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Hannah Piekarz
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Writer, pharmacist.
Drama and drugs.
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The Camden Roundhouse in 1964.

News UK Archives.
January 30, 2026 at 10:43 PM
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Liberal England... Paul Simon: The Obvious Child
Paul Simon: The Obvious Child
This is from Rhythm of the Saints, Paul Simon's 1990 follow up to Graceland. Just as the earlier album had drawn on South African music, so ...
liberalengland.blogspot.com
January 21, 2026 at 11:00 AM
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Hats off to whoever did this (and the beautiful model).
One of those captcha things. This one says ‘select all images with bicycles. Click verify once there are none left’. There are 9 squares - 4 contain photos of bicycle seats, with the remaining 5 showing the beautiful head and face of a grey greyhound with a white stripe going from the top of their head to the tip of their nose.
January 16, 2026 at 8:18 AM
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What was your #childhoodcinema

The Odeon, Cheapside, Reading

Demolished and rebuilt as flats😢

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Movie Palaces #117 - The ODEON THEATRE, READING Berkshire - 1937
YouTube video by ComptonLodgeStudios
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January 9, 2026 at 11:07 PM
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presentcorrect.bsky.social
Life Hack: if you barely used your 2025 diary then don't worry because the calendar structure will be valid again in 2031.
January 6, 2026 at 1:58 PM
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It would have been artist Martin Aitchison’s birthday this week (b.1919 - d. 2016)
Here are some of his books for Ladybird
A photograph showing the front covers of a pile of about 60 different ladybird books, including a number from the Peter and Jane Reading scheme and some ‘well-loved tales’
November 21, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Anton Walbrook and Ludmila Tcherina during the filming of 'The Red Shoes' at the Gare de Lyon train station in Paris, France, June, 1947
November 19, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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I'm getting tired of saying this, but in times of global "someone else's computer" outages, Ceefax remains online from a noisy server in someone's attic.

nmsceefax.co.uk
NMS Ceefax
An up-to-date version of the BBC's teletext service, Ceefax.
Nmsceefax.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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presentcorrect.bsky.social
Annual reminder that if you are having a bonfire tonight please:

- check for prickly hedgehog friends first
- & light from one side

Pic via
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November 5, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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For reasons, it would be v. helpful to have information from a broad range of academic and non-academic (incl. GLAM) users of the BBC Written Archives OTHER THAN historians, briefly on: 1) What you've used it for and 2) How the proposed changes would impact on your research.

Reposts welcomed.
Historians dismayed by ‘scandal’ of BBC cutting access to...
Critics say new limit to trove of information sounds knell for independent research
observer.co.uk
October 14, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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Baby uchiki kuri!
A tiny golden pumpkin
August 5, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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hutchinsondave.bsky.social
1. The only viable government is one based on cutting the still-beating hearts out of sacrificial victims.
2. Do not let the Spanish take over your country.
3. Quetzalcoatl is the one true God.
August 4, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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Literally no-one called it Indie Sleaze.

NO-ONE.
July 29, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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Happy Port Eliot weekend for all those who celebrate!
Remembering good times.
A poster advertising a talk at Port Eliot Festival from 2015. An archway from the house is pictured, surrounded by sea.
July 26, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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fornbirkibeinn.bsky.social
This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use development is illegal to build these days.
johnbrooks.bsky.social John Brooks @johnbrooks.bsky.social · Jul 11
Never change, England
A street sign in Upton, England reading "Play Area and Cholera Burial Ground"
July 12, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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My cartoon for this week's @newscientist.com #science #mattdamon
Caption: Our team is working on these unsolved mathematical problems, but also pitching them as a trilogy of action movies starring Matt Damon Images: Posters for the three movies The Riemann Hypothesis starring Matt Damon (image of Matt running heroically surrounded by elements of a formula) The Yang-Mills problem starring Matt Damon (image of Matt fearlessly jumping a motorbike surrounded by eparts of a quantum equation) The Goldbach Conjecture starring Matt Damon (image of Matt falling bravely from a building surrounded by numbers and symbols.
July 2, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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PSA: The Wojchiech Jerzy Has collection falls off the BFI player tonight!

player.bfi.org.uk/subscription...
Would love to see these on a release [email protected] ?
Wojciech Jerzy Has
Acclaimed for his surreal vision, explore a selection of works from the great Polish filmmaker.
player.bfi.org.uk
June 29, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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WHY? Why not?! The world can feel like it’s on fire with political unrest & decimation of funding for independent voices. But we need storytellers - can this small gesture of community/solidarity make our small corner of the film industry a better place

PLEASE HELP SPREAD THE WORD -TELL YOUR PEOPLE
June 29, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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Oh my word...
June 27, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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Blimey, Douglas Slocombe shot the absolute hell out of The Servant (Losey, 1963)

Terrific, quintessentially English motion picture
Barrett (Dirk Bogarde) observes the sleeping Tony A moment of high tension as Susan tries putting Barrett in his place, ordering him to light her cigarette Superb mirror shot of Bogarde and Fox A key moment in the film, as the shadow of a naked post-coital Barrett looms on the landing while Tony and Susan try to take in what’s happening
June 23, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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When your thatcher just won't stop...😮🫣

Spotted today in beautiful Walberswick on the Suffolk coast

📷 My own

#thatch #suffolk
A thatched ridge with cats, Badger, hares and a fox
June 14, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Mrs Cholmondley in bloom this morning.
Happy end of week everyone!
A purple flowering clematis upon a blue trellis up a brick wall
June 13, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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ChatGPT is down but The Museum of English Rural Life still stands, proving once again that Silicon Valley cannot compete with the history of rural England and its people.
June 10, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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Design and Disability opens today at the V&A! We’re so happy to share it with you all. Disabled, Deaf and neurodivergent people and their companions go free. www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/...
A row of brightly coloured posters against a white tiled wall. The posters say ‘Design and Disability’ on each left hand bottom corner. On the left lime green poster, a photo of Davina Starr, a member of drag syndrome in a white wig and bright make up under a spotlight. The central light blue poster has a black and white photo of Marvel Harris wrapped in a towel emerging from the sea. The right pink poster is an image of Sky Cubacub in a pink binder and dragon scale headdress.
June 7, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Marine Ices and The Enterprise pub, Haverstock Hill, Camden, circa 1975.

Photo by Blackthorne57 on Flickr
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May 17, 2025 at 7:20 AM