There’s a wine shop in Gipsy Hill called Tipsy Hill. It is, mercifully, located at the bottom of the actual hill.
Emma Elinor Lundin
@emmaelinor.bsky.social
Journalist-turned-historian of 20th-century political activism. I write/rant about political women, liberation movements, feminisms, borders; Tomorrow Never Knows; she/her; London/Malmö. http://www.emmalundin.co.uk https://www.tomorrowneverknowspod.com
Idag är den internationella minnesdagen för folkmordet i Srebrenica. Jag skriver om Bosnien och Hercegovinas landslag i fotbolls-VM och en diaspora som börjar hoppas på framtiden. Trettioplus år senare är frågan inte bara hur vi minns de döda, utan vad vi gör med de levandes historia.
SANJIN PEJKOVIĆ: Föräldrarna flydde folkmord – egentligen vann de VM
På lördagen är minnesdagen för folkmordet på 8 000 bosniaker i Srebrenica 1995. Sanjin Pejković skriver om Bosnien och Hercegovinas landslag i fotbolls-VM och en diaspora som börjar hoppas på framtide...
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I’m so embarrassed that I started this book like, “UGH a canon text, let’s see what’s the fuss,” and now I’m quietly weeping with joy to myself and filled with goodwill and optimism toward humanity and its capacity to love. How dare you, Jane Austen!!!
”Att vara svensk är att vara Palmenostalgiker och att också vara övertygad om att Palme hade tyckt om en om han bara kände till att man existerade.” www.dn.se/ledare/moa-w...
Moa Wallin: I Palmes telefonkiosk tar jag den första ciggen på 15 år
Jag reser mig upp och går från familjesemestern eftersom det känns akut att jag tar mig till Fårö.
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Absolutely horrendous decision to substantially uphold planning permission for homes to be built on the grounds of Bessborough Mother & Baby institution. We have not reckoned with this dreadful recent past and Bessborough has a key role in that reckoning. www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster...
'Have they no heart or soul?': State urged to CPO Bessborough lands to stop apartments being built
Survivors and campaigners have demanded the Government must compulsorily purchase the land after An Coimisúin Pleanála upheld decision to build apartments there on Thursday
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Yesterday I visited Niendorf on the Lübeck Bay to see the site of the British military hospital where 40 very ill survivors from Bergen Belsen were brought in July 1945. They were critically ill with TB and typhus. Most of them passed away in the weeks that followed, one of them Therese Teichner.
Capping the price of 99 flakes _and_ croissants: a bin for everyone.
Tim Bale@timbale.bsky.social · 4w agoJICYMI - hugely enjoyable interview with the Count himself on the Today Programme this morning: starts at 2hrs54min into the show.
Norway vs Brazil offers a clash between two of the great offshore oil drillers. Both nations boast large state-owned oil companies. Statoil (now Equinor) take on Petrobas. Who will win in this battle of the hydrocarbon titans?
"Victor" tells us, "This year's raisin grapes harvest will begin soon. We workers are hoping for a pay increases per tray (sheet) this year. Last year we were paid 35 cents per each sheet. We're hoping to earn more this year as expenses have gone up a lot." #WeFeedYou
I do hope Austria v Spain is known as the Habsburg Derby. Whoever loses, I’m sure they’ll take it on the chin.
Everybody in the "climate space" (which means everyone on earth...) needs to understand these mind-blowing figures. Google's "total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025." In ONE year. The AI corporate arms race is eating the world.
Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · last mo.NEW BLOG FOR YOU Google's energy consumption numbers in their new climate report are mind-blowing. 2 years ago they flipped from linear to exponential growth, and their climate impact is blowing out, too. A WILD testament to the obscene bloat and waste of GenAI: ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/g...
Kolleague (not seen since last week): I can't believe you are still on page 97 of th enew Rachel Cusk. It's a good page, I've just decided to stay there,
🚀🚨🚀 We are hiring: 3-year postdoc in African history! 🚀🚨🚀! The University of Agder in Kristiansand, Norway is hiring a researcher with a PhD in History to conduct research on “European Languages in Post-Colonial Africa (1950-1990). The job listing can be found here: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Post-doctoral Research Fellow in European Languages in Post-Colonial Africa (303877) | University of Agder
Job title: Post-doctoral Research Fellow in European Languages in Post-Colonial Africa (303877), Employer: University of Agder, Deadline: Tuesday, September 15, 2026
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Three days ago, both #Croatia and #Europe lost one of the strongest voices of Croatian #literature. Through #essays, reportage and #fiction, Slavenka Drakulić chronicled the experience of the Eastern Bloc with rare intelligence, honesty and empathy. Rest in peace. #communism #skystorians #booksky
In Remembrance of Slavenka Drakulić. A Reading
Croatia has lost one of its strongest literary voices. Slavenka Drakulić - dissident, feminist, exile - left behind a body of work that reads less like history and more like a mirror held up to the pr...
