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Univ. Portsmouth History @uophistory.bsky.social · Nov 20
Hello all! Welcome to the University of Portsmouth History team's account. Follow us for regular morning motivational pictures (and the occasional history related post!)

#History #Sunrise
#WednesdayMotivation #MidweekVibes
Image shows Langstone harbour at low tide at dawn. The clouds and mudflats are lit orange by the rising sun
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Good morning #Portsmouth ##WednesdayMotivation #MidweekVibes
Image shows Langstone harbour at near high tide under a mainly cloudy sky which is lit orange by the rising sun. A shingle spit leads out to sea
November 12, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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We will remember them #ArmisticeDay
Image shows the 'People's Memorial' at Langstone harbour rendered in black and white
November 11, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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Good morning #Portsmouth
#TuesdayMotivation
Image shows Langstone harbour at mid tide under a cloudy sky which is tinted orange by the morning sun
November 11, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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Good morning #Portsmouth
Stormy skies
Welcome to the new working week #MondayMotivation
Image shows Langstone harbour at near low tide under a cloudy sky
November 10, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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Lest We Forget #RemembranceSunday
Image shows the "People's Memorial'at Langstone harbour shoreline
November 9, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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Good morning #Portsmouth
Wishing everyone a lovely #weekend
Image shows Langstone harbour at low tide at sunrise. The sun is shining through a line of clouds on the horizon
November 8, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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Good morning #Portsmouth #FridayMotivation #FridayFeeling
Image shows Langstone harbour at low tide under a cloudy sky. Wildflower seed heads line the foreground
November 7, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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📣Out now on #firstview!

David Andress (@uophistory.bsky.social) on 'The Language of confiance and the French cahiers de doléances of 1789'

#Revolution #Emotion #Trust #Agency #France #Digital 18thc 🗃️📜

👉Open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
In the context of increasing historiographical attention to the emotional content of French revolutionary politics, the essentially unprecedented nationwide consultation that produced the cahiers de doléances of 1789, now available as a searchable digitised corpus, offers a route into exploring the hopes, fears, and concerns of thousands of French people who participated directly in the cahiers’ composition. Mapping their uses of the concept of ‘trust’, and its manifold implications, offers new evidence on the nature and contours of the political relationships they believed they inhabited, and on the extent to which they were enacting agency over the prospect of change. It also provides material to contemplate the implications of the highly centralized, top-down reform processes actually initiated from the summer of 1789 onwards, and the violent complexity of their reception.
November 6, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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Good morning #Portsmouth
Getting light #ThursdayMotivation
Image shows Langstone harbour at near low tide under a cloudy sky just before sunrise
November 6, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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Good morning #Portsmouth #WednesdayMotivation #MidweekVibes
Image shows Langstone harbour at near high tide under mainly cloudy sky. An orange strip of light brightens the horizon
November 5, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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Good morning #Portsmouth Brighter today #TuesdayMotivation
Image shows Langstone harbour at near high tide under a mainly cloudy sky which is clear on the horizon. A shingle spit leads out to sea in the centre of the frame
November 4, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Good morning #Portsmouth
Welcome to the new working week #MondayMotivation
Image shows Langstone harbour at high tide under a cloudy sky
November 3, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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Good morning #Portsmouth Wishing everyone a lovely #weekend
Image shows Langstone harbour at near low tide under a cloudy sky. The sun's rays shine through the clouds
November 1, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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Good morning #Portsmouth
#FridayMotivation #FridayFeeling
Image shows Langstone harbour at near high tide under a sky of broken clouds. The sun is shining through on the horizon and a shingle spit runs out to sea from the bottom left to the top right hand side of the frame
October 31, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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Good morning #Portsmouth
#ThursdayMotivation
Image shows Langstone harbour at mid tide. The sky is mainly clear and the sun is in the top right hand side of the frame
October 30, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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New podcast shows how the sail to steam transition in the 1800s can help steer the decarbonisation of shipping today. @lr-foundation.bsky.social funded PhD scholar Carlos Ausejo shares his research & discusses studying @uopmaritime.bsky.social & @uophistory.bsky.social
www.port.ac.uk/news-events-...
Sail to steam, carbon to green: Learning from past energy transitions
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October 29, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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Good morning #Portsmouth
Grey skies #WednesdayMotivation #MidweekVibes
Image shows Langstone harbour at near high tide under a cloudy sky
October 29, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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Good morning #Portsmouth #TuesdayMotivation
Image shows Langstone harbour at mid tide under a sky of wispy clouds with the sun shining behind them
October 28, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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Good morning #Portsmouth Welcome to the new working week #MondayMotivation
Image shows Langstone harbour at high tide under a mainly clear, sunny sky.
October 27, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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Good morning #Portsmouth
Wishing everyone a lovely #weekend
Image shows Langstone harbour at mid tide under a sunny sky
October 25, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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Good morning #Portsmouth Sunshine #FridayMotivation #FridayFeeling
Image shows Langstone harbour at low tide. The sky is clear and the sun is rising on the horizon
October 24, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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Good morning #Portsmouth
Dark, wet and windy today
#ThursdayMotivation
Image shows Langstone harbour at low tide under a dark, cloudy sky. There is an orange glow lights on the horizon
October 23, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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Join me for 'Tidal Terrors: Folklore and Supernatural Storytelling at Sea', a public talk @ Portsmouth University on 3rd February (5.30-7 pm). It is free, but you need to book a place @ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tidal-terr...
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Tidal Terrors: Folklore and Supernatural Storytelling at Sea
Public lecture: The real life lessons from supernatural stories of the sea.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
October 22, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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Good morning #Portsmouth
#WednesdayMotivation #MidweekVibes
Image shows Langstone harbour at near low tide under a mainly clear sky. The sky is lit orange on the horizon and reflecting in the channels
October 22, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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NEW HISTORY BLOG POST

UoP history student Callum Ireland writes about the 17th century Dutch engineer who rebuilt the fortifications which shaped the Portsmouth seafront today, which he wrote for his second year Working with the Past module.

history.port.ac.uk?p=3666
The man who fortified Portsmouth: uncovering the work of Sir Bernard De Gomme
Portsmouth was strategically important in the seventeenth century, but relatively little has been written on it. For their second-year Working with the Past project a group of UoP history students …
history.port.ac.uk
October 21, 2025 at 2:15 PM