Ex-historian of social and political thought (Cambridge, Birkbeck). Ex-Amazon (Alexa and AGI). Chief scientist at Mind Mage. LRB reader. 2025 side-mission: fighting global bias on Wikidata & Wikipedia.
"Only that which has no history can be defined"
Ex-Financial Times Assistant Editor. Ex-editor Scotland on Sunday. Author of 'Made in Manchester' and 'Northerners: A History'. 'These Isles' due Feb 2026.
Geographies & histories of what we have come to call “mental health” | the university | daydreams & fantasies | Freud | Marx
Editor, History of the Human Sciences
@histhum.bsky.social
Situationist Cybernetics. Gates Scholar researching AI’s impacts on the Humanities, University of Cambridge. Affiliated Researcher, Machine Visual Culture Research Group (Max Planck Institute, Rome). Aim to be kind.
cyberneticforests.com
Couples, individual & trauma psychotherapist in Edinburgh. Climate grief, poetry relief.
Editor: The Picador Book of Contemporary Scottish Fiction. Shakespeare for everything & nothing.
(And my Great Aunt Fanny ran The Vegetarian Hotel in the Catskills.)
Global nomad….the one constant is change.
Looking for ways to reduce cosmetic and food toxicity. Angel investor in clean tech initiatives.
Matteroftrust.org terredecouleur.com
No DMs pls.
Opinions my own.
Geoffrey Chaucer (Le Vostre GC): Servaunt of the Kynge. Blogger. Wryter of verse. Wearer of litel woolen hatte. Deputy Forestere of North Petherton. He/hym/hys.
Working to make European democracy work. "Refreshingly free of the usual platitudes". Belge par choix, Brits door opvoeding, Polish roots. President of
Demsoc.org
Weltoffene Menschen für die Zuwanderung in ein aufgeschlossenes Europa
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Partner at Yorke Antique Textiles (est. 2004) | Specialist in antique Japanese kimono and ceremonial textiles | Passionate about Japanese art, ethnology, and the stories textiles carry through time.
yorkeantiquetextiles.com
Freelance writer & biographer, writing about Cambridge's first women students, scholars & dons' wives. Bookish words also in TLS, Slightly Foxed, ODNB etc. 'Cambridge Ladies' Dining Society' on Substack:
akennedysmith.substack.com
Busy keeping head above water. Favourite means: books (warning: includes lots of poetry)/ music (mainly classical)/ arts/ yes, that annoying/ films / stuff