Lizzy Baker
@lizzybarchivist.bsky.social
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"Think not of the books you've bought as a "to be read" pile. Instead, think of your bookcase as a wine cellar. You collect books to be read at the right time, the right place, and the right mood."
- Luc van Donkersgoed
- Luc van Donkersgoed
December 18, 2025 at 5:42 PM
"Think not of the books you've bought as a "to be read" pile. Instead, think of your bookcase as a wine cellar. You collect books to be read at the right time, the right place, and the right mood."
- Luc van Donkersgoed
- Luc van Donkersgoed
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The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing.
All from his movies.
All from his movies.
December 15, 2025 at 3:51 AM
The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing.
All from his movies.
All from his movies.
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📣 'Archives to Action' has a programme! If you are a #humanities researcher or #archivist looking to connect your work to #policy. Or if you are in #legal practice or #policy looking for new ways to address old problems, this FREE one-day workshop is for you: www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/new...
December 15, 2025 at 1:49 PM
📣 'Archives to Action' has a programme! If you are a #humanities researcher or #archivist looking to connect your work to #policy. Or if you are in #legal practice or #policy looking for new ways to address old problems, this FREE one-day workshop is for you: www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/new...
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I am really looking forward to running this event in January. It is a bit of a departure from the usual academic conference format and I hope will feature plenty of conversation and new opportunities for future collaboration. Join in, either in person or online: www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/new...
December 15, 2025 at 2:08 PM
I am really looking forward to running this event in January. It is a bit of a departure from the usual academic conference format and I hope will feature plenty of conversation and new opportunities for future collaboration. Join in, either in person or online: www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/new...
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Major update to our map of Anglo-Saxon London... we've now added etymologies for each place name, so you can find out what your bit of London used to be called.... and why londonist.substack.com/p/mapping-an...
Mapping Anglo-Saxon London: A Big Update
A glimpse of London, 1,000 years past.
londonist.substack.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Major update to our map of Anglo-Saxon London... we've now added etymologies for each place name, so you can find out what your bit of London used to be called.... and why londonist.substack.com/p/mapping-an...
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It looks like a furious duck wearing a scarf.
December 9, 2025 at 12:15 AM
It looks like a furious duck wearing a scarf.
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If they aren’t a registered charity and they aren’t registered with the Fundraising Regulator (example logo below), it’s probably one of these scammy orgs where the ‘profit’ is a tiny fraction of the money you handed over and some bastard gets rich on your good intentions. Give to a real charity.
December 9, 2025 at 8:12 AM
If they aren’t a registered charity and they aren’t registered with the Fundraising Regulator (example logo below), it’s probably one of these scammy orgs where the ‘profit’ is a tiny fraction of the money you handed over and some bastard gets rich on your good intentions. Give to a real charity.
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December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Lovely start to #YayAdvent with this very festive candy cane clip. Thanks @tmmorton.bsky.social!
And as always thanks to @gazpachodragon.bsky.social for organising this annual delight.
And as always thanks to @gazpachodragon.bsky.social for organising this annual delight.
December 1, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Lovely start to #YayAdvent with this very festive candy cane clip. Thanks @tmmorton.bsky.social!
And as always thanks to @gazpachodragon.bsky.social for organising this annual delight.
And as always thanks to @gazpachodragon.bsky.social for organising this annual delight.
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In conversation with Rupert Whitaker: a special event to mark World AIDS Day – 6pm 1 December 2025, Durham University Waterside Building
pay.durham.ac.uk/event-durham...
pay.durham.ac.uk/event-durham...
November 24, 2025 at 4:53 PM
In conversation with Rupert Whitaker: a special event to mark World AIDS Day – 6pm 1 December 2025, Durham University Waterside Building
pay.durham.ac.uk/event-durham...
pay.durham.ac.uk/event-durham...
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Reading about AI being subverted by adversarial poetry and Russian drones' navigation systems jammed by Ukranian folk anthems, which suggests the opening future 'human rebels' scenes of Terminator may now have to be revised.
November 23, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Reading about AI being subverted by adversarial poetry and Russian drones' navigation systems jammed by Ukranian folk anthems, which suggests the opening future 'human rebels' scenes of Terminator may now have to be revised.
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Great work from Rachel & the team at Edinburgh University Archives.
A lovely story of an archivist reaching out for religious community support to fully understand a holy book in the collection, and that community getting a wonderful experience in return.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Sikhs flock to see rare outing of ancient holy book in Edinburgh
The Guru Granth Sahib is so fragile it was taken to Edinburgh Gurdwara in a special convoy by curators for just a few hours.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 17, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Great work from Rachel & the team at Edinburgh University Archives.
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At some point, for the love of God, will someone ANYONE at long last take the council funding crisis seriously?!?
Because THIS is what will break down a society, not some poor soul escaping incredible dangers, arriving on our shores.
Because THIS is what will break down a society, not some poor soul escaping incredible dangers, arriving on our shores.
English councils plan to sell off social clubs and sports centres to balance books
English councils plan to sell off social clubs and sports centres to balance books
Survey finds 60% of key cities councils are planning to sell assets to meet costs of adult and children’s social care
English councils are planning to sell social clubs, sports centres and shopping arcades as they bet on a fire sale of assets to balance the books, according to a survey of local authorities.
