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Medieval historian interested in Wales, Somerset exile, inept cricketer, General Editor of the longest-running and largest local history project yet devised, the Victoria County History of England. Probably drinking tea.
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What do we think?🤔 Hmm…. A Daily Mail headline so clearly designed to make you furious. Being shared by salivating Tory MPs who love a good rage farming story! So, what’s going on here? Let’s take a look!👀 🧵 1/13

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I asked a BBC spokesperson to set out any examples of the corporation drawing up specific plans to secure the support of voters for other political parties in the UK, but they were unable to do so bylinetimes.com/2025/06/09/b...

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EXCITING NEWS! More to come on this soon, but we're very pleased to announce that we'll be picking up our trowels again in September!

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If a Reform MP argued as regularly and consistently as Neil O’Brien does that people who aren’t “white British” don’t count as properly British and are in fact just foreign, then they would lose the whip, let alone be on the frontbench.

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One of those times where it's necessary to point out that drafting the ECHR was led by David Maxwell Fyfe, a Scottish Conservative MP for Liverpool, MacMillan's Home Secretary and a prosecutor at Nuremberg. A functional party would trumpet it as a great Conservative achievement in the rule of law.

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My first home game of the season for Hildenborough. Bit green from this week’s rain. Relatedly, the oppo’s firsts didn’t play yesterday, so today’s team looks worryingly fit. Ours? Not so much. #Village

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So. Why bother voting in local elections?

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Well, this seems like the end for a certain type of Conservatism.

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Very good to see that they wish to focus on early career researchers. Much more mobile and thus likely to be willing to brave UK conditions and we desperately need to invest in new posts for the rising generation of researchers in light of the current UK university crisis.

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An extra tidbit (quite an important one) on the bizarre (and novel), classification of the rebuilt Oxford-Cambridge railway as a project that can be included as Welsh infrastructure investment. Basically, HM Treasury making up rules to suit itself as it goes along.

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“… he has been a tenant of the meadows & fields for half a Century.’ What an amazing way to describe the course of someone’s life?!

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🚨 #ICYMI our new dataset is OUT NOW! 🚨 A massive 69,000 records added to the Railway Work, Life & Death project, covering English & Welsh railway staff, 1855-1929. Download our free database from our website - & please spread the word! #Railway200 www.railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk/69000-railwa...

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Five years today, the statue of Edward Colston was pulled down in Bristol. Boris Johnson accused protestors of trying to "photoshop" the past and "lie about our history". I'm reposting below a thread I wrote at the time: on history, memory, and how we decide who to celebrate in our public spaces.🧵

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Petition for a moratorium on these kind of quotes until journalists are also willing to ask 1) do you believe this would be better than the education you received? and 2) is this the college education you want for your children and future employees?

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One of the issues with undergrad students is that - despite all the “digital natives” hype - their online literacy is often quite poor. In two academic offences panels this week a student was totally perplexed when asked why an AI made up quote was in their essay: “it was the 1st result on Google.”

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Folks! It’s me! On LEGITIMATE RADIO! The actual BBC! Think I’m about 42 mins in. Good heavens! And for those of you interested, there’s an exclusive clip of our newly rediscovered Goon Show material written by Galton and Simpson! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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This really gets me. I'm 45, there's not many front benchers a lot younger than me, and Northern Ireland was a massive part of life as we grew up. The idea that settlement should be tossed is incomprehensible to me.

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I caused a semi-riot in a training session yesterday when a learning technologist suggested that we should be excited that AI takes away the cognitive labour from our jobs. Mate, it may have escaped your attention but you literally work in a University.

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NGL I’m pretty excited about this one. My local historical society has been working on getting these records for a few years and today is the day. Over 100 years of records for our suburbs only funeral director. So much #genealogy & #LocalHistory info!! Now I just have to process them!!

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Living in Kent it's pretty good - looking at my home county, Somerset, I would like to point out that the two largest towns in the (Taunton/Yeovil, 20 miles apart), have no public transport connection, i.e., a 9-5 job in one means a car to live in the other.

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