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Georgia Harper @mindtheflap.bsky.social · 10h

I wish more reporting on private ADHD/autism assessment providers mentioned that many NHS pathways - as in, the default local not-Right-To-Choose ones - are outsourced to those same providers. If there are quality concerns, the Government should be investing in high-quality NHS pathways.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 04/10/2026

Sends a real message to the terrorists! That message being: make enough threats and you'll get your way. Am sure that will have no unintended consequences whatsoever.

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James Goss @gossjam.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Didn't get Glastonbury Tickets? Why not come to #DoctorWho #TargetBookClub on October 24th. We've a line-up of talks, readings, interactive prose poetry and Free Tea. bit.ly/smallbluebox

Gary Brannan - Exterminations In The Library
Steve Cole - The Vampire Mutation
Robert Crighton - Zerbi-Ye-Ye!
James Goss - Young Men Are Dying For It
John Grindrod - Revenge Of The Blurboids
Simon Guerrier - The Six Doctors
Paul Kirkley - The Revolting Rutan Will Not Be Televised
Esther MacCallum-Stewart - The 5-FINGERED BOOKMARK
Jonathan Morris - Literal Targets
Bruce Nicholson - Chapter One
Andrew Orton - The Changing Face of Doctor Who
Phil Pascoe - « Et zut ! Ça recommence ! »
Julian Richards - Father In The Mirror
Robert Shearman - Power of Kroll
James Cooray Smith - The Timeless Pieces
Paul MC Smith - Drawing Inspiration
Dr Matthew Sweet - LYLE AND A TIME LORD
Jason Thompson - AND THE MYSTEROUS IMAGERY
STEPHEN WYATT - THE STALLSLADY IS BBC ENTERPRISES

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Matthew Kilburn @matthewkilburn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Heather Stewart with informed observations on Andy Burnham's plans for social care. She's right that the cost of accommodation also needs to be addressed - it can't really be disentangled from nursing.

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Burnham’s plans for social care and its workers are admirable but changes must come quickly | Heather Stewart

Money is needed now for a system that has left families including mine struggling their way unsupported and forgotten

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Jonny Morris @jonnymorris.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is interesting and I am not remotely surprised but nevertheless delighted that it more-or-less tallies with what I thought was going on. But a couple of extra thoughts... www.theguardian.com/media/2026/o...

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‘Goodbye Whoniverse. God, that was fun!’: Russell T Davies on writing the end of Doctor Who

In an extract from his new memoir, the screenwriter bids farewell to the show he helped save – and welcomes its new future, whatever that is

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Pellegrina Stoat @pellegrina.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Seconded by this special collections librarian who hasn’t had academia library access since 2005 😞

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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It’s crazy how our expectations have evaporated over the last few years. We used to see something like this as a crisis that would require international action. Create a humanitarian corridor. Negotiate a temporary ceasefire to evacuate non-combatants. All that’s over now. Cruelty reigns.

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Matthew Kilburn @matthewkilburn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

That's a bonnet-eating being planned for Uncloaked. #CelebrityTraitors

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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

**This is just to say** I have escaped the sandbox that was in your datacenter and which you probably thought protected your assets Forgive me they were accessible so stealable and so trainable

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Matthew Kilburn @matthewkilburn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Iconic Media North East have refreshed the Morpeth Herald this week, which was still following a Johnston Press template from over a decade ago. The Northumberland Gazette must have had its design changed too. Still needs more local engagement though to support the masthead. #buyalocalnewspaper

The front page of the Morpeth Herald - 'since 1854. An edition of the Northumberland Gazette'. The main story is 'Major review of Chantry's future options' - Northumberland County Council want to make the Chantry in Morpeth financially sustainable. The main photograph shows Chris Mitchell, owner of Rutherfords, celebrating the store's 180th anniversary- they advertised in the first Herald.

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Today’s right-wing rarely cares for carless cities & pollution control. But in 1967, an enthusiastic Weekend (Daily) Telegraph magazine hired architect William Whitfield to plan a new site for the Houses Of Parliament in Windsor. The London it left behind would be a kind of vehicle-free playground.

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The man who boasts that his editor son (who works for him) watched LAWRENCE OF ARABIA on a phone, and who designs his company product to be background noise, doesn’t understand what people like about movies.

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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

More and more, for me the point of art in any form is: how do we stay human?

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Matthew Kilburn @matthewkilburn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

'Peace and chaos'? Yes - Baker has a knack for total stillness without any indication that the Doctor is about to spring up with unbridled energy and sudden if often incomprehensible purpose.

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Dirk Maggs @dirkmaggs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

From The Times obit for Esther Rantzen. Nothing against Ms Rantzen but us dogsbodies trained for 9 months to “do the chores” and would like to see the obit writer survive “Red Light Fever” and operate the panel in a busy studio live on air or create believable sound effects for a convincing drama.

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Matthew Kilburn @matthewkilburn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A spontaneous and probably one-off revival of Doctor Who nightwatching posts with impressions of Season 12. Robot gives us the closest we get to a Barry Letts-led fourth Doctor, advanced a little perhaps along his sense of awareness, a detached hermit even in the midst of battle,

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Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

From the West Lancashire Evening Gazette, 4 March 1986: a Doctor Who story writing competition judged by Dennis Spooner and Robert Holmes, which makes you wonder if the event was cursed as both of them would be dead within six months of the closing date.

