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Rachel Herrmann @raherrmann.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

There should be a third panel evidencing her rage

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 29/09/2026

Submissions are now invited for the Society's 2027 First Book and Early Career Article Prizes - covering monographs and articles published in 2026 bit.ly/4z45bD8 The closing date for submissions is 14 December 2026. Judging begins in early 2027 with winners announced next July #Skystorians 1/2

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Royal Historical Society Book and Article Prizes, 2027: submissions now invited - RHS

The Royal Historical Society invites applications for its First Book Prize, 2027 and Early Career Article Prize, 2027. The call for submissions opened on Monday 28 September 2026 and runs to Monday 14...

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Rob Cottingham @robcottingham.ca · 02/10/2026

You’re surrounded by boozers, misfits and losers And down seven goals at the half Your ammo is spent and you can’t find Roy Kent You’re fucked so you might as well laugh

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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

AAAHHHHHHHHHHHH

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Rachel Herrmann @raherrmann.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If the kitten were to make biscuits I think I’d need to call them ruff fluff because he is floofing up for colder times

Paz Trilliam Purrmann leaning back with his neck fluff going up his nose. Paz’s blue eyes are lazily open

Paz on a blue and light blue duvet, looking very fluffy

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Dr. Jonathan Schroden @jjschroden.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Secretary of War Pete Hegseth Signs Directive Halting Tenured Civilian Positions at U.S. Military Service Academies" www.war.gov/News/Release...

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

would anyone from a non elite college like to write about this for Contingent because you know we would publish it

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Rachel Herrmann @raherrmann.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Team, it finally happened: I went to add an article to my panic-download folder, only to find that Past Rachel already downloaded it.

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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

ImPRESSed Yet? I am thrilled to announce that Impressive Textiles: Premodern Printing on Fabric will be published October 27 in print and Open Access with @acmrs.bsky.social, thanks to 30 textile and print scholars, and 1 groundbreaking exhibition @newberrylibrary.bsky.social! #CoverReveal 1/5

Cover art for Impressive Textiles: Premodern Printing on Fabric!

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Rachel Herrmann @raherrmann.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Gonna be such a good footnote tho

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Tom Cutterham @tomcutterham.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Why isn't one of the broken mugs here (in this Guardian cartoon) the famous "Controls on Immigration" one? Or is that not a slogan Burnham fans are prepared to say was bad?

A political cartoon from The Guardian showing a pile of broken mugs, with slogans on them saying "NI rise," "Doom & Gloom," "Two-child cap" and "Winter fuel cut" (all references to bad Starmer policies), and on top an intact mug with steam rising from it, an image of Andy Burnham and the word "Hope".

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Rachel Herrmann @raherrmann.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

In all fairness it would have been a great alternative title for Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs

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Prof. Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Yep and couple that with the h1b visa costs and higher ed international profs aren’t coming either

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Rachel Herrmann @raherrmann.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The UK and its hostile environment is not doing what it could to do better, either!

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Girl dinner

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Rachel Herrmann @raherrmann.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It will always and forever be the essay I got explaining the evolution of colonial Vagina into a slave society

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Liz Covart @lizcovart.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I’m teaching a workshop this weekend about how historians research. #Skystorians, what are your favorite or most important research tips and tricks? What is your favorite method for finding archives and archival material?

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Rachel Herrmann @raherrmann.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"Untied States" and every possible variation of "Mississippi"

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If anyone has reading they'd recommend on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Mombasa, I'm all ears!

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Rachel Herrmann @raherrmann.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

And definitely for sure have a strong numbering system! 🤣

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Rachel Herrmann @raherrmann.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

1) Bring layers 2) Wear pockets 3) Check registration requirements and come with the right documents 5) Go in with a system for keeping track of notes and photos taken 6) Stop and drink water 7) Always call up the miscellaneous folder

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Esther Wright @enwright.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This November we’re hosting a free interactive discussion event as part of Cardiff Univeristy’s @beinghumanfest.bsky.social! Come for history&games, stay for @chriskempshall.bsky.social & @hollynielsen.bsky.social saying excellent things! (I will be there too..) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fact-versu...

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Fact versus Fiction in the Gaming World

A free interactive discussion panel to explore and imagine historical video games

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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It’s nice to have my work corroborated by another DNA test. What is also deeply gratifying is the vindication of Madison Hemings, Israel (Gillette) Jefferson who spoke of TJ and SH, & Fawn Brodie, who put the men’s recollections in her TJ bio that I read at 14 and got me started on this journey.

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Rachel Herrmann @raherrmann.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I suppose "murie sing, nightingale" was too mid-

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Rachel Herrmann @raherrmann.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"1943105 search old fields but also trees, hickory, wtf do arch think are are garden veg" is a fun to-do list for Future Me

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Rachel Herrmann @raherrmann.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Future Rachel is choosing violence by adding PDFs to my panic download folder and re-titling them with the questions she hopes they'll answer

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Eli Kahn 🏳️‍🌈 @elikahn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“Money for Death Stars But None for Railings: Why the Imperial Fleet Overspends on Capital Projects at the Expense of Operations”

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Contemporary political cartoon by Guy Venables ... #satire #politics #history

Three dictators in US, Russia, and China seek to divide the world.

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

James Gillray: The Plumb-pudding in danger, or, State Epicures taking un Petit Souper (1805). Caricatures of the British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger and the newly crowned Emperor of France Napoleon. 1/2 #satire #politics #history

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 21/09/2026

This is surprising and welcomed news

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Rachel Herrmann @raherrmann.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Why was I always suffering, always browbeaten, always accused, for ever condemned? Why could I never please? Why was it useless to try to win any one's favour? Eliza, who was headstrong and selfish, was respected.

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

📢🚨😮 well, what do you know, the search is finally over ...

Handwritten lines that read 'I give unto my said Son Abraham Norden my Library and all my Books and the ark with the Written Laws of Moses'.

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Rachel Herrmann @raherrmann.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

She looks like the best girl/best flexible menace 😻

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Rachel Herrmann @raherrmann.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

An absolute trip menace on the stairs

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Rachel Herrmann @raherrmann.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Paz Purrmann finds your cat’s strategy acceptable

Paz Purrmann sitting in the garden surrounded by yellowing dogwood leaves and silvery bedding plants

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Rachel Herrmann @raherrmann.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Not going to lie...I opened SOLO real fast to see if I needed anything

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Patrick Osgood @patrickosgood.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Wife and I are about to cough up her second round of visa and NHS surcharges. £4,000. She works full time, paying into the system twice over. The application process is, once again, extraordinarily demanding and overtly hostile. This must be an extremely stressful burden on lower income households

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Rachel Herrmann @raherrmann.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I think the ideal option is to treat this as a cat would; so you apologize by bringing cat either a dead mouse/rat OR their favorite toy--up to you!

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"Of course I miss the water, but at least I don't have to think for myself anymore ..." #HigherEd #EduSky #Edtech #PhdChat #learning#datacentre #AI

LARGE DESERT DATA CENTRE BUILDING. "Of course I miss the water, but at least I don't have to think for myself anymore ..."

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 20/09/2026

ICE has again shot someone.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

'Leaders in the region are hoping the UK would agree to targeted and constructive negotiation talks at upcoming Commonwealth and UN summits, but they are ready to take the matter to international courts if Britain continues to resist diplomatic options.'

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Caribbean nations draft action plan to push UK to redress reparations over slavery

Leaders hope UK will agree to targeted discussions around reparatory justice, but could consider legal options if Britain resists

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