Their choice of ‘Ordinary World’ foregrounds how far the US has descended into authoritarian chaos while the videos of the shooting of Renee Good would have made 'Girls on Film' edgy in a horrible way.

Precursor to Sommerfield’s 1935 novel Mayday? observer.co.uk/style/featur... @20thccommunism.bsky.social #20s30s

UK govt consulting until 12.02.26 using online survey. Aim: to make permanent residence (ie indefinite leave to remain) less available via cruel, costly, xenophobic means. Amnesty recommendations as to how to respond: www.amnesty.org.uk/resources/gu...

Joseph Whitworth, an undervalued figure in industrial history, died on this day 1887, aged 83. His work paved the way for modern mass production.

George Jacob Holyoake, the great Owenite socialist, co-operator, secularist and Chartist, died in Brighton #OnThisDay 22 January 1906 aged 88. He is buried in Highgate Cemetery.

#20s30s music and chatter about how song parodies helped define an emergent community. Today 18.30 GMT www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-singin...

If anyone can't manage to put together a mid-budget Brit scifi/horror movie about a man trapped in this lookout post after a nuclear war in the 1960s, trying to escape before it falls in to the sea, then we should close down our film industry www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

1918 franchise extension followed by 6 point group. UK equal vote [more-or-less] 1928 followed by women strikers - Talk open to all: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-singin...

Fascinating contextualisation for the massively popular temperance friendly society- the Independent Order of Rechabites, Salford Unity.

For an assessment of strikes when young women took to the streets & sang witty parodies of jazz and musical songs to bellow their defiance of bosses, the TUC and the Labour Party come along to this talk www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-singin...

'We know our manners, Behind our union banners' & 'The Union Banner triumphantly' and other lyrics assessed in this talk about young women who sang their defiance on the streets of London www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-singin...

Banner restoration often complex & expensive. Hurrah for Newham

Twelve places in labour history sslh.org.uk/tag/place-in...

It’s a dark night when you look at the news and are forced to admit that you no longer believe in the power of the FIFA peace prize

Migrants are at the heart of our art, our music, our whole history. That’s what the right won’t admit to you | Rowan Williams

Love it.

Useful summary but note possible miscaption [IOOF often = Independent Order of Oddfellows] & outside areas where women in paid work female friendly socs often quasi-charities dominated by patrons

Gosden now updated by Cordery British Friendly Societies, 1750-1914, 2003, numerous local-focused articles & Weinbren The Oddfellows, 2010.

Farage's funders; writesbright.substack.com/p/new-resear...

🔴I wrote about far-right attacks against refugee charities and why some are choosing to leave the sector to protect themselves. It's awful but understandable. open.substack.com/pub/nicolake...

My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’

1. Some good news at last. This week’s column is about the amazing thing a couple of us stumbled into three years ago, which we’ve now developed into a global research programme. It doesn’t change everything, of course, but it could help change quite a lot. + 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Peter H.J.H. Gosden, MA, PhD, FRHistS, FRSA wrote the ur-text on British friendly societies. He also wrote about education. A note about the fellowship named for him here: historyofeducation.org.uk/whoispetergo...

Our beautiful multiplex: Milton Keynes council fights to save landmark cinema The Point

The first episode of The Clangers was originally broadcast on this day in 1969.

Let's play Bucks Name or Name Name

I'm so, so sick of hearing about immigration. It's like a foghorn 24/7. On the news. In the papers. In the shops and the pub. In the coffee shop. For God's sake just knock it off - yeah it's important, but it's not the only or even the main thing going on. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

What an amazing essay from the former chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin. I'll share a few sections in the reply but seriously, read the whole thing. It's all insightful and beautifully written. lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

Looking forward to visiting the banner room at Redhills.

Annoyed that I can't get along to this but it should be a fascinating event so do go in my place.

Libraries matter. Access matters. After years of legal battles, the Internet Archive is still here—and still fighting for a world where everyone can read, learn, and remember. @arstechnica.com tells the story: arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Wartime PM Lloyd George argued that drink greater foe than Germans but strong alcohol often given out. Alcoholism became rife among officers.

Two combatants each struggling to be the sole occupant of a greasy pole was a popular spectator sport of the time and is perhaps the ancestor of TV's 'It's a Knockout! and 'Gladiator' competitions.

Nick's tours are acclaimed and, as Paul Preston calls the book, ‘Truly original...compellingly readable...knowledgeable...funny and sensitive', it should be a good read.

The history and legacy of the British Empire with @davidolusoga.bsky.social Coming in November. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... 🗃️📚📺 #history

Mary ‘May’ McGee: The dignified Irish mother who took on the might of the State and became a feminist icon www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

In the Liberal Party poster Lloyd George is portrayed as a Sick Visitor and the friendly society member, instead of gazing upon his membership certificate on the wall is looking at the illusion of ‘9d for 4d’ conjured up by the Chancellor.

Vexingly, it is not clear as to the images or text on the banner

This is the way the world ends.

1915 - British soldier in the trenches. Unlike so many of his wartime comrades, he reached the age of 23. Happy Birthday George.

Rain. Lecture by Reg. SM. Visit Steenvoorde in evening. At pictures. More on the #LiverpoolScottish 110 years ago on the 1915 #FWW #WesternFront at georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/10/27/2...

My colleagues & I have taken a huge gamble to set up @thenerve.news We’re trying to build a new independent publication from the ground up. Social media is our only distribution for now. Sharing this article in your networks would make a huge difference. Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏

@britwarmemorial.bsky.social St Lawrence Church, Bradwell. Although the nearby Memorial Hall list is online, I think this one may not be.

Telegraph admits article by Conservative immigration spokeperson Katie Lam used entirely fictional stats from Centre for Policy Studies (no, *not* the £234 bn, different ones!). Publishes entirely inadequate correction which still makes false claims about migrant wages. archive.ph/FkywM

Historians’ corrections to widely circulated misinformation are often delayed by other academic commitments and they never match the reach of the offending piece, but I think they’re worth putting on the record nonetheless: alanlester.co.uk/blog/falsify...

Citizens want to shift funds away from low-quality ministers

Archaeology’s tools were forged in war: from spy planes to satellites, the line between research and militarisation has always been thin. Benjamin Thomas White (@btwhite.bsky.social) considers the role of Antoine Poidebard in pioneering aerial archaeology.

There are many reasons for wanting to become a leader and a lot of them are bad. Do it for the meaning of the work. Do it for students. Do it to help build careers. Do it for social impact. Do it because it provides a platform to challenge inequalities in the sector. Otherwise, what’s the point?

As we continue to recreate BNU, we’re now recruiting for a Director of Brand, Communications and Marketing. Crucial senior leadership role for shaping our future. Reshares appreciated. jobs.bucks.ac.uk/vacancy/dire...