magiclantern.bsky.social
Writer: 'Anton Walbrook' (2020) 'Joseph Pike' (2018) & 'A Carnal Medium' (2012), photohistorian, archivist of Middle East collections at Exeter University, runs the Digital Archive of the Middle East (https://dame.exeter.ac.uk/), collector & bibliophile
👤 Joined on 28 September 2023
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@magiclantern.bsky.socialThese words from @richardfadams.bsky.social mean so much. I felt great responsibility writing my chapter on Thatcher's 1980s and the #MinersStrike, both in doing fair, evidence-based #history, and in doing justice to my own South Yorks. mining family. Adcock's poem is witty, sharp and compassionate.
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Show PostAnd in Ge'ez, likewise, it's ነፍስ (nafs) (and FWIW Coptic goes Greek, using ⲯⲩⲭⲏ) Those Semitic connections stay undefeated :)
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