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Brunel university is co-sponsoring the Nero New Writers Prize. Open to writers not previously published by an established book publisher or magazine, deadline: Fri, 11 September: nerobookawards.com/new-writers-...

NEW WRITERS PRIZE 2026 - Nero Book Awards

Celebrating outstanding writing by authors living in the UK and Ireland, these awards list the best books of the year.

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Just when you think you've found a nice, private spot for some music, courtship, etc, Death and Folly show up and try to join in the fun. So annoying! By Pieter Coecke van Aelst, born OTD in 1502.

Domingo Geronimo Mattle / @realurbanartistry paints subjects as if they’re turned around in famous paintings: #AGoodPlace

Found this tomb somewhat disappointing.

Join us on a visit to ‘The Cathedral of Sewage.' Constructed 1859-1865, designed by Sir Joseph Bazalgette and Charles Henry Driver. Inc a guided tour, a chance to see the engines ‘in steam’, a ride on the narrow gauge railway. Vintage bus pick-up at Abbey Wood Station on the day tinyurl.com/ze9a57md

A restful listen for a Sunday night. Episode 126 - The seawall and the night patrolling curlews (43 mins *sleep safe*) Listen with headphones > radiolento.podbean.com/e/126-the-se... <

airbnb I’m staying at unintentionally created the toughest punk album cover of 2027

In 'Southampton Water,' (1872) Whistler has reduced shipping vessels to ghostly forms in the deepening twilight, the only brightness comes from the reflections of lights and the moon. The setting serves primarily as a vehicle for his interest in the tonal harmonies of darkness.

Game over.

'Buckingham Palace, London, seen across the Green Park at dusk' (c.1911) by Yoshio Markino (Victoria and Albert Museum)

The Union Chapel is advertising for a part-time archivist - it's a great job for someone. I've spent a lot of time there and the staff are great. The archive starts c.1820 and the postwar sections esp. are crammed with ephemera on all kinds of music and performance.

'History and Archives in Practice' 2027: call for participation now open for our annual gathering of historians and archivists, co-hosted with @ihr.bsky.social and TNA. HAP27's theme is connecting past and future with sessions on advocacy, value and applied history bit.ly/3RGHbWy #Skystorians

'History and Archives in Practice' (HAP), 2027. Call for participation now open - RHS

History and Archives in Practice (HAP) is an annual partnership event, co-hosted by the Royal Historical Society, The National Archives, and the Institute of Historical Research. Now in its fifth year...

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stillness in the clearing

Goodnight

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297 Sonorous rural woodland before an approaching storm

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Tove Jansson, Finnish artist and Moomins creator, who shared a summer home on a remote island with her partner, graphic artist Tuulikki Pietilä, for almost 30 years #womensart #summer #FridayFeeling

Join our free webinar series starting next week for children aged 7+ and their families. Ask authors questions! Learn how historical fiction books are written! Be inspired to write yourself! www.history.org.uk/primary/news...

Divisional HQ in Convoy at First Light, by Thomas Freeth, 1944. IWM (Art.IWM ART LD 4358)

Lewis Carroll's 'Alice in Wonderland' illustration, 1959 by Finnish artist and Moomins creator Tove Jansson #WomensArt

If anyone would like to see a short video of a baby Armadillo having a drink of milk, this is your lucky day.

Tomorrow evening

Sarah Wise@misssarahwise.bsky.social · 3w ago

TUES 21 JULY, 7.30PM On my 2-hour evening walk ‘The Black Death and the Bodysnatchers: From St Paul's Cathedral to Charterhouse Priory’ we'll stop off at locations to consider two very dark periods of history. Meet in front of St Paul’s at 7.30pm. No need to book. £20 on the day

Ian Wright saying we shouldn’t forget the way the Iranian team and the Somali referee were treated. Correct.

Andy Burnham has said he wants to “end 40 years of neoliberalism”, which saw a “draining away of economic, social and political power”. One of the chief architects of that process was Nigel Lawson. My contribution to @theipaper.com's 'Who broke Britain?' series ... inews.co.uk/opinion/tory...

The Tory who sold off Britain’s greatest assets – then told us to take back control

Andrew Fisher: Nigel Lawson was a Thatcher acolyte and we are still paying for the ruinous cost of his terrible decisions

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The fraught world of... mudlarking.

Bryant Park at Evening, New York by Lowell Birge Harrison (1854 – 1929) #oilpainting

Sunlight through foliage on to gravestones. Just now at Highgate Cemetery

Mamdani left soccer field lights on all night…..the lights usually go off at 10pm. They set a camera up and guess what they saw?? Residents playing soccer with their friends ALL NIGHT. One man said how much he loved it because his friends work late and can’t get to the field before 10pm.

"don't cite what you haven't read" remains the basic entry level academic responsibility; & if your discpline "doesn't have that as a norm" then sorry, your discipline needs reforming for this new world. Citations are structural parts of trust and knowledge building, not trinkets or optional extras

Miles Klee 🦉@milesklee.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.