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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I've read this review of a recent one, but not the book itself (yet)
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The Confessions of Samuel Pepys by Guy de la Bédoyère review – journal of a predator
Newly decoded extracts expose the celebrated 17th-century diarist and naval administrator as a rapacious abuser
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Lisa @halfshiretales.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Back at Kilpeck Church, Herefordshire. Pevsner described the decoration as ‘sumptuous.’ Honestly one of the most remarkable things I’ve laid eyes on. #adoorablethursday
The 12th century door to Kilpeck church, Herefordshire
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Ruth Watson @ruthwatson.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026
In my view, one of the most important innovations of the modern world.
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Steve Carter @shieldaig.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The Cuillin Hills on Skye, as seen from the Applecross coast road.
Distant mountains over a sea.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I get the appeal of nostalgia, I really do, but I find it specifically funny to get a leaflet from Reform's candidate talking about how when he was in the Met 31 years ago, he would never have dreamed of lawlessness like the kind we now see in Kings Cross.
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Nicki T @wildontheroad.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Good views of great white egret on Brownsea lagoon this morning... convenient size comparisons to little egret too #WildBrownsea @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social @harbourbirds.bsky.social @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social @birdguides.bsky.social
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Made this today - one of the best things I've ever cooked. Absolutely brilliant recipe. thehappyfoodie.co.uk/recipes/meli...
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Meliz Berg's Six-Hour Slow-roasted Lamb Shoulder
Fragrant fall-apart lamb shoulder is drenched in a fresh mint and coriander sauce in this show-stopping dish.
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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 02/10/2026
A shame that apparently even a valid museum ticket doesn't guarantee you can see the #BayeuxTapestry, but here's a breathtaking high-resolution resource that lets you get thread-counting close to it from the comfort of your own couch: www.bayeuxmuseum.com/en/the-bayeu...
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Explore the Bayeux Tapestry online - Bayeux Museum
For the first time, you will be able to freely explore the entire Bayeux Tapestry scene by scene with a never seen quality of images !
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 02/10/2026
At 6pm on Tuesday 3 November we welcome Sathnam Sanghera to give the 2026 RHS Public History Lecture @greshamcollege.bsky.social. Sathnam's lecture is entitled 'What History is NOT'. In-person booking at Gresham opens tomorrow (3 October) bit.ly/4xURpl1 Online booking is also available #Skystorians
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What History is NOT
In the past, history was presented to us as a settled story: a pile of dates to memorise, a handful of “great men” to admire, a heritage of statues and plaques to defend from “erasure”. In the 21st ce...
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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Finally able to share a bit of exciting professional news - I will be one small part of a big new team headed up by @olliheath.bsky.social taking over the @britishelectionstudy.com from next year. Lots of exciting stuff to come soon! www.royalholloway.ac.uk/about-us/new...
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New team, led by Royal Holloway, awarded leadership of the British Election Study to understand British democracy
Royal Holloway, King's College London and the University of Manchester have been awarded £4.9 million by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) to lead the British Election Study (BES).
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 01/10/2026
Map of the Lighthouses of the World. Each lighthouse sweeps out its actual arc and the reach of the beams is true to scale. Very cool. [kottke.org]
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Map of the Lighthouses of the World
From mapped.earth, a map of every lighthouse on the planet, along with other charted lights like lighted buoys and such. The screenshots above are static but the lights on the real map move: each lighthouse sweeps out it
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 30/09/2026
don't bother addressing a congregation unless you're in the baroque creature pulpit
Baroque pulpit ca. 1750, rebuilt 1856, Parish church in Dobroszów.

a fanciful scaled sculpture where the serpents open mouth serves as the pulpit
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 30/09/2026
okay I need to stress that we are not blaming the electrician for this, it’s from 2011 and this Is our house after all, but our tv sort of just blew up anyway what type of tv is good these days* *criteria in next post
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Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine @wdytyamagazine.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#OnThisDay in 1939, the British government carried out the 1939 Register to record the country's civilian population at the start of the Second World War. Find out how you can find your family in the records with our guide: www.whodoyouthinkyouaremaga...
