Hanna Sinclair
@hannasinclair.bsky.social
DPhil in Early Modern Italian (& French) Cultural History ⚜️ Convenor of Oxford’s Court Studies seminars. Vintage student. 🇨🇦🇬🇧🇪🇺
In case anyone thinks Reform could ever get a foot in in Oxford, here are photos of the two opposing protests taken within minutes of each other today.
November 16, 2025 at 3:30 PM
In case anyone thinks Reform could ever get a foot in in Oxford, here are photos of the two opposing protests taken within minutes of each other today.
I’m all in favour of tech tools that can support research, but I kind of feel on this one… what if we want to be left behind?
November 15, 2025 at 12:32 PM
I’m all in favour of tech tools that can support research, but I kind of feel on this one… what if we want to be left behind?
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"What is certain, and felt instinctively by almost everybody, is that things cannot go on in their present way" – The Times, May 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
November 14, 2025 at 9:13 AM
"What is certain, and felt instinctively by almost everybody, is that things cannot go on in their present way" – The Times, May 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
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Reminder: This Monday (10th) at 4:30pm, @susannah-lw.bsky.social will be presenting her research into the global and natural material culture of the 17C English Queens. Memorial Room, Jesus College. All are welcome!
November 8, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Reminder: This Monday (10th) at 4:30pm, @susannah-lw.bsky.social will be presenting her research into the global and natural material culture of the 17C English Queens. Memorial Room, Jesus College. All are welcome!
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One week till I'll be speaking on the Stuart consorts and their global entanglements @oxfordcourtstudies.bsky.social. Please come if you can!
It’s that time of year again! Here is the term card for the upcoming talks. As always, everyone is welcome! Fortnightly, 4:30pm in the Memorial Room, @jesusoxford.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 3:18 PM
One week till I'll be speaking on the Stuart consorts and their global entanglements @oxfordcourtstudies.bsky.social. Please come if you can!
Just received an email from my Faculty that was essentially, 'Note to students: you are welcome to come to the Faculty for very short official amounts of time, but it is NOT FOR YOU'. Loving our new £185m building...
November 3, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Just received an email from my Faculty that was essentially, 'Note to students: you are welcome to come to the Faculty for very short official amounts of time, but it is NOT FOR YOU'. Loving our new £185m building...
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A neat tool I just came across: Viabundus, a digital road map of northern Europe 1350-1650, that lets you calculate contemporary travel routes/times. In 1500, going Amiens → Köln by horse took almost 7 days and 13 toll payments.
#medievalsky
www.landesgeschichte.uni-goettingen.de/handelsstras...
#medievalsky
www.landesgeschichte.uni-goettingen.de/handelsstras...
October 24, 2025 at 10:58 PM
A neat tool I just came across: Viabundus, a digital road map of northern Europe 1350-1650, that lets you calculate contemporary travel routes/times. In 1500, going Amiens → Köln by horse took almost 7 days and 13 toll payments.
#medievalsky
www.landesgeschichte.uni-goettingen.de/handelsstras...
#medievalsky
www.landesgeschichte.uni-goettingen.de/handelsstras...
This is all very true, the grim darkness and dampness of a British winter is very dispiriting. But only someone who hasn't lived through a real winter (where the outside hurts and can kill you) would write this.
October 24, 2025 at 10:47 AM
This is all very true, the grim darkness and dampness of a British winter is very dispiriting. But only someone who hasn't lived through a real winter (where the outside hurts and can kill you) would write this.
Begrudging respect to whoever puts on the 'Oakeshott Lectures', for successfully laundering the reputations of some discredited and controversial figures through booking out Oxford's Sheldonian and strong PR. Everyone now assumes @ox.ac.uk endorses their views.
October 24, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Begrudging respect to whoever puts on the 'Oakeshott Lectures', for successfully laundering the reputations of some discredited and controversial figures through booking out Oxford's Sheldonian and strong PR. Everyone now assumes @ox.ac.uk endorses their views.
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FFS not more days
There is a list of steps people need to take in the next few days
British Gas urges people to prepare as 'four consecutive days coming'
There is a list of steps people need to take in the next few days
www.devonlive.com
October 16, 2025 at 4:38 PM
FFS not more days
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This is such a clever idea on taking kids to museums/galleries
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
October 12, 2025 at 10:18 AM
This is such a clever idea on taking kids to museums/galleries
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
So proud of my daughter, Honours with Distinction in English and History.
October 10, 2025 at 12:04 AM
So proud of my daughter, Honours with Distinction in English and History.
Michaela and her article are indeed brilliant.
