Black Joan
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I learned some stuff about Bluesky I did not know by reading this.
Maybe worth passing it on to others so we can all start getting the full benefit of the 🦋.
Maybe worth passing it on to others so we can all start getting the full benefit of the 🦋.
Here’s some cool stuff you can do with Bluesky
It’s not just an Alf pics repository.
www.theverge.com
November 17, 2024 at 8:55 AM
I learned some stuff about Bluesky I did not know by reading this.
Maybe worth passing it on to others so we can all start getting the full benefit of the 🦋.
Maybe worth passing it on to others so we can all start getting the full benefit of the 🦋.
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'I do love the past. Anything more than 20 years back begins to breathe a luminous fascination for me: it starts my imagination working. Why? because it IS past, I suppose, & leaves my feelings free to get to work on it.' Philip Larkin to Monica Jones, 14-8-53
November 19, 2024 at 10:59 AM
'I do love the past. Anything more than 20 years back begins to breathe a luminous fascination for me: it starts my imagination working. Why? because it IS past, I suppose, & leaves my feelings free to get to work on it.' Philip Larkin to Monica Jones, 14-8-53
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‘I liked to think of you at those Library conferences – it is comforting to know that such things go on in this violent world.’ Barbara Pym to Philip Larkin, 12-5-63
November 21, 2024 at 8:45 AM
‘I liked to think of you at those Library conferences – it is comforting to know that such things go on in this violent world.’ Barbara Pym to Philip Larkin, 12-5-63
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The auditorium ran parallel to the street, with the cinema screen at the western (left) side, and projection box at the back (eastern) side.
More of its history here:
www.scottishcinemas.org.uk/glasgow/abcr...
More of its history here:
www.scottishcinemas.org.uk/glasgow/abcr...
November 16, 2024 at 7:07 PM
The auditorium ran parallel to the street, with the cinema screen at the western (left) side, and projection box at the back (eastern) side.
More of its history here:
www.scottishcinemas.org.uk/glasgow/abcr...
More of its history here:
www.scottishcinemas.org.uk/glasgow/abcr...
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New on Substack, part one of my two part account of the construction and controversial regeneration of the Aylesbury Estate in Southwark:
open.substack.com/pub/municipa...
open.substack.com/pub/municipa...
The Aylesbury Estate, Southwark: ‘all that is left of the high hopes of the post-war planners is derelict concrete’
Tony Blair made his first public speech after New Labour’s 1997 landslide election victory in the Aylesbury Estate.
open.substack.com
November 21, 2024 at 8:54 AM
New on Substack, part one of my two part account of the construction and controversial regeneration of the Aylesbury Estate in Southwark:
open.substack.com/pub/municipa...
open.substack.com/pub/municipa...
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Luminous baby. Photo from my collection, handwriting on it says “My Eddie’s kitten ‘49”.
November 21, 2024 at 1:00 AM
Luminous baby. Photo from my collection, handwriting on it says “My Eddie’s kitten ‘49”.
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For #RomanFortThursday one of my bucket lists. The 3rd C Qasr Bashir cavalry fort in the Jordanian desert. One of the most intact, unexcavated, and at-risk Roman forts left in the world.
November 21, 2024 at 12:12 PM
For #RomanFortThursday one of my bucket lists. The 3rd C Qasr Bashir cavalry fort in the Jordanian desert. One of the most intact, unexcavated, and at-risk Roman forts left in the world.
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I'm not a Luddite or technophobe. I just know that after 466 years the thing on the left can be read fine. The thing top-right is 15 years old & uses tech that already no longer comes standard on computers. And the 30-yr-old thing bottom-right needs specialized antique hardware & software to read.
January 5, 2024 at 9:56 PM
I'm not a Luddite or technophobe. I just know that after 466 years the thing on the left can be read fine. The thing top-right is 15 years old & uses tech that already no longer comes standard on computers. And the 30-yr-old thing bottom-right needs specialized antique hardware & software to read.
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And then, wonderfully, almost 50% of the entire 400 page book is essentially a long, small text footnote in which John Hodgson slowly and methodically demolishes 1500 years of established history to prove Hadrian, not Severus, built the Wall.
It is beautiful. It is a work of art. 15/22
It is beautiful. It is a work of art. 15/22
January 5, 2024 at 11:31 AM
And then, wonderfully, almost 50% of the entire 400 page book is essentially a long, small text footnote in which John Hodgson slowly and methodically demolishes 1500 years of established history to prove Hadrian, not Severus, built the Wall.
