Dr Katherine Weikert
@kateweikert
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Medievalist of 900-1200ish England & Normandy most of the time. Immigrant and misplaced Hoosier. Usually tired. She/her. Views own.
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Anyone else feeling massive guilt AND pressure as there are so many wonderful lectures & seminars & conferences online and all you can do is look at them and wish you had the time and the headspace to even think about attending? Like, free online is amazing but you just can't?
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Quietly pleased and surprised to announce that I've been appointed the new Deputy Head of the School of History and Archaeology at Winchester. I hope I can do some good with it.
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I keep seeing people on here saying they have time to go to the GP because they're on strike/ASOS
@ucu
and think to myself, my god, what has this industry done to us when we can't have time see to our health and work at the same time?
#OneOfUsAllOfUs
#FourFights
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Proofs!!! I've got proofs for this beautiful thing! Happy Days and Chinua Achebe and Sarah Waters and the Appendix are all still in it!!!! And some buildings too! Oh, how wonderful!
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Erm...my book is out!!! I have yet to hold this beautiful little thing in my hands, which will make it real, but It Exists. And I Have Feelings.
New! Authority, Gender and Space in the Anglo-Norman World, 900-1200, by
@kateweikert
, is a ground-breaking interdisciplinary approach to the medieval manor pre- and post-Conquest.
#medievaltwitter
#genderstudies
#archaeology
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How do you research History when you're no longer at University? With the help of you folks, I compiled this list. Happy researching.
(Plus! Bonus picture of my sister's cat looking utterly happy to be exactly where he is in the preview picture.)
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Medieval version of 'I'd rather not put this in email.'
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I am thrilled and frankly gobsmacked to announce my book, Authority, Gender and Space in the Anglo-Norman World
@boydellbrewer
has been shortlisted for the Hitchcock Medallion for outstanding contribution in architectural history
@TheSAHGB
! Words can't express how proud I am.
📢Shortlists revealed for the Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion and the Colvin Prize 🏅
We are delighted to reveal the shortlists for two of the most important prizes in architectural history 🥳
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It's here! It's here! (Featuring a special appearance by
@BLMedieval
Cotton Julius A VI f.4v!)
Now everyone go buy it with discount code BB870 and no one read it!
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I'm very pleased to announce that I've been awarded
@_UoW
's 2018-2019 Early Career University Research Fellowship to work on my sophomore project, 'Object, Memory, History: The Role of Material Culture in Shaping Memory Traditions and Medieval History c. 850-c. 1250.'
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Medievalists. It was the year of our lord 2020 when I finally fully realised that MS and MSS mean manuscript and manuscripts, respectively. There are so many codes and shorthands and abbreviations. It's ok not to know everything.
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I have a book cover! A beautiful beautiful book cover! For which I owe a lot of thanks to
@Karl_Kinsella
,
@LauraJCleaver
and the lovely people
@boydellbrewer
for their patience and general wonderfulness. (Actually the same goes to Karl and Laura too.)
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I've just seen that my book got a stellar review in Speculum last summer, and I'm only bloody over the moon about that!
@boydellbrewer
@MedievalAcademy
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It was fourteen years last week that I moved to England, stealing your jobs, marrying your men, paying for groceries and a healthcare surcharge, not accessing benefits, contributing to the local economies and educating your youth, etc. For what it's worth, it's home now too.
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I'm very pleased to have been awarded a
@SocAntiquaries
Lombarde Travel Grant for 2021! This is the start of a project looking at spatial and social elements of medieval Anglo-Jewish households and housing traditions. Off to sunny Norwich. Thanks, SocAnt!
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I don't know who all needs to hear this, but we're doing too much. We're asking ourselves to do too much, and we're being asked to do too much. It's untenable. Things, quite simply, won't get done. So go have lunch.
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Who's got two thumbs and a contract for a book titled Captivity Practices in England and Normandy in the Long Eleventh Century with
@ArcHumanities
?
(Me! It's me!!!)
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I'll redo the math when I'm not jetlagged, but my employer is docking me 100% of my pay for me withdrawing 4% of my work during legal industrial action. This is according to the workload hours that is currently agreed so not hyperbole, but actual numbers.
@WinchesterUCU
@ucu
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Academics. While we are annoyed at bad history (classical and medieval), let's please not lose sight this this is the sort of soft-landing phrasing that prepares for harder rhetoric about immigration. Please focus and think about what might come next for the UK's immigrants.
