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Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 11h

Come to Britain, enjoy our graffiti covered bins, have everything you buy, save or think you’re invested in ravaged by hedge fund managers with no taste, a GCSE in maths and dad in the city. But you need to understand Othello and Ralph Ellison.

Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 11h

To prove a point I missed the word ‘we’ out of the first post. (I’m tired).

Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 11h

Please kick me out.

Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 11h

Part of my job is writing, I scraped an E at A level. It’s ironic that we’ve downgraded humanities and arts as academic subjects, using things grossly underfund as metrics. Fuck this measurement shit.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 22h

Migrants will need A-level standard English to work in UK

Migrants will need A-level standard English to work in UK

www.independent.co.uk

Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 15h

They always pop up when fascism shows its face. Look at the early 30s. It’s like a cancer marker.

Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 23h

This lot aren't attempting to hide their fascism, one of the symbols on their website is the Jerusalem Cross, A Crusader symbols appropriated by the far right about ten years ago, 'Deus Vult' is where we are...

Andrew Copson @andrewcopson.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely awful. Just the latest example of rising Christian Nationalism in the UK, much of which can be attributed to American influence and financing.

Homophobic Christian Nationalist mob targets London’s gay district

A homophobic religious mob calling themselves the ‘King’s Army’ organised an intimidating mob in the streets of London’s Soho – the heart of London’s LGBT+ community, home to many LGBT+ bars, clubs, a...

Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t have time to do bids, or the expertise as it’s quite specialised, and I can’t afford to pay anyone currently. It’ll have to wait until I retire when I’m 80.

Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 1d

As soon as someone funds it.

Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 1d

Also just realised, it wasn't hanging in the canteen until 2000, it was taken away by the Belgian government in 1952 for safe-keeping, they presented the second cross to the museum.

Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 1d

When I went and took the photos in about 2017 the whole corner is dedicated, and the whole church is very much about her essence. A curious place, worth a visit.

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Norfolk Record Office @norfolkro.bsky.social · 2d

On this day nurse #EdithCavell and #PhilipeBaucq were shot at dawn for helping allied soldiers to escape Belgium during the First World War. This is a letter from one of those soldiers.

Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 2d

Whatever your views are on her; martyr, hero, resister, or that she possibly put others at risk within the resistance network, there is absolutely no doubt about her bravery and her desire to do what she felt was the right thing is unquestionable.

Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 2d

There's more info, records of the crosses and blog here. thereturned.co.uk?s=cavell

Search results for "cavell" | Returned from the Front

thereturned.co.uk

Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 2d

These are part of the legacy of the Returned from the Front project, run between 2015 and 2019, studying the hundreds of repatriated crosses in Great Britain returned after the war.
Final image: IWM E(AUS) 4088. Showing the grave in TIR Nationale Shooting Range temporary cemetery.

A grave with a plain unmarked cross, draped in a Union Flag, with flowers. Black and white image.

Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 2d

...prior to that it had hung in the canteen, that one is believed to be a replacement cross put on her grave after she was bought home. Nothing is clear on either though to be honest, it is said that her grave was the repeated target of souvenir hunters. Anyway. 110 years ago thereabouts.

The Cavell stained glass in Swardeston church which shows her kneeling and supplicant.

Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 2d

Edith Cavell’s repatriated cross. This is in St Mary’s church Swardeston, and is believed to be from TIR Nationale shooting range where she was hastily buried after being executed. There is another repatriated cross which is in the Royal London Hospital and Archive, presented to them in 2000.

A fragment of the cross, the upright of the cross in an oak case behind glass.

The remains of a paper label.

Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 2d

Which has rolling stock owned by private equity. But it’s a start.

Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 2d

This morning I’ll be travelling on a publicly owned Greater Anglia train. 🙂

Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 2d

Plus loads of the usual suspects from PG tips, bubblegum cards, cigarette cards etc. and an interesting tea clock, which in the late 19th and early 20th century were given away if you had collected enough tea coupons, or bought 4lbs of tea (2kg-ish)

The front of the tea clock, it’s got a really cheap German movement Jungens I think.

The back, with ‘Given away with 4lbs of tea’ stencilled on it.

Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 2d

The site of the warehouse is now Next, the modern store was originally built for C&A c1971. I have a few sets of these.

Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 2d

A friend sent me this. It’s a little wonder. Lamberts of Norwich was a tea importer, wholesaler and retailer originally established in London Street in 1843, they had a warehouse in Hay Hill too, demolished in the late 1960s. They used to produce collectors cards. This set of cacti is from 1962.

The cover of a lamberts card booklet or Picture card album.

Some lovely drawings of cacti on the cards.

Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 3d

Don’t use it often, but it’s really not having it for some reason.

Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 3d

Doesn’t work.

Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 3d

Not for me no.

Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 3d

I was imagining him being alive in my use of the world imagine.

Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 3d

Imagine for a second, Keith Floyd being the new Masterchef presenter. That would be good telly.

harrysword.bsky.social @harrysword.bsky.social · 3d

I think my favourite piece I’ve written for your fine site was on Floyd: thequietus.com/opinion-and-...

Axis of Tweeville: Mawkish Brit Food Culture V The Glory Of Keith Floyd | The Quietus

We have an odd relationship to food and drink in Britain. We’re good at wallowing in a simpering nationalistic jingoism, a sentimentality that often shuns the very best of what we do – offal; non chai...