Olga Prokopis
@olgaphoos.bsky.social
I live and work on unceded Brayakaulung country. Disabled scholar researching Shakespeare and Richard III. Graduate researcher in history at the Centre for Contemporary Histories Deakin University.
'Maintain your rage and enthusiasm.'
'Maintain your rage and enthusiasm.'
Pinned
Richard II is my favourite Hollow Crown adaptation (don't tell the other Richard)
This weekend's #ShakespeareSunday theme is in celebration of #BBCShakespeare - THE HOLLOW CROWN PLAYS!
November 13, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Richard II is my favourite Hollow Crown adaptation (don't tell the other Richard)
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For those who will not be able to join us, here is an online exhibition with early modern Greek books, curated by the GrECI team: www.europeana.eu/en/galleries...
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November 13, 2025 at 2:50 PM
For those who will not be able to join us, here is an online exhibition with early modern Greek books, curated by the GrECI team: www.europeana.eu/en/galleries...
@uio.no @ec.europa.eu @nconstantinidou.bsky.social
@uio.no @ec.europa.eu @nconstantinidou.bsky.social
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For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground.
And tell sad stories of [redacted due to 18 U.S. Code § 871]
And tell sad stories of [redacted due to 18 U.S. Code § 871]
November 13, 2025 at 3:50 PM
For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground.
And tell sad stories of [redacted due to 18 U.S. Code § 871]
And tell sad stories of [redacted due to 18 U.S. Code § 871]
Reposted by Olga Prokopis
Marking the anniversary of the Miners' Strike of 1984/5, Keith Gildart reflects on a selection of recent titles in a new Review Article: 'Which Side Are You On Boys? Revisiting the History of British Coal Miners and the Strike of 1984/5'
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#MinersStrike
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#MinersStrike
Which Side Are You On Boys? Revisiting the History of British Coal Miners and the Strike of 1984/5
The year 2025 marks the fortieth anniversary of the end of the bitter twelve-month miners’ strike of 1984/5. The dominance of coal in British energy produc
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November 13, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Marking the anniversary of the Miners' Strike of 1984/5, Keith Gildart reflects on a selection of recent titles in a new Review Article: 'Which Side Are You On Boys? Revisiting the History of British Coal Miners and the Strike of 1984/5'
academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...
#MinersStrike
academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...
#MinersStrike
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📚💐 Bookshelf Wednesday! Week 3 of desert islands and the high seas! Take a look at Montgomery’s copy of Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe.
📲 To read "Robinson Crusoe", visit kindredspaces.ca/islandora/ob...
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#lmmontgomery #lucymaudmontgomery #danieldefoe #robinsoncrusoe #canadianliterature #jlmms
📲 To read "Robinson Crusoe", visit kindredspaces.ca/islandora/ob...
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#lmmontgomery #lucymaudmontgomery #danieldefoe #robinsoncrusoe #canadianliterature #jlmms
November 12, 2025 at 6:36 PM
📚💐 Bookshelf Wednesday! Week 3 of desert islands and the high seas! Take a look at Montgomery’s copy of Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe.
📲 To read "Robinson Crusoe", visit kindredspaces.ca/islandora/ob...
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#lmmontgomery #lucymaudmontgomery #danieldefoe #robinsoncrusoe #canadianliterature #jlmms
📲 To read "Robinson Crusoe", visit kindredspaces.ca/islandora/ob...
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#lmmontgomery #lucymaudmontgomery #danieldefoe #robinsoncrusoe #canadianliterature #jlmms
I want in on this conversation
November 10, 2025 at 3:18 AM
I want in on this conversation
This hand, which for thy love did kill thy love,
Shall for thy love kill a far truer love.
#RichardIII 1.2.175-6 #ShakespeareSunday
Shall for thy love kill a far truer love.
#RichardIII 1.2.175-6 #ShakespeareSunday
November 9, 2025 at 6:27 AM
This hand, which for thy love did kill thy love,
Shall for thy love kill a far truer love.