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@irinibus
Nora Roberts once said that the first draft should read like it was translated from the original Icelandic by a non-speaker, but that's just fine because you can't edit and improve what hasn't been written.
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I wouldn't be here if this had been the situation in 2014 and 2015, plain and simple. My salary as a lecturer wouldn't have gotten me a visa. This is going to hurt so many in most industries, not just UKHE:
BBC News - Tougher visa rules unveiled
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I'm really delighted to have been selected for a Lendrum Priory Library Fellowship
@ResearchDurham
to work on the disruption of space in the Anglo-Norman Cathedral. I know a few other good friends who have been awarded this too & I am so pleased to be in such wonderful company.
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Advice needed! My MA students want to know how to carry on researching when they're no longer at a university. My entire academic career has been connected to UKHE, so I'm not much help. I've got
@JSTOR
free account and
@britishlibrary
reading covered. What would you recommend?
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Nope, that'd be Haiti. Do your homework.
Think it is important we don’t forget that the United Kingom was the first country in the world to permenantly ban slavery.
Until Wilberforce, almost every society known to man engaged in the barbaric inhuman unjustifiable practice of treating individuals as property.
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My students are getting more out of my colleagues & me than ever to receive their full courses via a spectrum of deliveries. How dare you say students aren't receiving full tuition. How dare you denigrate our work ethic, which is leading many to severe stress & anxiety from it.
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Starting the day with an email from managers letting us know they're going to be suspending programmes starting from 2022 with more info following so there's my anxiety up and about already.
@WinchesterUCU
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Fun fact! No part of Magna Carta 1215 is still in effect. It was designed to fail (see: security clause) and sealed so everyone could bugger off and prepare for war. The pope invalidated it by September. It was super important if you were a baron, a Londoner or into fish weirs.
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I and my
@WinchesterUCU
colleagues are on
#ASOS
#OneOfUsAllOfUs
. Yesterday, having not negotiated in good faith with branch, our management revealed a new workload model that strips research and admin time. We are already struggling. I don't even know where to begin. 1/
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I've been really stressed about next week, I'm giving papers at both Cambridge and the Society of Antiquaries, but growing up in the middle of nowhere in Indiana I never could have imagined stepping foot in these places much less being invited to speak there, so that's nice.
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Today I got my marks in and checked, and handed in a draft of something for publication, and should be celebrating. Instead I'm fretting about the state of my university and our jobs and what lies ahead, and so very tired. So. Pasta and wine it is.
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My article with
@ihr_history
's Historical Research has been published! Here I work to recover the life of a medieval rape victim, and explain why reframing narratives matter. Available open access below.
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Anyone want a discount code for this beauty? Use BB870 to pre-order at the bargain price of £45
@boydellbrewer
!
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I'm definitely missing everyone at the old bar tonight, but I'm getting married in in two weeks so giving
#imc2022
a miss this year! Just remember, never lock arms on the dance floor with the St Andrews folks. Enjoy, everyone, and see you next year.
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I'm really, really excited to get to work and write with
@DavidPetts1
,
@Carolyngian
and
@Calthalas
on Encounters: Early Medieval England in 50 Objects with
@RoutledgeHist
! BRING ON ALL THE THINGS!!!! (Well, 50 of the things...)
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Here's nice news to end a week on. Who's got two thumbs and is now a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society?
@RoyalHistSoc
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I've hesitated telling my
#PrecarityStory
because it's tied up in my immigration story, and as I am still not secure there I have a lot of anxiety. But in honour of the
#UCUStrikesBack
@ucu
, in solidarity with my colleagues, this is mine. 1/
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Boy, just trying to remember what I was trying to get done before my uni announced upcoming redundancies and it's fair to say it probably doesn't matter, sure.
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I will be wearing SEQUINS and crying in gratitude the whole time. I can't wait to celebrate together with this cool lot.
This is really lovely. I've had some amazing students this year so right back at you.
@winchestersu
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Looking for something to do this evening? I'm on
@Channel4
a bit talking to the wonderful
@Raksha_Digs
about early English justice systems and corporal punishment for
#bonedetectives
! Bonus appearance from
@UniWinLibrary
too! 8pm or All4 online.
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Last week for the discount code BB870, for 40% off my book and a lot of even better ones, + free shipping!
#medievaltwitter
@boydellbrewer
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What books did you grab from your workplace before going into lockdown? I like a good reading list.
