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Emmy

@msquinnhistory.bsky.social
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History lead for Years 5-8. Passionate about primary history, Irish history, teaching empire among other things. I post photos of bread and Yorkshire puddings and I’m not sorry.

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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 9h
new reaction meme dropped #celebritytraitors
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Emmy @msquinnhistory.bsky.social · 9h
I am so excited to watch how people spell “Myha’la” on the chalk boards #celebritytraitors
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Emmy @msquinnhistory.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I’m absolutely exhausted dealing with the inability of parents to do their job. This news story exemplifies it. The council aren’t responsible for parents instilling values and putting boundaries in place. Always the elephant in the room. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Blakelaw parents scared to take kids to football, says club boss
Blakelaw FC say youths are throwing eggs and stones at the cars of those coming to practise.
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Emmy @msquinnhistory.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Recovering from more cervical biopsies, I once again want to stress the importance of cervical screening and the HPV vaccine. Cervical screening saves lives.
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Emmy @msquinnhistory.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I wanted to find out if a new council park was open and sadly the only post was on Facebook. I clicked on the comments to see any updates and was met with a stream of misery and complaints and “what about?” Why can’t people just see the positives? Our society is fundamentally damaged.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Jim Ratcliffe, tax-dodging Brexiter billionaire living in Monaco, says the poorest and most vulnerable should have their rights & benefits removed to bolster our economy. Don’t bother telling us this rancid man’s opinions unless you say how much he’s avoided in tax and what Brexit is costing us all.
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Emmy @msquinnhistory.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Watching the BBC 10 o clock news and Jim Ratcliffe’s comments are the second headline. This is an editorial choice. An editorial choice to platform someone who has dangerous views. This isn’t news, it’s allowing more and more anti immigration rhetoric in the mainstream.
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Emmy @msquinnhistory.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This. I’m really tired of the rhetoric that Reform are influencing and turning people into this. They just legitimise it. The attitudes were already there, people just now feel comfortable vocalising it.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This should be the moment people finally realise that Farage has turned them into fascists. If you’re choosing this dangerous inhumanity over the rescue work of the RNLI, you’ve lost your minds to racism and hatred.
Reform UK
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Charities' actions in aiding and abetting the invasion of our country will be illegal under
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Photo of Farage on Gb news
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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I mean how is the BBC not now actively subverting our democracy? It is a danger to the body politic.
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 18/09/2026
What on earth is happening?
  This had become the new normal. RNLI crew members had been forced to take their permits off their cars after their tyres have been repeatedly slashed. Most of them have been pilloried at the school gates or turned away from local pubs. One man who worked in search and rescue had been beaten unconscious and hospitalised, recognised for TV interviews he had done.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Just Zia Yusuf having a pop at his parents.
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Schools History Project - SHP @1972shp.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Check out my latest Director's Blog - Simply the Best, reflecting on the fantastic SHP Summer Conference in July director.schoolshistoryproject.co.uk/2026/09/05/s...
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SHP26: Simply the Best - Director's Blog
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Dr Dean Irwin @medievaljews.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Trying to find a serious source for the so-called 'Jewish lamp' in the Lincoln Museum. I need it for an article on Lincoln's medieval Jewish heritage but can only find it discussed in low-quality webpages. Does anybody know if it's received any academic attention? Coming up stumps.
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Emmy @msquinnhistory.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
More reasons for me to leave teaching if Reform ever get into power.
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Emmy @msquinnhistory.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
A real missed opportunity that @nosycrow.bsky.social and the British Museum haven’t sent copies of these to schools or started a scheme that we can purchase some at a reduced price. www.britishmuseumshoponline.org/the-bayeux-t...
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The Bayeux Tapestry: The Graphic Novel
A fun and engaging children’s graphic novel retelling the Bayeux Tapestry and the events of 1066, created in partnership with the British Museum.
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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Now in Gunmetal Grey!
A person in the background carrying a bag over their shoulder. In the foreground, a large gray cat sits beside a cardboard box labeled "CATS FOR MEN." The text above reads "Introducing CATS FOR MEN™," and below the box, it says "The first feline designed for real, masculine men."
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Emmy @msquinnhistory.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This is so refreshing.
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ityb.bsky.social @ityb.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Nice article here @eicathomefinn.bsky.social news.artnet.com/art-world/no...
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A Tudor Masterpiece Goes Under the Microscope—and Anyone Can Watch
The National Trust and Hamilton Kerr Institute will conduct the first-ever public study on an enigmatic Thomas More portrait at the Nostell.
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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 04/09/2026
Prison?
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 04/09/2026
So, if I understand Nigel Farage's argument correctly it is: "Everyone I trusted and elevated into a position of responsibility is constantly doing crimes that benefit me but of which I somehow have no knowledge. I am a man with the character, judgement, and intelligence to run the country." Ok.
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
At what point does a British by-election get awarded to the silver medalist, à la Ben Johnson and Carl Lewis? Asking for a friend of a friend, i.e. me. #Clacton
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Striking how the nationalist funding networks are so international.
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Can't get a moment's peace on this bloody planet.
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Emmy @msquinnhistory.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
New hobby, making kombucha. Because I already do sourdough and fancied something else to stress me out.
One bottle of SCOBY and one bottle of kombucha
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Alex Selby-Boothroyd @alexselbyb.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
This is getting out of hand
Tube map but with America Water instead of Canada Water. Hilariously.
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Tori @skatothecore.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
“The problem has never been the people of Middlesbrough, but a drugs trade that has sunk its claws into the town” - Ben Houchen musing over what is happening in Boro. Remember that this man gave the keys to South Bank Quay to a drug lord.
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Carnage is a symptom of lawless Britain, warns mayor of Tees Valley
The burning vehicles have become a picture of lawlessness that shames a corner of England of which I'm otherwise immensely proud.
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Emmy @msquinnhistory.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
“Place I’ve been mayor of for several years is a mess and I want to blame anyone else and also probably raging that I can’t blame immigrants.”
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martinbarrow.bsky.social @martinbarrow.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The (mainly Tory) media’s failure to held Ben Houchen to account over Middlesbrough after 10 years as Mayor is an absolute scandal. He even gets his own OpEd to blame everyone else.
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Chris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 28/08/2026
"Milo got arrested!" "That's good!" "By an unaccountable secret police force" "That's bad" "He supported them, though, so there's delicious irony at play." "That's good!" "But they came for him because fascist power has reached a point where petty infighting can lead to arrests" "That's bad"
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Emmy @msquinnhistory.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
We’re watching Gladiator II. It is bad. So bad. Watching my kittens chase their tails is more entertaining.
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Emmy @msquinnhistory.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Think I’ll pass on this future if it’s OK with everyone.
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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Amazing to live in a country where the secret police are handling inter-chud beefs. It's like the Night of Long Knives playing out in the parking lot of a Dollar General.
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Emmy @msquinnhistory.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
It’s 6:27am. I’ve just been woken up by my 3 year old son asking me to spell “body movin” in Apple Music. Mixed feelings.
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TarZangief @tarzangief.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
"Neutral in the culture war"
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
New immigration stats show that the numbers of asylum seekers in hotels is down to 16k - falling 50% in a year. Small boat crossings down 23% in the year to June. Numbers waiting for initial decision down from almost 180k to 40k.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
“by a celebrity 💅” fuck her god she’s SO MAD someone else besides her is being lauded as the patron saint of child literacy. you had your chance and blew it, lady! that’s not who you are anymore! gotta force HBO to reboot your movies just to feel something smh
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Ricardo Autobahn @ricardoautobahn.co.uk · 26/08/2026
The best tribute to Dolly Parton is that she regularly and repeatedly refused to have anything to do with Piers Morgan
Piers Morgan

