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Noor Hashmi (she/her) @noorhashmi.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

This two-week detox from Bluesky was very much needed. But I’m back to annoy you all now! 🥳🥳

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Noor Hashmi (she/her) @noorhashmi.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I’m patiently waiting for the update 😂

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Noor Hashmi (she/her) @noorhashmi.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Ahh, I forgot about the long commute! I don’t know how you do it @davidveevers.bsky.social ! I recently took a trip to Battle Abbey and that journey finished me off 🙃 and I’m supposed to be one of the young ones 🙈

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Noor Hashmi (she/her) @noorhashmi.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Or get them sent to a work address 🫣🤣

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Noor Hashmi (she/her) @noorhashmi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

You are icons though! 🤣 You absolutely don’t owe me anything - take your time! ❤️ I’ll be there for the UK book tour 🙌🏻

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Noor Hashmi (she/her) @noorhashmi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Guys, I’m not okay! 🤯🤯 Two absolute icons🙌🏻

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm thrilled to announce that I'll be doing a "soft launch" in Edinburgh on October 14! Get your hands on SLEUTH-HOUND before it's officially out in the city where the story took place! I'll be in conversation with @anatomicalcat.bsky.social! Tickets here: www.toppingbooks.co.uk/events/edinb...

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Lindsey Fitzharris for Sleuth-Hound: The Case of the Real Sherlock Holmes at Edinburgh New Town Church

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Noor Hashmi (she/her) @noorhashmi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Happy birthday!! 🥳🥳 I hope you had a fabulous day💌

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Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The Wreck of The Gloucester: A Seventeenth-Century Warship Through Time, edited by @benjaminredding.bsky.social & moi is now advertised from @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social boydellandbrewer.com/book/the-wre... 23 original essays & 150 illustrations Available to preorder in January & out 30 March 2027

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Noor Hashmi (she/her) @noorhashmi.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Haha, well, if Ms B*denoch doesn’t count that as sufficient commitment to Blighty, you can always fall back on being 1/4 Mancunian (which I’d argue is another identity in itself 🐝)

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Noor Hashmi (she/her) @noorhashmi.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Interesting family history, Lou! his Englishness was clearly still valued on the other side of the Atlantic, so he was showing his commitment to the people, just elsewhere

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Noor Hashmi (she/her) @noorhashmi.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

That makes you part Mancunian then, ‘r kid! 😉🐝

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Noor Hashmi (she/her) @noorhashmi.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

To her, Britishness is about a “commitment to a country and the people in it”- they’d surely have fulfilled that requirement before departing ‘Beloved Blighty’

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Noor Hashmi (she/her) @noorhashmi.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Oh Lou! Everyone knows that the English/British early modernists (myself included!) are better than the ‘Muricans 👀🤣

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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My old boss has asked me to give his new book a social media bump, because he has wisely chosen never to set up his own account! So I’m happy to announce that ‘Britain’s Slave Traders: A Hidden History’ is available today in all good bookshops! www.penguin.co.uk/books/460026...

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Ali Messer @freereed59.net · 22/09/2026

'the archive creates possibilities extending beyond Britain and the Caribbean.Migration and the forced movement of people under enslavement mean descendants can be found across the African diaspora, including in the US and Latin America.' Ancestry account required www.theguardian.com/news/2026/se...

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Nearly 4m records of enslaved people in 20 former British colonies now searchable online

Exclusive: Collection’s 300,000 pages record lives of enslaved people in countries including the Bahamas, Barbados, Jamaica, Mauritius, South Africa and Trinidad

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Noor Hashmi (she/her) @noorhashmi.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Sorry to disappoint those who will be watching the BBC Two documentary ‘Finding Britain’s Slave Traders’ tonight - I’m not featured in it 🤷🏻‍♀️ Obviously my invite got lost in the post (just kidding…unless 👀)

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Noor Hashmi (she/her) @noorhashmi.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Young?! What does that make me then? 🤣

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Noor Hashmi (she/her) @noorhashmi.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Now I’m definitely lost🤣 I’m gonna Google it!

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Noor Hashmi (she/her) @noorhashmi.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I was very little in 2004, how am I supposed to remember the ancient technology of the time? 🙃

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Noor Hashmi (she/her) @noorhashmi.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

What’s a VHS tape? 🤣 and ‘old’ - I wouldn’t let @roperlou.bsky.social hear you say that 👀

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Noor Hashmi (she/her) @noorhashmi.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Deal! 🤣🤝 when’s the book coming out?

