For anyone whose household has been similarly felled by seasonal lurgies, who is now running late making the Xmas cake, I can heartily and waist-bustingly recommend Nigel Slater’s recipe 👇🏻 @nigelslater.bsky.social

All done bar the weekly feeding! Two weeks late, but better late than … no cake 😱

MAKE A WISH!

Phase ttwweooo

Phase oonnneeee…

We found that the UK’s top scientific institutions, from the Met Office to the UK Health Security Agency, have inadequate institutional defences. If an incoming government wanted to weaken the role of science and evidence in policy making, it could do so shockingly fast. 2/11

Today years old when I discovered if you put dried herbs in the frying pan and *then* spray in the olive oil… …Italian herbs will huff a long way round the kitchen

And you'd be amazed what's in mostly-forgotten tunnels beneath France. When I was down there with some RE, a few De Beers peeps were with us (don't ask). They asked what to do if they kicked a live shell. ROYAL ENGINEER: Jump 50ft up. Burst through the surface. Scatter yourself over about 20 yards

Thus proving yet again that ‘most Britons’ aren’t all that in the intellect department

The HGRP is pleased to announce a new exhibition launching at @wienerlibrary.bsky.social on 12 November! This exhibition explores the choices and humanity of older Jews in the face of persecution, flight and survival.

"Often people think about the experience of the camps and the ensuing liberation, but not as much about what it feels like to like to carry those memories through the years that followed." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Interested in deepening your knowledge of the Holocaust? Want to find out more about the MA Holocaust: History, Experience, Heritage and about the scholarships we offer? 🔗 www.southampton.ac.uk/parkes/news/...

Our PhD and a Cup of Tea series is back! For our next event in the series Ruthie Kaplan will discuss her research following the spatial conduct of Łódź’s Jewish middle—and upper-class in the interwar period. Open for booking now:

Please don't cut back shrubs and hedgerows until wildlife has taken all the autumn berries! Hawthorn, for example, is a fantastic source of food for birds - including blackbirds, thrushes and (if the weather gets very cold) waxwings.

The forgotten mass destruction of Jewish homes during the November pogroms of 1938 theconversation.com/the-forgotte... via @theconversation.com

Over the next few days, around 30,000 Jewish men were rounded up and imprisoned mainly in Dachau, Sachsenhausen & Buchenwald These imprisonments led to the ‘Kindertransport’ and to the Kitchener camp rescue, which began in February 1939, & which brought out around 4,000 men from the camps to the UK

Over the next few days, around 30,000 Jewish men were rounded up and imprisoned mainly in Dachau, Sachsenhausen & Buchenwald These imprisonments led to the ‘Kindertransport’ and to the Kitchener camp rescue, which began in February 1939, & which brought out around 4,000 men from the camps to the UK

Today, Germany remembers the November pogroms of 1938. 87 years ago, Jews were targeted in a wave of orchestrated violence in Germany. Jewish shops and synagogues were destroyed. Many Jews were murdered. These acts of terror paved the way for the Holocaust. #NeverForget

Two panels commemorating the contribution of Black American soldiers towards the liberation of the Netherlands in World War Two have been quietly removed from a cemetery in Limburg. It follows a complaint by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission.

"Es war nicht eine kleine Zahl von Verbrechern, es waren Hunderttausende einer sogenannten deutschen Elite, Männer, Jungen & entmenschte Weiber, die unter dem Einfluss verrückter Lehren in kranker Lust diese Taten begangen haben." Thomas Mann 9. November 1938

Senate update: Republicans are now trying to sneak a backdoor national abortion ban into their government funding bill. Republicans will stop at nothing to control women's health care decisions.

I just donated. Oxford people, join if you can.

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I want to spell this out in case the implications aren't clear: This means all public tools/webapps of GISAID data (all the ones you've been used to seeing thru the pandemic, as far as we can tell) are prohibited. The file allowed this. Cut that - cut off all tools the public & others were using.

I posted on this the day the announcement was made. (I have family working on global health data/ solutions) To absolutely no response My feeling was the Right were picking their early battles accurately - things the developed world doesn’t actually give a damn about beyond lip-service. Awful.

Morning people! It looks like November now. Some branches bare. And fog! 1st this year. Anyway - s’Friday. Hope everyone has a good one. I’ve taken to deleting soc media apps each evening & often leave them deleted. Feels much better. Less stressed/anxious. Sleeping better. I recommend it.

What I love about Jesus is how many of his miracles are ways of overcoming embarrassing problems with mass catering. So Jewish.

