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@neilstewart.bsky.social

Head of Library & Digital @ihrlibrary.bsky.social at the Institute of Historical Research, London, UK @ihr.bsky.social. Libraries, history, books, music, film, current affairs, the odd bit of politics- you know, the good stuff.

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Not to mention the prospect of the Qatar-Alberta nightmare conflict scenario

10.10.2025 17:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Whom amongst can truly say, hand on heart, that our close associates have not taken bribes from a hostile foreign state in order to influence domestic politics?

10.10.2025 16:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Haha the usual eco-fascist propaganda from the woke communists of the [reads article] Joint Intelligence Committee???

08.10.2025 17:31 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

A beautiful record

06.10.2025 16:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Exactly the kind of building in which you would hope to find a comptroller or indeed an ombudsman @tom.2x2.graphics

04.10.2025 09:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Celebration and Resistance: Explore LGBTQ+ collections and more at History Day 2025 Every year in November we host History Day, an event for students, researchers and history enthusiasts.

Celebration and Resistance: Explore LGBTQ+ collections and more at History Day 2025 πŸŽ‰

This #HistDay25 we're partnering with @justinbengry.bsky.social to create a Queer History and Heritage Trail highlighting queer stories, figures & collections. Hear from Justin here: www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

03.10.2025 09:48 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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A critique of pure stupidity: understanding Trump 2.0 If the first term of Donald Trump provoked anxiety over the fate of objective knowledge, the second has led to claims we live in a world-historical age of stupid, accelerated by big tech. But might th...

My essay on stupidology (originally published in N+1) is in today's Guardian www.theguardian.com/news/2025/oc...

02.10.2025 06:08 β€” πŸ‘ 66    πŸ” 27    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 13

Seriously?

17.09.2025 14:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

great, looking forward to it!

17.09.2025 14:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I subscribed, looks great! @wyrdscience.bsky.social

17.09.2025 14:10 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The GOAT

12.09.2025 07:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

main policy plank seems to be "get rid of the quick vote" now I wonder why that would be πŸ€”

09.09.2025 10:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Phil McNulty... is that you???

29.08.2025 12:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That’s some cover!

28.08.2025 17:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I remember a spoof ad in Oink! advertising Ta'Ap Water, still relevant nearly 40yrs later

28.08.2025 08:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Guess I’m just built different

24.08.2025 06:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I could do this

24.08.2025 06:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Thompson & Thomson innit

23.08.2025 19:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If Oasis were a book, it would be Andy McNab’s timeless classic Bravo Two Zero

22.08.2025 11:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh man what???

21.08.2025 20:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

And somehow it’s all the fault of the BBC

19.08.2025 08:04 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Eddie Redmayne’s performance in Jupiter Ascending will stay with me for a be long time, like a tapeworm

17.08.2025 08:53 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Orwell alert!

17.08.2025 08:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œLet me chew something, you fucker” is a line for the ages

11.08.2025 18:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Hey, you got something to eat? By a Goat. The first few paragraphs of a commentary piece in The Onion written by a goat, with a picture of a goat.

Hey, you got something to eat? By a Goat. The first few paragraphs of a commentary piece in The Onion written by a goat, with a picture of a goat.

11.08.2025 17:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œHe came dancing across the water” doesn’t sound too realistic to me!!!

07.08.2025 11:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

there's some Neil Young at his most reflective too. I saw Plush at one of those ATPs, way back in the day!

06.08.2025 09:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Lovely! Got a copy of this for my brother recently who is a convert

06.08.2025 07:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The Return of the Obra Dinn and The Case of the Golden Idol are both puzzlers with RPG elements and are both brilliantly if quirkily evocative of their periods

04.08.2025 07:45 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You’re just built different I guess

02.08.2025 15:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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