Oh dear @theguardian.com

Hugo Boss did not design any Nazi uniforms, he did manufacture them, was a war profiteering Nazi scumbag who used forced labour, but he did not design the uniforms.
The truth makes Boss even worse.
More information here;
fakehistoryhunter.net/2019/09/10/n...

Opened in 1830, the #Canterbury and #Whitstable Railway was among the first in the world to carry passengers and freight by steam. It also featured Britain's first purpose-built railway tunnel, at Tyler Hill.

For more information and document details, click ALT ☟
🚂 #Railway200

We're delighted to announce the first in a series of workshops hosted by our new project in Lincolnshire will take place in Spalding on 15 November - more details in the link. 1/2

NEW

Trying to make sense of the nonsensical decision to drop the Chinese spying prosecutions

How the positions of neither the CPS nor the government stand up to scrutiny

By me

emptycity.substack.com/p/trying-to-...

#DigiPres the Digital Archiving Department at The National Archives (UK) is currently looking for a Digtial Archivist (Transfer) www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi... and 2 Data Engineers www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi.... ce.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi...

That's an improbable amount of turkey's worth.

NB, thinking about it, I know quite a few people who have both qualifications (English Language A Level, for clarification). You can check the curricula easily enough: not a lot of overlap!

Impressive seal belonging to Thomas of Lancaster, younger brother of the future Henry V, attached to a letters patent from 1408 when Thomas was the lieutenant of Ireland at the @nlireland.bsky.social. Thomas' seal shows his coat of arms which are surmounted by a helmet and a lion crest.

Important to note all of these things: it’s about functional language use, not the things A level assesses (which, knowing people who have taught/teach both, are quite different).

What HE managers fail to understand is that in the context of the Humanities, ‘employability’ isn’t teaching coding or carpentry, but skills around writing, presenting, reasoning, evaluation, analysis, research etc. In an 80% service economy, these are the skills that fundamentally matter.

This conference celebrates 50 years of the Norfolk Historic Environmenta Service, to be held at UEA, 1-2 Nov: www.norfolk.gov.uk/article/7070...

Now open: call for the Royal Historical Society's First Book and Early Career Article Prizes, 2026.

Eligible titles, published in 2025, may be submitted by the author before the closing date of 15 December. Further details and how to apply: bit.ly/3KnR47v

#Skystorians

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.

“Copyright growing pains” is one hell of a euphemism for the biggest IP theft in history

Ed Lorch will tell us the story of local man James Quantock, an 18th century polymath who specialised in what we today call surveying. There will be details on how his intricate 100-page notebook was found which gives instructions and data on surveying, carpentry, husbandry, building costs and more.

Closer than what Steel managed (same word!). No shade on Mark Steel, he knows what he's doing.

Pleased to say that Mark Steel has usurped Paxman and Amol Rajan as the worst attempt at Welsh pronunciation of on the Beeb.

Unlike the former two, I think he‘d admit it…

Listen now to the Bureau of Lost Culture podcast episode with me, discussing commons and common rights
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The @ihr.bsky.social Modern Religious History Seminar is now on Bluesky! Follow for updates on our 2025-26 programme ⬇️

Out now! Listen to me chat with the brilliant Hannah Dunleavy on the Standard Issue podcast about #poetry, #history - and @vch-home.bsky.social!
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MEMOs EVENT: Islam in Medieval England
British Library, London:

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Time travel exists between the pages of a book.

This luggage tag fell out of a pile of old books, and everything about it looks like the past.

I suspect a quick skim through the Welsh Newspapers Archive (free!), would yield quite a lot more. Yes, I'd love to, no, I really DO NOT have time: