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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 · 13/10/2025

Off to a good start for me with violent stomach upset and food poisoning 🙃

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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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Dr Nicole Willson @nlwillson.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

I shudder at the very thought of it. What times we’re living through.

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Dr Nicole Willson @nlwillson.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

That’s awful. I hope your friend is okay. Solidarity and love to them.

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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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Dr Nicole Willson @nlwillson.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

My friend was travelling in from Bromley, where there was a flag waving maniac stood outside the station with a BB gun and accosting every black and brown person who passed him. She reported to BTP and they said they’d had hundreds of reports like hers.

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

With the recent news about Greenwich and Kent I think this is honestly what they think the solution is.

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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 · 12/09/2025

are more centred in these discussions? Not always the case of course, but I would think very much the case in this institutional example.

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

I guess in the context of the graffiti (a radical act of defiance/subversion done in isolation) there is no opportunity for dialogue about what might be wrong with its messaging (before that act has taken place). In the case of a cultural institution, there is, and ethics of care and community…

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

Thank you David. It never rains but it pours!

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

I’m not very good at looking after myself, I’m told!

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

Thanks Rebecca! Timing is terrible with the start of my new project, but when is there ever a good time for these things to happen?!

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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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Dr Nicole Willson @nlwillson.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Thank you Miranda!! Would love to have you involved!

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Dr Nicole Willson @nlwillson.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

😂 going to make this my auto reply.

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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 · 01/08/2025

Oooh this is out now!! Exciting!!!

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

Thank you for your lovely words, Jennie. Your work has always been such an inspiration to me. Go team regency dress!

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

Wow! Truly amazing. I love Lela’s work.

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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

Thank you so much, Jonathan. And thank you for all your support and advice!

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

❤️❤️❤️ continuing the trend of championing my work and pushing it forward 10 years on!!

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

Thanks Jenny, that really means a lot!

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

I would also be remiss not to mention @paulclammer.bsky.social who really started all of this 10 years ago when he shared a newspaper clipping with me! Paul is the root of all of my research endeavours and has been a dear friend and a guiding light over the years.

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

Thank you, Dave. It was so, so much work. It took it out of me. But I'm pumped and can't wait to get going!

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

I look forward to all the exciting and important conversations and collaborations over the next three years and beyond. An nou, zanmi m yo – li lè pou n mete tèt ansanm!

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

Finally, I wouldn’t have reached any stage in this process without my unofficial and unremunerated research assistant, life champion and husband, @julzpolz.bsky.social.

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

I’d also like to thank the project’s other supporters, donors and champions including Denis O'Brien, Joseph Guerdy Lissade, Isabelle Dupuy, Lord Leslie Griffiths, Guilaine Brutus, Wilford Marous, Michelet Romulus, Monette Etienne and @officialbaas.bsky.social.

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

I owe a debt of thanks to many people for making this happen, including M. Stephanie Chancy and @barlafuess.bsky.social, my dear friend Dawn Dublin and my UCLan colleagues Alan Rice, Raphael Hoermann and Yvonne Reddick (among others).

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

I am hugely excited to be teaming up once again with my longstanding partner in crime Dr M. Stephanie Chancy at @dlocaribbean.bsky.social, along with the wonderful folks at the Hastings Museum, the Eccles Institute, the Museo Enrico Caffi, George A Smathers Libraries and MUPANAH.

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

The dresses will be workshopped in collaboration with dyaspora creatives and African Atlantic fashion scholars and will travel to each exhibition site.

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