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Polly Mortimer @pollymortimer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Smashing MSND @chichesterft.bsky.social - wild fun unboring and looked amazing. Shoutout to Titania and Bottom but everyone was fab. Deserves a transfer! Antigone Exits was muddled and frankly in parts deeply offensive.

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Polly Mortimer @pollymortimer.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Wonderful ephemera found in our newest collection - the Jung Club of London.

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Polly Mortimer @pollymortimer.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Wonderful ephemera found in our newest collection - the Jung Club of London.

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Polly Mortimer @pollymortimer.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

General question- where are the climate change ministers in all this? WHO are they, have they spoken, and what are they doing? I think we should be told. Not lighting a B-B-Q is not the answer.

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

"When Alaric the Visigoth held Rome to ransom in 408 ad, he demanded, on top of gold, not silk but 3000 lbs of black pepper." www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Ferdinand Mount · One-Way Traffic: Ancient India

The wealth of India had been a legend in the Mediterranean since the fourth century BC, enhanced by Alexander the Great...

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Polly Mortimer @pollymortimer.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

@wigmore-hall.org.uk hi loving this Partitas concert! Happy birthday! For your celebrations how about making the hall more comfortable for punters? The middle seats are veal crate tiny - so unless you get an aisle it’s not worth going.

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Polly Mortimer @pollymortimer.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

@lner.co.uk any chance you. An get a message to Josh at York? I’ve been in a vestibule in this train from kx for three hours and am over 70. Wd love a seat! End of coach a.

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Polly Mortimer @pollymortimer.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

@lner.co.uk hi where are the reservations? I’m on delayed 1103.

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Polly Mortimer @pollymortimer.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Wonderful concert at kings place - Caroline Shaw and Andrew Yee. Such poise, calm, fire and talent.

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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

France is mandating solar panels on every large commercial car park in the country — turning millions of square metres of idle asphalt into one of Europe's most productive clean energy assets. I have been mentioning this for months - they are shooting up on all the supermarket car parks.

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Claire Boardman @claireboardman.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

👀 Excellent, funded PhD ... someone's going to be busy! "...combining archaeological excavation of targeted heritage features, palaeoecological studies to establish long-term ecological heritage & investigating intangible heritage of folk customs & traditions [+] Advanced digital visualisation..."

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Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

'Night Flats', Camberwell (c.1967) by David Hepher (Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art)

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Trimontium Trust & Museum @trimontiumtrust.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

🎉Happy birthday to Julia Maesa — a formidable political strategist & one of the most influential women in #Roman imperial politics! Elder sister of Julia Domna, sister-in-law to Septimius Severus, aunt to Caracalla & Geta, & grandmother to two emperors: Elagabalus & Severus Alexander.

Collage of images with sculptural representations of Julia Maesa, and images of an aureus and an denarius of Julia Maesa. Also a bust of Julia Domna

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Please help get our campaign message out.

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Polly Mortimer @pollymortimer.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Pleased with myself! Hemmed in by a massive 4 by 4 and unable to get into drivers seat of my car, couldn’t inch over from passenger seat as two new knees not up to it, had brainy wheeze to corral a kind man, released handbrake and he pushed. Result! Home in time for Repair shop.

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Polly Mortimer @pollymortimer.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

@tommckinney.bsky.social viz paperback / hardback paperbacks always! Apart from heavy reference works there’s no Need for hbs. They don’t sell. Paperbacks nowadays are beautiful light pocketable - see Daunt/Fitzcarraldo/ Persephone etc.

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Only a fallen society needs this sign

Please don't use speaker phone while in library.
Ask for headphones at the front desk.

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Adam Koszary @adamkoszary.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Genuinely one of the coolest things I've ever seen a cultural venue post

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Dr Sophie Hay @pompei79.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Happy Easter! Life imitating art. Fresco of dish of eggs from the Praedia of Julia Felix, #Pompeii and an exhibit of eggs that astonishingly survived the AD 79 eruption in Herculaneum. 🥚🥚🥚

Detail of a fresco showing a dish of eggs and some dead birds hanging above it

Four near complete eggs sitting in a black dish

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Polly Mortimer @pollymortimer.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

@boatmancryptics.co.uk three-quarters done! And I dreamt one answer …(r***** c*****). Phew!

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Polly Mortimer @pollymortimer.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Finishing Glorious Exploits. Can’t bear to. What a 📕!

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Oxfam GB @oxfamgb.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

A super-rare Sherlock Holmes novel just raised £11,000 for Oxfam 📚 It sold at auction with first editions of “Pride and Prejudice” and "A Clockwork Orange,” and a copy of “Stride Toward Freedom” signed by Martin Luther King Jr. himself. All proceeds from the sale went to Oxfam 💫 #FoundInOxfam

Image reads: "EXTRAORDINARY SHERLOCK HOLMES BOOK SELLS FOR £11,000!" It mentions a rare first edition of "The Sign of Four" sold at Bonhams with proceeds to Oxfam. Featured are book covers: "Pride and Prejudice", "Clockwork Orange", and "The Sign of Four".