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Noor Hashmi (she/her) @noorhashmi.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Nooo, you absolutely don’t have to do that!! 😭 I’d be more than happy to buy a copy, but that’s so kind of you to offer 🥹

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Noor Hashmi (she/her) @noorhashmi.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Oh I will be the first one in Waterstones Manchester to buy this! 👀

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Noor Hashmi (she/her) @noorhashmi.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Those were the exact words that came out of my mouth 😂

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Noor Hashmi (she/her) @noorhashmi.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I did ask him to share his research so we could have a debate about his work too. He ran away 👀

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Noor Hashmi (she/her) @noorhashmi.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Yes! There are so many places that have links to slavery, it’s impossible to formulate a comprehensive list that includes all of them within the character limit. My research focuses on Manchester’s links to slavery, which seems to have caused a bit of an uproar (see previous posts). Hence this post

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Noor Hashmi (she/her) @noorhashmi.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Of course - but they have the more obvious links to slavery that people tend to know about. My point was about (most) inner cities that people think are completely innocent, but actually have more links to slavery than they realise.

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Noor Hashmi (she/her) @noorhashmi.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Exactly that! 🤦🏻‍♀️ And “you might find my comment challenging” Erm, I don’t - what now?

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Noor Hashmi (she/her) @noorhashmi.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I think that’s probably the best way to go about it. It’s unlike anything I’ve ever experienced before though, and it all seems a bit loud. But I know this is the harsh reality for most Global Majority academics, because there’s nothing that will actually stop this.

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Noor Hashmi (she/her) @noorhashmi.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

She deleted her original comment which was “maybe you should focus on Islamic slavery and the fact that it’s still ongoing!” She assumed I’m a Muslim right off the bat (I’m not), but when I corrected her about modern slavery, she continued with her Islamophobic agenda.

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Noor Hashmi (she/her) @noorhashmi.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

That’s exactly it 🙄 ‘Where are you from?’ followed by ‘no, where is your family from?’ when they don’t get the answer they were expecting. I play with it now, and say I’m from Manchester (which is true). They’ll try and push for an alternative answer, but there isn’t really one.

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Noor Hashmi (she/her) @noorhashmi.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Ahh thanks for that! I’ve changed it now 😊

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Noor Hashmi (she/her) @noorhashmi.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

My reaction exactly, Lou! 🤦🏻‍♀️

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Noor Hashmi (she/her) @noorhashmi.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

It’s actually the second time he’s asked me that! I didn’t answer thr first time round either so I know exactly why he’s asking it.

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Noor Hashmi (she/her) @noorhashmi.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

At first, I thought that it was just me being academically challenged by another alleged academic (which I do welcome!) But that’s twice now he’s asked me where my grandparents are from, and twice where I’ve refused to answer. I’m a born and raised Mancunian, but clearly that’s not enough 👀

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Noor Hashmi (she/her) @noorhashmi.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Thanks, Matt! I’m definitely going to keep pushing, even when it feels like I’m banging my head against a brick wall! I just hope that, somewhere along the way, I can make space for people like me too.

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Noor Hashmi (she/her) @noorhashmi.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I’ve also been told constantly that book publishers look at your following🙃🙃 but I’m yet to see a working-class historian go viral

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Noor Hashmi (she/her) @noorhashmi.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I’m a Global Majority historian who is a working-class northerner. I’m TIRED of the lack of representation in academia and broadcasting media. I wanna do a PhD. I wanna write a book. I want to be a presenter. And having that following opens doors, but at what cost?

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Noor Hashmi (she/her) @noorhashmi.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

There are so many layers to this! I have to speak out about things, and I’ll always be my authentic self irl and online. But it’s depressing when I’m trying to cut through the noise, and the historians getting traction on socials are white upper-class individuals (mostly women) 🙃

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Noor Hashmi (she/her) @noorhashmi.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I never want to be known as a History influencer or content creator…ever. I’m a historian. But my following has taken a massive hit since I spoke about Jason Arday publicly. And I’m honestly okay with that. I won’t compromise my morals or values in exchange for a mass following and brand deals 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Noor Hashmi (she/her) @noorhashmi.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I’m not cut out for the cool History content creator/influencer life. I can’t let things lie and will challenge everything, especially where racism, xenophobia, homophobia, transphobia, Islamophobia etc is concerned. I’ll never be one who stands back and doesn’t call out genocides.

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Oh, and enjoy the blooper halfway through the video! I resisted editing it out. My dad thinks people are sick of slick videos with the rise of AI slop. So... I kept it in for comic relief, and to show ... I'm really not at all polished on camera. 😂

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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I have a piece out in the new edition of History Today, discussing an unacknowledged anniversary of the first enslaved people to be sent to England’s first Caribbean colony in 1626 and what this means for slavery heritage and reckoning with colonial pasts. www.historytoday.com/history-toda...

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Noor Hashmi (she/her) @noorhashmi.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Growing up, we were constantly told that “Wikipedia is not a reliable source” and “You can’t believe everything you read online!” How did everyone go from that to using Artificial Insanity?! 🤦🏻‍♀️

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