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neil guthrie @nguthrie.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Pattern silver shilling of George, Prince of Wales and High Steward of Scotland (later Prince Regent, ultimately George IV). Dies dated 1799 but a later restrike by Matthew Young, c1820-38. With CNG auctions (est. US$500) #c18 #c18th #18thc
Obverse, George looking left, bareheaded with natural hair, in cuirass and mantle. Legend: GEORGIVS  P . S . S . C . D 1799 ('George Prince High Steward of Scotland Duke of Cornwall'). Reverse, crowned cruciform escutcheons of his father's realms (Great Britain, France, Ireland, Hanover) around radiate Garter badge; crowned Prince of Wales's feathers in alternate angles. Legend: BR . L . PR . E . REG . SC . PR ET . SEN . COR . DVX ('Electoral Prince of Brunswick & Luneburg, Prince and High Steward of the Kingdom of Scotland Duke of Cornwall')
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Dr Adam James Smith @elementaladam.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Come and see Professor Matthew McCormack at the York Georgian Festival next week! SHOES & THE GEORGIAN MAN Monday 10th August 1.30pm, York Mansion House Book tickets: www.mansionhouseyork.com/york-georgia... @historymatt.bsky.social #18C #18thC @bsecs.bsky.social
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Dr Adam James Smith @elementaladam.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Come and see Professor Brycchan Carey at the York Georgian Festival next week! THE UNNATURAL TRADE Monday 10th August 5.30pm, York Mansion House Book tickets: www.mansionhouseyork.com/york-georgia... #18C #18thC @bsecs.bsky.social @brycchancarey.bsky.social
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Dr Adam James Smith @elementaladam.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Come and see us at the York Georgian Festival next week! My @yorkstjohn.bsky.social students & I will be presenting: SANCHO & STERNE: A MEETING OF MINDS IN GEORGIAN BRITAIN 10th August, 3.30pm York Mansion House Tickets: www.mansionhouseyork.com/york-georgia... #18thC #18C @bsecs.bsky.social
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Gillian Kent @cambridgegill.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
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Christina Pagel (@christinapagel)
Very early notice but for those interested in England's Special Educational Needs crisis you may want to attend a talk I'm giving next year for @greshamcollege.bsky.social ! https://www.gresham.ac.uk...
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Gillian Kent @cambridgegill.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
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The Immodest Proposal of Fitzwilliam Darcy
Pride and Prejudice persists in being a novel by Jane Austen, and not a BBC TV show from the 1990s.
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Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Some prefer monosyllabic analysis - “Woke!” But those who can handle context and history it’s worth revisiting Hampshire Police’s recent culture and asking its relevance to present events www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/738...
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Violent protests in Belfast are the toxic legacy of Brexit
Dangerous rhetoric about migrants has become mainstream again, writes Alan Rusbridger. The violent impact is now being played out on the streets
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Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
The impact of the climate crisis is ever more alarming. But much of the press reports record heatwaves as a good news story. app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/73684/...
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The impact of the climate crisis is now obvious, and terrifying. Why is the press ignoring it?
It’s the most important story of our age, and all we get is pictures of beachgoers basking in the sun
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
An Irishman talks v fast about libel lawyers lobbying against anti-SLAPP laws - and building an investigative newsroom from scratch. Great to chat to @arusbridger.bsky.social and @lionelbarber.bsky.social on @prospectmagazine.co.uk 's Media Confidential www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/podcasts/med...
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Peter Geoghegan on getting SLAPP’d: ‘It had a huge chilling effect’
The wealthy are using lawsuits to silence critics. Why does the government seem so reluctant to tackle them?
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Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
If Nigel Farage is heading towards power let it not be because journalists forgot the basic craft of their job and because Michael Grade was nodding at the wheel www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/uk/...
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Nigel Farage is a dangerous demagogue—here’s how to stop him
The Reform leader and his media cheerleaders have cynically exploited the murder of Henry Nowak.
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Gregg @greatlakeri.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
The more I read about Starmer the more my opinion of the modern Labour Party falls.
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Dezene Huber 🍁 🌻 @dezene.me · 03/07/2026
There's a lot more to biodiversity conservation than orcas. But here's the thing – these beautiful creatures tell us about the health of their ecosystem, and they are an important part of a functioning ecosystem that supports a ton of other life, including human lives. 🌎 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Environmental groups concerned proposed route could push killer whale species ‘closer to extinction’ - Alberta pitches new West Coast oil pipeline to B.C.'s South Coast
At least two environmental groups are voicing concerns about the Alberta government’s proposed route for a new oil pipeline to Canada’s West Coast that ends in southern B.C.  Anna Barford, an oceans c...
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Cath Hodsman @cathhodsman.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Did u know? With hotter,drier summers it's a challenge to keep plants hydrated.I have 3 wildlife ponds for small souls who live in my garden,but what about the plants? To lock moisture in,use an organic mulch like straw/wool,or you can add bottles with holes in the tops for slow release water. 🌿🌱🇬🇧🌍💦
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Gillian Kent @cambridgegill.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
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A Blue Plaque for EDSAC - Cambridge Past, Present & Future
In 1949, a room-sized computer in Cambridge transformed science, technology and the future of computing. A new Blue Plaque celebrates the remarkable legacy of EDSAC.
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Gillian Kent @cambridgegill.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
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Canonbury Tower, Islington: London’s Tudor skyscraper
A 500-year-old brick tower with a Thomas Cromwell connection, a crazy love story, and a Francis Bacon conspiracy.
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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 24/06/2026
Yes, those stupid red lines that Starmer never needed to sign commit the party to. Labour would have won a clear majority without doing so. All it's done is hobble the country from moving forward with the EU at pace #PMQs
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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Ok, someone finally made the first move on the date. Thank you Barnier. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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UK could keep special pre-Brexit terms if it rejoined EU, Michel Barnier says
Exclusive: Former chief Brexit negotiator says staying out of euro and Schengen area would be ‘perfectly possible’
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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Also don’t understand why you’d position yourself as a soft left leader while outsourcing your economic strategy to right of party.
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Thornton Jones @thorntonjones.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Couldn’t bear the white noise of the news headlines — this is such a relief. Thoughtful and sane. Worth the sub I’ve just signed up for.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
We were due to be in the studio with best pal @mrjamesob.bsky.social yesterday, in remembrance of the 10th anniversary of the EU referendum. Then Starmer resigned. The result? One of the most wide ranging, coolly angry, openly vulnerable, and deeply insightful conversations you will hear. BOOM! 🎤
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Wildlife Trust BCN @wildlifebcn.org · 16/06/2026
🌍 What’s the future of nature in and around Cambridge? Join Cambs Conservation Manager Martin Baker, with the National Trust & Water Sensitive Cambridge, as they explore development, biodiversity, and water challenges facing the city. 🎧 Listen: cambridge105.co.uk/challenges-1...
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Cambridge Challenges: The Biodiversity Crisis
Lewis Herbert is joined by 3 leading voices in conservation and environmental policy to discuss what action Greater Cambridge needs to take to tackle the biodiversity crisis.
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Antony Carpen @acarpen.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
One of the earliest human settlements around Cambridge (the first was long before Sweyn Forkbeard torched the town!) I’d like to see the woodland extended by means of a forest graveyard/place of rest. (Harder to build over if it’s burial ground too)
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PoliticsHome @politicshome.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
“My preoccupation with the Makerfield by-election is very simple. We must not have Reform or Restore or anything like it anywhere near the corridors of power in this country. I’ve seen it all before. [Oswald] Mosley in the 30s, Enoch Powell in the 60s," Lord Heseltine tells @noahvickers.bsky.social
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Lord Heseltine: 'We Must Not Have Reform Or Restore Anywhere Near The Corridors Of Power'
Lord Heseltine speaks to Noah Vickers about regenerating Britain’s cities, the devolution agenda and why Margaret Thatcher ‘would have hated’ Nigel...
