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A depressing day. You only have to read what so many charities representing so many different vulnerable people say to know this was a grim day. Shameful stuff.
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...
Benefits cuts leave people 'terrified at how they will survive'
There has been an enormous backlash to the measures announced by Liz Kendall today
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk
March 18, 2025 at 7:42 PM
A depressing day. You only have to read what so many charities representing so many different vulnerable people say to know this was a grim day. Shameful stuff.
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...
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The White House rewriting history, 'cultural heritage', 'Native American' & 'historically' are all cancelled terms 👇
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The list of words Trump & Musk are cancelling includes ‘historically’
Unsurprisingly ‘historically’ is a cancelled word for Trump & Musk. The past is a foreign country….
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March 18, 2025 at 11:15 PM
The White House rewriting history, 'cultural heritage', 'Native American' & 'historically' are all cancelled terms 👇
wp.me/p15p2Q-dJo
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I follow the delineation of open space into codified "public space" as a process of enclosure since the 18th century, and how protest was and still is a form of commoning as resistance.
Chapter titles:
Commons
Waste
Verges
Railings
Pavements
Barricades
No ball games
Reclaim the Streets
Chapter titles:
Commons
Waste
Verges
Railings
Pavements
Barricades
No ball games
Reclaim the Streets
It exists! My new book is out later this year with Reaktion Books.
If you are famous and/or a public intellectual and want to review it/provide a pull quote, DM.
#ProtestHistory #Commons
reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/contest...
If you are famous and/or a public intellectual and want to review it/provide a pull quote, DM.
#ProtestHistory #Commons
reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/contest...
Contested Commons | Reaktion Books
A radical history of England, Contested Commons is a gripping overview of increasingly restrictive policing and legislation against protest in public spaces. It tells the long history of contests over...
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March 9, 2025 at 9:40 AM
I follow the delineation of open space into codified "public space" as a process of enclosure since the 18th century, and how protest was and still is a form of commoning as resistance.
Chapter titles:
Commons
Waste
Verges
Railings
Pavements
Barricades
No ball games
Reclaim the Streets
Chapter titles:
Commons
Waste
Verges
Railings
Pavements
Barricades
No ball games
Reclaim the Streets
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The real Shrove Tuesday tradition: riots & subversion
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The real Shrove Tuesday tradition, not just Pancakes but riots & subversion
The real Shrove Tuesday tradition not just Pancakes but riots & subversion In 2025 the moveable feast of Shrove Tuesday, the day before Lent, is known almost entirely for the consumption of pan…
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March 4, 2025 at 5:09 PM
The real Shrove Tuesday tradition: riots & subversion
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#WomensHistoryMonth #C19th #Chartism
There’s lots about Chartist women and their organisations on the Chartist Ancestors website. www.chartistancestors.co.uk/contents/cha...
There’s lots about Chartist women and their organisations on the Chartist Ancestors website. www.chartistancestors.co.uk/contents/cha...
Chartist women - chartist ancestors
Women played a significant part in Chartism. Although the Charter failed to include women in
www.chartistancestors.co.uk
March 4, 2025 at 5:47 PM
#WomensHistoryMonth #C19th #Chartism
There’s lots about Chartist women and their organisations on the Chartist Ancestors website. www.chartistancestors.co.uk/contents/cha...
There’s lots about Chartist women and their organisations on the Chartist Ancestors website. www.chartistancestors.co.uk/contents/cha...
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This month's talk was by Professor Paul Salveson on "Rockets, Lions and Planets: the significance of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway", which celebrates the 200th anniversary of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway in 2030.
You can watch it here
youtu.be/eZzuNNHnfuQ?...
You can watch it here
youtu.be/eZzuNNHnfuQ?...
Paul Salveson, Rockets, Lions and Planets: the significance of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway
YouTube video by Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire
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February 21, 2025 at 4:27 PM
This month's talk was by Professor Paul Salveson on "Rockets, Lions and Planets: the significance of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway", which celebrates the 200th anniversary of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway in 2030.
You can watch it here
youtu.be/eZzuNNHnfuQ?...
You can watch it here
youtu.be/eZzuNNHnfuQ?...
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Green Belts in Merseyside: A Bourgeois Conspiracy Against the Urban Proletariat?!
That's the title of our next lecture, at the Liverpool Athenaeum, Wed 19 March, 3pm by Professor John Sturzaker FRTPI, Ebenezer Howard Professor of Planning at the University of Hertfordshire
That's the title of our next lecture, at the Liverpool Athenaeum, Wed 19 March, 3pm by Professor John Sturzaker FRTPI, Ebenezer Howard Professor of Planning at the University of Hertfordshire
February 21, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Green Belts in Merseyside: A Bourgeois Conspiracy Against the Urban Proletariat?!
That's the title of our next lecture, at the Liverpool Athenaeum, Wed 19 March, 3pm by Professor John Sturzaker FRTPI, Ebenezer Howard Professor of Planning at the University of Hertfordshire
That's the title of our next lecture, at the Liverpool Athenaeum, Wed 19 March, 3pm by Professor John Sturzaker FRTPI, Ebenezer Howard Professor of Planning at the University of Hertfordshire
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Most of this year's journal is open-access, and it's full of new research on one of the biggest industrial disputes of the 19th century, the Preston Strike and Lock-Out of 1853-54 -- inspiration for Dickens's Hard Times & Gaskell's North and South.
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/transact...
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/transact...
