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john bone

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contentedly retired academic (economics) diatonic accordion fumbler (https://www.youtube.com/@ekhezlaik/videos) shelfloads of #vinyl - not a collector though, just old. #COYI btw

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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 10h

Foreigners and Outside Influences in Medieval Norway
edited by Stian Suppersberger Hamreis. Archaeopress Publishing Ltd 2017: The Cistercians’ arrived in the middle of the twelfth century. 'In this case, we have more evidence of who they were and 'where they came

The first Cistercian monastery, Lyse near Bergen, was founded in 1146 by monks from Fountains near York, at the behest of Sigurd, the Bishop of Bergen.

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 8h

A Flemish Kermis with a Performance of the Farce ‘Een cluyte van Plaeyerwater’, Peeter Baltens, c. 1570

The farce is about a man – hidden in a pedlar’s basket – who catches his wife cheating on him with a cleric.

(Rijksmuseum)

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john bone @johnbone.bsky.social · 12h

I guess he's written off the teachers' vote then.

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 12h

I for one wasn't aware they'd even started.

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Dee Lilley @deelilley.bsky.social · 15h

Safrano Roses at the Window, Henri Matisse 1925

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Dee Lilley @deelilley.bsky.social · 15h

Bouquet Of Anenomies In A Vase, Henri Matisse 1924

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john bone @johnbone.bsky.social · 14h

Aberystwyth, since you asked.

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john bone @johnbone.bsky.social · 15h

Was it Red Rum?

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Holly Jones @hollium.bsky.social · 8d

YouGov asked me a question about BOGOF deals on sugary products, then immediately hit me with this:

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john bone @johnbone.bsky.social · 17h

all those pub lunches

john bone @johnbone.bsky.social · 18h

As with so many things.

john bone @johnbone.bsky.social · 18h

How might things have gone differently in the wider world, had Dr Stuart Jones (BNC) and/or Mr L R Price (Oriel) been more eloquent and persuasive at Congregation?

john bone @johnbone.bsky.social · 19h

Ditto.

In the PPE programme we set up at York in the 80s, to drop a subject you had to transfer to one of the related bipartite programmes e.g. Ec/Phil. So anyone graduating in PPE had studied all three.
We also had a core of explicitly interdisciplinary modules, which Oxford conspicuously lacked.

john bone @johnbone.bsky.social · 20h

Intake, Compression, Combustion, Exhaust.

john bone @johnbone.bsky.social · 21h

In any given ‘paper’ (module), your course of study was guided by your tutor, in ignorance of what questions would be set in the exam, and independently of whatever programme of relevant lectures may or may not have been available, also independently of the exam.
Not sure whether still the case.

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Pextons Hardware York @pextons.bsky.social · Nov 28

Yale promotional key hanging at Pextons since the 1940's. Made of solid aluminium recycled from WWII airplanes.

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Voetnoot -Mark Ponte @voetnoot.bsky.social · 22h

Thorbeckeplein

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James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social · 1d

Occasional reminder that the "distracted boyfriend" meme has its origins in a pre-WW1 Punch cartoon about Anglo-German relations...

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Yorkshire Dales National Park @yorkshiredales.org.uk · 22h

Located near Keld, Wainwath Falls is a wide, scenic waterfall on the River Swale. Though modest in height (just 1.5–3 metres), its charm lies in its tranquil setting beneath the limestone cliffs of Cotterby Scar.

📸 Wendy McDonnell | #YorkshireDales #Swaledale #StepIntoNature

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john bone @johnbone.bsky.social · 21h

otoh Thatcher allowed us to get pissed in the afternoons, and that was clearly the making of us.

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john bone @johnbone.bsky.social · 21h

Bless

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 22h

Workers at Burton Menswear, Leeds. The Hudson Road factory became the world's biggest clothing factory, employing 10,000 and producing more than 30,000 suits a week (West Yorkshire Archive).

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Jason Hazeley @jasonhazeley.bsky.social · 22h

This is EXCELLENT. An EXCELLENT programme about an EXCELLENT man. @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social — help yourself to a medal.

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Great Lives - Oliver Postgate - BBC Sounds

Andrew Davenport, creator of In the Night Garden, chooses Oliver Postgate.

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john bone @johnbone.bsky.social · 22h

Still, it delights us economists.
Apparently.

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Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 23h

'London, a view of Somerset House seen through an arch of Waterloo Bridge' (c.1865) by Henry Pether

(Private collection)

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