Holborn and St Pancras parliamentary constituency carving out the Holy Trinity Church (west side, notch below Regent's Park) because why exactly?
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Parades Commission - which had exactly one job - now learning, too late, exactly why the Parades Commission was established.
A very useful new CVAT lidar visualisation layer has been added to the England snd Wales coverage area on the National Library of Scotland Maps website. News and links here maps.nls.uk/additions/#205
Pascal Groß, German player for Brighton and Hove Albion, today giving what could be mistaken for a very deliberate & prolonged nazi salute to celebrate scoring a goal.
Arresting RNLI volunteers and impounding their boats, is it, you walking scrotum-sack of a man?
Seems like Heathrow has decided to be open today. Hope you can find a place to park, mate, b/c little or nothing was taking off last night.
tfw you're commissioned by Cornelius Vanderbilt to write a travalogue of his 1853 steam yacht voyage, but you're John Overton Choules, a hopeless bigot. * archive.org/details/crui...
Suspect this'll be the best Dolly analysis you could watch, should you crave that sort of thing. Lindsay Ellis takes no prisoners, but in this case found she didn't have to. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJuK...
Yes, Dolly was Actually That Great
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Rear-admiral Guépratte, and Admiral Carden thought much the same before sending a small fleet up the Dardanelles.
This is the coverage of Arday **just in the Telegraph** in the UK. This is only the first four pages of results, just in one outlet.
citizen! to deal with you accordingly we must know - are you holding the firebomb of legitimate concerns, or the placard of illegal opinions?
72 people arrested at protest outside Palestine Action activists’ sentencing
Fuck's sake. This font change is not an improvement. Does not HES have more important fish to fry, such as reimplementing functionality it removed as a result of the transition from Canmore to Trove? * www.trove.scot/place/41326
So a thing I learn is that printers of old, not having a superscript c, instead inverted a comma when dealing with your Scots person. (Also known as a turned comma or "6-quote" ... I did wonder why so many Scots I encountered were M'Leods and M'Kenzies.) * en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostro...
The Met moved out of that building in 2016, and it was demolished in the 2016-2017 period, but other than that, BBC, finger on the pulse for a 2026 crime / investigation.
In which the Wikimedia Foundation fires union organisers on its staff, so that it has more time available to it to count its money. medium.com/@jakeorlowit...
Big Tech’s Anti-Labor Playbook Has Come for Wikipedia
TLDR: In ten days last month, the Wikimedia Foundation fired the longtime lead developer of MediaWiki and disbanded the team whose entire…
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Shall we listen to The Toy Matinee again? Probably time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=j69D...
The Toy Matinee
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My new #UrbanPrehistory blog post reporting on the horrible fate of the Bogleys Stone of Fife - Barn Storm. This contains a trigger warning for anyone who thinks our heritage - and megaliths - matter. With thanks to Sam McKeand theurbanprehistorian.wordpress.com/2026/05/19/b...
Barn Storm
It is not often I get angry, but a recent encounter with a standing stone has really annoyed – and shocked me. I am pretty used to prehistory being badly treated, and indeed a whole chapter o…
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Down the Nick Drake rabbithole, and finding this; 52 minutes very well spent: Wenlock Priory, Louis de Wet, memento mori, haunting music by Gavin Bush. vimeo.com/688568657
In The Gaze of Medusa - Full Length
This is "In The Gaze of Medusa - Full Length" by Louis de Wet Foundation on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.
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Hi @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social. Why have you not sacked Arif Ahmed yet? Why have you not resigned? The High Court is clear that the OfS's actions were a travesty, politically motivated and a fundamental breach of academic freedom.
Oh my god the Arif Ahmed/Kathleen Stock email correspondence. It sure looks like he was pursuing a vendetta against Sussex for a personal friend bsky.app/profile/nate...
Christ on a fucking bike; the state of this. Meandering river meanders.
No two ways about it: if you scan/steal a historic photo - someone else's work - and watermark it so as to claim ownership, then you're a bad person with a broken moral compass.
Wikipedia daily pageviews for Avignon Papacy, for the 30 days ending 8 April 2026. Truly unhinged country. * pageviews.wmcloud.org?project=en.w...
The variety of German bees before the Industrial Revolution (187, top) vs after the introduction of pesticides (43, bottom), DHM
There are only 11 organisations listed on the UK Foreign Influence Registration Scheme public register. * foreign-influence-registration-scheme.service.gov.uk/public-regis... #chocolateFireguard
From Roger Scruton cafes to paying Matt Goodwin $10k a month, Viktor Orban has built a network of populist right think tanks, journalists and activists Today Democracy for Sale delves into Orban’s allies on the British right Well worth a read democracyforsale.substack.com/p/orbans-brits