Dylan Sebastian Evans

PGR @LLC_RHUL | Foucauldian | Francophile | researches 19th-century French medico-legal discourses of sexuality | Thesis: The Problem of Rape in France, 1852–70

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It pains me — knowing I should’ve been a better brother — to announce the death of my beautiful sister, #IzabelaDiannaMarieEvans (b. 13 May 1976; d. 13 February 2025). ‘[H]er light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal’ (Rv. 21. 11). #RIP

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@JeremyTate41 Don't you mean maths?

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@joe_beale @dz_baltycki Thank you! That's very kind of you.

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It pains me — knowing I should’ve been a better brother — to announce the death of my beautiful sister, #IzabelaDiannaMarieEvans (b. 13 May 1976; d. 13 February 2025). ‘[H]er light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal’ (Rv. 21. 11). #RIP

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Having been told by #TheHousingNetwork I ‘must’ move to unsuitable alternative temporary accommodation ‘regardless’ of my GP’s advice or face being ‘discharged’, I can safely say #THN’s talk of prioritizing residents’ ‘well-being’ is #albeist virtue-signalling. #DisabilityTwitter

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In an increasingly secular world, where the only value that matters is monetary, the #Nativity scene, richly illustrated here, conveys a message of kindness, patience, and humility — a potent antidote to the envy, anger, and conspicuous consumption of modern society. #Christmas

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While I’ve sacrificed everything, including my sanity, in pursuit of my doctoral studies, #QueenCamilla’s just been made an honorary #DoctorOfLiterature by her second husband’s sister. Britain’s been brainwashed into believing that #nepotism’s ‘exceptional’ and ‘honourable’. #PhD

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Not only is #JustinWelby’s position ‘untenable’, but — had a statutory #MandatoryReporting duty as proposed by the @IICSAVSCP and supported by #Welby himself been in place — his failure to report the prolific abuse of boys and young men by #JohnSmyth would be considered criminal.

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According to #Nazi-Party ideology, the lives of the mentally and physically #disabled weren’t worth living. On 1 September 1939, #AdolfHitler ordered their ‘mercy killing’. There were an estimated 250,000 victims of #AktionT4, the #Nazis’ involuntary #euthanasia programme. #WMHD

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Nationalism’s never a force for good, not even in #football. In the wake of @England’s defeat, spare a thought for those men, women, and children, who will tonight bear the brunt — and tomorrow wake up ‘sporting’ the bruises — of many an Englishman’s anger at this loss. #EURO2024

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After fourteen years of untold human and economic misery under the @Conservatives, ‘we can’t afford another #Tory government’. That’s why I’ve just voted for @damienegan, my excellent local @UKLabour candidate. If you believe in a fairer, better Britain, vote for #change! #GE2024

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Former UK PM #MargaretThatcher’s policy of leaving #housing provision to the free market must be undone. In the last quarter of 2023, there were 112,660 #homeless households, including 145,800 children, living in ‘temporary accommodation’. Through no fault of my own, I’m now one.

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@metpoliceuk @PoliceScotland @ThamesVP @HouseofCommons @UKParliament Before @congressdotgov declared its independence from Britain (1776) and @AssembleeNat abolished the monarchy in France (1792), @HouseofCommons passed an Act Declaring and Constituting the People of England to Be a Commonwealth (i.e., #Republic) and Free-State (1649). #Coronation

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Attempts by @metpoliceuk, @PoliceScotland, and @ThamesVP to prevent people from freely and lawfully voicing their views (whatever they may be) evoke the imagery of 1642, when #KingCharlesI sought in vain to silence the @HouseofCommons by arresting five of its members. #FreeSpeech

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Changing the stem of a word is also a form of #inflection. Thus, in the present indicative of the French verb ‘écrire’, ‘écri-’ in the singular (j’écris, ‘I write’) becomes ‘écriv-’ in the plural (nous écrivons, ‘we write’). #FR1009P #PratiqueDuFrançais #ThresholdConceptsInFrench

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Modifying a word according to the function it fulfils in a sentence is called #inflection. Adding the #prefix ‘re-’ to the French verb ‘écrire’ changes its meaning from ‘write’ to ‘rewrite’. This is known as ‘#prefixing’. #FR1009P #PratiqueDuFrançais #ThresholdConceptsInFrench

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@RHUL_Law @Joanna__KC @MartonRibary At #Index2_0, a one-day scoping workshop held in the stunning surroundings of @RoyalHolloway, we began exploring the feasibility of digitizing the #IndexInterpolationum, a catalogue of changes made to the collection/‘digestum’ of Roman laws compiled by order of emperor Justinian.

