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You're very welcome to turn up at any of our museums at any time, Melinda. But back to the question - I second Katie; my dispersed team gathers in London for an exhibition + formal afternoon tea, this year it will be at Japan House London + Akira.

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Jack Kirby @jdk653.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twe...

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Jack Kirby @jdk653.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Liking for 'Receded for now', and not the associated stress levels this week.

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Jack Kirby @jdk653.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Patience and slow thinking are virtues and have their place. Yet there is always more in archives than we can process with available people. I'm not suggesting we should outsource everything to AI, but I think it can free up time for where himan judgement adds most value.

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Jack Kirby @jdk653.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

For a time rarer phonecards had some value for collectors, leading to this informative website: www.telephonecardcollector.com/index.htm Yours is a common optical card (discontinued from 1996) and sadly you won't find a payphone left that has a working slot for them.

telephonecardcollector.com

Telephone Card Collecting UK – BT Phonecards, Values, Guides & History

Launched in February 2013 by a private collector of telephone cards also known as a fusilatelist, this website covers all aspects of the collectible Phonecard with a focus on UK issues - BT (British T...

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Jack Kirby @jdk653.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Normally the hourly Manchester Airport-Redcar services use the Ordsall Chord (www.tpexpress.co.uk/-/media/PDFs...). However, Huddersfield and other Transpennine Route Upgrade works mean that timetables and routes are frequently much altered (including this week).

tpexpress.co.uk

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Jack Kirby @jdk653.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Thinking of you. Grief is so hard.

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Jack Kirby @jdk653.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Your fact for the day is that it's a serpentintite terrazzo floor.

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Jack Kirby @jdk653.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Thanks, will add to my list of venues to check what's on when visiting Edinburgh.

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Jack Kirby @jdk653.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Can't believe I missed this when I was in Edinburgh earlier this month. I didn't even know NRS did exhibitions.

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Jack Kirby @jdk653.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Sorry to hear about all these things happening at once, it doesn't help to have layers of stress on top of each other. Thinking of you.

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Katie Flanagan @katiedflanagan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A week left to apply for this - deadline is 25 Sept 2026.

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Jack Kirby @jdk653.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

You jest, but @katrinanavickas.bsky.social is more or less writing a history of British politics through #bins, I believe.

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Jack Kirby @jdk653.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Worse than that. "From the 1950s, the Borough Council, which included three local builders and a demolition contractor, encouraged the piecemeal but almost total destruction of the old centre." Foster, Pevsner & Wedgwood, The Buildings of England: Birmingham and the Black Country (2022)

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Katie Flanagan @katiedflanagan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Come and work for us @sciencemuseum.org.uk! We're looking for a Librarian to provide access and engagement with a wide range of audiences to our #library, #archives and #rarebooks. Permanent, PT (28 hrs pw) role. #libraryjobs ce0111li.webitrent.com/ce0111li_web...

ce0111li.webitrent.com

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Jack Kirby @jdk653.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

That's probably still my favourite.

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Jack Kirby @jdk653.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

From 1880 until 1952. Wait until you hear about Putney Bridge and Hurlingham. Best single source of info on London Underground station renaming is Doug Rose's diagrammatic history (not mobile friendly, easiest to view on a desktop or laptop). www.dougrose.co.uk/tube-history...

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The London Underground: A Diagrammatic History

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Jack Kirby @jdk653.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

For you, I'd suggest The Porcupine.

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Jack Kirby @jdk653.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The postmodern building is Terry Farrell's Embankment Place above Charing Cross station. To the right below the spire of St Martin-in-the-Fields is, I think, 13-15 York Buildings, once the home of GCHQ. The Adelphi is behind trees to the right of that (and not very curvy).

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Jack Kirby @jdk653.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I'd be more concerned about pests than RH, in the circumstances.

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Jack Kirby @jdk653.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I went in 2019. I don't have photos of the interior, but what a letterbox and door handle.

An ornate possibly bronze letterbox inscribed HORNEL / LETTERS next to a rectangular polished brass door handle, on a green wooden door

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Jack Kirby @jdk653.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I'd also include the historic studio in the Leach Pottery in St Ives, Cornwall.

Shelves with raw materials and accessories for making pottery in a historic space with a machine on the wall in the far corner

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Jack Kirby @jdk653.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Ah, _that's_ why you're in Birmingham!

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Jack Kirby @jdk653.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I read it during a visit to Northern Ireland, which added piquancy. Economical and memorable.

