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Maureen Wright

@drmaureenwright.bsky.social

Historian, author and Spaniel lover. WHW IC. Specialism: Women's Suffrage movement. Things of historical interest: just about anything. Currently working on tracing my father's service journey in #WorldWar2 and the history of 104th Regt RHA.

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Big Sky

My new album is out now!

The album is called Big Sky

Please share, I am so grateful โค๏ธ

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Youtube - www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3fw...

Linktree - linktr.ee/KarlReid

12.12.2025 12:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Striking photo. Looks like Farage has just said theyโ€™ll honeymoon in Southend.

26.01.2026 16:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 69    ๐Ÿ” 14    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 10    ๐Ÿ“Œ 7
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Holocaust victimโ€™s rescued artwork captures life in a Jewish ghetto The works of Peter Kien, a Jewish painter and writer who died in Auschwitz, have been reunited after more than 80 years thanks to a love passed down generations

For Holocaust Memorial Day, the extraordinary story of Peter Kien, the Jewish artist who depicted life in the Theresienstadt Ghetto and the 55 year-long battle to retrieve them.

His artworks will now be held by the @wienerlibrary.bsky.social

www.thetimes.com/article/517f...

26.01.2026 16:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 42    ๐Ÿ” 21    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Call for Papers | Views of their Own: The Work of Women Artists Fanny Blake, A Rainbow over Patterdale Churchyard, Cumbria, 1849, watercolour and opaque watercolour over graphite, with scratching out, on wove paper (Jointly owned by the Samuel Courtauld Trust aโ€ฆ

Call for Papers | Views of their Own: The Work of Women Artists enfilade18thc.com/2026/01/24/c...

#CfP #C18th #C19th #earlymodern #womeninart #womenartists

26.01.2026 15:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
School of History Access to Research Scholarship 2026/27 Project opportunity - School of History Access to Research Scholarship 2026/27 at the University of Leeds

PhD Funding!

University of Leeds

The School of History invites applicants from Black, Asian and other minoritised ethnic groups who wish to study for a PhD commencing in the academic year 2026/27 to apply for the School of History Access to Research Scholarship.

phd.leeds.ac.uk/funding/387-...

22.12.2025 19:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16    ๐Ÿ” 30    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Superb?

22.12.2025 20:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Feeling very much like I'm "To the Manor Born" at a #Christmas party yesterday. Bring on the champagne ๐Ÿพ๐Ÿฅ‚

15.12.2025 18:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Excellent weekend including a visit to Round Chimney's Farm near Howell for their Lambing Event and Woolly Workshops hosted by Millie at The Slipped Stitch. The farm's cafรฉ is excellent as is their home-bred Aberdeen Angus beef.
#Farm
#ShopLocal

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Buy University Press Books This Holiday Season Whatever success I can claim as a published author is the result of editors at academic publishers believing in and supporting my projects.

If you are buying books this Holiday Season, make sure to support university presses. Lots of great deals. open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

14.12.2025 15:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 214    ๐Ÿ” 92    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

Grateful for reposts!

14.12.2025 15:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15    ๐Ÿ” 14    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

YES INDEED

14.12.2025 15:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1109    ๐Ÿ” 207    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5

Congratulations ๐ŸŽ‰

11.12.2025 21:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The contempt that university managers have for their academic staff here in the UK is *off the scale*.

11.12.2025 21:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 82    ๐Ÿ” 30    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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A warm festive stocking of Yuletide nostalgia, with a little "Bah, Humbug," this Christmas on #TPTV The nation's favourite channel with #TommyCooper #DavidNixon #ManFromUncle #DameEdna #Scrooge and so much more!

07.12.2025 10:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Lovely. My favourite of your shirts. As for the trousers, we are now totally normalised to them.

21.11.2025 21:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

...axing anonymous marking, which was instituted with the best of intentions. Lecturers know their students & learn their capabilities over time, but sticking to anonymous marking lays the whole system open to abuse.

21.11.2025 12:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I met someone last year who was a developer on Chat GPT. He explained to me, using an essay question I had devised for undergrads, how to manipulate the programme to best effect.
I was enthralled & horrified in equal measure. "You won't be able to tell," he said. And that was true. Except by...

21.11.2025 12:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Fantastic to see The Old Front Line featured and reviewed in this weeks Radio Times!

21.11.2025 11:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 21    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The ultimate paradox in action there I think.

21.11.2025 12:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thank you @georgewalkley.com for this, but surely it's not just novelists who should be concerned. Writers in all disciplines will almost certainly be impacted by AI, if not now then in the future.
I am a writer of History non-fiction and pretty sure I'm not alone in being concerned.

21.11.2025 12:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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I seem to have acquired almost 50 new followers this week. Welcome everyone. I'll give you a book recommendation for the weekend. It's Tim Bouverie's Allies at War & it's won a place as one of my top 5 books of 2025. As stunning an account of the diplomatic history of #WW2 as you could ask for.

21.11.2025 12:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Home of the LSE & the Women's Library archives. Radicals & independent thinkers rule I say.

21.11.2025 11:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Well, if they're good enough for Ferry...

21.11.2025 11:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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PHOTO ARTICLE: French WW1 Satire This week I was doing one of my routine, directionless ambles around the Gallica website, which belongs to the Bibliothรจque nationale de France.

Todayโ€™s article is up, and itโ€™s a look at some French satire/humour from the First World War achurchill.substack.com/p/photo-arti...

21.11.2025 08:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 22    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Living with trauma, whatever form it takes,is a daily battle for many. The work of this Charity offers empathy and hope to those who may be in crisis. Their website is one of the best I've seen on this important matter, offering advice not only to the traumatised, but those friends who wish to help.

19.11.2025 17:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Umm... really?

18.11.2025 19:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

La dolce Vita.

18.11.2025 19:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I'm guessing that's Warsaw.

17.11.2025 16:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The seminal book on this, if anyone is interested, is The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk.
I await the programme with interest.

15.11.2025 14:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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