Dr Victoria Dawson
@vsdawson.bsky.social
Freelance historian and interdisciplinary researcher for hire. Working class. Radical feminist. Socialist. Anti-fascist. Northern powerhouse. Learning German. PhD: Women and Rugby League: Gender, Class and Community 1880-1970.
Of course Phoebe is going to give birth in a stable. #TheArchers #SecondComing
November 18, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Of course Phoebe is going to give birth in a stable. #TheArchers #SecondComing
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This is a 52-pound 9000+ page accordion-bound artist’s book of Donald Trump’s lies, conceived, printed, and bound by Jill and Ray Nichols of @leadgraffiti.bsky.social in Delaware. Each of the 9000 pages has the text (per the Washington Post) of one or more of Trump’s lies; none are repeated.
November 15, 2025 at 7:09 PM
This is a 52-pound 9000+ page accordion-bound artist’s book of Donald Trump’s lies, conceived, printed, and bound by Jill and Ray Nichols of @leadgraffiti.bsky.social in Delaware. Each of the 9000 pages has the text (per the Washington Post) of one or more of Trump’s lies; none are repeated.
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Our latest episode with @collinstony.bsky.social of @icshc.bsky.social & @lborouniversity.bsky.social discussing his book on rugby league legend Roy Francis earlier this year is now LIVE!
Well worth a listen for lovers of rugby league and/or Black British history!
shows.acast.com/sport-in-his...
Well worth a listen for lovers of rugby league and/or Black British history!
shows.acast.com/sport-in-his...
November 12, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Our latest episode with @collinstony.bsky.social of @icshc.bsky.social & @lborouniversity.bsky.social discussing his book on rugby league legend Roy Francis earlier this year is now LIVE!
Well worth a listen for lovers of rugby league and/or Black British history!
shows.acast.com/sport-in-his...
Well worth a listen for lovers of rugby league and/or Black British history!
shows.acast.com/sport-in-his...
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Free Sarah Kendzior.
November 11, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Free Sarah Kendzior.
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#OTD 1917 the 'October' Revolution took place in Russia
Our archives include significant primary sources on the relationship between Britain and Russia in the decade following the 1917 revolutions
650+ documents have been digitised and are freely available online at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...
Our archives include significant primary sources on the relationship between Britain and Russia in the decade following the 1917 revolutions
650+ documents have been digitised and are freely available online at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...
November 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM
#OTD 1917 the 'October' Revolution took place in Russia
Our archives include significant primary sources on the relationship between Britain and Russia in the decade following the 1917 revolutions
650+ documents have been digitised and are freely available online at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...
Our archives include significant primary sources on the relationship between Britain and Russia in the decade following the 1917 revolutions
650+ documents have been digitised and are freely available online at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...
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📣 There's a new petition to Stop the Closure of Walsall Leather Museum. The building is the last example there of an early Victorian leatherworks in situ. The leather-working process is showcased, it's a much-loved local attraction. The Council has announced it will close in 2026.
c.org/PKm6B7svFN
c.org/PKm6B7svFN
November 6, 2025 at 5:47 PM
📣 There's a new petition to Stop the Closure of Walsall Leather Museum. The building is the last example there of an early Victorian leatherworks in situ. The leather-working process is showcased, it's a much-loved local attraction. The Council has announced it will close in 2026.
c.org/PKm6B7svFN
c.org/PKm6B7svFN
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✍️✍️✍️SIGN, SIGN, SIGN.
BAN UNDERCOVER COPS FROM SLEEPING WITH MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC.
We shouldn't even have to be campaigning about this.
PLEASE SHARE WIDELY.
#spycops #police #undercover #misogyny #liars #deceit #assault #violation #HumanRights
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
BAN UNDERCOVER COPS FROM SLEEPING WITH MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC.
We shouldn't even have to be campaigning about this.
PLEASE SHARE WIDELY.
