@profwit.bsky.social
Likes the sea, Stoke City, a wee bet on the gg's, custard, genealogy
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Presided over a system that drove vulnerable people to feeling suicidal
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
DWP permanent secretary to step down after carer’s allowance scandal
Peter Schofield tells staff he will leave the department for personal reasons
www.theguardian.com
February 9, 2026 at 7:29 PM
Presided over a system that drove vulnerable people to feeling suicidal
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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For those of you eager for our next instalment of family history of patients at the asylum in Worcestershire, Maddie has recently sent us this research about Walter Amphlett, one of the few patients who had their photograph taken while in the asylum.
medicalmuseum.org.uk/outside-the-...
medicalmuseum.org.uk/outside-the-...
Walter Amphlett - Outside the Asylum — Worcester Medical Museums
medicalmuseum.org.uk
February 6, 2026 at 2:06 PM
For those of you eager for our next instalment of family history of patients at the asylum in Worcestershire, Maddie has recently sent us this research about Walter Amphlett, one of the few patients who had their photograph taken while in the asylum.
medicalmuseum.org.uk/outside-the-...
medicalmuseum.org.uk/outside-the-...
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St Mary Abbots Church, Kensington, #London
The #Victorian font is by Farmer & Brindley.
It has a large marble bowl on a central shaft supported by four further shafts. The figures/angels represent the rivers of Paradise.
Tall openwork cover of wrought iron was added in 1881.
#FontsOnFriday
The #Victorian font is by Farmer & Brindley.
It has a large marble bowl on a central shaft supported by four further shafts. The figures/angels represent the rivers of Paradise.
Tall openwork cover of wrought iron was added in 1881.
#FontsOnFriday
January 30, 2026 at 8:02 AM
St Mary Abbots Church, Kensington, #London
The #Victorian font is by Farmer & Brindley.
It has a large marble bowl on a central shaft supported by four further shafts. The figures/angels represent the rivers of Paradise.
Tall openwork cover of wrought iron was added in 1881.
#FontsOnFriday
The #Victorian font is by Farmer & Brindley.
It has a large marble bowl on a central shaft supported by four further shafts. The figures/angels represent the rivers of Paradise.
Tall openwork cover of wrought iron was added in 1881.
#FontsOnFriday
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Volunteer Sandra has been trying to find out more about Ellen Cull, admitted to the asylum in July 1906. This one was tricky, as it was hard to find the right Ellen in the records. Sandra has written it all up for us and it's shared on the usual page:
medicalmuseum.org.uk/outside-the-...
medicalmuseum.org.uk/outside-the-...
Ellen Cull - Outside the Asylum — Worcester Medical Museums
medicalmuseum.org.uk
January 30, 2026 at 11:44 AM
Volunteer Sandra has been trying to find out more about Ellen Cull, admitted to the asylum in July 1906. This one was tricky, as it was hard to find the right Ellen in the records. Sandra has written it all up for us and it's shared on the usual page:
medicalmuseum.org.uk/outside-the-...
medicalmuseum.org.uk/outside-the-...
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Privatisation Curse.
Royal Mail delivered Xmas letters/parcels late to 16m people.
2025 figure is 50% higher than previous year.
RM doesn't meet targets.
Price Now: Ist class stamp £1.70; 2nd class 87p.
When privatised in 2013: 1st class 60p; 2nd class 50p.
Royal Mail delivered Xmas letters/parcels late to 16m people.
2025 figure is 50% higher than previous year.
RM doesn't meet targets.
Price Now: Ist class stamp £1.70; 2nd class 87p.
When privatised in 2013: 1st class 60p; 2nd class 50p.
Royal Mail delivered Christmas letters and parcels late to about 16m people
‘No light at the end of the tunnel for consumers’ as 2025 figure is 50% higher than previous year, says Citizens Advice
www.theguardian.com
January 28, 2026 at 7:49 AM
Privatisation Curse.
Royal Mail delivered Xmas letters/parcels late to 16m people.
