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Sporting Heritage CIC @sportingheritage.bsky.social · 9d

Share the sporting story of your club, organisation, or community with us on National Sporting Heritage Day #NSHD2025

To Kick Off here's “#Gillingham Football Club - The Supporters' Stories” #oralhistory #medway vimeo.com/1070405466?f...

Gillingham Football Club - The Supporters' Stories

This is "Gillingham Football Club - The Supporters' Stories" by Spaghetti Weston on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

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Chris de C B @panthropology.bsky.social · 9d

Today is National Sporting Heritage Day #NSHD2025

Here's “Gillingham Football Club The Supporters' Stories”, compiled by Oral History Medway and made possible by the National Lottery Heritage Fund as part of the Medway Heritage Place Programme

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Gillingham Football Club - The Supporters' Stories

This is "Gillingham Football Club - The Supporters' Stories" by Spaghetti Weston on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

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Chris de C B @panthropology.bsky.social · 22d

"Diversity is its most consistent characteristic....The characteristics of freely improvised music are established only by the sonic-musical identity of the person or persons playing it."

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BBC Radio 4 - Great Lives, Comedian Stewart Lee on Derek Bailey

Stewart Lee chooses guitarist Derek Bailey.

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Chris de C B @panthropology.bsky.social · 26d

Crouch End Vampires F. C. 1908-9, formed in 1883, still playing today.

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Chris de C B @panthropology.bsky.social · 27d

Jazz Drug Menace - Melody Maker December 1st 1951

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Chris de C B @panthropology.bsky.social · Sep 6

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"Conservator Alexandra Wade for the Chatham Historic Dockyard Trust said the discovery was a "tangible reminder of the lives once lived here - a small, personal object that has survived nearly three centuries"."

Card from 1700s found in Chatham Historic Dockyard restoration

Chatham Historic Dockyard Trust says the discovery has inspired them to create a time capsule.

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Chris de C B @panthropology.bsky.social · Aug 24

"The music of our hearts is roots music: musics which we call history, because without the knowledge of your history you cannot determine your destiny; the music about the present, because if you’re not conscious of the present you’re like a cabbage in this society" youtu.be/gM2VxbQDERw?...

Misty In Roots Introduction & Mankind .wmv

YouTube video by Awwehness

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Chris de C B @panthropology.bsky.social · Aug 24

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“They have clearly shifted to it being a resource for BBC business priorities,” said Wyver. “The corporation no longer recognises the value that working with scholars brings”

Historians dismayed by ‘scandal’ of BBC cutting access to...

Critics say new limit to trove of information sounds knell for independent research

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Chris de C B @panthropology.bsky.social · Aug 23

"For a normal, cultivated human being… our brain can operate only within certain limits: what our environment, with books, knowledge, information, has put in our brain. And, at some point, probably our brains may no longer have the capacity to understand."

Chris de C B @panthropology.bsky.social · Aug 14

The worst part of this story is rather buried;

“The guards came to his bed, opened his pillow, took all the poetry and letters he’d been writing, and all the notes he’d been taking about his experiences, and told him he’s no longer allowed to write.”

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‘Petri dish for disease’: attorney raises alarm of possible Covid outbreak at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’

A respiratory disease is running rampant through Florida immigration jail, according to attorney of a detained person

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Chris de C B @panthropology.bsky.social · Aug 9

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"Interest in Short Brothers has been overwhelming, so many people globally have been in touch with fascinating stories and artefacts to share."

We're always looking for more stories... get in touch

Pioneering aviation brothers honoured with plaque in Hove - BBC News

A plaque is being unveiled in St Ann's Well Gardens in Hove to honour Oswald and Eustace Short.

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Chris de C B @panthropology.bsky.social · Jul 30

A wonderful evening at Gillingham Football Club last night for the launch of the Oral History Medway Supporters' Stories film. Thanks to everyone who came, especially to Brigadier Andrew Wood, Deputy Lieutenant of Kent, Mayor of Medway Cllr Trevor Clark. oralhistorymedway.co.uk/.../gillingh...

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Chris de C B @panthropology.bsky.social · Jul 20

It was amazing to be part of this reunion, 50 years to the day since the band Cathedral played in Rochester Cathedral with Anaconda Music Theatre and Paul Laurence. A glass was raised to the late Andy Dungate. A beautiful, moving afternoon of memories

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Chris de C B @panthropology.bsky.social · Jul 20

"Yet most of it is closed down. Boarded up. Under threat. The Crown especially should be the site of (un)holy pilgrimage for every Sabbath fan, Metal Head, Ska Revivalist, Punk and Folkie globally - showcasing the best Brum music, beer, food and creativity." www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Chris de C B @panthropology.bsky.social · Jul 13

“We are trying preserve memories, to fix them”

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Inside the ghost museums of Ukraine: exhibits replaced by fragments of war and occupation

The curators of shattered historical buildings near the eastern frontline are preserving wartime memories as they reconstruct their collections

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Chris de C B @panthropology.bsky.social · Jul 12

One inscribed “SKULL DRINKING CUP USED BY LORD BYRON AT NEWSTEAD ABBEY” was auctioned in 2017, but the write up seemed fairly sceptical about its provenance

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Chris de C B @panthropology.bsky.social · Jul 12

No skull sippy-cups for him though; he was there twenty years earlier.

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Chris de C B @panthropology.bsky.social · Jul 2

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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · Jun 19

Win a signed copy of the wonderful new book Stone Lands by Fiona Robertson. To enter please repost and like this post and follow us on here if you haven’t already. More… 1/

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Chris de C B @panthropology.bsky.social · Jun 16

Happy Bloomsday to all who celebrate

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Chris de C B @panthropology.bsky.social · May 25

"There were a little over 150 names on them - all of which are names which are familiar with local people and known to family members."

She continued: "They're not even valuable."

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‘It’s pure greed’: First World War memorials stolen from church

A reverend says members of her church have been left “devastated” after memorials honouring First World War soldiers were stolen.

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Chris de C B @panthropology.bsky.social · May 9

18 May 6.30 p.m. The White Horse Chilham
A Village at the Centre of The Universe - A Creative Open House & Open Mic

readings, creativities, curiosities, jollities, poetry, and music and the unexpected.
Contact: [email protected]

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Chris de C B @panthropology.bsky.social · May 9

“The revision of environmental planning rules to facilitate building new developments is potentially in breach of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement”

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EU warns Britain’s war on newts could violate Brexit deal

Leaked EU report raises alarm about U.K. planning bill’s bonfire of environmental protections.

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Chris de C B @panthropology.bsky.social · May 8

In 1790, The Gentleman’s Magazine explained the Furry Dance: "It is called the Furry day – supposedly Flora’s day – not I imagine, as many have thought, in remembrance of some festival instituted in honour of that goddess, but rather from the garlands commonly worn on that day…"

Chris de C B @panthropology.bsky.social · May 7

www.thenational.scot/news/2513709...

The promise of a Bildersturm of "crazy modern art" [Entartete Kunst] in a "Säuberung des Kunsttempels" for our time.

https://www.thenational.scot/news/25137095.schools-will-teach-students-love-britain-nigel-farage-becomes-pm/"Entartete