It would be an awesome project for any church to do of their parish If you run out of streets could you do a border? Or greenspaces?
Researching links between the Church of England in Croydon &the slave trade Have ME, FM &mental health problems. Christian Also into knitting, gardening #TheArchers She/her Go by the same username on the site formerly known as twitter
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It would be an awesome project for any church to do of their parish If you run out of streets could you do a border? Or greenspaces?
That's awesome! I'm so glad it's going well
I would appreciate prayers that I can sleep tonight, only got 4.5 hours last night &it has left me feeling wrecked. Thank you
Bravo! #TheArchers
Well, I was supposed to be home from Ireland today. But we were over the Atlantic when the plane developed a problem and we had to return to Dublin. A bit scary, of course. When we landed, an airport manager came on board, apologized, and explained to us the EU/UK passenger bill of rights.
This January, @danieljstory.bsky.social, Alexandra Levy, and I are once again co-leading @historians.org's Sinclair Podcast Workshops. Do you have a history pod idea you want to vet with a small group? Pitch us for Developmental Conversations! Deadline 12/1/25. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
"I believe you and my brother have a friend in common?"
Printers are capricious, I was astonished when mine printed something first time the other day. I hope the printer behaves tomorrow
Just *once* I'd like to hear a political figure say "people's concerns about immigration are NOT legitimate. They are based on misinformation (at best) and racism (at worst). People need to educate themselves about the facts surrounding immigration and they need to stop being fucking bigots".
I've been studying African chattel enslavement for 2.5 years so far, still regularly mess up spelling "Caribbean"
Action against the slave trade from 1807 enabled British colonisation, but Jane Lydon shows here how achieving the abolition of slavery in 1833 and expanding territory through conquest were also interrelated, not separate, processes. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Now on the Long Run: 'The Barbados Census of 1679 and the Legacies of Slavery in Early Modern England'. In this post Michael Bennett (Sheffield) & Misha Ewen (Sussex) introduce their research, which was financially supported by a Carnevali Small Research Grant. ehs.org.uk/the-barbados...
Bring back baronetcies! Make money out of the system. They originally cost £1095 under James I, which is £290,024.94 in today's prices.
FYI Universal Credit for a single person is £4,801.68 per annum for which you will be harassed, coerced and threatened constantly via your own mobile phone by the DWP, while in media you will be called scrounging workshy scum by the LABOUR party.
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Well, here you go, friends. Some reflections on truth-telling, grief and uncertainty in fragmented times. You can get it via Amazon, or you may well prefer to order from your friendly local bookshop or directly from the publisher (dartonlongmantodd.co.uk/.../2414-978...) Thanks!
Is there a name for an 18C parlour game in which a participant is given 4 or 5 words and challenged to include them all in an impromptu pair of rhyming couplets? #18thC #langsky
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In London, hate will never win.
Have you come across her @stuckinabook.bsky.social ?
Ta-Nehisi Coates on Charlie Kirk’s record. archive.ph/2025.09.16-2...
This may be the single best arguement against assisted dying I've read. Basically confirming all of the worst suspicions of those arguing against. The sheer contempt it holds for the old, the ill or the disabled is stunning.
I love London so much. So much. Did you know that London has the lowest level of ethnic violence of any city of comparable size in the world? Multiculturalism has in fact worked here. They just don’t want it to be true because we happen to have a Muslim mayor.
Pictured: Dodshon Foster, a Lancastrian merchant who owned slavery ships Our #RecordOfTheDay is from the #acingPTheast #Humap See more www.facingthepast.org/map/r... #Lancaster #Lancashire #BritishHistory #EnglishHistory #TransAtlanticSlaveTrade #History #MicroHistory
a detail that appears with fairly regular occurrence in many personal accounts of the Nazi regime is how many individuals died from stroke, heart attacks, and similar health complications because of the stress and despondency that was inflicted on those whose lives were ruined by the regime.
"When I became Prime Minister I took the view that it was time to understand a little less and condemn a little more. By that I meant that we shouldn’t explain away why people commit crime. We should just say bluntly: “it’s wrong”." - John Major, 1995
We must unite against those who seek to divide us.
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Appreciated this link being shared. Watched the first series, covering the earlier period of 1936-1968 Remarkable early BBC TV coverage, interviews with Black British actors and intellectuas, MLK Jr discussing immigration numbers, white directors talking frankly, and Powell's negative impact
Now that it’s the time of year when the obscurely-funded right wing Restore Trust, a private company, try once again to take over the National Trust, my annual reminder of what they want to do with our history & heritage. blogs.sussex.ac.uk/snapshotsofe...
