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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @magdalenecollege.bsky.social Remember, Cambridge's Magdalene has an E on the end, Oxford's doesn't If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost – it helps to spread the word!

An old colour picture postcard showing a schematic diagram, hand drawn, of Magdalene College Camberidge

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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @cam.ac.uk I do like a tourist postcard map like this! If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost – it helps to spread the word!

An old colour picture postcard showing a hand drawn map of central Cambridge with little drawings of some of the colleges and other university buildings

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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of Murray Edwards College, @cam.ac.uk New Hall was founded in 1954 and renamed in 2008 following a £30m gift from Alumna Ros Edwards and her husband If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost – it helps to spread the word!

An old colour picture postcard showing a 1950s brick and glass slab sided building in parkland

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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @newnhamcollege.bsky.social Founded in 1871, and becoming a full college in 1948, it is for women only If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost – it helps to spread the word!

An old monochrome picture postcard showing brick and stone college buildings in a Dutch style

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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @newnhamcollege.bsky.social and Selwyn College @cam.ac.uk Is the military hospital (from WW1) perhaps the Nissen hut and tents towards the top of the card? If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost – it helps to spread the word!

An old monochrome picture postcard showing an aerial photograph of Cambridge college buildings in a suburban setting

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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @pembroke1347.bsky.social Its formal name is The College or Hall of Valence Mary (commonly called Pembroke College) in the University of Cambridge If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost – it helps to spread the word!

An old colour picture postcard showing ancient college buildings in an empty Cambridge street; top right is an image of the college's arms in an escutcheon

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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @peterhousecam.bsky.social Peterhouse is Cambridge's oldest college, founded in 1284 If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost – it helps to spread the word!

An old colour picture postcard showing a very ornate building, part of Peterhouse, Cambridge

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David Ealey @ealeyd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A fine interview, still gutted he left but completely understand why

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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @queens.cam.ac.uk seen from the air And here's a jigsaw of the postcard: buff.ly/t3HOv62 If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost – it helps to spread the word!

An old colour picture postcard shwoing an aerial photograph of Cambridge colleges, with ancient buildings, green lawns and trees, and a river

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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @queens.cam.ac.uk showing the famous 'mathematical' bridge Spoiler alert: Contrary to legend, the bridge was *not* built by Isaac Newton If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost – it helps to spread the word!

An old monochrome picture postcard showing a wooden bridge spanning the River Cam; one end goes into a college. A small boat can be seen in the water, with two poeple in it

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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @queens.cam.ac.uk The Queen in question is Margaret of Anjou, married to Henry VI and general 15th century Big Name If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost – it helps to spread the word!

An old colour picture postcard showing a college quadrangle; one side is half-timbered, the other in stone

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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @selwyn1882.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk, which was founded in 1882 in memory of George Augustus Selwyn, Bishop of New Zealand and, later, Lichfield If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost – it helps to spread the word!

An old colour picture postcard showing three views of Selwyn College, Cambridge

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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of the Senate House, @cam.ac.uk Here's a jigsaw of the postcard: buff.ly/lAWI3bl If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost – it helps to spread the word!

An old picture postcard showing a monochrome photograph of the inside of the Senate House at Cambridge, all parquet and panelling and ornate ceilings; and an embossed colour image of the university's arms

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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @sidneysussex.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk Sidney Sussex sounds like a 1940s film star, but she is in fact Frances Sidney, Countess of Sussex, who left money to found the college If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost – it helps to spread the word!

An old monochrome picture postcard showing the New Court at Sidney Sussex College, a Victorian building with a cloistered walkway at the ground level

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David Ealey @ealeyd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

@rhodri.biz Magical stuff tonight. Next gig is ????

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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @stcatharines.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk Catz is another example of spelling differences within Oxbridge: Cambridge's is with an A, Oxford's is with an E If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost – it helps to spread the word!

An old monochrome picture postcard showing a photograph of the quadrangle at St Catharine's College, Cambridge. The card shows the name of the college, spelt incorrectly

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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of St John's College, Cambridge If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost – it helps to spread the word!

