Dr Colin Runeckles
@colinruneckles.bsky.social
Researcher into urbanism & housing:
Ancient (@OU_Classics) - currently writing a book on non-elite housing
Modern (Writer, Speaker, Treasurer - @ilfordhistory.bsky.social
Likes music. A lot of music. Can often be found at Cafe Oto.
Ancient (@OU_Classics) - currently writing a book on non-elite housing
Modern (Writer, Speaker, Treasurer - @ilfordhistory.bsky.social
Likes music. A lot of music. Can often be found at Cafe Oto.
Well I have but I do have a section on public health in the thesis-soon-to-be-well-maybe not that soon-book. So...
November 20, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Well I have but I do have a section on public health in the thesis-soon-to-be-well-maybe not that soon-book. So...
Or maybe I'll look in Koloski-Ostrow's Roman Toilets: Their Archaeology and Cultural History as well...
November 20, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Or maybe I'll look in Koloski-Ostrow's Roman Toilets: Their Archaeology and Cultural History as well...
No, and the online Lewis & Short does not appear to have an entry for xylospongium. I'll take a look at the ICS copy this afternoon.
alatius.com/ls/index.php...
alatius.com/ls/index.php...
Lewis and Short
alatius.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:24 AM
No, and the online Lewis & Short does not appear to have an entry for xylospongium. I'll take a look at the ICS copy this afternoon.
alatius.com/ls/index.php...
alatius.com/ls/index.php...
Not certain but I think the literary evidence only went as far as the suicide recorded in Seneca's Epistles.
alphahistory.com/pastpeculiar...
alphahistory.com/pastpeculiar...
64AD: Suicide by toilet brush
Writing around 64AD the Roman philosopher Seneca recalled the suicide of a German slave - who suffocated by shoving a toilet brush down his throat.
alphahistory.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Not certain but I think the literary evidence only went as far as the suicide recorded in Seneca's Epistles.
alphahistory.com/pastpeculiar...
alphahistory.com/pastpeculiar...
I've had a British Newspaper Archive sub for a few years and dumped FMP as soon as Ancestry got the 1921 Census as I thought FMP's way of displaying it was dire - no idea how many Districts there were in an area, and where you were within the District. At the end? Middle? No idea!
November 20, 2025 at 10:48 AM
I've had a British Newspaper Archive sub for a few years and dumped FMP as soon as Ancestry got the 1921 Census as I thought FMP's way of displaying it was dire - no idea how many Districts there were in an area, and where you were within the District. At the end? Middle? No idea!
Daddy's doing Sister Sally
Grandma's dying of cancer now
The cattle all have brucellosis
We'll get through somehow
And it has the most amazingly catchy lap steel playing from David Lindley.
Grandma's dying of cancer now
The cattle all have brucellosis
We'll get through somehow
And it has the most amazingly catchy lap steel playing from David Lindley.
November 19, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Daddy's doing Sister Sally
Grandma's dying of cancer now
The cattle all have brucellosis
We'll get through somehow
And it has the most amazingly catchy lap steel playing from David Lindley.
Grandma's dying of cancer now
The cattle all have brucellosis
We'll get through somehow
And it has the most amazingly catchy lap steel playing from David Lindley.
Exciting - great lineup!
November 14, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Exciting - great lineup!
Ah that was who I met when I popped into see Adam last week...
A very worthy addition to the team by the sound of it!
A very worthy addition to the team by the sound of it!
November 13, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Ah that was who I met when I popped into see Adam last week...
A very worthy addition to the team by the sound of it!
A very worthy addition to the team by the sound of it!
Money for old rope?
Yeah...
Yeah...
November 13, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Money for old rope?
Yeah...
Yeah...
I know!
When I posted a ticket on Facebook a while ago someone pointed out that where it says "To be retained" it didn't mean for ever...I miss tickets. Emails aren't quite the same.
When I posted a ticket on Facebook a while ago someone pointed out that where it says "To be retained" it didn't mean for ever...I miss tickets. Emails aren't quite the same.
November 11, 2025 at 11:26 AM
I know!
When I posted a ticket on Facebook a while ago someone pointed out that where it says "To be retained" it didn't mean for ever...I miss tickets. Emails aren't quite the same.
When I posted a ticket on Facebook a while ago someone pointed out that where it says "To be retained" it didn't mean for ever...I miss tickets. Emails aren't quite the same.