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Sadiah Qureshi 🦈

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Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize, Royal Society’s Trivedi Prize & 2025 best book for FT, Guardian, BBC History & Smithsonian. Views own. www.penguin.co.uk/books/309254/vani…

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 13h
Meta has enabled Muse to build extensive and ever-growing profiles on the orbit of people in a user’s life. Based on user input but also “publicly available information.” Whether that means a web search, Facebook’s own extensive data, or buying data broker info…we don’t know? And we can’t opt out.
wired.com
Muse Creates Detailed Profiles of All Your Friends and Family
Millions have downloaded Meta’s AI agent Muse. But getting it to do your bidding comes with privacy costs.
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 14h
"no one elected you" dude it's an internationally acclaimed election watched by billions around the globe
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Carl Bovis @carlbovisnature.bsky.social · 16h
Found a bird egg... 😁 #birds Here is my little bird shop; www.carlbovis.com/shop-3 🐦
Close up of a male Bearded Tit in the shape of an egg
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 18h
Labour once more attacking the vulnerable and already marginalized. Yes, more needs to be done to help young people, along with others, find employment, but not at expense of disabled people's lives. It's irrelevant someone's age if they need disability support 1/ www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Key disability benefit for young people may be axed under major welfare changes
Exclusive: Plan under discussion involves intensive support to help young people into employment
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Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland (BSBI) @bsbibotany.bsky.social · 18h
We’ve been bowled over by the standard for this year's Botanical Photographer of the Year. It's now time for public shortlisting. Use the links below to view the entries into this year's competition and vote for all those you think are particularly impressive. Shortlisting will run until 31 Oct.
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Botanical Photographer of the Year
The BSBI is for everyone who cares about the wild plants of Britain and Ireland.
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Sadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Goodbye to a brutal couple of weeks from this warbler. Best of luck making it to the weekend, and have a good one.
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Sadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
These really are remarkable books. I could add so many more, such as Bathsheba Demuth’s Floating Coast, Amitav Ghosh’s In An Antique Land, and more. These are books that have kept me company, or helped me think about how to write differently as I wrote my roar in private.
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Eleanor Robson @eleanorrobson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Cam Washes vs the Iraqi Marshes: spot the difference 🐃🐃🐂
Three brown cows and two calves walk along the west bank of the river Cam, Cambridgeshire, opposite Kingfishers Bridge Nature Reserve on 2 October 2026. The blue sky has a few clouds in it; the blue river has a large clump of invasive pennywort choking the wildlife on the bank :(Two of Kingfishers Bridge Nature Reserve's Water Buffaloes in October 2025. One is looking intently at the camera. Her forehead and neck are lightly dotted with burdock burrs, helping the plant spread its seed across the landscape.Five water buffalo walking towards the camera, ankle deep in water, in the Iraqi marshes in February 2025. There are reed beds and a pale blue sky between themA small herd of water buffalo standing on a small, flat island in the Iraqi marshes in September 2016. One buffalo, in the centre, is almost completely submerged and just has its head above water. The sky is slightly discoloured by dust pollution.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Migration Museum, London, is hiring a part-time (3 days per week) curator for a year to help build the vision of the new museum. £40k pro rata plus 5% matched pension contribution. Deadline for applications 18 October.
migrationmuseum.org
We’re Hiring: Curator, Contemporary Art (Part-time)
The Migration Museum is seeking a Contemporary Art Curator to join their team on a part-time basis. Application deadline: 18 October 2026.
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Sadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Goodbye to a brutal couple of weeks from this warbler. Best of luck making it to the weekend, and have a good one.
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The ability to pour hundreds of millions of pounds into a loss-making TV channel, bent on wrenching British politics sharply to the right, is yet another of the ways in which extreme wealth is trying to remake UK democracy. It needs to be part of any serious conversation about political funding.
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Leverhulme Trust @leverhulme.ac.uk · 30/09/2026
Congratulations to former Leverhulme Philip Prize winner @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social, and Leverhulme Research Fellows @samwetherell.bsky.social and Lyndal Roper, for being shortlisted for the 2026 #WolfsonHistoryPrize www.wolfsonhistoryprize.org.uk @wolfsonhistory.bsky.social
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The Wolfson History Prize - great history, brilliantly told.
The Wolfson History Prize is awarded annually to promote and recognise outstanding history written for a general audience.
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Amy Maxmen, PhD @amymaxmen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Do you want to be a science writer? Or just learn more about science writing? This is a fantastic *paid* opportunity to sharpen your skills. @theopennotebook.bsky.social @siricarpenter.bsky.social www.theopennotebook.com/early-career...
theopennotebook.com
Early-Career Fellowship Program - The Open Notebook
Every year, The Open Notebook offers a paid, part-time fellowship program for early-career science journalists. This ten-month program offers fellows the opportunity to explore their career interests and passions and to sharpen their skills as part of a talented, supportive, diverse community of past and present fellows and mentors. This fellowship is made possible through the generous support of the Burroughs Wellcome Fund.
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Sadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
