Er, there may have been another reason why he remembered Marina S.'s early UK TV appearances that he didn't tell you:
(Source: Marina Sirtis, *Quotes*, *Marina Sitis*, *IMDb*)
(Source: Marina Sirtis, *Quotes*, *Marina Sitis*, *IMDb*)
![Marina Sirtis | *Marina Sirtis* | *Quotes* [#16] | *IMDb*](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jb5nxoe3zx4hnxlrfkagl5u6/bafkreidazfjlob7xkmi2cedj2jbh74czqynqnfc3slosn7nr6uw2amxajm@jpeg)
October 31, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Er, there may have been another reason why he remembered Marina S.'s early UK TV appearances that he didn't tell you:
(Source: Marina Sirtis, *Quotes*, *Marina Sitis*, *IMDb*)
(Source: Marina Sirtis, *Quotes*, *Marina Sitis*, *IMDb*)
To be accurate, the jigsaw subject is the commission to Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk (& AB's uncle) to manage the trial, not the execution order, which survives in the trial archives & that even TNA marketing probably thought selling as 'merch' (sic) was too crass.
The jigsaw is still on sale.
The jigsaw is still on sale.
October 26, 2025 at 11:34 PM
To be accurate, the jigsaw subject is the commission to Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk (& AB's uncle) to manage the trial, not the execution order, which survives in the trial archives & that even TNA marketing probably thought selling as 'merch' (sic) was too crass.
The jigsaw is still on sale.
The jigsaw is still on sale.
The _UK National Archives_ marketing department decided that producing & selling a _jigsaw_ of the order for Anne Boleyn's _execution_ was a good idea - and one of the immature dimwits who write TNA's *Twitter* account thought that was a suitable subject for 'banter' in 2022.
October 26, 2025 at 11:08 PM
The _UK National Archives_ marketing department decided that producing & selling a _jigsaw_ of the order for Anne Boleyn's _execution_ was a good idea - and one of the immature dimwits who write TNA's *Twitter* account thought that was a suitable subject for 'banter' in 2022.
The contemporary academic memoir & its 'idiosyncrasies' has already attracted academic scrutiny itself - see Cynthia Franklin's 2009 study, for example.
Since its first publication *Who's Who* has been infamous for its so often taken opportunity for self-authored promotion, not least by academics.
Since its first publication *Who's Who* has been infamous for its so often taken opportunity for self-authored promotion, not least by academics.
October 18, 2025 at 9:47 PM
The contemporary academic memoir & its 'idiosyncrasies' has already attracted academic scrutiny itself - see Cynthia Franklin's 2009 study, for example.
Since its first publication *Who's Who* has been infamous for its so often taken opportunity for self-authored promotion, not least by academics.
Since its first publication *Who's Who* has been infamous for its so often taken opportunity for self-authored promotion, not least by academics.
As may Laura Brown of Cornell - her *Homeless Dogs And Melancholy Apes* [not read] may useful for pet monkeys in 18th century English Literature (a subject with enough material to support a monograph), if the *Miss Glamour...* illustration has sparked an interest in characters' primate pals.
October 17, 2025 at 8:12 PM
As may Laura Brown of Cornell - her *Homeless Dogs And Melancholy Apes* [not read] may useful for pet monkeys in 18th century English Literature (a subject with enough material to support a monograph), if the *Miss Glamour...* illustration has sparked an interest in characters' primate pals.
Delphine Gardney may possible be able to help with information about Bertin's books.
October 17, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Delphine Gardney may possible be able to help with information about Bertin's books.
The *Bibliographie* from Théodore-Pierre Bertin's *Wikipédia* [French] entry (see image) could be useful.
October 17, 2025 at 3:45 PM
The *Bibliographie* from Théodore-Pierre Bertin's *Wikipédia* [French] entry (see image) could be useful.
The title-page engraving suggests that the plot involves a pet monkey, which may help with identifying the English original.
October 17, 2025 at 3:27 PM
The title-page engraving suggests that the plot involves a pet monkey, which may help with identifying the English original.