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(Yasin Ayari hasn’t divulged his reading list but he’s Yasin Ayari and that is another good reason to support Sweden.)
Lyndsey Stonebridge@lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · last mo.One of the Swedish team is reading Toni Morrison to get a better understanding of America. The Swedish team have a bookclub. I like the Swedish team and hope that they win. #WorldCup2026
Who was Andimba Toivo ya Toivo? The Namibian leader who chose justice over power theconversation.com/who-was-andi...
Who was Andimba Toivo ya Toivo? The Namibian leader who chose justice over power
Unusually for his generation, he never scrambled to gain positions of power after independence.
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Back in 2018, aka Two Men's World Cups Ago, @lottelydia.bsky.social and I recorded a @tnkpod.bsky.social football special, featuring Germany v Sweden v England, women’s place in football, pundits and so much more. Well worth another listen, I think? www.tomorrowneverknowspod.com/episodes/17
Episode #17: The [Men’s] World Cup Special — Tomorrow Never Knows
It’s Germany v Sweden all over again as Charlotte and Emma discuss women’s place in football, the question of expertise and why Neymar could pay the salaries of 1,693 female players in the top leagues...
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Del 7: Birgitta Ed meddelade att hon ville arbeta med ”existentiell hälsa” på sin herrgård. Ett halvår senare gav regeringen Folkhälsomyndigheten i uppdrag att lyfta ”existentiell hälsa”. Generaldirektören ifrågasatte begreppet - och fick sparken från myndigheten. www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/Gx...
Skeptisk till ”existentiell hälsa” – fick sparken från myndigheten
Statsministerns fru meddelade att hon ville arbeta med ”existentiell hälsa” på sin herrgård. Ett halvår senare gav regeringen Folkhälsomyndigheten i uppdrag att
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One of the absolute greats.
Mickaël Wilmart@mickaelwilmart.bsky.social · 2mo agoCarlo Ginzburg est mort, annonce la presse italienne. Immense historien, il a su construire une oeuvre originale entre micro-histoire et anthropologie historique qui a considérablement renouvelé la discipline. www.repubblica.it/cultura/2026...
Nothing persuades you of Marx's idea of the "character mask" more than seeing someone's personality change entirely once they take an administrative role.
The interesting yet disturbing dynamic i keep seeing on social media is the racist riots and pogroms in the North are fundamentally occurring - and being coordinating - in Loyalist areas and they are being cheered on by racists from the Republic of Ireland, not nationalists from the North.
📢 New Special Issue! How did southern Africa’s liberation armies imagine the future? Drawing on oral histories, memoirs & struggle archives, this SI explores how soldiers shaped ideas about freedom, gender, politics an&d solidarity from the 1960s to the 1980s. www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjss20/5...
The clue's very much in title, not that the article really gets to the key issue, being much happier delivering kicks at feckless students. Students spend thousands, so they're burdened with debt but still have inadequate maintenance loans. Many are stressed and working multiple jobs. Class suffers.
If your only value in the classroom is knowing more than the students, you don’t understand pedagogy
Nathan Kalman-Lamb@nkalamb.bsky.social · 2mo agoA Princeton professor thinks students would be better off learning from Claude than from him. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
Nu tillsätter vi ännu en doktorandtjänst i projektet "Den svenska elen: Kunskap & kommunikation kring beredskap, nationalism och informationskris" Projektet undersöker hur historia, nationalistiska narrativ och digitala plattformar påverkar samhällets energiomställning. @lunduniversity.bsky.social
Kristoffer Ekberg@krekberg.bsky.social · 2mo agoKom och bli humanekolog! Vi rekryterar en doktorand till det tvärvetenskapliga projektet "Den svenska elen" som fokuserar på nationalism i relation till elkraftsutbyggnad. Tjänsten är knuten till den historiska delen av projektet. Sprid gärna!