This seems to come up every week with my counsellor. I'm trying to follow her advice of a short look once or twice a day and earlier in the day so I don't get too stressed to sleep. This doesn't always work.
In the 1930s Mosley and his rank and file BUF were careful not to outwardly portray themselves as racists. They weren't antisemitic... far from it... they were just concerned about "bad principles" and "international bankers" and the influx of foreigners Everyone knew what they meant.
Please enjoy this sculpture of the Prince of Wales and his horse made entirely of butter, courtesy of the Canadians at the British Empire Exhibition, 1924. I will not be taking any questions at this time.
Bear with me, I anticipate your disagreement. There is a clear pattern to the advice given to those who want to press back against rising racism. What it boils down to is that if you point out that racism is often being dressed up as “legitimate concerns” you will alienate people. /1
I was wondering if you were still stuck on the stairs!
That is brilliant and very you
Only lickelix can save you now
How X algorithms amplify AI generated images encouraging hatred of Muslims. www.thetimes.com/uk/social-me...
Awesome dog, so sweet!
This is pretty much exactly the outcome predicted by Hannah Arendt in 1948:
Starmer and Badenoch are handling the far-right march all wrong - on.ft.com/465iM1f via @FT Seeing @stephenkb.bsky.social call out the Unite the Kingdom rally for what it is so clearly and correctly is almost a relief after so much mealy mouthed language from others (looking at you Trevor Phillips)
Historians have recently uncovered all sorts of entanglements between British society and slavery, but this is the first I've seen involving opera. One in six subscribers to the King’s Theatre, Haymarket were involved in slavery in the 1790s and 1800s www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Doubt we're going to sort this out on here, but the claim that fascism is rooted in particular economic conditions was never that *poverty* drives people to the Far Right. On the contrary, it was that elements of the propertied bourgeoisie feel squeezed from above and below.
Designing my own module on bodies and diseases in the early modern period with a particular emphasis on gender and the body. Does anyone have any particularly striking and rich primary sources they would recommend that students might enjoy? Trying to avoid it being too cancer-centric!
@elevennames.bsky.social , someone is handling their enslaving clergy with visible leadership.
There's a lot of people sharing the clip of some of the attendees at the Fascist rally ordering Indian food, with a lol. But I feel these people are quite happy to see people of different races as service providers who they can still deny basic rights to
This seems to me a good statement from Gavin Calver, CEO of Evangelical Alliance. We could do with a few more of these.
I think Musk's comments to a rally of 100k people are the highest profile advocacy of political violence in the UK since the end of the Northern Ireland conflict. Does anybody have a counter-example? "Whether you choose violence or not, violence is coming to you. You either fight back or you die."
Here’s a poem called ‘English Roundabouts’.
Join us online on 24 Sept to celebrate the 250th VCH Big Red Book! Founded in 1899, @vchlondon.bsky.social is writing the #history of every place in #England, with partners across the country. We'll also celebrate #LocalHistory, #communityhistory & #place based history more widely. All welcome!
Worth putting it in to perspective Stop Iraq war march 1.5m Stop Brexit 1m Another Stop Brexit 1m Pro Palestine .8m Another Stop Brexit .7m Pro Palestine .5m Pro Palestine .5m etc x lots Racists drunken violence day 100,000
He also needs to do things to make quality of life here better, it's when people's income is squeezed &standard of living drops that these parties &idealogies can thrive - all the stuff about making Britain a great nation again is v similar to a lot of Nazi party support in the 1930s
Historians must 'tell...an uncomfortable story & explain why the discomfort is part of the truth we need to live well and live properly. A well-organised society is one in which we know the truth about ourselves collectively, not one in which we tell pleasant lies about ourselves.'Tony Judt
A tiny saving that costs more in the long run and wrecks people's lives in the process. All politicians have done since 2010 and it's all working out so well.
I’ll just say that there’s a difference between using words as smears, and using words with the goal of being analytically precise. bsky.app/profile/seth...