Search 'Samuel Pepys Bladder Stone' for extensive links to coverage of the subject by medical authors & historians.🫢
You may want to avoid clicking 'Images' for the many (eye-watering) illustrations of bladder stone removal procedures, past & present.😱
An 'Avoiding Bladder Stones' search helps.😮💨
You may want to avoid clicking 'Images' for the many (eye-watering) illustrations of bladder stone removal procedures, past & present.😱
An 'Avoiding Bladder Stones' search helps.😮💨
October 15, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Search 'Samuel Pepys Bladder Stone' for extensive links to coverage of the subject by medical authors & historians.🫢
You may want to avoid clicking 'Images' for the many (eye-watering) illustrations of bladder stone removal procedures, past & present.😱
An 'Avoiding Bladder Stones' search helps.😮💨
You may want to avoid clicking 'Images' for the many (eye-watering) illustrations of bladder stone removal procedures, past & present.😱
An 'Avoiding Bladder Stones' search helps.😮💨
Yep, sure is.
The article is still up on the @theguardian.com website (see image) - and credit to them for keeping it & other older material avaialble online - do a search for *Anthony Giddens' for the full text.
The article is still up on the @theguardian.com website (see image) - and credit to them for keeping it & other older material avaialble online - do a search for *Anthony Giddens' for the full text.
October 13, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Yep, sure is.
The article is still up on the @theguardian.com website (see image) - and credit to them for keeping it & other older material avaialble online - do a search for *Anthony Giddens' for the full text.
The article is still up on the @theguardian.com website (see image) - and credit to them for keeping it & other older material avaialble online - do a search for *Anthony Giddens' for the full text.
Remember this 2007 'gem' published in the @theguardian.com when Anthony Giddens dies.
October 13, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Remember this 2007 'gem' published in the @theguardian.com when Anthony Giddens dies.
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...'"Mary with her iPhone" - that must be true, a NesneyDisflex streamer mimi-series says so'
...'"Mary with her iPhone" - that must be true, a NesneyDisflex streamer mimi-series says so'
October 11, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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...'"Mary with her iPhone" - that must be true, a NesneyDisflex streamer mimi-series says so'
...'"Mary with her iPhone" - that must be true, a NesneyDisflex streamer mimi-series says so'
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The New Minster Liber Vita page...
The New Minster Liber Vita page...
October 11, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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The New Minster Liber Vita page...
The New Minster Liber Vita page...
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...this full, Hindi-language version of the series shown in a much edited, subtitled version on @channel4tv.bsky.social in the late 1990s, includes a treatment of Tipu's sons' hostage-taking as boys by the EIC & their later role as mourners in the aftermath of Tipu's death at Seringapatam...
...this full, Hindi-language version of the series shown in a much edited, subtitled version on @channel4tv.bsky.social in the late 1990s, includes a treatment of Tipu's sons' hostage-taking as boys by the EIC & their later role as mourners in the aftermath of Tipu's death at Seringapatam...
October 7, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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...this full, Hindi-language version of the series shown in a much edited, subtitled version on @channel4tv.bsky.social in the late 1990s, includes a treatment of Tipu's sons' hostage-taking as boys by the EIC & their later role as mourners in the aftermath of Tipu's death at Seringapatam...
...this full, Hindi-language version of the series shown in a much edited, subtitled version on @channel4tv.bsky.social in the late 1990s, includes a treatment of Tipu's sons' hostage-taking as boys by the EIC & their later role as mourners in the aftermath of Tipu's death at Seringapatam...
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There have been more television & radio programmes featuring John Lilburne in the last 70± years than may be realised, including more actors' representations & a radio dramatisation of his 1649 treason trial.
These can be found thorough *BBC Programme Index* & *BNA*/@findmypast.bsky.social
There have been more television & radio programmes featuring John Lilburne in the last 70± years than may be realised, including more actors' representations & a radio dramatisation of his 1649 treason trial.
These can be found thorough *BBC Programme Index* & *BNA*/@findmypast.bsky.social
October 7, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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There have been more television & radio programmes featuring John Lilburne in the last 70± years than may be realised, including more actors' representations & a radio dramatisation of his 1649 treason trial.
These can be found thorough *BBC Programme Index* & *BNA*/@findmypast.bsky.social
There have been more television & radio programmes featuring John Lilburne in the last 70± years than may be realised, including more actors' representations & a radio dramatisation of his 1649 treason trial.
These can be found thorough *BBC Programme Index* & *BNA*/@findmypast.bsky.social
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JW was available as the RSC were doing one of their 'Throw-a-bone-to-the-provinces' seasons in Newcastle at the time of the programme's production.
The production still from the *Newcastle Sunday Sun* preview (I recall another one in a *Guardian* report of the RSC season also mentioning *FJ*).
JW was available as the RSC were doing one of their 'Throw-a-bone-to-the-provinces' seasons in Newcastle at the time of the programme's production.
