massive stroke within two hours isn’t going to feature highly on my 2026 in review list
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Dr Lucy J.S. Clarke 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🌈 no human is illegal @lucyjsclarke.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
deeply “ageing academic” vibe, but can anyone recommend a desk pad that will cushion my elbows? I’ve been getting elbow pain for weeks after coming back to work and typing all day
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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 23/08/2026
Rolling out “academic freedom” as a rallying cry now, after the CRT panic led to a bunch of Black scholars and theory to be literally banned from classrooms, shit is too rich lol
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Dr Lucy J.S. Clarke 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🌈 no human is illegal @lucyjsclarke.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
why take a shit in public when you can just sign that open letter in support of Nathan Cofnas
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roterote @roterote.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Here is the full suspension letter from UGent that was sent to Nathan Cofnas, it shows ample reason for his suspension and potential termination. Including breach of contract, using the University of Ghent’s name and legitimacy to promote his racial supremacist views and causing reputational damage.
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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
My genuinely non controversial take is that if you're signing an open letter of support for Cofnas you're either a racist or want to be admired in racist spaces.
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Cheryl Fury @tudorwench.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Where do you see yourself in 10 years?
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
arday was being used by these institutions as a symbol of their own goodness, and then he was used in turn by right-wing opportunists who wanted to smear them. he wasn't entirely a victim, of course, but he also wasn't the only one being dishonest.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
when arday was hired, cambridge had five black professors. does that sound like an institution in thrall to DEI? does that sound like an institution that's handing out jobs to black academics?
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
they looked past his fictions because to them he was never meant to serve more than a superficial purpose. it wasn't their overzealous commitment to diversity that landed him at cambridge, it was their lack of it. they wanted a shallow commitment that could score them friendly headlines.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
the story that the right wanted to tell here is about DEI run amok - institutions so obsessed with diversity that they embraced an obvious fraud. that story gets it backwards. to Cambridge et al Arday was a PR stunt. they hired him as a symbol, meant to shield them from criticism.
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Jo VanEvery @jovanevery.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
This. My partner the climate politics guy, when I expressed questions about this said “because Andy Burnham is doing performative things instead of addressing the problem”.
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Dr Lucy J.S. Clarke 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🌈 no human is illegal @lucyjsclarke.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
so the government can send us an emergency alert about the national risk of wildfires, but can’t actually address why it is that we’ve become a country at risk of wildfires, something formerly associated with arid climates?
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Dr Lucy J.S. Clarke 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🌈 no human is illegal @lucyjsclarke.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Going through a chapter checking footnotes, and discover I can’t find my full transcriptions of a bunch of the manuscripts. Spend thirty minutes panicking, before realising that 2019 me MADE THEM BY HAND. Crucial evidence and I just wrote them in PENCIL in a notebook I bought in TK MAXX. PENCIL.
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Dr Lucy J.S. Clarke 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🌈 no human is illegal @lucyjsclarke.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
me: [sleep deprived, overheating] I’ll copy paste the summary of the thing from one email to another. I’m a genius. labour saved. perfect email to colleague. me ten minutes later: oh for fuck’s sake it needed to be a different summary for that person.
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 13/08/2026
With A Level results published today, it's very welcome to see a 5% increase in students taking #History in 2026 compared with 2025. At 5%, History sees the 5th highest increase in student numbers, 2025-26, across all subjects. Full details: bit.ly/3RMKL1x #Skystorians 1/2
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History A-Level numbers, 2026 - RHS
This year's A-Level results are published on 13 August, with student enrolment figures available for the 57 subjects available this year, via the Joint Council for Qualifications (JQC), covering Engla...
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Dr Lucy J.S. Clarke 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🌈 no human is illegal @lucyjsclarke.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
today in Star Chamber: a perjury case brought by the Yorkshire vicar James Lockey. the perjury? that Richard Stagge and Arthur Burnand had falsely accused him of hitting Arthur’s horse so hard it died. one can only assume the vicar said “neigh” to the accusation. STAC 5/L2/16 (1591-2) #skystorians
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Dr Lucy J.S. Clarke 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🌈 no human is illegal @lucyjsclarke.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
discovered the cost of my unending indulgence towards small children, to the tune of being charged two full pounds for a homemade cupcake that it transpired was not for charity. kid saw me across the road and knew he had a mark. 10/10 business sense, he’ll go far.
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Please don’t write in the newspaper 700 years from now that I got absolutely smoked.
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Dr Lucy J.S. Clarke 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🌈 no human is illegal @lucyjsclarke.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
if I see one more person suggesting “have you asked chatGPT?” in the mum WhatsApps I’m going to mcfreakin lose it
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Ariadne Griffin @ariadnereviews.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Wealth is a disease
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
not to be confused with quesadilla
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Not to be confused with Quesadilla.
Ķ (k-cedilla) is the 17th letter of the Latvian alphabet.
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Dr Lucy J.S. Clarke 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🌈 no human is illegal @lucyjsclarke.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
wedding? 10/10 experience.
The groom Peter holds the bride Lucy, a tall plus size person in a wedding dress embellished with stars. Peter is wearing highland dress. They both look deliriously happy. The bride and groom stroll through a field with a dramatic cloudy sky behind them. A shot of the bride and groom kissing, with Lucy’s homemade bouquet in the foreground. The bride and group see their table decorations for the first time.
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 23/06/2026
I know this has been pointed out many times by many people but I just want to reiterate: Anthropic is basically using Kurt Vonnegut's drawing of an asshole as the Claude logo
Kurt Vonnegut's asshole drawingAnthropic's Claude logo
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 08/08/2026
art.
