David Luck @dluckarchivist.bsky.social · 22/01/2026And the statues that were on the gateposts still survive. They're in the Museum! And they look nothing like this. Anyway, no judgement on the history just for that. And that's when I got to the sample... 1160
David Luck @dluckarchivist.bsky.social · 22/01/2026There's a lot wrong here. A lot. Part of the problem is that the first history by Geoffrey O'Donoghue has also got a lot wrong, and it's undoubtedly been LLM ingested. But what records are they talking about here? Nothing exists pre 1557! 2220
David Luck @dluckarchivist.bsky.social · 22/01/2026So what's happened here? That's when I started looking a bit more closely at the author... 1100
Corrinne F @traviata.bsky.social · 22/01/2026This sort of thing is going to happen more and more, it's dreadful. (I worked briefly at Bethlem some years ago and I'd be interested in reading a proper history.) 040
