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DominicSelwood @dominicselwood.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The 2021 census has 37% in England with no religion. The latest Social Attitudes report has 40% in Britain not aligned to any political party. Do we know the overlap? And when will there be a name for this important group?

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DominicSelwood @dominicselwood.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Have to say, I had A LOT of fun shredding at the 100 Club last Thursday!

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DominicSelwood @dominicselwood.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"English" is a nationality and a language. It is not a race. Here's a very readable and entertaining book which explains it all. Trigger warning: contains some actual history.

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DominicSelwood @dominicselwood.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We had an epic evening yesterday playing the 100 Club on London's Oxford Street! It is an iconic stage that has seen everyone from Ronnie Scott and Benny Goodman to Oasis and Metallica. Thank you to the awesome crowd!🤘

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DominicSelwood @dominicselwood.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is huge. The British Museum was created in 1753 as the world's first national museum, open to all and free. Other countries copied, but most now charge. Universal accessibility is fundamental to the DNA of Britain's public museums. A super decision! www.gov.uk/government/n...

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DominicSelwood @dominicselwood.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Swipe a FREE ticket worth £30 to the great 'Sustainability Rocks' battle of the bands on Thursday 1 October 2026 at the 100 Club! All 320 tickets sold out in 2.5 days. We have ONE to offer a lucky winner. Just e-mail us to join our mailing list, and one of you will win the draw for the free ticket!

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DominicSelwood @dominicselwood.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

And the edges of reality blur a little further into void. Mind you, he declared his 19-year-old son Barron had an "unbelievable aptitude for technology" because he knew where the on button was on his laptop. So there's that.

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DominicSelwood @dominicselwood.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

There are many reasons why England is a truly great country. Its astonishingly diverse music scene is one of them. These guys have been thumping it out loud and melodic since the '60s, and still take one's breath away. Judas Priest at the one and only Hammwrsmith Odeon tonight.

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DominicSelwood @dominicselwood.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The Church of England says 1.7% of the population go to services at least monthly. Many are elderly. What will happen to its 16.000 English churches (incl. 42 cathedrals) if/when its congregation/finances or both become unviable? What is the plan? Who is overseeing it?

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DominicSelwood @dominicselwood.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Yesterday we relaunched the City of London’s Blue Plaque scheme with a plaque for Francis Barber. He was born a slave in Jamaica, brought to England as a child and freed. He was a servant to Dr Johnson, who made him his heir. After Johnson’s death Barber became a school master near Lichfield.

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DominicSelwood @dominicselwood.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

If you like crusaders or medieval medicine - and especially if you like both - do come along on Wednesday evening! At the Society of Apothecaries. Tickets available on this link: catalogue.apothecaries.org/product?catalo…

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DominicSelwood @dominicselwood.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The canaries in the coalmines are beginning to show signs of discomfort.

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DominicSelwood @dominicselwood.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I think I can safely assume I am speaking for everyone when I say we all need more medieval stave churches in our day.

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DominicSelwood @dominicselwood.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The University of Bergen Museum is a gem. Among the fun: an underwater seabed mapping vehicle with the genius name HUGIN, and an astonishing room of many magnificent whale skeletons. The Natural History collection is among the most extensive I have ever seen. @UiB_museet

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DominicSelwood @dominicselwood.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

You know you are in Norway when an arty shop in a historic harbour is selling this. I'm home! 🤘🏻

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DominicSelwood @dominicselwood.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I am not in Viborg, Jutland, but Utne, Vestland. Nevertheless, this atmospheric hotel has spookily brought to life M R James's ghost story 'Number 13' every time I walk down the corridors.

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DominicSelwood @dominicselwood.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The Reformation pulverized c. 850 English monastic altars. The Tudors, then Oliver Cromwell, took hammers and axes to virtually every English church. Now contemporary music and dancing raise outrage at 'unprecedented sacrilege'. Are we entering a new Puritan age?

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DominicSelwood @dominicselwood.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The Hardanger Fjord is magnificently lovely.

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DominicSelwood @dominicselwood.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Folk fiddle, Hardanger, Norway. These are so rcck'n'roll. Four extra sympathetic strings under main strings. And wild fretboards!

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DominicSelwood @dominicselwood.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Not sure this is a solid conspiracy theory. Pharaonic Egypt is firmly in the past. By definition it is a lost civilization.

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DominicSelwood @dominicselwood.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

News emerging that Exeter University's teaching staff has been reduced. Culling the humanities is heartbreaking. It is also dangerous. My piece in the Spectator.

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DominicSelwood @dominicselwood.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

It is often said that many of the great discoveries of the future will be made in archives and museums. A musicologist researching in Tennessee has proved this, yet again, so true. Simply amazing.

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DominicSelwood @dominicselwood.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I hear the jingle of keys ... It's nearly 10 o'clock.