An old colour picture postcard showing the 'b ridge of sighs' at St John's College Cambridge - an ornate bridge across a river - and the College's arms in red, blue, gold and silver

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

They warned us Mamdani would impose Sharia law. Instead, he unleashed the real threat: line dancing in Bryant Park.

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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of various bits of @cam.ac.uk If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost – it helps to spread the word!

An old colour picture postcard showing four different views of Cambridge

Clockwise from top left, Trinity College, punting on the backs, King's College, and Queen's College with the mathematical bridge. In the centre is the arms of the University with CAMBRIDGE in big black letters

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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of the clock tower at Trinity College, Cambridge It occupies the former gatehouse of King's Hall, which merged with Michaelhouse in 1546 to form Trinity College If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost – it helps to spread the word!

An old colour picture postcard showing a medieval clock tower/gatehouse

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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @theul.bsky.social seen from the air If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost – it helps to spread the word!

An old monochrome picture postcard showing an aerial view of the University Library, Cambridge - a 1930s monumental complex with a central tower and imposing slab-sided buildings in brick and stone. Printed at the foot of the card is Cambridge University Library

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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @theul.bsky.social - Cambridge University Library It'll be all Cambridge for a few weeks now because that's where the alphabet has taken me If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost – it helps to spread the word!

An old monochrome picture postcard showing a magnificent 1930s monumental building, in brick and stone, with a central tower and lovely high windows. Printed at the foot of the card is University Library, Cambridge

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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @uofguelph.bsky.social - that's the University of Guelph, Canada, which is in Ontario, I find Its been a university since 1964, growing out of older colleges If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost – it helps to spread the word!

An old colour picture postcard showing a handsome stone building, with a tower and red tile roof. Printed at the foot of the card is Administration Building, OAC, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

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David Ealey @ealeyd.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This is a really good article, a lot of very good points there and plenty to think about

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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @umanitoba.bsky.social in Winnepeg Just off Highway 75, according to the back of the card If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm

An old colour picture postcard showing a university campus set in the countryside, with a meandering river, distant hills and what look like newly sown wheatfields

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

If you feel like donating to the RNLI, here’s a link. I just have. Their minimum donation is £2: I think it might be nice for them to receive a lot of donations this week, even if they’re mostly very modest. Just so they know a lot of people out here appreciate their work. rnli.org/support-us/g...

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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of York University, in Toronto, seen from the air Founded in 1959, it is four years older than its UK namesake; and with over 50,000 students, a deal larger too If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm

An old picture postcard showing an aerial photograph of a university campus set in green fields

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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @canterburyccuni.bsky.social seen from a distance in what look like either Roman or early Anglo-Saxon ruins, I'm not sure which. Can someone enlighten me? If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm

An old colour picture postcard showing 1960s college buildings framed by ancient ruins in the foreground

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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of Cardiff University, as seen from Cathays Park - its part of the grand Edwardian Imperial quarter in Cardiff, with the museum, city hall, court and war memorials If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm

An old colour picture postcard of a grand ornate college building seen from a park with statue, lawns and flower beds

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David Ealey @ealeyd.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Which should include clawing back some of the payoff to the former CEO who oversaw, and drove, this shambles

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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of what became Cardiff Metropolitan University - this is the Cyncoed campus, which back in the day focused on teacher training If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm

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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of the former Chelsea Polytechnic, which later became part of both @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social and @unioftheartslondon.bsky.social @chelseaual.bsky.social If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm

An old monochrome picture postcard showing a large teaching kitchen with students in white coats stood around kitchen tables, with various jars, utensils and ingrdients around them

Printed on the card is Cookery School, Chelsea Polytechnic, SW3

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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of Bishop Otter College, now Chichester University Tagging in @chiunipress.bsky.social who might like it! If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm

An old colour picture postcard showing college buildings with a slightly churchy feel, in ight stone with slate roofs, and a bare tree in front. Printed at the hear of the card is "Bishop Otter College, Chichester"

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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of the City part of @citystgeorges.bsky.social Known for years as the Northampton Institute, after the Marquess of Northampton, who donated the land on which it is built If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm

