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I like old buildings and new ones. Planning, places, built environment, urbanism, architecture, heritage, and design stuff. Humanist. Scooterist. Set sail in Yorkshire, now washed up in Bristol. Opinions probably someone else’s.
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Hi there! We’re the Archive Sector Leadership team at The National Archives UK.
We support archives of all types and sizes across England.
Lend us a follow and we’ll keep you updated with opportunities for free training, networking, grants, written guidance and more!
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We support archives of all types and sizes across England.
Lend us a follow and we’ll keep you updated with opportunities for free training, networking, grants, written guidance and more!
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November 10, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Hi there! We’re the Archive Sector Leadership team at The National Archives UK.
We support archives of all types and sizes across England.
Lend us a follow and we’ll keep you updated with opportunities for free training, networking, grants, written guidance and more!
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We support archives of all types and sizes across England.
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#OtD 11 Nov 1918 250k men and women began a general strike across Switzerland demanding women's suffrage, pensions and a 48-hour week. 95k troops were brought in to break the strike. Women only got the right to vote in 1971 stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8342...
November 11, 2025 at 6:10 AM
#OtD 11 Nov 1918 250k men and women began a general strike across Switzerland demanding women's suffrage, pensions and a 48-hour week. 95k troops were brought in to break the strike. Women only got the right to vote in 1971 stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8342...
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That chart is well worth studying. Share of daily transactions taking place in cash around the world. As an Australian, I’m very much used to cashless everything by now. I’m still totally against going fully cashless.
November 11, 2025 at 6:26 AM
That chart is well worth studying. Share of daily transactions taking place in cash around the world. As an Australian, I’m very much used to cashless everything by now. I’m still totally against going fully cashless.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 490,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 490,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use
Update: The Metropolitan Museum of Art has put online 492,000 high-resolution images of artistic works. Even better, the museum has placed the vast majority of these images into the public domain, mea...
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November 10, 2025 at 9:58 PM
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 490,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use
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SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
November 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
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Running Legs, 5th Avenue
New York c. 1940-1941
By Lisette Model, Austrian-born US photographer #WomensArt #Monday
New York c. 1940-1941
By Lisette Model, Austrian-born US photographer #WomensArt #Monday
November 10, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Running Legs, 5th Avenue
New York c. 1940-1941
By Lisette Model, Austrian-born US photographer #WomensArt #Monday
New York c. 1940-1941
By Lisette Model, Austrian-born US photographer #WomensArt #Monday
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November 10, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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Conservation work has started on one of the most unusual mausoleums in the Roman Catholic world -- the Bedouin tent shaped tomb of Sir Richard Burton and his wife, Lady Isabel.
www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/res...
www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/res...
Restoration of Burton’s Mausoleum starts with aim to reopen the tomb for visits
Conservation work has started on one of the most unusual mausoleums in the Roman Catholic world -- the Bedouin tent shaped tomb of Sir Richard Burton and his wife, Lady Isabel.
www.ianvisits.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Conservation work has started on one of the most unusual mausoleums in the Roman Catholic world -- the Bedouin tent shaped tomb of Sir Richard Burton and his wife, Lady Isabel.
www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/res...
www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/res...
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#OtD 9 Nov 1845 Gertrud Guillaume-Schack, a countess who became a revolutionary socialist, feminist and anarchist, was born in Uschütz in what is now Poland. She was active in Germany and Hackney, East London stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1093...
November 9, 2025 at 9:55 PM
#OtD 9 Nov 1845 Gertrud Guillaume-Schack, a countess who became a revolutionary socialist, feminist and anarchist, was born in Uschütz in what is now Poland. She was active in Germany and Hackney, East London stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1093...
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![Cartoon by Stephen Collins for The Guardian. Script as follows:
[scene is Winston Churchill in a bbc studio, giving his 'finest hour' speech]
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CHURCHILL:
The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us.
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CHURCHILL:
Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war.
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CHURCHILL:
If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free
and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sun-
BBC PRESENTER:
Thank you prime minister
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BBC PRESENTER:
Mr hitler, your response?
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HITLER [in the studio]:
Vell zis is hysterical woke nonsense as usual from mr Churchill
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HITLER:
What we are proposing -
CHURCHILL:
Hang on
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HITLER:
Let me finish - what we are proposing eez a simple power-sharing arrangement -
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CHURCHILL:
What's he doing here
BBC PRESENTER:
It's important we hear both sides of the debate
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CHURCHILL:
This isn't a debate
You don't debate fascists
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HITLER:
Oh here we go with ze Godwins law!
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HITLER:
Why must you people always compare ze things you don't like to 'fascists, Nazis, Hitler'...
CHURCHILL:
Because you are a fascist Nazi Hit-
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HITLER [standing up, saluting]:
RAUSS!
BBC PRESENTER:
*Please* Mr Churchill let him speak
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New:
The current “AI race” media frenzy, whether framed as productivity revolution, Chinese competition, or AGI salvation, is either largely myth-making or missing the most crucial point.
So let me challenge that frenzy with a different story.
