Robert Edwards
@robert2957.bsky.social
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Fascinating new research and exhibition about Black enslaved & indentured people who escaped their ‘owners’ and ‘masters’ in C18 London, and the ‘safe houses’ that helped them avoid recapture:
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Researchers uncover stories of Black Londoners who escaped slavery
Findings in Tower Hamlets archives shed light on resistance to enslavement likened to Underground Railroad in US
www.theguardian.com
March 3, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Fascinating new research and exhibition about Black enslaved & indentured people who escaped their ‘owners’ and ‘masters’ in C18 London, and the ‘safe houses’ that helped them avoid recapture:
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Reposted by Robert Edwards
No 10 sides with Denmark over Greenland - but declines to criticise Trump's threats, saying they're 'hypothetical' - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
UK could avoid US tariffs that the ‘atrocity’ EU is facing because Starmer has been ‘nice’, Trump suggests – UK politics live
Keir Starmer to attend European Council meeting in wake of US president’s tariff warfare threats
www.theguardian.com
February 3, 2025 at 1:00 PM
No 10 sides with Denmark over Greenland - but declines to criticise Trump's threats, saying they're 'hypothetical' - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Reposted by Robert Edwards
Interesting. My primary account @blemoine.bsky.social has been blocked by:
@thefabulous0ne.bsky.social,
@vozderaquel.bsky.social, and
@em.untextured.space
If this is you, I'd like to understand why.
In any case, I will neither tag nor attempt to contact you again.
@thefabulous0ne.bsky.social,
@vozderaquel.bsky.social, and
@em.untextured.space
If this is you, I'd like to understand why.
In any case, I will neither tag nor attempt to contact you again.
January 12, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Interesting. My primary account @blemoine.bsky.social has been blocked by:
@thefabulous0ne.bsky.social,
@vozderaquel.bsky.social, and
@em.untextured.space
If this is you, I'd like to understand why.
In any case, I will neither tag nor attempt to contact you again.
@thefabulous0ne.bsky.social,
@vozderaquel.bsky.social, and
@em.untextured.space
If this is you, I'd like to understand why.
In any case, I will neither tag nor attempt to contact you again.
@alanlester.bsky.social Anyway, if the editor of the DT has perpetrated a falsehood he should be bent over a barrel in the marketplace in his home town for eighty of the best with a furled up copy of his own newspaper. This will show that we tolerate neither bad journalism nor Islamophobia.
January 26, 2025 at 9:20 AM
@alanlester.bsky.social Anyway, if the editor of the DT has perpetrated a falsehood he should be bent over a barrel in the marketplace in his home town for eighty of the best with a furled up copy of his own newspaper. This will show that we tolerate neither bad journalism nor Islamophobia.