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flaubertiste.bsky.social
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Government official. Adoptive Man of Kent. Receive not transmit.
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jim.londoncentric.media
Absolutely glorious local news story that has very little to do with anything it's supposed to be about, Camden New Journal is great. www.camdennewjournal.co.uk/article/why-...
Why ‘Bishop of St Pancras’ is losing faith in his heating
‘It’s bang, bang, bang, bang... the pipe-banging goes on and on – I haven’t slept for 72 hours’
www.camdennewjournal.co.uk
March 27, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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joelanman.bsky.social
public.digital/pd-insights/...
The radical simplicity of GOV.UK’s logopublic digitalpublic digital
A blog post about the importance of simple, trusted, user centred design. Doing the hard work to make it simple.
public.digital
March 22, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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durrellb.bsky.social
The school I work at has the staff dress up, not the kids. Exactly for this reason. We have to explain who we've come as, and why we chose that character, and explain to the kids why we like the character and book they're from.
March 6, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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ianbremmer.com
a (very timely) reminder of the legacy of germany’s partition:
February 24, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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groomb.bsky.social
Sunday League Footy, by Teesside artist Philip Meadows. #NorthernArt
February 16, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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royalhistsoc.org
From next week our X account will close and be archived. We will be solely on BlueSky where we will continue to promote #history, historical practice and the humanities. Please do join us #Skystorians
royalhistsoc.org Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · Feb 11
From 21 February @royalhistsoc.bsky.social will be closing and archiving its X account.

From this date all updates from the Society - and its promotion of work by fellow organisations for #history and the humanities - will be via BlueSky.

Please encourage colleagues to join us here #skystorians
Photograph of the Royal Historical Society's BlueSky homepage.
February 15, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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hanneydp.bsky.social
Interesting story

cc @planningtransport.co.uk @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social

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Why do UK supermarkets have clock towers?
YouTube video by Chris Spargo
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February 9, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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joannahs.bsky.social
For the love of god, the overweight squirrels of North London are now eating Viennese Whirls.
February 7, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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nornirnlib.bsky.social
Love this one too
February 7, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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seanjones.org
If you are interested in why I rave about the Torridon Hills, Channel 4 now.
February 1, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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samfr.bsky.social
On the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz I wanted to share this quote from Prime Levi:

"Auschwitz is outside of us, but it is all around us, in the air. The plague has died away, but the infection still lingers and it would be foolish to deny it....

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January 27, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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lewisbaston.bsky.social
In honour of Holocaust Memorial Day I wrote an essay about Oświęcim, a historic and dignified town, and its Jewish and Polish history. And what the modern town is like open.substack.com/pub/lewisbas...
A small town called Oświęcim
A story of life and humanity under a historical shadow
open.substack.com
January 27, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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joxley.jmoxley.co.uk
I think something relevant to how Britain perceives itself is that we, on the whole, tend to travel to the bits of Europe poorer than us.
arjanstruik.bsky.social Arjan Struik @arjanstruik.bsky.social · Jan 25
Dutch here. Worked and lived in the UK for 10 years. Might I say this is wider than only healthcare. Even something as mundane as road maintenance. Always the ad hoc solution. Stingy about out of pocket costs. In the end total costs are higher than structurally trying to prevent the potholes.
January 25, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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visitmy.website
Do you like pictures of signs? https://visitmy.website/2025/01/25/for-fans-of-margaret-calvert/
For Margaret Calvert fans - Harsh Browns
Two years ago I started taking photographs of signs in railway stations.
visitmy.website
January 25, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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jowolff.bsky.social
We could probably all do with some Chagall flowers.
A case of bright red flowers with some purple and blue behind, and small baskets of other blooms or petals.
January 21, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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robinalexbaker.bsky.social
SHOAH (1985) - Claude Lanzmann's remarkable 9.5 hour documentary about the Holocaust - is now on the BBC iPlayer. It's the first time it's been on the BBC for a decade.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Shoah
Claude Lanzmann's epic documentary recounts the story of the Holocaust through interviews with witnesses - perpetrators as well as survivors.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 21, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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kingludd.bsky.social
A bit of Morris to brighten your time line 😊
January 20, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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romanpalace.bsky.social
For Blue Monday we can't think of anything more appropriate than this charming depiction of a man getting his face eaten off by a leopard.

#MosaicMonday
A horrific image of a someone who seems to have his hands tied behind his back. A big cat (the predator kind, not the overfed pet kind) has jumped up at him and is devouring his face. Blood splashes on the floor.
January 20, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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brendelbored.bsky.social
I think you could make a convincing case that the single cultural figure we should be reflecting on more than any other in 2025 is Kurt Vonnegut
January 16, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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dankaszeta.bsky.social
January 16, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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annalandre.com
Do you know a UK-based wheelchair user who works in a lab and would be willing to user-test our prototype of what is believed to be the first-ever lab coat adapted for wheelchair users?

Please share far & wide! Interest form: forms.office.com/e/66FhcQjqRT

More info: www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-east/new...
Two photos of Anna, a young white woman using an electric wheelchair, wearing a blue lab coat that fits her well with tables and dry-lab equipment in the background. Text reads: "A team of researchers and designers led by UCL is looking for wheelchair users working in wet lab environments to user-test what is believed to be the first-ever prototype of a lab coat adapted for wheelchair users."
January 7, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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brianbilston.bsky.social
Here’s a poem called ‘This was the year that was not the year’.
This was the year that was not the year   This was the year that was not the year  I repaired the bathroom tap  and emptied out the kitchen drawer  of a lifetime’s worth of crap.    This was the year that was not the year in which I launched a new career.  A West End hit eluded me  and so did Time Person of the Year.    This was the year that was not the year  I became a household name.  Action figures were not sold of me.  I wasn’t made a dame.    This was the year that was not the year I spent less time on my phone.  Nights of passion did not happen  in boutique hotels in Rome.    This was the year that was the year  I didn't get that much done – much the same as the year before,  much like the one to come.  Brian Bilston
December 31, 2024 at 9:05 AM
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nickwhithorn.bsky.social
At dawn on 28 December 1943, the 7 Cervi brothers, Gelindo (42), Antenore (37), Aldo (34), Ferdinando (32), Agostino (27), Ovidio (25) & Ettore (22), are executed by an Italian fascist firing squad in Reggio Emilia for their partisan activities [Thread] >> 1
A family portrait photo of the Cervi family with brothers Gelindo, Antenore, Aldo, Ferdinando, Agostino, Ovidio and Ettore, as well as their two sisters Diomira and Rina, and their parents Alcide Cervi and their Genoeffa Cocconi.
December 27, 2024 at 6:47 PM
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jowolff.bsky.social
Spencer Gore (1878-1914)
Mornington Crescent, about 1905, well before I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue.
December 23, 2024 at 10:42 PM
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jowolff.bsky.social
Not seeing enough art here, so sometimes you have to make your own entertainment. Here’s Chagall’s Lovers and Daisies.
November 30, 2024 at 9:33 AM