Katie H-W

historian; hedonist; tomboy; documentary junkie

[Dawn French 💙🔴🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇵🇸 @Dawn_French]

Important update:

[The Onion @TheOnion]

Trans Teen Hatches Nefarious Plot To Undergo Years Of Medical Treatments And Counseling To Win At Swimming https://t.co/naHE4vc9Hm

[Eleanor Morton ($8) @EleanorMorton]

MBF | Couples Counselling: St Patrick 🍀 🇮🇪

@BigDirtyFry @SeanBurkeShow

[Katie H-W @hwkatie]

I am nurture Protestant but born Catholic. And I fucking love Ireland. Whatever a Welsh monk did about being enslaved and then becoming a generative hero for Ireland, I am in a ‘both and’ mood. Slainte.

[Professor Amanda Vickery @Amanda_Vickery]

Fiona Shaw (born in 1958), painted in 2001-2002 by British portraitist, Victoria Russell (born in 1962).
Oil on canvas, 183 x 122 cm, 72 x 48 in approx
National Portrait Gallery, London

[CWU @CWUnews]

The Christmas post is piling up. They haven’t even got enough equipment to store it on now.

Only a serious change of attitude from Royal Mail can save Christmas. Our members stand ready to do their duty but cannot do that whilst their terms and conditions are being destroyed.

[Oh God, What Now? – the politics podcast @OhGodWhatNowPod]

*deafening round of applause*

[M.M. Schill (find me on bluesky instead) @mm_schill]

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[Durham Miners' Gala @DurhamGala]

The great Jennie Lee, radical and rebel, founder of the @OpenUniversity, the youngest woman MP, and Gala speaker, was born #OnThisDay in 1904.

A miner’s daughter from Lochgelly, Fife, she graduated from Edinburgh University and became a school teacher. (1/7)

[Urvashi Chakravarty @UrvashiChakrav]

So energized by the past few days of #writingclass22 in Durham and ongoing discussions around the nexus of class, race, labour, gender, sexuality, & more! Huge thanks to @amandaeherbert and @JessicaPClark for their amazing work organizing these conversations,

[Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @JPHilllllll]

People say free college is unreasonable. Meanwhile college cops have this

[Hopkins Medical Archives @JHMedArchives]

Chesney Archives curator Natalie Elder is bringing artifacts and archives related to gynecologist Howard Kelly to @LirioMansion on Sept. 27 at 6:30 pm. Please register and you'll be able to view material from Kelly's life up close!
https://t.co/ndoMku4Eut

[Dr Adam Rutherford @AdamRutherford]

The deaths of 17 medieval Jews: An incredible new genetics paper has just dropped: The earliest Jewish genomes and the story of where they are from and how they died is incredibly important, and central to the origin of contemporary antisemitic conspiracy hatred. 🧵

[Katie H-W @hwkatie]

Post Office strikes to overlap with Royal Mail and BT industrial action https://t.co/X1TkaMVAJR

[Eleanor Morton ($8) @EleanorMorton]

Did Kenneth Grahame get the idea for Wind in the Willows from a drunk guy in the pub?

[The Baltimore Banner @BaltimoreBanner]

Neighbors believe the fire is hate-related because the main house that caught fire flew a pride flag.

Here’s what we know.
https://t.co/NNQ5qWt5oO

[Flags For Good @FlagsForGood]

We're in contact with community organizers in #Baltimore. Hundreds of @danielquasar Progress Pride Flags are now on their way to flood the neighborhood with support.

They should arrive tomorrow and will be distributed by these bad-asses in the neighborhood. #Pride

[Katie H-W @hwkatie]

@EleanorMorton Common Sense