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'The Christmas cheer provided for the inmates of the Sheffield Workhouse was plentiful and excellent'
'Two hundred of the inmates were allowed to go out the day after to complete their Christmas recreation'
Sheffield Independent - Saturday 28 December 1850.
British Newspaper Archive
'Two hundred of the inmates were allowed to go out the day after to complete their Christmas recreation'
Sheffield Independent - Saturday 28 December 1850.
British Newspaper Archive
December 26, 2025 at 8:46 AM
'The Christmas cheer provided for the inmates of the Sheffield Workhouse was plentiful and excellent'
'Two hundred of the inmates were allowed to go out the day after to complete their Christmas recreation'
Sheffield Independent - Saturday 28 December 1850.
British Newspaper Archive
'Two hundred of the inmates were allowed to go out the day after to complete their Christmas recreation'
Sheffield Independent - Saturday 28 December 1850.
British Newspaper Archive
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St Stephen's Day in Wales 🌿
St Stephen's Day (Boxing Day) saw the custom of 'Holming.' This was the act of beating a person with Holly.
The last person to awake on this day would be beaten with branches of Holly and named 'Tapster.'
#Wales #BoxingDay
St Stephen's Day (Boxing Day) saw the custom of 'Holming.' This was the act of beating a person with Holly.
The last person to awake on this day would be beaten with branches of Holly and named 'Tapster.'
#Wales #BoxingDay
December 26, 2025 at 8:54 AM
St Stephen's Day in Wales 🌿
St Stephen's Day (Boxing Day) saw the custom of 'Holming.' This was the act of beating a person with Holly.
The last person to awake on this day would be beaten with branches of Holly and named 'Tapster.'
#Wales #BoxingDay
St Stephen's Day (Boxing Day) saw the custom of 'Holming.' This was the act of beating a person with Holly.
The last person to awake on this day would be beaten with branches of Holly and named 'Tapster.'
#Wales #BoxingDay
Every day's a school day. #elementaryproficiency #duolingolevel50
Oh and seasman.. it’s a simdde in north wales, and we only have one operational simdde at the mo. Once i have completed the appropriate hearth works upstairs (20 yrs & counting) we’ll have simddai. #festivepedant
December 26, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Every day's a school day. #elementaryproficiency #duolingolevel50
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#DuvetKnowItsChristmas My poor son and daughter-in-law have been relegated to the study this year because the room they normally sleep in is full (literally) of my other daughter-in-law-to-be’s wedding dress hanging up and I don’t dare touch it!
December 24, 2025 at 9:30 PM
#DuvetKnowItsChristmas My poor son and daughter-in-law have been relegated to the study this year because the room they normally sleep in is full (literally) of my other daughter-in-law-to-be’s wedding dress hanging up and I don’t dare touch it!
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Cunk spittin Christmas cheer
December 20, 2024 at 12:48 PM
Cunk spittin Christmas cheer
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Tomorrow evening it’ll be my annual duty to vaguely shepherd the activity on the #duvetknowitschristmas hashtag and urge people to give small sums to charity. 7.30pm? Something like that?
December 23, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Tomorrow evening it’ll be my annual duty to vaguely shepherd the activity on the #duvetknowitschristmas hashtag and urge people to give small sums to charity. 7.30pm? Something like that?
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I have to say I think it was a mistake putting Barry White in charge of CBS News. Great singer but he’s no journalist, and he’s been dead for 20 years
December 22, 2025 at 8:47 PM
I have to say I think it was a mistake putting Barry White in charge of CBS News. Great singer but he’s no journalist, and he’s been dead for 20 years
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The piss tank on the ISS is now 69% full.
December 22, 2025 at 11:23 PM
The piss tank on the ISS is now 69% full.
