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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 29/09/2026

“It’s time for us to stand together.” After fighting off cuts to modern languages, Aberdeen UCU is now facing another major restructure and the threat of further job cuts. Join staff, students and the community at their rally on 6 October. Solidarity with Aberdeen UCU.

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OldRailwayAccidents @rwldproject.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Interesting setting - should definitely add ambience and an acoustic experience not normally heard! Classic Dickens ghost story to be performed under Brighton Station share.google/SLzemlV6tih3...

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Classic Dickens ghost story to be performed under Brighton Station

Hydrocracker Productions

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OldRailwayAccidents @rwldproject.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Looking forward to this afternoon's meeting, with colleagues at the Railway Work, Life & Death project's partner institution, the @mrcwarwick.bsky.social. We're planning a project exhibition later this year, drawing on records of the ASRS/NUR Union (now @rmtunion.bsky.social) - watch this space!

Charity flag, sold by the NUR, to raise money for its orphans fund. Rusty metal pin, with white paper flag. Front shows a green steam engine, with 'Railway orphans' in red written around it.

Charity flag, sold by the NUR, to raise money for its orphans fund. Rusty metal pin, with white paper flag. Rear shows red text, reading 'National Union of Railwaymen. 2253 children supported in 1916. Annual cost £12,739. 1s. 9d.'

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 28/09/2026

We warmly welcome applications to join the Fellowship of the Society. Next closing dates: 5 October & 14 December. Fellowship is open to those who've made a scholarly research contribution to #history in all sectors (within & beyond higher education) in the UK/worldwide bit.ly/4iOu51g #Skystorians

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Apply for Fellowship - RHS

Closing dates for next applications: Mondays 5 October and 14 December 2026 Fellowships are awarded to those who have made an original contribution to historical scholarship, typically through the a...

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Simon is on strike ✊🏻 @simonxix.com · 28/09/2026

Historic England outsourced their digital image provision to a third-party company. Then the company went bust and now all their images are inaccessible. Tell me again how outsourcing to the private sector is sustainable?

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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Oh the dilemma this poses for right wing culture warriors! Condemn it as an example of snowflake liberal cancel culture or celebrate it for cancelling the British slavery episode? BBC removes Horrible Histories episode featuring slavery and child labour www.thetimes.com/article/8146...

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BBC removes Horrible Histories episode featuring slavery and child labour

The broadcaster’s decision to remove one episode and edit others to meets its editorial guidelines for children’s programmes has been criticised as ‘insane’

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 28/09/2026

Our great thanks to Prof Glen O'Hara for his excellent RHS lecture last Friday evening: ‘In All Our Footsteps? Rights of Way and the Battle for the Land after the 1949 National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act’. Recordings are now available bit.ly/4ySyB6W #Skystorians 1/2

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Glen O'Hara gives latest RHS lecture on 'Rights of Way and the Battle for the Land' - RHS

On Friday 25 September the Society hosted the latest lecture in its 2026 programme. Our great thanks to Professor Glen O'Hara (Oxford Brookes University) who spoke on: ‘In All Our Footsteps? Rights of...

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Best of luck to @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social members going on strike for over a month. Nobody does this willingly - it’s a last resort, unlike that enormously rich university’s slash and burn tactics.

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 28/09/2026

Next week, the Society visits historians at the University of Strathclyde and concludes the day with a public lecture by Dr Meleisa Ono-George: 'Visualizing Difference: Amelia Newsham and the Art of Race-Making’ bit.ly/46MYwkA Join us at 6pm on Weds 7 October, in person. All welcome #Skystorians

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Visualizing Difference: Amelia Newsham and the Art of Race-Making

RHS Lecture with Dr Meleisa Ono-George at the University of Strathclyde

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OldRailwayAccidents @rwldproject.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

🚨THIS SATURDAY!🚨 Our Naval City Festival #Portsmouth Dockyard, 10am on A great programme, including talks from 10 friends & colleagues from @UoP_History & beyond - plus 3 of our undergrad #History students! Talks on the dockyard & women, conservation, & links to the city!

Flyer for 'Our Naval City' event, with advertising/ promo details, and timings (Saturday 3 October, 10am-9pm, Portsmouth Historic Dockyard), around dockyard graphics.

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 27/09/2026

Rue de Rome Gare Saint Lazare Paris Henri-Yves Cazin, 1977

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OldRailwayAccidents @rwldproject.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Hard to credit, but the revamped National Railway Museum Station Hall gallery has been open for a year! The Railway Work, Life & Death project contributed health & safety content, the 1st time this crucial topic has been in a permanent gallery! www.railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk/delivering-t...

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Good fodder for your History first-year students to chew on as new ways of approaching the past are introduced to them. How should historians distinguish between 'war' and the 'tales' told of war? Where does centring on men come from in this context? Re-write this headline to reflect your answers...

