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FRHistS. Europhile. Author of Regency Spies, A Visitor's Guide to Jane Austen's England, and more. Young Workers of the Industrial Age, out now! https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Sue-Wilkes/a/1893

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Sue Wilkes @suewilkesauthor.bsky.social · Oct 12

A reminder that my latest release is now in stock on Amazon, too! www.amazon.co.uk/Young-Worker... #childlabour

Young Workers of the Industrial Age: Child Labour in the 18th and 19th Centuries: Amazon.co.uk: Sue Wilkes: 9781036113834: Books

Buy Young Workers of the Industrial Age: Child Labour in the 18th and 19th Centuries by Sue Wilkes (ISBN: 9781036113834) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 2h

For #HillfortsWednesday the absolutely whopping ramparts of Tredegar hillfort in Newport, partly hemmed in by the Gaer housing estate & re-used for an historic golf course

331m top to bottom 😮

Stunning vegetation-stripped LiDAR DTM from National Library Scotland 👌

👉 coflein.gov.uk/en/site/93429

A hillshaded orange & silver Lidar map of a substantial polygonal hillfort

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Archives & Collections, Library of Birmingham @theironroom.bsky.social · 54m

The smallest books in the #ShakespeareCollection are a set of miniature complete works in a dedicated case made in honour of actress Helen Terry in 1904. Books measure 38 x 55 mm and bookcase 100 x 100 x 150 mm. Ref: S 190.4 (182986) #LibraryofBham @shakespearebtrust.bsky.social @efernie.bsky.social

A miniature bookcase consisting of two shelves, both full of books. Three volumes stand upright in front of the bookcase.

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Historic Southampton @historicalsoton.bsky.social · 53m

When the Mayflower Theatre opened as the Empire Theatre on 22 December 1928 it was described as ‘the finest in the South’. It’s still the largest on the South Coast today and remains a wonderful theatre.

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The Empire Theatre when it was still quite new.

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Miss History G, Linda @misshistoryg2.bsky.social · 51m

Cobweb with raindrops, from 2019
The remains of a cobweb with some early morning dew making it look like a necklace of precious diamonds!

#Spooktober #cobweb #gardens

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 2h

Autumnal collection, including little owl feather, seedheads & various lovely things that fell off trees.
Zoom in to the details if you’re feeling stressed-the patterns in nature have been shown to help our brains relax🪶:

A collection of seedheads, acorns, sycamore keys, dried flowers, lichen, a little owl feather & a piece of Baltic amber on a white watercolour paper background

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Antoine Reits @antoinereits.bsky.social · Jun 14

Caspar David Friedrich, Le moine au bord de la mer.

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Emily Brand @emilybrand.bsky.social · 2d

V. exciting to see new Marie Antoinette research by
@catrionaseth.bsky.social in the news: hugely looking forward to reading the new book about her portraits

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Marie Antoinette portrait really her sister, Oxford study finds

Oxford researchers believe the painting is actually of the last queen of France's older sibling.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Dr Neil Buttery @neilbuttery.bsky.social · 44m

Spotted some lovely fungi on a very short walk yesterday. Never seen slime mould on grass before but there were a few patches of it...

#fungi
#mushrooms
#toadstools

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 2h

Private equity takeover of US hospitals led to rise in patient deaths.

Cuts to staffing/investment; high debt, profiteering; worse patient outcomes.

More deaths in nursing homes, increased post-operative complications

Why is UK Govt handing the NHS to PE? Why no investigation of the impact of PE?

Private equity takeover of hospitals led to rise in Medicare emergency patient deaths, says study

Study found seven more deaths per 10,000 patients in private equity hospitals’ versus non-private equity hospitals

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Heidi Colthup @heidi-colthup.bsky.social · 1h

Exactly why I warned undergraduates yesterday that they'd probably be the last generation to learn pre-AI and those skills will be in demand in future cyber attacks.
You need to be able to write with a pencil if your keyboard packs up.

Matt Round @mattround.com · 10h

OpenAI’s strategy is very clear, it’s trying to get people - especially young people - so reliant on its products intellectually & emotionally (& now sexually!) that going without them becomes unthinkable. And they need signs of that strategy working to keep the funding flowing in

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North West Kent Family History Society @nwkfhs.bsky.social · 1h

The library has recently received a donation of volumes by Lorraine E. Schmidt, documenting her research on the John Henry Henderson and Ann Craggs Silvester families of Gravesend, Milton, and Northfleet.

These works are now available on the shelves for consultation.
#NWKFHS #Kent #Genealogy

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History of Parliament @histparl.bsky.social · 1h

Died #OTD 1811, Nathaniel Dance-Holland. Before entering Parliament, Dance-Holland was a founding member of the Royal Academy and successful portrait artist. He was commissioned to paint, among others, Lord North, Queen Charlotte and Captain James Cook.
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A half-length painted portrait of Nathaniel Dance. Standing side on looking over his shoulder, he is wearing a velvet-esque red jacket with a furred lapel, a green waistcoat can just be seen, as well as a white tied scarf wide on his neck. He is clean shaven with pushed back thick medium length brown hair.

