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Huw James @huwniverse.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Researchers at The Brunel Centre have published their first research insights on the Productivity Gap in the West of England. www.bath.ac.uk/announcement... The report highlights:

Plane Engine, We the Curious Planetanium; Street; and Solar Panels edited into a circle

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Huw James @huwniverse.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Researchers at The Brunel Centre have published their first research insights on the Productivity Gap in the West of England. www.bath.ac.uk/announcement... The report highlights:

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Huw James @huwniverse.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Thank you to @stephenwi11iams.bsky.social for a great talk on LGBTQ History at Bristol MUSEUM & Art Gallery today preceded by a visit to Martin Parr’s exhibition and proceeded by a visit to the Gender Stories Exhibition. I had a lovely afternoon! www.bristolmuseums.org.uk/whats-on/bri...

Hue and Stephen looking at the Martin Parr exhibition

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Huw James @huwniverse.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Great to see Galeon Andalucia on her way to Port in time for the Bristol Harbour Festival this weekend! www.bristolpost.co.uk/whats-on/wha...

Galeón Andalucia, a spanish tall ship, come up the Severn (a view from Portishead)

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Huw James @huwniverse.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Absolutely gorgeous day in Clevedon today, loving the breezy dramatic coast (whilst still, crucially, being warm)

Seagulls, flocked like a swarm of military aircraft

A book ( Jan Morris on Hong Kong) with some Three Hills white wine outside in clevedon hill Road

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Huw James @huwniverse.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Great to hear the PM announce a new trade strategy at @britishchambers.bsky.social Global Annual Conference today. Pleased Govt recognise how trade, lowering tariffs & removing trade barriers, will prime regions like the West of England as engines for economic growth. www.gov.uk/government/p...

Prime minister addressing British Chambers of Commerce

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Huw James @huwniverse.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

I’ve just chipped in to Bristol Museums’ fund to acquire Turner’s Rising Squall. The city has one week to crowdfund £100,000 to help secure a lost masterpiece by one of Britain’s greatest artists and bring it home where it belongs! 🌊 #BringTurnerHome www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/bringturne...

An early J.M.W. Turner oil painting, "The Rising Squall, Hot Wells, from St Vincent's Rock, Bristol," depicts a dramatic coastal storm. The scene features a large, light-colored Hot Wells House, a prominent building with a tower, set against dark, rugged cliffs and a turbulent body of water, transformed from the Avon River into a wild sea. A small, vulnerable sailing boat is tossed by powerful waves near the building, while two figures, one on horseback and one sprinting, appear small on the rocky shore, highlighting human vulnerability.
The sky is filled with heavy, dark clouds, broken by lighter, glowing patches, creating a sense of dynamic atmospheric movement. Turner, already "The Painter of Light," uses dramatic light and shadow contrasts, blurring object boundaries with varying shades of color to depict turbulent waves and evoke emotion. His revolutionary technique involves thin, watery oil paint layers, mimicking watercolor's fluidity and leading to wispy, almost abstract forms that foreshadow his later style. Bold, expressive brushwork captures the energy of the storm and conveys both observed reality and a romanticized, imagined world, central to his burgeoning Romantic sensibility. This rediscovered masterpiece, painted when Turner was just 17, demonstrates his precocious talent and innovative approach to light, color, and composition, fundamentally reshaping the understanding of his early artistic development and affirming his deep engagement with the sublime power of nature from the outset of his career.

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Huw James @huwniverse.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

🕊️ To mark the 80th Anniversary of #VEDay, I went to Bristol Archives on behalf of Business West to investigate the role that the Bristol Chamber of Commerce & its members played in WWII. I think we can learn a lot my revisiting our roots during anniversaries like this. #Victory80 #WWII

Business West - VE / VJ Day Anniversary Slide Deck

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Oliver Davey @yanksinbristol.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

I've put together a guided tour of some of the main sites used by the US Army in Bristol in the Second World War using the wonderful guidl app. Download details here yanksinbristol.co.uk/self-guided-...

Wartime image of the Clifton Suspension Bridge

Location of site in Bristol for the guided tour

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Huw James @huwniverse.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

One week left to apply to join our @businesswest.bsky.social Futures West Team ⏰ This qualitive researcher role is great if your interested in place-based research around economic development 🚀 How can we help our regions best innovate, scale and grow? www.businesswest.co.uk/careers/job-...

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Futures West Qualitative Researcher

This is an exciting opportunity to be at the cutting edge of qualitative research into new trends in key business sectors, market trends and economic

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Huw James @huwniverse.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

After one and a bit years I’ve passed my driving exam which is great! But the driver exam backlog, rising lesson costs, and the constraints on access to driver proficiency feel a bit underrepresented in economic discourse (it doesn’t fit nicely in the sustainable economy box)

Huw holding driving certificate in front of Fiat 500

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Huw James @huwniverse.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

What do our businesses need from the next West of England Metro Mayor? - @businesswest.bsky.social's Managing Director, Phil Smith, shares his thoughts ahead of the 2025 West of England Elections. Check out our West of England Election blog 👇 www.linkedin.com/posts/busine...

