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Catherine Sloan
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Historian of childhood & youth, Oxford. Love podcasts, bad TV, sugar. Ireland & Scotland. she/her
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kghist.bsky.social
Swedish musician Elfrida Andree (1841-1929) is #Radio3 Composer of the Week 🎉 Andree has a lot of fans on here. A brilliant composer (I especially love her piano trios) her output included opera, symphonies and much more. Also a pioneering female musician and feminist activist.

#Womencomposers
emmaharding.bsky.social Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · 8d
I confess I knew nothing of Swedish composer Elfrida Andrée’s (1841-1929) music until producer Luke Whitlock suggested her. But then I went down an #Andrée rabbit hole - and what riches! Join Donald Macleod for Composer of the Week 4pm Mon-Fri @BBCRadio3 #classicalmusic www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Photograph of composer Elfrida Andrew
November 10, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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crashannburn.bsky.social
“Baby” I say, dragging my butt across the carpet. “It’s not a worm”
annabower.bsky.social Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 1d
“Baby, don’t worry,” he said. “It’s not a worm.”

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I did not like to think about it just as later I would not like to think about the worm in his brain that other people found so funny. I loved his brain. I hated the idea of an intruder therein. Others thought he was a madman; he was not quite mad the way they thought, but I loved the private ways that he was mad. I loved that he was insatiable in all ways, as if he would swallow up the whole world just to know it better if he could. He made me laugh, but I winced when he joked about the worm. "Baby, don't worry," he said. "It's not a worm. ." A doctor he trusted had reviewed the scans of his brain obtained by The New York Times, he said, and concluded that the shadowy figure was likely not a parasite at all. He sighed. It was too late to interfere with what had already vaulted from the sphere of meme to the sphere of screwy legend, but at least I did not have to worry about the worm that was not a worm in his brain.
November 17, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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davidwearing.bsky.social
Behind the weasel words and prevaricating euphemisms, Britain's politics of immigration are rooted in an antipathy to the presence of negatively racialised people in this country *on any terms*. If we'd confronted that reality decades ago, and faced it down, we wouldn't be where we are now.
cjayanetti.bsky.social Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 3d
the video goes on and on about illegal immigration and yet the new proposal will target legal migration by confirmed refugees
November 15, 2025 at 11:11 AM
csloanox.bsky.social
Dublin schoolchildren on the President - past and present vm.tiktok.com/ZNdKuoXQU/ #histchild
TikTok - Make Your Day
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November 11, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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jessothomson.co.uk
"As someone working in law, it’s heresy to say this, and it might even kill my chances of a career... But as a trans person, and someone fighting for the rights of my community, I refuse to remain silent. To me it just seems obvious: a heavily prejudiced society produces prejudiced institutions."
It’s no surprise that only 31% of trans people trust a legal system built to enforce prejudice, says Jess O’Thomson.
It’s no surprise that only 31% of trans people trust a legal system built to enforce prejudice, says Jess O’Thomson.
goodlawproject.org
November 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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heatherpaterson.co.uk
GLASGOW (TDOR)
7pm Thu 20th Nov
Glasgow University Cloisters
November 11, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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cemsexeter.bsky.social
We are delighted to welcome Dr Kate Gibson (Manchester) on Wednesday 12 November, 3.30-5pm in Forum Seminar Room 10 and on Teams for the following CEMS seminar:

'Fostering and Adoption in Eighteenth-Century Britain'.

Full description attached. Please join us! @lsangha.bsky.social
A text description of ‘Fostering and Adoption in Eighteenth-Century Britain’
November 10, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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newadrian.bsky.social
I guess this the season for ‘what’s up with Remembrance these days’ so i suppose i should suggest an analytical framework. Three phases
1/At the early 1990s Remembrance Day was becoming pretty low key but it starts a big revival in 1994. This was initially to do with the D-Day 50th anniversary.
November 6, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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katherineschof8.bsky.social
Horrific, stupid news from @uniofnottingham.bsky.social — they are closing their music department. Apparently they all found out suddently in a meeting yesterday.

It is one of the best music departments in the country — solidarity with my colleagues and their students

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Music and modern languages courses suspended at University of Nottingham
In a statement the institution also says it is
www.bbc.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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phyphor.one-dash.org
Labour, Wes Streeting and Keir Starmer specifically, have made the NHS cause intentional harm to trans people.

This is so much worse than before and in a just world they would face consequences.
sophiemolly.co.uk Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 12d
"They know this is likely to cause suicides. They don’t care! We jumped through every hoop for years and we followed what the government asked of us. I’m in Surrey, her doctor is in Brighton, you can imagine what this is doing to us."

northwestbylines.co.uk/news/health/...
NHS threatens GP practice over trans care
With NHS reply – a GP practice in Brighton and Hove is under investigation for legally providing gender affirming care to trans teens
northwestbylines.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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tricksterprince.bsky.social
Here we go - just imagine, Seven Dials in the 1920s...
empiremagazine.bsky.social Empire Magazine @empiremagazine.bsky.social · 14d
Helena Bonham-Carter, Martin Freeman, and Mia McKenna-Bruce lead the starry trailer for Agatha Christie's Seven Dials, a new Netflix murder-mystery series.

