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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 59m

🚨BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS POST!! 📚 Below are some excellent new history books that I’ve enjoyed diving into: SERVUS by @emmasouthon.bsky.social SLEUTH-HOUND by @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social THE PEN by Simon Garfield BRITAIN’S SLAVE TRADERS by William A. Pettigrew Scroll down for more… 👇

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valduskin.bsky.social @valduskin.bsky.social · 56m

We have lit the fire in the past week. Took some time to assemble all the ingredients! Don’t remember a summer when we haven’t used the multi fuel stove at all. Had a shock yesterday. Excel coal, logs, kindling, and some diesel. £304 😳

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Chris and his farmily of forever farm friends @caenhillcc.bsky.social · 1h

Our first frost of the season and a beautiful sunrise enjoyed by our rescue alpacas including Alan and Caroline @carolineartist.bsky.social

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Alister Clunas @alcatorda.bsky.social · 16h

I have followed @raptorpersuk.bsky.social since it launched but I have been shocked and disgusted by this post. The treatment of the hen harrier chicks was callous and brutal. All so that more birds, in this case red grouse, can be shot. Game shooting with all the associated barbarity needs to end.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Steve McQueen on a Triumph in 1963.

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Barbara Waxer 🌈 @barbara-waxer.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

When Grammy-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens begins playing “Old Corn Liquor,” a traditional Black American folk tune, acclaimed Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man recognizes similarities to Chinese pentatonic music and spontaneously joins in. The joy on their faces says it all.

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Tim White @twmcltd.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

There's a huge fire in Khmelnytskyi region. An oil depot in the Shepetivskyi district has been hit during the ongoing attack. Russia continues to try to hit all energy in Ukraine.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I'm super excited to be part of this in the spring, a remote writers' retreat for disabled writers!

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

October 15th is the anniversary (62nd) of the 1964 General Election, in which Harold Wilson of Labour became first postwar state-educated Prime Minister Great portrait of Wilson with pipe, by Ruskin Spear (NPG) used for the cover of Ben Pimlott's major 1992 biography www.npg.org.uk/collections/...

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Harold Wilson - National Portrait Gallery

by Ruskin Spear oil on canvas exhibited 1974 © National Portrait Gallery, London

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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I asked you your favourite biscuit and you said 'oh a hob nob' or 'digestive' or 'bourbon' and you thought it would make me think you authentic and real but you should have said 'the poshest ones I can find for the posh ones are the best' as that is the truth you hide and now I know you are a coward

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 15/10/2026

Playing music without headphones isn't just antisocial, it's downright hostile, and it can be actively dangerous to ask men to knock it off. Which makes life worse for all of us.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Musk says he didn’t cut services to thwart Ukrainian self-defense, the US govt did. A senior US official says the Trump White House had nothing to do with that, implying Musk did it. A problem is they’re both serial liars, Putin sympathizers, and anti-democracy, so who knows.

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Tim White @twmcltd.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

The previous photos came from Kyiv where Ukraine's PM says all 3 Combined Heat Power plants in the capital were hit during the night What's more Russia flaunts Trumps impotence and mocks the fact he is Putin's pocket, but detailing its new strikes during Trump's energy 'truce'

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Tim White @twmcltd.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Day 1694 of Russia's war in Europe starts with just one question. Has he, or hasn't he? Did Presidementia stop sharing Intel, leading to direct deaths and damage in Ukraine, and did his lap-dog Musk also limit Starlink to lessen problems for Russia? Here's my daily thread.

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John86 @john86l.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Facebook with a much higher opinion of the company I keep than I deserve.

Screenshot of the ‘people you may know’ bit of Facebook which is suggesting Stuart Broad

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Oliver Bullough @oliverbullough.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Re the Sally Rooney news, I was looking up data on arrests under terrorism legislation the other day, and hadn't quite realised how utterly bonkers the effect of the Palestine Action prohibition had been. That big purple spike is basically all PA-related arrests.

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Tom Butlin @tombutlin.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Brenda In Paris vibes. If you can make it there you can make it anywhere

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Rivka @theasraidance.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Fortune Teller Studying a Book of Necromancy by Clémentine Dondey #WyrdWednesday

Oil painting, 1847. Woman seated at a table reading a book, with what look like tarot cards scattered around it. A black cat sits on her shoulders, its wide eyed stare fixed on the onlooker.

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AbuelaJacque @abuelachicawis.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Gorgeous

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Samhain, the ancient Hiberno-Celtic feast, marks the moment when the boundary between reality and imagination grows thin. Irish mythology & the natural world inspire my original ink drawings, where the real meets the magical and the imagined comes to life in colour & pattern.

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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

This chart in this morning's NYT is awfully misleading. Suggested edits in red to avoid any confusion.

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The Bureau of Investigative Journalism @tbij.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I work for a major insurer. My industry is fudging the numbers in the face of the climate crisis. www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...

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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.

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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

BREAKING: the court has paused the Trump admin tree removal at East Potomac Golf Links, where we are contesting the dumping of toxic East Wing debris & creating a Trump golf course We raced to court with partners Democracy Forward & Lowell & Assoc, & filed for an emergency hearing--today at 10am!