#spycops #police #undercover #misogyny #liars #deceit #assault #violation #HumanRights
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
October 29, 2025 at 4:33 PM
✍️✍️✍️SIGN, SIGN, SIGN.
BAN UNDERCOVER COPS FROM SLEEPING WITH MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC.
We shouldn't even have to be campaigning about this.
PLEASE SHARE WIDELY.
#spycops #police #undercover #misogyny #liars #deceit #assault #violation #HumanRights
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
BAN UNDERCOVER COPS FROM SLEEPING WITH MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC.
We shouldn't even have to be campaigning about this.
PLEASE SHARE WIDELY.
#spycops #police #undercover #misogyny #liars #deceit #assault #violation #HumanRights
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
Anyone else feel like this holiday is some kind of test before a big will reveal? If they manage to achieve full attendance they unlock the rest of the money they expected to be there in the first place? #TheArchers
October 27, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Anyone else feel like this holiday is some kind of test before a big will reveal? If they manage to achieve full attendance they unlock the rest of the money they expected to be there in the first place? #TheArchers
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The future of the humanities / social sciences research is listening to economists lecture to us about our own ideas
October 26, 2025 at 2:29 PM
The future of the humanities / social sciences research is listening to economists lecture to us about our own ideas
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The Countdown to the rugby league Ashes begins - and to kick it off here's a 'Rugby Reloaded' classic episode charting the incredible story of the 1946 'Indomitables' and the first post-war Ashes series: on.soundcloud.com/EMF3GoRrQUuD...
127. The 1946 Indomitables' rugby league tour
Less than a year after the end of World War 2 rugby league’s Lions toured Australia and New Zealand - a tour made possible thanks to an aircraft carrier, a military train & the President of the Genera
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October 20, 2025 at 8:43 AM
The Countdown to the rugby league Ashes begins - and to kick it off here's a 'Rugby Reloaded' classic episode charting the incredible story of the 1946 'Indomitables' and the first post-war Ashes series: on.soundcloud.com/EMF3GoRrQUuD...
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"I've told the story of Akromiya for 20 years. I’m telling it again now, because today is No King’s Day, and I am afraid that 'Antifa' is the American Akromiya: a fabricated entity made by state propagandists to persecute anyone who opposes the government."
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/inventing-...
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/inventing-...
Inventing Antifa
In 2005, the Uzbek government invented a group called “Akromiya” to justify massacring protesters. Now I worry the US government will do the same.
sarahkendzior.substack.com
October 18, 2025 at 10:07 PM
"I've told the story of Akromiya for 20 years. I’m telling it again now, because today is No King’s Day, and I am afraid that 'Antifa' is the American Akromiya: a fabricated entity made by state propagandists to persecute anyone who opposes the government."
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/inventing-...
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/inventing-...
The cultural significance of Hull Fair for Hullensians cannot be overstated, especially for working-class people. Going without parents for the first time is a huge rite of passage. And yes, the Hell-blazers are still the best waltzers. With a combined age of 108 my mum and I were on them on Thurs!
Oggy oggy oggy! The donk-tacular dance music of Hull’s huge funfair
Oggy oggy oggy! The donk-tacular dance music of Hull’s huge funfair
With 600,000 people attending, Hull Fair is the UK’s biggest – and has a thrilling but overlooked musical subculture. We follow the blaring soundsystems to meet the DJs and MCs facing off in waltzer battles
www.theguardian.com
October 18, 2025 at 9:42 AM
The cultural significance of Hull Fair for Hullensians cannot be overstated, especially for working-class people. Going without parents for the first time is a huge rite of passage. And yes, the Hell-blazers are still the best waltzers. With a combined age of 108 my mum and I were on them on Thurs!
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New figures from Shelter show that the number of children homeless or in temporary accommodation in England has reached its highest level since records began.
172,420 kids without a permanent home of their own- an 8% increase in a single year.
172,420 kids without a permanent home of their own- an 8% increase in a single year.
