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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

800 words please on why this proves the Labour and Conservative strategy to primarily target Reform voters is working perfectly.

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Dr Nicole Willson @nlwillson.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

TFW you wake up with the “thousand pies” song in your head from Octonauts and the Great Barrier Reef.

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Dr Nicole Willson @nlwillson.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Going to hospital four times in two weeks is four times too many.

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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

In the 1950s-60s, British fascists, such as Oswald Mosley, were invited to speak at various university campuses. They used these invitations to portray themselves as part of a legitimate debate (while also courting infamy), but their speeches were often opposed. hatfulofhistory.com/2021/06/06/w...

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When the fascists went to university (and the campaigns to keep them out)

Recently there have been several mentions of Oswald Mosley being invited to speak at universities in the early 1960s. One from a piece in The Times opining for the ‘lost days of campus free s…

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TheParisAngel @theparisangel.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

I mean, call me a Loony Lefty if you want, but it *is* starting to look a bit weird arresting disabled pensioners protesting peacefully one day and telling coked up bellends attacking you to “calm down” another day the same month. Obviously, just my opinion. I might have got it wrong.

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Today people went around my neighborhood in north east London spray painting St George’s crosses onto people’s homes. Many of these houses have non British people living in them. This is getting very dark, very quick.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

UCL, Kings and LSE are so close you can walk between all three without finishing your coffee. Which one of you is closing your history department then, lads?

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Dr Nicole Willson @nlwillson.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Can anyone on here recommend an audio transcription platform (I don’t mind it not being free but don’t have a budget for a person to do it right now, because the audio is 1h long and that would be £££) that transcribes in Haitian Kreyòl?

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Dr Nicole Willson @nlwillson.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

What a wild week. In and out of A&E and urgent care with a fractured leg and suspected thrombosis. I would say “stick a fork in me, I’m done”, but please don’t as I am now on blood thinners.

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Again and again the press runs these numbers, and again and again they fail to point out that the foreign-born prison population is LOWER than the native-born, proportionally. Because if they stated that basic fact, they wouldn't have a story, because the only story they want is "racism is right".

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Today’s Labour think their job is to hold the public to account, down to whether we want watch porn anonymously and what toilets we use, and can’t let our desire for health and safety and decent wages and a pleasant environment get in the way of shareholder profits. Sad people!

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Dr Nicole Willson @nlwillson.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Whew. Just got round to watching @mehdirhasan.bsky.social’s Jubilee debate with ultra-conservatives and outright fascists. I need to add his book on debating to my growing pile of unread books…!

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Dr Nicole Willson @nlwillson.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

This is amazing. Lela is such an incredible artist whose work engages us to reckon with and recognise our rich and diverse history in Britain.

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Dr. Steph Chancy @chancyms.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

So pleased to have a role in this exciting project. Even happier to once more work with @nlwillson.bsky.social (sister from another mother). Our last confab, Rasanblaj Fanm, created a thriving community that remains in contact 1 year later. We have a pretty good track record!

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Dr Nicole Willson @nlwillson.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

NEWS KLAXON 📢📢📢 I’m delighted to announce that I’ve been awarded a major AHRC Catalyst award for my project “Building a Black Nation: Haitian Dynasties of the (Long) Nineteenth Century”.

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Dr Nicole Willson @nlwillson.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

A hugely welcome solidarity statement on Palestine from @haitisupportgroup.bsky.social: haitisupportgroup.org/haiti-suppor...

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Dr Nicole Willson @nlwillson.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Not sure what’s going on with my hand in that pic 😆 but it was a really wonderful and generative meeting in these bleak times.

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Universal basic income works; giving homeless people a place to live works; treating the sick works; paying decent wages works; welcoming refugees works; decriminalisation of drugs and sex-work works. All these things work in the real world. Just not in conservative imaginations.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

All famines are man-made, all famines are political. Historians of empire and humanitarianism have known this forever. Gaza is not starving, Gaza is being starved, by Israel, and this starvation is enabled by our government and by every other government that does not step in to force food and aid.

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Haiti Support Group @haitisupportgroup.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Like many, we were devastated by the loss of the Oloffson. Please help us remember Haiti’s cultural, musical, artistic, literary & intellectual hub in a positive light by sharing your happy memories of a time well spent while staying at/visiting the hotel. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/w...

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A Hotel Made Famous by Graham Greene Is a Victim of Haiti’s Violence

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Jeff Abbott @palabrasdeabajo.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Here are some of the photos from my archive from 2010 and 2011. I think often about how this hotel was kind of tied to my dream of becoming a journalist, which began after reading Amy Wilentz's book, The Rainy Season.

The Voodoo Iwa Baron Samedi greeted everyone who came to the hotel

The famous bar where you could meet anyone from Haitian politics, the UN, aid orgs, journalists, or celebrities like Jimmy Buffet or the some of Ernest Hemingway (who I met in 2011)

Some rooms of the legendary hotel, where the English author Graham Greene set his book The Comedians

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laurarosew.bsky.social @laurarosew.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

I was never a regular but I still have so many memories. The Oloffson is where I was drinking a ji grenadya when I heard Duvalier was back in Haiti. It's where I earned the worst hangover of my life. It's where I met countless friends and heard countless stories.

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Dr Nicole Willson @nlwillson.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

There’s nothing that isn’t heartbreaking about this, but the power of memory is really profound, and it’s really heartening in this moment to hear people sharing their memories of the Oloffson.

