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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 4h

I don’t think I’m ever going to get the appeal of pivoting to video for podcasts. I’ve been listening to podcasts for 20 years, and never once have I thought, my God, I need to SEE these people! I’m on a walk or doing the dishes, I don’t need video.

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Dr Vic Clarke @vjctorianist.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

After a string of desk rejections and unsuccessful interviews, I am still looking for work in West Yorkshire/remotely. I have experience in HE teaching and administration, editing and copyediting, research and writing, and customer service! If you know of any roles going please send them my way 🙏

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Dr Vic Clarke @vjctorianist.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The new Sense and Sensibility adaptation (speaking as someone who started reading it many years ago and didn't finish) was lovely. Fiona Shaw absolutely stole every scene she was in!

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 30/09/2026

Our members at Nottingham University commence strike action today over threats to hundreds of jobs and course closures. Please show them solidarity as they head onto picket lines this morning.

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Dr Vic Clarke @vjctorianist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Every day that I clock into the transcription of Victorian records factory I resolve to make my own record-keeping neater and more organised for future scholars. The clerks at Chambers's Journals did not have such forethought.

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Dr Vic Clarke @vjctorianist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I spent the weekend removing the wall from under my stairs and have never felt so powerful.

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Society for the Study of Labour History @sslh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Missed this year's Chartism Day, or wish to revisit the highlights? Mark Crail @markcrail.bsky.social reports on a memorable day at the Friends Meeting House in Warwick. Read his report on the latest research on Chartism here: sslh.org.uk/2026/09/22/c...

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Chartism Day 2026: conference report

Some fifty delegates crowded into the seventeenth-century Friends Meeting House at Warwick on Saturday 19 September for Chartism Day 2026 to hear speakers range across the history and historiograph…

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Dr Vic Clarke @vjctorianist.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Six years ago a mate I really fancied was supposed to move to Scotland and, when his rental flat fell through, I asked him out for a pint. By the time he actually got on the train to move a few weeks later we had both individually decided we were an item.

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Dr Vic Clarke @vjctorianist.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I am grateful that there is a documentary film about the 1980s/90s post-hardcore band Fugazi. I am grateful it was shown in an arts and events space near Central Leeds. I am beyond grateful that this screening marked ten years of Leeds' Cineforum film club 💖

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

We’ve lived through the nearly complete systematic unwinding of the postwar public university, which for all its faults, was premised on the idea that not only aristocrats could be intellectuals, & that having non-aristocratic intellectuals was better for knowledge & therefore better for everyone

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Dr Vic Clarke @vjctorianist.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Finally watching #HouseofGuinness and unfortunately what I have learned is that if a product is repeatedly mentioned in the context of a gritty (yet funny!) drama set in the nineteenth century I will definitely buy it.

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Jessica R Valdez @jrvaldez.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Please spread the word to graduate students about this professional development workshop on Friday. We (the program organizers for this past year's RSVP conference) will share advice on "How to Conference Effectively." rs4vp.org/how-to-confe...

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How to Conference Effectively – RSVP

Get ready for the 2027 conference season by learning tips and tricks from the pros! Our 2026 conference committee are ready to share their expertise.

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Dr Vic Clarke @vjctorianist.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The saga of trying to repaint the kitchen/garden door continues. We've managed to get to what we can only describe as lead whitewash on the garden side of the door. Now to sugar soap and scour the bits that are stuck, including the fact that THE HINGES WERE PAINTED.

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Leeds University Library Galleries @lulgalleries.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Ep. II Life is wasting, death is hasting Grief pulls The Bingley Byron back to his family’s devout Methodism, for now, as Nicholson turns the loss of his young bride into art with power to console the bereaved. Who was The Bingley Byron? Find out through our new podcast series, Death of a Poet. 🎧️

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 10/09/2026

The Radar Key grants access to public toilets and is a small but crucial part of the history of disabled people demanding rights and independence in modern Britain. Kirstie Stage explores the little-known history of this radical object.

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Radical Object: The Radar Key

The Radar Key is a small but crucial part of the history of disabled people demanding rights and independence in modern Britain. Kirstie Stage explores the little-known history of this radical object.

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Mark Crail @markcrail.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Chartism Day coming up a week on Saturday. Please share the below and book your ticket…

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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

On 7 June 1934, the British Union of Fascists held a rally at Olympia, which saw violence meted out against anti-fascist hecklers who infiltrated the crowd. This began a summer of anti-fascists activity, which also highlighted the violent tactics of the BUF. hatfulofhistory.com/2018/09/09/f...

