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Jeremy Salkeld
Jeremy Salkeld
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ππ°π¬π§ Historian-in-training, wargaming hobbyist, VTuber enthusiast. DPhil student studying the transnational afterlife of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom (Oxford 2026β, previously GWU 2024β6); moderator for @askhistorians.bsky.social.
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Starting a photoshoot with Sarissa buildings and @handiworkgames.bsky.social backdrop. Even better when I get my hands on some smoke! Gerrit and Jan were big on factory sabotage.
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Something I spoke about before was how transphobia is often an expression of misogyny, it gives people who hate women an outlet and sets trans women up as a class of women it's socially okay to be misogynistic towards, while also providing an ideological justification for that misogyny.
A new survey of 1,000 American adults found that the strongest supporters of transgender sports bans are not the people who admire women most: they are the people who hold the most hostile views about women. www.helenwebberley.com/news/transge...
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8cX... Excuse me what is this crossover and can we have more please
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This is what "legitimate concerns" gets you. A generation growing up comfortable with open racism. Societal damage that will take decades to repair; if it can be repaired. Bravo Labour... progressive policies indeed!
In parts of Merseyside, migrant care workers are being routinely racially abused and attacked by primary school-aged children Sickening in so many ways
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The Home Office continues to purposefully damage UK HE. Universities UK estimate a single of cohort of international students generates Β£40bn net benefit for Britain over the course of their studies.
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Really important, on Trafalgar Day, to observe that there are both women and black people included in this image. It's not anachronistic or "woke" to tell their stories, and ignoring them is doing a disservice not only to those people but also to their contemporaries who made sure they were seen.
Wasnβt just harbour - they were often wives or partners, and would be on ships βinformallyβ. There are women in βThe Death of Nelsonβ:
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We are excited to share this new blog post from JCB Research Associate Dan Howlett about the origins of the library's collections- and a frequently overlooked typesetter named Wawaus or James Printer. Now available at jcblibrary.org/news/one-man...!
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The posts about this project are getting so suppressed on Facebook, can you give me a hand? Launching Wed 21st October, 20 brand new miniatures - hand sculpted and hand cast. Deeply researched non conventional members of the Dutch Resistance! www.kickstarter.com/projects/bad...
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Right, fine, this is true, but we should not act like there wasn't massive progress in the last 80 years on racial equality that we should be proud of, and defend, and push for further progress, instead of acting like it didn't exist at all
Donβt want to be a Debbie Downer, but this feels somewhat complacent, given that we arguably have at least three far right political parties, weβve had two years of violent far right rioting and targeted attacks on minorities, and the largest far right march since before World War II was last year.
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The Man Who Would Be King is quite a short story to adapt into a 2-hour feature film, so the attentive viewer will likely notice inclusions from other Kipling stories. You would have to be *really* well-read on the period to discover that John Huston also drew on contemporary travel writings too.
We all know the "Viggo broke his toe" story but what's another movie fact you're personally compelled to bring up every time without prompting? For me, it's the fact that Robin Tunney is wearing a wig in The Craft because of having just shaved her head to save her job filming Empire Records.
In particular, George Robertson's 1896 book The KΓ‘firs of the Hindu-Kush, which narrates his own travels in Kafiristan, supplies several details such as a treacherous river crossing and the name 'Utah' ('Ootah' in film) for one character. Hence one 'Colonel Robertson' preceding Dravot and Carnehan.
I only realised this on reading an article that postdates the film but wasn't really about it, which quoted Robertson in a couple of places β I'm sure someone who's read Robertson directly could find more correspondences. www.jstor.org/stable/2902886
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I know what you're getting at but I don't think this is accurate except in an extremely generalised sense. The Japanese rarely wanted for a critical mass of collaborators, and had often laid the groundwork well in advance. The INA may have been a minority but it still existed. The BNA defected,
There's a sense that you could write off the moral weight of the Pacific War as just a clash of Empire vs Empire outside of the Sino-Japanese war, but the colonial subjects seemed to clearly understand who the worse option was.
I know what you're getting at but I don't think this is accurate except in an extremely generalised sense. The Japanese rarely wanted for a critical mass of collaborators, and had often laid the groundwork well in advance. The INA may have been a minority but it still existed. The BNA defected,
There's a sense that you could write off the moral weight of the Pacific War as just a clash of Empire vs Empire outside of the Sino-Japanese war, but the colonial subjects seemed to clearly understand who the worse option was.
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Case in point: in Hong Kong, ethnicity rarely comes up and I am typically 'Nationality: British'. In the UK, I'm 'Mixed-Other' because 'Mixed-White/Chinese' doesn't seem to exist as a category for most purposes.
The average minority changes their race multiple times *in their school years alone*, it shifts based on external pressures and internal ones, there are just a lot more variables.
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Ricardo failed to consider what if you just really hated the thing you had a comparative advantage in
Death by a thousand cuts as universities revoke international offers "en masse" of prospective students from Bangladesh, Nigeria and Pakistan to avoid losing ability to recruit international students. More job losses and course closures predicted in consequence. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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