Lesley A Hall

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Archivist, historian, reader, Londoner, feminist
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OK, so this week: - UK Tories wiped out (I know, I know) - Iran votes in a reform PM (I know, I know) - France does this Sometimes, folks, there are glimmers.

JUST IN: Polls closed in France. Exit polls show surprise: —Left coalition (New Popular Front) projected first. (!) —Far-right (RN) has lost its bid to take power. Anti-RN front appears to have worked very well. —No bloc close to majority. Follow this 🧵 for results and more:

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France telling their fascists to fuck off.

Far right fails in France elections, leftist alliance on top: Exit pollwww.aljazeera.com The second round of France’s snap parliamentary election called by President Emmanuel Macron has drawn a high turnout.

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PSST it is my birthday!!!!!!! I am 42! The meaning of life, the universe, and everything!!! Please consider buying one of my books books2read.com/ap/8vWw1x/Ro... or supporting me on Patreon www.patreon.com/roselerner or donating to Romancing the Vote www.romancingthevote.com

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Who is writing about the Harlem Renaissance re-revival? Nice to see the stuff in the NYT etc. (and film of Passing, although unfortunately it was not good) but also weird lack of reflection. Zora is out and Nella is in, all the heavy lifts by Hazel Carby, Deborah McDowell et al. seemingly forgotten

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"...the proportion of state-educated members has risen from 54% to 63%. That is still far short of the 88% of people among the general public who went to comprehensive schools, but it represents the highest proportion of state-schooled members ever recorded in parliament."

Keir Starmer’s cabinet will have most female ministers in historywww.theguardian.com It will, however, only have three from minority ethnic backgrounds despite a record 89 being elected to parliament

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Rwanda scheme abolished on first day.

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For those who don't know: this is James Timpson of Timpson key cutters/shoe repairs/dry cleaners. His company employs ex-convicts and even runs work training programmes in prisons. Genuinely inspired choice.

Oh, now that *is* interesting - James Timpson as minister for prisons, parole and probation. Dare we actually hope for something that might reduce recidivism?

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Exiled rebel guerillas Talia, Miki, and Faigin dig hope from the ashes of their defeat. On the utopian planet Refuge, visit a cozy space opera filled with pastries and therapy. #hopepunk #specfic #sf #cozy #romancelandia 💙📚 🌈📚

A Place of Refuge Series: Save any book at Books2Read for future referencebooks2read.com

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holy shit I just realised that the US election is on Guy Fawkes Day

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A new MP from the Social History (and Sociology) stable. Congratulations to Colchester and Professor Cox:

Pam Cox elected Colchester's first female MP after winning 18,804 voteswww.gazette-news.co.uk The Labour candidate won more than 18,000 votes as she defeated the Conservative James Cracknell, who finished in second.

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Great roundup of short online pieces about doing archival research via @stuartelden.bsky.social progressivegeographies.com/2024/07/05/w... 🗃️

Working with archives – a collection of linksprogressivegeographies.com A few links about working with archives. I've started a page on this site with these links. At the moment it is just the links below, but intended to be a work-in-progress page and I'll add other thin...

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This is great from the Guardian: Analysis by the Sutton Trust suggests that Keir Starmer’s cabinet will have the highest number of ministers educated at comprehensive schools, and the lowest proportion in modern history who went to private schools.

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Come walk along the Thames from Richmond Palace to Eel Pie Island in Twickenham, Ladies-in-Waiting to 60s rock stars; meander by the bank where Mole and Ratty are scurrying. Stop at the Swan with its toes in the water. Wind in the Willows 20 July: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wind-in-th...

Wind in the Willows - the Thames riverside from Richmond to Twickenhamwww.eventbrite.co.uk Richmond is Sir David Attenborough's favourite place on the planet, and Ted Lasso likes it too!

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My new book, Lustful Appetites: An Intimate History of Good Food and Wicked Sex, comes out this winter. I would love to speak on your podcast, lecture at your university or give a talk to your group about the history of food and sex. Get in touch! And 🙏 pre-order rachelhopecleves.com/2024/07/03/n...

