George Harris
@historylecturer.bsky.social
Retired history teacher. Enjoys Lake District, painting, grandchildren, nature, history - lots really. Oh, and wildlife gardening. Still interested in education.
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Given that the BBC endlessly gives platforms to lobbyists from the dark money junktanks without revealing their interests, shouldn't we be seeing such apologies every day?
Better still, how about not doing it? If they want to appear, we should know on whose behalf they are speaking.
Better still, how about not doing it? If they want to appear, we should know on whose behalf they are speaking.
Exclusive: The BBC has issued an apology after one of its presenters failed to challenge a climate-sceptic lobbyist who runs a group that has received funding from fossil-fuel interests
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BBC Apologises for Failing to Challenge 'Dark Money' Climate-Denial Lobbyist
EXCLUSIVE: BBC faces fresh allegations of bias after corporation admits interview with ‘Net Zero Watch’ lobbying chief Andrew Montford 'fell below usual standards'
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November 25, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Given that the BBC endlessly gives platforms to lobbyists from the dark money junktanks without revealing their interests, shouldn't we be seeing such apologies every day?
Better still, how about not doing it? If they want to appear, we should know on whose behalf they are speaking.
Better still, how about not doing it? If they want to appear, we should know on whose behalf they are speaking.
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Sunlight falls through windows, adding to the geometric pattern on floor. A woman is playing music. And a man listens from the shadowed bed. Painted by Emanuel de Witte, whose day is today.
November 25, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Sunlight falls through windows, adding to the geometric pattern on floor. A woman is playing music. And a man listens from the shadowed bed. Painted by Emanuel de Witte, whose day is today.
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On Black Friday, I want to draw attention away from the big chains and towards local Edinburgh independent retailers, makers and markets.
Please join me from
7 pm - 8 pm on Friday 28 November
to share some ideas for Christmas gifting.
We'll use the hashtag #EdinburghHour
On Black Friday, I want to draw attention away from the big chains and towards local Edinburgh independent retailers, makers and markets.
Please join me from
7 pm - 8 pm on Friday 28 November
to share some ideas for Christmas gifting.
We'll use the hashtag #EdinburghHour
November 11, 2025 at 3:34 PM
PLEASE SHARE:
On Black Friday, I want to draw attention away from the big chains and towards local Edinburgh independent retailers, makers and markets.
Please join me from
7 pm - 8 pm on Friday 28 November
to share some ideas for Christmas gifting.
We'll use the hashtag #EdinburghHour
On Black Friday, I want to draw attention away from the big chains and towards local Edinburgh independent retailers, makers and markets.
Please join me from
7 pm - 8 pm on Friday 28 November
to share some ideas for Christmas gifting.
We'll use the hashtag #EdinburghHour
Black Friday deals. Here's mine. 🙂
"Grandpa, why haven't you made your book cheaper for black Friday?"
"Mainly because it costs so little anyway."
#BlackFriday #BookWeekScotland
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"Mainly because it costs so little anyway."
#BlackFriday #BookWeekScotland
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The Secret of Eilean Mhor
I hope that after you read this you might buy the book. It costs less than a pint of beer and is available as an Amazon paperback – or Kin...
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November 25, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Black Friday deals. Here's mine. 🙂
Grandson home from school: "We sat in rows and had to tell our postcode." Future sports professionals, no doubt.
November 25, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Grandson home from school: "We sat in rows and had to tell our postcode." Future sports professionals, no doubt.
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George Square, Glasgow, painting by Bryan Evans, Welsh-born artist.
November 25, 2025 at 2:12 PM
George Square, Glasgow, painting by Bryan Evans, Welsh-born artist.
I think I'm in favour of taxing sugary drinks. But why doesn't it kick in till 2028? Mystery.
(Is this a devolved issue? Does anyone know or care)
(Is this a devolved issue? Does anyone know or care)
November 25, 2025 at 2:00 PM
I think I'm in favour of taxing sugary drinks. But why doesn't it kick in till 2028? Mystery.
