History repeats itself. This classic should be required reading.
Dave Stowe
@davidstowe1919.bsky.social
Independent Researcher and Historian. Interests: Civilian Internment, Crime, Urban History, Interwar Years. TV & Film. Leeds, West Yorkshire. Formerly https://x.com/InternierungWWI Blog https://pelicanroad.wordpress.com/page/2/
Abandoned train line. San Esteban de Gormaz, Soria in August heat. 1000s of kilometres of lines were lost in the 20th century, many now idllyic cycling+walking routes but others like this in 1995,closed. A symbol of la España Vacía/da (Empty/ied Spain) as tragedy of depopulating hinterland is called
One of a series of blogposts on Hertha Ayrton for the IET Archives.
Distinguished scientist, famous inventor and suffragist: mourning Hertha Ayrton in 1923
Graeme Gooday, University of Leeds Her many friends, scattered in various places on their summer holiday, were shocked to read in their newspapers, one morning, that she had passed away on August 2…
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📢Upcoming book event! Join us to hear more about @historytaylor.bsky.social 's Little Wars of Empire: British veterans in a colonial world, c. 1885-1918. 📅Sep 11 ⏰12pm noon ET Free and open to the public Info and RSVP: www.nacbs.org/event-detail...
September 7th 1940. 86 years ago, church bells were starting to ring across Southern England. The bells followed the issuing of the code word “Cromwell”. This was the signal for a German invasion. I wish somebody would write a book about this day.
Marc Almond looks like he has just wandered in off the street and into a Friends Reunited convention. Lot of talent in one photo nonetheless.
Goodnight Lovelies Sleep well Bis Morgen. Thus cliff top lift has not worked for years, but I remember using it as a child.
Geordie pigeon - Haymarket Bus Station. They make 'em big in Newcastle. Nice coo too!
On Channel 5 now, the #victorian railway boom from rich and poor perspectives. I chat with Ruth Goodman about excursions at a very snowy Scarborough
Gift article. “Videos on social media showed billowing smoke and orange skies as cars in slow-moving traffic tried to get away. Others showed scorched communities, homes and vehicles. People who evacuated their homes reported being jammed in hourslong traffic.” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/u...
Spokane Wildfires Destroy Hundreds of Buildings as Thousands Evacuate (Gift Article)
Firefighters were hopeful that improving weather conditions in Washington state could help efforts to contain the blaze, which officials described as the largest natural disaster in the history of Spo...
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In the 1800s French “wetlands considered unhealthy and unproductive were drained and replaced with pine forest” for timber and resin. Now it’s burning: "This isn't a fire in a natural forest. It’s a fire in a forest that was planted there to support industrial activity." www.cbc.ca/news/world/h...
A human-made forest is at the centre of France's raging wildfires | CBC News
Scientists say climate change is driving the extraordinary fire conditions gripping western Europe, but that the scale of those fires cannot be understood without looking at how humans drastically cha...
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This YouTube comment on the theme music from The Family is an entire meditation on time, ageing & the nature of memory. Goes almost as hard as the music itself
Looks like Newsnight have sat Zack Polanski on the naughty chair for the second segment of the programme.
Some recent book reviews to check out 📚 Parul Behl on Alissa Walter's Contested City (@stanfordpress.bsky.social) "a methodological and disciplinary conversation about how the built environment and social history should be studied in tandem with each other" 🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S096...
Alissa Walter, Contested City: Citizen Advocacy and Survival in Modern Baghdad. Stanford: Stanford University Press, CA, 2025. vii + 340pp. 14 figures. Bibliography. $140.00 hbk. $25.00 pbk. | Urban H...
Alissa Walter, Contested City: Citizen Advocacy and Survival in Modern Baghdad. Stanford: Stanford University Press, CA, 2025. vii + 340pp. 14 figures. Bibliography. 25.00 pbk.
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It is a thing! Beyond proud to announce the publication of my latest book - The Dum-Dum Bullet: A Lethal History - published by @universitypress.cambridge.org You can order it now from reputable bookstores and the Cambridge UP website: www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...
#TaylorFarms is directly implicated in the environmental crisis documented in The Age of Water, a PBS POV documentary. The film centers on #LaCantera, a rural community in Guanajuato, Mexico, where several children tragically died from an aggressive form of leukemia.
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Michael Morpurgo on 20 years of War Horse | The Observer
As the show seen by 8.8 million people across the world returns to the National Theatre, Katherine Cowles speaks to the creators who turned a ‘wild hunch’ into the play that revolutionised children’s ...
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Private Eye tells me that How Green Was My Valley is one of Andy Burnham’s favourite books. Oh dear. I write a PhD on 1930s Welsh mining novels, including a whole chapter on Llewellyn’s work. I even read the terrible sequels. It really, really isn’t a story of working-class solidarity etc.
#MusicChallenge #IsmuasMonthOfMusic Day 26 - A song that feels chaotic but controlled. The Who “Baba O’Riley” It feels like it’s constantly on the edge of spinning out of control, yet every note is exactly where it belongs. That’s the essence of chaotic but controlled. youtu.be/x2KRpRMSu4g?...
The Who - Baba O'riley
YouTube video by Zumie94
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Set of repurposed wooden internal and external house doors forming a screen at the Beamish Open Air Museum, July 2026. #AdoorableThursday
My wonderful friend Leslie Woodhead, the only person to film the Beatles in the Cavern, the pioneer of docudrama, and a wonderful human being has died aged 88. An extraordinary, very humble filmmaker who fostered the talents of Stephen Frears, Paul Greengrass, and many others. I’ll miss you
Leslie Woodhead obituary
Director of current affairs programmes who was a pioneer of drama-documentaries on British television
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The CHS 2026 Conference Cambridge, 25-27 Sept 2026 will have 1 of 2 days on Building Practice: regulation, corruption, & adaptation. This fascinating talk is about how water systems were built for London & , towards the end, some very definite corruption & bad practice. youtu.be/hfOJpQmPIc8?...
Tillie based her book on my work. Her website lays out her process clearly. You could have put that information up front so readers and reviewers knew it. Instead you took my title, cover, and story and buried a one-sentence acknowledgement in the back. The rest of your statement is hand-waving.
They were produced by the Central Office Of Information. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charley...
Charley Says - Wikipedia
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I've got Bob Dylan's "Masters of War" in my head for some reason this morning. "Like Judas of old..." www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEmI...
Bob Dylan - Masters of War (Official Audio)
YouTube video by BobDylanVEVO
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Thoughtful chapter on "The Italian Empire" from Richard Bosworth & Giuseppe Finaldi in Robert Gerwarth & Erez Manela (eds) Empires at War, 1911-1923 (Oxford University Press, 2014), with interesting discussion on Italy's influence in Africa and the Eastern Med in and following the FWW.