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Phil Cheeseman@bsky.social @philcheeseman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Tuna hunting Garfish at Portland Bill today
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Paul Mainwood @paulmainwood.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Reminder that both the "mass vaccination = mass death" nutcases, and the "ongoing deadly pandemic" lot are proven wrong every day. Actuaries - whose jobs depend on getting death rates right regularly publish age-standardised mortality rates. Post-pandemic, back to a steady year-on-year improvement.
Chart showing standardaised mortality rates for England and Wales. After a steady improvement 2016-2019, and then a bunch of pandemic-driven bumps 2020-2022, the lines start improving again 2023-2026 which is shaping up to the best ever.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Measles: What is likely going to happen in Florida (and much of the US) as MMR vaccination has dropped below the threshold needed to prevent outbreaks? Hundreds of deaths in the next 5 years projected throughout the US. www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"we didn't have anything like as many people claiming to have ADHD back in the days when everyone carried around a pack of inhalable stimulant drugs and took between 20 and 40 doses every day"
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The work of Rathika Ramasamy, India's first internationally celebrated female wildlife photographer #womensart
Photograph of an owl peeping out from a hole in a tree trunk
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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
First Q: “Should there be an early election?” John Curtice: “No.”
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Society of Genealogists @sogorg.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
How far back can you take your family tree? Take your research into the 18th century with Else Churchill, exploring parish life, property, probate, courts, war, work + techniques that can help you get beyond the obvious. 10-week online course 5 Oct–7 Dec portal.sog.org.uk/Event/view/2...
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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Bayeux Tapestry aside, suppose I had time for one more exhibition in London in two weeks. Any suggestions?
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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Stone mask from the neolithic period dates to 7000 BC and is probably the oldest mask in the world (Musée de la Bible et de la Terre Sainte)
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Steve Carter @shieldaig.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It's designed to do this, but here's the dam at Loch Coire nan Arr being breached this morning, after heavy overnight rain. For reference, how it usually looks in a typical dry Spring.
OverflowingContained.
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Anglo-Scottish border, first agreed at the Treaty of York on this day 1237, has proved one of Europe’s most enduring national land boundaries. The only modifications have been to the 'Debatable Lands’ north of Carlisle and to Berwick-upon-Tweed, retaken by England in 1482.
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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 24/09/2026
*extremely tired voice*AI agents don't "go rogue". They are not sentient; they don't have agency. They work within guardrails set by humans. If the humans are so shit at building secure sandboxes for the agents to work within, that's on the humans. Stop using this framing.
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
lol my flight got diverted because of a medical emergency and they landed us in reykjavik in the middle of the night and deplaned us and sent us through passport control and then the crew vanished and then british airways sent us links to book an overnight hotel room but for a hotel at heathrow
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National Library of Scotland @natlibscot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Ever wanted to see how a street looked 100 years ago - right where you're standing now? 🗺️ Our georeferenced maps let you do exactly that. We've got over 600 layers freely available online, with tools to filter, measure, draw, compare and export them.
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David Chance @davidchance.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Indeed yes, bog standard low margin bulk chemicals. Ratcliffe’s business model is built on cheap debt finance. Debt is no longer cheap and Ineos has racked up £18bn which it now struggles to service. Its debt was downgraded to junk status. Europe has massive petrochemicals overcapacity.
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Richard Corbett CBE @richardcorbett.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Just 4 months after the local elections, Reform UK (RefUK) have lost 158 of their local councillors: -55 resigned -42 went Independent -28 defected -24 were kicked out -5 lost their seats -2 disqualified -2 suspended. Appalling record - and a waste of taxpayers’ money!
