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Lesley A Hall
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Archivist, historian, reader, Londoner, feminist
@erinacean
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Dr Sophie Michell @sophiemhistory.bsky.social · 10h
Has anyone written about female vagrancy in 19thC England?

My sense is that married women were sent back to their husbands if found on the streets, but that's based on reading a LOT of DV/desertion reports rather than solid evidence.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 10h
‘I have nothing in the UK at all’: British man torn from his Swedish wife and home
‘I have nothing in the UK at all’: British man torn from his Swedish wife and home
Charles lands at Heathrow with just two bags and nowhere to go as a result of Brexit and Stockholm’s hardline immigration position Doubled over a Heathrow baggage trolley, the former British business director is sobbing uncontrollably, exhausted emotionally and physically after being deported from Sweden. Hours earlier the 65-year-old had been marched on to a plane in Stockholm, separated from his home and his Swedish wife after a five-year battle to stay in the country after Brexit came to an end. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com

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Dr Julia Grace Patterson @jujuliagrace.bsky.social · 11h
3 lines and 1 word!! 🚨
jujuliagrace.substack.com

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 11h
Coming up this week, the Society hosts two events on history and the environment.

The first, at 1pm on Thurs 24th, offers 'Historical Context' on 'The Climate Crisis': bit.ly/3V4lgKf

With panellists @dagomardegroot.bsky.social, @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social and bsky.app/profile/elly... All welcome.
Historical Context: The Climate Crisis
A panel discussion, hosted by the Royal Historical Society, in which expert historical researchers provide context for current events.
www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Apollo @apollo-magazine.com · 12h
Workers at four of the UK’s national museums groups have gone on strike this summer – and more action is on the way. Conrad Landin reports on the issues that are dividing staff and management.
National museums in the UK should expect more industrial action
Relationships between staff and management have taken a dive at institutions from the V&A to the National Galleries of Scotland. What can museums do about it? Conrad Landin reports
buff.ly

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Ken Tindell @kentindell.bsky.social · 12h
This is a fabulous web site for historic aerial photos. Well, was: their hosting provider just went bust and the collection is offline.

historicengland.org.uk/images-books...
Aerial Photo Explorer – Over 400,000 aerial photos in Historic England's digitised collections | Historic England
Explore England's changing landscapes through historic aerial photography, showcasing the growth and transformations of urban and rural areas.
historicengland.org.uk

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Michael Lombardi-Nash @lombardinash.bsky.social · 12h
New translation series. Annual of Sexual Intermediaries, ed. Magnus Hirschfeld. Vols. I-XXIII (1899-1923) eBook Paperback Hardcover Multi-discipline #LGBTQhistory, Bisexual, Transgender & Intersex articles from the Early #GermanGayMovement #MagnusHirschfeld 🌈🏳️‍⚧️Ο
www.amazon.com/dp/B0G6VM8LMB
Annual of Sexual Intermediaries Volume I (1899)
Annual of Sexual Intermediaries Volume I (1899) [Hirschfeld, Magnus, Lombardi-Nash, Michael] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Annual of Sexual Intermediaries Volume I (1899)
www.amazon.com

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Michael Lombardi-Nash @lombardinash.bsky.social · 12h
Our history matters. German is the language of the Early Gay Movement. Karl Heinrich Ulrichs claimed in the 1860s that being Gay was no crime, sin or disease. We celebrated the first Gay activist's 200th birthday in 2025. #lgbtqHistory #GermanGayRightsMovement
www.amazon.com/dp/B083C5SB78
Amazon.com
www.amazon.com

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Rebecca Rideal @rebeccarideal.bsky.social · 13h
I wrote about society’s disproportionate obsession with women who kill. I have A LOT more to say about the new Lizzie Borden drama (very little of it good). www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
From Lizzie Borden to Myra Hindley, why are we still so fascinated with female killers? | Rebecca Rideal
Another true-crime drama about a woman accused of murder is hitting our screens, feeding into our culture’s unhelpful obsession with ‘female rage’, says historian and author Rebecca Rideal
www.theguardian.com

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Where Seagulls Dare @redtim.bsky.social · 13h
The supposed class signifiers so beloved of the commentariat class have absolutely no meaning or value when measured against the lived experiences of real people.

