As long as they're not ALL sodding US focussed. Fed up with it always being US-centric when Bluesky has an international membership.
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If you'd like something even more dangerous, our archive is so old that we don't use these fancy modern rolling stacks. Ours are attached to a motorised chain that runs the length of the room. This means sometimes they like to move by themselves just a little, enough to keep you on edge.
alix e. harrow@alixeharrow.bsky.social · yesterdayi don't like to police genre, but it's not dark academia unless somebody gets squished in one of these bad boys
Towards the end of the 20thC UK government & associated agencies quietly gave up on doing anything major to prevent coast encroachment anywhere in England & Wales because of the escalating costs & ultimate futility. The policy now is to let nature do what it will - 'Goodbye, east East Anglia'.👋🌊
Coastal erosion is not the same as surge flooding, but I am not sure what local government can do. The sea is much more powerful than the majority of flood defences. NNDC is not Cnut
I & @philipamies.eurosky.social have exchanged posts this year about the increasing encroaching of the sea on the English east coast over the last few decades & the terrible effect on the people living literally on the edge there who have been effectively abandoned by local & national government.
I do not (although I don’t live by the sea like Sarah) and flooding is a perennial fear. Our Dutch fenland engineering can only do so much!
And Belgium too, I just read here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_S... It is one of the reasons I am glad to live well above sea level.
North Sea flood of 1953 - Wikipedia
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Tbf, it had never occurred to me that it would have hit the Netherlands! But yeah, East Anglia was absolutely devastated. Lots of post-war prefabricated housing which just got flattened, no warning, no preparation. And it is largely forgotten.
I never realised that the 1953 floods impacted the UK as well! Stupid of me. But when I saw the year I checked the date. I learned all about it from a Dutch perspective in primary school.
Tomorrow: A City War-Walk "Wolverhampton's Great War Railwaymen". Led by Quintin Watt. Meet at The Queen's Building, Victoria Sq, Wolverhampton, WV1 1LD at 2pm. Walk to last between 1.5 to 2 hours.
Last week saw yet more wrangling at the high court over how much Prince Harry, Baroness Lawrence, Elton John and their fellow claimants will be obliged to pay the publishers of the Daily Mail for the case they so comprehensively lost against them. Full story in the new Private Eye, out now.
Here's a niche fun fact: The modern discussion of tulip mania began with the book "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds", published in 1841 by Scottish journalist Charles Mackay – who would probably have a field day with the blind box frenzy! Learn more ➡️ w.wiki/Gm5
The sole objective must be the faithful reinstatement of the Mackintosh Building as the integrated work of architecture that Mackintosh conceived. Photo: Glasgow School of Art 52. Wikimedia Commons
The Building is widely recognised as Rennie Mackintosh's architectural masterpiece. It is internationally celebrated not simply as an outstanding historic building, but as one of the defining achievements of modern architectural design. Original postcard c.1910. Creative Commons. 📷 Mark Crombie
Read our full statement on the future of the Mackintosh Building in Glasgow here: tinyurl.com/79ch8bvn 🧵 Main Entrance Glasgow School of Art, July 2009 no 2. Photo: Jörg Bittner Unna
The crossings of thousands of migrants from Morocco into the Spanish exclave of Ceuta have been linked to misleading claims about a recent Spanish Supreme Court ruling. DW Fact Check looks at the facts, the context and the origins of the narrative.
Fact check: Did disinformation trigger the Ceuta crisis?
More than 70 people died after thousands of migrants tried to cross from Morocco into the Spanish exclave of Ceuta. The crossings have been linked to misleading claims about a recent Spanish Supreme C...
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On the subject of public baths and wash-houses, may I offer you Dundee Corporation's booklet from 1910. Miller's Wynd, left, had 24 plunge baths, 32 washing stalls, a blanket room and laundry. archive.org/details/b321... (also available from Wellcome). #skystorians #LocalHistory #Dundee
New-Cleckit Dominie@ncdominie.bsky.social · yesterdayIn case any Edinburgh social history people are interested: I have an MSc student looking at bath- and wash-house usage statistics, and he's turned up a Carnegie report from 1918 with these photos of the Simon Square wash-house.
The Rows of Great Yarmouth is an online talk by @norfolkro.bsky.social, about the narrow alleyways in its medieval town; the street pattern remain unaltered for over 1,000 years. This talk explores the stories of several families in detail, especially during the years 1850-1945 #OnePlaceWednesday
The Rows of Great Yarmouth (online)
by Stuart Burgess
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He fell from the rigging in a gale. Isabella’s brother Donald Gray, 2nd Mate, drowned in the Red Sea in 1889. 3/3 #NorthWallsAndBrims #Orkney #OnePlaceWednesday
Her husband Captain Robert Bruce also from North Walls died during a voyage in 1880. As the family home was in Liverpool by the late 1860s employment at sea was maybe inevitable for Isabella. But the sea took its toll. Her oldest son Robert drowned on his first voyage in 1880 aged 17. 2/3
Many deaths at sea in my #OnePlaceStudy as it’s in the island of #Hoy #Orkney and men often joined the Merchant Navy. Today found the death of Isabella Gray (1844-1901), missing presumed drowned from the SS Cambroman, where she was a stewardess, in the North Atlantic.1/3
From the new issue of Information Professional, CILIP's magazine: Tom Morley, Research Culture and Open Monographs Lead at Lancaster University, looks at how the library is helping to shift the dial and create a culture of OA publishing. Read the article: https://ow.ly/lQFx50ZwBaJ
And the original research on which the Nature highlight draws: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The genomic identity of early smallpox in South America
Smallpox was a major driver of population collapse in the Americas after European contact, yet the genetic identity of the causal strains remains unknown. Here, we report the first ancient smallpox ge...
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'More than 400 years ago, two people living in modern-day Chile died while infected with the smallpox virus. Viral DNA found in their mummified remains has now yielded genetic evidence of when the disease arrived in the Americas.'
How smallpox reached the Americas: first genomic evidence points to Europeans
Viral sequences from Chilean mummies confirm the disease was introduced from Europe.
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The excellent arrangement of chimneys at Shandy Hall, Coxwold, North Yorkshire. This 15th century building was later home to Laurence Sterne, the 18th century author of the groundbreaking book, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy 🤩