The production still from the *Newcastle Sunday Sun* preview (I recall another one in a *Guardian* report of the RSC season also mentioning *FJ*).
October 7, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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JW was available as the RSC were doing one of their 'Throw-a-bone-to-the-provinces' seasons in Newcastle at the time of the programme's production.
The production still from the *Newcastle Sunday Sun* preview (I recall another one in a *Guardian* report of the RSC season also mentioning *FJ*).
JW was available as the RSC were doing one of their 'Throw-a-bone-to-the-provinces' seasons in Newcastle at the time of the programme's production.
The production still from the *Newcastle Sunday Sun* preview (I recall another one in a *Guardian* report of the RSC season also mentioning *FJ*).
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The details are:
*Freeborn John* [*Coast To Coast*] | Colour | BBC1 TV North-East | Friday, 26 September 1980 | c28m | 22:15-22:45.
Presenter: Mike Neville, Reporter: Ian Breach, Producer: John Mapplebeck.
Drama-Documentary using news reporting format.
Unconfirmed but probably extant.
...
The details are:
*Freeborn John* [*Coast To Coast*] | Colour | BBC1 TV North-East | Friday, 26 September 1980 | c28m | 22:15-22:45.
Presenter: Mike Neville, Reporter: Ian Breach, Producer: John Mapplebeck.
Drama-Documentary using news reporting format.
Unconfirmed but probably extant.
...
October 7, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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The details are:
*Freeborn John* [*Coast To Coast*] | Colour | BBC1 TV North-East | Friday, 26 September 1980 | c28m | 22:15-22:45.
Presenter: Mike Neville, Reporter: Ian Breach, Producer: John Mapplebeck.
Drama-Documentary using news reporting format.
Unconfirmed but probably extant.
...
The details are:
*Freeborn John* [*Coast To Coast*] | Colour | BBC1 TV North-East | Friday, 26 September 1980 | c28m | 22:15-22:45.
Presenter: Mike Neville, Reporter: Ian Breach, Producer: John Mapplebeck.
Drama-Documentary using news reporting format.
Unconfirmed but probably extant.
...
Is this 'our' Elwyn?
Years of researching the Aberdare Alki have gained me the dubious achievement of logging details of every 'Elwyn Jones' who published in English & Welsh in the UK in the 20thC.
I have yet to find confirmation of the author of *Two On A Tandem* - I think it is a EJJ 'probable'.
Years of researching the Aberdare Alki have gained me the dubious achievement of logging details of every 'Elwyn Jones' who published in English & Welsh in the UK in the 20thC.
I have yet to find confirmation of the author of *Two On A Tandem* - I think it is a EJJ 'probable'.
October 5, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Is this 'our' Elwyn?
Years of researching the Aberdare Alki have gained me the dubious achievement of logging details of every 'Elwyn Jones' who published in English & Welsh in the UK in the 20thC.
I have yet to find confirmation of the author of *Two On A Tandem* - I think it is a EJJ 'probable'.
Years of researching the Aberdare Alki have gained me the dubious achievement of logging details of every 'Elwyn Jones' who published in English & Welsh in the UK in the 20thC.
I have yet to find confirmation of the author of *Two On A Tandem* - I think it is a EJJ 'probable'.
*British Newspaper Archive/*Find My Past* are 'Processing' (copying & preparing imminent digital publication) the _complete run, in colour_ of UK girls' magazine *Jackie*.
A *Wow* moment to follow *BNA*/*FMP*s' even more *Wow* publication of *TV Times* 1955-1980.
@findmypast.bsky.social
#Jackie
A *Wow* moment to follow *BNA*/*FMP*s' even more *Wow* publication of *TV Times* 1955-1980.
@findmypast.bsky.social
#Jackie
October 3, 2025 at 7:56 PM
*British Newspaper Archive/*Find My Past* are 'Processing' (copying & preparing imminent digital publication) the _complete run, in colour_ of UK girls' magazine *Jackie*.
A *Wow* moment to follow *BNA*/*FMP*s' even more *Wow* publication of *TV Times* 1955-1980.
@findmypast.bsky.social
#Jackie
A *Wow* moment to follow *BNA*/*FMP*s' even more *Wow* publication of *TV Times* 1955-1980.
@findmypast.bsky.social
#Jackie
We can be sure 'Sir' Mark is an inspiration for all Police Officers in London & the rest of the UK - as the Met's PR machine keeps telling us (so it must be true).
In other news: *A Picture Says A Thousand Words*.
In other news: *A Picture Says A Thousand Words*.
