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Lesley A Hall
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Archivist, historian, reader, Londoner, feminist
@erinacean
@erinacean@h-net.social
www.lesleyahall.net
https://lesleyahall.blogspot.com/

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Lesley A Hall @erinacean.bsky.social · 7h
This was not quite the last collection I catalogued before my retirement from Wellcome: wellcomecollection.org/works/hrsyzq94 He began his research in the 1970s.

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Lesley A Hall @erinacean.bsky.social · 8h
Okay, MAYBE he can do this, but I am reminded of that scam where somebody threatens to reveal one's online dodgy porn viewing (what online porn viewing?) which they have somehow discovered, to The World (who? would they care?) unless paid $$$ in bitcoin.
jasonsanford.bsky.social Jason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social · 1d
In a new email received yesterday, this scammer said "if you continue to ignore my messages, I might do something you would regret for the rest of your life. I already have access to your book, and instead of giving it a positive review, I will leave a negative one and damage its reputation." 2/

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Nick Hubble @thehubble101.bsky.social · 8h
The 2010s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction is currently available on the Bloomsbury website at a 30 per cent discount price of £20.29 until Sunday night. This is a flash sale across most Bloomsbury books.
The 2010s
This volume relates the British fiction of the decade to the contexts in which it was written and received in order to examine and explain contemporary trends,…
www.bloomsbury.com

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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 9h
Royal Mail delivered letters from your doctor, family and friends, 6 days a week for decades.

Then it was privatised. Now it can't even deliver 3 days a week.

Instead they prioritise profitable parcel deliveries. Take Royal Mail back into public ownership. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Royal Mail staff tell BBC letters sit undelivered as firm prioritises parcels
Staff and customers tell the BBC prioritising parcels can mean missed NHS appointments and late payment fines.
www.bbc.com

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Fishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social · 9h
We've been on the Northern Line. The idea that it's 2000 years old seems completely reasonable.
A screen snip. At the top is a sentence pointing out that the Northern Line tube line closely follows the route of the Roman Road, Stane Street. Beneath are two maps, on the left Stane street is shown with settlements including Morden, Tooting, Clapham and Kennington marked. On the right is another map with the modern northern line shown. All of the settlements on the stane street map are duplicated on the tube map.

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Women's History Network @womenshistnet.bsky.social · 10h
This @lgbthm.bsky.social read on the blog about Recovering “Lesbian” Voices in the Middle Ages by Hannah Victoria Johnson
womenshistorynetwork.org/recovering-l...
#LGBTHM #LGBTQ
Recovering “Lesbian” Voices in the Middle Ages: Twelfth and Thirteenth Century Germanic Mystics – Hannah Victoria Johnson
There is, as E. Ann Matter put it in her article “My Sister, My Spouse”, a real “difficulty of speaking about women’s lives in a society which was solidly patriarchal […] and of speaking about sexu…
womenshistorynetwork.org

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Justin Hancock @justinhancock.bsky.social · 10h
In the research into online sex and relationships young people are always saying how much they value user generated content from social media (but that of they want advice they'll go to websites like BISH). They need safe spaces online to do this (would also recommend The Mix and Scarleteen), but
skeletonoscar.bsky.social Oscaaarrrgh @skeletonoscar.bsky.social · 11h
I live in a rural part of the UK & volunteer at a group for LGBTQ+ young people.

Many have been out of education, mostly because of being bullied or ostracised by their peers. When they make friends at group they swap social media details.

Can't stop thinking about how a ban would devastate them.

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Shell @risu.bsky.social · 10h
Banning social media is meaningless when school tech shares data with social media companies and third parties

So a child reaches 16 and already has an entire shadow profile ready for them, not to mention what is known to HR systems and advertisers.

Good tech journalism would say this

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Gender and Justice Journal @genderandjustice.bsky.social · 10h
🌟 Enjoy free access to our journal editors’ top articles from recent and upcoming issues. Access these articles for free until 30 April. Congrats to all featured authors! bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/subject/gj-e...

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George Severs @georgesevers.bsky.social · 10h
There is a February sale on at @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social which means you can get my book Radical Acts: HIV/AIDS Activism in Late Twentieth-Century England for just over £16. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/radical-a...
Radical Acts
Drawing on activist campaign literature and materials, broadcast media, and new oral history interviews, Severs reconstructs and discusses the overlooked world…
www.bloomsbury.com

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History of Parliament @histparl.bsky.social · 11h
This evening, Dr Cara Gathern will be speaking at the next IHR Parliaments, Politics and People seminar on Representations of Women and Sovereign Power at the New Palace of Westminster.

📍 Senate House, London / Online
⏱️5:30-6:30pm

Find out more about the paper and how to attend below:
'Unobtrusive But Not Unimportant': Representations of Women and Sovereign Power at the New Palace of Westminster, 1841-1870 - The History of Parliament
Dr Cara Gathern of UK Parliament Heritage Collections, will be discussing representations of women and sovereign power at the New Palace of Westminster, 1841-1870.
historyofparliament.com

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 12h
‘it was not designed by a big-name architect but by a local council designer, Norman Engleback of the London County Council’
www.ft.com/content/93a0...
Once reviled, now celebrated, London’s Southbank Centre is a genuine civic wonder
The cultural complex’s national importance has belatedly been recognised
www.ft.com

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 13h
Another blow for the ascientific disaster that is the Cass Review: "It is profoundly misguided to cast health care based on low-certainty evidence as bad care or as care driven by ideology, and low-certainty evidence as bad science."
Trans health care "skeptics" lost a key ally—now they're having a meltdown
The godfather of evidence-based medicine on rejecting anti-trans "misuse" of his work.
www.motherjones.com

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Justine Pick @justinepick.bsky.social · 13h
Lecturer in Ancient History and Classics position
Full time and permanent 👇
#skystorians
Lecturer in Ancient History and Classics at Birkbeck, University of London
An opportunity for an academic position as a Lecturer in Ancient History and Classics is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.
www.jobs.ac.uk

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 15h
Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%.