2025 figure is 50% higher than previous year.
RM doesn't meet targets.
Price Now: Ist class stamp £1.70; 2nd class 87p.
When privatised in 2013: 1st class 60p; 2nd class 50p.
Royal Mail delivered Xmas letters/parcels late to 16m people.
2025 figure is 50% higher than previous year.
RM doesn't meet targets.
Price Now: Ist class stamp £1.70; 2nd class 87p.
When privatised in 2013: 1st class 60p; 2nd class 50p.
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Sir Paul Nurse is an impressive scientist but what the Royal Society needs is Dorothy Bishop to take the helm and clean the place out. Fellows who bring the Society into disrepute need tougher action than himpathy.
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
‘Lots of people don’t want to do it’: Paul Nurse on his controversial second term as Royal Society president
The Nobel prize winner discusses claims of a ‘boys’ club’, Elon Musk’s fellowship and rightwing attacks on science
www.theguardian.com
January 11, 2026 at 12:41 PM
Sir Paul Nurse is an impressive scientist but what the Royal Society needs is Dorothy Bishop to take the helm and clean the place out. Fellows who bring the Society into disrepute need tougher action than himpathy.
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
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‘January’ (Shell Guide, Flowers of the Countryside, 1955)
Artists: Edith and Rowland Hilder
Artists: Edith and Rowland Hilder
January 1, 2026 at 8:23 AM
‘January’ (Shell Guide, Flowers of the Countryside, 1955)
Artists: Edith and Rowland Hilder
Artists: Edith and Rowland Hilder
December 20, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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I didn't realise quagga mussels were so utterly devastating.
Sounds like Lough Erne may be changed forever, and presumably, all Irish lakes within a couple of years.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Sounds like Lough Erne may be changed forever, and presumably, all Irish lakes within a couple of years.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘It’s an open invasion’: how millions of quagga mussels changed Lake Geneva for ever
The molluscs are decimating food chains in Switzerland, have devastated the Great Lakes in the US, and this week were spotted in Northern Ireland for the first time
www.theguardian.com
December 18, 2025 at 7:20 AM
I didn't realise quagga mussels were so utterly devastating.
Sounds like Lough Erne may be changed forever, and presumably, all Irish lakes within a couple of years.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Sounds like Lough Erne may be changed forever, and presumably, all Irish lakes within a couple of years.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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A lot of people are sick right now.
Flu and Covid are raging, but the good news is a well fitted respirator can prevent both!
A good mask like an N95 is very effective at stopping flu and Covid.
My article looks at how to choose one, how to fit test, where to buy & more.
Mask up & save lives!
Flu and Covid are raging, but the good news is a well fitted respirator can prevent both!
A good mask like an N95 is very effective at stopping flu and Covid.
My article looks at how to choose one, how to fit test, where to buy & more.
Mask up & save lives!
We’re Witnessing the Fall of Public Health… and Your Best Tool is a Mask
Measles in Texas, bird flu in Louisiana, tuberculosis in Kansas and Covid everywhere. Public health has been dying a slow death for years, we can’t count on it anymore. What can we count on? A mask!
www.disabledginger.com
December 17, 2025 at 5:39 AM
A lot of people are sick right now.
Flu and Covid are raging, but the good news is a well fitted respirator can prevent both!
A good mask like an N95 is very effective at stopping flu and Covid.
My article looks at how to choose one, how to fit test, where to buy & more.
Mask up & save lives!
Flu and Covid are raging, but the good news is a well fitted respirator can prevent both!
A good mask like an N95 is very effective at stopping flu and Covid.
My article looks at how to choose one, how to fit test, where to buy & more.
Mask up & save lives!
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November 24, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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📢UK Covid-19 Inquiry Legal Team Meeting
If you are from a Clinically Vulnerable household, do join us on Thursday.
We will be discussing Modules 8 (Children) and 10 (Impact on Society).
✍️ Sign up today!
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If you are from a Clinically Vulnerable household, do join us on Thursday.
