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Dr Robert James
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Social and cultural historian focusing on twentieth-century British society's leisure activities #CinemaHistory #CoastalHistory #CoastalStudies
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Good morning #Portsmouth
Wishing everyone a lovely #weekend
Image shows Langstone harbour at high tide under a cloudy sky. The sea wall frames the right hand side of the picture
November 29, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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Good morning #Portsmouth #FridayMotivation #FridayFeeling
Image shows Langstone harbour at low tide under a cloudy sky
November 28, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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uophistory.bsky.social
Good morning #Portsmouth
Before dawn #ThursdayMotivation
Image shows Langstone harbour at mid tide under a dark, cloudy sky. Lights shine on the horizon and reflect on the sea
November 27, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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Good morning #Portsmouth #WednesdayMotivation #MidweekVibes
Image shows Langstone harbour at low tide under a clear. The horizon is lit orange
November 26, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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Good morning #Portsmouth
Bright sky #TuesdayMotivation
Image shows Langstone harbour at low tide under a clear sky. The horizon is lit orange
November 25, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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uophistory.bsky.social
Good morning #Portsmouth
A wet start to the working week #MondayMotivation
Image shows Langstone harbour at low tide under a mainly cloudy sky
November 24, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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uophistory.bsky.social
Good morning #Portsmouth
Before the rain
Have a lovely #weekend everyone
Image shows Langstone harbour at mid tide under a dark grey sky
November 22, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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uophistory.bsky.social
Good morning #Portsmouth
Sunrise
#FridayMotivation #FridayFeeling
Image shows Langstone harbour at low under a clear sky. The sun is just above the horizon
November 21, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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uophistory.bsky.social
Good morning #Portsmouth
Before sunrise #ThursdayMotivation
Image shows Langstone harbour at low tide under a clear, dark sky. The horizon is tinted orange and a buddliea bush frames the left hand side of the picture
November 20, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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uophistory.bsky.social
Good morning #Portsmouth
#WednesdayMotivation #MidweekVibes
Image shows Langstone harbour at mid tide with clouds lining the horizon
November 19, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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uophistory.bsky.social
Good morning #Portsmouth
#TuesdayMotivation
Image shows Langstone harbour at high tide with wispy clouds in the sky. The horizon is lit orange by the rising sun.
November 18, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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Pope Leo absolutely cooking
November 16, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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uophistory.bsky.social
Good morning #Portsmouth
Welcome to the new working week #MondayMotivation
Image shows Langstone harbour at near high tide under a clear sky which is lit orange on the horizon. A shingle spit leads out to sea in the centre of the frame
November 17, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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Aside from the cruelty of this, I’d just like to know why it’s ok to ignore and disappoint liberal/progressive voters.
Why do governments chase Farage and his voters, thinking that will neutralise them. It’s NEVER worked. He’s leading in the polls and his ideas have ruined us. WTF are you doing?
adambienkov.bsky.social Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 16d
This is as bad as anything proposed by Reform.

Leaving refugees in permanent limbo and unable to build a new life in the UK would be a complete abdication of our humanitarian responsibilities

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays
Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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Good morning #Portsmouth
Wishing everyone a lovely #weekend
Image shows Langstone harbour at high tide under a mainly cloudy sky with the sun shining through
November 15, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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uophistory.bsky.social
Good morning #Portsmouth #FridayMotivation #FridayFeeling #StormClaudia
Image shows Langstone harbour at high tide. The sky is cloudy and the sea is choppy
November 14, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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Good morning #Portsmouth #ThursdayMotivation
Image shows Langstone harbour at high tide at dawn. The sky is mainly clear with a line of cloud on the horizon
November 13, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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uophistory.bsky.social
Good morning #Portsmouth ##WednesdayMotivation #MidweekVibes
Image shows Langstone harbour at near high tide under a mainly cloudy sky which is lit orange by the rising sun. A shingle spit leads out to sea
November 12, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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We will remember them #ArmisticeDay
Image shows the 'People's Memorial' at Langstone harbour rendered in black and white
November 11, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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Good morning #Portsmouth
#TuesdayMotivation
Image shows Langstone harbour at mid tide under a cloudy sky which is tinted orange by the morning sun
November 11, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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uophistory.bsky.social
Good morning #Portsmouth
Stormy skies
Welcome to the new working week #MondayMotivation
Image shows Langstone harbour at near low tide under a cloudy sky
November 10, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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uophistory.bsky.social
Lest We Forget #RemembranceSunday
Image shows the "People's Memorial'at Langstone harbour shoreline
November 9, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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Good morning #Portsmouth
Wishing everyone a lovely #weekend
Image shows Langstone harbour at low tide at sunrise. The sun is shining through a line of clouds on the horizon
November 8, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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📣Out now on #firstview!

David Andress (@uophistory.bsky.social) on 'The Language of confiance and the French cahiers de doléances of 1789'

#Revolution #Emotion #Trust #Agency #France #Digital 18thc 🗃️📜

👉Open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
In the context of increasing historiographical attention to the emotional content of French revolutionary politics, the essentially unprecedented nationwide consultation that produced the cahiers de doléances of 1789, now available as a searchable digitised corpus, offers a route into exploring the hopes, fears, and concerns of thousands of French people who participated directly in the cahiers’ composition. Mapping their uses of the concept of ‘trust’, and its manifold implications, offers new evidence on the nature and contours of the political relationships they believed they inhabited, and on the extent to which they were enacting agency over the prospect of change. It also provides material to contemplate the implications of the highly centralized, top-down reform processes actually initiated from the summer of 1789 onwards, and the violent complexity of their reception.
November 6, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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Good morning #Portsmouth #FridayMotivation #FridayFeeling
Image shows Langstone harbour at low tide under a cloudy sky. Wildflower seed heads line the foreground
November 7, 2025 at 7:37 AM