David Clover
@davidclover.bsky.social
Librarian and student services manager.
Noticing lots of Lion and Sun flags hsve been put up in local shops near me.
January 19, 2026 at 5:57 PM
Noticing lots of Lion and Sun flags hsve been put up in local shops near me.
Wiley not making friends in researchers or library communities right now.
January 19, 2026 at 4:24 PM
Wiley not making friends in researchers or library communities right now.
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A tribunal into the Darlington nurses has been widely reported this week, @leighsus.bsky.social goes behind the headlines to look at 'Christian Concern'. You may have seen their logo on the banners being held by the nurses. Who are they? And why were they involved?
The fundamentalist Christians who bankrolled the Darlington nurses
As a tribunal came to pass, we look into Christian Concern are who appeared alongside the nurses in their case against the County Durham and Darlington NHS Trust
teesside.thelead.uk
January 18, 2026 at 11:34 AM
A tribunal into the Darlington nurses has been widely reported this week, @leighsus.bsky.social goes behind the headlines to look at 'Christian Concern'. You may have seen their logo on the banners being held by the nurses. Who are they? And why were they involved?
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It’s truly a special kind of unhinged psychotic who will come up with “You didn’t give me the Nobel Peace Prize so I’m going to start World War 3.”
January 19, 2026 at 5:46 AM
It’s truly a special kind of unhinged psychotic who will come up with “You didn’t give me the Nobel Peace Prize so I’m going to start World War 3.”
Washing machine broke on Monday (again). New one delivered yesterday afternoon. Now doing ALL the laundry.
January 17, 2026 at 9:52 AM
Washing machine broke on Monday (again). New one delivered yesterday afternoon. Now doing ALL the laundry.
Really exciting project
Delighted to see this recent article in the @smithsonianmag.bsky.social by @donnalferguson.bsky.social on some of the research outputs for the Naming Species in the South Pacific project: www.smithsonianmag.com/history/newl... With thanks to our collaborators, @nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social
Newly Digitized Records Reveal How Indigenous People Shared Their Knowledge of New Zealand's Plants With Captain Cook's Crew
Long-overlooked documents housed at London's Natural History Museum testify to the exchange of information between 18th-century European botanists and their Indigenous counterparts
www.smithsonianmag.com
January 14, 2026 at 7:12 PM
Really exciting project
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A week to go until my talk on sex in the blackout and LGBT+ lives in London during the Second World War, come!
January is bleak with nothing happening EXCEPT you can come to the London Metropolitan Archives for my talk on sexuality in the capital during the Second World War, from the cover of the blackout to LGBT+ lives AND new research on the mackintosh fetish scene:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/men-at-war...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/men-at-war...
Men At War – Lusting Loving Fighting Remembering 1939-1945
Join author Luke Turner to explore how the social upheaval of the Second World War had a profound impact on the sex lives of Londoners.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
January 14, 2026 at 2:10 PM
A week to go until my talk on sex in the blackout and LGBT+ lives in London during the Second World War, come!
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"When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they're not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can 'cause I know I'm gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can?"
-Dolly Parton
-Dolly Parton
January 13, 2026 at 6:41 AM
"When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they're not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can 'cause I know I'm gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can?"
-Dolly Parton
-Dolly Parton
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What the war against London really is about. V good by @robertshrimsley.bsky.social #Giftlink
And on a different note: A v Happy New Year to everyone!
And on a different note: A v Happy New Year to everyone!
The plot against London
Distorted attacks by the populist right are really about demography
giftarticle.ft.com
January 1, 2026 at 11:29 AM
What the war against London really is about. V good by @robertshrimsley.bsky.social #Giftlink
And on a different note: A v Happy New Year to everyone!
And on a different note: A v Happy New Year to everyone!
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Man who bought up 33,000 acres of farmland to avoid tax and moved his business to Singapore after the Brexit he voted for wants your sympathy.
December 28, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Man who bought up 33,000 acres of farmland to avoid tax and moved his business to Singapore after the Brexit he voted for wants your sympathy.
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The British Library Funding Crisis: A Three-Part Analysis – Steven Ponce
The British Library Funding Crisis: A Three-Part Analysis – Steven Ponce
A comprehensive analysis of British Library funding from 1998-2023 revealing a 42% decline from peak levels. Using coefficient of variation analysis, event timeline mapping, and cumulative gap…
stevenponce.netlify.app
December 24, 2025 at 4:41 PM
The British Library Funding Crisis: A Three-Part Analysis – Steven Ponce
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www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Want to say that the fight for trans rights from lush comes from the shop floor level and was fought against by those higher up at every opportunity.
Want to say that the fight for trans rights from lush comes from the shop floor level and was fought against by those higher up at every opportunity.
Lush co-founder takes pride in being a 'woke nerd'
Mark Constantine tells the BBC he enjoys being a woke nerd and discusses why he backs the High Street and family-run businesses.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 22, 2025 at 5:12 PM
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Want to say that the fight for trans rights from lush comes from the shop floor level and was fought against by those higher up at every opportunity.
Want to say that the fight for trans rights from lush comes from the shop floor level and was fought against by those higher up at every opportunity.
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Ouch. Difficult to say "Our previous CEO was protecting a sexual predator" more explicitly than this.
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
December 20, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Ouch. Difficult to say "Our previous CEO was protecting a sexual predator" more explicitly than this.
