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Matthew Kilburn @matthewkilburn.bsky.social · 14h

Unexpected walls in Oxford suggest earlier settlement by the Thames than was known: oxfordclarion.uk/have-we-foun...

An unexpected discovery at Oxfordshire County Council’s proposed new HQ could transform our understanding of Oxford’s history. Madeline Odent explains more… Oxfordshire County Council received some u...

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James Cooray Smith @ Psychic Paper @cooraysmith.bsky.social · 16h

For paid subscribers, but with a taste and a link to a free piece and the chance to opt in. Can't say fairer than that.
buttondown.com/cooray_smith...

The Mind Robber

“It's too bad that all these things can only happen in my dreams. Only in dreams. In beautiful dreams.” In 1990 BBC Video really accelerated their Doctor Who...

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The Georgian Lords @georgianlords.bsky.social · 17h

On the death of Frederick, Prince of Wales in 1751, a swathe of students and fellows of @ox.ac.uk composed verses of condolence, many in Latin and in English and a smattering in other languages. John Swinton MA of Christ Church showed off by offering two: one in Phoenician and the other in Etruscan.

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Matthew Kilburn @matthewkilburn.bsky.social · 18h

I remember watching Doctor Who that day at family friends' house in Chester-le-Street. It was dropped in to a New Yeared Saturday schedule, the curtailed Grandstand and added family film being the most obvious changes.

Old UK Christmas Listings Mags @oldukxmaslistings.bsky.social · 18h

Top 3 posts of September 2025, #2...

Old UK Christmas Listings Mags @oldukxmaslistings.bsky.social · 18d

#Christmas 1976 Radio Times: Featuring Coronation Day 1953; Dr Who; Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory; Multi-Coloured Swap Shop; Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle; News; Valley Of The Dinosaurs; Ski-jumping; Today's Sport; Rugby League; Horizon; Mister Men; Regional News/Sport and more

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 23h

At some point these imbeciles are going to realise that arts courses are *funding* the courses they do like and if they cut those places unis will just go bankrupt so no maths or science either.

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Richard Ovenden @richove.bsky.social · 1d

MLGB is back!! Delighted that Medieval Libraries of Great Britain @bodleian.ox.ac.uk is now back online. We are also working had on plans for the next phase of the resource, enhancing & adding data & functionality. HUGE thanks to my colleagues for their hard & clever work mlgb.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 1d

Why, it’s Thunderbird 1 & Lady Penelope on the cover of The Observer magazine from Sunday 18th December 1966. F.A.B. indeed.

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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 2d

Awful news from Wales, the St Fagan's Museum has been broken into and prehistoric goldwork has been taken. Its painful to think what objects might now be at risk. Thoughts with the museum team who must be devastated, all speed to the police and a curse on the crooks.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

St Fagans: Bronze Age gold jewellery stolen from musuem

Police are investigating a burglary at St Fagans museum in the early hours of Monday morning.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 2d

He's strikingly incapable of setting out *why* something is bad. Everything he writes is a search for labels that avoid having to make an argument - Reform's policies are 'racist', these protests are 'un-British'. You are the prime minister! Explain why they are wrong!

The Times & Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 2d

Sir Keir Starmer will warn students not to take part in “un-British” protests marking the anniversary of the October 7 Hamas massacre and accuses those who call for violence against Jews of a “total loss of empathy and humanity”

Keir Starmer tells students: Don’t take part in ‘un-British’ October 7 protests

www.thetimes.com

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Matthew Kilburn @matthewkilburn.bsky.social · 2d

27 days against 50, I think.

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Matthew Kilburn @matthewkilburn.bsky.social · 2d

Someone gave a measurement of 0.55 but I don't know if that was accurate.

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Doctor Who Production News @doctorwhopn.bsky.social · 2d

Congratulations to Anjli Mohindra and Sacha Dhawan, who married in Tuscany!
www.vogue.co.uk/gallery/anjl...

Anjli Mohindra Wore A Custom Lehenga And Pre-Loved Jimmy Choos To Marry Fellow Actor Sacha Dhawan In Tuscany

The couple held a Hindu and a Western ceremony on the same day at their Tuscan wedding celebrations.

www.vogue.co.uk

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archivetvmusings @archivetvmusings.bsky.social · 2d

The first episode of Chigley (the final series in the Trumptonshire trilogy) was originally broadcast on this day in 1969.

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 2d

Jilly Cooper is lovely.

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Matthew Kilburn @matthewkilburn.bsky.social · 2d

Been there. Agree.

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Zoë Crowther @zoecrowther.bsky.social · 2d

For the avoidance of doubt, if you have heard that Euan Blair’s company Multiverse has been awarded a govt contract to deliver the digital ID scheme, this is false.

The govt expects the ID scheme to be developed in house, though it is still in early stages and “no decisions” have been made

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Charnock @printdevil.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 3d

#doctorwho

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Matthew Kilburn @matthewkilburn.bsky.social · 3d

I know. I think it's all of a piece.

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Matthew Kilburn @matthewkilburn.bsky.social · 3d

The BBC's current attitude towards public understanding of its past seems not to be constructive.

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Russty Russ @russtyruss.bsky.social · 4d

Evening!...

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Matthew Kilburn @matthewkilburn.bsky.social · 4d

We have joined half-way so presumably had a lucky escape.

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filmisfabulous! @filmisfabulous.bsky.social · 4d

PRESERVING RARE FILMS

Television on film is often a curio in film collections. Film is Fabulous! are currently returning 350 silent films on nitrate to the Library of Congress in Washington DC, for identification and cataloguing. These films had been curated by a UK film (1/2)

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Matthew Kilburn @matthewkilburn.bsky.social · 4d

That's interesting - I've gone to sleep after caffeinated drinks when one would expect the opposite.

Matthew Kilburn @matthewkilburn.bsky.social · 4d

Have you let the ODNB know?

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Matthew Kilburn @matthewkilburn.bsky.social · 4d

I was polite about it in the ODNB article on Sweeney Todd (one of the mythical people passed off as historical sometimes, who crept in because people will look for them) which replaced one commissioned from Haining, but at best it's a self-conscious hoax with nods and winks to those in the know.

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