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Matthew Kelly
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Historian of Britain & Ireland at Northumbria University. Beginning new work on the history of ornithology in twentieth-century Britain.

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Matthew Kelly @matthewjkelly.bsky.social · Dec 23
We can all identify with this harassed fella. ‘The Minor Official’ from George Birmingham’s ‘Irishmen All’ (1913). Illustration by Jack B. Yeats.

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Matthew Kelly @matthewjkelly.bsky.social · 2d
Have you read Frank Zelko’s ‘Make it a Green Peace!’? Some interesting material on exactly this theme…

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Matthew Kelly @matthewjkelly.bsky.social · 2d
Utter disgrace that 2012-2022 student cohort being shafted in this way. Other cohorts pay RPI on the loan (bad enough), they pay +3%.

To think that all of us who work in the sector had a substantial proportion of our salaries financed through this system is deeply troubling.

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Matthew Kelly @matthewjkelly.bsky.social · 7d
Whoop. Brilliant to see this out, Jay. Congratulations!

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Matthew Kelly @matthewjkelly.bsky.social · Jan 10
Sitting by the window, arm and leg against the side of the train, can feel the flex in the structure of carriage as forces load and unload at 300 kmh. An expectedly physical experience.
At seat screen on Spanish train showing speed - 304kmh.

Reposted by Holger Nehring, Matthew Kelly

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Sarah Arens @saraharens.bsky.social · Jan 5
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Matthew Kelly @matthewjkelly.bsky.social · Jan 3
Sky was bluer & pinker than the image suggests.

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Matthew Kelly @matthewjkelly.bsky.social · Jan 3
Posted a couple of dodgy iphone pics on here.

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Matthew Kelly @matthewjkelly.bsky.social · Jan 2
Not all drystone walls are created equal.

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Matthew Kelly @matthewjkelly.bsky.social · Jan 2
Long wondered about the significance of the oak woods at Manaton Rocks. How much of Dartmoor was once like this?

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Matthew Kelly @matthewjkelly.bsky.social · Jan 2
Yes, I wondered if ’Ran’ will ever face a reckoning; also, further evidence of how posh the high spirits of ‘the 60s’ were. Good time to be just down from Oxford. Touch of ‘Marquis’s Son Unused to Wine’ about the court case.

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Matthew Kelly @matthewjkelly.bsky.social · Jan 2
Ah, it’s Wiltshire, I’d mentally placed it in Gloucestershire…

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Matthew Kelly @matthewjkelly.bsky.social · Jan 2
What did you think of the Battle of Castle Combe prog on R4 before Xmas? Fun but historically quite crude, I thought, a richer story to be told.

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Matthew Kelly @matthewjkelly.bsky.social · Jan 2
But are they both the same side of the Glous Somerset border?

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Matthew Kelly @matthewjkelly.bsky.social · Jan 2
Very good!

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Matthew Kelly @matthewjkelly.bsky.social · Jan 2
Interesting…

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Matthew Kelly @matthewjkelly.bsky.social · Jan 2
Beneficiaries!

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Matthew Kelly @matthewjkelly.bsky.social · Jan 2
Did you hear Dyson’s rant about tax and his ‘family business’ when he was guest editor on Today? I do feel for his benefactors.

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Matthew Kelly @matthewjkelly.bsky.social · Jan 2
You’re clearly right to include them. And I need hardly say, there are large arguments to be made about celebrity & land ownership, not least with respect to rewilding, nature restoration, ‘artisanal, small batch’ production, etc.

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Matthew Kelly @matthewjkelly.bsky.social · Jan 2
‘The VCH-ETTC Nexus: Parochialism and Pastoralism and the English Imaginary’, forthcoming in MBH.

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Matthew Kelly @matthewjkelly.bsky.social · Jan 2
Mr Hawkes was the protagonist of a recent episode of Celebrity Escape to the Country.

With his American wife, he wanted to buy a house in the Cotswolds.

Natch.

Reposted by Katrina Navickas

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Matthew Kelly @matthewjkelly.bsky.social · Dec 27
Have you seen this? Commissioned as part of an AHRC project. We were very pleased with it. For full experience, best seen on a digital TV through a browser in a dark room…

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Fawley
“… a powerful poetic reflection on the psychological role of our surroundings and our symbiotic relationship with nature …” (Sheffield DocFest jury statement) Weaving a multitude of voices, both human...
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Matthew Kelly @matthewjkelly.bsky.social · Dec 25
When your Polish mother-in-law takes charge of Wigilia (Xmas eve meal), nothing left to chance. I’m sure she’ll be impressed by today’s M&S Xmas lunch…

Alt text…?
An extensive hand written list of ingredients for the various dishes for a Wigilia Xmas Eve supper.

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Matthew Kelly @matthewjkelly.bsky.social · Dec 22
Yum. That combination, in all its varieties, cannot be beaten.

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Matthew Kelly @matthewjkelly.bsky.social · Dec 22
Tell me about the raisin bread!

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Matthew Kelly @matthewjkelly.bsky.social · Dec 21
You telling us to ‘snap out of the gloom’ Glen carries a certain irony!

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Matthew Kelly @matthewjkelly.bsky.social · Dec 19
When Clag was Clean: The Environmentalism of Railway Modernisation…

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Matthew Kelly @matthewjkelly.bsky.social · Dec 19
I’m not going to spend the evening reading this stuff. Definitely not.

www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/docsummary.p...

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Matthew Kelly @matthewjkelly.bsky.social · Dec 19
Now I know about the trade off between power, maintenance costs, and visibility.

Reposted by Mark Rubin, Du Plessis, Greg Walker , and 1 more

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · Dec 18
;Eliminating funding for 3* research in the next Research Excellence Framework (REF) would benefit Russell Group institutions by about £50 million a year, suggests modelling into how potential changes to funding formulas may play out.' 1/3
‘Beware trade-offs’ of removing REF funding for 3* outputs
Review of formula used to allocate £2 billion QR funding could downgrade or withdraw money for ‘internationally excellent’ research, some fear
www.timeshighereducation.com

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Matthew Kelly @matthewjkelly.bsky.social · Dec 16
Ah, that’s a good reason. I feared it might be a question of propriety.