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David Edward Underdown was a historian of 17th-century English politics and culture and Professor Emeritus at Yale University. Born… more

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#UnconfinedWalks riding into the twilight again
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Bulletin of the John Rylands Library goes #OpenAccess

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2025/10...

#History 🗃️
BJRL Goes Open Access: Professor Carsten Timmermann on Manchester's Medical History - Manchester University Press
BJRL 87:1 is now Open Access on Manchesterhive.
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk
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'"The factory is 9 years young & we've continued to grow. We've got the skill & the competency here to produce this fantastic product."
Mr Sykes praised the "pioneering spirit" of the team in Hull. "This is just another thing we can be incredibly proud of"'
#AbPoli #CdnPoli #FUCP #UnlockRenewables
Why we're turning North Sea wind turbines into luggage
Revolutionary recyclable blades at Dogger Bank offshore wind farm are a UK first.
www.bbc.com
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#UnconfinedWalks back on the bike today
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Whoa 📚 🏴‍☠️ www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
The Pushkin job: unmasking the thieves behind an international rare books heist
The long read: Between 2022 and 2023, as many as 170 rare and valuable editions of Russian classics were stolen from libraries across Europe. Were the thieves merely low-level opportunists, or were bi...
www.theguardian.com
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by British Library — Reposted by: David Underdown

bldigischol.bsky.social
We're so grateful to Sak for his work with @britishlibrary.bsky.social playbills - not only does blplaybills.org make them findable online, but we learn from his experiments!
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When I was doing some research before moving to my current flat I found various articles bemoaning the original introduction of the 30 mph speed limit with many of the same arguments used about 20 mph limits today (eg means driving with eyes on speedo not road).
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Exciting! Congrats @musicheritageplace.bsky.social #earlymodern 🗃️ www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...
‘Almost unheard of’: experts find more music by English composer Henry Purcell
Printed score and keyboard manuscript by Purcell, who died in 1695, unearthed in Worcestershire and Norfolk
www.theguardian.com
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👋🏾 #DPC members! You are invited to join our next Databases Special Interest Group meeting on Tuesday 14 October, 10:00-11:00 UTC. Read more and sign up here: buff.ly/FOjAO2d

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gold-plated FOMO in action
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🚴John Betjeman said that it was worth cycling 40 miles in a headwind to see them.
🪽The early C16th Angel Roof at St Wendreda in Cambs is adorned with over 100 oaken angels.
View along the nave of St. Wendreda’s Church, March, showing the magnificent medieval angel roof with carved wooden angels soaring above the slender stone arcades.
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He was a big lad and there were several young pretenders around to deter
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#UnconfinedWalks also the rut in progress
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#UnconfinedWalks an actual walk as I wasn’t feeling 100%. The sugar maples commemorating the Canadian use of Richmond Park during the Second World War (first two photos) and then sunset
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This is really good: "Most of What We Call a ‘Service’ Isn’t One (and Why That Matters for Product People)" productinservice.substack.com/p/most-of-wh... by Scott Colfer (who I can't find on here)
Most of What We Call a ‘Service’ Isn’t One
Product in Service October 2025
productinservice.substack.com
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#UnconfinedWalks coming home through Richmond Park a little while ago
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#UnconfinedWalks to @lampallib.bsky.social for the “Sing Joyfully” exhibition marking the (probable) 500th anniversary of the Arundel Choirbook, plus other music from the library collection
Anthony L'Abbé, The Princess Anna: a new dance for his Majestys birth day 1716 (London, 1716) These diagrams record dance steps in a specialised eighteenth century notation ('Beauchamp-Feuillet') which translated steps and turns into symbols and patterns on the page. The two dances shown here are taken from a set called the 'Princess Anna', composed in 1716 by Anthony L'Abbé for Anne, Princess Royal, the second child and eldest daughter of George II. L'Abbé had been appointed as the royal dancing master in 1715. Anne was a musician herself, and was taught singing, harpsichord, and composition by George Friedrich Handel. Sion G84.3/L11 02, pp. 1-2 (facsim.) View (through window) of the pond just outside Lambeth Palace Library. It’s lined with reeds and has lily pads in it On the left a Lutheran hymn book with wood cuts and hymns with music. On the right one of only two known surviving copies of John Wesley’s second published collection of hymns (words only) The Arundel Choirbook, open at the Sanctus of a Mass by Thomas Fayrfax. Illuminated Ss (3 on the left leaf and 2 on the right) mark the start of each line of the 5 part polyphony
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Other reports suggest the two hit by police bullets were inside the synagogue holding the doors against the attacker
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#UnconfinedWalks somehow a dry one at the time I needed to cross town
A wet road and gravel track meet in the middle of the foreground, diverging to left and right. Grass and bracken, along with trees further back, below a cloudy sky with small blue patches
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#UnconfinedWalks a foggy one this morning
A few trees (and a couple of other cyclists) hazily visible
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The British Transport Police won't investigate bike thefts if the bike was left for more than two hours.

road.cc/content/news...
"Effectively decriminalising bike thefts": Bikes stolen from train stations that were left for more than two hours will not be investigated, says British Transport Police
CCTV footage will not be looked at outside a two-hour timeframe
road.cc
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Reposted by: David Underdown, Rosemary A. Joyce, Adrian Vickers , and 2 more

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Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central #Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY.

There was also a 71% drop in air pollution.

Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople
Closing Central Madrid To Cars Resulted In 9.5% Boost To Retail Spending, Finds Bank Analysis
City of Madrid significantly boosted the takings of its shops and restaurants last Christmas by banning cars from the CBD, finds an analysis by Spain's second largest bank.
www.forbes.com
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#UnconfinedWalks last evening Moloko laps of the year (plus tacos)
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#unconfinedWalks video should have been with previous skeet
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#UnconfinedWalks another lovely evening, the rut hotting up even as the temperatures dipped with the sun
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Loose memoranda roll found in a loft. "Washed but not mended" [TNA E 160/17]
Loose memoranda roll Loose memoranda roll
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Reposted by: David Underdown, British Library, Martin Paul Eve , and 2 more

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Join us on 20 November for the Annual Digital Lecture, a partnership between The National Archives, UK and the School of Advanced Study. The wonderful @nannathylstrup.bsky.social will be speaking about ‘When saving becomes loss: archival memory in the digital age’. Free to register!
When saving becomes loss: Archival memory in the digital age
Explore archival memory, data loss, and attempts to preserve the past in the digital age at this year’s Annual Digital Lecture.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
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Putting this question out across the various socials: where do people sit these days on the concept of "Significant Properties"? #digipres
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#UnconfinedWalks foggy in the morning but clearing nicely by lunchtime. Stags definitely starting to gather groups of hinds
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One of the best parts of the day job is putting on document displays. Today, I got to show off this gorgeous 15th-century illuminated statute book [TNA E 164/10] #LegalRecords
Illuminated manuscript book Cover of a 15th century book Illuminated page from the 15th Century
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