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Nick Higham @highamnews.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Dress rehearsal yesterday for Semele at Covent Garden. Posh place, the Royal Opera House — you can tell from the names on the cast list…
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Andrew Ray @andrew-ray.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Kumiko latticework folding screen at the Japan House exhibition on ‘The Craft of Carpentry: Drawing Life from Japan’s Forests.’
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 30/06/2025
Pioneering project releases more lost Irish records spanning 700 years
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Pioneering project releases more lost Irish records spanning 700 years
Newly restored material from vast archive destroyed in civil war takes in Anglo-Norman conquest and 1798 rebellion Seven centuries of lost historical records covering espionage, political corruption and the lives of ordinary people in Ireland have been recovered and are being released. A pioneering project to fill gaps in Irish history is making 175,000 more records and millions more words of searchable content freely available to researchers and members of the public. Continue reading...
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Nick Higham @highamnews.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Scott’s Grotto at Ware, Herts. A maze of seashell-decorated tunnels and chambers, all that’s left of the spacious garden designed by John Scott, 18thC Quaker, poet, pamphleteer, road builder and friend of Samuel Johnson. In weather like this, deliciously cool…
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Nick Higham @highamnews.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
The summerhouse or gazebo atop Scott’s Grotto at Ware, Herts. It once commanded a fine prospect over the valley of the Lea — until the trees grew and urban sprawl spoilt the view…
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Andrew Ray @andrew-ray.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Splendid grotto. I recommend a visit - just £2.
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History & Policy @historyandpolicy.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
At a time of crisis for the History departments across the UK @ihr.bsky.social has made available a unique archive of interviews with leading post-war British historians. They point to the importance of history & the urgent need to defend the profession. historyandpolicy.org/opinion-arti...
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At a time of crisis for the profession, a unique collection of interviews demonstrates the importance of history. - History & Policy
At a time of crisis for the History departments across the UK, the Institute of Historical Research has made available a unique archive of interviews with some of the profession's leading post-war Bri...
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araireland @araireland.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Delighted to share this fantastic news @heritagecouncil.ie & @ucdarchives.bsky.social! A new bursary to support students undertaking the MA in Archives & Records Management has been announced. The bursary will cover 75% of tuition fees for 1 student. For full article - www.araireland.ie/news
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sangitamyska.bsky.social @sangitamyska.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Doctors & journalists have risked their lives to make this BBC Gaza doco which had passed editorial and legal compliance. The BBC should either air it or allow filmmakers @BasementFilms @bendepear to take it to another broadcaster. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/m...
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Doctors and whistleblowers in delayed Gaza film threaten to pull out
Exclusive: Contributors to Gaza: Medics Under Fire may withdraw consent due to BBC’s delays to broadcast it
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UCL News @uclnews.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
UCL has acquired rare correspondence between #GeorgeOrwell and his original publisher. Now in the care of @uclspeccoll.bsky.social, the letters offer insight into Orwell’s early literary relationships, his approach to publishing and his response to criticism. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
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About 160 historic George Orwell papers saved for nation after outcry
Exclusive: University College London acquires Gollancz archive that was in danger of being dispersed forever
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sangitamyska.bsky.social @sangitamyska.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
The rhetoric from Trump’s administration is the equivalent of an arsonist celebrating the extinguishing the fire he started. #USChina #USCHINATRADEDEAL
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
This won't have much impact on net migration, but will hinder integration, promote "churn", and increase hardship. Mean-spirited, unnecessary, and unpopular. www.ft.com/content/f844...
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Migrants will have to spend decade in UK before applying to stay
Government to also end visas for care workers as part of immigration clampdown
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Richard Ovenden @richove.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
My thoughts on the disgraceful removal of Dr Carla Hayden as Librarian of Congress (and the Archivist of the United States too). LC and NARA are part if the infrastructure of democracy in America, and are under attack. on.ft.com/4mdynBU The US Library of Congress is under attack
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The US Library of Congress is under attack
An institution that survived British torching in 1814 is now facing a new onslaught
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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
In memoriam Prof. Sir Rees Davies (d. 16 May 2005).
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Andrew Ray @andrew-ray.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
12 varieties of cherry tree and 21 of dwarf pear tree listed in the plan for John Evelyn’s garden. Enjoyed the British Library’s new ‘Unearthed’ exhibition but wish it could have been silent, without intrusive videos of people talking - ironic in a library.
