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Lizzie Seal
@lizzieseal.bsky.social
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Professor of Criminology. Primarily interested in historical criminology and crime history. Current book project is The Mummy in the Cupboard Murder: Forensic Science, Magic and the Gothic Imagination. Views my own

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Lizzie Seal @lizzieseal.bsky.social · 19d
Thank you! I wonder how often the police used mesmerists

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Lizzie Seal @lizzieseal.bsky.social · 19d
Ooh, details

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Lizzie Seal @lizzieseal.bsky.social · 23d
I feel they are ahead of us on that score

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Lizzie Seal @lizzieseal.bsky.social · 24d
One teenage boy to another on the train ‘You shouldn’t talk to your Mum like that’

Then

‘Or you won’t be able to get what you want’

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Lizzie Seal @lizzieseal.bsky.social · 24d
Fish and chips included. Wonder if she’s ever had a pizza

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Lizzie Seal @lizzieseal.bsky.social · Oct 12
Sass

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Lizzie Seal @lizzieseal.bsky.social · Oct 12
Not sure I’d make a version of me? Like why not Sabrina Carpenter if the idea is just a deepfake to deliver content (I realise this might not be the most pressing issue)

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Lizzie Seal @lizzieseal.bsky.social · Oct 8
It’s undoubtedly a strong mixture of

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Lizzie Seal @lizzieseal.bsky.social · Oct 8
What does my daughter want for tea? Chips, onion rings, Brie and olives

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Lizzie Seal @lizzieseal.bsky.social · Oct 6
Hard to get my almost 11 yr old to watch actual TV programmes as opposed to YouTube, but the answer turns out to be Miriam Margolyes

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Lizzie Seal @lizzieseal.bsky.social · Oct 2
‘Talk me through this decision’ is what my tween said to me about my outfit AFTER work (and teaching a class) today

1990s Band or Offhand Comment from My Tween About My Outfit? www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/199...
1990s Band or Offhand Comment from My Tween About My Outfit?
1. Pearl Jam1 2. Old Lady Curtains2 3. Blind Melon3 4. Alice in Chains4 5. Judge Judy in a Bathrobe5 6. Garbage6 7. Smashing Pumpkins7 8. Toad the ...
www.mcsweeneys.net

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Lizzie Seal @lizzieseal.bsky.social · Sep 29
Did you try sneaking on a Dan Brown?

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Lizzie Seal @lizzieseal.bsky.social · Sep 29
Just love being bombarded by policy changes, including how attendance should be recorded, in several different emails on the first day of term 👍

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Lizzie Seal @lizzieseal.bsky.social · Sep 27
I like them, but I also like my kitchen not looking like a murder scene

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Lizzie Seal @lizzieseal.bsky.social · Sep 25
13 beetroots in the veg box. A frankly upsetting amount

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Lizzie Seal @lizzieseal.bsky.social · Sep 21
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Kafka-land at UC Berkeley
The 160 members of the university notified that their names were forwarded to the DOE’s Office for Civil Rights were not informed of any specific allegations against them.
www.thenation.com

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Lizzie Seal @lizzieseal.bsky.social · Sep 18
I used to think the lyric in More Than This was ‘for the leaves in the night’. Prefer it

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Lizzie Seal @lizzieseal.bsky.social · Sep 15
Anyone live in or near Rhyl? There’s a murder case from 1960 that I would like to know whether you’ve heard of

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Lizzie Seal @lizzieseal.bsky.social · Sep 14
Peter Kyle is my MP

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Lizzie Seal @lizzieseal.bsky.social · Sep 14
I don’t understand the willingness- eagerness even - to basically rub their own voters’ noses in it. Like, the right doesn’t really do that

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Lizzie Seal @lizzieseal.bsky.social · Sep 11
I hate the way, these days, ‘both sides of the aisle’ makes pretty run of the mill social democratic politics the left wing equivalent to far right politics. It’s really not. Like, ‘this person is in favour of mass deportation, this person wants better funding for schools - I guess we call it quits’

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Lizzie Seal @lizzieseal.bsky.social · Sep 11
Nervously tugs collar at Sussex

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Lizzie Seal @lizzieseal.bsky.social · Sep 9
Idk about the first two, but the second two are undisputed classics (from a (very) aging indie kid)

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Lizzie Seal @lizzieseal.bsky.social · Sep 8
Call me unpatriotic, but Mr Whippy is what you have when there’s nothing else on offer

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Lizzie Seal @lizzieseal.bsky.social · Sep 8
American Pie was in my dream last night so now it’s my mental soundtrack for at least the next week

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Lizzie Seal @lizzieseal.bsky.social · Sep 5
I know. It’s like I never sit down to write an article thinking ‘This one will be really shit.’ I pretty much always intend it to be good

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Lizzie Seal @lizzieseal.bsky.social · Sep 4
Playing the long game, I suppose

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Lizzie Seal @lizzieseal.bsky.social · Sep 4
Oh what

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Lizzie Seal @lizzieseal.bsky.social · Aug 31
Which were unimpressive because just a fact

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Lizzie Seal @lizzieseal.bsky.social · Aug 31
What from the recent past but before you were born was talked about a lot in your childhood? For me, the moon landings