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Antony Carpen @acarpen.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
ICYMI: "The leadership vacuum on lifelong learning and tackling loneliness in Cambridgeshire" cambridgetownowl.com/2026/06/16/t...
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The leadership vacuum on lifelong learning and tackling loneliness in Cambridgeshire
The Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority Skills Committee doubled-down on their remit from central government, sticking within the skills remit and refusing to be drawn into the wider…
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Antony Carpen @acarpen.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
NEW BLOGPOST: "Cambridge Investment Partnership doubles down on ‘Worse than Communism’ architecture" cambridgetownowl.com/2026/06/16/c... Application being determined next week.
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Gillian Kent @cambridgegill.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Why people should work together to shape the economy www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Why people should work together to shape the economy
An economist sets out how communities can direct economic decisions and not just endure their consequences.
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Gaby Hinsliff @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
The weirdest thing (having spent the morning writing about Belfast etc) is that this govt is presiding over falling crime, falling immigration, falling NHS waits…all the things you might’ve thought moved the dial. But it’s just exuding a sort of helplessness
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Antony Carpen @acarpen.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
...this from 1993 by the LGIU archive.org/details/9301... Which covers the old 'Rates' (which is what people who use the term 'rate-payers' are referring to!) through to the hated Poll Tax to the current 'Council Tax' with bills indexed to house prices in 1991.
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LGIU Guide To Local Government Finance - 1993 : Local Government Information Unit : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
After the collapse of the Thatcher Government (UK) in 1990, John Major's Government had to bring in a new system of local government financing - including a...
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Antony Carpen @acarpen.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
NEW BLOGPOST: "Is Cambridge University’s student expansion unsustainable?" cambridgetownowl.com/2026/06/12/i... Former councillor Sam Davies MBE spotted some housing data published by the University.
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Is Cambridge University’s student expansion unsustainable?
Has the growth of student enrolments at the University of Cambridge – in particular international postgraduate student numbers exacerbated the city’s housing crisis and the chronic skil…
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Antony Carpen @acarpen.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
NEW BLOGPOST: Student housing data from the University of Cambridge shows a notable rise in postgraduate student numbers who are more likely to rent in private sector. What impact does this have on residential availability & impact on skills crisis? cambridgetownowl.com/2026/06/12/i...
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Antony Carpen @acarpen.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Only published a few days ago, reads as even more urgent today. committees.parliament.uk/committee/78... See also @fullfact.org 's report.
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Dame Emily: Disinformation is a serious threat to our democracy, Government must act with more urgency to tackle it - Committees - UK Parliament
The Foreign Affairs Committee publishes the Government response its report “Disinformation diplomacy: How malign actors are seeking to undermine democracy”.
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Gillian Kent @cambridgegill.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
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#ThereForME Update 32
A round-up of ME Awareness Month
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Gillian Kent @cambridgegill.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
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The misrepresentation of the Hampshire rape case
Publication - finally - of a transcript of the judge's sentencing remarks exposes a very different picture to the one that has so far been reported and put about on social media
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Fred Rossi @darthfoo.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
The piece and the dialogue around it have taken a lot out of me. I’ve genuinely appreciated every thoughtful response. I may be slow to reply for a bit while I rest. Thank you all. #MECFS #LongCovid #PEM #PwME darthfoo.substack.com/p/the-patien...
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The Patient Who Isn’t Supposed to Exist
I taught Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) before Long COVID made me a patient. WIRED got the story exactly backward.
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ME/CFS San Diego @mecfssd.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
We sent an open letter to @wired.com in response to “The Painful Truth About Long Covid.” We are concerned it misrepresents ME/CFS and Long COVID by overemphasizing a few recovery stories and underrepresenting decades of biomedical research and patient impact. www.mecfssandiego.com/mecfs-advoca...
