Today’s festive #AshmoleanAdvent treat is a collection of five medieval gold rings found with 10 silver groats near the River Thame in 1940.

Open today’s door to learn more: www.ashmolean.org/advent

💍 Gold finger rings from a hoard found near Thame, Oxfordshire, c. 1300–1500. AN1940.224

The value of any business is in its intangibles - what differentiates it from its competition. You can't value a newspaper or any media without understanding what its readers want, so listen to the stakeholders. The exodus from X shows £ value is really a joint project between reader & media. 👀& 🖊️

Dear #librarians #Y2teachers, I’m looking for good books for a 7 year old. She’s a competent reader who’s currently enjoying Jeremy Strong books. What other writers might she try to build her repertoire? Any suggestions greatly appreciated 📚📖🤓 #reading

Sex is not a spectrum; it's binary. There are only two sexes: male and female. People with complex DSDs are not a new third sex.
www.realityslaststand.com/p/sex-is-not...

I posted this reply in response to a post by Misty K Snow, calling @drcolinwright.bsky.social a transphobe. Before I’d posted my 2nd reply, I’d been blocked. Looks like #BlueSky is another X, encouraging intolerance & the rejection of evidence based debate. Such a shame to waste a chance for change

Well, this seems friendlier than the other place. But maybe it’s a trap? Before the trap is sprung, here’s a nice quote about librarians

should art ever be destroyed? a debate in the RA magazine in which I argue, carefully, that to make it inviolable disempowers it.