Christian
@ceebarnacles.bsky.social
By the sea or by the books.
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When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
Seems like it's worth posting this one again.
Why Do Historians Still Have To Go To Archives?
Why do historians go to archives? Hasn’t everything already been digitized?
contingentmagazine.org
December 22, 2025 at 1:40 AM
When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
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Ffs. It’s not hard to be reasonable and ethical operators in society. I have loved using Majestic Wines over the years but I do not hesitate a decision to bin them until / if they do better and break with the poisonous GB News racket.
Many Majestic Wine customers will be disappointed to see their comments about their advertising with GB News.
Supporting free speech - a basic human right that we all deserve - doesn't entail any obligation to fund media that fuel division & to imply otherwise would be misleading... /1
Supporting free speech - a basic human right that we all deserve - doesn't entail any obligation to fund media that fuel division & to imply otherwise would be misleading... /1
Took them over a week but they’ve finally replied.
December 21, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Ffs. It’s not hard to be reasonable and ethical operators in society. I have loved using Majestic Wines over the years but I do not hesitate a decision to bin them until / if they do better and break with the poisonous GB News racket.
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Stone Age Wages, indeed...
Still no complete catalogue or fair wages, so I'm glad to see @christianalgar.bsky.social and his BL colleagues getting some attention...
www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...
Still no complete catalogue or fair wages, so I'm glad to see @christianalgar.bsky.social and his BL colleagues getting some attention...
www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...
December 20, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Stone Age Wages, indeed...
Still no complete catalogue or fair wages, so I'm glad to see @christianalgar.bsky.social and his BL colleagues getting some attention...
www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...
Still no complete catalogue or fair wages, so I'm glad to see @christianalgar.bsky.social and his BL colleagues getting some attention...
www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...
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Excellent summary of the miserable mismanagement of the British Library: dosh for the execs, dregs for the workers. Oh, and a series of CEOs with no library background, and -- no chief librarian? Why yes! That sounds like a brilliant set of priorities. www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...
The worst of times: Trouble at the British Library
Cyber chaos, striking staff and a crisis of leadership. Claudia Cockerell investigates a national treasure’s year of reckoning
www.standard.co.uk
December 20, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Excellent summary of the miserable mismanagement of the British Library: dosh for the execs, dregs for the workers. Oh, and a series of CEOs with no library background, and -- no chief librarian? Why yes! That sounds like a brilliant set of priorities. www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...
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so former Prime Ministers *can* be convicted and imprisoned?
How.... intriguing....
How.... intriguing....
The case against Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi centres on the alleged misuse of luxury state gifts from Saudi Arabia.
Former Pakistani PM Imran Khan given 17-year jail sentence in new graft case
The case against Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi centres on the alleged misuse of luxury state gifts from Saudi Arabia.
www.abc.net.au
December 20, 2025 at 12:39 PM
so former Prime Ministers *can* be convicted and imprisoned?
How.... intriguing....
How.... intriguing....
Hmm. What do people think of Sortition (selection of public officials or jurors at random, i.e. by lottery)?
Yes, we are dominated by a conformist, establishment-biased class, but we have also been psycho-politically bomabarded and indoctrinated by reactionary anti-knowledge and prejudice. 😬🫣
Yes, we are dominated by a conformist, establishment-biased class, but we have also been psycho-politically bomabarded and indoctrinated by reactionary anti-knowledge and prejudice. 😬🫣
The voice of the nation – who speaks for Britain?
The wrong people are telling the story of Britain, and the story they tell is exhausted | Gerry Mitchell
@gerrymitchell.bsky.social
The wrong people are telling the story of Britain, and the story they tell is exhausted | Gerry Mitchell
@gerrymitchell.bsky.social
The voice of the nation – who speaks for Britain?
The wrong people are telling the story of Britain, and the story they tell is exhausted
kentandsurreybylines.co.uk
December 20, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Hmm. What do people think of Sortition (selection of public officials or jurors at random, i.e. by lottery)?