(Is this a devolved issue? Does anyone know or care)
(Is this a devolved issue? Does anyone know or care)
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Allégorie de l'hiver (et de l'amour)
Date de création/fabrication: vers 1625 - 1630. Abraham Bloemaert (Musée du Louvre)
Date de création/fabrication: vers 1625 - 1630. Abraham Bloemaert (Musée du Louvre)
November 25, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Allégorie de l'hiver (et de l'amour)
Date de création/fabrication: vers 1625 - 1630. Abraham Bloemaert (Musée du Louvre)
Date de création/fabrication: vers 1625 - 1630. Abraham Bloemaert (Musée du Louvre)
The journalistic speculation about what the Budget is going to be is crazy. Mostly column inches, I suppose. Perhaps some of it is devious. But all ridiculous.
Comment on it when it is known, please!
Comment on it when it is known, please!
November 25, 2025 at 11:20 AM
The journalistic speculation about what the Budget is going to be is crazy. Mostly column inches, I suppose. Perhaps some of it is devious. But all ridiculous.
Comment on it when it is known, please!
Comment on it when it is known, please!
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Here’s The S*n’s pathetic, microscopic apology for one of the biggest lies in modern British politics - the “benefits tourism” fairy tale that conned millions and helped drag us into Brexit. They poison democracy with front-page lies, then whisper “sorry” in tiny print.
November 25, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Here’s The S*n’s pathetic, microscopic apology for one of the biggest lies in modern British politics - the “benefits tourism” fairy tale that conned millions and helped drag us into Brexit. They poison democracy with front-page lies, then whisper “sorry” in tiny print.
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This is a lovely read.
Joseph Luzzi chronicles a Renaissance-Era orphanage in Florence: “The surge of their salvaged lives coursed through me like an electric current.”
The Innocenti: The Renaissance-Era Orphanage in Florence
In the summer of 2019, I had lunch in Florence with a friend, an art historian, and afterward we decided to take a walk. Along the way, we passed by the Piazza della Santis-sima Annunziata and the …
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November 25, 2025 at 8:18 AM
This is a lovely read.
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100% this.
"It’s ludicrous that aviation doesn’t pay fuel tax, especially now that Rachel Reeves is making noises about a tax on electric vehicles. If we’re looking for easy wins for revenue, just look to the skies."
~ Flight Free UK Director Anna Hughes in the Guardian today 👇
~ Flight Free UK Director Anna Hughes in the Guardian today 👇
End the tax break that makes flying cheaper than trains | Letters
Letters: Airlines benefit from a tax system that helps them keep fares low, writes Anna Hughes
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:24 AM
100% this.
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This was a really fascinating talk. Catch up if you can!
Our great thanks to Jane Ohlmeyer who gave the Society's 2025 Anniversary Lecture on Friday evening.
Jane's lecture, 'Visible | Invisible: Voices of Women in Early Modern Ireland', charted new work to recover the lives of Irish women, c.1550-1700 bit.ly/43NZXhv. Video to follow soon #Skystorians
Jane's lecture, 'Visible | Invisible: Voices of Women in Early Modern Ireland', charted new work to recover the lives of Irish women, c.1550-1700 bit.ly/43NZXhv. Video to follow soon #Skystorians
Jane Ohlmeyer delivers the Society's 2025 Anniversary Lecture - RHS
On 21 November, the Society was delighted to welcome Professor Jane Ohlmeyer to give the 2025 RHS Anniversary Lecture: ‘Visible | Invisible: Voices of Women in Early Modern Ireland’. Jane's lecture in...
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November 25, 2025 at 9:06 AM
This was a really fascinating talk. Catch up if you can!
My Nativity Play might interest. It includes a scene in a refugee camp. Here's a blog-post about it - and this includes the link to the play if you want.
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November 25, 2025 at 9:04 AM
My Nativity Play might interest. It includes a scene in a refugee camp. Here's a blog-post about it - and this includes the link to the play if you want.
georgehharris.blogspot.com/2016/12/a-po...
georgehharris.blogspot.com/2016/12/a-po...
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November 25, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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Appropriately for St Catherine's feast day #otd 25 Nov, here's:
Self Portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria by Artemisia Gentileschi c. 1615-1617. (The National Gallery, London)
Self Portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria by Artemisia Gentileschi c. 1615-1617. (The National Gallery, London)
November 25, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Appropriately for St Catherine's feast day #otd 25 Nov, here's:
Self Portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria by Artemisia Gentileschi c. 1615-1617. (The National Gallery, London)
Self Portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria by Artemisia Gentileschi c. 1615-1617. (The National Gallery, London)
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I was lucky enough to see this amazing medieval tiled pavement on a recent tour at Exeter Cathedral with the Devon Buildings Group.
