Jon Coburn

@joncoburn.bsky.social

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Mediocre historian. University of Lincoln, UK | US history | activism | protest suicide | information literacy |

New Jersey, as a landfill
Artax and the Swamp of Sadness, from The Neverending Story
Screenshot of a BBC news story titled “Exploding rocket casts doubts over NASA’s Moon plans”
Poster for Radioactive Lincolnshire - describing the protests in Fulbeck 1986/1987
Feathers McGraw from ‘Wallace and Gromit: the Wrong Trousers’, looking every inch like the evil, paychopathic, fake-chicken looking penguin demon that they are
Philomena Cunk asking “what the fuck is this?!”
Cover image for Not Just a Housewife: Women Strike for Peace and the Cold War Women’s Peace Movement
A screenshot from Spotify showing an alternative track list/what Jon thinks is the correct track list for Oasis’ third album “Be Here Now” 1. Stand By Me 2. Stay Young 3. Don’t Go Away 4. (I Got) The Fever 5. My Big Mouth 6. Angel Child 7. Fade In-Out 8. D’You Know What I Mean? 9. The Girl In the Dirty Shirt 10. If We Shadows (demo) 11. Going Nowhere 12. All Around the World 13. Stand By Me - Live at Bonehead’s Outtake
Winners of the 2025 Carabao Cup, Newcastle United Football Club
Photograph from the Dorothy Marder collection of Women Strike for Peace held at Swarthmore College Peace Collection. Photo shows several participants of a WSP “Censure Nixon” protest in Washington DC, 18th January 1972.
front page cover from the Lincolnshire Echo describing a protest that was disrupting by police in Fulbeck in 1987
A lecturer stands at the front of a room, with the audience watching and listening.
A screenshot of an article in The Guardian newspaper describing plans to bury nuclear waste in Theddlethorpe, and the community's concerns to such proposals
A lecturer stands at the front of a room presenting a talk while the audience watches and listens.
A poster describing a community history talk named "Radioactive Lincolnshire!", which will describes how protests in Fulbeck in the 1980s can teach people about events in Theddlethorpe occurring today.
Screengrab from The Simpsons showing a woman maintain a car for a man. Caption reads “The Church. We’ve made a few…changes”
Screenshot of a report in The Guardian newspaper that a third of young adults in the UK cannot name any Nazi death camp, including Auschwitz