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As a former editor of Popbitch – and the proud owner of a legal letter sent by HarperCollins, accusing me of being "highly likely to cause serious harm to [their former star client]’s reputation both as an individual and author” – may I just say: GET IT RIGHT UP YE
December 19, 2025 at 5:46 PM
As a former editor of Popbitch – and the proud owner of a legal letter sent by HarperCollins, accusing me of being "highly likely to cause serious harm to [their former star client]’s reputation both as an individual and author” – may I just say: GET IT RIGHT UP YE
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This is not a normal repost. Do you know anyone in switzerland? With a theramin? In the unlikely event that you do please getnin touch with jeremy.. thank you for your attention to this matter.
Long shot, but does anyone in Switzerland have an emergency Theremin to loan tomorrow night ( Friday 12 December )?
#ViaMardot is playing a show in St Gallen, and the airline lost her equipment!!!
We can help pay for a courier if needed, please share to get this message out!!
#theremin #switzerland
#ViaMardot is playing a show in St Gallen, and the airline lost her equipment!!!
We can help pay for a courier if needed, please share to get this message out!!
#theremin #switzerland
December 11, 2025 at 9:44 PM
This is not a normal repost. Do you know anyone in switzerland? With a theramin? In the unlikely event that you do please getnin touch with jeremy.. thank you for your attention to this matter.
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I don't really post anymore, but I would like to carry on writing books at some point in the future.
Hate to be annoying, but any chance you could retweet so old twitter followers can find me if they want to? Going to delete my twitter, or at least abandon it on lock and let it die a slow death.
Hate to be annoying, but any chance you could retweet so old twitter followers can find me if they want to? Going to delete my twitter, or at least abandon it on lock and let it die a slow death.
December 11, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I don't really post anymore, but I would like to carry on writing books at some point in the future.
Hate to be annoying, but any chance you could retweet so old twitter followers can find me if they want to? Going to delete my twitter, or at least abandon it on lock and let it die a slow death.
Hate to be annoying, but any chance you could retweet so old twitter followers can find me if they want to? Going to delete my twitter, or at least abandon it on lock and let it die a slow death.
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Over at our YouTube Channel we've put up 11 poetry workshops to help people of any age write poems. So far they've had in total 355 thousand views.
www.youtube.com/c/MichaelRos...
www.youtube.com/c/MichaelRos...
Kids’ Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen
Official Michael Rosen Channel
Every video and playlist here is approved by Michael himself.
If it’s on this channel, it’s the real deal and safe for children.
You may see “YTP” or “poop” remixes on...
www.youtube.com
December 11, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Over at our YouTube Channel we've put up 11 poetry workshops to help people of any age write poems. So far they've had in total 355 thousand views.
www.youtube.com/c/MichaelRos...
www.youtube.com/c/MichaelRos...
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Not sure how long Farage is going to get away with this sort of thing….
Long enough to get into No.10 where he can fully screw the country over? Or could he (for love of god) be investigated before then?
Racism aside (which should end his career), he’s just so bloody corrupt…
(Private Eye)
Long enough to get into No.10 where he can fully screw the country over? Or could he (for love of god) be investigated before then?
Racism aside (which should end his career), he’s just so bloody corrupt…
(Private Eye)
December 10, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Not sure how long Farage is going to get away with this sort of thing….
Long enough to get into No.10 where he can fully screw the country over? Or could he (for love of god) be investigated before then?
Racism aside (which should end his career), he’s just so bloody corrupt…
(Private Eye)
Long enough to get into No.10 where he can fully screw the country over? Or could he (for love of god) be investigated before then?
Racism aside (which should end his career), he’s just so bloody corrupt…
(Private Eye)
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Absolutely amazing chart from @peterkellner.bsky.social's piece in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social today:
www.thenewworld.co.uk/peter-kellne...
www.thenewworld.co.uk/peter-kellne...
December 9, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Absolutely amazing chart from @peterkellner.bsky.social's piece in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social today:
www.thenewworld.co.uk/peter-kellne...
www.thenewworld.co.uk/peter-kellne...
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Never go to bed angry.
Stay up all night getting angrier and angrier.
Stay up all night getting angrier and angrier.
December 2, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Never go to bed angry.
Stay up all night getting angrier and angrier.
