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Prof Tracey Hill @tracelarkhall.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Not gonna check her research profile but I bet it's pathetic.

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Prof Tracey Hill @tracelarkhall.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Finish Oxford DPhil, get a job at Oxford immediately afterwards. All right for some, eh.

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Prof Tracey Hill @tracelarkhall.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

When did Tsimikas last get a start for Liverpool?!

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Prof Tracey Hill @tracelarkhall.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

This is coming up! I can bring up to 5 guests and highly highly recommend an evening chez the Founders. It's £70 for three courses and *unlimited* excellent wine. Happy to subsidise guests a little. Very friendly crowd and not at all stuffy. All diets catered for 👍 Do come!

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Prof Tracey Hill @tracelarkhall.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Good video, thanks. The cause of the smell at Walbrook wharf is the massive rubbish barges, not the river! If you walk along Cannon St from St Paul's you can clearly see the outline of the Walbrook river valley as a sloping camber across the street. And yes that outlet is indeed the Walbrook outfall

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Prof Tracey Hill @tracelarkhall.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Found him on YouTube and mercifully I have erased his hit from my memory.

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Prof Tracey Hill @tracelarkhall.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Chucking out some very old vinyl (inc 78s!) and I actually remember this one - big hits of 1974. Who the hell were Drupi?!

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Prof Tracey Hill @tracelarkhall.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

This was c. 1990 when £20 was a very generous tip!

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Prof Tracey Hill @tracelarkhall.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Everyone who worked there liked him a lot.

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Prof Tracey Hill @tracelarkhall.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I met Roger Moore when I was working at Wivenhoe Park as a postgrad. He used to take his mum to the carvery there and on that occasion he popped his head into the servery door, asked for the supervisor (me) and handed me a £20 tip for the staff. He was really nice with no self-importance at all.

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Prof Tracey Hill @tracelarkhall.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Not terribly confident about tomorrow given all the absentees

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Prof Tracey Hill @tracelarkhall.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

We're being piped into the venue for the Searching and Sizing ceremony 🙌

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Prof Tracey Hill @tracelarkhall.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

St Michael Cornhill. Stow was baptised here c. 1525 (in the pre-Fire church obvs.)

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Prof Tracey Hill @tracelarkhall.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The maze of alleys and courts off Cornhill. So atmospheric

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Prof Tracey Hill @tracelarkhall.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Arms of some livery companies, l-r: Tylers and Bricklayers, Jonson's company; Chartered Accountants; Armourers and Brasiers. No Founders :(

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Prof Tracey Hill @tracelarkhall.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Our old parish church, St Margaret Lothbury. Font is (apparently) by Grinling Gibbons and was originally in St Olave Old Jewry. Lots of heavy duty baroque woodwork in here.

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Prof Tracey Hill @tracelarkhall.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Outside the site of Founders' Hall from 1531-1845 on a very balmy mid October afternoon

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Speaking of voting, if you're a member and you'd like to keep the National Trust's Council free from interference from Britain (and the US's) richest financiers, don't forget to vote before the end of the month. Quick-vote takes moments and avoids the Restore Trust slate of candidates.

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Prof Tracey Hill @tracelarkhall.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

One of the new owners is a Founder and so we're holding our 'Searching and Sizing' reenactment there.

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Prof Tracey Hill @tracelarkhall.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Chained Bible and prayer book in the Vintners' Hall and Chapel, 1621-22! @richardasquith.bsky.social

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Prof Tracey Hill @tracelarkhall.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Quite excited about getting inside one of Cornhill's legendary chophouses later :)

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Prof Tracey Hill @tracelarkhall.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

It's beer o'clock and we need the final tally, please...

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Prof Tracey Hill @tracelarkhall.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

A chest of drawers with a hand grenade?

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Prof Tracey Hill @tracelarkhall.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I'm away from home in London a lot and thus have to use non-private loos a lot and my god there needs to be some kind of public education drive because increasingly large numbers of people appear not to know how to use said facilities properly 😷

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Prof Tracey Hill @tracelarkhall.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

And I hope Burnham's response is to ask why Farage is defending the Russians 👀

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Prof Tracey Hill @tracelarkhall.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I really hope Burnham sues Farage's sorry ass for calling him a liar.

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Prof Tracey Hill @tracelarkhall.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

In 1617 the Vintners dined at: The Mermaid on Bread St (ofc!) The Castle on Paternoster Row The Mermaid on Cornhill The Salutation at Billingsgate And at the Emperor's Head, location unspecified. Wouldn't it be great if even one of these had survived 😞

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Prof Tracey Hill @tracelarkhall.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Well, they haven't said yet so have filled my boots 😬

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