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DominicSelwood @dominicselwood.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

In the UK, the ‘dignity’ of city status comes from royal letters patent, ancient usage, charter, or other reasons lost in the mists of time. (Some have cathedrals, others do not.) Winchester and Canterbury have among the richest histories of any cities in the country.

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DominicSelwood @dominicselwood.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Grab a ticket! I will be giving the Keats Memorial Lecture at the wonderful and historic Society of Apothecaries on 16 September: “Templars, Hospitaller and Crusader Medical Care”. Come along! Tickets available on this link: catalogue.apothecaries.org/product?cata...

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DominicSelwood @dominicselwood.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Byron's poem was titled 'The Destruction of Semnacherib'. Shelley's 'Ozymandias' has two trunkless legs standing in 'the desart'.

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DominicSelwood @dominicselwood.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Clacton, bruh, seriously, you had one job ...

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DominicSelwood @dominicselwood.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Tomorrow's gig at the legendary Hope & Anchor on Upper St is Sold Out. So is our next gig at the 100 Club, Oxford St (Sustainability Rocks) on 1 October. 🤘🏻 Drop an email to: hello@psychopomo.band if you'd like to get onto our mailing list to hear of future gigs in good time! 🤘🏻🎵🎉

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DominicSelwood @dominicselwood.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The "Pythagorean comma" is a tiny interval between notes that are enharmonically equivalent in modern tuning, e.g., G♯ and A♭, but have slightly different pitches in Pythagorean tuning. It's roughly a quarter of a semitone. Just... what?!?!?! 🤯🎼

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DominicSelwood @dominicselwood.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

[1/4] Understanding decibels is, it turns out, categorically impossible unless you have a degree in equations with Greek stuff. Add 10 dB and the sound has 10 times the intensity, but apparently only sounds twice as loud. Fine.

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DominicSelwood @dominicselwood.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Vocal and guitar rehearsal for gig at Hope & Anchor on 5 Aug going well! Today we decided on a little tribute to Toyah and Robert Fripp’s lovely videos in lockdown!! Tickets a steal at £12 for three awesome bands! And the pub has AIR CONDITIONING!!! Find us on FB and Insta @LondonPsychopomp

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DominicSelwood @dominicselwood.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

My piece today in The Spectator on the dramatic cuts proposed at Exeter University and the real perils of sacrificing the humanities.

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DominicSelwood @dominicselwood.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I have said it before. Use the cathedrals. Move government around like in the past. Bring the money caravan to all cities. We have stunning empty cathedrals. Use them for government as before. Get MPs into them for debates. PMQs around the nation. Who wouldn't enjoy that?

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DominicSelwood @dominicselwood.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

An artillery salute to honour our new PM on his first day?

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DominicSelwood @dominicselwood.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

When Britain Brexited a leading German newspaper said life without British humour was possible but meaningless. 10 years later the only person who will stand against Farage in his phoney by-rlection is the chap with a dustbin on his head. Come on Clacton, make us proud!

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DominicSelwood @dominicselwood.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

When Britain Brexited a leading German newspaper said life without British humour was possible but meaningless. 10 years later the only person who will stand against Farage is the chap with a dustbin on his head. Come on Clacton, make us proud!

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DominicSelwood @dominicselwood.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

It's coming home! ROCK is coming home! Psychopomp is playing the awesome 100 Club again for the incredible Sustainability Rocks battle of the bands that raises tens of thousands of pounds for charity at each year's unmissable gig!

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DominicSelwood @dominicselwood.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

It turns out 'holibobs' go back to the 14th century, Even the hardworking Green Knight made time for one.

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DominicSelwood @dominicselwood.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

One of the joys of taking books off the shelf is stumblimg across old price stickers.

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DominicSelwood @dominicselwood.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

British military footwear has had some pretty spectacular fails over the years. But these ... for a swordsman?

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DominicSelwood @dominicselwood.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

My essay is on Saladin, who achieved that rare honour of being respected and admired by his own side and his enemies. In honour of the occasion I have got my old mess kit out to add a splash of British Army Red Coat. A fabulous book that takes us from Sun Tzu to David Petraeus!

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DominicSelwood @dominicselwood.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

View from my seat the other day. This new programme is going to be really, really fun! :-) #medieval

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DominicSelwood @dominicselwood.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

My computer has just tried to change 'more irate' to 'irater'. This ubiquitous AI word salad is making me iraterer by the minute . . .

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DominicSelwood @dominicselwood.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Hilarious! The philosopher G A Cohen on his supervisor at university, Gilbert Ryle.

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DominicSelwood @dominicselwood.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

I was immensely pleased to participate in this debate to argue for the survival of museums - places where we appreciate that we all have far more in common navigating this life than what we are encouraged to believe divides us. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUsV...

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Should Museums Repatriate Cultural Artifacts?

YouTube video by Open to Debate

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