Two signed copies of John’s book remain on the shelf at the British Library bookshop!
Later that afternoon at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social …
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Two signed copies of John’s book remain on the shelf at the British Library bookshop!
Later that afternoon at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social …
Can this be a solution?
Yes - late in the day registrant!
Looking forward to catching you both there.
Also folks: BÀRD BOOKS is in London, close-ish to Whitechapel, do not be afraid my West End friends!
(This is a new bookshop on my radar, and dismissed it originally, thinking the accent located it in Éire.)
Here is the direct link for donations. If donating from the US, put your phone number in without any dashes lol
Post a picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline.
Folklore is so much a part of our collective culture that it cannot help but spill out everywhere. It tumbles out of pub signs, street names, graffiti spat from spray cans. Manifests as wondrous acts of knitting. It is an essential element of us. – Dr. M. Benn #FolkloreSunday
'Berwick Street Market, Soho' (c.1920s) by Rex Vicat Cole
(Private Collection)
The Camden Roundhouse in 1964.
News UK Archives.
One of those captcha things. This one says ‘select all images with bicycles. Click verify once there are none left’. There are 9 squares - 4 contain photos of bicycle seats, with the remaining 5 showing the beautiful head and face of a grey greyhound with a white stripe going from the top of their head to the tip of their nose.
Hats off to whoever did this (and the beautiful model).
What was your #childhoodcinema
The Odeon, Cheapside, Reading
Demolished and rebuilt as flats😢
youtu.be/iw5QM4-uu48
Life Hack: if you barely used your 2025 diary then don't worry because the calendar structure will be valid again in 2031.
A photograph showing the front covers of a pile of about 60 different ladybird books, including a number from the Peter and Jane Reading scheme and some ‘well-loved tales’
It would have been artist Martin Aitchison’s birthday this week (b.1919 - d. 2016)
Here are some of his books for Ladybird
Anton Walbrook and Ludmila Tcherina during the filming of 'The Red Shoes' at the Gare de Lyon train station in Paris, France, June, 1947
I'm getting tired of saying this, but in times of global "someone else's computer" outages, Ceefax remains online from a noisy server in someone's attic.
nmsceefax.co.uk
Annual reminder that if you are having a bonfire tonight please:
- check for prickly hedgehog friends first
- & light from one side
Pic via
@matchbloc.bsky.social
For reasons, it would be v. helpful to have information from a broad range of academic and non-academic (incl. GLAM) users of the BBC Written Archives OTHER THAN historians, briefly on: 1) What you've used it for and 2) How the proposed changes would impact on your research.
Reposts welcomed.
Enjoyed the first ep of @squarewindowpod.bsky.social where @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social and @gkw.bsky.social focus on a week in vintage television, putting it into cultural context
Cheers John and Mike - it was a fab walk around a part of town new to me. Also, so well researched, I didn't realise that we were privileged to attend a 'for one walk only' event!
A tiny golden pumpkin
Baby uchiki kuri!
1. The only viable government is one based on cutting the still-beating hearts out of sacrificial victims.
2. Do not let the Spanish take over your country.
3. Quetzalcoatl is the one true God.
Literally no-one called it Indie Sleaze.
NO-ONE.
A poster advertising a talk at Port Eliot Festival from 2015. An archway from the house is pictured, surrounded by sea.
Happy Port Eliot weekend for all those who celebrate!
Remembering good times.
A Xmas gift tag from the 1970’s with an elf on
And to you too!
This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use development is illegal to build these days.
Caption: Our team is working on these unsolved mathematical problems, but also pitching them as a trilogy of action movies starring Matt Damon Images: Posters for the three movies The Riemann Hypothesis starring Matt Damon (image of Matt running heroically surrounded by elements of a formula) The Yang-Mills problem starring Matt Damon (image of Matt fearlessly jumping a motorbike surrounded by eparts of a quantum equation) The Goldbach Conjecture starring Matt Damon (image of Matt falling bravely from a building surrounded by numbers and symbols.
My cartoon for this week's @newscientist.com #science #mattdamon
PSA: The Wojchiech Jerzy Has collection falls off the BFI player tonight!
player.bfi.org.uk/subscription...
Would love to see these on a release ...@secondrun.bsky.social ?
