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Radical Online Archives @radonlinearchives.bsky.social · 16h

One collection now listed is 'Citizen Soldier', the short-lived paper for communists in the Australian armed forces during the Second World War. Only a few issues from 1942 (when the CPA was still banned under wartime regulations) have been digitised by Trove here: trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/ti...

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Radical Online Archives @radonlinearchives.bsky.social · 3h

Will be adding this new collection to the list!

LSE Library @lselibrary.bsky.social · 16h

New online: The Gay Liberation Front (GLF) collection is now available on LSE Digital Library! We’ve digitised and published the GLF Diaries and the GLF newspaper Come Together. Further series from the archives will be added as digitisation continues.
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Cover image of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) Diary, December 21-30, 1972. A purple and green poster-style image featuring text and a leafy plant design.

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Pip @pipmadeley.bsky.social · 1d

A fascinating insight into the cataloguing and preservation of UK film collections, some of which are at very real risk of being lost forever without the hard work and dedication of people like Film Are Fabulous. Recommended listening.

filmisfabulous! @filmisfabulous.bsky.social · 2d

3 key members and trustees of the Film is Fabulous! team joined Tim of the 'Missing Episodes Podcast'

Film collector John Franklin, De Montfort University’s Prof Justin Smith & Sue Malden, renowned former Head of Broadcast Archives at BBC
YouTube Link
youtu.be/CK02j_Mi6iE?...

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Pip @pipmadeley.bsky.social · 1d

“Abigail’s Party, a single play written by Mike Leigh, was watched on BBC2 by 18 million people [in 1977] and we all talked about it the following day. Well, those days are over" - Jimmy Mulville

'Those days' being almost HALF A CENTURY AGO. And it was BBC1. And 16 million watched by most accounts.

Michael Savage @michaelsavage.bsky.social · 1d

Last month, something unusual happened in TV - none of the main channels got a million viewers at 9pm. The bigger problem was it happened a 2nd & 3rd time soon after.

Another unwelcome landmark for linear TV & our shrinking shared TV experience.

Does it matter?

www.theguardian.com/media/2025/o...

‘It was a binding experience’: TV producers mourn decline of hot 9pm slot

UK broadcasters used to rely on big audiences at 9pm, but as viewing habits change, figures are falling below the 1m mark

www.theguardian.com

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Pip @pipmadeley.bsky.social · 5h

Some idiot on YouTube has probably put them all in the same video so people can hear them played simultaneously. Oh wait--

www.youtube.com/watch?v=czNA...

All twelve episodes of FAWLTY TOWERS. At the same time.

YouTube video by Pip Madeley

www.youtube.com

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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 16h

The theme tune for Fawlty Towers is a different recording for:

a) the pilot,
b) the rest of Series 1, and
c) Series 2

And I wonder why. I guess it's slowed down a bit from the pilot to the rest of Series 1? But if they cared that much, why didn't they paste the new theme onto the pilot before TX?

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Elaine Treharne @etreharne.bsky.social · 5h

Had fun filming a short video about the fabulous Parker.stanford.edu with @blalbritton.bsky.social today. We have a super NEH project (Global Currents) on the automated retrieval of features of manuscript layout using Parker data.

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 5h

Lotti, Weltmeisterin der Kraftgymnastik (World Champion of Strength Gymnastics), 1925.

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TRANSDIFFUSI⭕️N @transdiffusion.org · 1d

Every word of this 👇

Scott Bryan: continuity announcers are television’s unsung heroes

The role could be at risk in the age of streaming, but their empathetic and skilful contributions would be sorely missed

www.broadcastnow.co.uk

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Alison M @alisonm.bsky.social · 19h

#31DaysOfGraves day14: inside. Govan, better known as the heart of Scotland's shipbuilding industry, is home to one of the country's oldest places of worship and to the Govan Stones, Viking era hogback stones, as well as the magnificent pre-Norman Govan sarcophagus. A brilliant place to visit.

Viking hogback stones. A long carved stone that looks a bit like a corn on the cob

Detail of the Govan sarcophagus, a carved stone tomb. The detail shows a soldier on horseback and some carved pattern work to one side

Another detail from the sarcophagus, possibly showing a lamb standing on a wolf (perhaps suggesting the triumph of Christianity over paganism)

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Mark Culham @markculham.bsky.social · Jan 23

F. C. Eden
One of two windows using medieval stained glass fragments by F. C. Eden*.
St Margaret's, Bagendon

📷Rex Harris
*Renovation of Windows as War Memorial, F. C. Eden (Architect), 3 Feb 1925 - Gloucestershire Archives

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Martyn Hayes @martynhayes.bsky.social · Mar 9

March 9th: From the archives - on this day! 🦉

This Blue Rock Thrush at Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire in 2016/ 2017 did the decent thing and lingered for everyone to enjoy.