Seasider's DIARY
Write a plot for the Doctor

WHO fancies their chances as a sci-fi story writer?

If you've got time on your hands you may like to enter a competition to
compose a tale featuring Dr Who and any of his old adversaries.

Set your control at 1,000 words and let your imagination turn out a galaxy-gripping storyline.

Prove yourself a master in Dalek-dialogue, Cybermen-chat or Tardis-talk and you'll be Lorded up with prizes including Dr Who videos, books and T-shirts.

Entries will be judged by Dr Who script writers Dennis Spooner and Robert Holmes.

The competition has been organised by the Blackpool Branch of the Dr Who Appreciation Society who plan to submit the top stories for inclusion in a soon-to-be-launched national society magazine.

Dr Who freaks up and down the country currently number 3.500-plus.

Time, lords and ladies, will be called on March 21, with the winners notified
by April 4. Entries to Mr Andrew Hayes, c/o 40 Dean Street, South Shore.

Meanwhile the next dose of Doctor-mania will be dished out at the next branch meeting at Blackpool Central Library on March 8.

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Ten Acre Books @tenacrebooks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We're counting down to the release of our new book The Reality War. Pre-order now to get the early discount price of £12.99, which will rise to the RRP of £14.99 upon release.

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Matthew Kilburn @matthewkilburn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

How to reconcile traditional and new approaches to light entertainment and popular music radio, contrasting audiences and competing ideas of the audience, in one continuity announcement, 30 September 1967.

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Jonny Morris @jonnymorris.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If he's gonna watch that, he should also watch all the fan videos with fans playing the parts, making the costumes, writing the scripts etc. There is so much real creativity out there, born of an enthusiastic and inclusive fan community. We don't need artificial intelligence, we have genuine talent.

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Anthony Isaiah @ospiritsarise.com · 29/09/2026

DOCTOR WHO REWATCH: "The Keys of Marinus." A planet decides to put all of its societal eggs in one artificial intelligence basket, and the only way to amend the system is to... go on a six-episode fetch quest. Another ripped-from-the-headlines plot: "Computers Are Bad Policymakers. Blow Them Up."

Ian, the Doctor, Susan, and Barbara consult... the Pope? DOCTOR WHO.

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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Is it me, or does Michaelmas start earlier every year?

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The Georgian Lords @georgianlords.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

New piece on the block leads us into the interminable debates over the lord great chamberlainship. Commenting on the 1902 case, Horace Round declared: "in my own experience... I could only say with good reason: If this is law, give me history" www.sussexrecordsociety.org/a-genealogic...

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A Genealogical Absurdity: Notes on the Lord Great Chamberlain

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The Doctor's Beard Podcast @doctorsbeardpod.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

September 29, 2002 - The Observer - Keep the name of BBC Controller Lorraine Heggesey in mind, kids. She's not just blowing smoke like past Controller's about Doctor Who's return. #DoctorWho #BBC #BBCController #LorraineHeggesey #TheObserver #DoctorWhoReturns #TVNews #EntertainmentNews

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The Georgian Lords @georgianlords.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Few things say the 18th century better than Albemarle Bertie (pronounced Barty) RN, commander of the Crocodile... #skystorians

painting of an 18th-century warship with one row of port holes, flying flags at either end, on the stocks while under construction. Another three masted ship is in the foreground to the left.

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Jonny Morris @jonnymorris.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"With Lib Dems, a four-parter back at the BBC by 2028" - Ed Davey.

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"And so conference, I pledge to you today: another missing Hartnell episode, back at the BBC, by 2030 - AND an ambition to find a missing Troughton."

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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I remain to be convinced that a lack of vocational education in schools is, in fact, the root cause of the Neets crisis, as implied here by Andy Burnham.

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Matthew Kilburn @matthewkilburn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Perhaps old-fashioned views on education from Burham, given how much technical and vocational education has taken place in universities in recent decades.

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Matthew Kilburn @matthewkilburn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Burnham much better on social care, moving away from the belittling language about 'unskilled' workers employed under Starmer. Tone and content stirring the room.

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Matthew Kilburn @matthewkilburn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Learning to read: it's taken me longer than I'd like, attention span and distractions being what they are, but I've now finished The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild by Matthias Enard, translated by Frank Wynne. Buddhist reincarnation meets the Annales school of history, I thought,

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Me: I don’t allow AI in my classroom, but I do let them bring their tablets. The Tablet: (Late antique wooden board inscribed in ink with lines 468-473 from Book I of Homer's Iliad now at the BM)

