Reposted by Brian RooneyRichard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 5h'Hammersmith Bridge from Chelsea.' Throughout his life Edward Seago was intensely interested in the transformation of the cityscape in various weathers and times of day. Here he captures a smoggy London afternoon in late autumn. This was painted around 1950. 211719
Reposted by Brian RooneyWorking Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 6hToday in the US is #IndigenousPeoplesDay. Held in opposition to the federal govt holiday Columbus Day and celebrates Native American culture and resistance to colonialism as opposed to the genocide, murder, slavery and torture brought by Columbus shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/... 07917
Reposted by Brian RooneyFelicity Hayes-McCoy @fhayesmccoy.bsky.social · 15hAnd so sad to see this from @carolecadwalla.bsky.social this morning www.instagram.com/reel/DecgpYH...instagram.comInstagramCreate an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you're into with the people who get you. 041
Reposted by Brian RooneyAlex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 16h This is so moving to read, in light of where we are now. 10340124
Reposted by Brian RooneyHelene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 16hI just watched this intriguing and thought-provoking interview with Meredith Whittaker, head of the Signal Foundation. Trained in the humanities before she entered and became incredibly successful in the tech world. Worth listening and thinking about if you have 30 minutes. youtu.be/Y7lEm-sq64Q?...youtu.beSignal president Meredith Whittaker warns that AI could ‘supercharge mistakes’ in warfare | BBC NewsYouTube video by BBC News 36215
Reposted by Brian RooneyMichelle Hughes Printmaker @michellehughes.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Two original Yorkshire landscape linocut prints found new homes last week. 😊 Top: Hutton-le-Hole. Bottom: Farndale towards Blakey Ridge. #YorkshireArt #YorkshireLandscape #NorthYorkMoors 1112
Reposted by Brian RooneyMet Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 13/10/2026“Seeing women in technology roles is the reason I know my career aspirations are possible…” Today, we’re celebrating Ada Lovelace Day at the Met Office and the women breaking barriers in STEM. Read their inspiring stories in our latest blog 👇 bit.ly/4hY4fZS #AdaLovelaceDay #WomenInTechWeekbit.lyBreaking Expectations, Building Futures: Celebrating the Women shaping the future of technologyThis week, October 12-16, is Women in Tech Week, an opportunity to recognise the contribution of women across the technology industry and help inspire the next generation to see technology as a place… 05721
Reposted by Brian RooneyClare Bonetree @blooyonder.bsky.social · 13/10/2026www.katja-lang.com/works-on-pap...katja-lang.comGallery 3 — Katja Lang 121
Reposted by Brian RooneyBrian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Lady Feeding The Pigeons, painting by Salford-born Bob Richardson (b.1938). 219524
Reposted by Brian RooneyTsarone 2 @indiastkali.bsky.social · 20/01/2025Thought for today, and every day... 24661238
Reposted by Brian RooneyRichard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 12/10/2026In Herbert Badham's 'The Night Bus,' (1943) the interior lights highlight the different figures and their gestures, all still, fixed in the moment. A woman reads a magazine, a man smokes, the conductor chats to a passenger. 222142
Reposted by Brian RooneyProf Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 12/10/202612 October 1964. USSR launched Voskhod 1. It was the 1st spacecraft with a multi-person crew, consisting of Vladimir Komarov (commander) Konstantin Feoktistov (engineer) and Boris Yegorov (doctor). 075
Reposted by Brian RooneyProf Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 11/10/202611 October 1915. English nurse Edith Cavell was sentenced to death in Belgium by a German military court. She had been accused of treason. Despite international pressure for mercy, she was shot by a German firing squad. Her execution received condemnation by the Allies. 1126
Reposted by Brian Rooneyeastlondongroup.bsky.social @eastlondongroup.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Another #SaturdayMorning has come round again so here's our traditional start to the day & week-end. This is "Interior" by Brynhild Parker that dates from 1930. It was one of 3 pieces by her that was in the collection of Sir David Scott along with another 14 by other ELG artists. #BrynhildParker 3215
Reposted by Brian RooneyAncestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳 @ancestralenq.bsky.social · 10/10/2026The volunteers preserving the few remaining AA road telephone boxes. Over 600 were constructed between 1911 & 1962. 👇 BBC News - The volunteers who care for a historic AA call box near Aysgarth - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukThe volunteers who care for a historic AA call box near AysgarthOnly 22 AA telephone boxes remain at British roadsides, with volunteers helping to preserve them. 192
Reposted by Brian RooneyHuman Rights Watch @hrw.org · 09/10/2026👏 👏 👏 Congratulations to Navi Pillay, an activist, human rights investigator, and international judge, who has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. From Rwanda to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Navi Pillay has sought justice for the world’s worst crimes. 413957
