Adam Houlbrook
@adamhoulbrook.bsky.social
Freelance copyeditor; cyclist; bread enthusiast
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This looks great and is open access. Amelia Acker, Archiving Machines: From Punch Cards to Platforms
November 17, 2025 at 2:12 PM
This looks great and is open access. Amelia Acker, Archiving Machines: From Punch Cards to Platforms
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Long overdue #rabbitoftheday courtesy of @adamhoulbrook.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Long overdue #rabbitoftheday courtesy of @adamhoulbrook.bsky.social
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BREAKING: A person in the richest 0.1% produces more carbon pollution in a day than someone in the bottom 50% produces all year.
Same pollution. Different worlds. But only one pays the price.
Read Oxfam's new #ClimatePlunder report to learn more: bit.ly/3JrJAjC
#MakeRichPollutersPay
Same pollution. Different worlds. But only one pays the price.
Read Oxfam's new #ClimatePlunder report to learn more: bit.ly/3JrJAjC
#MakeRichPollutersPay
October 29, 2025 at 8:00 AM
BREAKING: A person in the richest 0.1% produces more carbon pollution in a day than someone in the bottom 50% produces all year.
Same pollution. Different worlds. But only one pays the price.
Read Oxfam's new #ClimatePlunder report to learn more: bit.ly/3JrJAjC
#MakeRichPollutersPay
Same pollution. Different worlds. But only one pays the price.
Read Oxfam's new #ClimatePlunder report to learn more: bit.ly/3JrJAjC
#MakeRichPollutersPay
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By no means the finest poet to come out of Mexborough.
Tom Houlbrook, in 'The Children's Hour' page of the South Yorkshire Times, 21 July 1934.
Tom Houlbrook, in 'The Children's Hour' page of the South Yorkshire Times, 21 July 1934.
October 28, 2025 at 8:31 AM
By no means the finest poet to come out of Mexborough.
Tom Houlbrook, in 'The Children's Hour' page of the South Yorkshire Times, 21 July 1934.
Tom Houlbrook, in 'The Children's Hour' page of the South Yorkshire Times, 21 July 1934.
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This is what publication day looked like.
I am buzzing but broken this morning. Thank you to everyone who made time to talk to me or came out to hear me talk about Songs of Seven Dials: An intimate history of 1920s and 1930s London.
The book is out now with @manchesterup.bsky.social
I am buzzing but broken this morning. Thank you to everyone who made time to talk to me or came out to hear me talk about Songs of Seven Dials: An intimate history of 1920s and 1930s London.
The book is out now with @manchesterup.bsky.social
October 22, 2025 at 9:04 AM
This is what publication day looked like.
I am buzzing but broken this morning. Thank you to everyone who made time to talk to me or came out to hear me talk about Songs of Seven Dials: An intimate history of 1920s and 1930s London.
The book is out now with @manchesterup.bsky.social
I am buzzing but broken this morning. Thank you to everyone who made time to talk to me or came out to hear me talk about Songs of Seven Dials: An intimate history of 1920s and 1930s London.
The book is out now with @manchesterup.bsky.social
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Worth saying that despite asking for more than 12 hours we’ve had nothing back from Labour on this
A Conservative MP tipped as a future party leader has been condemned for saying large numbers of legally settled families must be deported, in order to ensure the UK is mostly “culturally coherent”.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Tory MP criticised after demanding legally settled families be deported
Katie Lam said move would make UK ‘culturally coherent’ and that a large number of people ‘need to go home’
www.theguardian.com
October 20, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Worth saying that despite asking for more than 12 hours we’ve had nothing back from Labour on this
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Good Letter of the Day in @thetimes.com this morning:
July 1, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Good Letter of the Day in @thetimes.com this morning:
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Catalogues to the archives of the Yorkshire Miners Association and several smaller organisations are now online thanks to the fantastic work of @mrcwarwick.bsky.social. Read all about it here… sslh.org.uk/2025/05/04/y...
