Motonormativity in action: my city's main hospital has been built miles outside the city, up by a motorway junction. You want to get there but you can't drive? Tough, your time has no value

Dear parents - Yes you can give your sick child paracetamol if they’re >3 months old. It’s an excellent painkiller. It brings down a high temperature. It’s one of the safest drugs available. You are right to want to soothe your child’s distress. Evidence supports your good parenting. Be confident.

Feynman was charismatic and approachable. I asked him to write to my mum in the hope he could get her interested in science. The gist of his letter was “Dear Mrs Chown, Ignore your son’s attempt to teach you physics. Physics is not the the most important thing. Love is. Richard Feynman.”

"It was all an FBI op, which was why I pardoned them all for doing nothing wrong."

Dear USA Deploying troops against civilians will not go well. Yours Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Do you know how Goede you have to be to miss half the year through injury, lose the Rugby World Cup Final, and STILL be named Women's Player of the Year?!? Amazing, fully deserved achievement for Sophie de GOATe! 🇨🇦🐐 #RugbyCA | #OneSquad | #RWC2025

Nathan Gill is no fringe politician. He was the leader of the Reform Party and before that UKIP in Wales. A Brexit Party MEP. A friend and ally of Nigel Farage, who in 2016 called him: "terrific," and "as honest as the day is long." This is a MASSIVE story www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Within the first year of my daughter’s life, the Lionesses have won the Euros and the Red Roses have won the World Cup in front of sell-out crowds and huge tv audiences and it’s so wonderful to know she will grow up thinking that of course women play sport and of course everybody watches it

If #Railway200 has sparked or rekindled your interest in #RailwayHistory, and you fancy study at Masters or PhD level - then come & study with Dr Mike Esbester at the University of Portsmouth! An expert in railway, transport & mobility history: www.port.ac.uk/about-us/str...

My irritation yesterday, I suspect, is as nothing to that of supporters of Durham CCC this afternoon. Ouch.

Gyda cartrefi gwyliau nôl yn y newyddion, dyma fersiwn newydd o'r map niferoedd unedau gwyliau fesul ward With holiday homes back in the headlines, here's a new map of the number of holiday unit per ward

I've said before that I was staggered when I first saw the baptism of the child of a slave in an English, rural parish's register. This article gives me valuable context for understanding the life of that person and her child - and that of other individuals who may have lived alongside my ancestors.

Today is the 200th anniversary of the 1st steam-hauled passenger journey on the Stockton & Darlington Railway! Find out more about railway work, the people who did it, & the risks they faced in our thread. 👇 #Railway200

The 200th anniversary of the Stockton and Darlington Railway gives me a chance to shine a spotlight on this amazing document - the subscription deed for the railway. Held by Barclays because one of our early bankers was Treasurer to the railway (continues)

Is it morally the wrong thing to do? Yes. Is it bad for the country and the economy? Also yes. Will it harm UK students? Also yes. Is it also a bad move politically that will disproportionately harm Labour's own constituencies? Also yes. There is absolutely no reason to do this. Pure destruction.

For anyone who is #teaching #18thcentury politics and/or electoral culture, or is doing #localhistory or #familyhistory, do check out our ECPPEC web resource : it's chock-full of short informative essays, polling data, and artefacts #skystorians ecppec.ncl.ac.uk

SANHS Historic Buildings Committee presents: Cannington Walkabout and visit to Blackmore Manor 9 October 10.30am - 4.30pm Cost: £20 (including cream tea) / £15 (with no cream tea) Booking is essential - please email [email protected]. Limited to 15 places. Full details: sanhs.org/event/cannin...

I wonder if this guy is related to "Boris Johnson" who introduced "voter id" as Prime Minister in 2023 ... off the back of some crazy US conspiracy theories ... and in the process, made digital ID pretty much inevitable.

Nathan Gill was at the forefront of the Brexit push in Wales in the mid 2010s. He's now admitted that he spent part of the tail end of his career taking bribes from a pro Russian politician in Ukraine to say things for him in the European parliament, and elsewhere www.bbc.com/news/article...

There is not enough money in the world to feed the plagiarism machine. Not 'they don't have enough money' but actually 'there is not enough money' I can't quite get my head around it

Ivy Bee nesting in large numbers - many 100s of nests - on the sandy heathland ridge at Newbars Wood, Pembury

For T.S. Eliot’s birthday, a few things you can say at parties when his name comes up someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/practical-...