(Published Feb. 2025)
Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.
ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.
www.propublica.org

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Cake or Death @johngcole.bsky.social · 17h
every time someone says something like "there weren't trans people when I was a kid" or some shit about trans people being a new thing because WOKE all I can think is "motherfucker Dog Day Afternoon was made in 1975"

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madeline odent @oldenoughtosay.com · 19h
The drunk uncle theory.

You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there
youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 19h
agree with this (hah) but also think a particular mistake the left made for a long time online, and still makes to an extent, is failing to understand that the person whose mind you may actually change is the one reading the argument you're having, not the one you're arguing with
anamariecox.bsky.social Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 20h
The secret to engaging in social media debate is knowing you will never win anyone over. The best you can hope for is to have people who already agree with tell you you're awesome. You might great a dopamine thrill from the righteousness of your anger! Fine benefits, all. But you will never win.

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Liz Rees @lizarees.bsky.social · 19h
Sorry to hear that Michael Cook, one-time City Archivist of Newcastle as a precursor to a long and distinguished career, has died at the age of 94 news.liverpool.ac.uk/2026/02/11/o...

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Andrew Perfors @perfors.net · 21h
When people hear "it saved my life", there’s a presumption made that we mean without it we would quite literally die. And for many of us, that's absolutely true... But for those of us who rely upon it regularly.... it means our lives are made so much better now that they actually feel worth living."
jessdkant.bsky.social Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 22h
Since Cass is again making the rounds for expounding on all the ways we might make fewer trans kids, here’s a piece on how this discourse erases the lives of trans people doing extraordinary specifically because they embraced who they are. Whose rich lives wouldn’t have happened in the closet.
In defense of trans quality of life — Jessica Kant
Today trans people exist in an atmosphere where it has become normal for strangers to demand of us that we extemporaneously provide inarguable, indisputable proof that without very safe medical care w...
jessk.org

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 23h
Fascinating chart with one outlier: Warren Buffett.

At the low end, giving 0.06% of one's wealth is equivalent to:

Net worth -> Lifetime Giving
50K->$30
100K->$60
500K->$300
$1M->$600

Most folks give far more by % in a *single year*.

www.forbes.com/sites/forbes...
America's Richest People Are Not its Most Generous

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Durham Institute for Medical Humanities @durhamimh.bsky.social · 1d
Next month we're excited to be running a free 3-day Measurement Heretics workshop, bringing together a variety of perspectives to guide the future of ethical, meaningful health data ⚖️

📆 11-13 March (Day 1 is hybrid, days 2 & 3 are in-person)

More info 👇️
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/measuremen...
Measurement Heretics Workshop: Being, Meaning, and Measuring Well
This 3-day workshop brings together international & interdisciplinary perspectives to guide the future of ethical, meaningful health data.
www.eventbrite.co.uk

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madeline odent @oldenoughtosay.com · 1d
been a minute since I’ve posted The Manifesto so: trans and disabled rights are human rights, abolish ice and defund the police, free Palestine, fuck antisemitism, give the land and artefacts back, sex work is work, abortion is healthcare, join your union, get your vaccines, corgis are perfect

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Jason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social · 1d
In a new email received yesterday, this scammer said "if you continue to ignore my messages, I might do something you would regret for the rest of your life. I already have access to your book, and instead of giving it a positive review, I will leave a negative one and damage its reputation." 2/

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D. Hicks @danhicks.bsky.social · 1d
www.thehastingscenter.org/more-and-bet...

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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 1d
"if they socially transition too early we think they can get locked onto a trajectory that may not have been the correct natural trajectory for them"

Direct quote.

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Matt Houlbrook @tricksterprince.bsky.social · 1d
If you're in the UK I'm going to be on Thinking Allowed on BBC Radio 4 tomorrow (Tues 17 Feb) afternoon - talking about gentrification in Detroit and London with the wonderful Laurie Taylor and
@sjccorn.bsky.social.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Thinking Allowed, Gentrification in Detroit and London
Failed gentrification in Detroit and the human cost of urban redevelopment in 1920s London
www.bbc.co.uk

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Lucie Matthews-Jones @luciejones83.bsky.social · 1d
I’m plotting and planning a presentation for Arts and Humanities PhD students for an EDI conference. I’m speaking on disability. I would love to show what good and great things departments or unis are doing for disabled PhD students. Can you share anything with me? #highereducation #PhDchat

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Lesley A Hall @erinacean.bsky.social · 1d
Coda: I have encountered significant collections where there is not even a decent online catalogue to consult in advance of turning up.

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Lesley A Hall @erinacean.bsky.social · 1d
- there's also, speaking as former archivist, all the stuff still stashed away in attics, cellars, garages, garden sheds.... I think that's really a misleadingly sanguine figure and researchers should not be misled into believing 'everything is digitised now'. 2/2
coda to follow

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Lesley A Hall @erinacean.bsky.social · 1d
If that doesn't include material that's uncatalogued but actually held by repositories - which some years ago was I think a rolling figure of some one-third of their holdings across the board, probably more now due to resource constraints 1/2