Reposted by Robert CulshawCharlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I’ve stopped giving a shit about critical thinking skills or any type of “employability” vector, I now pretty strongly believe the purpose of a degree is to learn about the subject you study in that degree, if my graduates leave their degree knowing about history then my job is done. 825325
Reposted by Robert CulshawSimon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social · 16/08/2024An American soldier helps French women harvest, Lucy-le-Bocage, 16 August 1918. Photograph by Lt P W Cloud, Signal Corps. catalog.archives.gov/id/55205299 #FWWHist #WW1 1276
Reposted by Robert CulshawSimpsonsQOTD @simpsonsqotd.bsky.social · 12/08/2026"A solar eclipse. The cosmic ballet goes on." 432399
Robert Culshaw @robertculshaw.bsky.social · 28/07/2026This looks absolutely Incredible! @kristinhussey.bsky.social @wellcometrust.bsky.social. 020
Reposted by Robert CulshawCharlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 27/07/2026… but it is always health care! It should be funded through the NHS we are always saying that we need to “protect” (at the moment the NHS is mostly “protected” by hiving off social care and discharging elderly people to private facilities asap to avoid “bed blocking” or other horrible synonyms) 1233
Reposted by Robert CulshawDr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 22/07/2026The crossover event of the summer! @robertculshaw.bsky.social had me join his ICU team day to give a workshop on 'Caring Intensively in Medieval English Writings', featuring the charm against a wen, a recipe for curing constipation, and Margery Kempe. 0191
Reposted by Robert CulshawAnaesthesia @anaesjournal.bsky.social · 22/07/2026A good death in intensive care "Increasingly, ICU is recognised not only as a place of rescue, but also as a place where compassion, dignity and comfort can be provided at the end of life." #AnSky #ICUSky #MedSky doi.org/10.1111/anae... 1106
Robert Culshaw @robertculshaw.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Keeping over a hundred DPhils in order during Saturday morning's graduation ceremony (feat. the 'Stick of Encouragement') @ox.ac.uk @bodleian.ox.ac.uk @burgonsociety.bsky.social. 030
Reposted by Robert CulshawSimon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social · 17/07/2026In 1918, the US Army adopted the French ‘Triage’ protocol for assessing & evacuating wounded. Arrival of wounded at Miomandre Hospital, Suippes, France #OTD 17 July 1918. Photo: Cpl R H Ingleston. Source: catalog.archives.gov/id/55192912 0184
Robert Culshaw @robertculshaw.bsky.social · 10/07/2026'"We felt this would be inappropriate,” the senior manager said.' Having been dragged through the stress of a 'process' that came to nothing myself, this is heartbreaking. UK Treasury must change disciplinary process after worker’s suicide, mother says www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.comUK Treasury must change disciplinary process after worker’s suicide, mother saysChloe Moffat, 26, killed herself day after meeting about anonymous complaint in which she was not allowed to bring a colleague 030
Reposted by Robert CulshawLeigh Jones @leighsus.bsky.social · 04/07/2026I have such an expertly curated algorithm that I'm seeing posts from Mexican street food restaurants in the US and this is how they're advertising the game tomorrow night. "Good vibes" 17107222609
Reposted by Robert CulshawDr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 02/07/2026I had not posted about it but as I am now earnestly grappling with it: I am writing another book for @bodleian.ox.ac.uk Bodleian Publishing, 'Tales of Horror from Medieval England'. Expect translated narratives of violence, sorcery, fearsome creatures, the undead, and the end times. 1418340
Robert Culshaw @robertculshaw.bsky.social · 25/06/2026And of course the day (and video) starts off with me posing to photo-bomb someone through the gates on Broad Street... @ox.ac.uk youtube.com/shorts/VtYu9...youtube.comEncaenia 2026 🎓 #oxforduniversityYouTube video by Hertford College, Oxford 010
Reposted by Robert CulshawDr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Alas, I am missing the @inscriptionjournal.bsky.social Issue 6: Cuts/Tears launch tonight, but my spirit is there as I celebrate a home! The latest issue has lots of ✂️cutting edge🔪 articles, and my piece 'Cut, Pasted and Pocketed: J.L. Carr’s Chaucer Pocketbook' inscriptionjournal.com/issue-6/ 1223
Reposted by Robert CulshawCharlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Palestine Action is not like the suffragettes, it’s true. Because one suffragette threw a hatchet at the prime minister, while another bombed the chancellor’s house. 11468185
