Ceri Thompson
@bookelfceri.bsky.social
Librarian at Bishopsgate Institute Special Collections & Archives 📚 | Loves history, books, libraries | 'Be more kind my friends, Try to be more kind' (FT) | Prefers to be surrounded by books & drinking tea | She/her 🌞🏴 All views my own 📍London
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The UK is about to ban access to Wikipedia, just remember this bill was originally pitched as a means to protect kids from accessing porn.
Wikipedia has lost a High Court challenge against the UK Government over verification requirements in the Online Safety Act
Wikipedia loses Online Safety Act legal challenge
www.thenational.scot
August 11, 2025 at 12:32 PM
The UK is about to ban access to Wikipedia, just remember this bill was originally pitched as a means to protect kids from accessing porn.
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Apparently it’s World Embroidery Day so maybe you’ll enjoy this aerial landscape I made of my beloved childhood haunt - the White Horse of Uffington. An @nationaltrust.org.uk site from the later Bronze Age or Early Iron Age. Find out more here www.oxfordarchaeology.com/uffington-wh...
July 30, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Apparently it’s World Embroidery Day so maybe you’ll enjoy this aerial landscape I made of my beloved childhood haunt - the White Horse of Uffington. An @nationaltrust.org.uk site from the later Bronze Age or Early Iron Age. Find out more here www.oxfordarchaeology.com/uffington-wh...
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This is Stevie. He is annoyed by pretty much everything that happens outside. As you can tell from his boofs, today is no exception. 14/10 (IG: longdogstevie)
July 29, 2025 at 4:45 PM
This is Stevie. He is annoyed by pretty much everything that happens outside. As you can tell from his boofs, today is no exception. 14/10 (IG: longdogstevie)
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"Friendship books" were the #Facebook of the 17th and 18th centuries (without the ads and data mining). Here's a fine example of one begun in 1795 by the aunt of the poet Felicia Dorothea Browne: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-friendship-book-of-anne-wagner-1795-1834 #FriendshipDay
July 30, 2025 at 12:03 AM
"Friendship books" were the #Facebook of the 17th and 18th centuries (without the ads and data mining). Here's a fine example of one begun in 1795 by the aunt of the poet Felicia Dorothea Browne: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-friendship-book-of-anne-wagner-1795-1834 #FriendshipDay
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A lady in The Netherlands found these vintage Ladybird books in Dutch and sent them to me just as an act of kindness.
July 28, 2025 at 7:19 PM
A lady in The Netherlands found these vintage Ladybird books in Dutch and sent them to me just as an act of kindness.
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#Adolescence is extraordinary, in every way you can imagine. A tough, realistic, urgent masterclass of writing, acting, directing and social observation. And the kids ... I swear there are 4 future Oscar winners in this show. Brilliant.
March 16, 2025 at 1:16 AM
#Adolescence is extraordinary, in every way you can imagine. A tough, realistic, urgent masterclass of writing, acting, directing and social observation. And the kids ... I swear there are 4 future Oscar winners in this show. Brilliant.
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Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus, pawb!
Dyma Cennin Bedr, y blodyn cenedlaethol Cymru - hyfryd! 🌼
Dyma Cennin Bedr, y blodyn cenedlaethol Cymru - hyfryd! 🌼
March 1, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus, pawb!
Dyma Cennin Bedr, y blodyn cenedlaethol Cymru - hyfryd! 🌼
Dyma Cennin Bedr, y blodyn cenedlaethol Cymru - hyfryd! 🌼
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Little Mari wishes all my Welsh followers a Happy St. Davids day
Dydd Gwyl Dewi Hapus
Dydd Gwyl Dewi Hapus
March 1, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Little Mari wishes all my Welsh followers a Happy St. Davids day
Dydd Gwyl Dewi Hapus
Dydd Gwyl Dewi Hapus
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“The coroner also criticised NHS 111 for “misleading” the public by calling its call handlers “health advisers”. This title, she said, “implies professionalism which is untrue given their underlying skills and unsubstantiated given it is their role to complete an algorithm”.”
My brother, the NHS and the inquest into a needless death
My brother spent the last hours of his life trying in vain to get basic help from the NHS. Why?
www.ft.com
February 22, 2025 at 4:34 PM
“The coroner also criticised NHS 111 for “misleading” the public by calling its call handlers “health advisers”. This title, she said, “implies professionalism which is untrue given their underlying skills and unsubstantiated given it is their role to complete an algorithm”.”
@argular.bsky.social when do you want to go?? It looks amazing.
Visiting ‘Unfolding Time’ at @lampallib.bsky.social and it is an amazing collection of moving manuscript art on time, calendars and pretty pictures! They even made this incredible exhibition guide which ALSO UNFOLDS! Top work: everyone should visit (it’s free!)
February 17, 2025 at 9:46 PM
@argular.bsky.social when do you want to go?? It looks amazing.
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Visiting ‘Unfolding Time’ at @lampallib.bsky.social and it is an amazing collection of moving manuscript art on time, calendars and pretty pictures! They even made this incredible exhibition guide which ALSO UNFOLDS! Top work: everyone should visit (it’s free!)
February 17, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Visiting ‘Unfolding Time’ at @lampallib.bsky.social and it is an amazing collection of moving manuscript art on time, calendars and pretty pictures! They even made this incredible exhibition guide which ALSO UNFOLDS! Top work: everyone should visit (it’s free!)
