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St Albans Bach Choir @stalbansbachchoir.bsky.social · 18h

St Albans Bach Choir will be performing Dove’s There Was a Child and Fauré’s Requiem in the splendour of St Albans Cathedral on 14 November, with acclaimed soloists, the Girl Choristers and Sinfonia Verdi. A moving evening of grace and reflection. Tickets: www.stalbanscathedral.org/event/st-alb...

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Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

An enormous sendoff this morning for Simon Trewin. He was a giant of the publishing industry but the tributes were all about his empathy, curiosity and deep interest in other people, and the way he'd brought so many people in the (packed) church together. It's how anyone would want to be remembered.

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

On this day 30th September 1868 the first volume of 'Little Women' by Louisa May Alcott was published. Artist: Terry Gabbey

Two houses stand at dusk in a snowy street. One is smaller and brightly lit. The other is larger and mainly in darkness.

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Beautiful everyday Ladybird things Before the blue Smartie Artist: Harry Wingfield (First Picture Book, 1970)

Photo-realistic illustration of a tube of Smarties with Smarties spilling out onto a white background

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Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Good evening! This week's theme is Printmakers of London ----- 'London Snow', Warwick Square (1955) by Iain Macnab (Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art)

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Historic Cricket Pictures @picturesporting.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The County Ground at Worcester taken by Patrick Eagar in 1968. Most pictures of the ground are taken with the cathedral as a backdrop so it's far less usual to see it from the other side (C)

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Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Every time someone links to this film, I have to repost it. It's one of the most significant bits of British 20th century art. Everything about it is incredible. Groundbreaking music production by Daphne Oram. Amazing camera work by Wolfgang Suschitzky (who later filmed Get Carter).-

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R S Thomas (poet) @rsthomaspoet.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Welsh poet RS Thomas died #OnThisDay in 2000. Here's a tribute by Rowan Williams (patron of the RS Thomas & ME Eldridge Society)…

Text of poem -

Deathship.
(In memory of R. S. Thomas)
The last years, words from a window smoothing the sea, the iron back and forth to probe the fugitive wrinkles carving a path down to the lost gate.
What hid in the pale clefts till now feels for the light, a soft uncertain lingering as if through stone, through furrows of flint.
The tides pressed neat as for an evening out: time to drag down a black boat from the shed, off through the gate, to balance on the slow sea at dark, ready to sail.
The smoke will rise, the cloudy pillar wavering across the sky's long page At dawn, somewhere westward, the boat flares in a blaze of crying birds.
- Rowan Williams

A black-and-white close-up portrait of an elderly RS Thomas with tousled white hair and a deeply lined face, wearing a dark coat. He is looking slightly off-camera with a happy expression.

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The doorstep milk thief, 1966 Artist: Ronald Lampitt

A blue-tit pecks at the silver top of a milk bottle on the doorstep

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The Humanities disciplynes are beautiful & useful by cause thei amplifye our humanitye. Undir the care offerid by focused & specialized researche & studye, workes of the present are given more momentum, and thryve. Artefacts of the past blossom ynto newe ydeas. The Humanityes care for the worlde.

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St Albans Museums @stalbansmuseums.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

We need your help to reunite this beautiful photo album with its owners. It was handed into the Museum recently after being found on House Lane (near Sandringham Crescent). The names inside are Dorothy Keltham and Clifford Newell. Any leads let us know by DM or in the comments below 👇

St Albans historic photo album - St Albans Museums

St Albans historic photo album cover 1915-1940 - St Albans Museums

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Roland Pierik @roleo.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026

The number of cases of cervical cancer reported in Scotland among women given the HPV vaccine at 12-13 years of age is now zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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No cervical cancer cases in fully HPV-vaccinated women in Scotland

A study published by Public Health Scotland finds that the HPV vaccine is "highly effective".

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This still gets me every time. Albert Camus' letter to a teacher after he'd been awarded the Nobel Prize.