Uncovered in the room above the chapel of St Andrew and St Catherine during work on the roof.
#TilesOnTuesday #medieval
Uncovered in the room above the chapel of St Andrew and St Catherine during work on the roof.
#TilesOnTuesday #medieval
November 25, 2025 at 7:12 AM
I was lucky enough to see this amazing medieval tiled pavement on a recent tour at Exeter Cathedral with the Devon Buildings Group.
Uncovered in the room above the chapel of St Andrew and St Catherine during work on the roof.
#TilesOnTuesday #medieval
Uncovered in the room above the chapel of St Andrew and St Catherine during work on the roof.
#TilesOnTuesday #medieval
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Heather Jansch, British sculptor who was known for creating life-sized sculptures of horses from driftwood #womensart
November 25, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Heather Jansch, British sculptor who was known for creating life-sized sculptures of horses from driftwood #womensart
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Two housewives chatting through the window in 1655. One is about to lose her salmon steaks to a very fortunate dog! By Nicolaes Maes, whose day is today.
November 24, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Two housewives chatting through the window in 1655. One is about to lose her salmon steaks to a very fortunate dog! By Nicolaes Maes, whose day is today.
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Today's batshit wikipedia paragraph encountered when innocently trying to identify a chunk of local architecture:
![Borromeo's diocesan reforms faced opposition from several religious orders, particularly that of the Humiliati (Brothers of Humility), a penitential order which, although reduced to about 170 members, owned some ninety monasteries. Some members of that society formed a conspiracy against his life, and a shot was fired at him with an arquebus in the archepiscopal chapel. His survival was considered miraculous.[12]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:pe4agiuhnyekwfdk2atrutfh/bafkreihciouzz3cgsaieoxzofb62snp7eyhs7yhdma3mfriczglaw2xftu@jpeg)
November 24, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Today's batshit wikipedia paragraph encountered when innocently trying to identify a chunk of local architecture:
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Im just now watching Episode 3. It really is good.
This is excellent. A "must watch". Thank you @davidolusoga.bsky.social
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Empire with David Olusoga
How did a small island once rule over a quarter of the world's population? This shared history still shapes us today - and billions of people are part of its story.
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November 24, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Im just now watching Episode 3. It really is good.
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Eek! My episode doesn't technically air until 8 December, but the whole series of the new BBC Arts Civilisations series is out now on iPlayer, including this episode on the Aztecs with me and friends @amyfuller.bsky.social & @restall.bsky.social (& others not on the Sky). Airs Mondays at 9pm, BBC2.
Civilisations: Rise and Fall - Series 1: 3. Aztecs
The Aztecs battle to save their civilisation from Spanish invaders – but is the real threat from the enemy within?
www.bbc.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Eek! My episode doesn't technically air until 8 December, but the whole series of the new BBC Arts Civilisations series is out now on iPlayer, including this episode on the Aztecs with me and friends @amyfuller.bsky.social & @restall.bsky.social (& others not on the Sky). Airs Mondays at 9pm, BBC2.
Book Week Scotland may be over, but that does not mean you should stop reading Scottish books, and encouraging children to do the same. Here's one they might like. Paperback or Kindle [email protected]
www.amazon.co.uk/Secret-Eilea...
www.amazon.co.uk/Secret-Eilea...
Amazon.co.uk
www.amazon.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Book Week Scotland may be over, but that does not mean you should stop reading Scottish books, and encouraging children to do the same. Here's one they might like. Paperback or Kindle [email protected]
www.amazon.co.uk/Secret-Eilea...
www.amazon.co.uk/Secret-Eilea...
The season of mocks (we call them prelims in Scotland) is upon us. My revision advice in this blog-post is based on decades of experience. @newtscotland.bsky.social @nexuseduk.bsky.social @htenuk.bsky.social
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History Exam Revision
This advice is based on four decades of experience as a teacher and as an examiner. I hope it is useful to you. 1. Practise. My g...
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November 24, 2025 at 8:37 AM
The season of mocks (we call them prelims in Scotland) is upon us. My revision advice in this blog-post is based on decades of experience. @newtscotland.bsky.social @nexuseduk.bsky.social @htenuk.bsky.social
georgehharris.blogspot.com/2014/03/hist...
georgehharris.blogspot.com/2014/03/hist...