Yes, we are dominated by a conformist, establishment-biased class, but we have also been psycho-politically bomabarded and indoctrinated by reactionary anti-knowledge and prejudice. 😬🫣
Yes, we are dominated by a conformist, establishment-biased class, but we have also been psycho-politically bomabarded and indoctrinated by reactionary anti-knowledge and prejudice. 😬🫣
High time the legacies of T.J. Wise’s activities are given attention and scrutiny. A great deal to learn still about an immense book world ‘blooper’ with failings amongst the trade, collectors and custodians at institutions. Looking forward to this, it’s been a bit taboo.
This paper reopens the case, considering: firstly, how new evidence demonstrates the complicity of Wise’s regular binder, Riviere and Son; and, secondly, what the discarded remnants of Wise’s hospital stock reveals about his bibliographical tastes and priorities.
December 19, 2025 at 6:35 PM
High time the legacies of T.J. Wise’s activities are given attention and scrutiny. A great deal to learn still about an immense book world ‘blooper’ with failings amongst the trade, collectors and custodians at institutions. Looking forward to this, it’s been a bit taboo.
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This paper reopens the case, considering: firstly, how new evidence demonstrates the complicity of Wise’s regular binder, Riviere and Son; and, secondly, what the discarded remnants of Wise’s hospital stock reveals about his bibliographical tastes and priorities.
December 10, 2025 at 11:28 AM
This paper reopens the case, considering: firstly, how new evidence demonstrates the complicity of Wise’s regular binder, Riviere and Son; and, secondly, what the discarded remnants of Wise’s hospital stock reveals about his bibliographical tastes and priorities.
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In 1956 it was revealed that Thomas James Wise, a former President of the Bibliographical Society, had stolen more than two hundred leaves from the British Museum to ‘perfect’ early playbooks, both for his own collection and for sale to clients in Britain and America.
December 10, 2025 at 11:27 AM
In 1956 it was revealed that Thomas James Wise, a former President of the Bibliographical Society, had stolen more than two hundred leaves from the British Museum to ‘perfect’ early playbooks, both for his own collection and for sale to clients in Britain and America.
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The Society’s second meeting of the 2025/2026 season will take place on Tuesday, 16 December 2025, at 5.30 p.m., at the Society of Antiquaries, London, and online via Zoom. Dr Joseph Hone will speak on ‘T. J. Wise’s Book Hospital: A Further Study in Theft and Sophistication’.
December 10, 2025 at 11:27 AM
The Society’s second meeting of the 2025/2026 season will take place on Tuesday, 16 December 2025, at 5.30 p.m., at the Society of Antiquaries, London, and online via Zoom. Dr Joseph Hone will speak on ‘T. J. Wise’s Book Hospital: A Further Study in Theft and Sophistication’.
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Good. The British Library really has enough on its plate right now.
Libraries Connected and the CILIP have called on the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport to reject a recommendation in the Hodge review that would transfer the development role for libraries from Arts Council England to the British Library 👇 #BookSky
Library bodies urge government to retain ACE’s development role
ebx.sh
December 19, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Good. The British Library really has enough on its plate right now.
Very good reporting on the situation at the British Library by Claudia Cockerell in The Evening Standard. Appreciate the time and care taken to investigate and explain it all. I believe Library workers on the ground are prompting much-needed culture change there.
www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...
www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...
The worst of times: Trouble at the British Library
Cyber chaos, striking staff and a crisis of leadership. Claudia Cockerell investigates a national treasure’s year of reckoning
www.standard.co.uk
December 19, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Very good reporting on the situation at the British Library by Claudia Cockerell in The Evening Standard. Appreciate the time and care taken to investigate and explain it all. I believe Library workers on the ground are prompting much-needed culture change there.
www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...
www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...
This is fucking mental.
This is Thatcher anti-Irish level - FROM THE BRITISH ‘LABOUR’ PARTY - and is getting paltry media coverage.
Conscientious, peaceable people will die. And the U.K. State thinks it can condemn them with impunity. This is a hill we will fight on. Labour Party is a huge enemy.
This is Thatcher anti-Irish level - FROM THE BRITISH ‘LABOUR’ PARTY - and is getting paltry media coverage.