Contents | Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire 173,
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk
February 21, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Most of this year's journal is open-access, and it's full of new research on one of the biggest industrial disputes of the 19th century, the Preston Strike and Lock-Out of 1853-54 -- inspiration for Dickens's Hard Times & Gaskell's North and South.
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/transact...
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/transact...
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Join us tonight for our next instalment of lectures in partnership with The Historic Towns Trust, where Ian Roberts will be considering the history of Bradford.
Find out more: ow.ly/5FbN50TOimL
#WeAreLocalHistory #LocalHistoryForAll
Find out more: ow.ly/5FbN50TOimL
#WeAreLocalHistory #LocalHistoryForAll
February 25, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Join us tonight for our next instalment of lectures in partnership with The Historic Towns Trust, where Ian Roberts will be considering the history of Bradford.
Find out more: ow.ly/5FbN50TOimL
#WeAreLocalHistory #LocalHistoryForAll
Find out more: ow.ly/5FbN50TOimL
#WeAreLocalHistory #LocalHistoryForAll
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✍️ The US is talking about mass sterilisation – again
A senior US government official has called for “lower quality humans” to be sterilised en masse – his country has been here before
By Jennie Kermode
@jenniekermode.bsky.social
A senior US government official has called for “lower quality humans” to be sterilised en masse – his country has been here before
By Jennie Kermode
@jenniekermode.bsky.social
The US is talking about mass sterilisation – again
A senior US government official has called for “lower quality humans” to be sterilised en masse – his country has been here before
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
February 25, 2025 at 7:08 AM
✍️ The US is talking about mass sterilisation – again
A senior US government official has called for “lower quality humans” to be sterilised en masse – his country has been here before
By Jennie Kermode
@jenniekermode.bsky.social
A senior US government official has called for “lower quality humans” to be sterilised en masse – his country has been here before
By Jennie Kermode
@jenniekermode.bsky.social
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R.J. Morris and public history
My Urban History @urbanhistory.bsky.social article on the late, great Bob Morris' approach to documenting, demystifying and disseminating the history and heritage of cities and industrial places. Bob was a great historian and is sadly missed.
doi.org/10.1017/S096...
My Urban History @urbanhistory.bsky.social article on the late, great Bob Morris' approach to documenting, demystifying and disseminating the history and heritage of cities and industrial places. Bob was a great historian and is sadly missed.
doi.org/10.1017/S096...
February 16, 2025 at 11:10 PM
R.J. Morris and public history
My Urban History @urbanhistory.bsky.social article on the late, great Bob Morris' approach to documenting, demystifying and disseminating the history and heritage of cities and industrial places. Bob was a great historian and is sadly missed.
doi.org/10.1017/S096...
My Urban History @urbanhistory.bsky.social article on the late, great Bob Morris' approach to documenting, demystifying and disseminating the history and heritage of cities and industrial places. Bob was a great historian and is sadly missed.
doi.org/10.1017/S096...
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from “Parable of the Talents” by Octavia Butler
February 16, 2025 at 2:28 PM
from “Parable of the Talents” by Octavia Butler
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This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as *allude* to slavery or the civil rights movement.
The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
Books mentioning slavery, civil rights removed from shelves at Fort Campbell schools - ClarksvilleNow.com
At an elementary school at Fort Campbell, home of the 101st Airborne Division, librarians are hard at work scrubbing the shelves for books that contain references to slavery, the civil rights movement...
clarksvillenow.com
February 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as *allude* to slavery or the civil rights movement.
The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
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ROCKETS, LIONS AND PLANETS : THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY
Online talk by PROFESSOR PAUL SALVESON
For details of how to reserve a place and get the meeting link go to the Historic Society of Lancashire & Cheshire's website at www.hslc.org.uk
Online talk by PROFESSOR PAUL SALVESON
For details of how to reserve a place and get the meeting link go to the Historic Society of Lancashire & Cheshire's website at www.hslc.org.uk
February 3, 2025 at 8:25 PM
ROCKETS, LIONS AND PLANETS : THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY
Online talk by PROFESSOR PAUL SALVESON
For details of how to reserve a place and get the meeting link go to the Historic Society of Lancashire & Cheshire's website at www.hslc.org.uk
Online talk by PROFESSOR PAUL SALVESON
For details of how to reserve a place and get the meeting link go to the Historic Society of Lancashire & Cheshire's website at www.hslc.org.uk
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Every single health and safety rule exists because someone died before it did exist.
Its not "red tape" it's safety equipment.
Its not "red tape" it's safety equipment.
11-year-old chimney sweep George Brewster was forced up a flue measuring just 12x7.5 inches.
His death, after becoming jammed inside, finally galavanised parliament to act.
Never forget what cruelties would be inflicted by greed were it not for “red tape”.
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His death, after becoming jammed inside, finally galavanised parliament to act.
Never forget what cruelties would be inflicted by greed were it not for “red tape”.
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
Chimney sweep whose death changed child labour laws honoured with blue plaque
George Brewster, youngest to get plaque, died aged 11 in 1875 after getting stuck in flue, leading to law banning ‘climbing boys’
www.theguardian.com
January 15, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Every single health and safety rule exists because someone died before it did exist.
Its not "red tape" it's safety equipment.
Its not "red tape" it's safety equipment.
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Destroy this myth. Please share if you have visited and researched in a library this past year! RT And give a shout out to your favorite library you have ever visited.
December 21, 2024 at 12:49 AM
Destroy this myth. Please share if you have visited and researched in a library this past year! RT And give a shout out to your favorite library you have ever visited.