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Jaundiced Brains @johnnymains.co.uk · 21/09/2026
Someone from Exeter was buried on Friday and one of their wishes was to have dinosaurs and the Grim Reaper present. Legend. Photo source: Exeter & Devon Crematorium and Memorial Gardens
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Why do so many care about inheritance tax when fewer than 5% of estates pay it? Because that statistic counts the dead. Our new model counts living pensioner households instead. 20% have enough assets to face the tax. Over 50% in parts of London. Thread:
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Sharon Howard @sharonhoward.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I made some more choropleth maps of #earlyModern datasets: 16th c Court of Requests, Star Chamber; long 17th c Apprentice petitions, Wills; 18th c Pauper and Vagrant removals. Fun and even a bit thought provoking. inhermindseye.github.io/mindseye/posts…
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More Early Modern Choropleths – In Her Mind’s Eye
County maps for six early modern England & Wales datasets
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
It's very easy to wear a suit and tie in any major city, even if the aesthetic has mostly disappeared from daily life, because there are people outside wearing pink tutus with Army boots. As usual, your liberation is connected to other people's liberation.
Bobby Mars on Twitter writes: "If you wear a collared shirt and nice shoes out to the bar in the rust belt, multiple people will ask you if you just came from a wedding. Aesthetic standards for men’s attire are horrendously low"
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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 13/09/2026
This is one of the unsung pleasures of big city life, both for those of us who don't care about fashion and those who do. No one cares. You can wear a fabulous beaded dress to a restaurant or a sweatshirt. No one bats an eye when a gorilla costume goes by. In DC, I got looks for wearing black.
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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
First trailcam, fallow deer walk through our campsite almost immediately 🤗
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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 12/09/2026
Warm and muggy out. Had to buy some bin bags. No idea what happens to them. Big black waste sacks just seem to vanish from this house
That’ll come in handy, thought Cousin Sven
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Rory Naismith @rorynaismith.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Early medievalists may be happy to know that Simon Keynes’s collection of maps of Anglo-Saxon England has now been made freely available via @trincolllibcam.bsky.social These were commissioned by Simon and drawn (by hand) by Reg Piggott between 1991 and 2012. archives.trin.cam.ac.uk/index.php/ma...
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Maps of Anglo-Saxon England - archives.trin.cam.ac.uk
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Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk · 11/09/2026
Martin Parr: Oxford This small, free display of images by one of the most influential photographers of the past 50 years, will open from Saturday 12 September in Weston Library. visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/display/mar… 📷 © Martin Parr / Magnum Photos
Officiators at University of Oxford events, The Bedels, Oxford, England, 2015

© Martin Parr / Magnum Photos
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Patrick Smith @psmithjournalist.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Apropos of nothing, shout-out to the RNLI tote bags, which are a steal at £8 online
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ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk · 09/09/2026
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Richard and Su Rogers’ radical Wimbledon house given to the National Trust
The architect's family has donated the home that helped inspire the Lloyd’s building, ensuring that it can eventually open to the public.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Top ten combined European PISA scores for reading, maths, science and other education at age 15: 🇪🇪 Estonia — 511 🇬🇧 United Kingdom — 498 🇮🇪 Ireland — 493 🇨🇭 Switzerland — 490 🇵🇱 Poland — 487 🇫🇮 Finland — 482 🇦🇹 Austria — 480 🇧🇪 Belgium — 479 🇨🇿 Czechia — 478 🇹🇷 Turkey — 476
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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 08/09/2026
@aliettedebodard.com
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Will 🇺🇦 Absolute Shower 🇺🇦 @showerabsolute.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I cannot stress enough that a civil partnership is 61 quid.
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Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Good news! Have seen these a few times in the UK, more often in France. And saw fireflies in Italy - much smaller and fairy-like than their US counterparts.
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Glowworms shine again in North Yorkshire after larvae reared in garden shed
Volunteer ‘glow-getters’ overseeing reintroduction of endangered beetles at Nosterfield nature reserve
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I want the Prime Minister to look into a TV camera and say the RNLI are heroes, that we do not change policy by street violence in this country, and that he expects any criminal action to face the full force of the law. That's it. That's all he has to do.
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
If you know what Chris did in a former life, you'll know he knows what he's talking about.
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Dr Anne E Bailey @anneebailey1.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Unlike Melrose, Jedburgh still retains some of its Romanesque and Norman architecture.
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Untitled (Girl Serving Ice Cream), New Brighton, 1983-85, photo by Martin Parr.
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Morten Morland @mortenmorland.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Thursday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...
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