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Last year, Sreya Chatterjee explored Shakti Khabar’s legacy as part of her placement with the White Rose College of Arts and Humanities.
One of the first UK newsletters by & for queer South Asians, it built a vital space for activism, support & connection.
#LGBTHistoryMonth #QueerSouthAsianHistory
One of the first UK newsletters by & for queer South Asians, it built a vital space for activism, support & connection.
#LGBTHistoryMonth #QueerSouthAsianHistory
Shakti Khabar: Queer South Asian lives in Britain | Bishopsgate Institute
By Sreya ChatterjeeAs part of my placement funded by the White Rose College of Arts and Humanities, I have been looking into the Bishopsgate LGBT Archives
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February 4, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Last year, Sreya Chatterjee explored Shakti Khabar’s legacy as part of her placement with the White Rose College of Arts and Humanities.
One of the first UK newsletters by & for queer South Asians, it built a vital space for activism, support & connection.
#LGBTHistoryMonth #QueerSouthAsianHistory
One of the first UK newsletters by & for queer South Asians, it built a vital space for activism, support & connection.
#LGBTHistoryMonth #QueerSouthAsianHistory
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I never understood the practice, it's literally giving up your identity to indicate your new owner.
Recently heard a historian describe marriage (in the ancient world) as "marriage is a contract between a husband and a father." About sums it up.
Recently heard a historian describe marriage (in the ancient world) as "marriage is a contract between a husband and a father." About sums it up.
It's not complicated. They're just trying to stop women from being able to vote.
February 12, 2025 at 9:27 PM
I never understood the practice, it's literally giving up your identity to indicate your new owner.
Recently heard a historian describe marriage (in the ancient world) as "marriage is a contract between a husband and a father." About sums it up.
Recently heard a historian describe marriage (in the ancient world) as "marriage is a contract between a husband and a father." About sums it up.
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Just reminding people about this as she came up on Great British Menu
Drummond sat the Chief Engineer's exam SIX YEARS in a row. Was marked as failed every time.
In 1936, the Board of Trade were forced to admit they were deliberately failing her because she was a woman. Which meant failing EVERYONE who sat the exam with her to cover it up, as her scores were too high
In 1936, the Board of Trade were forced to admit they were deliberately failing her because she was a woman. Which meant failing EVERYONE who sat the exam with her to cover it up, as her scores were too high
I'm assuming people have you covered by now BUT a noteworthy example of getting an absurd level of performance out of a ship would be Victoria Drummond getting 12.5 knots out of a dog of a ship whose previous best was just 9.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victori...
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victori...
February 12, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Just reminding people about this as she came up on Great British Menu
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How can we trace same-sex relationships in rural archives, when love letters were heavily euphemistic or burned after reading?
For LGBTQ+ History Month, Tim Jerrome shares his research into queer rural relationships: from his first find, to the challenges faced.
merl.reading.ac.uk/blog/2025/02...
For LGBTQ+ History Month, Tim Jerrome shares his research into queer rural relationships: from his first find, to the challenges faced.
merl.reading.ac.uk/blog/2025/02...
Thomas and Austen: a gay relationship in the MERL archives? - The Museum of English Rural Life
For LGBTQ+ History Month 2025, researcher Tim Jerrome shares how he's using rural archives to research same-sex relationships in the countryside.
merl.reading.ac.uk
February 5, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Went to see Inside No.9 Stage Fright tonight. It was so fab!! Go see if you can.
January 31, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Went to see Inside No.9 Stage Fright tonight. It was so fab!! Go see if you can.
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Woman to her husband who is looking in the window of a junk shop: Come on Arthur, it can't be that interesting.
She stops and looks at the display.
Woman (heading inside): You coming?
She stops and looks at the display.
Woman (heading inside): You coming?
January 21, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Woman to her husband who is looking in the window of a junk shop: Come on Arthur, it can't be that interesting.
She stops and looks at the display.
Woman (heading inside): You coming?
She stops and looks at the display.
Woman (heading inside): You coming?
@adamchapman.bsky.social VCH in Kenwood House. 😉
January 19, 2025 at 5:39 PM
@adamchapman.bsky.social VCH in Kenwood House. 😉
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‘The high point of TV as a medium’: David Lynch’s Twin Peaks may never be bettered
‘The high point of TV as a medium’: David Lynch’s Twin Peaks may never be bettered
The surreal murder mystery’s impact is so profound that its fingerprints are on every show made during TV’s golden age. What a legacy
In the coming days and weeks, much will be made about David Lynch’s gargantuan contribution to cinema. This will be…
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January 17, 2025 at 8:19 AM
‘The high point of TV as a medium’: David Lynch’s Twin Peaks may never be bettered
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A Real Pain review – Jesse Eisenberg’s sauntering Holocaust comedy is a masterpiece
A Real Pain review – Jesse Eisenberg’s sauntering Holocaust comedy is a masterpiece
The writer, director and actor effortlessly walks a tonal tightrope in this film about Jewish American cousins on a Holocaust tour in Poland. But Kieran Culkin steals the show as the more mischievous cousin
With no great fanfare, Jesse Eisenberg has just…
www.theguardian.com
January 8, 2025 at 11:13 AM
A Real Pain review – Jesse Eisenberg’s sauntering Holocaust comedy is a masterpiece
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January 6, 2025 at 8:33 AM