We will be discussing Modules 8 (Children) and 10 (Impact on Society).
✍️ Sign up today!
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November 22, 2025 at 7:16 PM
📢UK Covid-19 Inquiry Legal Team Meeting
If you are from a Clinically Vulnerable household, do join us on Thursday.
We will be discussing Modules 8 (Children) and 10 (Impact on Society).
✍️ Sign up today!
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If you are from a Clinically Vulnerable household, do join us on Thursday.
We will be discussing Modules 8 (Children) and 10 (Impact on Society).
✍️ Sign up today!
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We have zero clue where this photograph was taken or who the people are in it. We assume it's a hospital or BMA trip somewhere...
Can anyone identify these rocks?
@bgs.ac.uk @geolassoc.bsky.social @aegweb.bsky.social
Can anyone identify these rocks?
@bgs.ac.uk @geolassoc.bsky.social @aegweb.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 11:46 AM
We have zero clue where this photograph was taken or who the people are in it. We assume it's a hospital or BMA trip somewhere...
Can anyone identify these rocks?
@bgs.ac.uk @geolassoc.bsky.social @aegweb.bsky.social
Can anyone identify these rocks?
@bgs.ac.uk @geolassoc.bsky.social @aegweb.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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Remember guys, @pcsunion.bsky.social staff at the BL are on strike for the next two weeks. Please don't cross the picket line to go to reading rooms, attend exhibitions or anything else. They've endured so much on low pay since the cyberattack in 2023 and the least we can do is have their backs now.
Secret Maps opens today! 🤫 🗺️
From medieval manuscripts to Cold War espionage, our new exhibition explores how maps have hidden as much as they revealed for over 600 years.
Book now: bit.ly/BLSecretMaps
From medieval manuscripts to Cold War espionage, our new exhibition explores how maps have hidden as much as they revealed for over 600 years.
Book now: bit.ly/BLSecretMaps
October 26, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Remember guys, @pcsunion.bsky.social staff at the BL are on strike for the next two weeks. Please don't cross the picket line to go to reading rooms, attend exhibitions or anything else. They've endured so much on low pay since the cyberattack in 2023 and the least we can do is have their backs now.
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When we look at this massacre and many more perpetrated by the RSF, let's be clear who funds, equips & sustains them. It's the UAE. Yes, the same UAE that might own your football club, fly you on your holidays, invests in our national infrastructure. If boycotts work, we should be boycotting now.
“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”
Yale lab reports mass killings in Sudan, calls for student activism
The Humanitarian Research Lab was told this week that over 10,000 people in Sudan were killed within three days.
yaledailynews.com
November 1, 2025 at 12:59 PM
When we look at this massacre and many more perpetrated by the RSF, let's be clear who funds, equips & sustains them. It's the UAE. Yes, the same UAE that might own your football club, fly you on your holidays, invests in our national infrastructure. If boycotts work, we should be boycotting now.
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There is a proposal to create a new eastern entrance to this historic cemetery, which would be detrimental. I would urge anyone who has an interest in the #Glasgow #Necropolis to read this open letter from the Friends group and take action www.glasgownecropolis.org/wp-content/u...
#31DaysOfGraves
#31DaysOfGraves
November 1, 2025 at 9:47 AM
There is a proposal to create a new eastern entrance to this historic cemetery, which would be detrimental. I would urge anyone who has an interest in the #Glasgow #Necropolis to read this open letter from the Friends group and take action www.glasgownecropolis.org/wp-content/u...
#31DaysOfGraves
#31DaysOfGraves
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#31DaysOfGraves 2024 - the film. Part II.
Especially for @orsa-marga.bsky.social for her patience. 😌
#watercolor
#coloredpencildrawing
#mixedmedia
#FineArt
#art
#kleineKunstklasse
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Especially for @orsa-marga.bsky.social for her patience. 😌
#watercolor
#coloredpencildrawing
#mixedmedia
#FineArt
#art
#kleineKunstklasse
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November 1, 2025 at 6:08 AM
#31DaysOfGraves 2024 - the film. Part II.