Yorkshire Miners Association archives now indexed and catalogued online
Work at the Modern Records Centre to catalogue the archive of the Yorkshire Miners Association is now complete with a catalogue live online at the University of Warwick website. Poster advertising …
sslh.org.uk
May 4, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Catalogues to the archives of the Yorkshire Miners Association and several smaller organisations are now online thanks to the fantastic work of @mrcwarwick.bsky.social. Read all about it here… sslh.org.uk/2025/05/04/y...
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In among the madness, I'm delighted to have submitted the manuscript for our forthcoming book Incarcerated: Contemporary Photography from the Victorian Prison to @bluecoatpress.bsky.social.
Incarcerated brings together @andyaitchison.bsky.social powerful photographs of HMP Lincoln and Liverpool.
Incarcerated brings together @andyaitchison.bsky.social powerful photographs of HMP Lincoln and Liverpool.
May 2, 2025 at 10:10 AM
In among the madness, I'm delighted to have submitted the manuscript for our forthcoming book Incarcerated: Contemporary Photography from the Victorian Prison to @bluecoatpress.bsky.social.
Incarcerated brings together @andyaitchison.bsky.social powerful photographs of HMP Lincoln and Liverpool.
Incarcerated brings together @andyaitchison.bsky.social powerful photographs of HMP Lincoln and Liverpool.
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You know what I’d call for if I was prime minister - more funding of youth clubs , extracurricular activities, and mental health support - but showing a film looks like concern while costing very little
March 28, 2025 at 12:29 PM
You know what I’d call for if I was prime minister - more funding of youth clubs , extracurricular activities, and mental health support - but showing a film looks like concern while costing very little
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Apps to help you shop Canadian
March 1, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Apps to help you shop Canadian
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Nimbys. Naysayers. Traitors. Children take note, why learn oracy when insults will do? | Catherine Bennett
Nimbys. Naysayers. Traitors. Children take note, why learn oracy when insults will do? | Catherine Bennett
Keir Starmer’s rhetoric against green campaigners appears to have taken a playground turn
Before the last election, in what was billed as his “most personal interview yet”, Keir Starmer said: “I’m not in the habit of bandying insults around”. It was…
www.theguardian.com
February 9, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Nimbys. Naysayers. Traitors. Children take note, why learn oracy when insults will do? | Catherine Bennett
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The most Right Wing part of the UK, according to analysts. Tracks heavily with low levels of educational attainment.
January 10, 2025 at 8:40 PM
The most Right Wing part of the UK, according to analysts. Tracks heavily with low levels of educational attainment.
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If you bring central London to a halt in order to campaign against catastrophic climate change then you're a "barmy" eco "fanatic" who deserves to be locked up.
If you do the same to hang on to your multimillion pound inheritance tax exemption then you're a brave freedom fighter defying the odds
If you do the same to hang on to your multimillion pound inheritance tax exemption then you're a brave freedom fighter defying the odds
November 19, 2024 at 10:22 AM
If you bring central London to a halt in order to campaign against catastrophic climate change then you're a "barmy" eco "fanatic" who deserves to be locked up.
If you do the same to hang on to your multimillion pound inheritance tax exemption then you're a brave freedom fighter defying the odds
If you do the same to hang on to your multimillion pound inheritance tax exemption then you're a brave freedom fighter defying the odds
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Hello there.
I am a cultural historian.
I research, write, and teach about twentieth century Britain, particularly histories of sexuality and gender, the politics of cultural life, and the 1920s and 1930s.
I am a cultural historian.
I research, write, and teach about twentieth century Britain, particularly histories of sexuality and gender, the politics of cultural life, and the 1920s and 1930s.
November 11, 2024 at 9:59 AM
Hello there.
I am a cultural historian.
I research, write, and teach about twentieth century Britain, particularly histories of sexuality and gender, the politics of cultural life, and the 1920s and 1930s.
I am a cultural historian.
I research, write, and teach about twentieth century Britain, particularly histories of sexuality and gender, the politics of cultural life, and the 1920s and 1930s.