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Andy Marshall @fotofacade.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

🌅One for the early birds: 'I am relieved at how unInstagrammable it is; and so I do the most unInstagrammable thing of all: I set my device aside, pull up a chair, and take out my watercolours.' 📖👉 www.digest.andymarshall.co/andy-marshal... #allsaintsbillesley

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Andy Marshall @fotofacade.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

A joy of a sight for #ThrowbackThursday - A ghost gable 👻 - caught like a fly in amber at Wirksworth in Derbyshire

Weathered medieval timber frame set into a patchwork wall of brick and stone at Wirksworth, Derbyshire, showing ghostly remnants of a lost building frontage.

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Like a time capsule: a #Roman tile marked with #finger lines, hobnail #shoe prints, #dog's paw prints, and a #stamp of the LEG(io) XIIII G(emina). Tiles with imprints are very common, since tiles were laid out to dry in the open air ahead of firing, where...🧵1/2 #TilesOnTuesday 🏺

A tile with well-preserved surface impressions: three distinct outline of shoes with hobnail patterns in the center, a animal paw prints nearby, and a rectangular maker's stamp with worn lettering and an imprint of a foot. And finger lines.
The tile surface shows additional small impressions and chips.

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

A must-read: A veteran journalist reflects on the hidden traumas he has witnessed over a quarter of a century of hosting refugees in his Bristol home thebristolcable.org/2025/10/at-h...

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At home with refugees - The Bristol Cable

A veteran journalist reflects on the hidden traumas he has witnessed over a quarter of a century of hosting refugees in his Bristol home

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Rose A. McCandless @rosemccandless.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Enjoying some time with Jean Mabillon and his extremely approachable transcriptions of Merovingian scripts, in addition to the other joys of De re diplomatica (1681)—the work first establishing the science of paleography.

The engraved frontispiece of De re diplomatica.

A plate from De re diplomatica showing diplomatic scripts.

A plate from De re diplomatica showing the different Tironian notes.

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Tracy Marshall @tracym57.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Locked out of FB so here I am again

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Our digital repositories team spends a great deal of their time now simply protecting our commoned public digital resources from bots. This insatiable, aimless, destructive desire to excrete novel slop is impeding our access to — and even damaging — our cultural heritage + vetted public knowledge.

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

I've decided to make sandcastles on the beach and sell them for a living.

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

We don't see English papers so I hope all is well with the Stock Market.

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

At 3.00 A.M on Sunday the girls were dancing the hokey pokey so we have not had much sleep.

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Researchers Unearth Oldest Known Human Facial Bones Ever Found in Western Europe 🏺🧪 www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/r... The upper jawbone and partial cheek bone represent a mysterious, unknown species that lived in present-day Spain between 1.1 million and 1.4 million years ago.

Researchers discovered the facial fragments in a cave in northern Spain. National Research Center for Human Evolution

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Dr. Jessica M. DeWitt @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

I just attended a conference in the US. We had one speaker detained and two others turned away at the border.

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Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

"The Library" by American illustrator Elizabeth Shippen Green (1871-1954), who shared a communal household in Pennsylvania with fellow artists Violet Oakley and Jessie Willcox Smith. See Alice A. Carter's book The Red Rose Girls for more information on these remarkable women. #SomethingBeautiful

Painting: "The Library" by Elizabeth Shippen Green. The image shows a red-haired woman in a long, loose, golden dress sitting in a wicker chair. She has a large illustrated book in her lap. Other volumes are strewn around her and fill the bookcases behind her. The artist studied under Howard Pyle, and then forged a successful career illustrating magazines and children's books. The fourth member of the Red Rose household was Henrietta Cozens, whose management of the house allowed the others to focus on art. (I wish I had a Henrietta in my own life.)

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Smallpox inoculation certificates for the Brown family, 1776. The long history of inoculation and vaccination and the clear understanding of why/ how this innovation in healthcare was so important. @jcblibrary.bsky.social ofc.

Inoculation certificate for "Mr Nichs Brown & childrn Joan, Nichos, Chad, & Hope...being sufficiently freed from the Infection of the Small-Pox."