PSA: if you don’t want AI on your Apple devices, think carefully about the latest update to iOS. The option to turn off AI with a single global option has been removed. There are ways to minimise it with multiple things turned off, but not to turn it off completely as before. It’s infuriating.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
'At least two universities have had to cancel course modules at short notice, with students being offered alternatives outside their disciplines, after the staff cuts and strikes left advertised modules understaffed.'
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Modules cancelled amid ‘panicked’ response to staff cuts and strikes
UK students being told that modules are cancelled and recommended options outside their courses, union reports
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Eleanor Robson @eleanorrobson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
📖 I have a new article out! "The Forgotten Workers of Kish: Iraqi Archaeological Labour in Early 20th-Century Hillah", IRAQ 88 (2027), First View online preprint #openaccess 💰From the Forgotten City of Kish project (2022-25), funded by the Nahrein Network at UCL www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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THE FORGOTTEN WORKERS OF KISH: IRAQI ARCHAEOLOGICAL LABOUR IN EARLY 20TH-CENTURY HILLAH | IRAQ | Cambridge Core
THE FORGOTTEN WORKERS OF KISH: IRAQI ARCHAEOLOGICAL LABOUR IN EARLY 20TH-CENTURY HILLAH
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Sadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...
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Google Earth exposes devastation in Gaza with new updated images
Google Earth shows the unprecedented devastation in Gaza, illustrating the scale of the wreckage
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Sadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I know the British Museum is not doing well in managing entry for the Bayeux Tapesty exhibition, but does anyone with access needs know how well, or even if, that’s being handled? Really wondering how disabled visitors are doing.
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still the same account you unfollowed 👻 i change my pfp a lot @blackapostate.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026
one of my biggest concerns about all of this is how even when we personally opt out and avoid as much of it as possible, it's so little protection if any because everyone around us either pays no attention to any of it, or even LIKES it. and they have parts of our identities in THEIR tech.
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
For those in England & Wales who don’t get them on the NHS: private flu & covid jabs are available from today. I’ve just had both at my local pharmacy. £115 for the pair. Yes, that’s expensive, but if you’re a freelancer & don’t get sick pay it’s probably a lot cheaper than taking time off.
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Sadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A short interview with me about Vanished, and being shortlisted for my my love letter to life living.
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Sadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Something for all those doing lectures on memorials this year. Or the role of the commonwealth in the World Wars.
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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Hey everyone, I currently have availability for freelance writing, researching, and/or teaching work between now and the end of the calendar year. Please see this document for further details, and share with anyone else who you think might be interested.
linkedin.com
AVAILABILITY FOR WORK
Hello everyone, This is just a notice to say I'm available for freelance paid work in the following areas until the end of 2026: WRITING: Whether for academic or public-facing audiences, in the areas ...
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Liam J. Liburd @liamliburd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
For my London-based or adjacent followers, I'm speaking at an event marking the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street next Tuesday evening. I'll be reflecting on the history of antisemitism and state racism among other things. Tickets are free!
bisa.bbk.ac.uk
The Battle of Cable Street ninety years on: the struggle against fascism and antisemitism, then and now | Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism
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The Animal Turn @theanimalturn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Looking for two PhD or early career scholars who would like to be in the 10th episode of Season 9 "Animals and History" - You'll discuss key overlaps and tensions that have emerged over the course of the season. Interested? Send a quick email to info@theanimalturnpodcast.com
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Sadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Something for all those doing lectures on memorials this year. Or the role of the commonwealth in the World Wars.
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Wolfson History Prize @wolfsonhistory.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Go behind the book. Watch @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social read an exclusive extract of 'Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction', one of this year's standout history books. 🎧 You can read more on our website. ⬇️ bit.ly/47otGPo
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
23,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 joules. That’s the amount of heat the oceans absorbed in 2025. A number so huge it’s almost meaningless…until you realise it’s roughly 40× humanity’s annual energy use. The ocean is buying us time. We’re running out of it. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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World’s oceans absorbed record heat equal to 40 times annual global energy use
The injection of thermal energy comes amid an increasing rise in sea levels and continuing acidification
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Salena Godden @salenagodden.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🍂🌰 Hey my lovely friends, here’s a new pinned post with updated autumn tour dates, some beautiful shows coming up! Next stop: October 1st, National Poetry Day Special with Bradley Taylor, Georgie Jones, Zakariye & friends at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery! Tickets & links in bio!
Poster with my face and a selection of my book covers: Yellow writing Salena Godden. Green writing all the dates:

