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Tim Causer
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Principal Research Fellow, Bentham Project, @ucllaws.bsky.social Editing Bentham's works and correspondence. Historian of convict transportation and the Norfolk Island penal station.
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It's been receiving votive offerings
A wooden box containing a plastic head supposed to look like Jeremy Bentham, in front of which someone has laid a hand-drawn picture of a cartoon rabbit
October 16, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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Thought lost when it closed in 2017, the Jeremy Bentham pub on University Street has risen from the ashes
The Jeremy Bentham pub on University Street, with green walls, benches, and a drawing of Bentham on a sign by the door
October 15, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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Anyone who frequented the Jeremy Bentham pub (d. 2016) on University Street may recognise Bentham House's newest art installation
A wooden box with a glass front sat on a table. The box contains a plastic head supposed to look like Jeremy Bentham, and is wearing a dark jacket, white shirt, and a wide brimmed straw hat
September 22, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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Cannot believe that I missed the massive Bentham bear at this week's UCL Laws graduation.

Torn between thinking it's cute versus it being nightmare fuel
Someone dressed in the same clothes as Jeremy Bentham's auto-icon, namely a dark jacket, cream shirt with a ruffle, and a wide-brimmed hat - but it's a large teddy bear
September 12, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Diagnosed with diabetes two years ago today and still (usually) taking it in his stride
A black and white one-eyed cat, with both white front paws in front of him, sat next to a blue toy bird (which he is scared of)
August 15, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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Can't quite believe they are leaving gold like this up online for us all to enjoy

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University of Warwick's 'tone of voice guidelines', telling people that 'Using "Beyond" as an abstract noun captures the idea that "Beyond" is a conceptual space where limits are exceeded', while warning that '"Beyond" headlines should not be used by individual departments, societies, or other component parts of Warwick for day-to-day communications'
July 23, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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It's quite warm today in London
A black and white cat sleeping on its back on a hard floor to keep cool, with its back legs in the air
July 1, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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2005: in Edinburgh, saw the brilliant Martha Wainwright tour her debut album at the Queen's Hall

2025: at the Union Chapel at the 20th(!!!) anniversary tour of the album

And, for a couple hours I am 23 again
Martha Wainwright, guitar in hand
May 30, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Goodnight to the Ginger Prince
Kevin de Bruyne waves goodbye to the Manchester City's fans on his last home appearance
May 20, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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A letter from 'A Loyalist' in the Morning Herald, 12-14 June 1800, suggests that the island of Van Diemen's Land 'should be called by the name of New South Britain'
A letter to the editor of the Morning Herald, 12-14 June 1800, suggests that the island of Van Diemen's Land, since 'in all probability it will be peopled from Great Britain, should be called by the name New South Britain'
May 19, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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This master criminal has managed to pull off two glucose monitors within a week
A one- eyed black and white cat, licking his lips, with a shaved patch on which a white glucose monitor has been attached
May 5, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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An email from 'FT Professional', informing me I have access to 'Ask FT' which produces AI-generated answers from Financial Times 'content'
April 29, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Over to the electors of Dickson for the chance to do the funniest thing
A list of candidates standing in the Australian federal election for the electorate of Dickson, the seat of the current leader of the Liberal National Party, Peter Dutton
April 29, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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We're not really here
April 27, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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A couple of lesser-known pencil sketches of Bentham's panopticon, dates unknown

From the Bentham Papers @uclspeccoll.bsky.social , Box 157, folios 70 and 71
A pencil sketch of the front to the panopticon building, with a staircase leading up into it and a tower atop the centre. A pencil sketch of a circular building, with steps leading up to a front door and a tower atop the centre.
April 7, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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* 7 1/2 pence for tea at Warrington
* 1 shilling 'To a Countryman for catching my Horse'
* shilling 'To a Countryman for picking up my Pocket Book'
* 2 shillings lost playing cards at Matlock
April 4, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Expenses paid on Bentham's trip to the Peak District and north of England in August 1768:

* 2 shillings and sixpence 'To the Man that shews the Devils Arse in the Peak'
* 2 shilling on brandy for said man
* sixpence to see the church at Macclesfield
* 1 shilling for passage over the Mersey
Bentham's pocketbook, itemising his expenses in a scrawly hand Bentham's pocketbook, itemising his expenses in a scrawly hand
April 4, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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'There was a Freak took an Ass in the Head'

Strong opening to Anianus's fable of the Ass and a Lion's skin, from Sir Roger L'Estrange's 'Fables of Aesop And other Eminent Mythologists', 8th ed., London, 1738
A screenshot of Anianus's Fable of 'An Ass and a Lion's Skin'; There was a Freak took an Ass in the Head, to Scoure abroad upon the Ramble; and away he goes into the Woods, Masquerading up and down in a Lion's Skin. The World was his own for a while, and where-ever he went, Man and Beast fled before him: But he had the Hap in the Conclusion, partly by his Voice, and partly by his Eats, to be Discover'd and consequently Uncased, well Laugh'd at, and well Cudgell'd for his Pains'
April 4, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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Post a warning
A sign on a cream wall reading 'Quiet reading area. Dancing and music not permitted'
March 23, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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Encountering John Pollexfen Bastard or Edmund Bastard MPs in the Parliamentary Register never ceases to be funny.
An extract from the Parliamentary Register for 1797 which reads: 'Mr. Bastard desired to know if any Member of the Committee might be omitted or changed?'
March 11, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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A portrait of Jeremy Bentham with glowing red eyes
February 21, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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The things you have to consult when you edit Bentham...
The title page of A Treatise on the analysis and effect of Manures' by Sutton Thomas Wood, published in 1813
January 6, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Seeing in the bells with my customary good cheer
Rikki Fulton's character Reverend I.M. Jolly delivering his annual Hogmanay address
December 31, 2024 at 9:10 PM
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That feeling when some git shoves a pill in your mouth for an upset stomach
A one eyed black and white cat, wrapped in a blanket with his front paws showing after having been given a pill.
December 29, 2024 at 1:37 PM
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9 July 2013, Sir Malcolm Grant's last Council meeting as Provost. Sadly, no known photographic evidence exists of the first time (but if you have some, please get in touch)
The auto-icon sits in on the UCL Council meeting of 9 July 2013, only the second time it has done so. The departing Provost, Sir Malcolm Grant, looks very amused.
December 9, 2024 at 10:45 AM