Fi Bowler
@fibowler.bsky.social
Cold War Historian | Research Associate at the University of Oxford | views and cat pictures my own
We can literally send people to the moon so why am I lying on my kitchen floor with a baking tray to drain the washing machine
Unless this “honesty” involves the recognition that immigrants are *not* the root cause of the UK’s problems *but* actually a part of the solution to them, this will be completely pointless. I cannot stress this enough. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Burnham to say UK must be honest about its challenges as he prepares to become PM
Labour leader will visit king to accept role on Monday and will start making cabinet appointments that afternoon
theguardian.com
‘There was absolutely no chance of being a kid’: new exhibition explores how war shapes children’s lives
‘There was absolutely no chance of being a kid’: new exhibition explores how war shapes children’s lives
Childhood in War examines what life looks like when play, education and family life is disrupted by hostilities
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@newstatesman1913.bsky.social The Politics Show suggesting George Cottrel is some lost soul Farage gave a chance to have a “life of glamour and power and importance that they may not have otherwise had” when he’s from an exceptionally rich family and grew up on a private island is laughable
Why is he lying like he’s been killed on the baracade in Les Mis
Almost 200,000 historical records have been released online by the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland. The release of the records will cover seven centuries of Irish history and will make over half a million documents free and permanently available to the public
Almost 200,000 Irish historical records released online
Almost 200,000 historical records have been released online by the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland.
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So sad to hear about Penelope Keith. One of the greats. Feline Margo Leadbetter will be getting a few extra treats tonight in her honour ❤️
I know I’m a broken record but to see universities abandon critical thinking and completely chuck out their own policies around sustainability, research ethics, academic integrity, etc in the pursuit of shiny new tech has been quite something
Daniel Bellingradt@dbellingradt.bsky.social · last mo.“This collaboration is a result of the University of Oxford’s participation in NextGenAI, a consortium with OpenAI and 15 leading research institutions dedicated to using AI to accelerate research breakthroughs and transform education.” www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/about/media/...
Spent ages looking for Reg only to find he had melted under the spare room bed
For further insight into the impact of Section 28 on the queer community, see this conversation between volunteers and researchers involved in the oral history project 'Section 28 and its Afterlives'.
Intergenerational Oral History and Section 28
How can oral history interviews between different generations of LGBTQ+ people aid our understanding of the ongoing impact of Section 28?
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I almost forgot - remembering Schoolteacher, INTO President, Scottish born Irish revolutionary and feminist Margaret Skinnider was born #otd May 28, 1892. She and her life long partner, Nora O’Keeffe, lived together in Clontarf
my latest: "Race, Rhetoric, and Infidelity in Calpurnius Flaccus's Natus Aethiops" - now out with Rhetorica muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
Project MUSE -- Verification required!
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Hannah Čulík-Baird@opietasanimi.com · 4mo agothe world is on fire and I'm feeling some kind of way about it. nonetheless, I just received proofs of an article on race and blackness in Latin literature which I had to fight tooth and nail to get into print
The man at the checkout pressed “visibly over 25” a little faster then I perhaps would have wanted
Me and Reg have a new bit when he has zoomies where I chase him round the house pretending to hold a microphone to interview him. “Mr Gonzalez, how did you become so speedy?”
In just under six months my 5k time has gone from 37:20 to 28:20 🙏
I have a new article in @historyworkshop.org.uk that explores the resourcing of feminist activism in the 1970s. Come for the rants about typing, stay for the study of jumble sales as feminist praxis! 🗃️ academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-...
Labours of Liberation: Resourcing Feminist Activism in 1970s Bristol
Abstract. This article uses a case study of Bristol Women’s Liberation Movement (WLM) to interrogate the bureaucratic, administrative and material logistic
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I cannot overstate the number of cat beds there are in this house. And yet…
Can anyone recommend scholarship on Irish nuclear history/culture 🙏
Friend bought me some breakup flowers, Margo Leadbetter knocked them off the desk. Please ML it’s been a hard week 😭
It’s just me and the Howls Moving Castle audiobook against the world