October 2, 2025 at 8:49 PM
We can be sure 'Sir' Mark is an inspiration for all Police Officers in London & the rest of the UK - as the Met's PR machine keeps telling us (so it must be true).
In other news: *A Picture Says A Thousand Words*.
In other news: *A Picture Says A Thousand Words*.
In case anybody other than my knowledgeable Likers does not know to which part of *More to Lewis than to gain* (btw: source?) refers to a very 'crowded field', it is that in the inclosed image.
Can TV & TV history BlueSykers tell the wider world of other names jostling for space in the field?
Can TV & TV history BlueSykers tell the wider world of other names jostling for space in the field?
October 2, 2025 at 7:47 PM
In case anybody other than my knowledgeable Likers does not know to which part of *More to Lewis than to gain* (btw: source?) refers to a very 'crowded field', it is that in the inclosed image.
Can TV & TV history BlueSykers tell the wider world of other names jostling for space in the field?
Can TV & TV history BlueSykers tell the wider world of other names jostling for space in the field?
My coinage from a few. years back;
*Middlesex, the county that refuses to die*
It remains a living entity after almost 150 years of attempts to disappear it.
Also a probably non-accidental endorsement by a certain *VCH* gentleman of the last century:
*Middlesex, the county that refuses to die*
It remains a living entity after almost 150 years of attempts to disappear it.
Also a probably non-accidental endorsement by a certain *VCH* gentleman of the last century:
September 29, 2025 at 7:09 PM
My coinage from a few. years back;
*Middlesex, the county that refuses to die*
It remains a living entity after almost 150 years of attempts to disappear it.
Also a probably non-accidental endorsement by a certain *VCH* gentleman of the last century:
*Middlesex, the county that refuses to die*
It remains a living entity after almost 150 years of attempts to disappear it.
Also a probably non-accidental endorsement by a certain *VCH* gentleman of the last century:
To use Gloucestershire as an example: almost all Hundred areas consolidated in the 19th C & used for local government administration reform c1834-c1931 remain recognisable districts as do most Tythings.
Image: Newent Division of the Gloucestershire Magistracy, 1840 -Botloe Hundred renamed.
Image: Newent Division of the Gloucestershire Magistracy, 1840 -Botloe Hundred renamed.
September 29, 2025 at 8:39 AM
To use Gloucestershire as an example: almost all Hundred areas consolidated in the 19th C & used for local government administration reform c1834-c1931 remain recognisable districts as do most Tythings.
Image: Newent Division of the Gloucestershire Magistracy, 1840 -Botloe Hundred renamed.
Image: Newent Division of the Gloucestershire Magistracy, 1840 -Botloe Hundred renamed.
👆👇@victorianlondon.bsky.social @digivictorian.bsky.social
LJ, BN (et al): The world of all-too-knowing Victorian child-naming & parental humour at the expense of offspring.
For those who have to know these things, the 'Dick Holder' results of a @findmypast.bsky.social search:
LJ, BN (et al): The world of all-too-knowing Victorian child-naming & parental humour at the expense of offspring.
For those who have to know these things, the 'Dick Holder' results of a @findmypast.bsky.social search:
September 24, 2025 at 10:49 PM
👆👇@victorianlondon.bsky.social @digivictorian.bsky.social
LJ, BN (et al): The world of all-too-knowing Victorian child-naming & parental humour at the expense of offspring.
For those who have to know these things, the 'Dick Holder' results of a @findmypast.bsky.social search:
LJ, BN (et al): The world of all-too-knowing Victorian child-naming & parental humour at the expense of offspring.
For those who have to know these things, the 'Dick Holder' results of a @findmypast.bsky.social search:
Gloucestershire's most famous Victorian pub landlady, the immortal Fanny Holder (née Green) & daughters, 1901 England Census.
A Fanny Holder by marriage but one who had several contemporary Fanny Holders by birth & a number of them had brothers called Richard, as attested by the Census & BMDs.
A Fanny Holder by marriage but one who had several contemporary Fanny Holders by birth & a number of them had brothers called Richard, as attested by the Census & BMDs.
September 24, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Gloucestershire's most famous Victorian pub landlady, the immortal Fanny Holder (née Green) & daughters, 1901 England Census.
A Fanny Holder by marriage but one who had several contemporary Fanny Holders by birth & a number of them had brothers called Richard, as attested by the Census & BMDs.
A Fanny Holder by marriage but one who had several contemporary Fanny Holders by birth & a number of them had brothers called Richard, as attested by the Census & BMDs.