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 12/10/2026

Particularly enraging edition of Nimby Watch this week.

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

the caption that tells you everything you need to know

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Finally, it's easy to show how it's used for "like farming" - poppyshaggers will do it to get people to like, follow or share, but then use the same account for far right content or whatever. And then claim lots of people must agree with them on THAT, because of high follower count.

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Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Moment To moment To moment

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

‘Cuthbert the Coal Cart’ Artist: John Kenney (Tootles the Taxi, 1956)

Coleman delivers a basket of coal on his back from an anthropomorphic coal trunk on a suburban street

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Waking up to a Carnyx 🐗📢 The talented Letty Stott playing a Carnyx last night alongside the sacred waters of Llyn Cerrig Bach votive lake, Ynys Mon/Anglesey 🎶😮 Have a great Sunday everyone 🍻 🎥 My own - volume up!

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Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

With visual aid. They sleep not.

Frightening underwater creatures somewhat akin to fish skeletons. They are the Stay Belows of Hookland. Pencil drawing. Colour applied.

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

1/ Russian sources expect that as well as purchasing Russian oil and diesel, Donald Trump will provide Russia with spare parts to repair the refineries damaged by Ukrainian drone strikes. They anticipate that Trump's fuel deal will lead to a Russian victory. ⬇️

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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I have been made aware of this, from the Wikipedia entry on Argentinian ants, and now I feel I should make you aware of it. War…war never changes

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Anna Horroridge @anna-orridge.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

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Tim White @twmcltd.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

If you've still managed to avoid the big news from yesterday evening, then you really need to catch up. #TraitorTrump made his pro-Putin move, but Zelenskyy struck back, with words on the US and drones on Putin's oil. Click and scroll here: bsky.app/profile/twmc...

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Tim White @twmcltd.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Day 1690 and Ukraine woke up incredibly angry this morning. "Used", "betrayed" and "disgusted" just 3 of the words most commonly heard, as the former leader of the free world managed to tarnish the reputation of the U.S. yet more. I've never missed a day. This is the daily 🧵

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Richard White @rhwhite.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

A set of Japanese dishes with Kakiemon decoration, circa 1700-1730. And a Meissen dish with similar decoration, copying the Japanese 'textile' pattern, circa 1730. Lovely to compare. Now on display in the Kyushu Ceramic Museum, Arita, Japan through December 6th.

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Ed Henderson @dredhenderson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The Carlisle Heads are two monumental, 3rd century sandstone sculptures discovered in 2023 at the site of a large Roman bathhouse in Carlisle. My photos in Tullie House museum in 2023. #FindsFriday

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Lucy Worsley @lucyworsley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Friends, I’ve been on my travels again, which means a round of ‘Which Cathedral?’ for you. Which cathedral is this??

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Recreation of Richborough Roman coastal fort #Kent c AD 250 The fort enclosed an earlier triumphal arch Anyone who's read Rosemary Sutcliff's 1959 novel *The Lantern Bearers* will know the arch probably became a signal tower © Ivan Lapper 2001 (for the English Heritage guide) #RomanFortThursday

Aerial reconstruction painting of a rectangular Roman fort with a large white marble arch at the centre and buildings, some being demolished, surrounding the triple ditches and sea to the left

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Ian Denton @iand777.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Yellowhammer on Hawthorn - bunting in the autumnal hedge. #Autumn

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Jamie Schler @lifesafeast.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I thought I could already see the majesty of the chocolate cake. - Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past It’s surprising how long it took the French to make a cake. And suddenly, the chocolate almond cake. Here it is. The gâteau au chocolat de Nancy. jamieschler.substack.com/p/gateau-au-...

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Gâteau au chocolat de Nancy

Spoil and waste? The long, curious journey to chocolate cake.

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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Friends, please do go and write reviews of this on Amazon pointing out that it's AI plagiarised shite. Many thanks.

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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is AWFUL — it’s exhausting being an author in the age of mass AI copyright fraud. If you can, support Alex (a real historian) against the fake copy 👇

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James Harland @jmharland.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

@alexharvv.bsky.social works really hard to distil complex academic works on the early medieval world for a popular audience and makes a good chunk of his living from it. It’s not an easy task at all and it’s disgraceful that someone is stealing his work to make a quick buck. Please review & report.

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Alex Harvey @alexharvv.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Oh this can just fuck off An AI-'written' complete copy of my own book is now on Amazon; same title, more-or-less the same blurb, and exactly the same impetus. Reviewers of Amazon, I urge you to absolutely dive-bomb this plagiaristic piece of shit: www.amazon.co.uk/FORGOTTEN-VI...

A hollow copy of my book with a shit AI-generated cover

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Amit Singh @amit-singh.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Pubs for the People event in Manchester 📆 2nd of November @manchesterup.bsky.social x @versobooks.bsky.social 📍TrackBrewing Co - Brewery & Taproom We'll be chatting with Lewis Bassett, author of The Full English, about nationalism, food, pubs and more. t.co/D3AHfRA7VW

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