Oct 1: National Poetry Day Special with Piece Of Work, Bradley Taylor & friends 

Oct 14: Brighton, Theatre Royal, John Cooper Clarke & Friends

Oct 15: London Palladium, John Cooper Clarke & friends

Oct 24: Birmingham Town Hall, John Cooper Clarke & friends

Nov 14: Newham Poetry Festival

Nov 21: Warwick Arts Centre, The Good Immigrant, Nikesh Shukla and Nish Kumar

Nov 25: Leicester, De Montfort Hall, John Cooper Clarke & friends
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Sadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Spotted the paperback version of Vanished in the wild for the first time nestled among the other ‘New, Notable, and Nectarous books.’ 🐯
A display of paperback books on a table in a bookshop, labelled ‘New, Notable & Nectarous: An intriguing collection of new non-fiction, fresh in paperback and ready to feast upon. Our favourites of the floor, from the lauded to the easily missed.’ Vanished is nestled among the other books.
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Sadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Spotted the paperback version of Vanished in the wild for the first time nestled among the other ‘New, Notable, and Nectarous books.’ 🐯
A display of paperback books on a table in a bookshop, labelled ‘New, Notable & Nectarous: An intriguing collection of new non-fiction, fresh in paperback and ready to feast upon. Our favourites of the floor, from the lauded to the easily missed.’ Vanished is nestled among the other books.
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Sadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
TL cleanse: the joy of a peacock in flight. youtu.be/ZBF62NMxICI
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Peacock flying | Neem tree
YouTube video by Pentagon Cinemas
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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
America's oldest living person just turned 116 only three days ago. A daughter of rural Georgia. She is also the second oldest person in the world. Born September 26, 1910 www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
usatoday.com
America's oldest person is another year older
Naomi Whitehead's birthday was marked by a large party that also served as a family reunion, with relatives attending from across the country.
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Duncan Bell @duncanbell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
JOB: Directorship of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology / Professorship of Material Culture University of Cambridge www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/directo...
cam.ac.uk
Directorship of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology and Professorship of Material Culture
The Board of Electors invite applications for the Directorship of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology and the Professorship of Material Culture from persons whose work falls within the general ...
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Sadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I still can’t believe this is true. If you’re curious, the paperback is out. A huge thanks to everyone who’s been in touch with kind words and congratulations. I’m deeply moved and honoured that my words are helping so many readers think about how to build a just future for all life on earth.
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Riley Black 🏳️‍⚧️ 🦕 @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Tyrant Lizard Queen is one of Barnes & Noble’s best books of October 2026! 🦖
barnesandnoble.com
The Best Books of October 2026
The start of fall means cooler weather, cozier nights and fantastic reading. Settle into the season with the best books of October, featuring the return of Pulitzer Prize winners, enchanting fantasies...
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Dr Ella Hawkins @ellamchawk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Elizabethan playhouses were supplied by a network of tailors, merchants & craftswomen. Their names survive in records, but little is known about their lives. I’m working on new research that brings the stories of these makers & traders centre stage. Here is the project in biscuit (cookie) form. 🍪
