Fun fact: Dame Sarah Mullally is the second medical professional to be Archbishop of Canterbury. Archbishop Thomas Secker (1758-1768) qualified as a medical doctor before being ordained #ArchbishopOfCanterbury

Ahh, incredible! I think I considered how great that looked, but had already double booked myself for two gigs tonight

The Beta Band. The gig with the tallest average height I have ever been to. I think the modal value must have been 6'2.
What were you seeing?

I was sure I just saw you in the queue for the Roundhouse. Wrong round venue I guess!

Mr Spencer, if you remember him?

Brian Patten lived next door to my geography teacher. I'll never get over him coming to school to do a reading and blowing my tiny teenaged mind with the devastating and restorative powers of poetry. Still one of my absolute favourite poets.
RIP Brian Patten

Never a truer word said

Everyone's a winner!

I am absolutely here for this combination of activities. Please update us with pictures

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video

Chingford station c.1900. Built in 1878 to replace the station near Chingford Green, it was soon a popular destination for tourists visiting Epping Forest. In 1882 Queen Victoria travelled by train to Chingford station for the ceremony at High Beach dedicating the Forest to the people. #Railway200

Prepping them for the lifetime ahead of being crazily tired

Great to meet you, thanks for finding the time!

We're organising a workshop funded by a grant, which has a buget for catering. Oh but the workshop is not taking place in my university. Guess how many emails I've exchanged and how many people are involved.
Anyway, if anyones knows of a catering company in London that invoices lmk! thank you!

We're just round the corner from the North Wing in Kent on and Lucas (Barts Heritage can direct you) if you get a chance!

If you have a chance, do pop over to the Trust Archives afterwards, would be great to meet you!

Any recs for guidance on managing book collections that's (a) modern (b) for poor wee archivists who don't know books <I don't know her dot gif> tysm! 📜 📚

"Perhaps prison would have persisted this way forever. Perhaps our granite hearts and iron wills would have never crumbled. Perhaps the prison mentality, that we be cold and heartless, would have endured.

Perhaps. But then there were kittens."

Oh god, NO. At this point Spartacus was Jack the Ripper, and does it matter? Even if it could be proved?

Its literally in the postcode

A first history that gave references? In my day, we'd have been delighted with references, even if they were all made up😆

From this remarkable interview:

www.lbc.co.uk/article/brit...

Wooden *City*, that should be, obvs

Really enjoyed this interview on Wooden Lives with the owners of a book, music and ephemera shop (not an archive!)
open.substack.com/pub/woodenci...