19 November 1957

Dear Monsieur Germain,

I let the commotion around me these days subside a bit before speaking to you from the bottom of my heart. I have just been given far too great an honor, one I neither sought nor solicited. But when I heard the news, my first thought, after my mother, was of you. Without you, without the affectionate hand you extended to the small poor child that I was, without your teaching and example, none of all this would have happened. I don’t make too much of this sort of honor. But at least it gives me the opportunity to tell you what you have been and still are for me, and to assure you that your efforts, your work, and the generous heart you put into it still live in one of your little schoolboys who, despite the years, has never stopped being your grateful pupil. I embrace you with all my heart.

Albert Camus

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Charles Fourier @charlesfourier.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Bill Bryson’s words seem appropriate to post right now

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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I picked up a copy of the collected letters of JRR Tolkien for reasons, and this is the most bullshit table of contents I've ever seen. I'm actively angry that it exists

Contents

Introduction - vii

Foreword to the Revised and Expanded Edition - xi

Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien - 1

Notes - 607

Index - 637

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Seems the difference between ‘protestors’ and ‘terrorists’ is that protestors wear balaclavas while terrorists hold placards.

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

‘The end of the holidays’ Artist: Clive Uptton, 1964

Two children make their way up a steep lane away from the seaside. The young girl stops and turns back towards the sea, but her older brother takes her hand and pulls her on.

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The Victorian Society @thevicsoc.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Remembering Sir John Betjeman, Poet Laureate + co-founder of the Vic Soc, born #onthisday in 1906. With a long career in writing + broadcasting, he was a passionate advocate for Victorian architecture & campaigned for the conservation of historic buildings. 🧵 📷Jim Linwood CC BY 2.0

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Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I think the sorry phenomenon of gig-filming is 90 percent about socials, rather than believing you'll ever watch it back. I feel like in the past decade or so we've been reprogrammed bit by bit to believe if we don't share what we're doing with everyone, it almost doesn't count as doing it at all.

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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

'Sheep going to the slaughter' early morning near the Caledonian Road, London, 1965 by Don McCullin.

Black and white photo of an urban scene with a flock of sheep in the foreground and dark buildings on either side going into the distance.

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

All TV in 2026 starts with a drone shot of a town with a piano accompaniment.

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Alice Lilly @aliceolilly.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Somebody in this field has sent just someone back to their house round the corner to gather colanders with the exhortation: AS MANY AS POSSIBLE, CHECK THE WENDY HOUSE

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Glamorgan Cricket @glamcricket.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

We are deeply saddened to learn of the passing of former Glamorgan bowler Stephen Barwick, aged 65. A true character of our sides through the 1980s and 1990s, Steve’s skill, humour and spirit left a lasting mark on everyone at the Club. 🔗 bit.ly/4qcdJ7q #OhGlammyGlammy

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Association of Cricket Statisticians & Historians @acscricket.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

RIP Steve Barwick, Glamorgan legend and only 65 years old. He played for Glamorgan from 1981 to 1996. In first class cricket Barwick took 456 wickets at 35.49 & in ListA 325 wickets at 26.36. He also played for Wales Minor Counties. A true Welsh cricket hero. #cricketcounts

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The “top left-hand corner of Wales” - will forever be the land of Ivor the Engine

Ivor the Engine passes the the signal box in an overcast day and Jones the Steam greets Owen the Signal

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Historic Cricket Pictures @picturesporting.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

A Bank Holiday crowd of over 20,000 - all but a handful seemingly wearing straw boaters - watched Surrey score 505 for 6 v Nottinghamshire at The Oval, August 4th 1913. No batsman scored a hundred but the top six all made fifties. A year to the day later Britain declared war on Germany

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Matthew Sweet @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

After his funeral the kids he taught to operate his Victorian letterpress helped each of the mourners ink up and print a tribute to him.

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I’m not sure whether this is just a psychological difference or AI bros fundamentally don’t understand the nature of an artistic experience, but: I don’t want a personalised film/book/podcast. I want to see/read/hear the same one as everyone else, so I can read reviews or discuss it with my friends

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Paul Dobraszczyk @pauldobraszczyk.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Architectural remnants swallowed up by the new, Swan Street, Manchester

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Daniel Jenkins @greenidris.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Fabulous crowd at York for Yorkshire v Durham. Great to see.

