Join @esmoriemiller.bsky.social, our creative facilitator Mariana Sequera and me for this @beinghumanfest.bsky.social creative writing workshop at Liverpool Central Library, 5 Nov, 5-7pm. Pls repost, especially if you are in or around Liverpool: www.beinghumanfestival.org/events/writi...

Writing Liverpool Lives

Be inspired by the life stories of people of colour who lived in Liverpool's dockside neighbourhood between 1870 and 1939 at this engaging creative writing workshop! Guided by an experienced writing f...

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Someone has to post this youtu.be/gSc46sEZdl4?...

Lloyd Cole and the Commotions - Rattlesnakes

YouTube video by LloydColeVEVO

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This is an excellent analysis of the construction of ‘left behind’ working-class voters by @jmoss88.bsky.social and @emilyrobinson.bsky.social.

Popular perceptions of the politics of class in Brexit Britain: perspectives from Mass Observation

The 2016 EU Referendum and 2019 General Election placed class back on the agenda as many political scientists turned to historical narratives to account for political change. In doing so, they ofte...

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Teaching stress dream involved the whole class being really evasive about what their names were

Things that didn’t turn out to be the problem I thought they’d be: whirlpools, leprosy Things that were possibly on the money: nuclear annihilation

New law that labels in sheets must say whether it’s a single or a double

Snoozefest

Ruth Ellis: what her posthumous pardon tells us about Britain’s view of abuse then, and now Ruth Ellis was hanged as punishment for killing her abusive partner, but now finally she has been pardoned | Lizzie Seal @lizzieseal.bsky.social

Ruth Ellis: what her posthumous pardon tells us about Britain’s view of abuse then, and now

Ruth Ellis was hanged as punishment for killing her abusive partner, but now finally she has been pardoned

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"🎶 You Are The Winch Beneath My Wings 🎶" Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo) perching on a rusty winch assembly at the WW1 seaplane pier, at Swanbister, #Orkney. #BirdOfTheDay #SingersAndWingers #OrkneyBirding #BirdingScotland #UKBirds #UKBirding #Birds #birdsoftheworld #ornithology #Cormorant 🪶

‘Mr Cockle, of Southampton’ (from 1870 news article) - where did these excellent names go?

People say repression is bad but a woman on the train this morning was having a phone conversation about her son’s poos

Ruth Ellis: what her posthumous pardon tells us about Britain’s view of abuse then, and now Ruth Ellis was hanged as punishment for killing her abusive partner, but now finally she has been pardoned | Lizzie Seal @lizzieseal.bsky.social @uk.theconversation.com

Ruth Ellis: what her posthumous pardon tells us about Britain’s view of abuse then, and now

Ruth Ellis was hanged as punishment for killing her abusive partner, but now finally she has been pardoned

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From me today, drawing on my research on public responses to the case of Ruth Ellis, in the light of her conditional pardon

The Conversation UK@uk.theconversation.com · 3mo ago

At the time, many people personally identified with Ellis and her experiences of abuse.

My Dad’s review is in: ‘I counted the amount of times you used the word “liminal”

Lizzie Seal@lizzieseal.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Advance paperback copy of my new book!

i#FinaCall 👇 @asanews.bsky.social @sandraduffy.bsky.social @lizzieseal.bsky.social @katemarburg.bsky.social @gaylekaufman.bsky.social @clodaghtait.bsky.social @florarenz.bsky.social @matthewwaites.bsky.social @kayteecruz.bsky.social @annabull.bsky.social @drmelob.bsky.social

J D Vance is unusual among Catholics in knowing that the Pope hates him

Christ, the kit list for a 2 night school camping trip

I sure don’t remember ‘protester’, ‘activist’ and ‘demonstrator’ being used quite so freely when people out in the streets aren’t white

No longer advance!

Lizzie Seal@lizzieseal.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Advance paperback copy of my new book!

I asked my daughter why she doesn’t like our local Picturehouse cinema and she replied ‘Because they call their sweet and salty popcorn ‘mix’’

Advance paperback copy of my new book!

The TV adaptation of Super Gran

Jason Herbert@herberthistory.bsky.social · 6mo ago

You're Gen X. You can bring back one thing from the 80s. What is it?

Crying (not necessarily with laughter) www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wha...

What Your Favorite ’90s Band Says About the Kind of Bored Suburban Mom You Are Today

Nirvana: You could never be one of those stereotypical soccer moms. (Your kids play lacrosse.) 5/8/25 5/6/26

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On Friday afternoon before the Bank Holiday, colleagues in the Humanities department were called to a meeting on Tuesday. They were informed that the University Portfolio Review had decided that English Language, English Literature, Philosophy, History & Creative Writing UG degrees would close

Owen Davies@odavies9.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Aye. Heard today that my university is closing UG History, Philosophy, English Lit, Linguistics, and Creative Writing in one go.

You think you have a new take and then you read a monograph from 1991

Me to my 11 yr old ‘You learned about the mods and rockets, didn’t you?’ Her ‘Yes, and it sucked’

You can include ‘The’ in the title of your journal all day long, but I’m not using it, word waster

Would be really cool if Phillipson acted on the more pressing problem of universities running out of money

Recovering from my daughter telling me my casual clothes are ‘not of this day and age’. Tbf, the top I’m wearing is older than she is