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historyhack

@historyhack

Half journalist, half historian, half sloth

 London
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Joined February 2012
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Rob Baker@robnitm25 Mar 2013
We need a change in copyright law, and an easy one: 'The digitising of works in the public domain cannot be regarded as a “new” work.'
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Peter Watts@peter_watts3 Feb 2013
Cracking pic. RT @Theleaguemag Everton at Abbey Road, 1985.
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+1 MT @gregg_sh: Really interesting piece: Defoe and information technology theatlantic.com/technology/a…”
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A stroll through cholera-stricken Soho in 1854 catsmeatshop.blogspot.co.uk/…
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The Complete Spring Heeled Jack Page - Explore the mystery of a 19th century London terror ow.ly/gEifj
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Fanny and Stella by Neil McKenna. Sounds really interesting, all about the Victorian trial of 'the young men in women's clothes'.
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to celebrate hitting the 6000 mark, we're going to give away 6 books from our 2012 list to one tweeter - RT this to be in with a chance!
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Replying to @UkNatArchives
@UkNatArchives 1804 petition for clemency by a man convicted of murder for shooting someone he thought was a ghost... discovery.nationalarchives.g…
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Hilarity from 1884
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Peter Hitchens on drugs and the moral opium-eating Victorians. wp.me/pNH7d-qq
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Rob Baker@robnitm4 Oct 2012
New post on Nickel in the Machine: The Honky Tonk woman Winifred Atwell, with a riot and the Suez crisis thrown in. nickelinthemachine.com
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One of our foremost historians has died: guardian.co.uk/books/2012/oc… RIP Eric Hobsbawm. Sad news found via @dbelbin
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‘E’s got an awful big carrot in his barrer’: London’s music halls by @FernRiddell @Amateur_Casual tinyurl.com/d24785z
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Lists of note. RT @julietpickering: A woman on bus is writing sex price list on neon card with marker pen. teapawt.net/julietpickering/status…
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Sing a song for the masses with Fern Riddell, as she explores political expression in the Victorian music hall bit.ly/MKmflB
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A short history of cycling in London, featuring HG Wells, non-arousing seats, Toulouse-Lautrec, Tomorrow and bike polo. greatwen.com/2012/07/26/hg-w…
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On this day in Vauxhall Gardens in 1837 was the fatal parachute descent of Robert Cocking. Cocking, a 61-year-old... fb.me/1ObUSgVWI
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125 years of St John Ambulance in pictures bit.ly/MRJmcY
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Any scholars out who can help illuminate or elucidate this phenomenon, we'd love to hear from you! fb.me/1htcACuFa
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A brutally honest letter from author Jack London to an aspiring writer: bit.ly/HpzeGF
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