Reposted by Brian RooneyNick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Barcelona metro stopped for a minute today in respect to the family of Maricarmen Abascal who, as the screen explained, died this week aged 87 after being evicted from her Madrid home - where she'd lived since 1956-, sparking the wave of housing protests across Spain. 516548
Reposted by Brian Rooneywomensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Corita Kent, a US Roman Catholic nun, peace activist and Pop art screenprinting artist who helped shape the Pop Art movement and was also friends with Andy Warhol #WomensArt 6816177
Reposted by Brian RooneyAdmirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Ophthalmologist Dr. Agatha Aboe led the medical campaign in Ghana to eliminate trachoma (leading infectious cause of preventable blindness globally). It worked. Ghana became the 1st country in sub-Saharan Africa to eliminate the disease, 2018. #WorldSightDay #WomenInSTEM 262438600
Reposted by Brian RooneyBrian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Workers at Burton Menswear, Leeds. The Hudson Road factory became the world's biggest clothing factory, employing 10,000 and producing more than 30,000 suits a week (West Yorkshire Archive). 1115246
Reposted by Brian RooneyAdmirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Bacteriological chemist & refrigeration engineer Dr. Mary Engle Pennington, the "Ice Woman," revolutionized food safety by inventing the "cold chain." Her groundbreaking work on continuous refrigeration kept perishable food fresh from harvest to consumer. She was born #OTD in 1872. 🧵 #WomenInSTEM 9945330
Reposted by Brian RooneyAdmirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026#OTD in 2006, Anna Politkovskaya--Russian investigative journalist & human rights defender--was murdered in her apt building in Moscow. #PressFreedom She exposed state corruption, opposed the Chechen conflict & wrote "Putin's Russia," a book critical of his rise to power & authoritarian shift. 9364152
Reposted by Brian RooneyProf Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 07/10/20267 October 1927. Iinfluential psychiatrist Robert David (“RD”) Laing was born in Glasgow. He wrote extensively on mental illness especially psychosis. Many of his theories were very controversial, most notably, his view that schizophrenia was only a theory not a fact. 051
Brian Rooney @brian-kieran.bsky.social · 07/10/2026It's hard to know if she is even aware of how badly she is doing in this interview. 100
Reposted by Brian Rooneypaulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Awful news. 'Former British banker and whistleblower Simon Andriesz, has died by suicide. He spoke about the UK Financial Conduct Authority’s mistreatment of whistleblowers, describing the personal cost of coming forward to his career, his health and his family.' www.thebanker.com/content/0228...thebanker.comWhistleblower who flagged Lutnick’s links to Epstein diesThe former British banker who spent more than 35 years working in financial markets has died by suicide 69537
Reposted by Brian RooneySimon Knott @simonknott.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Barbara Castle MP, born #OTD 6 October 1910, walks through Cathedral Square, Blackburn. She holds the Equal Pay Act 1970, which she piloted through Parliament and into law. She was a Blackburn MP for 33 years. 3659
Reposted by Brian RooneySimon Knott @simonknott.bsky.social · 06/10/20263/3 The Kykkos icon, Holy Mother of God with St Michael and St Dmitri, 19th Century Russian in Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery. 1142
Reposted by Brian RooneySimon Knott @simonknott.bsky.social · 06/10/20262/3 St George defeats the dragon, a late 16th Century Russian icon in the excellent icon collection of Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery. 1112
Reposted by Brian RooneySimon Knott @simonknott.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Blackburn Museum has a remarkably good, and large, collection of Greek and Russian icons. This triptych depicts Abraham and Sarah withvthe three angels, flanked by St George and St Dmitri. Greek, 1768. 1484
Reposted by Brian RooneySimon Knott @simonknott.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The Fen bog oak table in Blackburn Cathedral. It's currently doing a tour of English cathedrals. As one Cambridgeshire native to another, I greeted it with familiarity. 1037245
Brian Rooney @brian-kieran.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Does anyone, these days, have a political 'project'? Maybe policy nowadays is too focus-group oriented. Is that too cynical? To my simple mind, there is little milage in more & more 'libralisation' and perhaps a space (again) for 'let's see how the state/ state influence can do better? 000
Reposted by Brian RooneyPlough Quarterly @plough.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Read Rachel Pieh Jones’s Substack about Annalena Tonelli: rachelpiehjones.substack.com/p/stronger-t...rachelpiehjones.substack.comStronger than Death23 years after she was assassinated, another woman is carrying on the legacy 022
Reposted by Brian RooneyTim Harford @timharford.ft.com · 05/10/2026The race is on Sunday - wish me luck! Any further donations very very welcome. Thank you so much to all the people (many anonymous) who have pledged their hard-earned already. It's so kind. 13610