A book, "Stride Toward Freedom" by Martin Luther King Jr., sits next to an inscribed note from King. The book's cover features King's portrait. Text: "Also up for grabs was a copy of 'Stride Toward Freedom' - inscribed by Martin Luther King himself!"

A shot of the spines of three books: Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis, The Tiger who came to tea, and Midst Himalayan Mists by R.J. Minney. Text reads: And some incredible first editions including “Pride and Prejudice,” and Narnia: Prince Caspian”!

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Polly Mortimer @pollymortimer.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

@georgiamann.bsky.social I’m with the chap you just quoted. Went to a come and sing at the German church Knightsbridge lately. Mind blowing ! And the choir director is doing SJP at St Giles cripple gate this fri evening. A must.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Keir Starmer has dragged the UK into this war against our will. UK bases face further attacks - putting military personnel and civilians in the potential line of fire. This is a Prime Minister who promised a vote before any military action - that must now happen on Monday.

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Polly Mortimer @pollymortimer.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

@willnorman.co.uk Hey just saw I won’t be able to take my e-bike on the overground anymore. Fair enough. Please can you in return attend to the bicycle boxes on the roads and make them motorbike free? Then it’ll be safer all round and my extended ride won’t seem so scary.

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Painting created c.1967, by Muriel Lewis, in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital, where she was compelled to live. Her illustrative work features faceless figures & depicts life inside & outside the psychiatric system; including Surrey villages, romantic trysts & scenes from home & her past

Gouache in a storybook illustration style depicting a picturesque moonlit village with cottages and church arranged round a village green with duck pond.
On a hill above the village, in the left foreground, a white heterosexual couple in 1960s clothes with no faces kiss and embrace against a tree.

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The Times and Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 16/03/2026

Wanted: resourceful knitters to live crofting dream on Fair Isle

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Wanted: resourceful knitters to live crofting dream on Fair Isle

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 15/03/2026

Wishing a very Happy Mother’s Day to all the incredible mums, grandmothers and mother‑figures across London. Your care and dedication keep our families and communities strong.

Graphic with a magenta background featuring illustrated flowers and leaves in orange, yellow, pink, and green around centered white text that reads ‘HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY’. Below in smaller white text: ‘FROM THE MAYOR OF LONDON’.

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MachinePix @machinepix.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Tenías self-propelled almond harvester.

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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 11/03/2026

Early worrying indications that Chris Mason will be trying to make "tranche" happen today

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Polly Mortimer @pollymortimer.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

@georgiamann we used sing duermete Nina in our little ‘world music’ group called The Bordurian Working Women’s Chorus. Also more gorgeous lullabies- there are a lot of Nanitas to different tunes - Spanish lullabies- any of those would be lovely to hear.

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Polly Mortimer @pollymortimer.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

@eurostarjustin.bsky.social hi Justin! Can’t find a general eurostar @ so writing to you.. this train to Paris (8 am from kxsp) has filthy loos and nonavigo passes…maybe pass it on?

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Polly Mortimer @pollymortimer.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

@tommckinney.bsky.social good to have you back! Everyone bewailing end of WOlympics but aren’t the Winter Paras happening next week? Often much better.

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Hope to get my dad to take me to Clapham Junction one day.

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Polly Mortimer @pollymortimer.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

@tommckinney Richard Stokes was our French and German teacher at school - excellent and a nice man. He ran Liederabends then too.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

The people of Minneapolis have been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. The first time a city's population has ever been nominated. www.newsweek.com/minneapolis-...

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

NEW: Carney nails it. We have to stop pretending. Read this to understand the deep & dark hinterland behind the speech & why Vaclav Havel’s concept of ‘living in truth’ is the guide we need right now 1/

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

A brilliant speech by Canada's Mark Carney in Davos: "The old order is not coming back. We should not mourn it. Nostalgia is not a strategy...The powerful have their power. But we have something too — the capacity to stop pretending, to name reality, to build our strength at home & to act together."

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 28/12/2025

Poplar trees with evening sky Albert Steiner, 1920s

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RoseTintedSpectrum @rosetintedspectrum.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Not sure why my phone has passively aggressively sent me this message, it sounds like something you'd say to a drunk ambassador.

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Astronomical #winter starts today. It's the shortest day of the year in terms of daylight with the sun starting to set later each day until Summer Solstice. The mosaic depicts the dancing Genii (protective spirits) of the four seasons. The Genius of winter is wrapped in a heavy cloak.🧵1/2 #Solstice

Roman mosaic showing four youthful Genii of the seasons dancing around a draped central object, each in different clothing and seasonal attributes, with the winter figure at upper right wrapped in a heavy hooded cloak.

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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 18/12/2025

These are bad times for the BBC: Trump is suing, its leaders have resigned, GB News snaps at its heels. In our winter issue, @aiannucci.bsky.social, @lewisgoodall.com, @sophiasgaler.bsky.social and others suggest how it could change.

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Fixing the BBC

The corporation faces threats from inside and out. We asked a panel of past and present BBC voices how it must change to survive

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Polly Mortimer @pollymortimer.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Three failed Xmas fruit cakes and I’m off to buy an Xmas Colin the 🐛 instead.

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