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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
I cannot rest from discourse. I will see that film again tomorrow. I will drink life to the lees. Again I will enjoy greatly, will suffer greatly, both with those that love me, and in Pleasantville NY. I am become a meme. Film showing: burnsfilmcenter.org/booking/the-...
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The Odyssey : Jacob Burns Film Center
The Odyssey, Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Christopher Nolan, Zendaya, Robert Pattinson, Odysseus, Greek, Classic, Antiquity
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
So it's farewell to the History subject area at the University of Hertfordshire, not the first nor the last to go. One of the best departments in the country, just extinguished like a snap of the fingers. Think of the waste. (1/2)
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Dr Lucy J.S. Clarke 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🌈 no human is illegal @lucyjsclarke.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Film you’ve watched more than six times with a gif, hard mode.
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Loyd's Angry Move in Military Uniform
Alt: Marshal Zhukov (played by Jason Isaacs) flings off his greatcoat, revealing his chest of medals.
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Dr Lucy J.S. Clarke 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🌈 no human is illegal @lucyjsclarke.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
had a moment of realisation as I go through transcriptions and PAR notes: so much historical methodology is just “what if I paid attention to this thing that everyone else thinks doesn’t need questioning?” which I like.
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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
youve heard of failing upwards. well academic careers in 2026 encapsulate the reverse: succeeding downwards. so many talented, highly qualified people, being punished for their achievements
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Dr Lucy J.S. Clarke 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🌈 no human is illegal @lucyjsclarke.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
hello hivemind. I’ve a wild plan to stage an apprentice riot from the 1590s, as part of a public practice-as-research event. unfortunately the original location, Tower Hill, is a no go. can anyone suggest venues with outdoor spaces (preferably London) that might be open to this sort of thing?
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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Good grief, this hits home.
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Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Live from Philly, where both LeBron & I took our talents this week (although I'm headed back to Boston later today), here’s my 286th #ScholarSunday thread of great writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, please share widely, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ +
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#ScholarSunday Thread 286 (7/26/26) – Black and White and Read All Over
Live from Philly, where both LeBron & I took our talents this week, here’s my 286th #ScholarSunday thread of great writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add mor...
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
PSA on the Victoria Line tube in London. Phillipson and every other GC weirdo needs to take note.
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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 16/07/2026
'Staging early modern arrests raises questions that otherwise don’t come out of approaching records on the page, and [...] forces me to consider the risk involved with all performances of authority.' @lucyjsclarke.bsky.social on reconstructing the early modern arrest.
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Being an Audience to Arrest
Lucy Clarke examines the arrest in early modern England, reconstructing how bystanders could legitimise or challenge the power of the state.
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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 16/07/2026
This is a companion piece to Lucy's longer article 'Arrests as Performance: Opening the Practice of Early Modern English State Authority to Scrutiny with Practice-as-Research', recently published Open Access in History Workshop Journal 101. academic.oup.com/hwj...
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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 16/07/2026
Who held the power during an arrest in early modern England? @lucyjsclarke.bsky.social explores how bystanders could uphold or undermine the power of the state.
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Being an Audience to Arrest
Lucy Clarke examines the arrest in early modern England, reconstructing how bystanders could legitimise or challenge the power of the state.
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Catherine Fletcher @catherinefletcher.info · 15/07/2026
Now do universities
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 15/07/2026
A new resource from @britishacademy.bsky.social, out today, maps changes in UK academic staff numbers and contract types between 2012/13 & 2024/25 for the arts, humanities & social sciences bit.ly/4w47SmP You can search by subject (incl history), provider, region & forms of employment #Skystorians
Main page of new British Academy resource on Mapping SHAPE academic staff in UK HE.
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 15/07/2026
The Society will write up a summary for History for next week. Key points at this stage include: > 11% decline (-440 FPE) across all History staff between 2018/19 and 2024/25, compared with a 7% decline across all humanities > loss of 140 FPE History roles 2022/23 to 2024/25 #Skystorians 1/3
Screen shot from British Academy mapping SHAPE staff resource, showing change in History staff between 2018/19 and 2024/25. A loss of 440 FPE or 11% of the total.
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Sean Marshall @seanyyz.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Why I’m a fan of the Oxford comma.
TORONTO STAR
BOOK REVIEW
Sylvia Plath, a New York vigilante and Shah of Iran featured in latest historical fiction
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Your June reminder that if you're a UK-based holder of an Arts, Humanities or Social Science (SHAPE) degree, or equivalent, within 10 years (excluding career breaks) of your PhD, you are warmly invited to join the British Academy's Early Career Researcher Network. 1/2
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Early Career Researcher Network
An inclusive, researcher-led network for UK-based early career researchers working in the humanities and social sciences
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Dr Lucy J.S. Clarke 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🌈 no human is illegal @lucyjsclarke.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
It was as I shoved the baby bottle’s nipple repeatedly into the grinning, soapy mouth of the Piglet “Scrub Mommy” that I couldn’t help but wonder: is this what A.A. Milne would have wanted?
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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
May I remind #UKHE of the Cost Allocation Death Spiral.
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The Cost Allocation Death Spiral and the University
The Cost Allocation Death Spiral and the University Accountants, as people whose business it chiefly is to bring hard news to powerful people, generally avoid emotional terms. They prefer softer, nuan...
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Perhaps politics should be somewhat less insulting to the public’s intelligence
The Telegraph Y @Telegraph
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Wes Streeting is a "Left-winger presenting as a centrist"
, his former speechwriter has warned,
amid speculation that he could become the next chancellor.
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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
ive got it. so sun cream brands say “reapply every two hours” mattress manufacturers say “replace every 2 years” well we should be pushing hard for “you need ANOTHER degree every five years”
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