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Freya Marshall Payne
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Orwell Prize-winning writer and DPhil researching women's homelessness at Oxford. I am especially interested in oral history and life-writing. I've written for the TLS, Guardian, Prospect etc | she/her
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@peteapps.bsky.social could I please DM you? Will email also but it is important. Thank you
October 30, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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New online: The Gay Liberation Front (GLF) collection is now available on LSE Digital Library! We’ve digitised and published the GLF Diaries and the GLF newspaper Come Together. Further series from the archives will be added as digitisation continues.
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Cover image of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) Diary, December 21-30, 1972. A purple and green poster-style image featuring text and a leafy plant design.
October 14, 2025 at 11:16 AM
fmarshallpayne.bsky.social
Thinking about the Barbara Hepworth sculptures hidden away in Oxford
September 29, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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profjanegreen.bsky.social
NEW!
In Liverpool for Labour Conference...

Starmer is concentrating on Reform but Labour shouldn't mistake their threat on the right, even in Leave voting heartlands.

Our new analysis w/ @martamiori.bsky.social explains:

politicscentre.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
Article - Nuffield Politics Research Centre
politicscentre.nuffield.ox.ac.uk
September 28, 2025 at 11:06 AM
fmarshallpayne.bsky.social
Read this:
rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · Sep 14
To be a person of no consequence, to speak without power, is a bewilderingly awful condition, as though you were a ghost, a beast, as though words died in your mouth, as though sound no longer traveled. It is almost worse to say something and have it not matter than to be silent.
To be a person of consequence is to matter. If you matter, you have rights, and your words serve those rights and give you the power to bear witness, make agreements, set boundaries. If you have consequence, your words possess the authority to determine what does and does not happen to you, the power that underlies the concept of consent as part of equality and ­ self-​­ determination. Even legally women’s words have lacked consequence: in only a few scattered places on earth could women vote before the twenti- eth century, and not so many decades ago, women rarely became lawyers and judges; I met a Texas woman whose mother was among the first women in their region to serve on a jury, and I was an adult when the first woman was appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court. Until a few decades ago, wives throughout much of the world, including the United States, lacked the right to make con- tracts and financial decisions or even to exercise jurisdiction over their own bodies that overrode their husbands’ ability to do so; in some parts of the world, a wife is still property under the law, and others choose her husband. To be a person of no consequence, to speak without power, is a bewilderingly awful condition, as though you were a ghost, a beast, as though words died in your mouth, as though sound no longer traveled. It is almost worse to say some- thing and have it not matter than to be silent.
September 15, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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The UK government is using the full force of the law against those protesting genocide in Gaza but will not move against convicted felons and US citizens advocating regime change. Now is the time for moral courage @ukparliament.parliament.uk
Bottles thrown at police as 100 officers clash with ‘unite the kingdom’ marchers – UK politics live
Met police estimate 110,000 people attended rally, with smaller number of counter-protesters ‘penned in’
www.theguardian.com
September 13, 2025 at 7:28 PM
fmarshallpayne.bsky.social
Is substack still enabling Nazi newsletters? I've been wanting to share some longer ideas in a semi-informal space; what are ppl using for this? WordPress / Medium have been good at different times for various projects, but I don't know about the personal blog in 2025...
September 13, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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I'm supervising a great History student who's looking at policy related to homelessness in postwar England. He's doing oral history interviews with ppl who've experienced homelessness and/or provided support. He's especially interested in what they think about govt. Can you help?
February 7, 2024 at 2:53 PM
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I'm delighted to be giving a paper at the @ihr.bsky.social Contemporary British History seminar tomorrow evening on the latter years of Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp, thinking about the endurance of feminist activism & connections with 1990s environmentalism in particular.

Register here
'Widening the web': the latter years and afterlives of Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp (1981-2000...
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February 6, 2024 at 7:39 PM
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ihr.bsky.social
Applications for the Veale-Straschnov Doctoral Studentship are now live for new doctoral students. This award provides support for mature students, aged 25 and over, seeking to begin a research degree at the Institute. Deadline 31 July 2024 buff.ly/3wdqLJY
PhD Student Funding
The IHR offers funding opportunities for students to undertake a postgraduate research degree at the Institute.
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February 6, 2024 at 2:29 PM
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fmarshallpayne.bsky.social
The 2024 Orwell Prizes are open - including the Orwell Prize for Reporting Homelessness, which returns for a second year! I'm very happy to be on the judging panel and look forward to getting reading. Please submit work on homelessness in all its forms: www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-p...
Rules | The Orwell Foundation
There are currently five prizes: The Orwell Prize for Political Writing awarded to a work of non-fiction. ‘Political’ is defined in the broadest sense, including entries addressing political, soci...
www.orwellfoundation.com
November 16, 2023 at 3:05 PM
fmarshallpayne.bsky.social
The 2024 Orwell Prizes are open - including the Orwell Prize for Reporting Homelessness, which returns for a second year! I'm very happy to be on the judging panel and look forward to getting reading. Please submit work on homelessness in all its forms: www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-p...
Rules | The Orwell Foundation
There are currently five prizes: The Orwell Prize for Political Writing awarded to a work of non-fiction. ‘Political’ is defined in the broadest sense, including entries addressing political, soci...
www.orwellfoundation.com
November 16, 2023 at 3:05 PM