Conscientious, peaceable people will die. And the U.K. State thinks it can condemn them with impunity. This is a hill we will fight on. Labour Party is a huge enemy.
December 18, 2025 at 9:17 PM
This is fucking mental.
This is Thatcher anti-Irish level - FROM THE BRITISH ‘LABOUR’ PARTY - and is getting paltry media coverage.
Conscientious, peaceable people will die. And the U.K. State thinks it can condemn them with impunity. This is a hill we will fight on. Labour Party is a huge enemy.
This is Thatcher anti-Irish level - FROM THE BRITISH ‘LABOUR’ PARTY - and is getting paltry media coverage.
Conscientious, peaceable people will die. And the U.K. State thinks it can condemn them with impunity. This is a hill we will fight on. Labour Party is a huge enemy.
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"attempts to politicise it"
Wonder what that means 🙄
Wonder what that means 🙄
Reforms are needed to protect the Arts Council from attempts to politicise it & to make funding less bureaucratic, an independent review by Margaret Hodge recommends
www.gov.uk/government/p...
www.gov.uk/government/p...
Arts Council England - an independent review by Baroness Margaret Hodge
www.gov.uk
December 17, 2025 at 11:31 AM
"attempts to politicise it"
Wonder what that means 🙄
Wonder what that means 🙄
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look at this fucking loser
December 16, 2025 at 6:02 PM
look at this fucking loser
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+50 UK MPs have urged the government to urgently intervene over the health of #PalestineAction activists on hunger strike in British prisons.
Jeremy Corbyn:
I asked the minister if he would do the bare minimum & meet their lawyers.
His response? “No. MPs laughed along."
youtu.be/ZA5nnZPM2SU?...
Jeremy Corbyn:
I asked the minister if he would do the bare minimum & meet their lawyers.
His response? “No. MPs laughed along."
youtu.be/ZA5nnZPM2SU?...
MPs laugh as Labour Minister rejects meeting with hunger strikers
YouTube video by The National
youtu.be
December 16, 2025 at 4:06 PM
+50 UK MPs have urged the government to urgently intervene over the health of #PalestineAction activists on hunger strike in British prisons.
Jeremy Corbyn:
I asked the minister if he would do the bare minimum & meet their lawyers.
His response? “No. MPs laughed along."
youtu.be/ZA5nnZPM2SU?...
Jeremy Corbyn:
I asked the minister if he would do the bare minimum & meet their lawyers.
His response? “No. MPs laughed along."
youtu.be/ZA5nnZPM2SU?...
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👉 NEW -- Cameron was urged to meet ICC prosecutor days before 'threatening' him
by Dania Akkad
Exclusive: Foreign Office staff tried to convince David Cameron to support the ICC and meet Karim Khan shortly before heated phone call reported between them
www.declassifieduk.org/cameron-was-...
by Dania Akkad
Exclusive: Foreign Office staff tried to convince David Cameron to support the ICC and meet Karim Khan shortly before heated phone call reported between them
www.declassifieduk.org/cameron-was-...
Cameron was urged to meet ICC prosecutor days before ‘threatening’ him
Foreign Office staff tried to convince David Cameron to support the ICC and meet Karim Khan shortly before heated phone call reported between them
www.declassifieduk.org
December 16, 2025 at 5:23 PM
👉 NEW -- Cameron was urged to meet ICC prosecutor days before 'threatening' him
by Dania Akkad
Exclusive: Foreign Office staff tried to convince David Cameron to support the ICC and meet Karim Khan shortly before heated phone call reported between them
www.declassifieduk.org/cameron-was-...
by Dania Akkad
Exclusive: Foreign Office staff tried to convince David Cameron to support the ICC and meet Karim Khan shortly before heated phone call reported between them
www.declassifieduk.org/cameron-was-...
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It's beyond appalling that the Government are clearly happy to endorse this cruel treatment of people fighting to stem genocide in Gaza. And displays in sharp relief the British state’s role as brutal enforcer of capitalist interests in the middle east.
www.middleeasteye.net/news/can-you...
www.middleeasteye.net/news/can-you...
