Dr Melanie Holihead
@mmr-holihead.bsky.social
Late-start historian, proud Corpuscle, author ‘Naval Seamen’s Women in Nineteenth-Century Britain’ (https://boydellandbrewer.com/9781837650118/naval-seamens-women-in-nineteenth-century-britain/). DPhil, FRHistS. Winner 2012 Corbett Prize in Naval History.
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The horse-riding librarians of the Pack Horse Library Project in Hindman, Kentucky, around 1940. This was a genuine New Deal initiative established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration (WPA) during the Great Depression.
August 29, 2026 at 4:43 PM
The horse-riding librarians of the Pack Horse Library Project in Hindman, Kentucky, around 1940. This was a genuine New Deal initiative established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration (WPA) during the Great Depression.
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There are 315 'Data Centres' queued up to be added to the UK grid.
They will use 73GW of electricity.
The current average use for the ENTIRE UK is 24GW.
They will use 3x more electricity than everyone in the UK combined.
And YOU will be paying their heavily subsidised bills.
WHY????
They will use 73GW of electricity.
The current average use for the ENTIRE UK is 24GW.
They will use 3x more electricity than everyone in the UK combined.
And YOU will be paying their heavily subsidised bills.
WHY????
August 29, 2026 at 6:21 PM
There are 315 'Data Centres' queued up to be added to the UK grid.
They will use 73GW of electricity.
The current average use for the ENTIRE UK is 24GW.
They will use 3x more electricity than everyone in the UK combined.
And YOU will be paying their heavily subsidised bills.
WHY????
They will use 73GW of electricity.
The current average use for the ENTIRE UK is 24GW.
They will use 3x more electricity than everyone in the UK combined.
And YOU will be paying their heavily subsidised bills.
WHY????
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This ultra-small generator is highly portable and works even with shallow, slow moving water. Tested with powering street lights, it promises to allow the world’s remote regions to generate their own electricity [📹 Japan Video Topics]
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August 28, 2026 at 5:37 AM
This ultra-small generator is highly portable and works even with shallow, slow moving water. Tested with powering street lights, it promises to allow the world’s remote regions to generate their own electricity [📹 Japan Video Topics]
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Have you visited a Norman castle this summer? Want to know more about the world of the Normans and the history behind the Bayeux Tapestry?
Join our short course starting in September!
historical-association.cademy.io/ha-short-cou...
Join our short course starting in September!
historical-association.cademy.io/ha-short-cou...
August 28, 2026 at 11:49 AM
Have you visited a Norman castle this summer? Want to know more about the world of the Normans and the history behind the Bayeux Tapestry?
Join our short course starting in September!
historical-association.cademy.io/ha-short-cou...
Join our short course starting in September!
historical-association.cademy.io/ha-short-cou...
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Fossil fuel demand is still growing — but solar and wind are growing faster.
EVs are surging as oil prices spike.
The transition is happening. The question is whether we accelerate it fast enough to avoid the worst.
Speed matters.
#EnergyTransition #CleanEnergy
EVs are surging as oil prices spike.
The transition is happening. The question is whether we accelerate it fast enough to avoid the worst.
Speed matters.
#EnergyTransition #CleanEnergy
August 27, 2026 at 2:31 PM
Fossil fuel demand is still growing — but solar and wind are growing faster.
EVs are surging as oil prices spike.
The transition is happening. The question is whether we accelerate it fast enough to avoid the worst.
Speed matters.
#EnergyTransition #CleanEnergy
EVs are surging as oil prices spike.
The transition is happening. The question is whether we accelerate it fast enough to avoid the worst.
Speed matters.
#EnergyTransition #CleanEnergy
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Your weekend reminder that Nigel Farage wants to
- leave the ECHR
- repeal the Equality Act
- Strip back workers rights
- Lift restrictions on exploitative zero-hours contracts
- repeal the Renters’ Rights Act which abolishes no fault evictions
He is not on your side
youtu.be/KxOQRt8PQys?...
- leave the ECHR
- repeal the Equality Act
- Strip back workers rights
- Lift restrictions on exploitative zero-hours contracts
- repeal the Renters’ Rights Act which abolishes no fault evictions
He is not on your side
youtu.be/KxOQRt8PQys?...
If UK media actually explained Nigel Farage’s policies to the public no one would be supporting him
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
youtu.be
August 23, 2026 at 10:00 AM
Your weekend reminder that Nigel Farage wants to
- leave the ECHR
- repeal the Equality Act
- Strip back workers rights
- Lift restrictions on exploitative zero-hours contracts
- repeal the Renters’ Rights Act which abolishes no fault evictions
He is not on your side
youtu.be/KxOQRt8PQys?...