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I'm honoured to be giving the Hyde900 2019 King Alfred Lecture tonight. If you're in the area, do come and have a listen!
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Best damn day of the year
@WinchesterHist
@_UoW
. Celebrating with BA, MA and PhD students? Honestly, the best part of all of the parts of my job. I do this job for this day.
A 6am morning to pick up fancy robes, go lecture on the 10th century Benedictine reforms, and then
@WinchesterHist
graduation
@WinCathedral
. Graduation day is the best part of all the parts of my job even if even the cat says it's too early to be awake.
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Today brought to you by huge summer hair, a Space Camp mug from the 90s, and a revised monograph that's finally been SUBMITTED.
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Look, I don't think it's me, but I'm not certain I can handle an overloaded teaching load, research deadlines, a pandemic and a coup all at the same time.
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Note to self: when a senior scholar introduces himself and says 'I've been reading your work,' the appropriate reply is probably not 'Oh, I hope not the boring one.'
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Having received notice from the
@NHSCOVID19app
, I'm now in self isolation and my teaching is completely online on less than 24 hours' lead time. This is higher ed in a time of pandemic.
#COVID19
#UKHE
NB I'm fine - no symptoms. I've had contact with someone who tested positive.
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Dogs on pickets! Mr Cnut considers his options and chooses love
@WinchesterUCU
@ucu
#dogsonpicketlines
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My first day
@UkNatArchives
, a story in many pictures, an emotional journey.
Isn't it lovely? I do like a bit of Brutalism. 1/
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I worry that I'm being professinally left behind as I have to prioritise my teaching workload and associated duties and that last shred of my mental health rather than being able to take advantage of all of these wonderful options for online research. That's what I mean here.
Anyone else feeling massive guilt AND pressure as there are so many wonderful lectures & seminars & conferences online and all you can do is look at them and wish you had the time and the headspace to even think about attending? Like, free online is amazing but you just can't?
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This week I teach my 1st years some historiography: the problems with racism, fascism and the term 'Anglo-Saxon', featuring the wonderful works of
@DJMHarland
,
@ISASaxonists
and
@mayavision
. You can't teach the past without an understanding of the present.
@WinchesterHist
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Decolonising curricula and academia is not the sole task or arena of modernists. Thank you for coming to my subtweet of
@uniofleicester
.
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First time in the office in 5+ months and the aloe is fucking loving life, who knew
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Shout out to those of you who haven't done your
@IMC_Leeds
paper. I see you. I am you.
#IMC2019
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And for those of you who made it this far, here's Morgen for you.
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My niece (16) has a presentation on the counterreformation tomorrow. She is closing with the question, 'This chapter has minimal coverage of women [n.b. literally 16 words]. Is this due to women's activity at the time or how the information has been given to us in the textbook?'
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Left. Portchester, 2011. Beginning stages of research and amateur arm-waving. Right: today, that research is in this manuscript, finally. I did not know in 2011 what awaited me. But I still like pointing at castles.
Reader, the book is done.
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Oof, it's been a long time in the arranging but I'm so delighted that I'll (possibly? finally?) take up a Lendrum Priory Fellowship
@ResearchDurham
in 2022! They have been absolutely lovely trying to sort things out when the world stopped moving. Yay material culture & archives.
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Keep your places and your buildings close to your heart. They are palimpsests, they're never immortal, not even the ones we think are, we hope are.
My heart is breaking.
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I am genuinely not certain how I'm supposed to teach and tutorialise and have meetings today when I am already so stressed about the election. My home state's polling places aren't even open yet. I expect tears before the day is out.
#Election2020
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Yeoman Warder: The Tower was began after William of Normandy invaded England in 1066. Now he's known as William the....
Crowd of 200: Conqueror!
YW: He took England from King Harold, called...
Co200: [crickets]
Me: GODWINSON!!
YW: You're fine. Everyone else, read a history book.
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A comment on Day 1
#IMC2019
is that if you're a senior scholar who's already asked a question, it's unacceptable to interrupt an early career scholar to complain that you haven't been called on for a second question, doubly when moderation was clearly in order of hands up. 1/
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The world is rough and challenging right now, but my 2nd years stayed an extra half hour after our seminar to talk about postcolonialism and medieval history, and they are ace.
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Here's a question that's not nearly as weird as it sounds, but do you have a favourite story of a medieval hostage or confinement? I'm looking for case studies for a module in 2020-21 (not just stamp collecting!)