There’s a crucial principle with kids and it’s this: when they’re doing what you want them to do – even if it’s a small step – you support it. You don’t snark (“oh, you’ve decided to join us?”) or condemn (“it’s not good enough!”), you support. Otherwise…
arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872 A 200+ page research paper from the University of Warwick, led by Nataliya Kosmyna (et al) This was published a couple months ago but I've only just had the chance to read it. I highly encourage others to do the same but I wanted to condense some observations in a short 🧵
I’ve really enjoyed reading @bsbicountries.bsky.social book on Endemics. Lots of species I’d never heard of eg Chater’s bristletail; Lundy Cabbage weevil, horrid ground weaver, York groundsel etc. Parts of Britain I’d never explored and an enjoyable account of his searches
Poor girls, suffering and sorrow in every whisker Isobel has been sitting on me a lot today
Parrot kitten
Who keeps crashing cars at speed into the front of a specific Tesco Express in east London? It’s happened four times in the last three weeks. It looks like a robbery - but London Centric has learned nothing is stolen and it appears to be the same driver. www.londoncentric.media/p/tesco-expr...
If you do not find Christ in the dinghy in the Channel, you will not find him in your chalice. (Soz Chrysostom, a day late for your feast day...) #cofepeeps 🕯️⚓
Not that anyone in politics listens to research, but there is a bucket of research (including some excellent recent studies) which show exactly this. Voters listen to leaders and respond to what they say.
One of the great things about subscribing to London Centric is you can make them investigate weird things near you.
Absolutely beautiful, a worthy winner
Or Dotheboys Hall
Yes thousands turned out - which is far more than I’d like - but that is dwarfed by the millions that understand real patriotism means loving your country as it actually is, not hating its diversity or trying to exploit its challenges. That’s what our flags actually represent
Shot, chaser Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men
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Additionally, the entire framing of the racist march, & of the open expression of racism more generally, as a free speech issue is drawn from the far right itself, which is obsessed with the entirely fabricated idea that it is suffering oppression at the hands of shadowy forces linked to foreigners
If you’re finding it too upsetting to read the news shared online here are some things I do which help me
reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle
Went to Kent today for a nice day out, had lunch in a tea room and a nice beer in a pleasant pub, saw quite a lot of flags. Then got home and read this piece about the town where we’d spent the day. Grim grim grim.
I think about this poem by Ian Duhig — about Jo Cox, the Labour MP assassinated by a man shouting ‘Britain first’ — every day at the moment. No other contemporary poet has looked so clearly at the political reality of the far right as a minority who must always be appeased
Hat tip @clownf1st.bsky.social
890 people last week arrested for holding placard at Palestine Action demo. Around 25 people arrested today in far-right demo for violently attacking the police.
Today people went around my neighborhood in north east London spray painting St George’s crosses onto people’s homes. Many of these houses have non British people living in them. This is getting very dark, very quick.
While everyone on the Proms was waving flags, I was waving a wand toy around the living room for an excited small cat to chase. Especially when you're dabbling at it under the door with your paws apparently #Caturday
He invented the cocktail, expert mixologist
he's got more of a comment than a question, really
@catsofyore.bsky.social ancient feline! #Caturday
Ah yes if black and brown people throw a party we need to scan their faces. White supremacists organising a hate march do not need to worry about their privacy. The police have them covered. This btw is also why everyone arguing for digital id in this country is either naive or dangerous.
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Contributing to anti-doomscrolling with Max Linder, the sparkling French comedian who inspired Chaplin and is the earliest known movie star with his name on a poster (circa 1909).
Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...
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she clearly learned to hunt from watching me play dark souls
Yes it is very much a garden, just a wildlife one. I'd be nervous of the bog garden so close to the house foundations too
The pollinator pathway thing looks nice, but how much are they doing with native plants that feed moth and butterfly caterpillars or have those symbiotic relationships? #GardenersWorld
No it wasn't the fastest actually was it? Incompetance on every level
Monty's comment about the joy of eating raspberries you had grown on a July afternoon reminds me that he's not just taught me about gardening, but also about enjoying life &making the most of every season of the year #GardenersWorld
On one level you have to hand it to the box tree moth caterpillars, they are so efficient. Ate their way down my street in a matter of days. I still see the odd moth around #GardenersWorld
Thank you, for some reason I missed this reply, it looks like it's worth investing in a sharpener and oil and caring for them
A question for fellow gardeners, I need new secateurs. Are the felco ones worth the extra money? Or is there another brand you would recommend? thank you www.worldoffelco.co.uk?gad_source=1... #GardenersWorld #Gardensky 🌿🌱🌼
Are the team not bright enough to work out that the payment thing and Rex and the other player who suddenly dropped out are linked? #TheArcherss
This just makes me want to scream. Quickly throwing up tower blocks of "luxury apartments" so badly built they have to be evacuated less than 3 years after they were finished is not going to solve the housing crisis. It's such a waste of land, money &resources
wow that's quite some diet your dog's been on!
Timeline cleanse!