Image of a red Megaphone with the text "ADVOCACY ALERT" and 
An Open Letter
to WIRED magazine
ME/CFS San Diego" written on a protest sign with a ME/CFS San Diego blue ribbon in the upper right
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Anil van der Zee @anilvanderzee.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
1) This video shows a unique care unit in Norway called Røysumtunet for people with #severeME & very severe ME. It is one of the only places where the sickest patients can receive specialised care. We need this everywhere!! #pwme #myalgicE #millionsmissing #severeME
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The Laurence Sterne Trust @lsternetrust.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
One blot on Laurence Sterne's biography: he had a hand in enclosing common land at Sutton. This beautifully re- purposed #18thC #protest song might stir us to make amends. #Enclosure #wildlife #folksong
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B&W Thornton of Stratford-upon-Avon @bwthornton.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
#History The Hanoverian Succession In Our Time Today 09:00 BBC Radio 4 Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the struggle by Whig politicians in London to have a Protestant from Hanover crowned at Westminster Abbey rather than the Catholic son of James II. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, The Hanoverian Succession
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the politics that led to the coronation of George I.
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IrishPhilosophy @irishphilosophy.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
John Toland wrote "Anglia libera: or the limitation and succession of the Crown of England explained and asserted" (1701) to justify the Act of Succession. Post on that pamphlet, and Toland's time in the Hanoverian Court. www.irishphilosophy.com/2014/05/02/t...
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Toland: the republican who argued for (limited) monarchy – Irish Philosophy
"There is, of course, such a thing as Irish intellectual thought"
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
"Terrorism" on the left. "Protest" on the right.
People sitting with "I support Palestine Action" placards"STREET FURY Protesters hurl bins & bricks in clash with riot cops injuring 11 as two arrested amid outrage over Henry Nowak murder" Headline and still in The Sun
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Kelechi @engelsbeauvoir.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
This is a great statement. Along with the Greens, the Lib Dems are calling for a parliamentary review of how the GRA interacts with the EA with potential amendments being discussed.
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Thangam Debbonaire @thangamdebbonaire.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Working through Tony Blair’s essay (on the TBI website) on the challenges facing UK/Labour, and the responses from Wes Streeting (Guardian) Keir Starmer (Substack) and Andy Burnham (Times), to produce a TLDR. Only one of these four mentions climate crisis and only in passing.
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Dominic Manchee @dpmanchee.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
"It is simply absurd for a country to undertake a major and ongoing shift in national strategy and yet to fail to undertake such a review ... " I agree. Irrespective of leadership challenge, Keir Starmer should kick off an "evidence-based review about the future of its relationship with the EU".
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Gillian Kent @cambridgegill.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
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THE LEAKED AUTOPSY OF HOW TRUMP GOT US INTO THIS FUCKING MESS
Leaks from inside the war cabinet that handed Trump his war
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Gillian Kent @cambridgegill.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
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TAKE A SEAT, DONALD, THE ADULTS ARE FUCKING TALKING.
A Finnish president just dismantled American foreign policy in front of a room full of students, smiled the entire time, and told Donald Trump to go and have a lie-down.
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Gillian Kent @cambridgegill.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
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AUSSIES TELL TRUMP: SHOVE YOUR FUCKING BEEF
Trump went to war over a beef ban that did not exist, won, and conquered two thirds of a single cow.
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Gillian Kent @cambridgegill.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
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Children and Justice
The victims and the perpetrators in the Hampshire rape case are all children. How are we to reconcile their conflicting rights and needs?
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Gillian Kent @cambridgegill.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
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GO HOME USA: An Entire Country Just Told Trump To Fuck Off
57,000 people, the biggest protests in their history twice in one year, and a prime minister who won by refusing to turn up. A masterclass in telling a superpower to get stuffed.
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Gillian Kent @cambridgegill.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
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News: Van Dyck: the European
A new exhibition and book trace the artist's journey from Antwerp to Genoa and London
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