Front cover of pamphlet:

FASCISTS AT OLYMPIA

STATEMENTS FROM:-THE INJURED,
DOCTORS WHO ATTENDED THE INJURED, AND FROM EYEWITNESSES, INCLUDING MR. GEOFFREY LLOYD, M.P.
Mr. GERALD BARRY
MR. A. E. COPPARD MR. A. J. CUMMINGS
Mr. ALDOUS HUXLEY
THE VERY REV. H. R. L. SHEPPARD
MISS VERA BRITTAIN
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

90 years ago, Parliament responded to the rise of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts by passing the Public Order Act, which banned political uniforms, private militias and the threat of force for political objects. The debates make very resonant reading today. Here's the Liberal Robert Bernays. (Short 🧵)

You cannot conduct a fair match when one side is playing with a ball and the other with bombs and, if democracy is to survive, it must be conducted according to definite and recognised rule. One of them is that no political party should resort to any weapon other than reason and argument. The introduction of private armies, as I see it, strikes at the root of democracy. I know it is contended that the Blackshirts are not armed and, therefore, are not an army, but I do not think that argument can be upheld. … Uniformed men in military formation suggest, and are meant to suggest, the idea of force. It is no argument to reply that at this or that demonstration no force is intended. It is an inescapable fact that a uniform in politics symbolises force, to be used either now or in the future.

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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Ultra-right party gain large majority in Germany. Speaking as a historian, this is NOT fine.

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Dr Vic Clarke @vjctorianist.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

If you had asked me last year why I hated landlords, I would have said because ours put out rent up by 40% with no warning. If you ask me now why I hate landlords, it's because I'm taking years off my life stripping layers upon layers of cream gloss paint from our house now.

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Dr Vic Clarke @vjctorianist.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Workforces stop investing in LLMs and start investing in office chairs that can be folded out in different configurations for the hyper mobile and stretchy desk worker.

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Dr Vic Clarke @vjctorianist.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Gloria Steinem didn't always get it right (see: working for the dang CIA in the '60s) but she was my introduction to feminism through a reference in Meg Cabot's The Princess Diaries. Reading about her and her work as a teenager helped me put into words what I saw and felt about gender. RIP.

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Dr Vic Clarke @vjctorianist.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

So excited that this is out in the world - you may hear a familiar voice popping in and out to drop some of the social history background of Nicholson's life and work...

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Dr Vic Clarke @vjctorianist.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

So excited that this is out in the world - you may hear a familiar voice popping in and out to drop some of the social history background of Nicholson's life and work...

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Mark Crail @markcrail.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Dorothy Thompson, John Savile and the making of Chartist studies; Fraternal dining, 1844-47; Class and Chartism - who owns the poetic voice? This and lots more at #ChartismDay. Register for a ticket today at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/chartism-d...

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Dr Vic Clarke @vjctorianist.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The latest issue of @northernhistory.bsky.social, The Radical North 1779-1914 is now out! Edited by Simon Morgan, I am so pleased to have an article in this collection dedicated to my late PhD supervisor and legend of radical history Malcolm Chase. www.tandfonline.com/toc/ynhi20/6...

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Northern History

The Radical North; Guest Editor: Simon Morgan. Volume 63, Issue 1 of Northern History

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Duille @duille.com · 28/08/2026

On this day in 1833 The British Slavery Abolition Act was passed freeing more than 800,000 enslaved people across the British Empire. Abolition Teapot. Josiah Wedgewood. c.1770. Image: BMAG. Wedgwood was a lifelong anti-slavery activist.

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Dr Vic Clarke @vjctorianist.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

My newest article is in preprint! Part of a special issue on The Radical North in honour of the late Malcolm Chase, my article explored Richard Oastler's use of the periodical and pamphlet press to become a Yorkshire political celebrity in the early 19th century: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Richard Oastler and Yorkshire Political Celebrity: Epistolary Activism

This article explores the epistolary activism of Richard Oastler (1791–1861). In his campaigning for the regulation of factory labour, abolition of child labour, and opposition to the New Poor Law,...

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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 25/08/2026

There are so many donations happening right now that the site has crashed.

