Leonard Woolf lived to see Woodstock
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Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children
Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.
detailed local reporting on one particularly horrifying ICE raid in Chicago. Something that stood out to me: America had already failed a lot of these people in multiple ways even before ICE showed up. Forcibly bussing migrants. Housing crisis.
southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...
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for @eparpillee.bsky.social
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This is really interesting, @roperlou.bsky.social. I was working in the Harley papers a couple years ago at the BL and there's TONS of Tangier stuff---Robert Harley sort of wriggled out of going there in the early 1660s
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Display case of dozens of white clay tobacco pipes excavated in England. Their form derives from Indigenous American pipe traditions, showing how Native technologies were adopted, industrialised, and embedded into English social life.
What traces of Indigenous American history lie within English country houses? In our latest article, Lauren Working and Stephanie Pratt explore how trade and tobacco shaped a famous stately home.
www.historyworkshop....
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the true horror of wanting a sweet treat after dinner and the only acceptable thing containing sugar in the house is RAISINS
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like the prudent ant! not the singing grasshopper....
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mmmm. maybe I'll make a pulled pork and then do this with the leftovers!?
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I have a fancy farmers market pork roast. What should I do with it?!
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History prof @Salem State, author of A Storm of Witchcraft & The Devil of Great Island, early American public history, 17th C. archaeology and material culture.
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Early medieval northern Britain, taking in Picts, Gaels, Britons, Angles and Norse. Feast days, on this day, place-names, archaeology news and book releases. Posts by Dundonian bookworm Craig. https://northages.wordpress.com/
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Emeritus professor at Louisiana State Univ; political historian; former Russell Long, John Breaux, Kathleen Blanco flunky; RobertMannBooks.com; My new book is: "You Are My Sunshine: Jimmie Davis & the Biography of a Song." https://robertmann.substack.co
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Historian of everyday commerce, credit and debt in late medieval and early modern England. Post doc βWritten Worldsβ, Birkbeck. Church courts and chronicles.
Danish #archaeologist living in in Stavanger, Norway. Still working in the trenches of #archaeology. Views are entirely my own and yes, I do tend to spend all my vacations in Scotland
Irish Culture and Partition, 1920-1955 (Liverpool University Press, April 2026)
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A Community-Based Transcription of the Records of the Kirkwall Incorporation of Tailors, 1669-1772; Project Lead: Dr Aaron Allen
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