#RichardIII 1.2.175-6 #ShakespeareSunday
Shall for thy love kill a far truer love.
#RichardIII 1.2.175-6 #ShakespeareSunday
77 Years of Genocide: Nov 9th Newsletter #freepalestine
77 Years of Genocide: Nov 9th Newsletter
“On 20 June 2025, the Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF) filed a formal complaint with the European Investment Bank’s Complaints Mechanism (EIB-CM), urging immediate action to suspend and investigate the EIB...
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November 8, 2025 at 8:07 PM
77 Years of Genocide: Nov 9th Newsletter #freepalestine
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The website for the Shakespearean Graves project is now live -- check it out!
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#ShaxEpitaphs
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#ShaxEpitaphs
Shakespearean Graves
shaxepitaphs.exeter.ac.uk
November 7, 2025 at 1:27 PM
The website for the Shakespearean Graves project is now live -- check it out!
shaxepitaphs.exeter.ac.uk
#ShaxEpitaphs
shaxepitaphs.exeter.ac.uk
#ShaxEpitaphs
November 7, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Reading an actual book about Queen Victoria for the first time, Lucy Worsley's 'Daughter, Wife, Mother, Widow'. Had to look up John Conroy when she described him as 'theatrical looking', and he looks suspiciously like Adrian Lukas's Wickham from the 95 Pride & Prejudice...
November 7, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Reading an actual book about Queen Victoria for the first time, Lucy Worsley's 'Daughter, Wife, Mother, Widow'. Had to look up John Conroy when she described him as 'theatrical looking', and he looks suspiciously like Adrian Lukas's Wickham from the 95 Pride & Prejudice...
Reposted by Olga Prokopis
Major in Africana Studies or any humanities course like English Literature! You could be mayor of New York City. You could do anything.
November 5, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Major in Africana Studies or any humanities course like English Literature! You could be mayor of New York City. You could do anything.
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Jackie Coogan (1914-1984) was an American actor best known for his role as Uncle Fester in the 1960's US television series The Addams Family. At a young age, Coogan became personally involved with the collection of vital supplies for humanitarian relief for the survivors of the Ottoman-era genocides
November 2, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Jackie Coogan (1914-1984) was an American actor best known for his role as Uncle Fester in the 1960's US television series The Addams Family. At a young age, Coogan became personally involved with the collection of vital supplies for humanitarian relief for the survivors of the Ottoman-era genocides
Please turn on an adblocker when using Wikipedia and do not donate. I only make a tiny donation during their yearly drives but they're not getting my $5 this year.
Wikipedia cofounder Jimmy Wales has blocked editing access to the site’s Gaza genocide page, stating that it fails to meet the company’s “high standards” and “needs immediate attention”.
November 4, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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And thus I clothe my naked villainy
With odd old ends stol'n out of holy writ;
And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.
#RichardIII 1.3.356-8.
A day late #ShakespeareSunday
With odd old ends stol'n out of holy writ;
And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.
#RichardIII 1.3.356-8.
A day late #ShakespeareSunday
November 3, 2025 at 11:36 PM
And thus I clothe my naked villainy
With odd old ends stol'n out of holy writ;
And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.
#RichardIII 1.3.356-8.
A day late #ShakespeareSunday
With odd old ends stol'n out of holy writ;
And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.
#RichardIII 1.3.356-8.
A day late #ShakespeareSunday
November 3, 2025 at 9:01 PM
In Gunaikurnai country today #gippsland #freepalestine
November 1, 2025 at 8:22 PM
In Gunaikurnai country today #gippsland #freepalestine
77 Years of Genocide: Nov 2nd Newsletter #freepalestine
77 Years of Genocide: Nov 2nd Newsletter
Australia’s $20m ‘iron fist’ deal with Israel’s largest arms company signed two weeks before UN genocide finding
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November 1, 2025 at 8:19 PM
77 Years of Genocide: Nov 2nd Newsletter #freepalestine