Neil Wholey

@neilwholey.bsky.social

UK social/market researcher, history and genealogy - Victorian pantomime, animal impersonators, music hall, ballet. Bit of polling and comms. No politics rosatroupe.co.uk

New Community Engagement Survey findings are out (replaces Community Life Survey and DCMS' Participation Survey). Regional differences between people's perceived ability to influence decisions affecting their local area. Significant gap between London and the NE.

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Social media is no longer social. Most of it is passive viewing of videos and pictures from people we've never met. But we're still studying social media like it's 2010. We've entered the post-social media era — and research needs to catch up. osf.io/preprints/so... preprint w/ Richard Rogers

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COVENT GARDEN is DONE. Will be PUBLISHED by YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS in SPRING 2027, if everything lines up. Blow me, that was some work. 140,000 words (may well not be allowed to leave it that long tbh). If you want 400 years of London social history, this will probably tickle your fancy.

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We've seen lots of posts online suggesting there's some kind of conspiracy involving the 2025 pandemic simulation Exercise Pegasus and the recent Meningitis B outbreak in Kent. There’s zero evidence of this. We delve into the facts 👇

What was Exercise Pegasus and does it have anything to do with the current Meningitis B outbreak? – Full Fact

Posts online suggest there’s some sort of conspiracy involving a 2025 pandemic simulation exercise and the meningitis outbreak, but there’s absolutely no evidence to support this.

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Missing Doctor Who Recovered! The Film is Fabulous! team are pleased to announce the recovery of two missing episodes of Doctor Who, from the serial entitled, ‘The Daleks’ Master Plan’: The Nightmare Begins (Broadcast: 13th Nov 1965) Devil’s Planet (Broadcast: 27th Nov 1965)

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You can often find snippets of oral history to add to your research by searching newspaper archives for terms like nonagenarian, golden/diamond wedding, grand old lady/man. Older residents were often asked what their town/village was like when they were young. #oneplacewednesday