West of England Combined Authority - image of Bath, Bristol, and Yate

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Huw James @huwniverse.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Business West’s Futures West Foundation are looking to hire a Qualtiive Researcher to conduct impactful new research into key business sectors, market trends and economic policy! 🚀 (£35,000 pa) Do you know anyone great for this role? - give them a nudge!👇 www.businesswest.co.uk/careers/job-...

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Futures West Qualitative Researcher

This is an exciting opportunity to be at the cutting edge of qualitative research into new trends in key business sectors, market trends and economic

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Huw James @huwniverse.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Transport, Housing, and Skills were the hot topics on the stage at today’s @businesswest.bsky.social & Burges Salmon Metro Mayoral hustings. Candidates gave pitches focused around collaboration, investment and storytelling as the key to unlocking opportunities in the West of England. 🏗️🚀

Hustings with Andrew Carter, Helen Godwin (LAB), Oli Henman (LD), Mary Page (GRN), Steve Smith (CON)

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Huw James @huwniverse.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Business West is looking to hire a Policy Specialist to fire up our member-led policy work! 🚀 Do you know anyone great for this role? - give them a nudge!👇 www.businesswest.co.uk/careers/job-...

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Membership Policy Specialist

If you’re an experienced, results driven, Policy Specialist who is passionate about the key issues impacting the business community in the Business We

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Huw James @huwniverse.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Thanks for your time, Wera! Great to chat about your work in Bath and to update you on our work running Bath Chamber of Commerce and Iniative.

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Huw James @huwniverse.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Fascinating discussions at the Festival of Flourishing Regions around regional growth, building a case for regional investment, collaboration and partnerships, and investing in the skills to pipeline bring economic opportunities to life. #FoFR2025

Panel event around "How Cities and Regions can deliver the housing and infrastructure we need"

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Huw James @huwniverse.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Catching up with the 2024 Iris Prize @irisprize.org shorts on @channel4tv.bsky.social. Fairview Park is pretty emotive and raw but I was glad to learn about the murder of Declan Flynn and the impact it had on LGBTQ pride and public awareness of queer-bashing. 🏳️‍🌈🇮🇪 www.channel4.com/programmes/f...

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Fairview Park

(2024) Short film based on the murder of Declan Flynn - a catalyst for Pride in Ireland

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Huw James @huwniverse.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Feel blessed that the rail gods have bestowed a new Café at Weston-super-Mare Railway Station. ☕️🧁 (Not actually pictured)

A pillar by the track at Weston-super-Mare railways station

The track at Weston-super-Mare Railway Station

Tiles at at Weston-super-Mare Railway Station

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Huw James @huwniverse.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Decided that Sunday would be a healing self taught yoga day 😌😌 So naturally today on Monday my neck kills. 🔪

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Huw James @huwniverse.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Managed to get on a Dott in a hurry, travel for 5 minutes, only to discover the nearest parking space was the one I left from 💀💀

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Huw James @huwniverse.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Maybe I *wanted* to stare at my screen for thirty minutes 🎪 🟩🟩⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ Roll on Sunday!

Laptop and desktop being refreshed for Glastonbury tickets, with some loose wires by the laptop

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Huw James @huwniverse.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Went to see ‘Never let me go’ at the Bristol Old Vic last night 🎭 A beautiful adaptation of Ishiguro’s book, which left me thinking about ignorance, purpose, dignity and care. www.britishtheatreguide.info/news/five-th...

Bristo old vic stage, featuring grand wooden panelling permeated with frosted glass and five double doors, with a hospital bed at the front of the stage.

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Huw James @huwniverse.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Reintroduction thread Name: Huw Pronouns: he/him Location: Bristol Interests: theatre, showtunes, local history, language, rail, cycling, yoga Job: Policy Specialist

Huw at pride in a Awkward Productions Diana shirt

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Huw James @huwniverse.bsky.social · 31/08/2024

Today’s Saturday morning vibes are coming from this BBC Radio 4 Podcast on Bristol’s Bamboo Club. 🌴☀️ www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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The Documentary Podcast - The Story of the Bamboo Club - BBC Sounds

How the Bamboo Club in Bristol, England, became a lifeline for a victimised community

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Huw James @huwniverse.bsky.social · 26/08/2024

Did a mix of reading and listening to Giovanni’s Room this bank holiday weekend. I’ve just finished it. Such a captivating story of shame, prejudice, loneliness, and escape. Can’t believe James Baldwin coined the “Kill Twink with Rock” Maslow Hierarchy meme, so ahead of his time 🥺

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Huw James @huwniverse.bsky.social · 24/08/2024

Happy Harrison Day 🎂🇬🇧

(Bad) screenshot from Veep of Selena Meyer’s Harrison Day Cake, which celebrates her outlasting the term of the briefest president

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Huw James @huwniverse.bsky.social · 15/08/2024

I had a cute time volunteering to set up Swindon Pride last Friday. I had so much fun that I thought I’d also do a shift at Bath Pride this Sunday. 🏳️‍🌈 t.co/BalnuPT7US Bath Pride are still looking for volunteers if anyone happens to be at a loose end this Sunday 👇 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Huw in a high vis in a GWR Park, Swindon

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