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Let’s see if the Gazette send the full thing 🤞🏼

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*adds to list* Good to hear as she in 1923, following Gray at Glastonbury in 1917, was definitely doing early archaeological science.

Strange isn’t it, given it was their museum. If (if) W. Cunnington and ALFPR archives are there, then she’d have likely followed suit.

Thanks, Martyn. I wonder where it all went.

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That would be a Stage 2. More than plenty for this book just looking at her published Iron Age work.

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That would be a Stage 2. More than plenty for this book just looking at her published Iron Age work.

Extraordinarily so. She’s pointing to prehistory as different in 1932. I should probably transcribe it in full, given how tricky it’s been to find.

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I’ve found Maud Cunnington’s presidential address! Well, actually a wonderful lady in Swindon Council has. And it was worth the hunt. In 1932, Maud is talking about the movement and repurposing of Iron Age human bones.

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When I told my mum about Mary Astell she said, “Her father was a Hostman though, natural enemy of the Keelmen”. 17th century family / class disputes still alive in NE women 💪🏼

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Shepherds: Getting down off the tops.

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Nathaniel Comfort @nccomfort.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

What an absolute stunner (no filter). You know what it means mind.

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Exciting new historical work on Rosalind Franklin continues to appear. This is a neat bit of sleuthing by historian @alistairsponsel.bsky.social and crystallographer Brian Sutton. Here's the DOI to the actual article (it's OA): 10.1007/s10739-026-09866-7 The main finding is an x-ray image of exactly

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Yes =50% in general (but not by then achieved in subjects like Engineering)

It’s been a very long project. But in places it’s only 2000 years old.

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Shutting out 50% of your intellectual resource from the professions, whilst instead promoting second-rate thinkers into that gap, certainly doesn’t make good economic sense.

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Mary Astell first suggested higher education for women in 1694. Emily Davies petitioned Cambridge for access in 1866. Equal access to HE was finally achieved in 1995. Three bloody centuries.

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The Jarrow Crusade, in which 200 unemployed men marched to London calling for government intervention to restore jobs, began on this day 1936. Unsuccessful at the time, but helped to shape postwar attitudes to employment and social justice.

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It’s time to start teaching on masculinity. Readers in social theory, who are your favourite British scholars on the topic?

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 04/10/2026

These groups of literary women just keep extending back in time

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A 3,500-year-old Bronze Age landscape near Peterborough is in a race against time. Flag Fen’s waterlogged archaeology is threatened as peat dries out. Now £700,000 will fund urgent excavation and conservation.

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Funding secured to unlock the secrets of Bronze Age Flag Fen

A major new excavation at Flag Fen Archaeology Park near Peterborough will investigate one of Britain’s most important Bronze Age sites

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How didn’t I know about Mary Astell (don’t worry it’s rhetorical): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_As...

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Mary Astell - Wikipedia

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Keelman stock here - I guess we knew what to do on the water!

Just as Thatcher’s mob did. They genuinely don’t care how many lives they end. Let the bodies pile high. Tories aren’t right in the head.

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