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Cycling. Public Historian. Northern Ireland (the border bit). Daughter of a Weaver. www.digitalfilmarchive.net A piece of archive film for every occasion. Also: https://bsky.app/profile/nornirongirl1981.bsky.social

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Brónagh 🇮🇪🇵🇸 @beebsymca.bsky.social · Nov 16

Here's an article I wrote for the Irish Times a few years ago,
looking at what archives tell us about ourselves and the not-too-distant past.

Seeing the future through the past - News

Over 127 years of moving images from Northern Ireland, featuring amateur and professional films from 1897 to 2024, brought to you by Northern Ireland Screen.

digitalfilmarchive.net

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Brónagh 🇮🇪🇵🇸 @beebsymca.bsky.social · 1h

A new low for them. They usually only repeat the morning stuff well into the afternoon 🙄

Brónagh 🇮🇪🇵🇸 @beebsymca.bsky.social · 1h

Newry cycling legend Brian Monaghan has passed away.

Here's a great interview with him from 1985.

Rewind

What will you find? Explore thousands of recent archive clips from around the UK.

discover.bbcrewind.co.uk

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j🎃nathan @jonocard.bsky.social · 2h

Who came up with work? Like, the concept of work. Some right cunt I expect. Anyway unrelated, it's my in office day today. On a Monday.

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Stevie Kilner @1steviekilner.bsky.social · 2h

An episode of Tomorrow's World revealing how special effects sounds for Doctor Who are recorded.

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Brónagh 🇮🇪🇵🇸 @beebsymca.bsky.social · 2h

It's so good. Need to double bill it with Michael Flatley's Blackbird 😂

Brónagh 🇮🇪🇵🇸 @beebsymca.bsky.social · 10h

Oh my god 100%.
Can I put this on the list alongside Shitts Creek and Someone Somewhere?

Brónagh 🇮🇪🇵🇸 @beebsymca.bsky.social · 10h

This is my go-to drunken guilty pleasure film. Can nearly quote it now. Marvellously shit.

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 14h

Ladybird book endpapers design.
From the 2007 book published by Penguin called ‘Boys and Girls’

The endpapers design is made up of a series of different ladybird book covers laid out neatly in an 8 x 7 grid

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Brónagh 🇮🇪🇵🇸 @beebsymca.bsky.social · 14h

So beautiful!

Brónagh 🇮🇪🇵🇸 @beebsymca.bsky.social · 17h

Plenty of local photographers here that could help Leah out on this lovely project.

CMJohnston @cmjohnston.bsky.social · 17h

NI photographers help a young art student/ photographer (my daughter) doing a course in Tech if you can please and thank you ⬇️

Her contact: VisualsByLeah on Insta

Tried to tag more if you but tags are being weird

@brendanjharkin.bsky.social @astra-photography.bsky.social @beebsymca.bsky.social

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Brónagh 🇮🇪🇵🇸 @beebsymca.bsky.social · 17h

I know! 😭

Brónagh 🇮🇪🇵🇸 @beebsymca.bsky.social · 18h

Tissues at the ready...

Lost & Found | Oscar Shortlisted Stop-Motion Animation Short Film

YouTube video by Short of the Week

youtu.be

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Brónagh 🇮🇪🇵🇸 @beebsymca.bsky.social · 1d

Ah brilliant. Can't wait to see him. The new album is beautiful.

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Michael Stipe @michaelstipe.bsky.social · 1d

and I feel fine

jamma10.bsky.social @jamma10.bsky.social · 2d

Toilet, Bristol UK circa 2015

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Brónagh 🇮🇪🇵🇸 @beebsymca.bsky.social · 1d

Amazing ride! As Coppi said... 😉

Age and treachery will overcome youth and skill. Fausto Coppi

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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 1d

Another ancient woodland rescued from hundreds of rhododendron near Rhayader! Solid crew of young and old today (ex-military 83yo absolutely ragging rhodos with just a bowsaw.)

If you’re struggling on your land give @protect.earth a shout. We’ll grab an army of volunteers and be right over.

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Brónagh 🇮🇪🇵🇸 @beebsymca.bsky.social · 1d

Aimee Mann ♥️

Brónagh 🇮🇪🇵🇸 @beebsymca.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely!

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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 2d

Call centre worker here. I record a tally when the customer, before providing their email address, state 'all in lower case'. No Doreen, your email address is case-insensitive. Highest count in a day is 24. We need to educating the UK public.

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Brónagh 🇮🇪🇵🇸 @beebsymca.bsky.social · 2d

I get my steps in by running from room to room searching for that thing I just put down.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 2d

Congratulations to Maria Corina Machado, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize - her incredible optimism has already changed her country. I spoke to her, and wrote about her, at the beginning of this year:
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

The ‘Anthropological Change’ Happening in Venezuela

Maduro is still in place, but a pro-democracy movement is transforming the beleaguered country.

www.theatlantic.com

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Brónagh 🇮🇪🇵🇸 @beebsymca.bsky.social · 4d

The correct answer is Paul Heaton.

Emily, a Two-Shoes-Gooder @rebelmusicteach.bsky.social · 7d

I also need to know: I am fairly middle-of-the-road on Taylor Swift but someone I know called her the Greatest Living Lyricist. She is not.

Who is yours? Either the greatest or your favorite?

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Brónagh 🇮🇪🇵🇸 @beebsymca.bsky.social · 4d

'craigavon, new city'
The premier of a new film using archive and interviews to tell the story of Craigavon.
Free admission. Tickets here.
Oct 21, 7.30 Craigavon Omniplex.

Premiere screening of 'craigavon, new city' film

Premiere screening of a new short film blending archive footage and contemporary interviews reflecting on the Craigavon New City project .

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 5d

Just to be clear, an English degree - learning to critically assess texts - is actually one of the most dangerous for people such as Badenoch.

An educated population, able to bring hundreds of years of context to statements in a dawning age of AI slop and attention-seeking dishonesty is also vital.

The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 5d

So, the plan is to cut English, the arts, and sociology - the degrees that actually study culture - while on another part of your platform claiming to “defend” British culture.

It’s performance nationalism with a reading age of seven.

Badenoch: Curb students taking 'rip-off' degrees such as English
The performing arts, sociology and anthropology are among the subjects the Conservatives would like to cut

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 17d

UPDATE: I saw it happen! At the Birds Canada research station at the tip of Long Point I watched an expert ever-so-gently and carefully put one of these tiny tags on a monarch. Let me walk you through the steps (1/4)

Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 22d

So cool to visit the Motus workshop at Birds Canada headquarters. The Motus community is studying the movement of birds, bats and insects. This tiny radio telemetry device will fit on a Monarch butterfly 😲 #invertebrates #birds 🌿 www.birdscanada.org/bird-science...

Brown wood-sided building with a wi Dow and a door. Sign above the door says, “Motus Workshop and Research Laboratory”.

Tiny antenna with a rectangular box on the end. The whole thing is on an open hand and is about 5cm long.

Orange and black butterfly on purple flowers.

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