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Tracy Marshall @tracym57.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Just cancelled my midjourney sub to SAVE ELECTRICITY. What is the point in covering all our farmland with solar panels and wind farms JUST TO PROVIDE ALL THE EXTRA ELECTRICITY THAT AI USES. Not to replace oil but to provide vast amounts of electricity JUST for AI?

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DrT @doctortrex.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Scary Place

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Tomorrow Yanis Varousfakis and Michael Hudson will be giving the David Graeber Institute a talk. They will be joined by Ann Pettifor and it will be streamed live on our YouTube page. Here is the link to the page: www.youtube.com/live/JmAeVwC...

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Michael Hudson & Yanis Varoufakis in conversation with Ann Pettifor

YouTube video by Institute of David Graeber

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Nika Dubrovsky @nikadubrovsky.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Graeber, Varoufakis, Pettifor, and Hudson’s argument: lasting change requires not just debt relief, but a radical redefinition of economic systems—one that prioritizes collective well-being over creditor demands.

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Ever since looking up the medical examiner's record for my great-grandfather, I've been reading through the volume of 1920s coroner's records. Should be mandatory reading for the "doing my own research" crowd. This kid was 16 years old and died of tetanus after scraping his little finger on a rock.

coroner's record for William Mariano, died in Waterbury, Conn, October 3, 1924 from tetanus following a lacerated wound of little finger of left hand

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 10/04/2025

OTD in 1848, some 150,000 Chartists met on Kennington Common to present their third petition to Parliament. Mark Crail on how tracing Chartists, a working-class movement for political and economic reform, became a point of connection between family and academic historians: www.historywo...

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Family History in the Digital Age

In the second article of our feature on the radical potential of family history, family historian Mark Crail reflects on the power of collaboration in the history of working-class movements.

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Tracy Marshall @tracym57.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

The EU has issued an alert for everyone to stock up a 72 hour supply of food (and presumably flock to the nearest fortified castle) in case of invasion. My nearest castle (Castellar) as we await the mystery invasion.

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Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

We Are Duped Into Blaming Our Problems On Everyone Except Our Rulers Your enemies are not in Moscow, Beijing and Tehran. Your enemies are in Washington, Virginia, New York and Los Angeles. Your enemies are in London, Paris, Brussels and Tel Aviv. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/we-are-dup...

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We Are Duped Into Blaming Our Problems On Everyone Except Our Rulers

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):

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Tracy Marshall @tracym57.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

what could possibly go wrong? Resembles what USA is doing now much?

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Tracy Marshall @tracym57.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

I never usually subscribe to things but in this case I am and have just signed up for this: www.stopwar.org.uk Should you wish to donate: www.stopwar.org.uk/donate/

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Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Trump Sends Netanyahu Weapons While Talking Tough To Zelensky What we witnessed on Friday was Trump speaking to Zelensky in public the way Adelson probably speaks to Trump in private. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/trump-send...

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Trump Sends Netanyahu Weapons While Talking Tough To Zelensky

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):

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Miguel Urban @miguelurban.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Increíble el silencio mediático de las protestas en Grecia 🇬🇷 Esta semana se ha producido la huelga general y la manifestación mas grande en la historia contemporánea del país heleno Viva el movimiento popular que vuelve a renacer de los rescoldos de las luchas pasadas ✊

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 02/03/2025

“Humanitarian aid should never be used as a tool of war.” Doctors Without Borders (MSF) says the Israeli decision to stop the entry of all humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip is “outrageous and will have devastating consequences”. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/66nsyl

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Rome and Beyond @romebeyond.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

The Sarcophagus of the Spouses (530-520 BCE) is actually an urn intended to hold the material remains of the deceased. The work represents a couple lying on a bed (kline), their busts raised frontally in the typical position of the banquet. 📸 Museo Etrusco Villa Giulia #Rome #archaeology #Etruscans

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THOMAS PRIDE @thomaspride.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Most people don't really understand just how much money billionaires hoard. If you count to a million non-stop, at the rate of about a number a second, it will take you about 14 days. If you count to a billion non-stop at the same rate it will take you 37 years.