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Dr Vic Clarke @vjctorianist.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Nothing to bring one quite back to earth after seeing an amazing gig than a four-hour drive taking seven hours and then having to work on an application afterwards!

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Nvidie @dervine7.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

maybe Newton would succeed in the modern-day university after all

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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I think it’s just worth remembering that as the media handwring to justify publicly humiliating and hounding a man to death, just two weeks ago they gave glowing eulogies to another man with a history of domestic violence and brushed off his own statements about having pedophillic impulses

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Quite weird to hear BBC News describe Jason Arday as “the black professor accused of plagiarism”. Is every story about a white professor going to include the relevant adjective?

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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Feel like one question i always ask when reading stuff like this is: will the rich send their kids to trade school?

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

ME: omg i have so much to do today BRAIN: best i can do is none of it so that you don't feel bad for only doing some of it ME: that doesn't make any sense BRAIN: don't tell me how to do my job

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Dr Vic Clarke @vjctorianist.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Catching up on the Big Academic News™️ and my main takeaway is... are hiring committees not actually reading applicants' work?

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Dr Vic Clarke @vjctorianist.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Was reading George Gissing's New Grub Street (1891) before bed last night and dreamed that I was absolutely fighting for Jamie Lee O'Donnell to be cast as Marian in a TV adaptation... which is a frankly bananas choice. So who are we casting? And why the fuck hasn't it been adapted into a miniseries?

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

So it's farewell to the History subject area at the University of Hertfordshire, not the first nor the last to go. One of the best departments in the country, just extinguished like a snap of the fingers. Think of the waste. (1/2)

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Mark Crail @markcrail.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Tickets are now available for Chartism Day 2026. The £12 ticket price includes refreshments and a light buffet lunch (plus all the Chartism you can eat). All are welcome. #C19th #History #Chartism www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/chartism-d...

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Chartism Day 2026

Join us to discover the latest research on Chartism and get the chance to meet fellow Chartist scholars and enthusiasts. All welcome.

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Dr Vic Clarke @vjctorianist.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Using this to remind folk that I am available for freelance and part-time projects! I am very qualified and competent; please hire me to teach, research, edit, or administrate so that I can afford my wedding.

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Dr Vic Clarke @vjctorianist.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

In an attempt to cut costs in my skincare routine, I have replaced my The Ordinary retinol serum with Superdrug's own brand. Unfortunately the latter smells like fresh porridge, which had the effect of making me hungry, awake, and craving blueberries when applying it before bed.

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Dr Vic Clarke @vjctorianist.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Reflecting on a wonderful three days at #RSVP2026 @rs4vp.org. It's a scholarly community that is welcoming and collegial, and devoted to supporting scholarship at all levels and from all different paths. My heart is full and my brain is buzzing after needing out with friends old and new.

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Dr Vic Clarke @vjctorianist.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

My heart is warmed (literally) to be in a packed room for the panel on Masculinity and the Working Classes (mostly Chartism!) for the last session of @rs4vp.org #RSVP2026 #PrintInMotion!

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Marie Léger-St-Jean @marielsj.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

@jessicaotoole.bsky.social asks what undisciplining can look like in practice. Had never heard the term! Here's a definition: “a liberating act of temporarily suspending disciplinary regimes and practices in order to develop creative research (questions, ideas, and approaches)” #RSVP2026

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PARSE

PARSE is a research publishing platform committed to the movement back and forth between analysis and creation, between meaning-making and the analytics of meaning, between construction and re-constru...

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Dr Vic Clarke @vjctorianist.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Absolutely loving Francesca Colonnese's paper on media reports of Robert Browning's wax cylinder reporting, in which periodicals promoted both Browning's poetic legacy and the new technology of Edison's phonograph. @rs4vp.org #RSVP2026 #MovementsAndMigrations #PrintInMotion

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Dr Vic Clarke @vjctorianist.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I loved doing this work - super excited to develop it further and to get feedback from Cobbe scholars!

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Dr Vic Clarke @vjctorianist.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Day 2 of @rs4vp.org #MovementsandMigrations #PrintinMotion in Dublin. I'm at panel 3B, Uneven Mobilities this morning.

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Dr Vic Clarke @vjctorianist.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Settling in for the first panel of @rs4vp.org #MovementsAndMigrations in fabulous Dublin! Looking forward to the range of ECR papers in 1D, Tracking Change in Print: Food, News, and Politics.

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