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 13h
It was very good to see Bridget Phillipson both endorse Sunak's article *and* point out that Conservative, as well as Reform, politicians have endorsed the view that you have to be white to be British/English.
sundersays.bsky.social Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d
Former PM Rishi Sunak in the Sunday Times challenges the rise of ethno-nationalism in British politics, as an argument within the right about Britishness being about ancestry, DNA and ethnicity
www.thetimes.com/article/e89d...

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 14h
The playing field is not level: “According to analysis by Newscord, 163 articles were published on Jason Arday in the week after he resigned – compared to 13 articles by the same media outlets on James Orr in the week after the broadcast of the undercover filming he was featured in”
The Two Professors and a ‘War On Ideas’
The different stories of the Cambridge academics Jason Arday and James Orr reveal the wider cultural and ideological forces around hierarchies and structural power – and who gets to belong
www.bylinesupplement.com

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 14h
'Student advocates have raised concerns over UK universities’ commitment to introduce work experience into degrees, arguing that students cannot be expected to undertake unpaid placements amid a cost-of-living crisis.'

Own goal, UUK.
Work placements for all plan ‘risks widening student divisions’
If the logistics of mass placements require students to organise their own, those without their own networks will suffer, advocates warn
www.timeshighereducation.com

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silentsweeney.bsky.social @silentsweeney.bsky.social · 15h
An anonymous donor will match any donations to the Cinema Museum crowdfunder up to £5,000 until Monday night - get donating everyone!
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/the-cinema...
The Cinema Museum: HELP US BUY OUR HOME
After 40 years of uncertainty, we have a chance to secure our home. We need £500,000 to purchase our home and we have five months to do it!
www.crowdfunder.co.uk

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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 15h
The fears of Piddington about invasion have been realised. The street fascists have arrived. Great job everyone.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Unease in ‘newly independent’ Piddington as world media and Danny Tommo descend
As villagers take stock following symbolic vote, some fear far-right weaponisation of asylum dispute and influx of ‘masked people like in Dover’
www.theguardian.com

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 16h
Thousands of pregnant women in England are reporting domestic abuse. Midwives are struggling to cope
Thousands of pregnant women in England are reporting domestic abuse. Midwives are struggling to cope
Exclusive: Analysis ‘lays bare’ something midwives already know from their day-to-day work About 20,000 disclosures of domestic abuse are estimated to be made to maternity services in England every year, analysis has found. The figures are likely to be an underestimate of the true scale of disclosures, according to experts, highlighting the role maternity professionals play in identifying abuse. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com

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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 18h
Dear ABC News,
You continue to publish appalling headlines that minimise men killing women as "women die". Word choice matters. Your editors need to use the words died, killed, or murdered, accurately. #DV #VAW #crime #journalism
Australian ABC News headline: Three women die in domestic violence-related incidents across NSW

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Mary M. Burke @maryburke.bsky.social · 1d
TOO often news outlets who picked up her research are credited. THIS is where the story started:

Catherine Corless, ‘The Home’, JOTS [Journal of the Old Tuam Society] 9 (2012), 75–82.

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royalhistsoc.org
Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 1d
We also announced the return of the Society's annual 'International Fellows Lecture': chance to hear about new research by RHS Fellows working outside the UK: bit.ly/4xUZnLS

The 2026 lecturer is Prof Amy Froide in a lecture co-hosted @echistsoc.bsky.social to mark its centenary year #Skystorians
The Society's 'International Fellows Lecture', 2026 - RHS
The Royal Historical Society is pleased to announce the recommencement of its annual International Fellows Lecture. The 2026 lecture will be given by Professor Amy Froide (University of Maryland, Balt...
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Anya Jabour @herstoryprof.bsky.social · 1d
The countdown is on for the Nov. 10 release of my new book, MATTERS OF SEX: KATHARINE BEMENT DAVIS AND AMERICA'S FIRST SEXUAL REVOLUTION (NYU Press, 2026). Davis started her sex research with sex workers. Learn more here! blog.shgape.org/an-adamless-...
An “Adamless Eden for Female Offenders”?: Katharine Bement Davis and the Carceral State in Progressive-Era New York - SHGAPE Blog
In 1912, journalist Ida Tarbell wrote an admiring article about Katharine Bement Davis, the first superintendent of New York’s Reformatory for Women at Bedford Hills (commonly known as Bedford Reformatory). In keeping with the aims of women’s reformatories, Tarbell explained, Davis had made Bedford a site of rehabilitation rather than retribution. With “Good Will to Women” and “an apparently exhaustless source of cheerful energy,” Davis had instituted a program of schoolwork, physical exercise, domestic chores, religious instruction, and “a varied program of dances and entertainment.”
blog.shgape.org