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Jack Kirby @jdk653.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Not a city, but coincidentally we shared this photo with colleagues in an intranet story today. Newly conserved and rehoused letters patent granted to Thomas Farmer for 'Improvements in treating Pyrites to obtain Sulphur, Sulphurous Acid and other products.'

A manuscript document with a seal attached, housed in a cardboard folder with a special box to support the seal

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Jack Kirby @jdk653.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Collins gives the plural as prospectuses. While OED introduces the idea that a double s is permissible! "Plural: prospectuses, (irregular, rare) prospecti, (rare) prospectusses"

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Roger Highfield @rogerhighfield.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Congrats to our Trustee Greg Radick, who has been awarded the @royalsociety.org 's Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Medal and Lecture 2026 for his exemplary work as a historian and philosopher of science royalsociety.org/medals-and-p...

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Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Medal and Lecture | Royal Society

This prize lecture is given on a subject relating to the history of science, philosophy of science or the social function of science.

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Jack Kirby @jdk653.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Today's was one of the rare nine carriage services. If they were all that length, half the issues would disappear.

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Jack Kirby @jdk653.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Yes, but that is disproportionate for the distance. The problem with XC is how much delay the trains pick up on long routes. Today was only a little late but enough to miss the path and get stuck behind a stopping train between Stoke and Stockport, so then much delayed.

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Jack Kirby @jdk653.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Hope you get home soon anyway. A mere 26 mins delay on CrossCountry for me today, back from Oxford (and ultimately Swindon) to Manchester.

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Jack Kirby @jdk653.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I'd rather be delayed at Birmingham New Street than Bristol Parkway, and I speak from extensive experience of both.

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Jack Kirby @jdk653.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

In part because there's a public right of way through the middle of the concourse level. That's why there are so many barriers. I've used this and the previous incarnation for thirty years so have a strong working knowledge of the layout, but it's highly confusing for occasional users.

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Jack Kirby @jdk653.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Last weekend I enjoyed the Landcapes Unlocked exhibition in Bakewell, marking 75 years of the @peakdistrict.bsky.social National Park, whose photographic archive has been digitised in partnership with @derbyshiredro.bsky.social Record Office, funded by Archives Revealed @uknatarcsector.bsky.social.

A view of an exhibition of photographs mounted on pale green setworks

A black and white photograph of a boy dressed in hiking gear with a rucksack standing high up above a valley

Black and white photo of two young men walking through snow, one carrying a sheep on his back

Black and white photo of a National Park ranger standing by a Land Rover in front of a dry stone wall

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Jack Kirby @jdk653.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

By coincidence I have just started reading Colm Tóibín's House of Names.

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Jack Kirby @jdk653.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Chase on foot through the escalators of the Kingfisher Centre, ending with Bond escaping by jumping on a bus to Bromsgrove as it pulls out.

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Jack Kirby @jdk653.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Sounds like the glazing company could open windows, though.

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Jack Kirby @jdk653.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Components stored with small objects on shelving that has been photographed, ladder stored with large objects on pallet racking that hasn't yet been photographed.

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Jack Kirby @jdk653.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

You see, I would class this as a map book first, and a railway book second. And I have severe limits on railway books, but no limits on map books.

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Jack Kirby @jdk653.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Just to point out we have a Eurovision exhibition @mediamuseum.bsky.social at the moment. www.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/whats-on/set... Lots of technological heritage along the way! blog.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/tech-innovat...

scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk

Setting the Stage: 70 Years of the Eurovision Song Contest | National Science and Media Museum

Go behind the sequins of the world’s largest live music event and discover how the magic really happens.

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Jack Kirby @jdk653.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Rail is by far the safest land transport mode. These days commercial aviation is comparable.

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Jack Kirby @jdk653.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Been to the Royal Academy, I see.

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Saw this on a map @stuartackland.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

John Speed, in a World map printed in 1627, included a diagram explaining how a solar eclipse worked. As this recent Bodleian map blog shows it wasn't till the eighteenth century with the work of Edmund Halley that eclipses could be predicted blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/maps/2026/07... #Eclipse

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Jack Kirby @jdk653.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Have you read Extinct: A Compendium of Obsolete Objects ed. Penner et al? I'd say there's a chapter in each object you've mentioned. Sympathise on time, though. If I had more time, I'd contribute this extant manhole cover and use it to talk about London, politics, and mass rapid transit.

Cover with concrete centre and cast iron or steel edge labelled London County Council Tramways

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