It is beautiful. It is a work of art. 15/22
It is beautiful. It is a work of art. 15/22
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And the moment you do any proper archaeology, even proto-archaeology like this, it becomes utterly, indisputably obvious the wall was built by HADRIAN not Severus. The evidence was everywhere if you took it in totality.
But John had a problem. He's writing about Northumberland not the wall. 12/22
But John had a problem. He's writing about Northumberland not the wall. 12/22
January 5, 2024 at 11:27 AM
And the moment you do any proper archaeology, even proto-archaeology like this, it becomes utterly, indisputably obvious the wall was built by HADRIAN not Severus. The evidence was everywhere if you took it in totality.
But John had a problem. He's writing about Northumberland not the wall. 12/22
But John had a problem. He's writing about Northumberland not the wall. 12/22
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John Hodgson was The Man.
His friend Anthony Hedley did the first ever actual scienfitic(ish) excavation along the Wall, at Vindolanda. Hedley died suddenly in 1835, his report unfinished. Hodgson took Hedley's notes & his own drawings and published them, giving us our first glimpse of Wall digs.
His friend Anthony Hedley did the first ever actual scienfitic(ish) excavation along the Wall, at Vindolanda. Hedley died suddenly in 1835, his report unfinished. Hodgson took Hedley's notes & his own drawings and published them, giving us our first glimpse of Wall digs.
If you ask someone today to name the builder of Hadrian's Wall, they would give you a funny look. But historical memory is odd, and right up to the 1800s we forgot who built it.
Until in 1840 John Hodgson, an obscure Northumbrian clergyman, published the LONGEST footnote in history... 1/22
Until in 1840 John Hodgson, an obscure Northumbrian clergyman, published the LONGEST footnote in history... 1/22
January 5, 2024 at 2:26 PM
John Hodgson was The Man.
His friend Anthony Hedley did the first ever actual scienfitic(ish) excavation along the Wall, at Vindolanda. Hedley died suddenly in 1835, his report unfinished. Hodgson took Hedley's notes & his own drawings and published them, giving us our first glimpse of Wall digs.
His friend Anthony Hedley did the first ever actual scienfitic(ish) excavation along the Wall, at Vindolanda. Hedley died suddenly in 1835, his report unfinished. Hodgson took Hedley's notes & his own drawings and published them, giving us our first glimpse of Wall digs.
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Sunak's legacy asylum backlog claim just isn't true - the government's own statistics make that clear
We cannot believe a word this Government says
https://news.sky.com/story/the-governments-own-statistics-make-clear-that-rishi-sunaks-legacy-asylum-backlog-claim-just-isnt-true-13040900
We cannot believe a word this Government says
https://news.sky.com/story/the-governments-own-statistics-make-clear-that-rishi-sunaks-legacy-asylum-backlog-claim-just-isnt-true-13040900
The government's own statistics make clear that Rishi Sunak's legacy asylum backlog claim just isn't...
It feels like the government has rather shot itself in the foot in its efforts to highlight progress in reducing the asylum backlog by misleadingly focusing on a specific promise made by the PM which ...
news.sky.com
January 2, 2024 at 7:54 PM
Sunak's legacy asylum backlog claim just isn't true - the government's own statistics make that clear
We cannot believe a word this Government says
https://news.sky.com/story/the-governments-own-statistics-make-clear-that-rishi-sunaks-legacy-asylum-backlog-claim-just-isnt-true-13040900
We cannot believe a word this Government says
https://news.sky.com/story/the-governments-own-statistics-make-clear-that-rishi-sunaks-legacy-asylum-backlog-claim-just-isnt-true-13040900
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The Post Office scandal was an enormous miscarriage of justice that ruined dozens of lives — and a stark warning about the consequences of involving the private sector in our vital public institutions
https://tribunemag.co.uk/2022/02/behind-the-post-office-it-scandal
https://tribunemag.co.uk/2022/02/behind-the-post-office-it-scandal
Behind the Post Office IT Scandal
The Post Office scandal was an enormous miscarriage of justice that ruined dozens of lives — and a stark warning about the consequences of involving the private sector in our vital public institutio...
tribunemag.co.uk
January 3, 2024 at 6:15 PM
The Post Office scandal was an enormous miscarriage of justice that ruined dozens of lives — and a stark warning about the consequences of involving the private sector in our vital public institutions
https://tribunemag.co.uk/2022/02/behind-the-post-office-it-scandal
https://tribunemag.co.uk/2022/02/behind-the-post-office-it-scandal