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Lyndsey Layton @lyndseylayton.bsky.social · 1d
Americans love their national parks. The Trump Administration has been messing with them
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/19/c...
How Trump Has Disrupted National Parks (Gift Article)
Maintenance projects have been put off around the country and resources diverted to the president’s favored projects in Washington.
www.nytimes.com

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 1d
Pronatalist policies may backfire: “Using Nazi Germany as a case study, we show these policies may have counterproductive effects due to negative selection mechanisms in the marriage market. The excessive pressure to marry results in lower quality, ultimately less fertile & more fragile unions”
Pronatalist Policies’ Backlash in Authoritarian Regimes | The Journal of Economic History | Cambridge Core
Pronatalist Policies’ Backlash in Authoritarian Regimes
www.cambridge.org

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 1d
Got incredibly bored and read up on the Falkland Islands and their entire history of settlement and like... What do you mean? We are? Actually in the right? On this one???

This is an unfamiliar feeling as an Englishman. I don't know what to do about it.

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 1d
This guy was booted out of the Reform Party for saying that he wanted to shoot Starmer. Now running as an independent in the by election that he caused by his non attendance
snig.bsky.social Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 1d
John Allen, former Reform party councillor who lost his seat after failing to turn up to a single council meeting for six months, was paid £18,888. He may be able to earn the same again after putting himself forward to stand in the by-election he triggered.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Northumberland councillor paid £19k despite six-month no-show
John Allen is standing again after losing the seat for not going to Northumberland council meetings.
www.bbc.co.uk

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 1d
Tomorrow (Sunday) you can come see the @britishacademy.bsky.social building as part of Open House! No pre booking required for self guided tours which let you explore the building's history, architecture, and art collection at your own pace. Do drop by
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/searc...
Open House 2026
Step inside the British Academy’s historic Grade-I listed home for Open House Festival 2026. Discover the building’s Nash-designed architecture, its rich history, and art collection. Be among the firs...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 1d
I’ve worn a grubby RNLI cap for decades. I sound London, but I was born in Truro and I was a basically feral (Gen X) kid wandering the coast path with a dog until sunset for a lot of my early life. The lifeboats are in the fabric like trawlers and farms and pasties and fish and chips.

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 1d
Scientists are awesome: plant biologist and her team propose that cats eat grass because it helps them expel hairballs, after saving her cats’ hairballs for years “waiting for the right research project to come along”

www.science.org/content/arti...
Gold-covered hairballs may reveal why cats eat grass
Spiky projections on plant matter may act like “drain snakes,” helping felines dislodge wads of fur
www.science.org

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matt ratt HoL MBE BA(Hons) Swimming Certificate Cycle Awareness @windows98support.bsky.social · 1d
The problem with solving youth crime is you need to spend a lot of money now, for results you won’t see for 10-15 years. And not a single politician is willing to look beyond the next election cycle. Like, we know the answer, it’s skate parks and youth clubs.

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IFLScience @iflscience.com · 1d
Read an exclusive excerpt of his new book, as Dr Ross Brooks takes us through the queerness of Darwin. www.iflscience.com/meet-the-aut...

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Sam Rutherford (he/him) @echomikeromeo.bsky.social · 1d
Thanks to Katherine A. Hubbard for a lovely review of Teaching Gender in the Journal of Family History! journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... I was esp interested to see the connections Kat makes between the historical claims of Teaching Gender and their many echoes and resonances in our present.
Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
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