New paper. Recording the female experience of UK archaeology 1990-2010. Anne Teather and I document how an industry EDI agenda evolved in the 1990s and was dismantled, uncovering the ramifications of that for women archaeologists over the next decade. www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #openaccess✅

"How many traitors are in Farage's new party?" would, I suggest be a better line than Digital ID. To beat Reform, make wavering voters ashamed to back them.

what actors call that one legend who’s always overacting

As is traditional, though perhaps for the last time in 2025: FFS Somerset.

yeah we're into LLMs (Large Lamb-bridge Models)

Mute Swans, looking angry, and owned.

🚨What's that?🚨 You want FREE access to 17 brilliant #RailwayHistory articles from the @jtransporthist.bsky.social? All yours! For #Railway200 the JTH has put together a virtual collection of articles, & until 15 October they're free! Download & read now: journals.sagepub.com/topic/collec...

A must-read for environmental historians, labour historians, & historians of embodiment, trade, Britain, the Thames, and more. Conceptually ambitious & a really good story with an unexpected & dramatic denouement. #envhist

Nathan Gill, Reform's leader in Wales at the last Welsh parliament election, has pled guilty to 8 bribery charges, taking Russian cash while he was one of Nigel Farage’s MEPs to speak in favour of Putin's Russia in that parliament www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

No room for your car? Just leave it on the road, on the pavement, on a verge - anywhere really.

🎉The call for participation for #HAP26 is now open! Alongside @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy, @royalhistsoc.org & @unisheffieldlib.bsky.social we invite you to explore the theme 'Shaping Societies, Improving Lives: The Impact of Archives and Historical Research'. Apply today: bit.ly/46VfEVY

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

Spotted at @themerl.bsky.social today. #TheArchers

Read our new blog post on Salvation Army District Midwives in east London (and beyond). #histnursing www.salvationarmy.org.uk/about-us/int...

And if you think that sounds peculiar, take a look at the maps - especially if you live outside a city - and try and square your idea of 'neighbourhood' with what they show:

Not an expert in the field but I suspect teachers and schools already KNOW which students are struggling with reading. What they need are solutions. Such as funding for libraries with librarians.

The sheer hypocrisy of this. You have to "show your papers" to vote in a general election. I have to "show my papers" to examine a PhD thesis. I can't sing evensong down the road without "showing my papers". The Mail backed all these Tory changes. But suddenly Labour is turning us into Stasiland

An issue for Labour (having grown up somewhere where the Labour vote, never that strong a second place, was vaporised by the SDP), is the narrowness of their geographical base. FPTP magnifies this, of course, but wave/collapse/squabble [repeat] really helps no one.

COUNCILS DON'T NEED YOU TO PROVE YOUR IDENTITY IN ORDER TO REPORT A POTHOLE. THEY DON'T EVEN NEED YOU TO *REVEAL* YOUR IDENTITY.

900 year old font in the Church of St Mungo, Dearham, Cumbria. Listing says it appears to have been a cushion capital, carved with dragons and symmetrical designs in scrolled panels. #FontsOnFriday

Besides how insulting this is to the hardworking election crew, or how wrong the international comparison is, it ignores a very simple fix: NZ does not have a live progress count after election night. This is why Australian counts feel faster even though they often aren't; we can see results firm up

“This Oxfordshire hoard, buried nearly 2,000 years ago, really belongs to all of Oxfordshire residents.' Angie Bolton, curator of archaeology, Oxfordshire museum service But the sad fact is, under current legislation, Treasure Hoards can be sold for private profit, broken up and never seen again.

The people they are talking about deporting include, to pluck one example from the air, my 59-year-old sister who has lived here since the age of six and is on a low income due to being a nursery school teacher. These plans are utterly scandalous and anyone who supports them is a disgrace.

I'm doing a talk in Bath! Come and join me at Komedia on the 4th November 2025 for a whistlestop tour of women in the Gothic across four delirious centuries! It will be fast, furious, and hair raising! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gothic-fic...

@ystadaucymru.bsky.social?

Introducing the Southampton Digital Scholarship team mascot: Just who is Peter the Penguin? library.soton.ac.uk/digital-scho...

🚨What's that?🚨 You want FREE access to 17 brilliant #RailwayHistory articles from the @jtransporthist.bsky.social? All yours! For #Railway200 the JTH has put together a virtual collection of articles, & until 15 October they're free! Download & read now: journals.sagepub.com/topic/collec...

Government obsessed with imaginary planning blocks. They should look closer to home.