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I was taking some feedback today from 1st years and they suggested more visual material. Good stuff. One said sort of apologetically, 'we're a visual generation' and I snorted and said 'dude I've only got like 12 years on y'all.'
Belatedly: reader, I do not.
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Number of lectures recorded today: 4.
Number of lectures which include the cat saying hello: 2.
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A few days ago my partner gave me this tiny mouse holding up a little candle. I've been having a hard time at work trying to make changes to make anything better for my friends & colleagues. I cried. No matter how tiny you think it is, hold up that light and offer it and try. 1/2
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Journal article out! My 'Medieval Everydays: A Creative Microhistory' has just been published online with Medieval People (formerly Medieval Prosopography). This is my theoretical love letter to the possibilities between history and creative writing.
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A loud and shouting tweet of support for
@ColonialCountr1
and all academic and heritage endeavours to cast light on the oppressions of the past and their implications in the present.
#HistoryMatters
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Feeling really pleased on my result after the Winchester 10k today, especially as I've not been feeling great about running in the last couple of years. Just a mental reminder to keep doing this nonsense.
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Oh my gosh. I had a lovely day filming with
@Raksha_Digs
and
@TernTelevision
but honestly, having the gate opened and walking where the Old Minster once was pretty much brought me to tears. And look at that transept. Thank you so much for the amazing opportunity.
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Open shout! I've got some digital offprints of my new chapter on Matilda, Matilda and Winchester 1141, looking at gender, authority and kingship. Drop me a DM. I'm happy to send it along anywhere.
#OpenAccess
#MedievalTwitter
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Things that are more interesting than copy-editing my manuscript:
- taking down the tree
- a thorough hoovering
- 2 loads of laundry
- meeting a friend for lunch
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- a 3-mile run
- meeting a friend for a quick drink
- inviting a friend around for dinner
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Now in hand! Woo-hoo! So proud to be a small part of this.
@PalgraveHistory
@monarchyconf
@aidannorrie
@JLLaynesmith
@royalhistorian
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Apropos of nothing, I often wonder if people upset about museum cataloguing have ever been in a low-level museum position where basic cataloguing is a part of other crucial duties like preventative or active conservation, or inventory locationing.
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SO EXCITED to finally get my hands on this! Congratulations to editors
@hlaefdige_hist
and
@medievalhistory
, and all the contributors, and thanks to
@boydellbrewer
and
@CanaryCaroline
in particular!
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There were three books, made of cake, and words, and constructed and celebrated with many wonderful people. Let's build an academic world something like this, yeah?
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PSA: big conferences like
#kzoo2018
can be really lonely and marginalising for some. Be nice to your lone medievalists. Ask people to lunch, engage in conversation - but try to be sensitive if someone's OK on their own or uncomfortable talking to people they don't know.
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This is so interesting. People have long been surprised when I point out that, at 5ft tall, furniture is not made for me and doesn't fit. Now I'm rethinking my own relationships and experiences with cities.
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I've just submitted a large (for my career stage) funding bid and I'm going to celebrate by writing a lecture on Innocent III, start drafting a chapter for
@LauraJCleaver
and work on my proofs for
@boydellbrewer
because That's How I Roll. Oh, and a g&t later, of course.
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I've done a little thing and set up a website. Amongst other things, I want to link to resources and information like publications and translations that are available online. It's a work in progress, but let me know what you think!
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I've listed 'being annoyed at Abélard' as a pastime on my dating profile, that'll bring them running.
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I have a radical thought. When the government is busy trying to dismantle humanities and arts, maybe we don't start being snide about, say, which parts of history are 'important' and cut each other down but, you know, stand together in solidarity?
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This
#IMC2020
is pretty incredible, just starting to listen to
@alarichall
, cat all cosy, nearly 200 people in the room. Well done,
@IMC_Leeds
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As I wind my way to
#kzoo2019
, I was lucky enough last night to give my paper to a select and casual audience... My family.
I am Michigan-bound.
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I took a run
@IMC_Leeds
#imc2018
thanks to
@Seb_Falk
's tip - medieval Kirkstall Abbey just outside of town, down a lovely canal towpath.
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History shouldn't be political, says the government formed by a political party that is telling history and heritage groups to only view history according to the government's political views and purposes.
Ministers will fine student bodies which stifle freedom of speech and tell heritage groups "public funds must never be used for political purposes" in a major new bid to torpedo efforts at rewriting Britain's history, The Sunday Telegraph can disclose.
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