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@RoyalHolloway @RH_ResInn @RHULDocSchool These late eighteenth-/early nineteenth-century woodcut prints by #LucienCômeDiot — reproduced for an exhibition that took place at #Beauvais in May 1956 — vividly depict the events surrounding #Jesus’ #crucifixion, #burial, and #resurrection, celebrated by Christians at #Easter.

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Whether you’re #learning #French at present or you’ve studied it in the past, you’ll have come across the ‘little hat’ that sits atop vowels in such words as ‘#Pâques’, the French for ‘#Easter’, but what does a #circumflex accent actually mean? #Francophile #HomeSchoolingUK #MFL

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Trans. into French in the 19th c., when Poland was under the yoke of Russian imperialism, Polish-speaking, Ukrainian-born poet #BohdanZaleski wrote: ‘Viens en #Ukraine aux eaux limpides | Aux champs dorés, au ciel d’azur | Où des gens libres, intrépides | Respirent un ciel pur!’.

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This ‘#infographic’ dates from c. 1919 and makes the case for #Ukrainian #independence. It’s the cruellest twist of fate that, over a century later, the people of @Ukraine are being forced to justify — and fight for — their continued existence <https://t.co/hmi6wl4ZnN>. #Україна

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Unknown to many of us before the #Russian #invasion, @Ukraine’s national symbol, the #trident (or #тризу́б/#tryzúb in #Ukrainian), can be traced back at least as far as the reign of #VolodymyrTheGreat (r. 980–1015), the #KievanRus’ first Christian ruler <https://t.co/eI4cB4JBGd>.

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@GallicaBnF Until the 16th c. in France, the date of #NewYearsDay wasn’t fixed: in Anjou, Guyenne, Normandy, and Poitou, it was Christmas; Picardy, 1 January; and Reims, 25 March. A 1564 edict declared that: ‘l’annee commence doreſnauant & ſoit comptee du premier iour de ce mois de Ianuier’.

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The process of ‘#gypsography’ — ‘by which one executes, inks, and pulls prints on #plaster’ (or #gypsum, in Latin) — is illustrated here by #PierreRoche (1855–1922), a French #ArtNouveau #sculptor, said to have invented it. The inscription reads: ‘Arise, #Aurora of the #NewYear’.

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@GallicaBnF In the past, the French word for #Christmas — #Noël — was used to proclaim the ascension to the throne of a new king. It was thought by some to have been a contraction of ‘no[uv]el’, in the sense of ‘news’ or ‘tidings’: ‘Il y fut receu à grand’ joye | En criant Noël par la voye’!

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This print (c. 1760) reminds us of the lowly origins of this period of feasting and merry-making we call #Christmas — and that showing loving kindness to society’s humblest and weakest is one of the highest human ideals which we can share and strive for <https://t.co/Jock73PHEV>.

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As the war between Russia and Ukraine rages on, so, too, do debates about the part each plays/ed in #EuropeanHistory. #TaliaZajac’s lecture ‘#AnnaYaroslavna, Queen of France, in History and in [the] Ukrainian Imagination’ was both fascinating and timely <https://t.co/IgILTkqkrZ>.

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Pictured here, #AnneOfKiev — also known after her father as #AnnaYaroslavna (or, in Ukrainian, #А́ннаЯросла́вна) — became #QueenOfFrance upon her marriage to Henry I, bore him an heir, the future French king Philip I, and reigned during his minority as regent. #WomensHistoryMonth

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That said, ‘#childlessness did not’, as @TheresaEarenfi1 and #KristenGeaman argue, ‘necessarily spell doom for a queen’ (p. 519). In exceptional cases, ‘childless’ #queens successfully navigated a way through courts and cultures utterly dominated by the #politics of #procreation.

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@BDEFbites Selling off grade-one-listed #BristolCentralLibrary — bequeathed by V. Stuckey-Lean and built by C. Holden in 1906 — would represent a gross act of cultural #vandalism. Help stop this asset-stripping by signing @UKChange’s #petition now <https://t.co/x8qHaVb1Gl>. #TwitterStorians

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It’s time to rethink the proposed #redevelopment of #StMaryLePort and #CastlePark — which, @HistoricEngland says, will ‘irreversibly harm’ #Bristol’s ‘historic heart’. A policy of #development at all costs risks destroying the city’s #architectural #DNA <https://t.co/QUo8oFQUpI>.

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Unlike other similar schemes, #BristolCAZ will operate 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, effectively dividing the city in two and cutting off the poorest and most vulnerable from friends and family, as well as essential public services, on either side of the river. #NeverMoreNeeded