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🇨🇦 Katherine D. Watson 🇬🇧
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Historian of forensic medicine and crime at Oxford Brookes University. Cricket lover. Collector of shoes, perfumes and nail varnish.
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This isn’t law enforcement doing its job. It’s the escalation of a culture of fear that punishes anyone who dares to document it.
a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers
November 11, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Found in a handbag on the settee in Evelyn Oatley's flat in Soho, fingerprints on this mirror helped convict her murderer Gordon Frederick Cummins, also guilty of five other murders or attempted murders of women in 1942. It is on display in our #CM150 exhibition. #Museum30 #reflection #wwii
November 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Apple appears to have reinvented the 17th-century pocket. www.vam.ac.uk/articles/wom...
November 11, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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If you use digital newspaper collections this new OA paper is for you - it’s full of great insights into how to understand what’s in them and the many hidden perils of digital search (like the systemically poorer OCR for cheaper and more left-leaning newspapers - who knew?). Please share
November 11, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Good one!
November 11, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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If you're a student who works with radio or podcasts, take a look at the Charles Parker prize. Brilliant opportunity for oral historians
www.cpatrust.org.uk/prize
Charles Parker Prize | Showcase Your Audio Talent — Charles Parker Archive Trust
Discover top student audio features and enter the Charles Parker Prize for a chance to broadcast on BBC Radio 4.
www.cpatrust.org.uk
November 11, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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Two Minutes' Silence by Charles Spencelayh (1928)

#RemembranceDay #RemembranceDay2025 #LestWeForget #art 🗃️
November 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Channel 4 News has just this minute spelled the name of the country Colombia wrong. Columbia. Jesus Christ, have they hired one of my undergrads?
November 7, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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This blood is on your hands, Elon.
November 7, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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The Martin Lewis Podcast
Business Podcast · Updated weekly · Martin Lewis answers your financial questions, offering valuable money-saving tips.
podcasts.APPLE.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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Hovis advert going hard

(Illustrated London News, 1896)
November 5, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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It's been many months since I concluded that the UK government and its ridiculous 'regulator' would do zero when faced with Musk's obvious and malicious targeting of the UK. And that therefore the radical right could change everything. (1/2)
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported strikes on a number of strategic facilities on Russian territory:
▪️ A storage, assembly,&launch base for Shahed drones in temporarily occupied Donetsk (the area of the Donetsk airport)
▪️ The Volgograd Oil Refinery in Russia’s Volgograd region
November 6, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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An energy rebound from silence, explained in research on zebra finches' dawn singing: "When light returned, everything released at once. That release – the shift from stillness to song – is what people hear as the dawn chorus." #birds #birding #nature #animalcommunication 🧪
Scientists discover why birds sing so passionately at dawn
Birds sing at dawn due to built-up energy from nighttime silence. When light returns, they release the energy through intense morning singing.
www.earth.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Moldova's Cabinet of Ministers has approved the closure of the Russian Center for Culture&Science in Chișinău,it said in a statement

These centers are used by Russia to promote its propaganda narratives

Moldova is doing very well in moving away from Russia's sphere of influence
gov.md/en/node/5435
November 5, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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We are the Nova Scotia Museum. What began as one museum of science and history in 1868 is today, a family of 28 sites & over one million artifacts & specimens. We love sharing Nova Scotia's extraordinary stories with the world! museum.novascotia.ca/our-museums

#Museum30 #Sharing #novascotia
November 5, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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If your government thinks the Pope “doesn’t know what he’s talking about” when he defends migrants’ dignity, the world should see the warning sign. The US is no longer leading on human rights. It’s suppressing them.
November 5, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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In the Kupiansk direction of Kharkiv region, a legendary duo has been working for over two years: the driver of a drone systems battalion known by the callsign Hrynia, & his co-pilot - a Maltipoo named Perseus

Perseus isn’t just a dog - he’s a strategist, a psychologist,& the chief snack inspector
November 5, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Democrats aren’t just winning at the statewide level. We’re evicting MAGA at the local level, too.
November 5, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Fuck sake - won’t somebody TELL them?

We’re going to see a flood and tornado ravaged continent with regular heatwaves and droughts and billions of happy mosquitoes infecting us with tropical diseases.

And as for the economy …
European governments struck a provisional deal to agree on a significantly weakened 2040 climate target in the early hours of this morning. 

A "take it or leave it" text on the 2040 target came after 18 hours of negotiations.
 
Draft deal sets weaker 85 percent domestic climate target for EU
After 18 hours of negotiations, countries gave preliminary approval to a “take it or leave it” text on the 2040 target.
www.politico.eu
November 5, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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THIS IS TOMORROW! IF YOU LIKE THAT SORT OF THING!
Our member @sophiemhistory.bsky.social is speaking at Werrington NEXT WEEK on the development and impact of the railway on Victorian Peterborough.

Come along if you can!
November 5, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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The enthusiasm for #History at this year's #HistDay25 is considerable and palpable.

History's popularity and appeal is an asset we must work with to better demonstrate the personal, professional, civic and social value of historical knowledge and understanding.

@ihr.bsky.social #Skystorians
November 4, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Transkribus is the handwritten text recognition tool that we used to transcribe 25,000 wills from 1540-1790 for our Leverhulme project.

Beginners' guide here 👇

#DigitalHumanities 🗃️ #EarlyModern
November 4, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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We are two Museums (founded in 1875 and 1949), an archive and a reference library, covering the lives of Met officers and staff ever since 1829 and the crimes they have solved. #CM150 #Movember #Museum30 #Introduction
November 1, 2025 at 9:00 AM