This Is Fascism

New blog for @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk on the pride in place strategy

I explore why the government is going quite big on this and has adopted the language of pride in place, and look at whether it marks a real shift in power away from the centre

www.bennettschool.cam.ac.uk/blog/unpacki...

Our new book about Micklegate is out this week, packed with stories, facts, photos and memories. Details and stockists at www.clementshallhistorygroup.org.uk/blog/mickleg... @balhnews.bsky.social @yorkfhs.bsky.social

stop thinking right now

Our latest blogpost features 90 years of Pextons Hardware on Bishy Road in #York www.clementshallhistorygroup.org.uk/blog/pextons... @balhnews.bsky.social @yorkfhs.bsky.social

Love this.

NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5).

An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸

(🎥 Ahmed Zantac)

We flounced out of the EU on the say-so of politicians who lied to us. And what a total shitshow that’s turned out to be. The polar opposite of what they promised. Now the call to flounce out of the ECHR. By the same people. Telling the same lies. Has the country been kicked in the head by a horse?

Thank you Tony!

This week on #BBC4 they're reshowing #RailwaysTheMakingOfANation, from 2016. I took part in the episode about leisure, due on Wednesday. I was filmed in a signal box at Ramsbottom, on the East Lancashire Railway, talking about early excursion trains. #Railways200

What has Yvette Cooper’s proscription of Palestine Action done to this country?

Beyond absurd. It’s extreme authoritarianism. These police should be arresting rapists & crooks, not neglecting those duties to spend time arresting citizens standing against genocide.

It undermines police and the law.

Found a secret door in the back of my washing machine. Behind it a tiny room with rows of mice fast asleep in odd-sock sleeping bags.

It's all happening for us train enthusiasts (or is it just me?) as today marks 200 years since the Stockton and Darlington Railway opened in 1825 - the birth of the modern railway.
So here are some of the many railway linocuts I have done over the years - too many, I hear you say? Surely not… 😂

Free access to the collection is available over two periods - 25 September - 15 October and 3-10 November 2025.

My paper on mid 19th century railway excursion agents is part of this collection, on open access to mark #railway200.

I am far more worried about the rise of fascism than the rise of autism. Can we look into the causes of that?

We've renewed our display panel at @theslipinnyork.bsky.social in Clementhorpe, #York, as the history of shipbuilding and other industries nearby is of great interest to customers. There's a new inn sign too, as the old sign was very misleading www.clementshallhistorygroup.org.uk/blog/echoes-...

Well said @AndyShrimpton

Yes they are part of people's family history.

There's a great feature on our new Micklegate book in today's Yorkshire Post. The book is due out on 15 October.

Our book about Micklegate, out on 15 October.

One Labour MP tells me:

“There's so many people over there at the top that have done little bits and pieces which are not quite right... Then there's the other side, like Rachel Maskell, who haven’t really done anything - and they come down hard on them.”