New Book Announcement!rachelhopecleves.com My next book, Lustful Appetites: An Intimate History of Good Food and Wicked Sex, is now available for pre-order in the U.K. and North America! I would love to appear on your podcast, lecture at your ...

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The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, & Publishing (SHARP) 2025 conference will be: Rochester, NY, US 2025 July 7-11 #SHARP2024

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Vacancy for Curating tutor at the RCA

Job Opportunity at The Royal College of Art: Tutor (Research) Curating Contemporary Art (0.6FTE)jobs.rca.ac.uk

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Registration is open until the 9th July, so don't miss out and book now #MedHist #HistMed #SciHist

Registration for #SSHM2024 is now OPEN📢 Society for the Social History of Medicine Biennial Conference 'Resistance' University of Strathclyde, Glasgow 16 - 19 July 2024 Organized by the Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare www.strath.ac.uk/humanities/d... #histmed

SSHM Biennial Conference | University of Strathclydewww.strath.ac.uk

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There’s still time to submit your proposals for our upcoming special issue on ‘Dirty Data and New Quantitative Histories’ - deadline 15 July! 🗃️ academic.oup.com/fh/pages/cal...

Call for Papers: Dirty Data and New Quantitative Historiesacademic.oup.com Historical research has changed in the age of big data. Thanks to the labour of archivists, librarians, and other researchers to catalogue, digitize and analyse

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I've seen a couple of posts from people saying their photographic ID is expired. You can still use expired photographic ID so long as it looks like you and the address is correct.

Hello. You can use an expired passport, should you remember where it is. Expired photographic ID is fine so long as it still looks like you.

Accepted forms of photo IDwww.electoralcommission.org.uk You need to show photo ID when voting at polling stations in some UK elections. Find out about the different types of photo ID accepted.

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Dear Brits, get out and vote like your life depends on it. Because it does. If you need a reminder then read this: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

An (incomplete) list of every terrible policy the Conservatives have inflicted on Britain since 2010 | Jonn Elledgewww.theguardian.com Readers, brace yourselves, says the writer Jonn Elledge

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"The National Trust, which owns the land, said the “one of a kind” survey was carried out to help it plan for future nature conservation and tree-planting schemes across the landscape, as part of its ambitious targets to address climate change."

Archaeological survey detects Roman villas and iron age farmsteads in Shropshirewww.theguardian.com National Trust ground-scanning technology maps new features close to site of Roman city of Wroxeter

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Is anybody I know familiar with the archival collection of Bernard Brodies papers at UCLA?

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Thanks to @archive.org, who has assembled a searchable index of 460,575 web pages previously published on MTV's website, you can search the MTV News archive via the Wayback Machine. variety.com/2024/digital...

MTV News Repository of 460,000 Articles Launched by Internet Archive After Paramount’s Content Takedownvariety.com After Paramount pulled MTV News offline, the Internet Archive assembled a searchable index of 460,575 pages previously published at mtv.com/news.

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Amazing. The perfect parting summary of 14 years of Tory rule. “Congratulations, peasants! You may now drink water from the tap again. Yes, that might seem like a basic human right, but we managed to fuck it up and for a while maybe tap water would kill you? Anyway it’s fixed now. Everyone clap.”

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SF & F writers please pass on. Milford SF Conference is offering 2 paid places for writers of colour to attend the week-long residential workshop to be held at Gladstone's Library in Hawarden, North Wales, from Friday Sept 13th - 20th. Applications close 29th Feb. www.milfordsf.co.uk/bursaries.htm

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CfA: Eight humanities/social science fellowships at the St. Gallen Collegium, 2025-2026. Theme: "Re-interpreting Freedom" 🗃️ 📆 30 Sep 2024 "Two fellowships are designated for advanced doctoral students or early postdoctoral scholars who are currently working at a university in the global south"🌍

Re-interpreting Freedom: Call for Applications for 7 Research Fellowships & 1 Outreach Fellowship at St.Gallen Collegium (Switzerland) | H-Netnetworks.h-net.org The University of St.Gallen is the first business university in the world to establish an institute of advanced study: St.Gallen Collegium. Starting in fall 2025, the Collegium will host researchers f...

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