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Carla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Are Starmer and Reeves finally about to take their heads out of the sand and admit that taxing wealth fairly is a much better idea than cutting support for disabled people?

Screenshot of a headline reading 'No 10 and Treasury refuse to rule out wealth tax', accompanied by an image of Darren Jones, chief Secretary to the Treasury

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New Voices in Postcolonial Literature Network @nvpoco.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Introducing the "American Dream/American Nightmare" conference speakers! Our first panel of the in-person day is on the theme "Along State Lines: Nation and Nationalism, Borders, and Changing Territories/Landscapes" and will feature Dr Ananya Mishra (QMUL)...

Ananya Mishra (she/her) is a Lecturer in Global Race Studies at the Department of English in School of the Arts, Queen Mary University of London. She is currently working on her monograph Evidentiary Literatures: Refusal and Resurgence in Global Indigenous Texts. Her recent publications include a reflective paper titled “‘Jami Chadiba Nahin: We Will Not Leave this Land’: Materiality and Imagination in Indigenous Land Ethics” in British Association of American Studies (BAAS) special issue in New Area Studies, Vol. 4.3 (2024), and a co-written chapter titled “Common Worlds and Common Words in Lionel Fogarty’s India Poems” in Lionel Fogarty’s Poetry and Politics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025).

Dr Shelley Angelie Saggar (they/she) is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of English and Creative Writing at Goldsmiths, University of London. They are researching Choctaw and Irish (hi)stories of culinary migration and sustenance as part of the AHRC-funded 'Sharing Lands: Reconciliation, Recognition & Reciprocity' project. Their research examines the intersections between Indigenous literary studies and museum practice, taking an interdisciplinary approach with the aim of bridging these fields. Shelley's wider research interests include Fourth Cinema, environmental heritage and museum studies. Their work has been published in the Journal of Postcolonial Writing, the Journal of Museum Ethnography and ART HX.
X/Twitter: @j4lebi/@thechoctawtgift
IG: @sharing_lands
Bluesky: @sharinglands.bsky.social
Web: https://sharinglands.com/

am originally from Cuttack, Odisha. I completed my B.Sc. in Zoology from Rama Devi Women’s University, Bhubaneswar, and subsequently earned an M.A. in English Literature from Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi. After qualifying for the UGC NET-JRF, I joined the Department of English at Rama Devi Women’s University as a Ph.D. scholar in 2024. My research focuses on Intersectionality in the life writings of non-white American Women Celebrities. My academic interests lie at the intersection of life writing, migration studies, postcolonial identity, and celebrity studies.
Outside of my research, I enjoy travelling and gardening.

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

"A 17-year-old boy who was walking with two teenage girls in the city center laughed when asked about right-wing extremism at their school. "Hitler is glorified big time!" they said, adding that the Hitler salute is now a regular part of their school life."

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

"It’s created such wreckage to have implied that history and humanities are luxury goods, rather than essential services... more to the point, the idea that only science really matters has been enormously destructive." There is no research infrastructure without a full research infrastructure.

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

“I promise you, it would have been a war crime.” that’s what Alejandro Barranco told me what would have happened if he treated a detainee when he was deployed to Afghanistan with the Marines like federal agents treated his father.

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Dr Nicole Willson @nlwillson.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

It was a real pleasure yesterday to meet Laurent Saint-Cyr, a member of Haiti's Transitional Presidential Council, at the Haitian Embassy in London yesterday. I hope the discussions he had with members of the dyaspora will prove generative for Haiti #ayiti

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Thomas Peace @tpcanoe.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

This has been the case for a long time, especially with history (at least since the early 1990s). Historians are highly engaged with the public, but you wouldn’t know it, if you listen to the political class & media pundits. #cdnhist #cdnpoli #cdnmedia

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Dr Nicole Willson @nlwillson.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Really keen to know if anyone in the @danfrancis02.bsky.social team deals with these comms on Bluesky, via email or elsewhere, or whether the policy is just to completely ghost constituents now?

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Dr Nicole Willson @nlwillson.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Just putting this out there again. Grateful to have a network of teacher followers on the other site but I’d be keen to know if there are any on here with whom I haven’t yet connected?

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Dr Nicole Willson @nlwillson.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Where are my school history teachers at (UK, US, Haiti)? Please @ me. I'm working on something that I'd love for you to be involved in!

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Dr Nicole Willson @nlwillson.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

This has been at the forefront of my mind as it opens a window to his family life watching the Netflix Senna drama. The documentary centred more on the politics of F1 and how Senna gave back, which is amazing but of course he was able to do it all in the first place because of family wealth.

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Dr Nicole Willson @nlwillson.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

I take back all the bad things I ever said about the British Library cafe. This is what a £3.50 flat white looks like from Cambridge University Library tea room. 😭

Supposedly a flat white coffee served in a paper cup.

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Paul Clammer @paulclammer.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

🐋 Very sad to read this – just as humpback whales start to return to UK waters, they immediately find themselves at increased risk from human activity. www.scotsman.com/hays-way/hum...

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Humpback whale washes up on Scottish peninsula

It comes after two humpback whales were rescued from being entangled in rope off Skye

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Dr Nicole Willson @nlwillson.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

While you’re here…another important fundraiser to safeguard works by the Atis Rezistans collective: www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...

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Help raise £5500 to save Atis Rezistans art works

Iʼm raising money to save Atis Rezistans art works. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.

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