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Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Every time someone links to this film, I have to repost it. It's one of the most significant bits of British 20th century art. Everything about it is incredible. Groundbreaking music production by Daphne Oram. Amazing camera work by Wolfgang Suschitzky (who later filmed Get Carter).-

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RMT Union @rmtunion.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

One week to go. Come and join us next Sunday, October 4, 2026, to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street.

Poster inviting to the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street on October 4, 2026, with event details and historical context.

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OldRailwayAccidents @rwldproject.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This was a really great day, with such interesting discussions. It gave people a lovely chance to explore #Crewe's #RailwayHistory & share memories of the Works. Also excellent to help people find ancestors in the accident books we're working on - this is going to be a valuable resource.

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OldRailwayAccidents @rwldproject.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 26/09/2026

This week the Society launched a new programme to support research bit.ly/4iFNuF0 The RHS / Social History Archive Partnership offers free access to resources in @socialhistarchive.bsky.social, published by DC Thomson. Applications for 6-month access to Archive content invited #Skystorians 1/2

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Society launches new programme for researchers, in partnership with The Social History Archive - RHS

The Society is pleased to launch a new programme for researchers, in partnership with The Social History Archive, published by DC Thomson. The Social History Archive is a comprehensive online archive ...

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Anyway. Reminder that if you're a historian - particularly a postgrad - doing a research project your brainworms tell you only you care about... DM me. It's more interesting than you know. Talk to me. We can do a pod ep. It's all about framing. I hope those who've been on already would agree.

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Univ. Portsmouth History @uophistory.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Good morning #Portsmouth Wishing everyone a lovely #weekend

Image shows Langstone harbour at near high tide under a mainly clear sky. The sun is shining above the horizon and a shingle spit leads out to sea in the centre of the frame

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The Family History Society of Cheshire 🌾🌳 @fhsofcheshire.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

TODAY - 11am–3pm 𝐑𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐃𝐚𝐲 – 𝐅𝐇𝐒𝐂 𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐰𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐂𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐞 Brierley Business Centre, Mirion St, Crewe CW1 2AP Join @fhsofcheshire.bsky.social & @rwldproject.bsky.social for a day of talking trains and #Crewe Works All Welcome #Railways #Cheshire

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OldRailwayAccidents @rwldproject.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

🚨TODAY!🚨 Come & find out more about railway life in Crewe in the past! Discover what @fhsofcheshire.bsky.social & our project are doing with Crewe Works accident registers from c.1917-33. Current & former Crewe Works staff particularly welcome! 👇

Image advertising 'Railway workers day' on Thursday 24 September 2026, between 11am and 3pm at the Family History Society of Cheshire's Crewe Research Centre.

Tea, coffee and cake are available at the free drop-in event, which will share some of Crewe's railway heritage, focusing on the railway Works, and allow people the chance to share their stories.

Behind the text is an image of railwaymen gathered around a steam engine at the Crewe railway works.

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OldRailwayAccidents @rwldproject.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

🚨TOMORROW!🚨 Come along & find out more about railway life in Crewe in the past! Discover what @fhsofcheshire.bsky.social & our project are doing with Crewe Works accident registers from c.1917-33. Current & former Crewe Works staff particularly welcome! 👇

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OldRailwayAccidents @rwldproject.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

NEW BLOG POST! Ahead of tomorrow's Railway Workers Day in #Crewe, we've put together a short blog introducing the event (11am-3pm, Crewe Research Centre, @fhsofcheshire.bsky.social). Find out more about it & the collaborations making it possible: www.railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk/crewe-works-...

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Crewe – Works, Town & Family - Railway Work, Life & Death

Discover Crewe's railway heritage via our latest collaboration, with the Family History Society of Cheshire, Alstom & Crewe Heritage Centre.

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 23/09/2026

OTD in 2019, Thomas Cook travel agency declared insolvency. In this piece from the archive, Alan McNee considers how the rise of Thomas Cook was perhaps the greatest force for popularising and democratising travel in the 19th century.

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We're All Going On A Summer Holiday: The Rise of Thomas Cook

After the recent dramatic collapse of the tour provider Thomas Cook, Alan McNee explores how the firm was perhaps the nineteenth century’s greatest force for popularizing and democratizing travel.

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Society for One-Place Studies @oneplacestudies.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Amongst our ‘All About That Place’ news last week was a special post-AATP #OnePlaceWednesday LIVE which will be open to all. This will take place on 28 Oct 2026 – see the Events page on our website for details. A form enabling registration for non-members has also been added to our website. #AATP

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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Please join us on 29 October for the 2nd Biennial Pickstone Lecture. Our speaker will be Prof Roberta Bivins (Warwick) on A Positive Difference: Minoritised Communities in British Healthcare and Innovation. blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2026/0...

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Pickstone Lecture 2026

Professor Roberta Bivins A Positive Difference: Minoritised Communities in British Healthcare and Innovation 29 October 2026

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OldRailwayAccidents @rwldproject.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

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Crewe – Works, Town & Family - Railway Work, Life & Death

Discover Crewe's railway heritage via our latest collaboration, with the Family History Society of Cheshire, Alstom & Crewe Heritage Centre.

