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Neil Evans

@neilevanshistory.bsky.social
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Historian of Modern Wales and beyond. Vice president of Llafur: The Welsh People's History Society; Joint editor (with Charlotte Williams) of UWP series 'Race, Ethnicity, Wales and the World' Published on urban history. women's social movements, empire.

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Neil Evans @neilevanshistory.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
The government has launched a consultation on guaranteed hours. Sign this petition asking them to stand firm on their pledge to tackle insecure work and ban exploitative zero-hours contracts. www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/st...
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Stamp out zero-hours contracts: protect all workers from exploitation
The government has launched a consultation on guaranteed hours. Sign this petition asking them to stand firm on their pledge to tackle insecure work and ban exploitative zero-hours contracts.
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Neil Evans @neilevanshistory.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
@theguardian.com I pay you £9 a month. Why don't you recognise this? I don't see the point of increasing my payment if I have to jump through the hoops which those who don't pay have to.
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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I cracks me up when people are like "You couldn't make THIS movie or show today because people are so politically correct and sensitive!" Sir. There was an entire board in Hollywood dedicated to sniffing out any onscreen hint of married people having sex. Lucy couldn't say "pregnant." Sit down.
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leftylady.bsky.social @leftylady.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
If you owe a woman $5 million for sexual assault, you also owe the country your resignation.
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Neil Evans @neilevanshistory.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
i think the reflecting pool has gone from “haha what a dumb ass” to “appointing a horse to the senate” level of story here
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Happy Father's Day 🖤
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
The attacks in Edinburgh, in which an armed bare-chested white man terrorised Muslims, leaving five people injured, don't feature on a single newspaper front page this morning. Two tier journalism
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SeaTea @tierno158.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
See it now at your local Drive-In!
A movie poster from the creature from the  Black lagoon renamed the creature from the reflecting pool
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Sunsong23 @sunsong23.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
"Bradley Cooper is starring in a major Hollywood film about January 6th directed by Sean Penn. The officers who were beaten that day are going to have their stories told to millions of people. Justice cmes in many forms. This is one of them." Really American
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Augusta Savage,  Gamin, ca. 1929, The sculptor was a pivotal figure of the Harlem Renaissance #WomensArt
Sculture, a bust in bronze of a young Black boy in a shirt and cap worn at an angle, all against a white background
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Searchlight magazine @searchlightmag.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
From Belfast to Glasgow to Brighton, anti-fascist demonstrators flooded the streets today as the recent racist riots galvanised a mass response across Britain. Read more here: searchlightmagazine.com/2026/06/belf...
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Belfast pogrom and Southampton riot galvanise anti-fascist movement as thousands rally across Britain | Searchlight
From Belfast to Glasgow to Brighton, anti-fascist demonstrators flooded the streets today as the recent racist riots galvanised a mass response across Britain
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Matt McDaniel @themattmcd.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Remembering Gene Wilder, born on this day in 1933, with his unforgettable role as Jim (but most people call him... "Jim") in Mel Brooks's BLAZING SADDLES on Pluto TV: pluto.tv/us/on-demand...
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
NO 👇 LIES DETECTED.......
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Democrats are so diabolical and ingenious at rigging elections that Republicans control the presidency, house and senate.
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Neil Evans @neilevanshistory.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Absolutely. He's been normalised for far too long.
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@dennis74.bsky.social @dennis74.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Agreed
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Daily Herald #FBPE #NAFO 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇱 @dailyherald.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Hi Nigel Farage, now you’ve decided to do media again, tell us about the £5m.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
“Exploiting this tragedy to create grievance and division would be wrong in any circumstances but to do it when the family are expressly saying please don’t is unforgivable. It shows exactly who he is” Keir Starmer responds to Nigel Farage at #PMQs
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Just noting that when Sarah Everard was kidnapped and murdered by a police officer and a vigil held for her on Clapham Common, Farage urged people not to attack men or the police.
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Sunkissed Peaks @sunkissedpeaks.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
It’s really frightening.
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𝚼𝖆𝖑𝖉𝖆 @yal-da.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Zahra Shahbaz Tabari, a 68-year-old political prisoner, has once again been sentenced to death. Silence helps executions. Be her voice. #StopExecutionsInIran #NoDeathPenalty
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Neil Evans @neilevanshistory.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Cardiff Uni wants to scrap the 2nd floor of the Arts and Social Studies Library. We're talking 7km of books and vital study space gone to make way for classrooms. Please help us save this crucial campus resource before it's ripped out in June! Add your name here: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
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Stop Cardiff University from scrapping the ASSL's second floor!
thousands of books and crucial study spaces are at risk. Cardiff Uni wants to repurpose the busiest library on campus into classrooms. Help protect our library and sign the petition today.
