PS - as it is, what few university collaborations remain (we've lost one in the last 12 months owing to redundancies) are at risk, for various reasons, so it's moot.
The host institution (IHR) is outside the REF system, partly to allow us to escape the issues the writer describes.
Yes, that's reasonable (and nothing very new - it was a sticking point for @vch-home.bsky.social projects two REFs ago - the research wouldn't get accepted, though the engagement would and measuring it was tricky). But the label remains quite silly.
A map is shown, with the logo of the Historic Towns Trust in the top left corner. The words "Mapping our Past, Shaping our Future" are written in the centre.
Join us on 31 March to learn about family history in late Medieval Brecon!
This webinar is hosted in collaboration with the Historic Towns Trust @historictownstrust.bsky.social
Find out more: www.balh.org.uk/event-balh-f...
#WeAreLocalHistory #LocalHistoryForAll
Only a small and comparatively recent element of UK archaeological research is purely academic. Today, the overwhelming majority is conducted within professional archaeology. Meanwhile UK avocational archaeology has 200+ years of national and regional associations, publications, and collections.
This is incredibly shit but also completely unsurprising. Every single large corporate in the UK is dropping everything useful or sustainable they might have been doing in favour of miraculous snake oil sold by grifters
Reform UK are too weird to win
From Matthew Goodwin to Restore Britain, the online right arenβt radical β theyβre cringe
βWe all know itβs fracking, so treat it as such. Itβs banned; therefore, it should not be approved" says Councillor Steve Mason.
Fossil fuel firms claim a 'proppant squeeze' is different from fracking & therefore not banned in the UK.
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This black-and-white photograph depicts two women walking along a street carrying large wicker baskets. They are dressed in late 19th-century attire, with long skirts and shawls. The street is lined with terraced houses featuring iron railings, and a gas street lamp is visible in the background.
It's #WomensHistoryMonth π
As usual, I'll be sharing ordinary women's stories.
I like writing about these women. They didn't do anything the world would deem spectacular.
They were just everyday people going about their lives. Surviving the way they knew best.
#History
Not only are the daffs starting to open in the Necropolis, the bees are out as well.
I know it's wrong so early in the year, but I will take wee brightnesses where I can.
da iawn ti!
The image in the foreground features the upper part of a Celtic style stone cross carved with roses and foliage, set against a background of other Victorian era monuments.
Good day all.
#Books #Libraries #Reading
Celebrate St Davidβs Day with us! Our Welsh-language talks are now fully subtitled in a dedicated YouTube playlist. Explore Dinas Dinlle, St Teilo's Church & more β from Iron Age hillforts to chapel history. Start exploring: zurl.co/T7Okb
A list of Flintshire place names
If you live in Flintshire and are interested in place names, come along to the Butcher's Arms, Nercwys at 19:45 on Monday 2nd March. Our Place Names Officer, Dr James January-McCann will be discussing local names, and our work recording them for future generations. The talk will be in English.
Sagging, deflected, and perilously close to collapse, the roof of St Jamesβs, Llangua was in a dire state before our repair project. Now, thanks to the tireless efforts of Jones & Fraser, the roof has been brought back to a condition much closer to its original medieval form.
So MP @bromsgrovebradley.bsky.social wants to know about the CO2 impact of Chinese clean-tech manufacturing, having just asked a Q in parliament
Which is lucky, cos we published detailed analysis on this last year: Chinaβs clean-energy exports in 2024 alone will cut overseas CO2 by 1% (inc UK)
Next up in the AHSS Strathclyde Group Winter Lecture Series:
Heritage with Purpose: Adaptive Reuse and Community-Centred Design, with Sarah Jane Storrie
ποΈ 19 March 2026
π St Andrews West Church & Renfield Centre, Glasgow
β°οΈ 7:30 β 9:30pm
ποΈ Β£6 online/in-person | Β£2 students: buff.ly/va5EmB8
Hoping to show this in Manchester later in the year
Anyway at least the Commons now has someone actually qualified to lead the committee on repairing Westminster Palace.
@ystadaucymru.bsky.social
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After a decade as a de facto poop correspondent, it was great to see the sewage scandal brought together in Channel 4βs brilliant drama Dirty Business. Even if you think you know the story, watch it.
Iβve tried to sum up the whole malodorous affair here: watershedinvestigations.com/a-decade-ins...
Hannah Spencer walking into Westminster, sucking her teeth, tutting, and muttering "tell you what, you've had some cowboys in here."
I once spent 3 days trying to track the origin of a photocopy of drawings of pilgrim badges. I knew they were from Salisbury and in the end I emailed the museum there. They didn't know either but they suggested an alternative source which I used.
To celebrate the BNA reaching 100 million pages, my colleague Claire O'Halloran has written a blog sharing some of our highlights. A huge achievement-well done to everyone involved at @britishlibrary.bsky.social & @findmypast.bsky.social Hereβs to the next 100 million! www.bl.uk/stories/blog...
#WorkingLives #Work
#MakeVotesMatter
Wonder what she did with the Ash Wednesday lectionary - here in Wales we had Isaiah 58, feeding the hungry and hospitality to the homeless
If anyone knows anything about this mysterious artist β please let us know in the comments!
Nicean decrees, phases of the moon and prompt bin collections, all sacred mysteries....