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

London’s Covent Garden - “a world famous fruit market” ‘Through the Ages: Food’ (1968) Artist: Frank Hampson

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Matthew Sweet @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

One of the saddest duties I have ever performed: obit for my dear friend and literary agent of three decades, Simon Trewin. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...

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Simon Trewin obituary

Literary agent who established the Garage Press and a volunteer-run community education centre

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

When the story of why humanity didn't stop climate change is written, it will feature front pages like this. Even as the skies blacken with climate change-induced wildfires, right wing media continue their relentless crusade against measures to tackle it.

The Times: Net zero risks blackouts. Below a photo of French wildfires.

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Lee Savage @leesavage.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Kevin Keegan: he hated fascists

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 18/07/2026

Visualized.

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Historic Cricket Pictures @picturesporting.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

A sad day for cricket with the loss of a genuine great. Garry Sobers toasts the crowd after West Indies' crushing innings and 226 runs win at Lord's on August 27th 1973. Sobers signed off his last Test in England with 150* and six catches (Patrick Eagar)

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I had replied to the below: Paper maps are great. Never run out of juice, let you see the close-up detail and the big picture at the same time (because they're three feet wide, unlike your phone), and the more you use them the more you learn your way around without them, unlike obeying a machine.

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Glamorgan Cricket @glamcricket.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

VITALITY BLAST LEAGUE TWO CHAMPIONS!!! 🏆🌾 The first-ever piece of silverware for Glamorgan Women, and the perfect launchpad as we head into the professional era next year 😍👏 #OhGlammyGlammy

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Hot & stuffy & looking forward to seeing you.

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Women! In the Long Room! WOMEN! - Marylebone Cricket Club first allowed female membership in 1998 when I was a teenager. - Now, much progress! 3.2% of the Club's full members are women. - TODAY: the first women's test to be played at Lord's begins! It is 2026.

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Historic Cricket Pictures @picturesporting.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Fifty years ago next month women were finally allowed to play in the middle at Lord's with an ODI between England and Australia. It's taken another half century for them to be allowed to play a Test match there

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Aoḋán Ó Conġaile @tinydonkey.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Been learning to do cryptic crossword clues lately, and Google AI has been a really big help 👍

Google just absolutely fucking up a cryptic crossword clue that *it came up with itself*.

It thinks "Keen These" anagrams to "Geneva"

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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

There have been 65 Kings & Queens of all England since Aethelstan became the 1st recognised monarch in the year 927 (let the arguments begin 🤴) This tree hasn’t just witnessed all of them, it was born up to 2,000 years BEFORE Aethelstan The Linton Yew, Herefordshire

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

“A kingfisher, like a streak of living sapphire, flashes across the water. He knows better than the fishermen how to catch fish” Writer: EL Grant Watson Artist: CF Tunnicliffe (What to Look for in Summer, 1960)

River plants form the foreground through which we view a canal, passing under an old stone bridge. A Kingfisher darts across the water, unobserved by two fisherman on the bank.

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Annie Chave @anniechave.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

An article from the heart about my dear old dad. Thank you to The Cricket Paper for my indulgence.

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Adam Chapman @adamchapman.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I gather the football’s moved. Fear not, it still doesn’t clash with the World Cup Final that England are actually playing in. Lord’s 15:30 BST, England v. Australia. 🏏

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Australia-Egypt is a great matchup bc a lot of the ancient Egyptian gods made out of 3 animals grafted together are actually naturally occurring animals in Australia

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Chris Addison @mrchrisaddison.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Here's a thing. The Oval was packed tonight for the women's T20 World Cup semifinal. Pretty much nobody is covering it - the football world cup, the Stokes debacle, Wimbledon, they're all taking up the space. But still. The ground was totally full. That tells you everything about the state of it.

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Annie Chave @anniechave.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Liew doesn’t hold back here - ‘Play your shots. Fill your boots in franchise cricket. Be where the noise is. Party hard. A 2019 ECB strategy document stated that the job of the England team was to “create heroes”..’ www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/j...

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Bazball ends with a whimper to expose emptiness of English men’s cricket | Jonathan Liew

Trent Bridge was not just the end of Ben Stokes’ career, it was further confirmation that Bazball stood for nothing

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