Especially for @orsa-marga.bsky.social for her patience. 😌
#watercolor
#coloredpencildrawing
#mixedmedia
#FineArt
#art
#kleineKunstklasse
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Especially for @orsa-marga.bsky.social for her patience. 😌
#watercolor
#coloredpencildrawing
#mixedmedia
#FineArt
#art
#kleineKunstklasse
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Just learnt about #31DaysOfGraves from a @churchmonuments.bsky.social lecture and can't resist adding this one on the final day, even if it isn't quite on theme! Photographed in the Forest of Dean, made of metal, and I've never seen any comparable examples - would love to know if anyone else has.
October 31, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Just learnt about #31DaysOfGraves from a @churchmonuments.bsky.social lecture and can't resist adding this one on the final day, even if it isn't quite on theme! Photographed in the Forest of Dean, made of metal, and I've never seen any comparable examples - would love to know if anyone else has.
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Finally #31DaysOfGraves as an ART project is finished - started last year.
@annaandthedead.bsky.social
@annaandthedead.bsky.social
#31DaysOfGraves 2024
And here is the last double page of the sketchbook.
Day 27: INSIDE
Day 29: OLD
Day 1: BIRD
Day 31: SKULL
#watercolor
#coloredpencildrawing
#mixedmedia
#FineArt
#art
#kleineKunstklasse
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And here is the last double page of the sketchbook.
Day 27: INSIDE
Day 29: OLD
Day 1: BIRD
Day 31: SKULL
#watercolor
#coloredpencildrawing
#mixedmedia
#FineArt
#art
#kleineKunstklasse
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October 31, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Finally #31DaysOfGraves as an ART project is finished - started last year.
@annaandthedead.bsky.social
@annaandthedead.bsky.social
@annaandthedead.bsky.social Thank you for hosting. Really enjoyed participating and it has been illuminating seeing the variety of resting places. #31DaysofGraves
October 31, 2025 at 4:32 PM
@annaandthedead.bsky.social Thank you for hosting. Really enjoyed participating and it has been illuminating seeing the variety of resting places. #31DaysofGraves
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#31daysofgraves 31: Memento Mori - not exactly Memento Mori but I wanted to include this one, in plot 3-219, #Macclesfield Cemetery. Brings tears to my eyes every time I read it. Transcription in alt text. Unusually, no dates of death are given but Ida died in 1993 and Albert in 1996.
October 31, 2025 at 10:49 AM
#31daysofgraves 31: Memento Mori - not exactly Memento Mori but I wanted to include this one, in plot 3-219, #Macclesfield Cemetery. Brings tears to my eyes every time I read it. Transcription in alt text. Unusually, no dates of death are given but Ida died in 1993 and Albert in 1996.
St. Cynbryd, Llanddulas, Wales #fontsonFriday
October 31, 2025 at 7:24 AM
St. Cynbryd, Llanddulas, Wales #fontsonFriday
#31DaysofGraves Day 31
St. Michael's at North Gate, Oxford. Sir William Guise, MP for Gloucestershire. 5th Baronet. Died 1783, unmarried and without issue. Student at Queen's College, Oxford. #Gloucestershire #Oxford
St. Michael's at North Gate, Oxford. Sir William Guise, MP for Gloucestershire. 5th Baronet. Died 1783, unmarried and without issue. Student at Queen's College, Oxford. #Gloucestershire #Oxford
October 31, 2025 at 7:09 AM
#31DaysofGraves Day 31
St. Michael's at North Gate, Oxford. Sir William Guise, MP for Gloucestershire. 5th Baronet. Died 1783, unmarried and without issue. Student at Queen's College, Oxford. #Gloucestershire #Oxford
St. Michael's at North Gate, Oxford. Sir William Guise, MP for Gloucestershire. 5th Baronet. Died 1783, unmarried and without issue. Student at Queen's College, Oxford. #Gloucestershire #Oxford