“Institutions would rather watch the world burn than bite the hand that feeds them”

Interview with Prof Jason Scott-Warren (Jason Scott-Warren), organiser of open letter to Royal Society about its #climate stance

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🤩 I know what pen (and snacks? 😅) I’ll use in my next class on verbal violence. Thanks so much Emily Cockayne, looking forward to properly dive in.

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News of a new PhD opportunity at ARU - come work with me and Gressenhall Farm and Workhouse on a fantastic collection of some c. 1,000 workhouse objects!

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Another interesting court case buried in the regional press that retrospective digitization allows me to excavate. I'm not interested in the history of malicious and obscene calls but someone should be.

He'd been making such calls during his working day for the best part of five years. Fortunately for the GPO investigators, the plumber pleaded guilty. He got a year while their legally questionable investigatory tactics did not come to light until this afternoon.

Calling all social and cultural historians. In 1952 Post Office investigators listened to *all* Belfast phone calls *without warrant* to catch a 22-year-old plumber who'd posed as a doctor to make obscene phone calls to housewives.

Look at this binding waste! If you have any knowledge you can offer about this book, please contact us. There are two diff. entries in our catalogue & we would like to find the correct info. Search B07411 & B07463 thompl.cirqahosting.com/HeritageScript…

HRT is unavailable again. My male, middle-aged pharmacist told me it's institutional misogyny perpetrated on a global scale and he's absolutely furious about it. I hope the women in his life appreciate him.

I'll pick a winner this evening, another few hours to enter

One more day and I’ll pick out a winner:

Unconscious class based bias is so interesting. Folks who would do great things to check their bias in other spaces don't see the microagressions in how they behave to working class women. Now I see it for what it is it's almost comical where not so long ago would cause me angst!

Giveaway!

Celebrate 100 yrs since Edith Swan came out of prison for writing poison pen letters & 35 yrs since I sent an anonymous last Rolo. Copy of Penning Poison, plus merch for your own anonymous notes!

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In A Nutshell; The Angela Rayner Story.
Words from a tweet by Davenant 📸
“Obscenely wealthy tax dodgers want rid of working class woman who is going to make them pay their fair share of taxes!”
#embroidery
#AngelaRayner

Accusatory, libellous, or just bizarre, Penning Poison unveils the history of anonymous letter-writing. Enjoy this excerpt from one of the best books of 2023:
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Woman, baby, dog. I love drawing hair and dog fur! #reddigetsdrawn . From Finding a Likeness: How I Got Somewhat etc