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I like old place and new ones, and scooters.
In the night between 3rd and 4th August 1974, crowded express train 1486 'Italicus' is travelling from Rome to Munich. At 0.45 it leaves Santa Maria Novella Station in Florence heading for its next scheduled stop in Bologna. It will never arrive [Thread] >> 1
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The Confederacy lasted five years. So do countless trends and fads. Heritage is one thing. Glorifying a government created to defend slavery is another.
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Inside the secret operation to move the Bayeux Tapestry
After more than 900 years in France, the Bayeux Tapestry—one of medieval Europe’s most fragile, priceless treasures—slipped back into England in a controversial overnight operation. Here’s what transp...
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Here’s to Yorkshire’s stunning landscapes, rich history, legendary tales, and to the people, vibrant and diverse - to those who shaped its past and those writing its next chapter. All toasted with a proper cup of Yorkshire tea. Happy Yorkshire Day and thank you for your support. #YorkshireDay
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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I want to see more northern masculinity tbh. Rotheram holding his baby granddaughter, Keegan embracing his team mates, Burnham hugging his mum. Men who love women.
Dividends for them. Hosepipe ban for us. No wonder @bellribeiroaddy.bsky.social.bsky.social is calling for Special Administration of Thames Water. Ask DEFRA Sec @angelaeagle1.bsky.social to take Thames Water into public hands: vist.ly/5c3ft
Not uncoincidentally, Chandler and Wodehouse were both at Dulwich College under the headmastership of A H Gilkes.
Okay, so with seemingly no prospect of a job anytime soon whatever I do or say, I am once again asking: For freelance RA work suitable for a contemporary historian, for research and writing, for journalism… which I already do on a regular basis as a newspaper columnist…
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....with suppliers expected to pass savings on to their customers.... www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Burnham announces plans to cut VAT on electricity bills as first cost-of-living move
The newly appointed chancellor John Healey said the cut would be funded this year from cancelling the Digital ID programme
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Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface
trump just invented a carbon tax from first principles lmfao
MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 3w agoTrump says he is going to increase tariffs on Canada due to the wildfires
Giada Navas House, Milan, Italy | Francesco Castiglioni | 1970 r/brutalism
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The rapid rise of housefishing: are AI-enhanced property listings helpful – or sinister?
From repainted walls to imaginary lawns, estate agents say modified photos help buyers ‘visualise the potential of a property’. But how much AI enhancement is too much? Agents, viewers and trading sta...
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