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Robert Culshaw

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ICU Charge Nurse. Proctors' Bulldog. I don't add much.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I’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.
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Simon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social · 16/08/2024
An 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
Black & white photo of two women wearing large white hats and long skirts, gathering corn into stooks. nearby by a man in military uniform does the same.
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Robert Culshaw @robertculshaw.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
NHS Resilience Training.
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SimpsonsQOTD @simpsonsqotd.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
"A solar eclipse. The cosmic ballet goes on."
Season 4 / Episode 12
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Robert Culshaw @robertculshaw.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
This looks absolutely Incredible! @kristinhussey.bsky.social @wellcometrust.bsky.social.
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Charlotte 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)
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Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
The 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.
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Anaesthesia @anaesjournal.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
A 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...
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Robert Culshaw @robertculshaw.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Keeping 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.
Doctors of Philosophy being led into the Sheldonian Theatre by the Bedel during a graduation ceremony.
I'm wearing a bowler hat and shirt sleeves, riding the nerves and reassuring that all I expect is 'walk and bow'.
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Simon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
In 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
Black and white photo soldiers carry a casualty on a stretcher from the back of a motor ambulance, behind a sign over a doorway reads Triage.
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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...
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UK Treasury must change disciplinary process after worker’s suicide, mother says
Chloe Moffat, 26, killed herself day after meeting about anonymous complaint in which she was not allowed to bring a colleague
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Leigh Jones @leighsus.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
I 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"
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Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
I 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.
A medieval manuscript illustration of a skeleton representing death holds a spear aloft, ready to strike an emaciated man who lies in bed, an attendant at his side. From Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Selden Supra 53 F. 118r.
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Robert Culshaw @robertculshaw.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
And 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...
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Encaenia 2026 🎓 #oxforduniversity
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Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Alas, 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/
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Palestine 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.
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Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Very 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.
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Robert Culshaw @robertculshaw.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Last night I was part way up to my shoulder in effluent, manually unclogging a bed pan masher. Happy #InternationalNursesDay.
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
ITV 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
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
this 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
Clinical lead for the NHS and registered mental health nurse Conaghan said she was feeling "excited and nervous".
"I can't wait to see where all this money is going and finally get it back on our streets," she said.
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Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Next 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).
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
a 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
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Robert Culshaw @robertculshaw.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Up 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.
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Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Absolutely, and if one would like some inspiration one could buy a book written by a human called Eleanor Baker.
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Book Curses
Featuring 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...
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Robert Culshaw @robertculshaw.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Still Waiting For My Medal
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
It 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.
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Robert Culshaw @robertculshaw.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
I 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...
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You’ve just graduated from Oxford University 🎓 #OxfordUniversity
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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Mustache guys are either no nonsense or 100% nonsense
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Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
I 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.
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
I used to write a lot about this and I just got so… tired. It hasn’t changed, it never changes.
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ʟɪɴᴇꜱ @lines.ink · 15/02/2026
This 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.
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Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
'The Towpath', Maida Hill Tunnel (1912) by Christopher RW Nevinson (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford)
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Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
It 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 💙💜
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Robert Culshaw @robertculshaw.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
An 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.
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Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Outside 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.
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Intensive Care Society @ics-updates.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
A 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
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Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
He was a nurse.
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Simon 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.
Sepia coloured photo of seated woman in her uniform in her thirties gazing at the camera.
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Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
A couple of days ago @robertculshaw.bsky.social proposed and I said yes 🍂
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Robert Culshaw @robertculshaw.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
As 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
Cooks and Orderlies of the Red Cross and Royal Army Medical Corps pose outside the entrance of Dorchester Military Hospital, part of Maumbury Royal Artillery Barracks. December 1914.

A lively bunch, from left to right we have a carver in an apron, the chah-man, a cook with an accordion, two soldiers with two little black kittens posing on their shoulders, the obligatory mandolin player and finally the cook orderly with a rather concerned Turkey under his arm.
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Carla-Jean Stokes @carlajeanstokes.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
A 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).
A soldier of the Machine Gun Corps in a sheepskin coat kissing a French farm-girl under a sprig of mistletoe, near Hesdin, Imperial War Museum Q 8354. A soldier of the Machine Gun Corps in a sheepskin coat with two ducks for his Christmas dinner, near Hesdin, Imperial War Museum Q 8355.
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Royal College of Nursing Library and Museum @rcnlibraries.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
This 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
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Robert Culshaw @robertculshaw.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
When my new Staff Nurses in ICU ask about COVID.
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Peter Yerbury @peteryerbury.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Completed to see our Article published! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @jodyedeox.bsky.social
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A Descriptive Evaluation of Evidence‐Based Rounds in Critical Care Using Mixed Data Types
Objectives 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...
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Robert Culshaw @robertculshaw.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Today, I can post this.
Screenshot from 'Detectorists'.

Russell is shocked to find out Hugh is 32 and doesn't 'have a syndrome'.

Russell: '[32] years of age?'Screenshot from 'Detectorists'.

Russell: 'so, why have I been buying you pints of coke all this time?'Screenshot from 'Detectorists'.

Russell: '32... I feel like I've been groomed.'
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Simon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
This wonderful 1917 portrait, of an unknown soldier on sentry duty in the front line, is in the William Nicholson exhibition at Pallant House.
oil panting profile of a British soldier in steel helmet, khaki balaclava and jacket, goatskin jerkin, leaning on a sandbag trench parapet apparently gazing across no man’s land, his rifle with fixed bayonet next to him.
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Looking 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
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Robert Culshaw @robertculshaw.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
The 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.
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Apart 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.
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Robert Culshaw @robertculshaw.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
I got tiny Christmas decorations so these guys could look festive. Yeah, fine thanks.
Windy Miller and PC McGarry (#452) stand beside a small Christmas tree, McGarry holds a small festive wreath.
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