Sarah Elizabeth Cox
@oispooky.bsky.social
🥊 1880s boxing+wrestling historian 📕 THE DEVILS' DANCE FLOOR (Duckworth '27) ✍🏻 Hezekiah Moscow, Alec Munroe, Sugar Goodson, Wannop, Smith, Ball &c. 👊🏻 Write fight books raise dinosaur child 👩🏻💻 Science charity PR 🏖️ Clacton-on-Sea www.grapplingwithhistory.com
Just filling in my work timetable for next week's BRITISH SCIENCE FESTIVAL in Southampton (16-20 September). Wednesday alone includes 'robot in a church talk', 'autopsy', 'eugenics', 'ocean-themed beatboxing' and 'wine'. You should come! All FREE! www.britishsciencefestival.org/events
Events | British Science Festival
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Mine - who is MP for an area with a considerably higher than average number of elderly and disabled people who might be interested, engaged with, and impacted by this very important issue - was, YET AGAIN, dicking around in America and didn't bother voting 👍🏻 www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...
How did your MP vote on the reintroduced assisted dying bill?
MPs today voted not to approve the assisted dying bill at its second reading. The bill, which was brought back to the Commons after being blocked in the Lords, would have allowed terminally ill people...
theguardian.com
You do not live on an island and fuck with the org which saves people from drowning. Unless you're *incredibly* stupid. Oh look.
Dee Lomas@deelomas.bsky.social · 12h agoThe RNLI volunteer has told us that donations usually run at £20,000 per day. Currently running at £100,000 per day! Bloody brilliant!
This week, 1892: John L. Sullivan, Heavyweight Champion of the World, lost his title to 'Gentleman Jim' Corbett after one hour and 18 minutes in the ring. Sullivan's seconds said to the press: "We met a younger man, and we stayed once too long. He is an American. That's all we've got to say."
Get yourself friends who pull out skulls from their Mary Poppins carpet bag and say things like AXE TO THE MIDDLE OF THE FACE on YouTube, and you'll never be bored again 💀
Dr Lindsey Fitzharris@drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · yesterdayA medieval warrior's skull and the surprising origins of the term "forensics." I got you covered in a NEW video! Please consider subscribing & throwing me a like! I'm trying to revive the old channel and it's...hard to reach people through the AI slop & algorithms. www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8yh...
Just filling in my work timetable for next week's BRITISH SCIENCE FESTIVAL in Southampton (16-20 September). Wednesday alone includes 'robot in a church talk', 'autopsy', 'eugenics', 'ocean-themed beatboxing' and 'wine'. You should come! All FREE! www.britishsciencefestival.org/events
Events | British Science Festival
britishsciencefestival.org
It might just look like a private dining shed at Harbour Lights, Walton-on-the-Naze. But it is now Deep Throat's car park. The grassy knoll. A Clacton landmark to rival the pier (snapped this last week over oysters and a delightful cold seafood platter!) 😂🦪
I've talked to the Reform councillor in Portsmouth who had to explain to a masked vigilante mob outside the city's Marriott hotel that a group of young men who had arrived on a coach were not asylum seekers but an U21 cricket team from Pakistan. He called it a “massively unfortunate incident”.
Seeing post-grad graduation ceremony content on my feeds this week reminds me of the PhD I interviewed while a press officer for Queen Mary in 2011. What will you do next? I asked Dr John North. "I will consult my Professor on the choices open to a post-doctorate research student.” He was 93 💪🏼
This story had previously passed me by. Definitely did not expect it to include the words 'Hot Lips Houlihan', 'Lady Tarkina Snow Fire' and 'could everyone please exit my colon'.
Angry People in Local Newspapers@apiln.bsky.social · 4d agoDelighted to report that the whole of Scotland has united in fury against American Dog Lady and that is a #NiceThing.
Incredible to think there's a huge app for open child porn, Nazism, sedition and mob mobilisation, and our country's institutions are among its most enthusiastic users.
I want to experiment with, refine, and choose the tools I find helpful. I personally find that my brain is sufficient. Like other tools brains work best when regularly sharpened and well cared-for. Stop pissing on my shoe and telling me it’s raining.
Correct! I live right next to the RNLI station in Clacton - a few years ago our MP (before he was an MP) described these brilliant volunteers as a "taxi service for illegal migrants". Donations rose 3,000% the following day🖕🏼He's completely ignored them here since becoming MP, as far as I'm aware...
Dr Jo Kershaw@mthrjo.bsky.social · 5d agoThe RNLI have some of the best people in Britain volunteering for them. They put their lives on the line when they are called on and they will rescue anyone who needs them. Because every life matters, and offering help is the right thing to do. You can donate here: rnli.org
“My profession smiles at hard-right figures when they walk into a TV studio and are given a disproportionate amount of air time to make their fact-free assertions while nodding along to their scapegoating of the weak.” ✍️ Patrick Howse
The BBC Is Just Nodding Along
The corporation's news coverage has lost its soul as a bulwark against unaccountable power and extremism, writes a former BBC News producer
bylinetimes.com
Hi! Live near Sussex? Got teenagers? Do they like history, books, or middle-aged historians who are mildly funny, sometimes? You’re in luck! I’m doing a FREE event for teenagers at Crawley Library on September 22nd. I’ll be joined in conversation by funny history influencer Katie Kennedy
I wish we still had proper local newspapers. Perfect, PERFECT. Every sentence. Every phrase. Every word. Barnoldswick & Earby Times, March 1961.
📣 Announcement! We’re delighted to share a brand-new podcast series that invites expert historians to challenge your perceptions of the past. CHALLENGING HISTORIES is hosted by historian and author, @amyfuller.bsky.social. Listen wherever you get your podcasts! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/c...
I wish we still had proper local newspapers. Perfect, PERFECT. Every sentence. Every phrase. Every word. Barnoldswick & Earby Times, March 1961.
I really wish someone among all the press who were so into Clacton this summer would deep dive on how a rogue, suspended landlord in Southend appears to have got the lease on a big Clacton centre ex-bank, put up a fake sign for his company, and ran a weed farm in it for a year. Next to Greggs.
Very gutted to hear about the sudden passing of Andy Williams aka AEW wrestler 'The Butcher.' Seemed like a lovely fella, also played guitar for Every Time I Die. Great that he got to live two dreams simultaneously. Just look at him! What a perfect look for a pro wrestler. 48 is tragically young.
give me folks ignorant to history but willing to learn over those willfully misinformed so that their ignorance becomes hate anytime
I've given up, I'm the kind of ill where I'm just going to have to start a Killjoys rewatch
My son (three in November) has just announced that he's a "piss ghost". Sunday! 🤷🏻♀️😂
Your regular reminder that Nigel Farage IS the establishment. There’s no-one more establishment than him. Public school, the city, career in politics, mates in all the right places, terrible dress sense.
The story of where she came from, how hard she fought in and out of the ring. Every time the crowd cheers I get goosebumps. AND we get Big Dave Allen. Win/win.
80,000+ sold out at Croke Park, Dublin, for A WOMEN'S BOXING MATCH. And the crowd respectfully packed out bums in seats hours early for the full under-card too. Unlike certain miserable big boxing and wrestling events in a certain place. Lovely stuff.
