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ICYMI March's Planning Bulletin from Historic England is now online. It includes lots of information on the Planning and Infrastructure Bill:

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The @royalhistsoc.org reports on the tragic and stupid cuts to university History provision in the UK. The RHS alone has worked with 23 depts in trouble, and 90% of post-92 History groups have made cuts. Madness. royalhistsoc.org/rhs-presiden...

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Want to learn something new this summer? This 2-day course on writing in the Early Frankish World could be for you! 👇 #MedievalSky @ies-sas.bsky.social ies.sas.ac.uk/london-inter...

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Bay Watch. Love this sign at Caer Gybi. You might have to be a certain age to get the reference, but can you spot David Hassellhoff? For real 🤣. Pointed out to me by the eagle-eyed @drtobydriver.bsky.social #RomanFortThursday

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Last chance to book for this online introduction to Medieval Spanish Palaeography running 28 April - 1 May 👇 #MedievalSky ies.sas.ac.uk/events/intro...

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Ah, that was when Congress re-titled French fries as freedom fries, because of the intensity of French opposition.

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We have recently been researching a Welsh election at which one pub landlord charged for the supply of over 3,000 glasses of gin or rum and water!

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In 2 days! Very apt for the Tuesday before Easter 😎. My talk on life in the early days of Bournville's model village. A dollop of #HouseHistory #LocalHistory #SocialHistory #architecturalhistory and #FamilyHistory!

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'Making the Case for History: A View from the Royal Historical Society': bit.ly/4cRjK37 The Society's President, Lucy Noakes, writes today on the profession and discipline @historywo.bsky.social #skystorians

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To celebrate #worldartday we’re highlighting the archive of Ewart Johns! Ewart Johns was a geography lecturer at the University of Exeter and an accomplished artist. He designed the 1955 cover of 'ISCA', the magazine of the University College of Exeter, and his archive includes his early designs.

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This is a really important point — when we point out that governments are crippling HE by attacking visas, we also need to a) talk about international students as people not £££ and also b) point out why overseas tuition fees have become an apparent panacea for UK universities

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Magnificent use of the medium, 10/10, no notes. Art.

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A reminder about our upcoming events on the Break with Rome and its legacy - we've had some great interest already and we'd love to hear from more of you #skystorians!

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German railway workers who objected to, or refused to work, the trains carrying people to camps were redeployed elsewhere. Did the trains keep going? Yes. Because others WERE prepared to do it, sadly. But at least the objectors tried and refused to cross that line themselves.

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The small matter of 12 years to the day in the current job with @vchlondon.bsky.social, illustrated with the view from office number 1 (of 4 and a half - I've been in one office twice...). I think it's 35 published books edited between times and (at least) three more to come this year.

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youtu.be/5m9OA4v2uls?... (laudatory)

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When it was suggested people had done this bit.ly/4jw9HlZ it seemed to sum up the corruption people sensed at the heart of government. But the real scandal is the gambling industry itself - which always wins - isn’t subject to tighter controls to stop it ruining lives

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'It cannot be seen as wildly elitist to say that there’s a hard choice to be made between immigration and growth; that manufacturing matters but the knowledge economy is a massive engine for future prosperity; that three quarters of a million jobs depend directly or indirectly on higher education'.

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A really good sense of the range of things being ‘literate’ might mean in the Middle Ages (and beyond).

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If you are planning to visit the us, please be aware that the IHR will be closed from Thursday 17 April to Tuesday 22nd April for the Easter Break. We will reopen on Wednesday 23rd April.

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Without this cycle track and bus stop bypass, these three female cyclists would have had to cycle in the bus lane and then around the parked bus, with another bus behind them. Even if they completed that safely, the experience would be stressful enough to make them never cycle that trip again.

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I’ve successfully changed an electrical wall socket (simple enough), for my mother-in-law without having to make additional trips to Screwfix and ending up with 98 spare screws (miraculous).

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Apropos of quite a bit, I haven’t heard/seen such regular discussions of habeus corpus since my A level history (which had a lot of revolutions in it), 27 years ago. I’m not taking this as a good sign.

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And now it’s confirmed by @firdosem.bsky.social that the ICC didn’t even bother to consult with the Afghan women players before announcing this “initiative”. The first the players heard about it was the press release.

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Well, I guess everyone bar the openers has had a decent net, eh, @lsangha.bsky.social? This year's theme does look like 'may struggle to take 20 wickets', unfortunately.

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'Keele University bosses have planned to combine the school of humanities with the school of social sciences, with 24 jobs potentially being axed as a result according to the University and Colleges Union (UCU).'

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New job at Oxford - do please share widely! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMS153/a...

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From colonial histories to contemporary art, Carto-Cymru 2025 brings together: 🖌 Iwan Bala 🗺️ Sonia E. Barrett 🌍 Dr Marian Gwyn 💬 Jasmine Violet & more! Join us 16 May at NLW or online @RC_Survey @RC_Archive @RC_EnwauLleoedd @bcsmaps @NLWales @Art_CASW

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'Ironically, most of the public still believe that most student places are scarce and rationed and that “getting in” is an achievement in and of itself, when the reverse is increasingly true'. 1/3

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I just attended a conference in the US. We had one speaker detained and two others turned away at the border.

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Here's the actual reality of a bus stop bypass, at any given time, on any given day. No interactions, no danger to pedestrians, VI or otherwise... but my wife, sister-in-law and daughter can independently and safely access local amenities without fear or risk of being crushed to death.

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1/2 This isn't a terrestrial landscape illuminated by our Moon, but an amazing cometary one: a part of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (or 67P/C-G), imaged by ESA's Rosetta spacecraft on 22 Sept. 2014, at around 26.2 km from the surface. Image source➡️ www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed... 🔭 🧪 #histsci

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Raking shadows thrown by low sun emphasise the terraced banks of an extensive IronAge/#RomanoBritish field system on the steep N-facing slopes of Burderop Down, Wilts. ... AND the ditches of a #medieval sheepfold that cut across them. 📷 historicengland.org.uk/education/sc...

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Blackthorn and lichen. #TreeFlowers #WildflowerHour

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Blackthorn, Prunus spinosa blossom. #TreeFlowers for #WildflowerHour Gait Barrows National Nature Reserve, #Lancashire

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