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Fjóla @fjolagud.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

This is a sewing pattern. It is also a page from a late 14th century manuscript that is one of two primary sources for an important Icelandic saga (Sturlunga saga), but that was probably not important to the 17th century person who really needed a sewing pattern. #upcycling

Sewing pattern for part of a shirt. It is clearly made from a dark brown manuscript page with small lettering written in two columns.

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Tracy Marshall @tracym57.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Jimena de la Frontera: ship paintings from Laja Alta are the oldest in the western Mediterranean. ....naval representations dating from between the 4th and 3rd millennium BC. #cavepainting #Andalucia canal.ugr.es/noticia/pint...

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Leonie V. Hicks @lvhicks.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

There exists in this world a category of people called historians who are highly trained in the skills needed to make sense of complex source material. Maybe, just maybe, these scientists should actually talk to them. www.earth.com/news/ai-stru...

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AI struggles to understand human history and fails miserably when tested

The study, which is the first of its kind, evaluates the historical knowledge of leading AI models such as ChatGPT-4, Llama, and Gemini.

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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 21/01/2025

No matter "how often you think about the Roman Empire", identifying a #RomanSalute is even more awkward, considering there's no ancient source clearly describing it. There's *one* ambigous depiction of an outstretched arm on Trajan's column, there's *one* vague passage in Josephus. That's it. 🤷‍♂️

Photo of a detail of Trajan's Column in Rome, showing the "Welcoming sacrifice in Trajan’s honour" and depicting one man, surrounded by many other, with an outstretched right arm, showing the palm of the right hand to the viewer.

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Rachel Pope @prehistorian.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

My piece is out! A history of archaeological scholarship on the potential for matrilineal societies in Iron Age Europe.

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Memnon of Rhodes @johngage1.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

“The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” - George Orwell, 1984

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Glynn JC Davis @camulodunumcurator.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Final hours of install before press descend on #GladiatorsOfBritain @dorsetmuseum.bsky.social One of the amazing BM objects is this #Roman lamp with a personalised name written into the wet clay - Gaius Maximus. A rare instance of a named #gladiator, or perhaps a fan of this retiarius? #FindsFriday

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 24/01/2025

Mica is a silicate-based mineral, widely utilised today for electrical and thermal insulation. This mica sheet, however, was found in a Nubian Neolithic burial in the Middle Nile Valley. It appears to have been shaped into a tilapia fish #FindsFriday 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.199

Layered sheets of mica, engraved and shaped to resemble a fish.

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Peaklass @peaklass.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Something a bit different from me - I hope you don’t mind. I’m having a few days away from the Peak District in southern Italy, and on Sunday I fulfilled a long-held dream to see Pompeii. It was as fascinating as I expected, and also I met possibly the most smug cat in the world.

A very smug cat in the ruins of Pompeii. The cat is white and tabby, sitting with his tail curled around him, one ear up and one ear down, eyes shut. He sits on a marble plinth with Roman text on it, framed by an arch behind him, glowing in the late afternoon sun.

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Steven Van Impe @svanimpe.bsky.social · 10/08/2024

I’ve found something interesting in an old register of the #Brussels parish of St. Katelijne. Queer people have always existed. A 🏳️‍🌈 thread 🧵. (1/10)

Black and white handwritten title page of the marriage register for St. Catherine, Brussels, 1616-1621

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Pablo Carrasco Gómez - Arqueología @archaeostratego.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Buen momento para recordar y darle amor al Starter pack de Bluesky Historia (+ arqueología, arte, cultura..) creado por @arqueocerva.bsky.social go.bsky.app/L8HA64

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Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

How Neandertal DNA May Affect the Way We Think. DNA inherited from Neandertals may influence modern human cognition www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...

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People Today Carry DNA from Neandertals. Here’s How It May Affect Our Brain and Behavior

DNA inherited from Neandertals may influence modern human cognition

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

"Fascist Spain threatens peace" Another one from 1946 demonstration in New York. The black guy at the front is carrying a banner with "Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade"

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