Portrait of Queen Charlotte, stood in front of stone pillars and a red curtain. She has one hand on a red chair. A table is behind her, with a crown on top. She has pale skin, a grey wig and is wearing a white dress with flowers all over it and gold braid detail on the bust, cuffs and hem.

portrait of Captain Cook wearing captain's uniform, consisting of a blue jacket, white waistcoat with gold braid and gold buttons and white breeches. He has grey hair. He holds his own chart of the Southern Ocean on the table and his right hand points to the east coast of Australia on it. His left thumb and finger lightly hold the other edge of the chart over his knee. His hat sits on the table behind him.

Portrait of Lord North sat in a red chair, with a red curtain backdrop. He wears a grey wig tied with a black ribbon at the nape of his neck. He is wearing a white shirt with lace collar and cuffs, a red jacket and breeches, a blue sash over his chest, and black robes with heavy gold braiding.

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Hartley Special Collections @hartleyspecialc.bsky.social · 1h

#OnThisDay in 1862 the Hartley Institution opened in Southampton High Street.

Why is this significant? Because years later it became the University of Southampton @unisouthampton.bsky.social we know and love today! @uosengagement.bsky.social

The opening of the Hartley Institution 15 October 1862, photograph of an engraving of Lord Palmerston arriving. It is a black and white image of a grand building with a horse drawn carriage in front [MS1/Phot/39/ph 3026]

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Trees for Cities @treesforcities.bsky.social · 1h

We're excited to get stuck into planting once again 🌳

We hope you get the chance to give back to the environment and plant your own tree this year!

A young standard tree in Victoria Park, with a label on its cage stating it was planted by Trees for Cities volunteers.

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 1d

The lower part of a tombstone from Roman Chester (Deva). While the name does not survive, the inscription details that the individual was an optio in the Roman army who died by shipwreck. Now part of the collections at the Grosvenor Museum in Chester. 📸 My own #EpigraphyTuesday

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 1h

L.S. Lowry at home, photo by his favourite photographer, Sefton Samuels.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 4h

Yes your taxes should support disabled people.

They should support homeless people.

They should support those living in poverty, children and the elderly.

This is literally the purpose of taxes, and I would far rather support those who need it than continue to enrich the elite.

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Jon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · 1h

Castle an Dinas at St Columb Major. It dates from around the second and third centuries BC and consists of three ditch and rampart concentric rings, 850ft in diameter and standing 700ft above sea level.

#HillfortsWednesday
#Archaeology
#AncientBlueSky

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John Williams @worldoftelly.bsky.social · 9h

This is very sad news. I think Tony’s appearance as Ensor in Blake’s 7 was the first time I became aware of him, and then a few years later he was really excellent as one of the main characters in the first series of Geoff McQueen’s Big Deal.

Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 12h

RIP Tony Caunter, seen here in Blakes 7 "Deliverance"

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 1h

I visited the magnificent Porta Nigra in Trier yesterday! It’s the best preserved Roman city gate north of the Alps! 🤩

I’m here for a few days with my museum buddy @drnwillburger.bsky.social Today we’re going to the State Exhibition ‘Marcus Aurelius’.

#Archaeology

A photo of me standing in front of the huge Roman city gate known as the ‘Porta Nigra’ in Trier yesterday. The afternoon sun is shining through an upper window.

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Laura Agustín @nakedanthropolo.bsky.social · 15h

he last time I did the walk, English walkers were shocked that Australians now celebrate convict-ancestors and Australian walkers didn't get why the English were shocked. In the day, no matter what convicts had done they were called drunks and prostitutes. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/walking-to...

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North Ages @northages.bsky.social · 1h

The Hexham Hoard was discovered in the abbey grounds by the sexton and his assistant while digging a grave #OTD in 1832. Some 8,000 Northumbrian coins of the C9th were found preserved in a bronze bucket of the same period. 📸British Museum #medievalsky

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 1h

Rachel Mulligan’s outline for a stained glass window commissioned by the Royal College of Nursing
londonist.com/london/museu...

www.rachelmulligan.co.uk

highly detailed drawing for a stained glass window, the eye is drawn to the centerpiece, a nurses attending a patient in a ward with a baby

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David Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social · 2h

Today is the centenary of the birth of the great Tony Hart who opened the eyes of generations to visual art and who is forever associated with this, the shimmering Gallery theme from Vision On – which was also pretty much everyone’s introduction to the vibraphone. youtu.be/-ZNkJXKV7_w

Vision On - The Gallery Tune - BBC1 1960/70s

YouTube video by Lost 1960s TV and Radio

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 2h

'The British Library...has taken years to recover from a major cyberattack that disrupted its services and restricted access to its collections. The walkout is set to take from 27 October to 9 November, coinciding with the two-year anniversary of the cyberattack.'

Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 16h

‘Livid’ British Library staff vote to strike over pay.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-c...

‘Livid’ British Library staff vote to strike over pay - Research Professional News

Two-week walkout planned on second anniversary of major cyberattack

www.researchprofessionalnews.com

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