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RIP Dolly Parton.

Never met her, never interviewed her (despite decades of unrequited requests) but thought she was utterly fabulous in every way.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton's Imagination Library gifted more than 332,000,000 books since it was first created 31 years ago.
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Emmy @msquinnhistory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Absolutely livid that BBC News has decided to give a tweet by JKR airtime in the same segment where they talk about Dolly being an extraordinary supporter of the LGBTQ+ community.
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
in a world of JK Rowlings be a Dolly Parton
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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly funded the covid vaccine and helped to save millions of lives. If you believe in that sort of thing God has made her a rhinestone covered throne and has asked her to sing for all for Heaven tonight.
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Emmy @msquinnhistory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Devastated. What a wonderful human.
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History Today @historytoday.com · 24/08/2026
Women may be largely absent from traditional accounts of the Mongol conquests, but they played a crucial role in creating the largest of all land empires. ⌛️ Last chance to read this article for free buff.ly/yIJl0US
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Mothers of the Mongol Empire
Women may be largely absent from traditional accounts of the Mongol conquests, but they played a crucial role in creating the largest of all land empires.
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Emmy @msquinnhistory.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Under this plan my eldest child would be a second class citizen.
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Emmy @msquinnhistory.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
The absolute state of these academics tripping over themselves to claim Cofnas is a poster boy for academic freedom. How many times do people have to show you what he’s said, what his university said when they suspended him and how he breached his contract before you accept that he isn’t a victim?
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Emmy @msquinnhistory.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
“Hey Siri, what does capitalist propaganda look like?”
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 23/08/2026
Thesis: There is no cause so obviously vile and stupid that we can't find ~200 academics to sign a letter of support, provided we frame it as an "academic freedom" or "anti-censorship" campaign.
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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I had not some across this before, but if you want an example Nathan Cofnas’ scholarship, this is a doozy. Again I say, being sacked is not the problem; being recruited in the first place is what deserves scrutiny.
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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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