Iβve never been to Billing Aquadrome
06.01.2026 08:42 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0@drdavesteele.bsky.social
HISTORIAN of 19th CENTURY REFORM CROWDS Focus on mismatch between crowd size, reputation & power Warwick Thesis: bit.ly/-PhD Working on chapter in 2026 Parl. Hist. Sp. Ed. & Editing Routledge Collection on 19th C. Sedition Academic profile: bit.ly/ds-1-
Iβve never been to Billing Aquadrome
06.01.2026 08:42 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0My article on extra-parliamentary activity in New Palace Yard is featured today on the Society for the Study of Labour Historyβs series on places of significance in labour history . . .
17.12.2025 08:18 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Leamington Peace Festival is coming back but we need your help. Can you donate to our crowdfunder?
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/peace-fest...
Photobooth selfie of Dave Steele
Apparently itβs 100 years since the introduction of the Photobooth. In a bizarre twist it was 50 years ago that I took this Photobooth selfie complete with roll up and fag-burn on my Rupert-the-bear scarf. What was I thinking?
14.11.2025 09:45 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0Loving the front cover image. My son was at Newbury for some of the time
25.10.2025 17:12 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Itβs a review copy. Iβd better get reviewing!
25.10.2025 17:09 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Look what just arrived! @katrinanavickas.bsky.social
25.10.2025 16:19 β π 15 π 2 π¬ 1 π 1Looking forward to tomorrow's intriguing session on a collaborative project to improve the digitisation of handwritten wills. Join us at 5pm Weds. Free registration : www.bit.ly/dig-cit-sci
21.10.2025 11:01 β π 4 π 3 π¬ 0 π 1Donβt forget to sign up for this Wednesdayβs presentation on digitising Early Modern handwritten documents
20.10.2025 13:20 β π 5 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0Full gallery here: maritimehull.co.uk/whats-happen...
19.10.2025 08:17 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Thereβs also a gallery of my work on Hull Docks on Hull Maritime Museumβs website
19.10.2025 08:16 β π 7 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Fuller gallery and biog. here:
machelp.org.uk/hull/
These remind me of a series of photos I took of Hull in 1975 machelp.org.uk/hull/
19.10.2025 08:04 β π 7 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0Looking forward to this . . . @lsangha.bsky.social
@materialwills.bsky.social
@emilymayvine.bsky.social
@transkribus.bsky.social
@zooniverse.bsky.social
Where I try to explain why France is not going through an ordinary political crisis but that the Fifth Republic is a regime in crisis.
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@uni-of-warwick.bsky.social
Great piece Pierre! I already read it when it came up on my Guardian feed earlier
14.10.2025 07:57 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0And this medal marking her death
13.10.2025 23:02 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I recently bought this lovely jug
13.10.2025 22:57 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Corrected link along with a second interview . . .
BBC Radio 5 Live www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... 38 mins into the programme
BBC Radio Wales www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... 18 mins into the programme
I've just been interviewed on Radio 5 Live about Britishness and the right to protest.
Interview started at 9.38 or 38 mins into the programme www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Here's a recording of my Warwick Words History Festival Talk on Rev. Arthur Wade, Radical Vicar of Warwick: youtu.be/lessQB7CSJ0
05.10.2025 12:15 β π 3 π 2 π¬ 0 π 1Dr Dave Steele
Warwick Words History Festival
Looking forward to giving my talk this Saturday at Warwick Words History Festival on 'Rev Arthur Wade: Radical Vicar of Warwick' Sat. 4 October 4pm, Unitarian Chapel, Warwick.
I will discuss Wades advocacy of workersβ rights.
A few tickets left: www.warwickwords.co.uk/index.php/al...
doing my bit
17.09.2025 13:06 β π 7 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Looking forward to this . . .
15.09.2025 12:45 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Reminder of tomorrow's meeting of the Independent Historians Working Group Meeting, Tue, Sep 16, 2025 at 17:00 UK time
Free Eventbrite Tickets: bit.ly/INDY1609
This week in 1848 Chartist activists continued to meet daily to organise an insurrection in central London. On 9th August they met in the Lord Denman, a now demolished pub off the Blackfriars Rd. Those involved included the black leader of London Chartism William Cuffay
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Looking forward to giving my paper on βThe powerful crowdβ at Chartism Day tomorrow. Iβm in good company with a packed programme of speakers . . .
05.09.2025 17:28 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Carolyn Steedmanβs recent article in @jbritishstudies.bsky.social, βBuying People is Wrong,β ended with an imagined coda from the kitchen. In this piece for Broadsides, Steedman explores the potential real-life inspirations for her servantβs voice.
Read the piece here: www.nacbs.org/post/a-real-...
The largest citizen flotilla in history is sailing to Gaza with food and medicine. Israel has threatened to seize it - but together we can be their shield. Add your name to help watch over the flotilla and demand its safe passage! action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-09...
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