I realise I don't post on here much, you're not missing anything. However I turned up in a reel again @ox.ac.uk managing the doffing on the right-hand side. @burgonsociety.bsky.social @bodleian.ox.ac.uk .
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Mustache guys are either no nonsense or 100% nonsense
I am looking forward to seeing my weird article on J. L. Carr's Chaucer Pocketbook in print in @inscriptionjournal.bsky.social. This was a very much a 'I like these but do not know why, so let's think through it' writing experiment.
I used to write a lot about this and I just got so… tired. It hasn’t changed, it never changes.
Semper Fudge 🫡
Oh my god shut the fuck up
This is really sad. I just feel so despairing about this and the fact that this profound failure won't be recognised as such by most politicians.
'The Towpath', Maida Hill Tunnel (1912) by Christopher RW Nevinson
(Ashmolean Museum, Oxford)
It was a pleasure to talk to English teachers at the @engfacoutreach.bsky.social Teachers' Conference about the Humanities course/ English stream of the Astrophoria Foundation Year at Oxford 💙💜
An illegal waste dump by an A Road in Oxford gets cleared, whilst one next to a primary school in one of the most deprived parts of Wigan...? On what is presumably the old Coal Board land, now 'owned by the Duchy of Lancaster'. Ah well you see, it's about the funds.
Outside the Level 2 Reading Room in @bodleian.ox.ac.uk there is a wellbeing display. Here are some it's little zines that genuinely made me smile.
A failure of leadership. A failure of the system.
Our response to the #CovidInquiry Report finds a "toxic" culture led to a profound ignorance of how the #NHSFrontline functions. Clinical expertise was side-lined at the cost of 23,000 lives.
Read our full response: ow.ly/1yjB50Y5rsk
#IntensiveCare
He was a nurse.
Sepia coloured photo of seated woman in her uniform in her thirties gazing at the camera.
#OTD An unknown Women's Army Auxiliary Corps Forewoman, 1918 or 19, inscribed: 'With love & best wishes N., France Jan. 7.' She displays her Forewoman's rank badge, blue & white Signal Service brassard, & private metal identity bracelet. From young me's WW1 photo collection.
Treacle's gone woke
A couple of days ago @robertculshaw.bsky.social proposed and I said yes 🍂
Cooks and Orderlies of the Red Cross and Royal Army Medical Corps pose outside the entrance of Dorchester Military Hospital, part of Maumbury Royal Artillery Barracks. December 1914. A lively bunch, from left to right we have a carver in an apron, the chah-man, a cook with an accordion, two soldiers with two little black kittens posing on their shoulders, the obligatory mandolin player and finally the cook orderly with a rather concerned Turkey under his arm.
As I prepare for the first of my Christmas night duties, have one of my favourite festive WWI postcards: little kittens, cottage loaves, and a rather concerned Turkey.
Detail in the ALT.
#HistNursing #HistMed
A soldier of the Machine Gun Corps in a sheepskin coat kissing a French farm-girl under a sprig of mistletoe, near Hesdin, Imperial War Museum Q 8354.
A soldier of the Machine Gun Corps in a sheepskin coat with two ducks for his Christmas dinner, near Hesdin, Imperial War Museum Q 8355.
A few more gems from David McLellan's days in the snow photographing British soldiers in 1917 (add these to the list of thousands of reasons why McLellan is my favourite war photographer of 1916-1918).
This wartime guide, First Aid for First Aiders Or What’ll I do? by Herry Perry, mixes advice with comic rhymes and illustrations. Perry, a celebrated graphic artist, served as a Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) during the war and remained on the Register of Assistant Nurses after 1945.
#ArtOfNursing
When my new Staff Nurses in ICU ask about COVID.
Completed to see our Article published! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @jodyedeox.bsky.social
![Screenshot from 'Detectorists'.
Russell is shocked to find out Hugh is 32 and doesn't 'have a syndrome'.
Russell: '[32] years of age?'](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:adpewibqn36iluaelkgtz5lt/bafkreigblebwruxlljizqu5clthtejo6cfrszrzvfdgm7vs5t37vhrismi)
Screenshot from 'Detectorists'. Russell is shocked to find out Hugh is 32 and doesn't 'have a syndrome'. Russell: '[32] years of age?'
Screenshot from 'Detectorists'. Russell: 'so, why have I been buying you pints of coke all this time?'
Screenshot from 'Detectorists'. Russell: '32... I feel like I've been groomed.'
Today, I can post this.
oil panting profile of a British soldier in steel helmet, khaki balaclava and jacket, goatskin jerkin, leaning on a sandbag trench parapet apparently gazing across no man’s land, his rifle with fixed bayonet next to him.
This wonderful 1917 portrait, of an unknown soldier on sentry duty in the front line, is in the William Nicholson exhibition at Pallant House.
Looking forward to what other regional employment tribunals the media will be reporting on en masse today! Race discrimination in Scunthorpe? Sex discrimination in Yeovil? Homophobia in Wrexham? Or is it only GCs who lost their case that get this treatment
The Tribunal also found that Peggie had committed harassment and transphobic hate towards Dr Upton. But for some reason this isn't being mentioned in the headlines.
Imagine coming into A&E and being faced with this bigot.
Apart from anything else, this really embodies the Playmobil approach to workforces that politicians often fall into — it’s all very well and good to laud “frontline” NHS workers but without backroom staff the entire service would actually collapse.
Windy Miller and PC McGarry (#452) stand beside a small Christmas tree, McGarry holds a small festive wreath.
I got tiny Christmas decorations so these guys could look festive.
Yeah, fine thanks.
'But death replied: “I choose him.” So he went,
And there was silence in the summer night;
Silence and safety; and the veils of sleep.'
- Siegfried Sassoon.
Lines I've said at the bedside a few times.
Rather surreal, cold, yet exciting thing to be a part of yesterday as @ox.ac.uk's first line of defence and order (armed with an umbrella, a whistle and a small notebook).
Hanging up the bowler for 2025.
One of my favourite collections that I've ever worked with was this set of Magic Lantern Slides produced during the First World War. They came to us packed in wooden crates, and we re-housed them into custom-made archival boxes, and had them digitized.