WATCH THE TRAILER: www.empireonline.com/tv/news/agat...
November 5, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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lottelydia.bsky.social
This is disastrous; hospices do such important work, not only to give people a good death, but to provide pain management and other services to people with terminal conditions. The staff in hospices work so, so hard and the fact that these institutions depend on charity to operate is a scandal.
October 30, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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editor.scot
I mean, she very much did do that
thebookseller.com The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 14d
Pan Macmillan has apologised to its former author Kate Clanchy three years on from parting company with the writer after she was accused of racial stereotyping, an accusation she denies 👇
Pan Macmillan apologises to Kate Clanchy three years after controversy
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November 4, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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philippaeast.bsky.social
TransActual have put together these handy FAQs to respond to MPs (or anyone else) who is still struggling to get their head round why the EHRC’s draft Code of Practice would be so devastating for the trans community.
Feel free to share, download, print, whatever!
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FAQs in Response to the Draft EHRC Code of Practice and Supreme Court Ruling We are calling for the EHRC’s “bathroom ban” to be scrapped, and the Code re-written to allow for trans inclusion in single sex services according to lived gender. Below are some common questions that might be raised by MPs (or others), and possible responses you can give to explain why this is needed. QUESTION “The Supreme Court ruling only affects those few thousand trans people who have Gender Recognition Certificates (GRCs). Otherwise, trans people retain all the rights and protections they have always had under the Equality Act 2010.” RESPONSE The Supreme Court ruling disapplies the effect of a GRC to the entirety of the Equality Act 2010. This means that there no longer exists any mechanism whatsoever for trans people to be legally recognised in their acquired gender under the UK’s most significant piece of equalities legislation. This not only affects those trans people who currently hold a GRC, but also the potentially hundreds of thousands of trans people who would wish to obtain a GRC in the future. For this reason, ILGA-Europe removed all legal gender recognition points from the UK this year, meaning that the UK now sits at an all-time low on the ILGA-Europe Rainbow map. There are many reasons why trans people do not apply, or have not yet applied for a GRC. Many report that the UK’s medicalised process for legal gender recognition remains humiliating, invasive and inaccessible for many. In this, the UK is out of step with international best practice, which recommends a model based on self-determination RESPONSE The Supreme Court ruling, as interpreted by the Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), does not just affect those with a GRC, but all those with the protected characteristic of gender reassignment.
October 29, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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tricksterprince.bsky.social
Interested in the history of Seven Dials or London or the 1920s and 1930s? I'm doing some walking tours of the Dials with @stanfordstravel.bsky.social on Sat 15 Nov.

There's loads to see, but Seven Dials is so small you don't need to walk far.

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A 1930 picture of the Cambridge Theatre, Seven Dials in Matt Houlbrook's book Songs of Seven Dials photographed in front of the Cambridge Theatre, Seven Dials in October 2025.
October 29, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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annacusack.bsky.social
If anyone needs a freelance researcher in London (or across the UK), I'm your person!
I've reasonable rates, lots of archive experience & great recommendations from academics globally. I'm only teaching 1 module this term, as the job market is what it is. Therefore, I'm open to all work. DM me!
October 3, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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ohlookbirdies.bsky.social
Dutch libraries have invented an AI chatbot that can recommend books to you

You know what else can recommend books to you

~a fucking librarian~
October 27, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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adambienkov.bsky.social
This is what tolerance of anti-migrant political rhetoric leads to. A surge in racial abuse against nurses and care workers. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Racist incidents against UK nurses surge by 55%
Royal College of Nursing calls on government to stop using anti-migrant rhetoric, which it says emboldens racist behaviour
www.theguardian.com
October 27, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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wombatscholar.bsky.social
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...
Assistant Professor Social Studies of Medicine
This is a joint post 65% Sociology, 35% HPS. The Departments of Sociology and History and Philosophy of Science are looking to recruit an Assistant Professor in the Social Studies of Medicine in a
www.cam.ac.uk
October 27, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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katrinanavickas.bsky.social
A reminder that my book on the history of protest is now published. It is superbly produced with a great cover. Buy it now from @reaktionbooks.bsky.social
Contested Commons Formidably erudite, compellingly argued, and dryly humorous, Contested Commons will change the way you think about the politics of space, the "myth of the commons", and the history of England since the eighteenth century: MATTHEW KELLy, author of The Women Who Saved the English Countryside "Starting with Kennington Common, and ranging from Steeple Bumpstead to Sheffield, Stonehenge and Brixton, and with a cast that includes ramblers, ranters, revolutionaries and ravers, this is a superb, sweeping but fine-grained history. It's also a highly necessary, politically urgent reminder of what public space is - places for everyone, owned by everyone, accessible to everyone, whether carefully tended or wild - and what it isn't, the tradition of pseudo-public space that runs from Victorian parks to privatised malls.' OWEN HATHERLEY, author of A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain
October 27, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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thatdocphoenix.com
I sometimes think about the woman on Hinge who said she used ChatGPT as her therapist and dating coach and then I die inside again
tenderchris.bsky.social Chris B. @tenderchris.bsky.social · 24d
Please kill me
October 26, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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donalh.bsky.social
Living for the Daily Mail's rage.
October 26, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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rebeccawynter.bsky.social
Taps the sign:"Being racist doesn't actually make you racist" is a ridiculous and deceitful position extolled by politicians and media alike.
adambienkov.bsky.social Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 23d
Conservative Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp repeatedly refusing to say that he thinks Reform MP Sarah Pochin saying she doesn't like seeing black people on TV was racist.

Says he wouldn't use her "language" but it's right for her to express "legitimate concerns" about migration
October 26, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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kghist.bsky.social
Female leaders on the East African coast, pre colonialism
October 24, 2025 at 8:11 PM