Thanks for hosting and organising Kevin! Such a stimulating and productive few days (and so much good food…)

Weirdly a poppy seller told me this morning “at this time of year you should be wearing a poppy” and I gave him a firm lecture on why people for very legitimate reasons do not. It has never happened before.

It’s always one of those things which still makes me feel so out of place after 20 years living here — the moment of national self-reckoning that comes every year with this John Lewis Christmas ad

Usually I placate them with an unlimited supply of breadsticks!

I am also a parent perennially on a Tern GSD with 2 children and usually some damp forest school kit so I feel like this substack’s core demographic

Brilliant work @emvchung.bsky.social

Thank you so much for coming Kathryn, great to meet you today.

Also the Marc Fitch fund (for British & Irish history & archaeology, broadly defined)

Considering Ballymun was built on the basis of that rail link, I can only assume it was completed in 1968?