- leave the ECHR
- repeal the Equality Act
- Strip back workers rights
- Lift restrictions on exploitative zero-hours contracts
- repeal the Renters’ Rights Act which abolishes no fault evictions
He is not on your side
youtu.be/KxOQRt8PQys?...
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"So we CANNOT have wind turbines or solar panels because of how it iruins the landscape', but data centers somehow get a free pass??"
(OrevaZSN on Threads)
(OrevaZSN on Threads)
August 23, 2026 at 4:18 AM
"So we CANNOT have wind turbines or solar panels because of how it iruins the landscape', but data centers somehow get a free pass??"
(OrevaZSN on Threads)
(OrevaZSN on Threads)
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Would Richard Tice tell the 19 people whose homes burned in wildfires in Stourbridge to "enjoy the heat"?
August 23, 2026 at 10:01 AM
Would Richard Tice tell the 19 people whose homes burned in wildfires in Stourbridge to "enjoy the heat"?
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I found out today that the ground breaking historian of the NHS, Charles Webster is turning 90 in October. This is a recent book with essays by him, In Times of Strife (2023) edited by Henrike Lähnemann and available digitally, #openaccess. #histmed
August 23, 2026 at 10:33 AM
I found out today that the ground breaking historian of the NHS, Charles Webster is turning 90 in October. This is a recent book with essays by him, In Times of Strife (2023) edited by Henrike Lähnemann and available digitally, #openaccess. #histmed
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Anyone got any recs for reading on laundry in early medieval Europe? I've read Carole Radcliffe's "A Marginal Occupation?" about high/late medieval laundresses, but I'm looking more for evidence of laundry on the domestic rather than professional level. Thanks!
August 23, 2026 at 10:44 AM
Anyone got any recs for reading on laundry in early medieval Europe? I've read Carole Radcliffe's "A Marginal Occupation?" about high/late medieval laundresses, but I'm looking more for evidence of laundry on the domestic rather than professional level. Thanks!
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Dozens of gas-burning power plants are being built across the country, solely to power data centers.
These plants could emit as much planet-warming pollution as half of all passenger vehicles in the entire country in a single YEAR.
We need a data center moratorium — now.
These plants could emit as much planet-warming pollution as half of all passenger vehicles in the entire country in a single YEAR.
We need a data center moratorium — now.
August 5, 2026 at 10:30 PM
Dozens of gas-burning power plants are being built across the country, solely to power data centers.
These plants could emit as much planet-warming pollution as half of all passenger vehicles in the entire country in a single YEAR.
We need a data center moratorium — now.
These plants could emit as much planet-warming pollution as half of all passenger vehicles in the entire country in a single YEAR.
We need a data center moratorium — now.
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There now follows a party election broadcast by the Count Binface Party, And if I do say so myself, it's a banger. #VoteBinface #Clacton
August 6, 2026 at 10:08 AM
There now follows a party election broadcast by the Count Binface Party, And if I do say so myself, it's a banger. #VoteBinface #Clacton
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📣CFPs - deadline 31 July📣
Symposium: Global Childhood(s) and Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine
📆16-18 November 2026
🏛️The Centre for History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Leeds (UK)
In-person with online presentation option
#histmed #histSTM
Symposium: Global Childhood(s) and Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine
📆16-18 November 2026
🏛️The Centre for History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Leeds (UK)
In-person with online presentation option
#histmed #histSTM
History of Medicines CFPs
If you wish to share your CFPs on the SSHM website please contact the Exec Sec, Dr Justine Pick [email protected] Symposium: Global Childhood(s) and Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine Keyn…
sshm.org
July 29, 2026 at 11:59 AM
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A photographer captured a family of owls and accidentally ended up with the perfect cover for a music album.
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July 29, 2026 at 3:44 PM
A photographer captured a family of owls and accidentally ended up with the perfect cover for a music album.
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✨ Arches National Park, Utah 🇺🇸 by Elliot McGucken
July 28, 2026 at 7:53 PM
✨ Arches National Park, Utah 🇺🇸 by Elliot McGucken
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#fashionistas please can you help me date this fashion print from Le Conseiller Des Dames? 1850s? #fashion #history
July 6, 2026 at 3:30 PM
#fashionistas please can you help me date this fashion print from Le Conseiller Des Dames? 1850s? #fashion #history
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Can someone ask Lucy if the estimated 6-8% loss in GDP due to her beloved Brexit is a price worth paying?
"Short term, there will be an effect on the economy. Maybe 30 years. The price of democracy and sovereignty is high." — Lucy Harris, coordinator of Leavers of London (Aug 2018)
#politicslive
"Short term, there will be an effect on the economy. Maybe 30 years. The price of democracy and sovereignty is high." — Lucy Harris, coordinator of Leavers of London (Aug 2018)
#politicslive
June 23, 2026 at 11:58 AM
Can someone ask Lucy if the estimated 6-8% loss in GDP due to her beloved Brexit is a price worth paying?
