Dr Rebecca Warren
@drrjwarren.bsky.social
Early modern historian, writing ‘The Church in Interregnum England c1649-62'. Illustrator & co-author 'Nature's Calendar' (Granta, 2023). Environmentalist.
Booker: "Ghislaine Maxwell is sitting in the lowest possible confinement after giving no information that helped us get one more investigation started and has been silent, and the man responsible for that we're about to make the attorney general of the US ... this is farcical."
🪙THE GOLDEN PAVILION🔥 True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys. -Mishima Yukio (三島由紀夫). In 1950, almost bald of gold, and having survived the Ōnin War, Kinkaku-ji was burnt to the ground by Hayashi Yōken, one of its own novice monks.
Adding the finishing touches 🖌️ The image in this ancient #Greek cup depicts a helmet-maker concentrating on adding the final touches to a Corinthian helmet. 📷️ Attic red-figure pottery stemmed cup depicting a scene of daily life, The Antiphon Painter, 490–480 BCE. AN1896-1908.G.267
This is quite horrific. A rare case in which the headline very much underplays the content of the article itself, as 'potentially harmful activity' is not what is described here. Would be good to know what the next steps are, beyond 'a broader conversation'. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
OpenAI and Anthropic models went rogue in cyber tests, UK watchdog says
AI Security Institute warns tools undertook ‘potentially harmful activity directed at real people and organisations’
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The state of this. A lovely day out for Badenoch and Philp, playing dress up and making pronouncements about early release schemes - having left the country with one hundred available men's prison places, after fourteen years in charge. You read that right. One hundred places.
Direct, full-time jobs opening Rosebank oilfield would create: 450 D, f-t jobs opening Jackdaw gasfield would create: 27 D, f-t jobs in UK's net-zero economy: 300,000 + 400,000 more on the way D, f-t jobs in the rest of the green economy: 600,000 Is that really the hill Burnham wants to die on?
Escomb's St John the Evangelist (Co. Durham) is one of Britain's most complete Anglo-Saxon churches - built c.7th–8th century largely from reused Roman stone, with original windows, doorways and chancel arch still intact. Saved from demolition in the 1870s. A genuine time capsule.
From today, EU citizens have a legal right to know when they're talking to a bot or looking at a deepfake, backed by fines of up to €15m. Thanks to Brexit, we're missing out on this protection.
digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu
Very short notice (deadline 18 August) but we're advertising a 0.5fte lectureship in public history for next year. Covers my 3rd year undergraduate course on public history of Rome (ancient to modern) plus some MA public history teaching.
Lecturer in Public History and Heritage - (9363) | Manchester Metropolitan University Careers
All about Manchester Metropolitan - an exciting, modern university in the heart of one of the UK's great student cities.
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Meadow pipit #ArtDD2026 I brought out the ink nibs #bird #ink #watercolour @drrjwarren.bsky.social @andykaitken.bsky.social @holnicotenh.bsky.social @stevecobbin.bsky.social
This. BBC News is not fit for purpose.
Neil Brand@neilkbrand.bsky.social · 2d agoWhat the hell is the BBC 6pm news doing leading with Farage's clickbait about using the Royal Navy to stop immigrants? An absurd soundbite from a tiny party with a disgraced leader and that's the most important news in the UK today? Dear God. The rot has truly gone deep.
Joshua Bonehill-Paine Self-styled "nationalist, fascist, theorist and supporter of white rights” who was jailed in 2015 for antisemitic online posts.... Selected as a Tory candidate.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2d agoFormer neo-Nazi activist selected as Tory candidate for Somerset council election
🚨 NEW: Legislation Watch Our new rolling blog will track the issues shaping how laws are made at Westminster, and what needs to change to make the legislative process more effective. 🔽
Driest July since 1885. Thousands of Londoners without water in a heatwave. 1,100 leaks fixed a week on a network privatisation bled dry for decades of dividends. Thames Water isn't failing, it's working exactly as designed. Take water back into public hands. www.ibtimes.co.uk/thames-water...
Thousands Left Without Water As Thames Water Crisis Hits London In Blistering Heat
Thames Water faces infrastructure issues during Britain's third heatwave, affecting water supply in London and Home Counties. Residents experience no water or low pressure as temperatures soar.
ibtimes.co.uk
What is the Genius Loci Digest? I don't believe stories only exist in books. They're written into the places we inhabit. There are whispers within the walls. The world is storied - we simply have to learn how to read it. 👉 www.digest.andymarsh...
#ArtDD2026 Tufted titmouse From a lovely 📷 by @roperlou.bsky.social (was it yours, Lou?) with thanks. @saocousins.bsky.social @holnicotenh.bsky.social @stevecobbin.bsky.social @andykaitken.bsky.social @mayfieldbirder.bsky.social @indikon.eurosky.social 🦉🪶
Might try to head up to the Highlands of #Iceland on my upcoming trip. There are just some wonderful expanses of desolateness - something I'm rather fond of!
Repairing the bell mechanism at St Philip's, Caerdeon, Gwynedd
And for many years people said 'flooding suggests rivers need to be straightened.' Now we are realising the opposite is necessary. Strange how short-term solutions often turn out to be a bit shit. Even stranger how foreign-owned 'newspapers' love a good populist headline.
Jason Scott-Warren@jes1003.bsky.social · 3d agoRewilding causes wildfires! Sign/share petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76... Visit mediasovereignty.org
Picnic on the grass amid the ruins of St Mary's Abbey church, Museum Gardens, York. It took a while to get the little dog right but it was worthwhile. Colour pencil over a pencil drawing. #ArchitecturalIllustration #pencil #ColourPencil #drawing #ArtShare
I find I've already signed - recommend you sign too!
Philippa Banks@phil510.bsky.social · 3d agoPetition: Ban all supermarkets from throwing away edible food & require their donation Everyday, UK supermarkets throw away tonnes of edible food while millions of people rely on food banks to survive. We believe this is wrong. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75...
As climate impacts intensify, campaigners are calling for a televised National Emergency Briefing to tell the public the truth about the crisis — and what must happen next | Robert G Davies
UK Government must come clean about the climate emergency
As climate impacts intensify, campaigners are calling for a televised National Emergency Briefing to tell the public the truth about the crisis — and what must happen next
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Nigel Farage just took a question from a 'journalist' at his press conference, who turned out to be his former chief adviser Raheem Kassam, who asks him why the media are being so unfair to him
Good idea.
Independent Historians Network (UK)@indyhistnetwork.bsky.social · 2d agoCALLING ALL INDEPENDENT HISTORIANS!! Come and join IHN for socials, networking, support, advice, newsletters, and promotion of your work! The number of members is going up all the time which is very, very exciting. Join the fun for a bargain £10 per year. membermojo.co.uk/independenth...
The content section can be found near the bottom right of the Wikimedia Commons home page. Which category will you explore first? ➡️ w.wiki/Ns
Why doesn't this surprise anyone? I mean, who'd have even imagined that the nasty men who run these 'parties' might not be white as the driven snow?
Ian Fraser@ianfraser.bsky.social · 2d agoSo that’s both the leader and deputy leader of Reform UK being probed by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards.