‘Can you get an ambulance? I’m scared’: How a Palestine Action hunger striker was left on her cell floor
Qesser Zuhrah was experiencing worsening chest pains and was told by a nurse ‘you don’t decide if you go to hospital, I do'
www.middleeasteye.net
December 14, 2025 at 3:29 PM
It's beyond appalling that the Government are clearly happy to endorse this cruel treatment of people fighting to stem genocide in Gaza. And displays in sharp relief the British state’s role as brutal enforcer of capitalist interests in the middle east.
www.middleeasteye.net/news/can-you...
www.middleeasteye.net/news/can-you...
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One can avoid humiliations like this simply by spending 5 seconds thinking through the implications of one's views.
The fact is that Biggar is an laughably unserious person, and would have remained in total obscurity if his views weren't useful to the political right.
youtube.com/shorts/_grv4...
The fact is that Biggar is an laughably unserious person, and would have remained in total obscurity if his views weren't useful to the political right.
youtube.com/shorts/_grv4...
Is guilt over slavery “imaginary?” | Head to Head with Mehdi Hasan
YouTube video by Al Jazeera English
youtube.com
December 14, 2025 at 7:19 AM
One can avoid humiliations like this simply by spending 5 seconds thinking through the implications of one's views.
The fact is that Biggar is an laughably unserious person, and would have remained in total obscurity if his views weren't useful to the political right.
youtube.com/shorts/_grv4...
The fact is that Biggar is an laughably unserious person, and would have remained in total obscurity if his views weren't useful to the political right.
youtube.com/shorts/_grv4...
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Making a list of #antifa films (loosely defined).
Please feel free to add your own choices ...
Dalton Trumbo was one of 10 screenwriters subpoenaed to testify before the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) regarding Communist propaganda in Hollywood. Blacklisted.
#movies #film #cinema
Please feel free to add your own choices ...
Dalton Trumbo was one of 10 screenwriters subpoenaed to testify before the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) regarding Communist propaganda in Hollywood. Blacklisted.
#movies #film #cinema
December 13, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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The idea that Britain is prepared to fight a major war - militarily or domestically - strikes me as considerably crazier and more dangerous than any country of the others floating around, even in an era where the political class has quite clearly gone absolutely bananas across the board.
December 12, 2025 at 1:05 PM
The idea that Britain is prepared to fight a major war - militarily or domestically - strikes me as considerably crazier and more dangerous than any country of the others floating around, even in an era where the political class has quite clearly gone absolutely bananas across the board.
Meanwhile in the U.K., the largest statistical flex of terrorism is connnected to … fascism and white extremism.
We just need to find their headquarters and keep building out their infrastructure, eh?!
We just need to find their headquarters and keep building out their infrastructure, eh?!
GLASHEEN: Antifa is our primary concern right now. That's the most immediate violent threat we're facing
BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?
GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now
THOMPSON: What does that mean?
BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?
GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now
THOMPSON: What does that mean?
December 11, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Meanwhile in the U.K., the largest statistical flex of terrorism is connnected to … fascism and white extremism.
We just need to find their headquarters and keep building out their infrastructure, eh?!
We just need to find their headquarters and keep building out their infrastructure, eh?!
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‘In a letter seen by the BBC, the lawyers tell Deputy Prime Minister and Justice Secretary David Lammy that there is a "real and increasingly likely potential" their clients will die in prison as part of their protest’
#BBC #HungerStrike #Genocide
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#BBC #HungerStrike #Genocide
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Palestine Action hunger strikers call for urgent meeting with ministers
Lawyers for eight remand prisoners waiting to go on trial say they could die in prison as part of their protest.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 11, 2025 at 1:44 PM
‘In a letter seen by the BBC, the lawyers tell Deputy Prime Minister and Justice Secretary David Lammy that there is a "real and increasingly likely potential" their clients will die in prison as part of their protest’
#BBC #HungerStrike #Genocide
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#BBC #HungerStrike #Genocide
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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