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Budha-Tang @budha-tang.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
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Joe Cozens @joecozens.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
200 years ago the handloom weavers of Lancashire and the West Riding of Yorkshire engaged in a 10-day rising, destroying over 1,100 power looms. To learn more check out our interactive StoryMap: storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/9a84... #19thCentury #skystorians @sslh.bsky.social @esriuk.bsky.social
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Witnessing the Weavers’ Rising of 1826
A digital mapping project created by The National Archives and The Open University
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Gary Gilligan @garygilligan.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...
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More questions surround Farage’s £5m gift after alleged Russian hack
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Tony Blair tells Radio 4 that the £257 million his institute has received from a billionaire AI investor has absolutely nothing to with his lobbying for the AI industry
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Because this country likes to forget what it’s capable of, I take it as a duty to remind us. We sit at the brink of the largest decimation of Black political power since the fall of Reconstruction — a Second Redemption. And the end of Black political power means the end of democracy itself.
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The Civil Rights Era Is Collapsing Before Our Eyes
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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
🚨🚨Breaking: @bsky.app Says #Kremlin Is Hacking Its Platform to Spread Propaganda. The company said it was fighting Russian efforts to hijack real users’ accounts to post fake content, an apparently novel tactic. 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/b...
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Bluesky Says Kremlin Is Hacking Its Platform to Spread Propaganda
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 21/05/2026
The Society's President and Council have released the following statement on the proposed closure of undergraduate degrees at the University of Hertfordshire, in #History and the wider humanities bit.ly/4dmV5oO This comes at a time of further bad news from Essex and Nottingham #Skystorians
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History and the humanities at the University of Hertfordshire – a statement from the Royal Historical Society - RHS
Even for those familiar with bleak times, this has been a particularly bad few weeks in UK higher education. Confirmed job losses at the University of Essex were followed by further bad news from Hert...
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Neil Evans @neilevanshistory.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Effective tax rate paid by Jeff Bezos from 2014 to 2018: 0.98% Effective 2025 federal tax rate paid by Amazon: 1.4% Typical tax rate paid by the average American: 14.5% Just thought I should point that out.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 16/05/2026
‼️THE SOUTH WILL NOT BE SILENCED‼️ Today’s march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge is a reminder that voting rights were paid for in blood. And now those same rights are under attack again. Next: Montgomery #AllRoadsLeadToTheSouth
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
If Starmer was any good at politics (which he isn't), he could use this – very loudly and publicly – to further clamp down on all foreign donations to any party or member of parliament/the Lords.
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Democracy Forward @democracyforward.org · 16/05/2026
We’re joining the All Roads Lead to the South coalition in Alabama today to show that We the People will not allow a Jim Crow 2.0. Today’s march is a powerful reminder: courage and community are how we will get through this. WATCH: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkAh...
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All Roads Lead To the South: Nat’l Day Of Action For Voting Rights | Selma AL
YouTube video by Roland S. Martin
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Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts @elliemackinroberts.net · 13/05/2026
As a disabled immigrant with a trans kid I feel confident saying with my full chest: fuck Wes Streeting.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
If Streeting is the answer, Labour hasn't understood the question.
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Naida46 @naida46.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Trump orders federal agencies to buy only American goods, vows strict enforcement mezha.net/eng/bukvy/3d...
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
How it’s going How it’s going to go
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Ⓜ️uumi ✖️ McBob 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🇳🇱 3.5% 🐟 - Antifa 💚❤️ @muumi-tweets.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Happy #EuropeDay
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Perfect
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Dovewoman 💙 🇺🇦 💙 @dovewoman.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Below is the person who coined the term “Sleepy Joe” …
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
I got to meet the Kimberlé Crenshaw and you should buy her book backtalker
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joycelynngarrett, phd @jlg1017.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
'Farage has pulled out of Kuenssberg' is a mental image I don't think any of us needed.
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Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼‍♂️😉 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
As concerns mount at BBC that have lost the man they promote as the PM In Waiting, they pressure Police to broaden their Search for Nigel Farage Who mysteriously went missing shortly before he was due to appear on the Laura Kuenssberg show this morning to face Polanski and Badenoch.. 🐔🐔
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
We must stand in solidarity with Jews being attacked by antisemitic criminals and terrorists: no ifs or buts. We must stand in solidarity with Palestinians being murdered by the Israeli government: no ifs or buts. These are not contradictory positions. They are consistent ones. 🧵1/5
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Neil Evans @neilevanshistory.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Fair play. Farage was such an attentive and hard working member of the Fisheries Committee.
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Huw Marshall 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @huwmarshall.substack.com · 30/04/2026
So Reforms pitch to voters in Wales is "vote Reform, get Starmer out". If you ever wanted confirmation that the Senedd and Holyrood are stepping stones to Westminster tonight's party election broadcast proved that. A shot of Tenby and some dragon soft toys in a shop window.. yeah Reform really care
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