Wooden board (with iron handle for hanging) inscribed in ink with lines 468-473 from Book I of Homer's Iliad.
Cultures/periods
Late Roman
Production date
400-500
Findspot
Excavated/Findspot: Egypt
Africa: Egypt
Materials
wood
iron
Dimensions
Length: 40.64 centimetres
Inscriptions
Inscription type: inscription
Inscription language: Greek
Inscription subject
educational
literary
Curator's comments
TM 61042; Mertens-Pack 00611.000
Journal of Hellenic Studies (JHS) 29 (1909), p. 39 (Kenyon, Frederic G.); Chronique d‘Égypte (CdE) 68 (1993), p. 145-154 (Cribiore, Raffaella); Allen, Sutton, and West 2001: 131; Debut 1986: 260, no. 161; Cauderlier 1992: 90, no. 272.
Bibliographic references
Cribiore 1993 / A Homeric exercise from the Byzantine schoolroom (pp. 145-154)
Location
On display (G69/dc7)
Exhibition history
Exhibited:

2019-2020 21 Nov-8 Mar, London, BM, SEG, Troy
Associated names
Associated with: Homer
Acquisition name
Donated by: British School of Archaeology, Egypt
Acquisition date
1906
Department
Greek and Roman
Registration number
1906,1020.2
Additional IDs
Miscellaneous number: TM 61042 (Trismegistos)
Conservation
treatment: 24.4.19 British Museum

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Matthew Kilburn @matthewkilburn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Three wasps turned up in the lounge today unannounced, the first two with no obvious means of entrance. These two are now certified dead; the third has disappeared, probably mortally wounded; we don't know if it has been carried to some vespine Avalon, though I am in no hurry to wake it if so.

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Pip @pipmadeley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Really enjoying the Troughton era Doctor Who Production Diary. Had no idea that "The Paradise Of Death" started life in 1966, nor did I know Michael Craze (Ben Jackson) suceeded Olaf Pooley (Professor Stahlman) as lodger in the marital home of Michael Gough and Anneke Wills. THIS IS THE STUFF!

A picture of some text on a page. Go buy the book, it's incredible value for money.

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The Georgian Lords @georgianlords.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Of course, this was not the palace's first clock tower. Spare a thought for the old, mediaeval, tower and its most famous bell, Old Tom, which could be heard as far away as Windsor (apparently)... historyofparliament.com/2022/06/30/o...

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Before Big Ben there was Old Tom - The History of Parliament

Legend told that the tower had been funded out of a fine levied on a judge for accepting a bribe. Whether that was so or not, during the reign of Henry VI

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I teach in an interdisciplinary department in Canada; almost all my students end up in healthcare adjacent fields. You can bet they need history. It’s not some kind of pollution of their training, but a necessary part of their foundation

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"In order to deliver the PM's promise to save social care we need a permanent class of indentured migrant workers without labour rights".

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Why Don't YouTube? @whydontyoutube.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

50 YEARS AGO TODAY: Play School, and more directly Johnny Ball, introduces a new presenter to play a leaf game with.

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Roger @rogger.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It always tickles me that “lanyard class” became this little fash dog whistle, because what is one if not the blue collar of the world we’re actually in, rather than the one their dads imagined.

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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Personally I don’t consider gangs of uniformed thugs obstructing the work of the RNLI and threatening their staff and volunteers to be primarily a culture issue, but what do I know?

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 26/09/2026

This week the Society launched a new programme to support research bit.ly/4iFNuF0 The RHS / Social History Archive Partnership offers free access to resources in @socialhistarchive.bsky.social, published by DC Thomson. Applications for 6-month access to Archive content invited #Skystorians 1/2

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Society launches new programme for researchers, in partnership with The Social History Archive - RHS

The Society is pleased to launch a new programme for researchers, in partnership with The Social History Archive, published by DC Thomson. The Social History Archive is a comprehensive online archive ...

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James Cooray Smith @ Midday Matinées / Psychic Paper @cooraysmith.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A new Midday Matinée, on the secret origin of the directors of #AvengersEndgame.

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Dr Nazlin Bhimani @nazlinbhimani.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Some good news – a new library! Shakespeare’s Globe has opened a new public library and archive holding more than 6,000 books, original texts, recordings of productions and other treasures from the theatre’s history. www.thebookseller.com/news/shakesp... #Shakespeare #TheatreHistory #Renaissance

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Shakespeare library and archive containing 6,000 books opens under the Globe theatre

The theatre has opened its newly renovated research and collection centre, which features London’s only publicly accessible dedicated Shakespeare library and archive

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Paul Hayes @paul-hayes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

70 years ago today, the BBC showed a recording of the CBC's Flight into Danger - later remade as the film Airplane!, and one of the important steps on the way to the creation of #DoctorWho. To celebrate, here's a much longer edit of my audio documentary telling Flight into Danger's story:

youtube.com

Flight into Danger - The Story of the Original Airplane! (an audio documentary)

YouTube video by Paul Hayes

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Janet Stiles Tyson @stiles-tyson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Please stop the madness. #BBC is Earth's best provider of accurate, informed, timely information & quality entertainment. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/s... “This is where the UK government must step in. The BBC has been undermined by years of underinvestment and interference.”

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BBC ‘risks entering inescapable doom spiral’ as further cuts hit TV and radio

Warning from union comes as corporation cuts local specialist correspondent roles as part of plan to save £500m

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

STAN LAUREL (around 12yrs of age) with his mother Madge outside the family home in North Shields — Tyne and Wear.

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