A photograph of eight rectangular biscuits (cookies) arranged in two rows on a square white plate. The plate is framed on all sides by a trailing vine pattern in green with pops of red. The biscuits are mostly in shades of ivory, cream, yellow, and grey, with a burst of vivid red and blue in one corner of the arrangement. Moving across the top row of biscuits from left to right, the designs include: neat lines of handwritten names in an early modern parish register; a section of a hand-drawn map from 1561 featuring St Paul’s Cathedral, with street names like ‘Carter Lane’ visible in a tiny spiky font; an extract of text from a funerary monument printed in an early modern book, ending ‘So transitory is our glory’; a section of embroidery from a funeral pall featuring metallic silver armour, crossed gold keys, and two hands holding up a crown. The biscuit designs on the bottom row include: horses prancing past shopfronts on Cheapside in the mid-sixteenth century; a receipt written in early modern secretary hand, which is difficult to read; a portrait of a stern-looking women dressed in a ruff, pearls, and sober dark clothing; swirling calligraphy and dense secretary hand featuring on a will dating from 1638.
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Sadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
George is posting about politics, but I’m confident many academics (and employees more broadly) will feel the truth of this post in particular. Especially as we see higher education ransacked with greater ferocity and speed.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The iPhone - a good product that people like and want, and are willing to pay a lot of money for - makes about 200 billion per year.
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L. D. Lewis, Sea Witch Apologist 🧜🏾‍♀️ @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
Periodic reminder that dropping a note telling a writer you liked a thing they wrote takes like 4.5 seconds and recharges our batteries for 27-28 hours a pop
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Sadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Gave a guest lecture to new art students on how their creative practice might respond to extinction and climate change. Lots of great questions and so many discussions about how much they’d learned on the packed bus home. Days like this keep teachers with start of term bugs going. Onwards. Onwards.
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Michael Rosen @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Parents, grandparents, carers, keep your eyes peeled for showings in cinemas of a double bill of animations of 'The Tiger who came to Tea' and 'We're Going on a Bear Hunt'. Coming soon.
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Sadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
An electronic cyclops spying on everyone is quite a vision for the future. Imagine spending your precious life building a bunker to survive into a future all while trying to make this that future.
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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If you aren't familiar with their work. A few links: Torkwase Dyson: thegoldfarbgallery.ca/project/dyson/ www.pacegallery.com/exhibitions/... Audra Simpson: www.dukeupress.edu/mohawk-inter... Lorenzo Pezzani: liminal-lab.org Thandi Loewenson: www.e-flux.com/architecture...
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Off-Earth - Thandi Loewenson - Celestial Settler Frontiers
In the collection of National Archives in Harare, a curious series of documents detail accounts of historical astronomical discoveries, celestial phenomena, meteor showers, and alien encounters across...
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Sadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I still can’t believe this is true. If you’re curious, the paperback is out. A huge thanks to everyone who’s been in touch with kind words and congratulations. I’m deeply moved and honoured that my words are helping so many readers think about how to build a just future for all life on earth.
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Sadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
No discount will mitigate this starting point.
Hotel room price. Original: £666. Sale price £599.
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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 27/09/2026
ICYMI: Shakespeare’s Globe has opened its newly renovated research and collection centre, which features London’s only publicly accessible dedicated Shakespeare library and archive. 👇
ebx.sh
Shakespeare library and archive containing 6,000 books opens under the Globe theatre
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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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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Reading is a practice of freedom.
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Sadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Rewild the golf courses. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Skylarks and sandwich terns among new birdies on reserve created from ‘boring old golf course’
National Trust has transformed Sandilands in Lincolnshire into a nature reserve with wetlands and wading pools
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