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Louvain Rees ⚰️

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Award-winning Historian & Genealogist ✍️🏻 Death, Wales and Psychiatry 💀 Glamorgan County Lunatic Asylum 🧠 Workhouses | Poor Law | Lunacy 🧠 🥇BBC History Extra '30 under 30' 📚 📍Cardiff | views are my own • she/her 🔗 www.linktr.ee/louvainrees

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madeline odent@oldenoughtosay.com · yesterday

if any of you know anyone who still thinks that the flagshaggers are 'just proud of their country', i want you to sit down with them and read these court documents together

Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · yesterday

Leaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.

Flags on the Abingdon Road
Surgeons' Hall Museum@surgeonshall.bsky.social · 3d ago

This stamp was found in the early 19th century near the Roman settlement at Inveresk in East Lothian. Oculists were specialised eye doctors. The original stamp would have been used to seal jars or mark the blocks of eye-ointment before they became hard.

Stamp impression on red wax affixed to paper.
Jane@localnotail.bsky.social · 2d ago

Rod Liddle has died. He blazed a trail from international socialist in Labour to the xenophobic "left conservatism" of zombie Social Democratic Party. He wrote for the Guardian until 2003, then increasingly curled out his stale pale male opinions in RW press. He'll mostly be remembered as a nonce.

Guardian Child protection: Should it really be a crime to look at child pornography? Rod Liddle Tue 14 Jan 2003 09.12 GMT I wanted to look at some pictures of child pornography from the internet this week and then tell you all about them, but I couldn't because my stupid modem broke down. I'm not sure how the law or, for that matter, society will view my failure. The intent, clearly, was there. In mitigation I suppose I could say I was planning to do it all on your behalf and would gain no pleasure from the operation myself. That's what I could say. In which case perhaps the policemen should turn up at your house instead. https://web.archive.org/web/20140910132320/https://www.theguardian.com/society/2003/jan/14/childprotection.rodliddleRod LiddleRod Liddle A teenage girl, a maths teacher and a righteous tabloid fury From magazine issue: 29 September 2012 https://archive.ph/GiW8v Rod Liddle article in THE SPECTATOR "I never found out because the one thing stopping me from being a teacher was that I could not remotely conceive of not trying to shag the kids. It seemed to me virtually impossible not to, and I was convinced that I'd be right in there, on day one. We're talking secondary school level here, by the way - and even then I don't think I'd have dabbled much below year ten, as it is now called. I just thought we ought to clear that up early on. At my old comprehensive..." ["I don't think I'd have dabbled much below year ten, as it is now called" = Year Ten is 14 to 15 years old] https://web.archive.org/web/20210316165538/https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/a-teenage-girl-a-maths-teacher-and-a-righteous-tabloid-fury
Sarah Elizabeth Cox@oispooky.bsky.social · 2w ago

What if a village street name is the last clue to Freeland's hidden fighting past? Seven minutes of research from me, with Liz Green, for BBC Radio Oxford! Come for Wally Turner's accent, stay for me trying to say ANYTHING after four coffees in Chelmsford 'spoons: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Secret Oxfordshire - Wrestling on the Wroslyn Road - BBC Sounds

What if one village street name is the last clue to Freeland's hidden fighting past?

bbc.co.uk

Surgeons' Hall Museum@surgeonshall.bsky.social · 2w ago

As knowledge of asepsis increased, the design of instruments changed to allow easy sterilisation. Metal boxes that could be cleaned properly also replaced the wooden, velvet-lined boxes of the 19th century. Surgeons still sterilised and re-used needles between procedures.

A metal syringe in a rounded metal case.
Surgeons' Hall Museum@surgeonshall.bsky.social · 2w ago

These plates and screw nails were removed from a patient who had sustained a fracture to their tibia 50 years prior. They were taken out because an abscess cavity had developed which contained these plates and screws that had become loose.

A photo of two steel plates, a screw and three screw nails lying on a wooden table.
Surgeons' Hall Museum@surgeonshall.bsky.social · last wk.

This letter opener is reportedly made from wood taken from serial killer William Hare's house. It has the inscription: "made from wood from Hare's house who murdered "Daft Jamie" in West Port of Edinburgh 1828. Burke hanged in January 1829".

A wooden letter opener with rounded edges with black handwriting on it. Above is some paper with a transcription of what is written on the letter opener- it reads: "Made from wood from Hare's house who murdered "Daft Jamie" in West Port of Edinburgh in 1828. Burke hanged in January 1829. Presented by Professor Walter Mercer.'
Gwent Archives@gwentarchives.bsky.social · last wk.

Before the introduction of the National Health Service in 1948, local hospitals were funded by subscriptions and voluntary contributions from individuals and local organisations. In 1922, the Abertillery & District Hospital Linen League was set up by local women to offer their help to the hospital.

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Dr Florence H R Scott@florencehrscott.bsky.social · last wk.

I may well live post today’s hospital appointment at the breast clinic to help with nerves and also because last time* I posted about it a lot of people messaged and said it helped them *this is my 3rd lump investigation, both previous ones benign, my boobs just love to freak me out every so often