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Check out the new Living Heritage website created by the UK government. Part of finally signing up to the UNESCO Convention on Intangible Cultural Heritage. They want public engagement. What would you submit?
livingheritage.unesco.org.uk
livingheritage.unesco.org.uk
Welcome | Inventories of Living Heritage in the UK
Help build the Inventories of Living Heritage in the UK. From pantomime to dry-stone walling – share your community's traditions and social practices. Start your submission today.
livingheritage.unesco.org.uk
December 5, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Check out the new Living Heritage website created by the UK government. Part of finally signing up to the UNESCO Convention on Intangible Cultural Heritage. They want public engagement. What would you submit?
livingheritage.unesco.org.uk
livingheritage.unesco.org.uk
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Today is Buy Nothing Day! This is an alternative to Black Friday to support sustainability 🌱🌳🐝
The Library has lots of great resources for you to both help the environment and save money during this cost of living crisis. Check what's available in our collections before buying new 💸
The Library has lots of great resources for you to both help the environment and save money during this cost of living crisis. Check what's available in our collections before buying new 💸
November 28, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Today is Buy Nothing Day! This is an alternative to Black Friday to support sustainability 🌱🌳🐝
The Library has lots of great resources for you to both help the environment and save money during this cost of living crisis. Check what's available in our collections before buying new 💸
The Library has lots of great resources for you to both help the environment and save money during this cost of living crisis. Check what's available in our collections before buying new 💸
Pothole klaxon. Every single budget. #Budget2025
November 26, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Pothole klaxon. Every single budget. #Budget2025
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Are you a PhD student & interested in using museum collections in your teaching or research?
We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.
Find out more:
collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/
We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.
Find out more:
collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/
November 25, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Are you a PhD student & interested in using museum collections in your teaching or research?
We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.
Find out more:
collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/
We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.
Find out more:
collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/
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My new series - Empire With David Olusoga - starts 9pm on BBC Two. Whole series on @bbciplayer.bsky.social from tonight.
November 7, 2025 at 8:56 AM
My new series - Empire With David Olusoga - starts 9pm on BBC Two. Whole series on @bbciplayer.bsky.social from tonight.
If you’d told me hull kr would be the team to beat the stranglehold of the big 3 I don’t think I’d have believed it! Stunning game. Deserving winners #RugbyLeague @hullkr.bsky.social @wiganwarriorsrl.bsky.social Loved Wigan applauding the Hull fans.
October 11, 2025 at 7:55 PM
If you’d told me hull kr would be the team to beat the stranglehold of the big 3 I don’t think I’d have believed it! Stunning game. Deserving winners #RugbyLeague @hullkr.bsky.social @wiganwarriorsrl.bsky.social Loved Wigan applauding the Hull fans.
Semicolon and Oxford comma - two of the joys of the English language
I’ll admit it; I’ve become a late-in-life semicolon lover | Arwa Mahdawi
Vonnegut hated them and Lincoln thought them ‘useful little chaps’. I, meanwhile, have come round to the charms of this controversial punctuation mark after years on the fence, writes Arwa Mahdawi
www.theguardian.com
September 24, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Semicolon and Oxford comma - two of the joys of the English language
Well, 2 out of 3 ain’t bad as Meatloaf used to sing #universityrankings @durhamhistory.bsky.social @arcdurham.bsky.social @uniofstandrews.bsky.social www.thetimes.com/uk-universit...
September 19, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Well, 2 out of 3 ain’t bad as Meatloaf used to sing #universityrankings @durhamhistory.bsky.social @arcdurham.bsky.social @uniofstandrews.bsky.social www.thetimes.com/uk-universit...
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I still miss that part of 2020 when it was illegal for anyone to come near me
September 8, 2025 at 4:16 PM
I still miss that part of 2020 when it was illegal for anyone to come near me
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Just passed two young guys speaking the most incredible mishmash of Arabic and English, both spoken with a heavy Sheffield accent. I love this. I just do not understand why people feels this threatens their identity in some way. I only wish I could slip between languages as easily. #LoveSheffield
September 5, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Just passed two young guys speaking the most incredible mishmash of Arabic and English, both spoken with a heavy Sheffield accent. I love this. I just do not understand why people feels this threatens their identity in some way. I only wish I could slip between languages as easily. #LoveSheffield
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"What isn't at the V&A?" — new from me in @artreview.bsky.social on enduring colonialism, art-washing working class heritage, and a museum without labels
artreview.com/what-isnt-at...
artreview.com/what-isnt-at...
What Isn’t at the V&A Storehouse
You can’t escape it: this is the same colonial museum we know, in a shiny new suit
artreview.com
August 15, 2025 at 2:37 PM
"What isn't at the V&A?" — new from me in @artreview.bsky.social on enduring colonialism, art-washing working class heritage, and a museum without labels
artreview.com/what-isnt-at...
artreview.com/what-isnt-at...
Great thread.
150 years ago: the Victorians would let a viaduct destroy the Ribble Valley. We need transport, but at what cost?
July 14, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Great thread.
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'The most recent figures show that 13 per cent of school-leavers from Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, go to university, compared with 70 per cent from Wimbledon, southwest London.' Is shrinking staff at University of Cumbria wise in this context?
Half of school-leavers in England ‘should go to university’
An inquiry has proposed a ‘triple-lock’ target to get more young people from poorer areas into higher education
www.thetimes.com
July 8, 2025 at 8:53 AM
'The most recent figures show that 13 per cent of school-leavers from Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, go to university, compared with 70 per cent from Wimbledon, southwest London.' Is shrinking staff at University of Cumbria wise in this context?
So many times #introvert
Have you ever been too nice and ended up in a situation that could’ve been avoided if you just would’ve been an asshole??
July 6, 2025 at 4:59 PM
So many times #introvert
Long but interesting 🧵👇
New data reveals that 40% of corporation tax due from small businesses isn’t being paid.
It’s a hidden crisis that costs the UK £15 billion a year — and HMRC has quietly lost control.
buff.ly/5Ah4fP4
It’s a hidden crisis that costs the UK £15 billion a year — and HMRC has quietly lost control.
buff.ly/5Ah4fP4
June 19, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Long but interesting 🧵👇
#RugbyLeague. Best game in the world
Wigan great Billy Boston to be knighted in historic first for rugby league
Billy Boston, 90, is not only one of rugby league’s greatest players, but one of the pioneering black figures in British sporting history
www.theguardian.com
June 10, 2025 at 5:55 AM
#RugbyLeague. Best game in the world
June 7, 2025 at 3:55 PM