“I often tell students that source analysis is about the skills and imagination the historian brings, rather than just the nature of the source”
New post on a brilliant article from Michaela Kalcher on a 1790s diarist
williamgpooley.wordpress.com/2025/10/09/u... 🗃️
New post on a brilliant article from Michaela Kalcher on a 1790s diarist
williamgpooley.wordpress.com/2025/10/09/u... 🗃️
Unverbal Diarier
‘Céléstin Guittard de Floriban did not leave much of a mark on history,’ writes Michaela Kalcher. What this unremarkable bourgeois did leave, however, was a day-by-day account of the Fr…
williamgpooley.wordpress.com
October 9, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Michaela and her article are indeed brilliant.
How is this making anyone safer? Why has our government decided to waste police and courts’ time with this nonsense? People peacefully standing up for human rights are not the enemy.
🚨BREAKING: The metropolitan police
arrest a man for carrying a copy of our magazine. This is a threat to both journalism and freedom to protest
arrest a man for carrying a copy of our magazine. This is a threat to both journalism and freedom to protest
Watch | A man was arrested in London for holding up The New World magazine, featuring the "sign of the times" with the words:
"I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action"
"I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action"
October 9, 2025 at 12:20 PM
How is this making anyone safer? Why has our government decided to waste police and courts’ time with this nonsense? People peacefully standing up for human rights are not the enemy.
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Badenoch wants to eliminate ‘rip off degrees’ like English. The usual philistine crap that a degree is just about work. The mission to create the stupidest nation on earth. And counterproductive. Young people will work for years. They’ll retrain endlessly. A degree can help them learn how to learn
October 8, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Badenoch wants to eliminate ‘rip off degrees’ like English. The usual philistine crap that a degree is just about work. The mission to create the stupidest nation on earth. And counterproductive. Young people will work for years. They’ll retrain endlessly. A degree can help them learn how to learn
“We’re also hoping that the research facilities for our researchers and early career researchers take us into a completely different stratosphere for them so that they feel they can thrive.”
‘Research facilities’?! There isn’t even graduate study space. The faculty shrunk by half. It’s all flash.
‘Research facilities’?! There isn’t even graduate study space. The faculty shrunk by half. It’s all flash.
'The gleaming palace to the humanities – the single largest building project ever undertaken by the University of Oxford made possible by the largest philanthropic gift it has ever received – stands in stark contrast to the beleaguered, shrinking state of the rest of the sector.'
Oxford’s largest-ever project ‘shows what the humanities can do’
New building which brings together disciplines for the first time will also open its doors to the public to engage with big questions facing the world
www.timeshighereducation.com
October 8, 2025 at 8:38 AM
“We’re also hoping that the research facilities for our researchers and early career researchers take us into a completely different stratosphere for them so that they feel they can thrive.”
‘Research facilities’?! There isn’t even graduate study space. The faculty shrunk by half. It’s all flash.
‘Research facilities’?! There isn’t even graduate study space. The faculty shrunk by half. It’s all flash.
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The most telling argument I have against private school is that I’ve met several people over the years who’ve been to private school who somehow never heard arguments against private school.
October 5, 2025 at 3:37 PM
The most telling argument I have against private school is that I’ve met several people over the years who’ve been to private school who somehow never heard arguments against private school.
What are we even doing here. Why is this a priority, at this time? ‘The force said 488 arrests were for supporting a proscribed organisation.’ Even if it were a terrorist organisation, how is peacefully holding a sign in support against the law?
October 4, 2025 at 11:36 PM
What are we even doing here. Why is this a priority, at this time? ‘The force said 488 arrests were for supporting a proscribed organisation.’ Even if it were a terrorist organisation, how is peacefully holding a sign in support against the law?
@earlymodernjohn.bsky.social congrats on the (dubious?) honour of the What a Day newsletter!
September 30, 2025 at 9:59 AM
@earlymodernjohn.bsky.social congrats on the (dubious?) honour of the What a Day newsletter!
Without comment, a snippet from a 2023 article on ChatGPT in the Cherwell.
September 29, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Without comment, a snippet from a 2023 article on ChatGPT in the Cherwell.
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It’s that time of year again! Here is the term card for the upcoming talks. As always, everyone is welcome! Fortnightly, 4:30pm in the Memorial Room, @jesusoxford.bsky.social
September 26, 2025 at 10:34 AM
It’s that time of year again! Here is the term card for the upcoming talks. As always, everyone is welcome! Fortnightly, 4:30pm in the Memorial Room, @jesusoxford.bsky.social
I probably shouldn’t have procrastinated all day assuming I would be raptured. Beginning to think it isn’t happening today.
September 23, 2025 at 1:19 PM
I probably shouldn’t have procrastinated all day assuming I would be raptured. Beginning to think it isn’t happening today.
Very glad I can still be legally anti-fascist in this country.
September 22, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Very glad I can still be legally anti-fascist in this country.
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this exists it is called thinking
September 20, 2025 at 12:15 PM
this exists it is called thinking