Stay up all night getting angrier and angrier.
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Farage the politician *is* Farage the schoolboy losing his shit over seeing the name ‘Patel’ on the school roll and telling black pupils to go back to Africa. There’s really no difference. Except now he wants (and may be bought) the power to deport those people.
It’s not the past. It’s now.
#NeverPM
It’s not the past. It’s now.
#NeverPM
December 7, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Farage the politician *is* Farage the schoolboy losing his shit over seeing the name ‘Patel’ on the school roll and telling black pupils to go back to Africa. There’s really no difference. Except now he wants (and may be bought) the power to deport those people.
It’s not the past. It’s now.
#NeverPM
It’s not the past. It’s now.
#NeverPM
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No Reform representative on the Laura Kuenssberg show for two weeks running - that's a record! It's almost as though we didn't want to talk about the 28 witnesses to my teenage racism and antisemic abuse.
December 7, 2025 at 9:34 AM
No Reform representative on the Laura Kuenssberg show for two weeks running - that's a record! It's almost as though we didn't want to talk about the 28 witnesses to my teenage racism and antisemic abuse.
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Good to see a fulsome apology on this but it remains absolutely insane that someone wrote those words down and someone else approved them.
Well done to @ianbyrnemp.bsky.social for pushing on this.
Well done to @ianbyrnemp.bsky.social for pushing on this.
Police Federation apologises for Hillsborough statement
Families blasted the statement from the Police Federation which called the IOPC report a "waste of time and money"
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk
December 6, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Good to see a fulsome apology on this but it remains absolutely insane that someone wrote those words down and someone else approved them.
Well done to @ianbyrnemp.bsky.social for pushing on this.
Well done to @ianbyrnemp.bsky.social for pushing on this.
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Having a celebratory drink with everyone who believes I wasn't a racist twat at school.
December 5, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Having a celebratory drink with everyone who believes I wasn't a racist twat at school.
@paulsandham.bsky.social
Tempting
Tempting
I never really need an excuse to make my Black Pudding Meatballs – a deep love of mine – #RecipeOfTheDay, but since it does happen to be St Andrew’s Day, it felt like a particularly opportune moment! www.nigella.com/recipes/blac...
Black Pudding Meatballs
When I included these black pudding meatballs in Cook, Eat, Repeat, I thought they would be a niche choice, but I have been gratifyingly overwhelmed by the number of people who have made and loved the...
www.nigella.com
November 30, 2025 at 10:25 PM
@paulsandham.bsky.social
Tempting
Tempting
Keen followers will know I have previously lamented the inability to buy tinned gooseberries anywhere. I now have to report I can no longer find romanesco broccoli.
November 30, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Keen followers will know I have previously lamented the inability to buy tinned gooseberries anywhere. I now have to report I can no longer find romanesco broccoli.
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"These estimates suggest that by 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time. We estimate that investment was reduced by between 12% and 18%, employment by 3% to 4% and productivity by 3% to 4%"
Link: www.nber.org/papers/w34459
Link: www.nber.org/papers/w34459
November 26, 2025 at 8:42 AM
"These estimates suggest that by 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time. We estimate that investment was reduced by between 12% and 18%, employment by 3% to 4% and productivity by 3% to 4%"
Link: www.nber.org/papers/w34459
Link: www.nber.org/papers/w34459
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I implore someone, anyone, in the media…
Do your job
And the next time you have Farage on, please ask him directly:
…what were the motivations behind this?
Do your job
And the next time you have Farage on, please ask him directly:
…what were the motivations behind this?
November 24, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I implore someone, anyone, in the media…
Do your job
And the next time you have Farage on, please ask him directly:
…what were the motivations behind this?
Do your job
And the next time you have Farage on, please ask him directly:
…what were the motivations behind this?
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Roger Roger Daltrey And Punish Him For His Brexit Dogma It's 2:00AM
November 23, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Roger Roger Daltrey And Punish Him For His Brexit Dogma It's 2:00AM