I’m chuffed to be back on the @bbcradio3bot.bsky.social airwaves tomorrow evening, celebrating the 300th anniversary of Dr Charles Burney (the music one, not the book thief one) AND the 250th anniversary of his General History of Music - a milestone in musicology.
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Glad it's not just me : )
Appearing on Radio 4's The Moral Maze tonight from 8pm. Fingers crossed, should be fun!
I follow some pretty esoteric alleyways in studying the #GreatWar. Atm, I’m reading “The Heart and Soul of an Army” (1921) by Sir Aylmer Hunter-Weston. This excerpt on page 271 speaks to the fallacy that supporting arms (including airpower) win wars. It’s worth repeating today. #booksky #milsky
Not the Western Front Conference 2026 Following last years great conference will take place on Saturday 31st October in Wakefield West Yorkshire just of the M1. Tickets cost £29 including lunch.with 4 great speakers. Earlybird tickets available for £25 before May www.trybooking.com/uk/FPHV
#FWWhist #History #1GM #FWW #Grande-Guerre #WW1
Marking the 15th anniversary of the disaster @maximepolleri.bsky.social argues that to say that “No one died from radiation at Fukushima” fails to grapple with questions about low-dose radiation, excludes catastrophe-related deaths, and discounts the way that lives have been disrupted.
Meanwhile over on Twitter everyone is losing their mind over a change to the design on the banknotes that they haven't used in six years.
Hedgehogs are woke now. Red squirrels are SJWs. Barn owls are Islamists. Britain is finished.
Birds perched on a hanging bird feeder in a garden setting, surrounded by green foliage.
Support garden wildlife this March with our list of wildlife jobs to do now: https://www.gardenersworld.com/plants/garden-wildlife-jobs-for-march/
What did Churchill mean by "the special relationship"?
Why did he vest such hopes in the United Nations?
Why was there such anger in the US press?
I joined @ppfideas.bsky.social to explore Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech, 80 years after it was delivered. Available wherever you get your podcasts
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Morning Meditation — Moved by their selfish desires, people seek after fame.
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The coast/west is definitely the place to be today with wall-to-wall sunshine as convection inland brings cloudier skies.
With the right help, you're up to 3x more likely to quit smoking for good this #NoSmokingDay.
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The last episode of BatChat season 7 is out now!
To finish off this series, join us for a nice gentle episode as we drift down a river in canoes with the Bedfordshire Bat Group. As dusk falls, volunteers begin to survey the bats that call the river home.
Listen here: buff.ly/ifTiuPO
via NHS Newsday
"The Sixth met their chums, the Liverpool Scottish, when they relieved them in the trenches on the left of the Ypres-Comminces railway cutting. The battalion manned these trenches for about ten days" More at georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2026/03/11/1...
Our little wildlife pond is teaming with tiny tadpoles! A few have dispersed and are feeding around the edges, but mostly they're all clumped together so the surface of the pond looks alive.
Just two years ago a single frog laid a small clump of spawn… and now, a few years on, there's LOADS of it
Does anyone know *why* crown court lists don't include a list of charges like magistrates ones do?
11 March 1918 2nd Lt Percy Beresfordd Lees 3 Bn Northamptonshire Regiment and has no known grave and is commemorated on the Le Touret Memorial.
Percy is also remembered at the University of Manchester #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters
Tomorrow is now today. Come get your bogs/peatland/wet moorland fix, cos obviously that’s everybody’s thing.
#OTD 11 March 1936, death of Robert Walker, pioneering black football player. Born in Sierra Leone, raised near Dumfries, a Scottish Cup finalist in 1876 with Third Lanark, team mate of Andrew Watson at Parkgrove, a fascinating character. www.scottishsporthistory.com/sports-histo...
11 March 1915 Lt Duncan Hepburn Gotch of 1 Bn Worcestershire Regiment was killed in action and has no known grave but is commemorated on the Le Touret Memorial. Duncan was 23.
Duncan is also remembered at his old college, @caiuscollege.bsky.social #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters
🚨 WATCH: Labour MP Charlotte Nichols reveals she was raped as an MP as she opposes the jury trial reforms
"I waited 1,088 days to go to court. We've been told [by the Government] that if we have concerns about this Bill, it's because we've not been raped"
11 March 1919 Aircraftman 2nd Class Service George Blackwell (298635) died and was buried in Stockport Cemetery.
George is also remembered inside the Stockport War Memorial #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters
Last day to register for our workshop: www.birmingham.ac.uk... #BPF2026 #PhilosophyMatters Speakers with expertise in philosophy, psychology, mental health, and lived experience will talk about AI psychosis and the complex relationship between hearing voices and suicidal thoughts. Join us! #philsky
11 March 1918 Pte Arthur Leonard Wilkes (48148) 2 Bn South Wales Borderers was killed in action and has no known grave and is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial. Arthur was 19.
Arthur is also remembered inside the Stockport War Memorial #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters
