Lesley A Hall
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Archivist, historian, reader, Londoner, feminist
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www.lesleyahall.net
https://lesleyahall.blogspot.com/
That dread phrase, replacement bus service.
February 28, 2025 at 10:52 AM
That dread phrase, replacement bus service.
If you see this, quote post with a beach photo from your gallery if you have one.
February 13, 2025 at 11:27 AM
If you see this, quote post with a beach photo from your gallery if you have one.
This was presumably before the invention of nifty devices for rerolling your condoms:
![Newspaper small ad for the 'Le Brasseur "Re-Rolling Apparatus"' no 34 'Rubber Goods [condoms] can be re-rolled equal to new' with illustration of the item which looks like a little box.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:apvmva23pupoiyj32z5qga6m/bafkreid6hzclcovs7qwt56iu24u3h6ayiyuqq4ojv5a24xwfrjqnuzqbzm@jpeg)
January 28, 2025 at 9:09 PM
This was presumably before the invention of nifty devices for rerolling your condoms:
I dunno: this one had definite 'I'm ready for my close-up, Mr DeMille' vibes when I encountered it.
January 22, 2025 at 12:08 PM
I dunno: this one had definite 'I'm ready for my close-up, Mr DeMille' vibes when I encountered it.
I sometimes suspect that these apps are simply a shiny techy version of these older safe period calculators c. 1950s-60s: (from Family Planning Association files SA/FPA/A7/31 in Wellcome Library).
January 19, 2025 at 2:08 PM
I sometimes suspect that these apps are simply a shiny techy version of these older safe period calculators c. 1950s-60s: (from Family Planning Association files SA/FPA/A7/31 in Wellcome Library).
This one is great but I think is rather too late ?c. 1939. In this file wellcomecollection.org/works/gte2d2... along with the Low cartoon
January 2, 2025 at 6:36 PM
This one is great but I think is rather too late ?c. 1939. In this file wellcomecollection.org/works/gte2d2... along with the Low cartoon
I'm not sure of the source for this: it's in Fryer's The Birth Controllers - alludes to Lord Amberley's controversial 1868 address to the London Dialectical Society. Mentioned in cuttings in The Amberley Papers: South Devonshire Election in the Russell papers at McMaster University
January 2, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I'm not sure of the source for this: it's in Fryer's The Birth Controllers - alludes to Lord Amberley's controversial 1868 address to the London Dialectical Society. Mentioned in cuttings in The Amberley Papers: South Devonshire Election in the Russell papers at McMaster University
There's the famous Low cartoon 1930
January 2, 2025 at 6:19 PM
There's the famous Low cartoon 1930
Post the cover of the first book you are reading in 2025:
January 2, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Post the cover of the first book you are reading in 2025:
“You will be visited by three spirits.”
The three spirits:
The three spirits:
December 24, 2024 at 11:02 AM
“You will be visited by three spirits.”
The three spirits:
The three spirits:
You could get machines to reroll them! These would probably have been the more expensive condoms to start with. Looking at catalogues reveals a wide price-range. (Personally, we would not trust the chap who went for the thruppenny johnnies....)
November 19, 2024 at 10:49 AM
You could get machines to reroll them! These would probably have been the more expensive condoms to start with. Looking at catalogues reveals a wide price-range. (Personally, we would not trust the chap who went for the thruppenny johnnies....)
If you see this post, quote-post a bridge.
The Foord Valley Viaduct. 'The SER was required to take the route over a viaduct of unprecedented height... comprising nineteen arches, the tallest of which towered 100-feet in the air. '
The Foord Valley Viaduct. 'The SER was required to take the route over a viaduct of unprecedented height... comprising nineteen arches, the tallest of which towered 100-feet in the air. '
October 23, 2024 at 2:14 PM
If you see this post, quote-post a bridge.
The Foord Valley Viaduct. 'The SER was required to take the route over a viaduct of unprecedented height... comprising nineteen arches, the tallest of which towered 100-feet in the air. '
The Foord Valley Viaduct. 'The SER was required to take the route over a viaduct of unprecedented height... comprising nineteen arches, the tallest of which towered 100-feet in the air. '
Here is a brag, #JacobinDay: me being handed the commemorative medal on the occasion of giving the Roy Porter Lecture in 2014.
September 20, 2024 at 9:58 AM
Here is a brag, #JacobinDay: me being handed the commemorative medal on the occasion of giving the Roy Porter Lecture in 2014.
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #307,890!
September 16, 2024 at 10:17 PM
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #307,890!
If you see this, quote post with a beach photo from your gallery
September 1, 2024 at 5:59 PM
If you see this, quote post with a beach photo from your gallery
Repost with a favorite book from your childhood.
August 24, 2024 at 9:14 PM
Repost with a favorite book from your childhood.
Repost with a banger photo of you.
This is me about to give the Roy Porter Lecture 2014, but looking as if, on the way, the Archangels just popped in with A Message to Save Something or Other.
This is me about to give the Roy Porter Lecture 2014, but looking as if, on the way, the Archangels just popped in with A Message to Save Something or Other.
August 21, 2024 at 9:32 AM
Repost with a banger photo of you.
This is me about to give the Roy Porter Lecture 2014, but looking as if, on the way, the Archangels just popped in with A Message to Save Something or Other.
This is me about to give the Roy Porter Lecture 2014, but looking as if, on the way, the Archangels just popped in with A Message to Save Something or Other.
I didn't want to be predictable and banal and post a pic of the tomb that actually does have a lion on: Nero on tomb of George Wombwell, early C19th menagerie exhibitor.
August 11, 2024 at 1:38 PM
I didn't want to be predictable and banal and post a pic of the tomb that actually does have a lion on: Nero on tomb of George Wombwell, early C19th menagerie exhibitor.
World Lion Day: okay, this isn't actually a lion, but a mastiff whose name was Lion, on Thomas Sayers' tomb in Highgate West Cemetery
August 10, 2024 at 9:18 PM
World Lion Day: okay, this isn't actually a lion, but a mastiff whose name was Lion, on Thomas Sayers' tomb in Highgate West Cemetery
And here is an ad for Venetian treacle! iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b19553...
February 13, 2024 at 6:27 PM
And here is an ad for Venetian treacle! iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b19553...
Trim the circumnavigator cat of Matthew Flinders #JacobinDay
January 14, 2024 at 1:28 PM
Trim the circumnavigator cat of Matthew Flinders #JacobinDay
Have you seen this? I took a photo when visiting Edinburgh some years ago (in Makars' Court).
December 27, 2023 at 9:47 PM
Have you seen this? I took a photo when visiting Edinburgh some years ago (in Makars' Court).
See also repurposing of 'He won't be happy till he gets it':
December 8, 2023 at 10:58 AM
See also repurposing of 'He won't be happy till he gets it':
This may be an artefact of Being A Visitor and Seeing the Sights, but I am a Brit who has been to at least 8-9 of these in the course of my travels
September 29, 2023 at 11:41 AM
This may be an artefact of Being A Visitor and Seeing the Sights, but I am a Brit who has been to at least 8-9 of these in the course of my travels
I think this might be the same fox I saw some weeks ago, encountered on my walk today. After trotting away for a bit it did this 'ready for my close-up' pose.
September 25, 2023 at 2:15 PM
I think this might be the same fox I saw some weeks ago, encountered on my walk today. After trotting away for a bit it did this 'ready for my close-up' pose.