Reposted by Robert CulshawDr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 31/05/2026Very flattered to have been nominated for a 'Transformation in Education' award as part of the Oxford Lifelong Learning Inspiring Excellence Awards. All credit to the fantastic Astrophoria Foundation Year students, whose commitment and enthusiasm are a continual inspiration. 2181
Robert Culshaw @robertculshaw.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Last night I was part way up to my shoulder in effluent, manually unclogging a bed pan masher. Happy #InternationalNursesDay. 141
Reposted by Robert CulshawCharlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 08/05/2026ITV News just vox-popped an older northern woman who said that she had switched from Labour to Reform because she was angry that illegal migrants were “getting hotels when British people can’t get hotels”. At some point Labour surely just has to say these people are completely politically illiterate 841198188
Reposted by Robert CulshawCharlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 09/05/2026this really does make me despair. this is a woman who has just got elected as a Reform councillor. she works for the NHS and wants to know “where the money is going”. it’s going on social care, babe 1522466477
Reposted by Robert CulshawDr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 03/05/2026Next Sunday I'll be giving an online lecture for The Last Tuesday Society on my @bodleian.ox.ac.uk book ✨Book Curses✨. I'll be talking about curses like that of John Wryghtson, which sits opposite some rather threatening illustrations of surgical instruments (Ox, St John's, MS 76, f. 5v). 13415
Reposted by Robert CulshawCharlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 01/05/2026a woman got v shirty with me when I pointed out dogs aren’t allowed in the play park — I might not have actually said anything if the dog hadn’t been off the lead and bothering picnickers — and I’m not thrilled about a summer ahead of me of insisting that yes, children are more important than dogs 91286
Robert Culshaw @robertculshaw.bsky.social · 02/04/2026Up there is @pixelatedboat.bsky.social's (I think) tweet response to 'how would you die in the 1800s' along the lines of 'blasting a railroad spoke through my skull to get me some of that Phineas Gage money'. 'mad Phineas Gage money' surprisingly regular addition to our vocabulary. 030
Reposted by Robert CulshawDr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 29/03/2026Absolutely, and if one would like some inspiration one could buy a book written by a human called Eleanor Baker.bodleianshop.co.ukBook CursesFeaturing some of the most ferocious and humorous book curses ever inscribed, this is a lively and engaging introduction to the history and development of bookish maledictions. Have you ever wanted t... 13815
Reposted by Robert CulshawJohn Bull @garius.bsky.social · 16/03/2026It is the anniversary of the My Lai massacre today. I'd say that even more than most years, it's important to remember what happened. And the role Hugh Thompson, an active serviceman, played in both stopping and publicising it. Despite enormous military, political and public pressure to stay quiet. 7161492956
Robert Culshaw @robertculshaw.bsky.social · 13/03/2026I realise I don't post on here much, you're not missing anything. However I turned up in a reel again @ox.ac.uk managing the doffing on the right-hand side. @burgonsociety.bsky.social @bodleian.ox.ac.uk . youtube.com/shorts/fthRh...youtube.comYou’ve just graduated from Oxford University 🎓 #OxfordUniversityYouTube video by University of Oxford 032
Reposted by Robert Culshawweeder @weeder.bsky.social · 01/02/2025Mustache guys are either no nonsense or 100% nonsense 461417176
Reposted by Robert CulshawDr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 12/03/2026I am looking forward to seeing my weird article on J. L. Carr's Chaucer Pocketbook in print in @inscriptionjournal.bsky.social. This was a very much a 'I like these but do not know why, so let's think through it' writing experiment. 2225
Reposted by Robert CulshawCharlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 18/02/2026I used to write a lot about this and I just got so… tired. It hasn’t changed, it never changes. 1537
Reposted by Robert Culshawʟɪɴᴇꜱ @lines.ink · 15/02/2026This is really sad. I just feel so despairing about this and the fact that this profound failure won't be recognised as such by most politicians. 316235
Reposted by Robert CulshawPaintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 11/02/2026'The Towpath', Maida Hill Tunnel (1912) by Christopher RW Nevinson (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford) 113324