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Counting down the days. So many people at work looking forward to 2 weeks off and no emails. It has been a tough semester after a tough summer.
December 16, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Counting down the days. So many people at work looking forward to 2 weeks off and no emails. It has been a tough semester after a tough summer.
Sad news
It's official: 400 redundancies and a campus closure. At-risk staff will get a letter next week. Absolutely no serious consideration of any of the union's counterproposals.
Please share widely.
Please share widely.
December 2, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Sad news
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Every dollar JK Rowling makes from Harry Potter is going into bankrolling an extortion racket issuing legal threats to organizations across the UK to purge themselves of trans people or face ruinous lawfare.
i hope every single person who still buys harry potter merch or engages with that franchise is happy that they're literally making girl guides cry
girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...
girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...
December 2, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Every dollar JK Rowling makes from Harry Potter is going into bankrolling an extortion racket issuing legal threats to organizations across the UK to purge themselves of trans people or face ruinous lawfare.
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Antipodean researchers may lose access to content from the world’s biggest scholarly publisher, as the region flexes for a German-style boycott of Elsevier
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/elsevier-boycott-looms-down-under
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/elsevier-boycott-looms-down-under
Elsevier boycott looms Down Under
ANZ universities notch ‘major’ open access agreements with big publishers, but negotiations with the biggest break down
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Antipodean researchers may lose access to content from the world’s biggest scholarly publisher, as the region flexes for a German-style boycott of Elsevier
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/elsevier-boycott-looms-down-under
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/elsevier-boycott-looms-down-under
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Job Alert! DH postdoc at Edinburgh - Post-Doctoral Research Fellow to work on the AHRC-funded project "Voices in Slavery’s Archive: Law, Place and Testimony in British Guiana", which will build a digital archive out of the recorded words of enslaved people. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPN147/p...
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at The University of Edinburgh
Explore an exciting academic career as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.
www.jobs.ac.uk
November 24, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Job Alert! DH postdoc at Edinburgh - Post-Doctoral Research Fellow to work on the AHRC-funded project "Voices in Slavery’s Archive: Law, Place and Testimony in British Guiana", which will build a digital archive out of the recorded words of enslaved people. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPN147/p...
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The EHRC want to exclude women from femal single-sex spaces based on how "female" they look.
This is off the scale sexism and misogyny.
Millions of women will face harassment as result of this insanity.
This is off the scale sexism and misogyny.
Millions of women will face harassment as result of this insanity.
November 20, 2025 at 9:47 AM
The EHRC want to exclude women from femal single-sex spaces based on how "female" they look.
This is off the scale sexism and misogyny.
Millions of women will face harassment as result of this insanity.
This is off the scale sexism and misogyny.
Millions of women will face harassment as result of this insanity.
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Library friends! All Souls College, Oxford, is hiring a Fellow Librarian, and they want them to be an *actual qualified librarian* (who will then be made a fellow). Please share! #libsky www.asc.ox.ac.uk/fellow-libra...
Fellow Librarian | All Souls College
www.asc.ox.ac.uk
November 18, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Library friends! All Souls College, Oxford, is hiring a Fellow Librarian, and they want them to be an *actual qualified librarian* (who will then be made a fellow). Please share! #libsky www.asc.ox.ac.uk/fellow-libra...
Small joys. Managed to head out to garden office before the rain set in. Just hoping for a break in an hours time so I can fetch a cup of tea.
November 14, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Small joys. Managed to head out to garden office before the rain set in. Just hoping for a break in an hours time so I can fetch a cup of tea.
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Oooohhh it seems that the Council of Australasian University Librarians (CAUL) have spat the dummy in negotiations with Elsevier. While other publishers have settled arguably better agreements (e.g. Wiley, T&F). The larger more expensive publishers Elsevier, Springer Nature are playing hard-ball.
November 13, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Oooohhh it seems that the Council of Australasian University Librarians (CAUL) have spat the dummy in negotiations with Elsevier. While other publishers have settled arguably better agreements (e.g. Wiley, T&F). The larger more expensive publishers Elsevier, Springer Nature are playing hard-ball.
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![Cartoon by Stephen Collins for The Guardian. Script as follows:
[scene is Winston Churchill in a bbc studio, giving his 'finest hour' speech]
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CHURCHILL:
The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us.
2
CHURCHILL:
Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war.
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CHURCHILL:
If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free
and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sun-
BBC PRESENTER:
Thank you prime minister
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BBC PRESENTER:
Mr hitler, your response?
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HITLER [in the studio]:
Vell zis is hysterical woke nonsense as usual from mr Churchill
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HITLER:
What we are proposing -
CHURCHILL:
Hang on
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HITLER:
Let me finish - what we are proposing eez a simple power-sharing arrangement -
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CHURCHILL:
What's he doing here
BBC PRESENTER:
It's important we hear both sides of the debate
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CHURCHILL:
This isn't a debate
You don't debate fascists
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HITLER:
Oh here we go with ze Godwins law!
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HITLER:
Why must you people always compare ze things you don't like to 'fascists, Nazis, Hitler'...
CHURCHILL:
Because you are a fascist Nazi Hit-
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HITLER [standing up, saluting]:
RAUSS!
BBC PRESENTER:
*Please* Mr Churchill let him speak
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