An old monochrome picture postcard showing a fabulous Victorian college building with a clock, many people milling about on the street outside

Printed at the foot of the card is Northampton Institute

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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of the Coventry School of Art, a precursor to Coventry University I suspect this building was destroyed in the second world war, but if not I'd love to be told better! If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm

An old monochrome picture postcard showing a Victorian college building, slightly gothicky, in stripes of different coloured brick

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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of what I think is the University of Zagreb, in Croatia If anyone can confirm this, I'd be grateful! If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm

An old monochrome picture postcard in portrait orientation showing the view from the side of a rampart, looking down into a city park

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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of Cranfield University, which is currently preparing to merge with King's College London from August 2027 If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm

An old colour picture postcard showing an aerial photograph of a 1970s college building, with many octagonal shaped rooms joined together.

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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of Charlotte Mason College, now part of @cumbriauni.bsky.social Here's a free online jigsaw of the postcard: www.jigsawplanet.com?rc=play&pid=... If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm

An old monochrome picture postcard showing a comfortable country house set in mountains and woodland. Printed at the foot of the card is "Charlotte Mason College, Ambleside".

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David Ealey @ealeyd.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Having a day wandering around Cambridge, where I grew up and came back to from 88 to 95 before going to see the wonderfully named, and talented, Belair Lip Bombs. Great to find one of my favourite restaurants still here and still very good

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Dundee UCU @ducuuo.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Some colleagues received 5 minutes notice for their online at risk meeting and had not yet received their letter informing them they were at risk. Executive staff did not bother to turn up to the meeting. This is the true face of executive leadership at the University of Dundee.

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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @derbyuni.bsky.social And here's a free online jigsaw of the postcard for you to enjoy: www.jigsawplanet.com?rc=play&pid=... If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm

An old tinted picture postcard showing a Victorian gothic building, looking dramatic, on an urban street

Printed at the foot of the card is "Technical Institute, Derby"

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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @dundee.ac.uk The last image of #DundeeWeek - hope you've liked it, and sending best wishes to all at Dundee, which needs all the luck it can get If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm

An old colour picture postcard showing an aerial view of the university campus in Dundee, with the silv're River Tay in the background

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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @dundee.ac.uk The Guildford postmark is where it was sent to, not where it was sent from #DundeeWeek Did you stay at Belmont? If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm

An old colour picture postcard showing 1970s halls of residence, with a quadrangle. In the quad is a very impressive shrubbery with a big central tree of some sort. There's a postmark on the card showing that it was sent in Guildford

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David Ealey @ealeyd.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

For the second time this summer am going north for an outdoor gig. Is it going to be sunny ? , of course not

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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @dundee.ac.uk I've got some lovely colourful cards of this troubled university so its going to be a bit of a Dundee week If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm

An old colour picture postcard showing a pretty flower bed, yellows and reds, in front of a motley mixture of university buildings. Printed at the foot of the card is DUNDEE UNIVERSITY

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Andrew Fisher @fisherandrew79.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Over 24 hours ago I reported this leak to Thames Water. 28 hours on now and it's still gushing water. Lucky there aren't water shortages ...

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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @dundee.ac.uk A sad case study of a university where the leaders screwed-up big-time in already bad circumstances Solidarity to all @ducuuo.bsky.social If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm

An old coluur picture postcard showing a view of really colourful flowerbeds in front of a manicured lawn and then high rise student accommodation. The card is titled University of Dundee: springtime at Belmont

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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of The Bede College @durham.ac.uk football team, from way back when I wrote a short piece about this card for @wonkhe.bsky.social back in 2022: wonkhe.com/blogs/higher... If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm

An old monochrome picture postcard showing a team of sportsmen - looking like a rugby team, but the ball maybe looks a bit too round? It is a team from Bede College, Durham

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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @collingwooddurham.bsky.social, @durham.ac.uk I wrote about Collingwood for @wonkhe.bsky.social back in 2024: wonkhe.com/blogs/higher... If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm

An old colour picture postcard showing 1970s brick college buildings on a hillside. There are also trees and grass, the sky is cloudy white

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