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Dr Vic Clarke
@vjctorianist.bsky.social
Historian and enthusiast of Chartism, the 19thC, sausage rolls, and women's, workers', queer and trans rights ✊ she/her, views own drvicclarke.co.uk
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They always attack this from a single angle - what are they doing to make workplaces more inclusive for chronically ill and disabled people? What are they doing to make Access to work easier to apply for? This is predictable and infuriating.

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Which Fleet Street pub was renamed to honour its regulars, who were the editors of a 19th century periodical? (Poor wording but you have to include the Punch Tavern!)

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When I was growing up in Milton Keynes the Moon Under Water was the ✨premier✨ of the 5 Spoons in the centre of town, and Orwell would be horrified

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Once during my driving lesson my instructor rolled the windows down to tell off a driver in the next lane who had undertaken dangerously

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'Little baby driver please be nice to me there's no need to honk or aggressively overtake unless you are an ambulance, which you are clearly not'

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The 'L' on L plates should stand for 'Little baby driver please be nice to me'

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Can't wait to print off a copy to deliver to the town crier

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Very disappointed in the digital archive I visited recently. I was hoping to see a full historical range of printed documents. But it turns out that it's just an ECCO chamber.

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I'm over the moon to report that Leeds is getting a new blue plaque, commemorating this important newspaper that integral to the Chartist movement and is a testament to working class literacy and history. We need your help to make it happen - please chip in! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/a-blue-pla...

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Dr Vic Clarke
@vjctorianist.bsky.social
Historian and enthusiast of Chartism, the 19thC, sausage rolls, and women's, workers', queer and trans rights ✊ she/her, views own drvicclarke.co.uk
413 followers252 following127 posts