"Short term, there will be an effect on the economy. Maybe 30 years. The price of democracy and sovereignty is high." — Lucy Harris, coordinator of Leavers of London (Aug 2018)
#politicslive
"Short term, there will be an effect on the economy. Maybe 30 years. The price of democracy and sovereignty is high." — Lucy Harris, coordinator of Leavers of London (Aug 2018)
#politicslive
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My nine year old asked for a Rosetta Stone cake for his birthday
June 21, 2026 at 3:04 PM
My nine year old asked for a Rosetta Stone cake for his birthday
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Sometimes big numbers can pass you by but this is mind-blowing.
'An enormous whale graveyard around 1,200km (745 miles) long and 7km (four miles) deep has been discovered in the south-eastern Indian Ocean. Some of the remains are 5.3 million years old.'
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
'An enormous whale graveyard around 1,200km (745 miles) long and 7km (four miles) deep has been discovered in the south-eastern Indian Ocean. Some of the remains are 5.3 million years old.'
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Whale graveyard dating back five million years discovered
The Indian Ocean site is "far beyond anything we had imagined", one researcher says.
www.bbc.co.uk
June 10, 2026 at 7:42 PM
Sometimes big numbers can pass you by but this is mind-blowing.
'An enormous whale graveyard around 1,200km (745 miles) long and 7km (four miles) deep has been discovered in the south-eastern Indian Ocean. Some of the remains are 5.3 million years old.'
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
'An enormous whale graveyard around 1,200km (745 miles) long and 7km (four miles) deep has been discovered in the south-eastern Indian Ocean. Some of the remains are 5.3 million years old.'
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Ten years on from Brexit there are still no rules to prevent lies in election ads.
We’ve tabled amendments to stop election ads like the infamous Brexit bus misleading voters again.
Email your MP and ask them to sponsor them.
It takes 1 minute.
👇
reformpoliticaladvertising.org/take-action/...
We’ve tabled amendments to stop election ads like the infamous Brexit bus misleading voters again.
Email your MP and ask them to sponsor them.
It takes 1 minute.
👇
reformpoliticaladvertising.org/take-action/...
June 10, 2026 at 4:08 PM
Ten years on from Brexit there are still no rules to prevent lies in election ads.
We’ve tabled amendments to stop election ads like the infamous Brexit bus misleading voters again.
Email your MP and ask them to sponsor them.
It takes 1 minute.
👇
reformpoliticaladvertising.org/take-action/...
We’ve tabled amendments to stop election ads like the infamous Brexit bus misleading voters again.
Email your MP and ask them to sponsor them.
It takes 1 minute.
👇
reformpoliticaladvertising.org/take-action/...
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The horn of Africa is grieving because their
-Their farms are no longer yielding
-Advancement of desert is alarming
-Our major rivers are drying
-Proliferation of pest and pathogens
-Development of tropical diseases.
-Our crop are dieing out.
Climate change is a reality.
-Their farms are no longer yielding
-Advancement of desert is alarming
-Our major rivers are drying
-Proliferation of pest and pathogens
-Development of tropical diseases.
-Our crop are dieing out.
Climate change is a reality.
June 10, 2026 at 6:14 AM
The horn of Africa is grieving because their
-Their farms are no longer yielding
-Advancement of desert is alarming
-Our major rivers are drying
-Proliferation of pest and pathogens
-Development of tropical diseases.
-Our crop are dieing out.
Climate change is a reality.
-Their farms are no longer yielding
-Advancement of desert is alarming
-Our major rivers are drying
-Proliferation of pest and pathogens
-Development of tropical diseases.
-Our crop are dieing out.
Climate change is a reality.
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Palantir's co-founder claimed "the NHS makes people sick"
Yet this US tech giant now runs the NHS data platform.
There are serious concerns about its access to patient data and human rights record.
The Government should use the break clause and kick Palantir out of our NHS.
Yet this US tech giant now runs the NHS data platform.
There are serious concerns about its access to patient data and human rights record.
The Government should use the break clause and kick Palantir out of our NHS.
June 10, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Palantir's co-founder claimed "the NHS makes people sick"
Yet this US tech giant now runs the NHS data platform.
There are serious concerns about its access to patient data and human rights record.
The Government should use the break clause and kick Palantir out of our NHS.
Yet this US tech giant now runs the NHS data platform.
There are serious concerns about its access to patient data and human rights record.
The Government should use the break clause and kick Palantir out of our NHS.