Reposted by Brian RooneyBrian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The Jarrow Crusade, in which 200 unemployed men marched to London calling for government intervention to restore jobs, began on this day 1936. Unsuccessful at the time, but helped to shape postwar attitudes to employment and social justice. 617247
Reposted by Brian RooneyJulieW67 @juliew67.bsky.social · 04/10/2026#10minutesfromhome #ClassicMono #Stunday John Rylands Library Manchester 011311
Reposted by Brian RooneyHistory and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 04/10/2026This Park Row Frieze in Leeds illustrates artistic talent, commercial ambitions but also the racial attitudes of its time. Created around 1900 by Edward John Dodgshun and Joseph Thewlis for the West Riding Union Bank. the sandstone relief depicts people involved in the bank’s international 1598
Reposted by Brian RooneyBen Wood @cosmichope.bsky.social · 04/10/2026In a letter of 1928, Karl Jaspers wrote to Heidegger: “How my heart beats when you write about Kant! He’s the only one I actually trust”. For Jaspers (as for Arendt) Kant reflected the pure waters of European Humanism--an equal moral consideration for all human beings, regardless of geography. 032
Reposted by Brian Rooneyeastlondongroup.bsky.social @eastlondongroup.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Another #SundayMorning has arrived so here's our traditional "opener" for the day! This is "Sunday Morning, Farringdon Road" by Cecil Osborne from the first Group show at Alex. Reid & Lefevre at 1a, King Street in Mayfair. It is in the collection at Brighton & Hove Museums. #CecilOsborne 1143
Reposted by Brian Rooneyeastlondongroup.bsky.social @eastlondongroup.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Today is the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street. The painting has the title of "Cable Street" but it is actually a view of Grace's Alley just off Cable Street. It is by Albert Turpin who was arrested on the day & who would later become Mayor of Bethnal Green in 1946. #AlbertTurpin 43313
Reposted by Brian RooneyProf Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 04/10/20264 October 1936. Battle of Cable Street took place in Cable Street, Whitechapel, London. It was a clash between the Metropolitan Police, protecting a march by the British Union of Fascists (BUF) led by Sir Oswald Mosley and various anti-fascist and Jewish demonstrators. 9567247
Reposted by Brian RooneyWorking Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 03/10/2026#OtD 3 Oct 1937 almost a year after their defeat at Cable St, Mosley's Blackshirts attempted to march through Bermondsey, South London. Met with strong local opposition and barricades in the streets, the march never arrived at its intended destination workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e35-... 222591
Reposted by Brian Rooneyeastlondongroup.bsky.social @eastlondongroup.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I can't quite believe that October has arrived already (as has the autumn) & with it the shorter days to come but, one can't "stop the clock"! Here's our traditional start to every #SaturdayMorning: "Interior" by Brynhild Parker from 1930. #BrynhildParker #EastLondonGroup 094
Reposted by Brian RooneyYashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 03/10/20261. Tonight at Gillette Stadium, Zach Bryan, one of the biggest country music artists in the world, wore a Free Palestine shirt onstage. Gillette Stadium is owned by Robert Kraft, who pushed Ed Sheeran and his promoter to drop Macklemore from his tour. Bryan isn’t just a major country artist. 15658081399
Reposted by Brian RooneyBrian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The Passage Leading To Lancaster Road, Salford, 1962, painting by Harold Riley (1934-2023). 747436
Reposted by Brian RooneyPeter Tatchell Foundation @petertatchellfdn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Botswana, a #Commonwealth country, turns 60 & challenges the story that postcolonial Africa is one of failure From extreme poverty at independence, diamond revenues helped build public services & democracy Africa’s achievements deserve recognition tooaljazeera.comBotswana at 60 challenges the story of postcolonial African failureBotswana showed that resource wealth need not condemn a country to corruption and underdevelopment. 141
Reposted by Brian RooneyAncestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳 @ancestralenq.bsky.social · 02/10/2026🧵The Land of Green Ginger, Hull, a street of residential & commercial buildings, formerly known as Old Beverley Street near Whitefriargate. Its naming is a bit of a mystery. It may refer to the storage & selling of spice ginger in the Middle Ages. The name change is thought to have occurred between 1248
Reposted by Brian RooneyClare Kirk @digupyourancestors.bsky.social · 15/02/2026This summer marks 90 years since the start of the #SpanishCivilWar. My husband's great uncle, Dick Mortimer, was a fish-curer from Hull, and a communist. At 18 he joined the #InternationalBrigade to fight fascism in Spain. I've shared his story, and some tips on researching brigaders, in a new blog.digupyourancestors.comA Hull fish-worker fights fascismHull fishworker Dick Mortimer was one of thousands of brave men and women who volunteered with the International Brigade to fight fascism in Spain 90 years ago. 2134
Reposted by Brian Rooneywomensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Elizabeth Catlett, Mother and Child, 1944 #womensart 72456417