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open.substack.com/pub/protagon...
The current “AI race” media frenzy, whether framed as productivity revolution, Chinese competition, or AGI salvation, is either largely myth-making or missing the most crucial point.
So let me challenge that frenzy with a different story.
1/
open.substack.com/pub/protagon...
The AI Race to Reboot Feudalism
Let's be honest about why they gamble everything
open.substack.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:47 PM
New:
The current “AI race” media frenzy, whether framed as productivity revolution, Chinese competition, or AGI salvation, is either largely myth-making or missing the most crucial point.
So let me challenge that frenzy with a different story.
1/
open.substack.com/pub/protagon...
The current “AI race” media frenzy, whether framed as productivity revolution, Chinese competition, or AGI salvation, is either largely myth-making or missing the most crucial point.
So let me challenge that frenzy with a different story.
1/
open.substack.com/pub/protagon...
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
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"Not TV or illegal drugs but the automobile has been the chief destroyer of...communities." ― Jane Jacobs
November 7, 2025 at 11:59 AM
"Not TV or illegal drugs but the automobile has been the chief destroyer of...communities." ― Jane Jacobs
Restoration project for Gloucestershire canal gets £6.4m - BBC News share.google/PMmR6U4QMPxe...
Restoration project for Gloucestershire canal gets £6.4m - BBC News
An accessible towpath from Stroud to Gloucester will be created to form a "wildlife corridor".
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November 7, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Restoration project for Gloucestershire canal gets £6.4m - BBC News share.google/PMmR6U4QMPxe...
Historic England Reveals its Heritage at Risk Register 2025 | Historic England share.google/9im6Uzo3G3Sn...
Historic England Reveals its Heritage at Risk Register 2025 | Historic England
Historic England's Heritage at Risk Register 2025 gives a snapshot of the health of England’s valued historic buildings and places.
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November 7, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Historic England Reveals its Heritage at Risk Register 2025 | Historic England share.google/9im6Uzo3G3Sn...
Interesting..... c20society.org.uk/news/44698
Alarm raised over DCMS overruling official listing advice – The Twentieth Century Society
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November 6, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Interesting..... c20society.org.uk/news/44698
Revoking Stonehenge A303 tunnel permission would be 'unacceptable' - BBC News share.google/EABySbOVN1ex...
Revoking Stonehenge A303 tunnel permission would be 'unacceptable' - BBC News
If the government removes permission, reviving the scheme would mean starting the process again.
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November 4, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Revoking Stonehenge A303 tunnel permission would be 'unacceptable' - BBC News share.google/EABySbOVN1ex...
www.wallpaper.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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There's still time to book and support our work in #Somerset.
If you can't make it to Taunton in person, please note that there is an online option: you can join us from anywhere from Westquantoxhead to Wagga Wagga (time zones permitting).
#Skystorians
If you can't make it to Taunton in person, please note that there is an online option: you can join us from anywhere from Westquantoxhead to Wagga Wagga (time zones permitting).
#Skystorians
On 13 November, please join our friends in Somerset at the Museum of Somerset, Taunton, to support work in that county.
In 'Through the Windows of an Ordinary House', Dr Ian Mortimer looks at national histories through the windows of a Devon house.
Tickets £10 (concessions £5).
In 'Through the Windows of an Ordinary House', Dr Ian Mortimer looks at national histories through the windows of a Devon house.
Tickets £10 (concessions £5).
VCH Annual Lecture 2025
Join author and historian Dr Ian Mortimer on a journey through English history as seen through a single, ordinary building.
swheritage.org.uk
November 4, 2025 at 9:51 AM
There's still time to book and support our work in #Somerset.
If you can't make it to Taunton in person, please note that there is an online option: you can join us from anywhere from Westquantoxhead to Wagga Wagga (time zones permitting).
#Skystorians
If you can't make it to Taunton in person, please note that there is an online option: you can join us from anywhere from Westquantoxhead to Wagga Wagga (time zones permitting).
#Skystorians
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A brand new UK TV #archaeology series starts TONIGHT Tues 4 November 9pm on More4
With #SandiToksvig @rakshadigs.bsky.social and the students of @bournemouthuni.bsky.social @buarchanth.bsky.social
HUZZAH !! 🥳
Available for download after on Channel 4 #4OD 👇
With #SandiToksvig @rakshadigs.bsky.social and the students of @bournemouthuni.bsky.social @buarchanth.bsky.social
HUZZAH !! 🥳
Available for download after on Channel 4 #4OD 👇
November 4, 2025 at 10:03 AM
A brand new UK TV #archaeology series starts TONIGHT Tues 4 November 9pm on More4
With #SandiToksvig @rakshadigs.bsky.social and the students of @bournemouthuni.bsky.social @buarchanth.bsky.social
HUZZAH !! 🥳
Available for download after on Channel 4 #4OD 👇
With #SandiToksvig @rakshadigs.bsky.social and the students of @bournemouthuni.bsky.social @buarchanth.bsky.social
HUZZAH !! 🥳
Available for download after on Channel 4 #4OD 👇