Reposted by Robert CulshawDr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 07/02/2026It was a pleasure to talk to English teachers at the @engfacoutreach.bsky.social Teachers' Conference about the Humanities course/ English stream of the Astrophoria Foundation Year at Oxford 💙💜 042
Robert Culshaw @robertculshaw.bsky.social · 05/02/2026An illegal waste dump by an A Road in Oxford gets cleared, whilst one next to a primary school in one of the most deprived parts of Wigan...? On what is presumably the old Coal Board land, now 'owned by the Duchy of Lancaster'. Ah well you see, it's about the funds. 030
Reposted by Robert CulshawDr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 30/01/2026Outside the Level 2 Reading Room in @bodleian.ox.ac.uk there is a wellbeing display. Here are some it's little zines that genuinely made me smile. 417647
Reposted by Robert CulshawIntensive Care Society @ics-updates.bsky.social · 29/01/2026A failure of leadership. A failure of the system. Our response to the #CovidInquiry Report finds a "toxic" culture led to a profound ignorance of how the #NHSFrontline functions. Clinical expertise was side-lined at the cost of 23,000 lives. Read our full response: ow.ly/1yjB50Y5rsk #IntensiveCare 052
Reposted by Robert CulshawSimon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social · 07/01/2026#OTD An unknown Women's Army Auxiliary Corps Forewoman, 1918 or 19, inscribed: 'With love & best wishes N., France Jan. 7.' She displays her Forewoman's rank badge, blue & white Signal Service brassard, & private metal identity bracelet. From young me's WW1 photo collection. 112418
Reposted by Robert CulshawDr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 30/12/2025A couple of days ago @robertculshaw.bsky.social proposed and I said yes 🍂 5201
Reposted by Robert CulshawRobert Culshaw @robertculshaw.bsky.social · 23/12/2024As I prepare for the first of my Christmas night duties, have one of my favourite festive WWI postcards: little kittens, cottage loaves, and a rather concerned Turkey. Detail in the ALT. #HistNursing #HistMed 0133
Reposted by Robert CulshawCarla-Jean Stokes @carlajeanstokes.bsky.social · 20/12/2025A few more gems from David McLellan's days in the snow photographing British soldiers in 1917 (add these to the list of thousands of reasons why McLellan is my favourite war photographer of 1916-1918). 1203
Reposted by Robert CulshawRoyal College of Nursing Library and Museum @rcnlibraries.bsky.social · 17/12/2025This wartime guide, First Aid for First Aiders Or What’ll I do? by Herry Perry, mixes advice with comic rhymes and illustrations. Perry, a celebrated graphic artist, served as a Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) during the war and remained on the Register of Assistant Nurses after 1945. #ArtOfNursing 296
Robert Culshaw @robertculshaw.bsky.social · 13/12/2025When my new Staff Nurses in ICU ask about COVID. 010
Reposted by Robert CulshawPeter Yerbury @peteryerbury.bsky.social · 13/12/2025Completed to see our Article published! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @jodyedeox.bsky.socialonlinelibrary.wiley.comA Descriptive Evaluation of Evidence‐Based Rounds in Critical Care Using Mixed Data TypesObjectives To pilot and evaluate the implementation of a structured Evidence-Based Rounds (EBR) education model in critical care. Design A mixed data type design was used to evaluate Evidence-Base... 011
Reposted by Robert CulshawSimon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social · 10/12/2025This wonderful 1917 portrait, of an unknown soldier on sentry duty in the front line, is in the William Nicholson exhibition at Pallant House. 4306
Reposted by Robert CulshawM a r c u s 🏳️🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 09/12/2025Looking forward to what other regional employment tribunals the media will be reporting on en masse today! Race discrimination in Scunthorpe? Sex discrimination in Yeovil? Homophobia in Wrexham? Or is it only GCs who lost their case that get this treatment 014643
Robert Culshaw @robertculshaw.bsky.social · 09/12/2025The Tribunal also found that Peggie had committed harassment and transphobic hate towards Dr Upton. But for some reason this isn't being mentioned in the headlines. Imagine coming into A&E and being faced with this bigot. 010
Reposted by Robert CulshawCharlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 07/12/2025Apart from anything else, this really embodies the Playmobil approach to workforces that politicians often fall into — it’s all very well and good to laud “frontline” NHS workers but without backroom staff the entire service would actually collapse. 1336754
Robert Culshaw @robertculshaw.bsky.social · 07/12/2025I got tiny Christmas decorations so these guys could look festive. Yeah, fine thanks. 040