Prisons and penitentiaries were a kernel element of the system of persecution, control, and repression during National Socialism. Join #everynamecounts now and help us digitize documents from the German prison in Prague-Pankratz. collab.arolsen-archives.org/en/workflows...

Did anyone stop long enough to ask, ‘What’s the point?’

The Leo Baeck Institute London newsletter will be sent out next week. To keep up to date with our latest research, events, and insights into German-Jewish history, please subscribe here: lbilondon.ac.uk/mailing-list/ We look forward to keeping you informed about our ongoing work and initiatives.

"You cannot turn a blind eye to conspiracies about Satanic paedophile rings and expect the base will stop at the Protocols of the Elders of Zion." My column on the suppurating neo-Nazism on America's right. on.ft.com/4oxjjQj

Join us in London in July! CALL FOR PAPERS NOW LIVE #BIAJS2026 “Space and place in Jewish studies” 13-15 July Birkbeck bajsbulletin.wpcomstaging.com/2025/11/03/c...

The application deadline has been extended for 2026-27 long-term fellowships at the Newberry Library until 21st November. Short-term fellowships are also available (closing 8th December). Apply now:

!! CORRECTION - Closing date 11 Nov!! 📣 Job alert! We are looking for a permanent full-time archivist to join our friendly team! Closing date: 11 November 2025 Apply at: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr... #ArchiveJobs #LibraryJobs #Heritage #ExeterJobs #Exeter #Archives #RareBooks

Thinking again that holocaust education has failed, somewhere along the way.

After last night’s howling hoolie, a beautiful autumn walk this afternoon

📣 We're hiring! Join us for a fixed-term part time role at the Library as our Research and Engagement Officer. We are seeking a highly motivated and knowledgeable individual with a postgraduate qualification in Holocaust Studies or a closely related field. Find out more and apply: buff.ly/KuadEMU

What does the global digital Holocaust memorycape look like today? We're conducting the first worldwide survey to find out the experiences of Holocaust organisations, archives, libraries and independent projects. We want to hear from you. universityofsussex.e...

Indeed. Buying US nuclear power stations looks political rather than practical - or indeed sensible.

Thanks to Centre team & colleagues for contributions this weekend. Also, reminder the next #BeaconSchool2526 SLT Lead session is via Zoom, Tues 4 Nov, 4pm- details via email. 2/2 @coreysoper.bsky.social

I grew up in an era of WWII films & series on TV as a constant backdrop to our lives. So it’s hard for me to encompass that 1000s of Germans fought in the British army - even though my dad was one of them. It is so much against the ‘known narrative’, part of me still finds it mind-blowing.

Awareness is growing. Yet only just over half (55%) of the public are aware of the service of Indian soldiers. 43% of Sikh soldiers & a third for Muslim soldiers & Jewish soldiers. Lower again for Caribbean contribution & African soldiers www.britishfuture.org/ve-day-80-pu...

"Let's not forget, when we remember the service and the sacrifice with this poppy, that the people who bled and died for our democracy and our freedom, weren't just my grandfather who looked like me & worshipped the same God, but people across Empire & Commonwealth, who were Muslim, Sikh & Hindu'

As well as 10,000 German-speaking Jewish refugees who fought in the British army in the Second World War. Including many 100s of Kitchener refugees, most of whom had been imprisoned in Dachau, Sachsenhausen & Buchenwald in November 1938. Again - *10,000 Germans served in the British army in WWII*

New post just out: "Never again?" On how the radical right are trying to change our collective memory about World War Two as part of their assault on the postwar order. And why that memory remains a critical defence against nationalism. (£/free trial) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/n...

How splendid. Stackable otters.

This is the first in our new series of blogs, where we will dive into the experiences of archivists working with Jewish material. Frankie's work has taken her from reaching out to the local community to discovering a new layer of history in her own city. #Blog #Archivist #JewishCommunity

Around 7 million disposable coffee cups are used in the UK every day - and it’s estimated that less than 1% of these are recycled. Many, like this one, are discarded - creating litter in towns & the countryside. To reduce waste, use a reusable cup. More: littlegreenspace.org.uk/reviews/ocean-…

Jumbo Oats The protagonist of my new wartime novel, set in Yorkshire in 1940

I'm gearing up for this year's AAR and dreading it more than usual. Lots of people won't be going this year for lots of reasons, not least of which is the fear of subjecting oneself to a terrifying political situation all so that you can give a 20 minute paper to 6 people in a Marriott basement.