"Children who travel independently and actively to school have better spatial awareness, a better sense of balance, faster social development and fewer learning disorders on average than children who are driven to school." - Ulla Rasmussen, Executive Director Mobility with a Future (Vienna)

You can now quickly identify single female plaintiffs in Court of Requests cases by searching REQ 2 for the code "SFP". Over 2,500 hits. discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/results/r?_s...

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Some very REQciting news. My Court of Requests pleadings (REQ 2/16-424) project is now complete. Over 28,000 items dating from c.1547-c.1625 (Edw VI to Jas I) now searchable online. Happy researching everyone 🙂 discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/C...

Some very REQciting news. My Court of Requests pleadings (REQ 2/16-424) project is now complete. Over 28,000 items dating from c.1547-c.1625 (Edw VI to Jas I) now searchable online. Happy researching everyone 🙂 discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/C...

Back to the Somme (and to the blog) First of a series of a recent trip to France to mark the 110th Anniversary of the Battle of the Somme, visiting two family graves. Travelling by train, ferry and bicycle

Back to the Somme (and to the blog)

First of a series of a recent trip to France to mark the 110th Anniversary of the Battle of the Somme, visiting two family graves. Travelling by train, ferry and bicycle

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A lovely little bit of physics that you might have spotted if you ever play with a slinky. We should all play more, because we should all embrace our curiosity. And finding out how the physical world works is fun!

For women's music to stay in the repertoire, we don't just need recordings. We also need score publication, composer info & advocacy. So I'm delighted to announce the launch of UNHEARD HERITAGE, a recording initiative marrying research & performance leahbroad.substack.com/p/announcing...

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The 1919 Housing Act - the Addison Act - received the royal assent on this day in 1919. 176,000 council homes were built under its terms and its standard of high quality housing set a benchmark for decades to come. A 1917 photo of Addison and housing from Newcastle, Lancaster and Winchester.

@yrieithydd.bsky.social can’t reply to the thread. Grampy’s parents were Frederick Pare who was a lace manufacturer (which went back at least one more generation as an employer, further in the trade more generally); and Florence May Hodson. Her family owned a terra cotta factory in Loughborough

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New blog for The Women's Library at 100 by Grace Parker, student at LSBU on environmental activism and the Women's Institutes. Thank you Grace! blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsehistory/2...

Women and environmental activism: the National Federation of Women’s Institutes - LSE History

The WI is the UK's largest women's organisation, and has been campaigning to protect the environment since the 1920s. Grace Parker explored its archives at The Women's Library, to find out more.

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An Elizabethan lodge renowned for its Roman Catholic symbolism has reopened after essential conservation work. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Word worm crawls into Copilot, spreads chaos

Word worm crawls into Copilot, spreads chaos

Researcher says months of coordination with Microsoft have yet to produce a robust mitigation

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Please share! A rare PhD studentship @kingshistory.bsky.social *fully* funded by @slaveryinwar.bsky.social to work with myself and Maeve Ryan, supported by a broader community of experts in Caribbean history, transatlantic slavery, and the history of war. www.kcl.ac.uk/study/fundin... 🗃️

AHRC Studentship: Slavery and the Seven Years’ War within and across the Caribbean Archipelago | King's College London

The Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War (CRSW) is pleased to announce the availability of a fully funded AHRC doctoral studentship, to be jointly supervised across History and War Studies

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📢 We are looking for a Software Engineer to join our amazing team! 👋 The successful candidate will be working initially on DMPonline - our web-based Data Management Planning service. 📅 The deadline for applications is 7 August 2026. ✍ Apply now elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

As this year’s Tour de France comes to a close, we're looking back at London's cycling traditions. These images from the London Picture Archive show Good Friday racing at Herne Hill Velodrome, 1964. Explore our Cycling in London collection on the London Picture Archive through the link in our bio!

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✍️A TNT shortage, a world at war and why an obscure factory next to a Sheffield fast fashion warehouse could help explain how to reindustrialise Britain. An essay on the new Chancellor, the old Chancellor and whether anyone can actually turn our economy around👇 edconway.substack.com/p/the-factor...

The Factory We Had to Build Again

Rachel Reeves, John Healey, and the surprising story of Britain’s return to manufacturing. With some big explosions along the way

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📢 The recordings of the "Working with Difficult Records" series are now available online. These sessions offer practical guidance and important perspectives for anyone working with difficult records, difficult conversations, and challenging histories. 🎥 Watch the recordings: tinyurl.com/bddhmn6a

Working with Difficult Records: Sharing Practices Across the Archive Sector

Working with Difficult Records explores how archives engage with difficult records through people-centred and trauma-informed practices.

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Happy Birthday, Eric William Ravilious, 22 July 1903 – 2 September 1942. 'Runway Perspective', 1942. www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...

In things I wish I hadn't seen, but now I have and you will too... New research published in the Journal of the Institute of Conservation recommends PPE for handling all red rot because of the risk of heavy metal contamination (lead, arsenic, cadmium). #GLAMS 📚 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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a labour of love (& useful for @betterstreetsforbirmingham.org if they don't already know) - a map of UK road crashes, 2000-2024, multiple filters and the ability to click on individual incidences for details roadrisk.co.uk/map/

Crash map | RoadRisk

Interactive map of UK road crashes (2000–2024) from the STATS19 dataset. Filter by year, severity, and the people and vehicles involved.

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“Why would he want to go through that again? Why would he consider even buying a legal e-bike, when he could just buy a cheap £500 illegal e-motorbike and be at the same level of risk?”

Police seize and destroy delivery cyclist’s legal e-bike hired through council-funded scheme after “bogus” test – but officers claim rider didn’t have insurance | electric bike reviews, buying advice ...

Cycling and disability groups have called for the UK’s police forces to be properly trained and educated on the laws surround e-bikes, after officers in Birmingham seized and destroyed a fully legal e...

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