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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 9d

I’m joining Hugh Grant & @hackedoff.bsky.social in calling for fair, independent regulation to protect ordinary people from abuse and restore trust in the press. It's time to finally hold them to account. Please join us signing the petition to change the law🙏
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-...

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British Association for Local History @balhnews.bsky.social · 1d

Join us next week for a virtual lecture about the new book 'Drax of Drax Hall: How One British Family Got Rich (and Stayed Rich) from Sugar and Slavery.'

Find out more: www.balh.org.uk/event-balh-d...

S Hutchinson, English: Slave Traffic (1793). Royal Museums Greenwich, PR1979-11

This painting refers to the story of Inkle and Yarico, first published in 1711. In the story, the 'native' woman, Yarico, rescues an Englishman Mr Inkle after a shipwreck. They fall in love and live together in the woods, before a passing ship brings them to Barbados. The picture shows Inkle at the moment that he sells Yarico into slavery. She has just told him that she is pregnant with his child, in the hope that this will make him change his mind. Inkle asks the trader for more money instead. Sentimental stories like this often exposed the cruelties of slavery, and they were used in the growing art and literature of the abolition movement. It is signed by the artist and dated.

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SBlandfo @sblandfo.bsky.social · 1d

It would be good to see this Basic Income programme trialled in the UK too - ideally, not just for creative artists but for a wide range of individuals. It would be transformative. #UBI

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 2d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Society for One-Place Studies @oneplacestudies.bsky.social · 1d

The Valor Ecclesiasticus is described in the web page linked to below as “an incredible resource for local history”. This three-year project will make the detailed information it recorded accessible to all, and will be of great value to #OnePlaceStudies across England and Wales.

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 1d

'A nationwide survey commissioned by Henry VIII on the property and wealth of 16th century England and Wales is to be made publicly accessible for the first time.

The survey, known as the Valor Ecclesiasticus, set out to discover the financial state of the Church'.

National project launched to rediscover Henry VIII’s long-forgotten ‘Tudor Domesday Book’

A nationwide survey commissioned by Henry VIII on the property and wealth of 16th century England and Wales is to be made publicly accessible for the first time. The survey, known as the Valor Ecclesi...

news.exeter.ac.uk

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Dr Adam R. North @northy1.bsky.social · 1d

Now more than ever it’s vital that people actually engage with the dangers our democracy is facing. It’s not good enough to ignore politics and hope someone else sorts it out for us. Use your democratic rights or lose them.

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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 1d

Autumn called. It brought scones.

Carrot cake scones.

Try them in our cafés where every bake directly supports our work looking after the places you love.

A green plate stacked with scones. One is cut in half and served with cream cheese frosting, and scrumptious blood orange marmalade. A pot is in view with the cream cheese frosting and a jar of marmalade with a spoon.

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SBlandfo @sblandfo.bsky.social · 1d

This is excellent news - I’ve been wanting to use the ‘Valor Ecclesiasticus’ but found it so inaccessible: “A digital team led by Exeter’s Dr Charlotte Tupman will transform the 500-year old Latin manuscripts into modern, searchable records, translated, analysed and linked to current maps using GIS”

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 1d

'A nationwide survey commissioned by Henry VIII on the property and wealth of 16th century England and Wales is to be made publicly accessible for the first time.

The survey, known as the Valor Ecclesiasticus, set out to discover the financial state of the Church'.

National project launched to rediscover Henry VIII’s long-forgotten ‘Tudor Domesday Book’

A nationwide survey commissioned by Henry VIII on the property and wealth of 16th century England and Wales is to be made publicly accessible for the first time. The survey, known as the Valor Ecclesi...

news.exeter.ac.uk

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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 1d

The first meeting with a charity CEO which deals with rural poverty is now being lined up. Getting a national project like this off the ground is incredibly challenging but we’ll see what happens. Rural poverty is widespread but hidden and not on the media radar at all.

Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 7d

If anyone has people in their network who work in charities which deal specifically with issues of rural poverty I’d be grateful for any connections. Not rural homelessness, although I appreciate there’s a crossover. Scoping out a possible follow on to Outsiders focused on this subject.

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Rosemary Griggs @ragriggsauthor.bsky.social · 4d

St Olave’s Church, Exeter, an 11th century chapel founded by King Harold’s mother, Gytha.

#SteepleSaturday

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Dr Alan Montgomery @classicalalan.bsky.social · 4d

The Roman camp of Raedykes near Stonehaven is one of the best preserved in Scotland. It covers around 38 hectares and has an irregular outline. Probably built in the late 1st century, by the 1700s it was being associated with the elusive site of the battle of Mons Graupius. #RomanSiteSaturday

The ditch of the Roman camp of Raedykes in north east Scotland

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SBlandfo @sblandfo.bsky.social · 5d

My favourite was:

Bank: “We’ll need your husband’s signature to confirm”.

Me: “But we are both on the Electoral Roll at that address”.

