Prof Tracey Hill
@tracelarkhall.bsky.social
Sweary prof, iconoclast, and non-league football nut (Larkhall Athletic FC 💙). Lives in early modern London; citizen & Founder. Bossed by cats. I mean it about the swearing 🤬
"Leartef" 🙄
So, it looks as if we at REP are going to have to revise our opinions as to who played who in the original production of Hamlet.
#Hamnet #Shakespeare
#Hamnet #Shakespeare
February 13, 2026 at 10:23 PM
"Leartef" 🙄
Reposted by Prof Tracey Hill
Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
Stop Palantir taking over our public services!
Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.
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February 13, 2026 at 8:48 PM
Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
You'll be amazed - AMAZED - to hear that Simon Jordan was on GB"News" defending Ratcliffe
a man is carrying another man on his shoulders in front of a garbage can that says city
ALT: a man is carrying another man on his shoulders in front of a garbage can that says city
media.tenor.com
February 13, 2026 at 10:25 AM
You'll be amazed - AMAZED - to hear that Simon Jordan was on GB"News" defending Ratcliffe
Lovely cheery daffs
February 13, 2026 at 8:42 AM
Lovely cheery daffs
@essexuni.bsky.social alumna here - and I'm no longer proud of that association. Shame on you, Essex. All that radical past, ruined.
We're still facing 400+ job losses, the loss of a campus, the closure of our foundation year department, and many more departments cut to the bone. Please sign our petition to help stop the cuts, save jobs, and defend our students' education!
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February 12, 2026 at 8:20 PM
@essexuni.bsky.social alumna here - and I'm no longer proud of that association. Shame on you, Essex. All that radical past, ruined.
The vast majority of the records from *the capital of the UK* haven't been digitised...
Right, another key thing that historians do is working with important records that have not been digitized.
And the vast majority of the world’s records *have not been digitized* and thus do not exist in any format that LLMs/AI can work with.
And the vast majority of the world’s records *have not been digitized* and thus do not exist in any format that LLMs/AI can work with.
it's literally impossible for an LLM to do a historian's job
it's not even LLMs sucking it's that they need data input to do anything and where's that data supposed to be coming from without historians
never met a computer that can dig through a thousand year old book in a library
it's not even LLMs sucking it's that they need data input to do anything and where's that data supposed to be coming from without historians
never met a computer that can dig through a thousand year old book in a library
February 12, 2026 at 1:51 PM
The vast majority of the records from *the capital of the UK* haven't been digitised...
One of the best views in the country. Glorious Dorset 🥰
Some Iron Age ramparty goodness from Abbotsbury Castle hillfort, high above the villages of West #Dorset
Here looking NW along the coast to West Bay and Bridport and SW along Chesil Beach to Weymouth and Portland
We love it here
📷 Feb 2023
Happy #HillfortsWednesday !
Here looking NW along the coast to West Bay and Bridport and SW along Chesil Beach to Weymouth and Portland
We love it here
📷 Feb 2023
Happy #HillfortsWednesday !
February 11, 2026 at 7:05 PM
One of the best views in the country. Glorious Dorset 🥰
Are "non-conventional" flies on the menu?
Michelin two-star chef in hygiene row hits out at ‘prehistoric’ inspectors
Michelin two-star chef in hygiene row hits out at ‘prehistoric’ inspectors
Gareth Ward of Ynyshir in Wales vows to fight on after inspection report is disclosed revealing concerns over flies
A chef whose Michelin two-star restaurant in Wales was given a one-star hygiene rating has claimed the inspection regime is “prehistoric” as it emerged officers raised concerns about dead flies and the potential for cross-contamination.
Gareth Ward said the inspectors did not understand what he and his colleagues were trying to do at Ynyshir, a restaurant with rooms near Machynlleth. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
February 11, 2026 at 6:34 PM
Are "non-conventional" flies on the menu?
Hateful piece of shit. He and Man Utd deserve each other.
Would be good if the Prime Minister and/or Home Secretary would for once come out and describe this as the unadulterated racism and xenophobia it so clearly is.
'The UK has been colonised by immigrants', says INEOS boss and Man Utd co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe
February 11, 2026 at 5:50 PM
Hateful piece of shit. He and Man Utd deserve each other.
Sent a furious message to Customer Services. Got a quick yadda yadda response which almost entirely missed the point. Still fuming.
From £33 in total to £65 in total. Nearly 100% increase.
February 11, 2026 at 2:58 PM
Sent a furious message to Customer Services. Got a quick yadda yadda response which almost entirely missed the point. Still fuming.