The key cities group of councils, which represents second-tier cities in England, said 60% of councils were planning to sell assets to meet the escalating costs of adult and children’s social care. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 8:03 PM
At some point, for the love of God, will someone ANYONE at long last take the council funding crisis seriously?!?
Because THIS is what will break down a society, not some poor soul escaping incredible dangers, arriving on our shores.
Because THIS is what will break down a society, not some poor soul escaping incredible dangers, arriving on our shores.
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THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS
November 15, 2025 at 3:52 PM
THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS
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Sex ed should be mandatory and all students regardless of gender should study periods, childbirth, PCOS, and endometriosis.
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 14, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Sex ed should be mandatory and all students regardless of gender should study periods, childbirth, PCOS, and endometriosis.
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Now open for booking: OU Law School's legal histories conference. This year's theme is 'moments of rupture' and we have an exciting range of speakers, topics, jurisdictions and periods.
20-21 November, online, free.
Programme and booking at the link.
20-21 November, online, free.
Programme and booking at the link.
Annual Diversity, Dilemmas and Discoveries Conference - Moments of Rupture
Join us for the 6th annual Diversity, Dilemmas and Discoveries Conference - Moments of Rupture
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Now open for booking: OU Law School's legal histories conference. This year's theme is 'moments of rupture' and we have an exciting range of speakers, topics, jurisdictions and periods.
20-21 November, online, free.
Programme and booking at the link.
20-21 November, online, free.
Programme and booking at the link.
Good lords the tension!
November 6, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Good lords the tension!
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PLEASE commission a buddy comedy with Nick and Joe where they have to continuously wear their outfits from this roundtable with no explanation to viewers
November 6, 2025 at 9:36 PM
PLEASE commission a buddy comedy with Nick and Joe where they have to continuously wear their outfits from this roundtable with no explanation to viewers
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![1
Nurse:
It’s become a real problem in this area
2
Nurse:
We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction
3
Show a building sign posted:
Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic
With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it
Nurse:
Ministers, Spads, Researchers…
4
Nurse:
Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely
[Nurse on phone taking a call]
Ok - we’ll be right over
5
Nurse:
We just have a gentle chat
[Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster
Minister:
I understand your concerns…
6
Nurse:
Are you OK love?
Minister:
Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters
7
Nurse:
That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian
[Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters]
Nurse 2:
Give us your phone, love
8
Nurse:
At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to
[We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.]
9
Minister:
YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR
[woman looks baffled]
10
woman:
I just want a bus service
Minister:
LOOK AT MY FLAG
[produces a St George's flag]
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New books/audiobooks out this week by KJ Charles, Freya Marske, Anne Cleeves AND Jodi Taylor. Happy birthday week off to me!!!
October 9, 2025 at 7:58 PM
New books/audiobooks out this week by KJ Charles, Freya Marske, Anne Cleeves AND Jodi Taylor. Happy birthday week off to me!!!
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I love how Russell T Davies always uses his platform to fight for progress - I hate how it is always so necessary
Please, if good television matters to you, repost or repackage this video until everyone you follow has seen it
#televisionmatters
#televisionmatters
October 7, 2025 at 3:54 PM
I love how Russell T Davies always uses his platform to fight for progress - I hate how it is always so necessary
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Last couple of days for Yayadvent/Yayswap sign up. If you're a nice, normal person and interested in an advent calendar and/or Christmas ornament exchange and want more info let me know!
September 28, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Last couple of days for Yayadvent/Yayswap sign up. If you're a nice, normal person and interested in an advent calendar and/or Christmas ornament exchange and want more info let me know!
Oh and for those who saw me sewing this last week - it's now finished! #ConfinedCocktails
September 27, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Oh and for those who saw me sewing this last week - it's now finished! #ConfinedCocktails
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Why aren’t Police Records in England & Wales covered by the Public Records Act? We've been campaigning on this since 2012 - blog for more info:
www.campaignforrecords.org/blog/why-arent-police-records-covered-by-the-public-records-act
#publicaccountability
of interest @andyburnham.bsky.social ?
www.campaignforrecords.org/blog/why-arent-police-records-covered-by-the-public-records-act
#publicaccountability
of interest @andyburnham.bsky.social ?
September 25, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Why aren’t Police Records in England & Wales covered by the Public Records Act? We've been campaigning on this since 2012 - blog for more info:
www.campaignforrecords.org/blog/why-arent-police-records-covered-by-the-public-records-act
#publicaccountability
of interest @andyburnham.bsky.social ?
www.campaignforrecords.org/blog/why-arent-police-records-covered-by-the-public-records-act
#publicaccountability
of interest @andyburnham.bsky.social ?
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#yayadvent and #yayswap signups are now live. Though I'm around, this account is not actively monitored so please get in touch via the contact form on the website if necessary.
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Yay Advent
The original advent gift exchange. Get partnered with a stranger, give 24 gifts, get 24 gifts - one for each day of advent!
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September 4, 2025 at 9:41 PM
#yayadvent and #yayswap signups are now live. Though I'm around, this account is not actively monitored so please get in touch via the contact form on the website if necessary.
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