Bank: “But it was your husband who completed the canvass form”.

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 5d

Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment

Sky News @news.sky.com · 5d

Woman named as new Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first

Bishop of London Dame Sarah Mullally, a former nurse, has been named as the next Archbishop of Canterbury - the first time a woman has been appointed to the role in the Church of England's history.

news.sky.com

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TnmntTiles @tnmnttiles.bsky.social · Mar 10

Every share and shoutout is just as important to the project as the images posted. The community built up over a decade makes this project happen. Thank you.

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TnmntTiles @tnmnttiles.bsky.social · Mar 10

Since my decision to stop posting to X/Twitter, and restarting here, the project has lost 2k+ followers.

It’s disheartening, but the project is 10yrs old this year, and I hope it’ll be around for 10 more.

To those who have stuck with us, and to those new to the project, thank you.

We can rebuild.

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Simon Knott @simoninsuffolk.bsky.social · 5d

'What will survive of us is love'

The tomb of Richard Fitzalan, Earl of Arundel, and his second wife, Eleanor of Lancaster, 1370s, now in Chichester Cathedral. It was brought into the cathedral after the dissolution of Lewes Priory at the Reformation. 1/2

#31DaysofGraves 3: tomb

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Spitalfields Life @thegentleauthor.bsky.social · 5d

It is with a heart full of emotion that I have to announce that my good friend the historian GILLIAN TINDALL died on Wednesday aged 86. In February, Gillian asked me to publish her final work, JOURNAL OF A MAN UNKNOWN, which comes out on 6th November. spitalfieldslife.bigcartel.com

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Dr Ella Hawkins @ellamchawk.bsky.social · Dec 20

’Tis the season for a biscuit set inspired by Victorian scrapbooking. 🍪

These festive scraps come from two scrapbooks in the Powerhouse Collection, both thought to have been compiled by children between 1880 and 1890.

A collection of 18 biscuits of different sizes and shapes. In the centre is a large rectangular biscuit with rounded edges, painted with a snowy church scene. Flanking that biscuit are two large roses in shades of yellow and magenta. At the top corners of the set are two tiny teacups: one features spindly text that reads 'Think of me when far away', and the other says 'With fond love for thee'. The other biscuits in the set include: small butterflies in vivid shades of red, blue, yellow, and orange; leaves; a duck; a Basset hound; tiny figures in historical dress; a water mill scene; a decorative oval with a short verse titled 'Remember me'; and a bouquet adorned with a banner that reads 'Wishing you a Happy New Year'.

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 6d

Actor & campaigner Hugh Grant tells ITV News why he feels Labour has ‘betrayed’ hacking victims.

He says seeing Keir Starmer forge close relationships with major newspaper barons is hard to stomach for the families who were promised things would change.

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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 9d

October is the time for hawking.
#MedievalCalendar
BL Cotton MS Julius A VI; A calendar, computistical texts and tables; 1st half of the 11th century-2nd half of the 12th century; England SE (?Canterbury); f.7v

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SBlandfo @sblandfo.bsky.social · 6d

This #MedievalCalendar refers to “Felix and Victor” on 3rd #October - but it’s not the feast day of either saint. Anyone know why they are commemorated then?

Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 9d

October is the time for hawking.
#MedievalCalendar
BL Cotton MS Julius A VI; A calendar, computistical texts and tables; 1st half of the 11th century-2nd half of the 12th century; England SE (?Canterbury); f.7v

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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 11d

October is the time for selling your ox and gathering grapes.
#MedievalCalendar
Morgan Library MS M.399; Da Costa hours, illuminated by Simon Bening; ca. 1515 CE; Belgium; f.11v

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Carl Bovis @carlbovisnature.bsky.social · 7d

I saw this curious looking bird in a ditch at RSPB Greylake at the weekend... do you know what it's called? 🤔🐦
#birds 🪶

A bird with red eyes and long beak in a wet ditch

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SBlandfo @sblandfo.bsky.social · 6d

I saw my first ever water rail at @wwtworldwide.bsky.social London #Wetland Centre this week - they’re quite shy and not easy to spot. #birdwatching

Carl Bovis @carlbovisnature.bsky.social · 7d

I saw this curious looking bird in a ditch at RSPB Greylake at the weekend... do you know what it's called? 🤔🐦
#birds 🪶

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 6d

Tory party’s long journey away from science, reason, responsibility, common sense and truth is complete

Kemi Badenoch vows to repeal Climate Change Act

Tory leader says she would replace it with ‘cheap energy’ strategy, ending decades-long consensus on climate

www.theguardian.com

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Simon Knott @simoninsuffolk.bsky.social · 6d

'The Mersey Sound' was published in 1967, featuring the poems of Adrian Henri, Roger McGough and Brian Patten, no 10 in the Penguin Modern Poets series. It was hugely popular, going on to sell more than half a million copies. The three were propelled to celebrity status.

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