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sangitamyska.bsky.social @sangitamyska.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
George Orwell once wrote: "In England all the boasting & flag-wagging is done by small minorities. The patriotism of ordinary people is not vocal". So it begins…. #Reform
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Getty @gettymuseum.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
How the Getty Provenance Index is transforming art research. [🧵1/8]
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
LIBERTY DEFEATS GOVERNMENT APPEAL AS COURT RULES ANTI-PROTEST LAWS ARE UNLAWFUL This should be on every UK News channel. If they won’t report it I’ll do it myself
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Andrew Ray @andrew-ray.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Return of the Mac. New book sounds good. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
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Is this river alive? Robert Macfarlane on the lives, deaths and rights of our rivers
As pollution levels hit record highs and fresh water becomes ‘the new oil’, is it time to radically reimagine our relationship to the natural world?
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sangitamyska.bsky.social @sangitamyska.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
How long is it before Louis Theroux is accused of antisemitism?
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sangitamyska.bsky.social @sangitamyska.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
This is a shameful hit job on Louis Theroux, published by the Spectator. The magazine is edited by former Tory Secretary of State, Michael Gove.
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Fine Books & Collections @finebooks.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Katherine Mansfield, Charles Darwin, and Amadou Hampâté Bâ Archives Added to UNESCO Register www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-n...
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Katherine Mansfield, Charles Darwin, and Amadou Hampâté Bâ Archives Added to UNESCO Register
UNESCO has added 74 new documentary heritage collections to its Memory of the World Register, covering topics such as the scientific revolution, women's contribution to history, and major milestones o...
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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 29/04/2025
The author Jane Gardam has died at the age of 96, her publisher has announced.
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Author Jane Gardam dies aged 96
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John Crace @mrjohncrace.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
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Starmer and Blair poles apart, an open goal at PMQs. Did KemiKaze score? | John Crace
Of course she didn’t. Gifted on climate policy, she used all six of her questions to call for another child abuse enquiry
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sangitamyska.bsky.social @sangitamyska.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
When Tory donor Frank Hester reportedly said Diane Abbott – the longest-serving Black MP – made him “want to hate all black women” and that she “should be shot”, Kemi Badenoch dismissed it as “trivia”. When Kneecap, made a similarly abhorrent past remark she wants them banned. #TwoTierKemi
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Municipal Dreams @municipaldreams.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
🚨'Space Syntax: Selected Papers by Bill Hillier' now available open access. Includes papers on architecture as a professional and research discipline through to later papers presenting a theory of the spatial structure of the city and its social functions. uclpress.co.uk/book/space-s...
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Space Syntax
Professor Bill Hillier spent most of his career at The Bartlett, University College London, where he founded and developed, with a team of colleagues, an original research programme that set the study...
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Gaby Hinsliff @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
If the American journalist she calls to ask a question instead, who responds by saying yeah I’d like you to answer the Brit’s question, is ever in a London pub we’re definitely buying him a drink yes
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Sian Collins @siancollins.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Absolutely thrilled to see this gorgeous item get its time in the (metaphorical!) spotlight. And what an incredible and ingenious use of technology to access the faded, foldy bits... 👏👏👏 to my brilliant former colleagues @theulspeccoll.bsky.social @theul.bsky.social 😍 www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...
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Lost manuscript of Merlin and King Arthur legend read for the first time after centuries hidden inside another book
For centuries, an intriguing sequel to the tale of Merlin has sat unseen within the bindings of an Elizabethan register. Cutting-edge techniques have revealed it for the first time.
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Nick Higham @highamnews.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
1885 Woman by the Wash Tub in the Garden. Pencil, chalk, pen and ink on paper. Vincent van Gogh… via FB/A world of washing/Rita M Sjoholm…
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Andrew Ray @andrew-ray.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Cristina De Middel at The Photographers Gallery.
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Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Just out: figures for sewage dumping in England for 2024. * 3.61 million hrs of sewage released. * That's c. 412 years of sewage. * First yr all 15,000 CSOs were monitored. £85bn paid out to shareholders since privatisation = underfunded, collapsing infrastructure. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Sewage spilled into England's rivers and seas for record 3.6m hours last year - BBC News
Sewage spilled into England's waterways for a record number of hours last year, the Environmental Agency says.
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Little Toller Books @littletollerbooks.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
On Monday our instagram account was hacked and then deleted. We received a ransom note to recover it; obviously we couldn't and wouldn't pay, and therefore lost thousands of followers. Meta support was useless. But we're BACK with a new account: @littletollerbooks. Can you follow us there and share?
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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Alistair Campbell’s appearance at the Spads away day seems to have been the opposite of a motivational speech. Plenty furious about being told they had “no strategy” and what they saw as directly undermining comments at new comms chief James Lyons. One says it was as “unpopular as Ed Balls’ podcast”
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sangitamyska.bsky.social @sangitamyska.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
NEW: Laurence Fox has been charged with a sex offence for ‘sharing up-skirting’ photograph of TV personality Narinder Kaur. @narindertweets69.bsky.social
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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Still-life pictures (what Manet called the touchstone of the painter) became very fashionable in the early years of the 20thC. The American, Elizabeth Okie Paxton painted what one critic called 'ravishing still-lifes of moments in time.' This is her Silver Coffee Pot, from 1910.
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Nick Higham @highamnews.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Maritime funeral services in S Devon. Yesterday it was a racing Seine boat in Teignmouth sponsored by a local undertaker. Today it’s the ex-RNLI lifeboat in Dartmouth which really does take your loved one’s remains out to sea…
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Richard Benwell @richardbenwell.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Here's our #PlanningBill Second Reading briefing to go with the blog: wcl.org.uk/docs/Plannin... We hope Parliamentarians and Government will work across parties to take this chance to make planning work for nature.
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Matt Green @mattgreencomedy.com · 24/03/2025
Not only has Trump ruined all representations of the President of the USA in TV and films, but his administration has ruined all conspiracy thrillers too, unless they’re actually just farces or slapstick comedies
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
23andMe as a functioning company was a privacy disaster. 23andMe as a bankrupt, for sale company is a fucking nightmare www.404media.co/dna-of-15-mi...
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DNA of 15 Million People for Sale in 23andMe Bankruptcy
There is no way to know what a buyer will want to do with the reams of genetic information it has collected. Customers, meanwhile, still have no way to change their underlying genetic data.
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Matt Green @mattgreencomedy.com · 24/03/2025
And Nixon would look at Trump with so much envy.
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Andrew Ray @andrew-ray.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
“Haze, which hides, can also reveal. Dips and ravines are discerned in what had appeared a single hill: new depth is given to the vista.”
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Review | A classic of nature writing finds constant renewal in the mountains
Nan Shepherd’s “The Living Mountain” has been reissued with a new introduction by Robert Macfarlane
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Nick Higham @highamnews.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Drivers found the new speed limits irritating. Always a good sign where road safety is concerned…
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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
"Wales’s 20mph speed limit has cut road deaths. Why is there still even a debate?" - really nice to see our motonormativity research being used to explain this. Cheers, @peterwalker99.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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Wales’s 20mph speed limit has cut road deaths. Why is there still even a debate?
Research suggests the scheme may be more popular than thought, with consultations dominated by a loud minority
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Louise A Ray @louisearay.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
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Incredible opportunity to bring the University of Exeter’s unique archives to life opens to talented writers
Talented writers have the chance to explore the University of Exeter’s incredible literary archives and bring unique documents and artefacts to life in new and exciting ways. The annual Ronald Duncan ...
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John Crace @mrjohncrace.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Make sense... and make fun, that is Please do repost if you can
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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
#OnThisDay 1286 King Alexander III of Scotland died after riding his horse off a cliff. It's a sobering thought that, had he lived, we might all have been spared Braveheart.
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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
It's St Cuthbert's day, so here's King Æthelstan (d. 939) presenting a book to him. It's the earliest manuscript illustration of an English monarch.
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Stefanie Archivist @stefarchivist.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
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SAA Statement on Media Reports Concerning Records Destruction | Society of American Archivists
Society of American Archivists
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Tina Morton @tmmorton.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
With ARA, TNA are hosting a Leadership for Recordkeepers Summit at Friends House on 25 June! We're also recruiting three consultants to deliver simultaneous workshops on the day on developing leadership skills. Find out more and apply by 24 March: smartsurvey.co.uk/s/PUDHND/
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Leadership for recordkeepers summit workshops: expression of interest form
Please take the time to complete our survey. Your feedback is important.
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