Caroline Dodds Pennock
@carolinepennock.bsky.social
Historian and human-sacrifice enthusiast (she/her). Author of On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
FYI, Grade 8 at Manchester Met Uni £41,064 to £47,389 (pro rata in this case). Why make you do the extra step to see the salary?
Catherine Fletcher@catherinefletcher.info · yesterdayVery short notice (deadline 18 August) but we're advertising a 0.5fte lectureship in public history for next year. Covers my 3rd year undergraduate course on public history of Rome (ancient to modern) plus some MA public history teaching.
Quiz question: What’s the name of the candle in Beauty and the Beast? Me: John Wick.
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In which Sheffield pub does the Incredible Hulk drink?
Yes absolutely, @lucympowell.bsky.social’s “Safeguarding guidance” will mean trans children will end up skipping school. Many will end up in the streets all day, which is a HUGE safeguarding risk.
Elle@elle2465.bsky.social · 5d agoThe only real thing you can do is not let them attend school. their mental health will fall off a cliff being forced into that environment. The Evil of targeting kids like this is unfathomable even in a vile Middle Eastern country, how it's legal in UK is beyond me!
They used Supplementary Vote, not quite the same. But it made sure the extreme right wing party was defeated.
And THAT is why you have Single Transferable Vote, ladies and gentlemen and everyone else.
That @paulcornell.bsky.social was always correct about the canon or lack of it and why it’s so freeing. Any new showrunner keeps what they want to and ditches what they don’t and each new Doctor or companion gives a new jumping on point, as should every season opener. The show always needs freshness
Dale Smith@dalesmithonline.com · last wk.The only people who think Who needs a reboot are the fans who wrongly think Doctor Who has a canon, and that it contains something they don't like (maybe a female Doctor or two?). Who has stories it references, and stories it doesn't, and stories jump between the two lists at random. Not a canon.
My dad died in the early hours of this morning. He was no one of any great societal standing, but as the mayor of North Yorkshire town Norton-upon-Derwent in the late 1980s he rocked a top hat at the local Dickensian festival without significant ear-bend, and that’s quite an achievement.
Animals do bring an incredible sense of calm to any occasion.
I do wonder if this might also be a good way in for GCSE teachers? A lesson or two exploring how the show writers and advisors adapted and updated the original interpretation ? Wonder if we could craft them? @carolinepennock.bsky.social @kerrylouisehistory.bsky.social @ciscstudies.bsky.social
Alex Ford@apf102.bsky.social · last wk.A brilliantly written and encouraging review of Netflix’s Little House on the Prairie by @johnniejae.bsky.social . Was keen to see this but didn’t know what to expect. Might well watch it with the 9yo now. Definitely one for American West #historyteacher s in the UK redpopnews.com/netflixs-lit...
In which our Eurostar departure is delayed because ‘there are a lot of passengers’.
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Mystified by the appeal of Starbucks coffee. The only coffee I drink is black iced americano (and that only occasionally) and I can categorically state that Starbucks sells the most viciously bitter coffee on the high street. Even in Belgium.
Never let someone tell you that you must excuse owning enslaved people or participating in killing Native people because someone was "of their time". Silas Soule was of the same time.
Patrick McCray@patrickmccray.bsky.social · last wk.Remembering Silas Soule, born OTD in 1838. American abolitionist, conductor on the Underground Railroad, military officer, and hero for disobeying orders to participate in Sand Creek Massacre and then giving evidence against his commander. Murdered 1865. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silas_S...
To be clear: my ‘safety, dignity and equality’ have nothing to do with ‘sex-based rights’ and nor do anyone else’s. Screw this transphobic-dog-whistle shite.
Do I have an teachers working in Northern Ireland schools who'd be willing to chat to me about some trans stuff, totally anon and off the record if needs be. I just have some questions. Ideally from a protestant school, a catholic school and an integrated?
Oh dear.
Glen O'Hara@gsoh31.bsky.social · 2w agoThe government has now washed its hands of universities in England. Prospective students and parents should be warned: they are now almost unprotected in the event of a failure, and it's possible doors may close *same day* in case of a collapse. wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/...
Loved this book. If I were to add a Sheffield band, it’d be the dark gothic Americana of The Payroll Union that I’d squeeze into the 2010s section. Should have been bigger, but at least they were ours.
White Rabbit Books@whiterabbitbks.bsky.social · 2mo agoJoin @danieldylanwray.bsky.social on a seven decade journey through the sounds of one of the UK's most unique and creative cities... Groovy, Laidback and Nasty, Dan's hugely entertaining history of music in Sheffield, is out now in audiobook, narrated by the man himself. 🎧 geni.us/GroovyLaidba...
Two new sightings of 'The Long Death of Adolf Hitler' out in the wild! Many thanks to Clare Lawlor for spotting it at USHMM in Washington DC, and @carolinepennock.bsky.social for documenting its appearance in a bookshop in Bruges!
I have just read the phrase “machine intelligence is a generative collaborator” in reference to a soulless AI art installation and I could not hate it more if I tried.
On a day when humour has been in short supply, this is an actual LOL.
Toby Buckle@polphilpod.bsky.social · 2w agooh yeah, go out clubbing in any northern town & all anyone is talking about is matt goodwin
Thoughts and prayers to the military community and the world at large, as curséd weasel Wes Streeting is appointed Defence Secretary.
Deeply amused by the Milliband/Mahmood saga and their joint arrival concluding with NEITHER of them being the winner.
Classic Kemi there, denying one of her government’s few actual achievements.
Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social · 3w ago"Overall carbon emissions have increased" in the UK, because of Net Zero, Kemi Badenoch repeatedly tells the BBC, to no pushback. Just completely untrue
England’s attackers busy proving who Tuchel should actually have brought on for the last twenty minutes on Wednesday.
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This is the consequence of transphobic policy in the guise of ‘protecting women’. If you work in education, follow Cal’s advice. Put your trans students on a risk register. Let everyone you can think of know that they’re being harmed by these policies. And let them know you still see them.
Cal Horton (they/them)@fiercemum.bsky.social · 3w agoJust had meeting with kiddo's school. She has been fully supported, treated with full equality & dignity for years. All of that changes from September. Full segregation & humiliation across the board. The school staff cried in the meeting. This will absolutely lead to children's deaths 1/2