October 16, 2025 at 1:33 PM
New figures from Shelter show that the number of children homeless or in temporary accommodation in England has reached its highest level since records began.
172,420 kids without a permanent home of their own- an 8% increase in a single year.
172,420 kids without a permanent home of their own- an 8% increase in a single year.
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With the rugby league Ashes' series almost here, 'Rugby Reloaded' resumes its look at the cultural and social history of Anglo-Australian league, exploring how Australia turned the tables on England to become the game's dominant world power. Listen now via: on.soundcloud.com/qkAQwcAbifus...
204. A Cultural History of the Ashes (part two)
With rugby league's Ashes series imminent, part two of Rugby Reloaded's look at the cultural history of Anglo-Australian rugby league moves onto the post-World War 2 period.
It was an era when the b
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October 15, 2025 at 7:48 AM
With the rugby league Ashes' series almost here, 'Rugby Reloaded' resumes its look at the cultural and social history of Anglo-Australian league, exploring how Australia turned the tables on England to become the game's dominant world power. Listen now via: on.soundcloud.com/qkAQwcAbifus...
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Wrote a thing. www.thenation.com/article/acti...
October 16, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Wrote a thing. www.thenation.com/article/acti...
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In one crisp para — & the 2 charts he highlights — @chrisgiles.ft.com bursts a huge number of “welfare” myths www.ft.com/content/ee67...
October 15, 2025 at 4:39 PM
In one crisp para — & the 2 charts he highlights — @chrisgiles.ft.com bursts a huge number of “welfare” myths www.ft.com/content/ee67...
Any #RugbyLeague people out there with RL tats?
Are you 18 or older with a fandom-related tattoo (or know someone who has one)? Please take 10 min to fill out this survey for my new book project on embodied fan identities and practices. Share widely! utexas.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Contact info: suzanne.scott@utexas.edu.
October 15, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Any #RugbyLeague people out there with RL tats?
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Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.
October 9, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.
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As a historian, I truly like the "foreverized pastness" part of this. And I agree, on a daily basis we are floating towards a permanent establishment of badly manipulated memories. A plural of nonsense histories. #skystorians
So-called #genAI means the abolition of the future through the proliferation of endless streams of stochastically rendered generic pasts. Having turned large parts of the cultural archive into training data, it now traps us in a foreverized pastness, a 24/7 nostalgia for a past that never existed
have just come across a YouTube account that has been using Sora to upload reels of fake, AI-generated “90s sitcoms” every few hours
October 7, 2025 at 12:48 PM
As a historian, I truly like the "foreverized pastness" part of this. And I agree, on a daily basis we are floating towards a permanent establishment of badly manipulated memories. A plural of nonsense histories. #skystorians
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Why have American football and American soccer shared the same origin story from the 1860s? Find out more about the Boston Game and its curious afterlife with me, Mike Cronin and Kevin Tallec Marston on the new 'Rugby Reloaded': on.soundcloud.com/eZysXDAFx0x2...
203. The Boston Game and the Origins of Football in America
Our new episode investigates the origin story of football in America, in conversation with Mike Cronin and Kevin Marston, authors of 'Inventing the Boston Game: Football, Soccer, and the Origins of a
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October 7, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Why have American football and American soccer shared the same origin story from the 1860s? Find out more about the Boston Game and its curious afterlife with me, Mike Cronin and Kevin Tallec Marston on the new 'Rugby Reloaded': on.soundcloud.com/eZysXDAFx0x2...
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📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.
Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.
Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.
We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...
signal.org
October 6, 2025 at 6:46 AM
📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.
Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.
Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.
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Ah yes the "radical left" is why the private equity firm decided to close a bunch of stores to garner higher profit margins, okay Claire's that MUST be it.
October 5, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Ah yes the "radical left" is why the private equity firm decided to close a bunch of stores to garner higher profit margins, okay Claire's that MUST be it.