So @gwr.com have sneakily changed the timings of, and almost doubled the cost of, advance singles. Good work, chaps, make my unremunerated REED work even more expensive. Excellent.
February 11, 2026 at 11:27 AM
So @gwr.com have sneakily changed the timings of, and almost doubled the cost of, advance singles. Good work, chaps, make my unremunerated REED work even more expensive. Excellent.
Reposted by Prof Tracey Hill
Public service email to everyone heading into the UK at the end of this month who isn't a UK or Irish citizen. The ETA requirement for UK entry is coming and isn't receiving enough advanced coverage. Don't get caught in the ensuing chaos:
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February 6, 2026 at 1:13 PM
Public service email to everyone heading into the UK at the end of this month who isn't a UK or Irish citizen. The ETA requirement for UK entry is coming and isn't receiving enough advanced coverage. Don't get caught in the ensuing chaos:
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Just binge-watched the whole of Small Prophets and all I can say is Mackenzie Crook is a genius. Watch it.
February 10, 2026 at 10:54 PM
Just binge-watched the whole of Small Prophets and all I can say is Mackenzie Crook is a genius. Watch it.
February 10, 2026 at 2:35 PM
Lovely surprise seeing that @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social in The Best Library™️
February 10, 2026 at 1:50 PM
Lovely surprise seeing that @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social in The Best Library™️
Everything you ever wanted to know about this most fascinating/infuriating text/play but were afraid to ask 🤓
We're approaching the two month mark for our next live show:
📖The Book of Sir Thomas More: Piece by Piece📖
🎟️Two months to go, but not many tickets left - especially after a little flurry of sales today.🎟️
A deep dive into the play, the manuscript, the sources.
www.ticketsource.co.uk/beyondshakes...
📖The Book of Sir Thomas More: Piece by Piece📖
🎟️Two months to go, but not many tickets left - especially after a little flurry of sales today.🎟️
A deep dive into the play, the manuscript, the sources.
www.ticketsource.co.uk/beyondshakes...
February 10, 2026 at 1:31 PM
Everything you ever wanted to know about this most fascinating/infuriating text/play but were afraid to ask 🤓
Subtle differences in social status reflected in nomenclature in these mss: 'a porter'; 'Michaell and Pearcy two porters'; 'Thickens the carpenter' (yes, I know); 'Richard ffoster'; 'Mr Balthropp'
February 10, 2026 at 11:08 AM
Subtle differences in social status reflected in nomenclature in these mss: 'a porter'; 'Michaell and Pearcy two porters'; 'Thickens the carpenter' (yes, I know); 'Richard ffoster'; 'Mr Balthropp'
Please enjoy this truly #shitmanicule
February 10, 2026 at 11:03 AM
Please enjoy this truly #shitmanicule
Camellias a go-go in Postman's Park #flowerreport
February 10, 2026 at 10:04 AM
Camellias a go-go in Postman's Park #flowerreport
“Does being in a landscape automatically imbue us with a greater understanding of it?
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We all find our own way, and notice different things as we go.”
@markhailwood.bsky.social
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We all find our own way, and notice different things as we go.”
@markhailwood.bsky.social
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Is Walking Research? A Methodological Ramble
Mark HailwoodI needed to try something to get me writing again. Blessed with a period of research leave to resume work on my book – Everyday Life in the Seventeenth Century English Village &#…
manyheadedmonster.com
February 10, 2026 at 8:43 AM
Safe to say Peter Bradshaw in the Guardian is not a fan of the new Wuthering Heights adaptation:
'Emerald Fennell cranks up the campery as she reinvents Emily Brontë’s tale of Cathy and Heathcliff on the windswept Yorkshire moor as a 20-page fashion shoot of relentless silliness'
'Emerald Fennell cranks up the campery as she reinvents Emily Brontë’s tale of Cathy and Heathcliff on the windswept Yorkshire moor as a 20-page fashion shoot of relentless silliness'
February 9, 2026 at 8:11 PM
Safe to say Peter Bradshaw in the Guardian is not a fan of the new Wuthering Heights adaptation:
'Emerald Fennell cranks up the campery as she reinvents Emily Brontë’s tale of Cathy and Heathcliff on the windswept Yorkshire moor as a 20-page fashion shoot of relentless silliness'
'Emerald Fennell cranks up the campery as she reinvents Emily Brontë’s tale of Cathy and Heathcliff on the windswept Yorkshire moor as a 20-page fashion shoot of relentless silliness'
Final resting olace of my Tommy D (and George P)
February 9, 2026 at 6:19 PM
Final resting olace of my Tommy D (and George P)