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Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Riot police in Gosport because that idiot Daniel Thomas is in channel tailing 2 x RNLI boats with refugees, after slashing the boat they were transferred from *while* a member of the RNLI was on board the empty dinghy. He's told all his followers to go to Gosport. He should be f*cking arrested.

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OldRailwayAccidents @rwldproject.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

#OnThisDay 1926, 5 LNER bridge painters were hit by a train & killed near #Hucknall, #Nottinghamshire. #RailwayHistory Richard Eddacott Bertie Scotney Thomas Rossiter Clifford Herring Cyril Hinsley They are remembered. Find out more: www.railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk/my-god-come-...

Posed photograph, showing a railway worker stepping out of the way of one train, into the path of another approaching from behind. The title reads 'Into the jaws of death.'

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The Family History Society of Cheshire 🌾🌳 @fhsofcheshire.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

🚂REMINDER - Thur 24 Sept, 11am–3pm🚂 Come along & find out more about railway life in Crewe in the past! Find out what @rwldproject.bsky.social & @fhsofcheshire.bsky.social are doing with #Crewe Works Accident logs 1917-33 Current & former Crewe Works staff particularly welcome! 👇👇👇👇👇👇

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OldRailwayAccidents @rwldproject.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Looking forward to today's meeting about the 'Early Railways' conference, to consider how it might look in the future. Pleased to be representing academic stakeholders in the discussion. #RailwayHistory More on the conference here: earlyrailways.org.uk

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Early Railways

Early Railways Conferences - and their future Since 1998 the conferences have been an occasional series of gatherings by persons interested in the beginnings of the railway industry throughout the…

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OldRailwayAccidents @rwldproject.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Pleased the Hucknall Dispatch features the #Hucknall accident, 100 years ago today, which killed 5 #Mansfield railwaymen. Uncovered by project research. #RailwayHistory #LocalHistory #Nottinghamshire Tragic night on Hucknall railway recalled 100 years on share.google/q3GtJfbwspjT...

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Tragic night on Hucknall railway recalled 100 years on

A tragic night in the history of the railway in Hucknall and Linby marks its centenary this week.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

'The records have been digitised and indexed by the genealogy company Ancestry, which has partnered with the Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery at University College London.' Leaps and bounds forward in our understanding of the histories of the British enslaved. #Skystorians

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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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OldRailwayAccidents @rwldproject.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

#OnThisDay 1926, at this time, 5 LNER bridge painters were hit by a train & killed near #Hucknall, #Nottinghamshire. #RailwayHistory Richard Eddacott Bertie Scotney Thomas Rossiter Clifford Herring Cyril Hinsley They are remembered. Find out more: www.railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk/my-god-come-...

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OldRailwayAccidents @rwldproject.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Oh, they're out in force again today ... ... amongst other things, moaning about the railings. The ones provoking most ire are clearly temporary & will be replaced with ones that match the other side. You just have to look - in person - to see it.

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Turned down last week: 2 festivals with no budget for speakers 1 writing course with no budget for teachers 1 film project with no budget to option the book - plus they wanted me to write the screenplay. For free. Don't do it, kids. Don't work for free. Because to them, what's free is worthless.

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 21/09/2026

The Society is pleased to launch a new programme to support research bit.ly/4iFNuF0 The RHS / Social History Archive Partnership offers free access to resources in @socialhistarchive.bsky.social, published by DC Thomson. Applications for 6-month access to Archive content invited #Skystorians 1/2

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Resorting to "Mickey Mouse" degree denigration is an obvious, lazy red flag. The Times twists itself into knots to cover the nakedness of its grasp of HE (much less of how 18-year-olds actually make degree choices). In happier contexts, 'smother signals of quality' would be dismissed hilariously.

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Day 1 of teaching. I would have been running Round the Wrekin, an introductory module exploring the cultural history of the West Midlands across centuries and multiple media, plus academic skills. It’s been replaced by a generic skills module across multiple subjects to save money on staffing.

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OldRailwayAccidents @rwldproject.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

🎯the number of summers - the time when there's the greatest possibility for me of developing a funding application - I've spent putting them together, rather than doing something with a realiseable outcome (articles, book, public-facing work, etc) ... only for bid to fail. Another summer, gone.

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Univ. Portsmouth History @uophistory.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Good morning #Portsmouth Welcome to the new working week #MondayMotivation

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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

You’re right—that plane shouldn’t have gone there. That’s my fault, and I should have made sure there wasn’t a terminal in the landing path. Would you like me to call emergency services, or assist with lining up takeoffs?

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The Family History Society of Cheshire 🌾🌳 @fhsofcheshire.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

#WhatsOn this week at @fhsofcheshire.bsky.social #Crewe ResearchCentre Mon/Tues/Sat Helpdesks #Chester #Wallasey Grp Meeting #Alsager #Chester #Congleton Discussion Grp #FamilyTreeMaker Zooming in on #FamilyHistory Railway Workers Day: fhsc.uk/fhsc-events/... Find out more/how to join👉 fhsc.uk

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