Ah, the patron saint of journalists 🙏

In Owthorpe lie Lucy Hutchinson (Order and Disorder, 1679) and her husband, regicide Colonel John Hutchinson @literarybritain.bluesky.social.
In St Margaret’s church the John-Lucy memorial is opposite the (later and rather larger…) memorial to Richard Norton who entertained 4 kings of England

I know there are more important things to say than this but a chinook really does look like a frog mated with a dragonfly

Part of the playbook.

Universities are a threat to fascism. Universities need to survive.

I’m dreaming of an iceberg lettuce
#stockmarketcrash

My copy of this delicious book (edited by ThomasClifton and Hannah Yip) arrived today

Sadly my essay’s focus on involuntary retirement remains all too topical…
#HigherEducation
#earlymodernbluesky

Dogs have topped and tailed my research trip to The Brotherton, Leeds Uni.

From the start, my work has been overseen by a dalmatian, and in the last item on my list I found this farting dog poem (by William Fairfax, 1593-1621).

Thanks to the wonderful Special Collections team!