So on a second visit I did! 😊

#UKbirding

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Blackpool Research School @blackpoolrs.bsky.social · Mar 20

NEW: FROM THE ARCHIVES

This year we take a weekly dip into the archives to revisit blogs from the past.

This week, Gloucestershire Research School are joined by @marcrowland73.bsky.social to ask if we really understand the ocean of disadvantage.

buff.ly/5duAJF1

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Royal Berkshire Archives @berksarchives.bsky.social · Aug 29

Last night at the #ARA2025 conference there was a gala dinner and awards ceremony. Huge congratulations to Gloucestershire Archives on winning Record-Keeping Service of the Year!

ARA 2025 Annual Dinner and Excellence Awards PowerPoint slide.

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Society of Genealogists @sogorg.bsky.social · Sep 4

🏆 Gloucestershire Archives has been named Record Keeping Service of 2025! 🎉
Celebrate with us this September:
📅 16/9 – Online talk (FREE) portal.sog.org.uk/Ev...
📅 17/9 – Library tour, SoG London portal.sog.org.uk/Ev...
📅 23/9 – Visit Gloucestershire Archives portal.sog.org.uk/Ev... #GenHour

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claire m. l. bourne @roaringgirle.bsky.social · 8h

a tiny bit of good news is that we have secured funding to digitize john milton's copy of holinshed's CHRONICLES (1587).

the images will form part of MILTON'S LIBRARY, an open-access site featuring the 10 books positively identified as milton's w/ transcriptions/translations of his marginal notes.

A close-up image of a handwritten note in a sixteenth-century book. The note reads: 'Spenser repor / teth otherwise / [o]f this Knight / [D]ialogue of Ire- / [la]nd / [p]. 76.

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 7h

Bridget Holmes, 1686. By John Riley Holmes, d. 1691, at reputed age of 96, James II & VII's 'Necessary Woman', cleaning & preparing the bedchamber, polishing & dusting, laying fires, mopping and sweeping, & emptying chamber pots and close stool pans. (Royal Collection, HM CIII)

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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 7h

A Tudor at the court of James II

John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 7h

Bridget Holmes, 1686. By John Riley Holmes, d. 1691, at reputed age of 96, James II & VII's 'Necessary Woman', cleaning & preparing the bedchamber, polishing & dusting, laying fires, mopping and sweeping, & emptying chamber pots and close stool pans. (Royal Collection, HM CIII)

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Dictionary of Canadian Biography @dcb-dbc.bsky.social · 8h

#WomensHistoryMonth! We highlight Uttaktuak (d. 1932), Copper Inuit seamstress and artist.
She assisted the Canadian Arctic Expedition between 1915 and 1917. A skilled seamstress, she made winter clothing vital for safety and comfort. 📷 @canmushistory.bsky.social www.biographi.ca/en/bio/uttak...

Two Inuit women in fur-trimmed hoods and parka-type coats that come to their knees. They wear large boots. "Minnie and Iktuktorvik at ‘North Star’ camp near Cape Prince Alfred, Northwest Territories." Canadian Museum of History.

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 7h

Thanks to the lovely people at Edinburgh for the great hospitality, incisive questions and discussion this evening. Plus the inside of the lecture theatre looked like I was about to perform in panto.

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Robert Farley @drfarls.bsky.social · 7h

oh my god this.

And it bleeds into writing. I have to yell to my students “if it’s in the past USE PAST TENSE.”

Jane Gulliford Lowes @lydiajane13.bsky.social · 7h

The use of present tense in historical documentaries DRIVES ME INSANE.

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Friends of Warriston Cemetery @fowarristoncem.bsky.social · 13h

#31DaysofGraves 14: Inside. Warriston Cemetery's historic catacombs & vaults. I seem to use the word "sadly" a lot, but again, sadly these were badly vandalised & have been sealed off for many years. The b&w photos were taken by the council in the 1980s. #Edinburgh #Warriston #Catacombs #Vaults

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 12h

Listen now to the Bureau of Lost Culture podcast episode with me, discussing commons and common rights
bureauoflostculture.podbean.com/e/who-owns-t...

Who Owns The Ground Beneath Our Feet? | Bureau of Lost Culture

We walk the streets every day — and through parks, across squares and pavements and along beaches, and mountains, over 'The Commons' — without much thought for who really owns them. These apparently p...

bureauoflostculture.podbean.com

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Dr James Peate @jamesepeate.bsky.social · 14h

One of the worst things about the academic job market is the creepy & frankly racist obession with posh white academics hiring other posh,white academics to whitesplain racial and colonial histories over minority academics.

Its not progressive, its not post colonial - its just colonial.

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