Primo Levi’s The Girl-Child of Pompeii

EC President Ursula von der Leyen: “This moment of global change is fraught with dangers. Becoming more independent in shaping our own future will not be easy. It will require difficult decisions. “I am deeply convinced that together we can achieve it. “Long live Europe.”

Please help spread the word on this, especially to those who may be feeling cold winds towards their research. We’ve opened the call for our International Fellowships, enabling early career researchers to work for two years at a UK research institution www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...

"And we now have María on the line who would like to swap a Nobel Peace Prize for the presidency of Venezuela..."

If you'd like a Marianne Faithfull documentary that isn't an ill-judged pile of patronising codswollop, may I suggest this empathetic piece of audio by @juderogers.bsky.social and Victoria Ferran. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Happy 267th birthday to the @britishmuseum.bsky.social , which opened its doors to the public for the first time #onthisday in 1759.

And here are Aztec Camera performing Jump live on La Edad De Oro in 1984 - one of my favourite YouTube clips. Roddy is on another planet, in every sense, and the band with Campbell, Malcolm, Dave and Eddie (?) is superb. Watch the full concert at youtu.be/bdmdFCtsjik?... youtu.be/RvCYMeY0CEE

“What do you need at the moment?” The power of community when statutory provision crumbles under cuts www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

#20FaveVideos Day 12 The Jam - Going Underground We all have a musical 'moment' when we're 14 / 15 don't we? This was mine. Nothing else has quite felt like it before or since. youtu.be/AE1ct5yEuVY?...

Trinity nightclub, Hamburg. Duran Duran, 1982. My Dad took me and I was mortified and made him spend the show at the bar, where he read the paper and made friends with the roadies and asked them to get the band’s autographs for me. Thanks, Dad.x @durandurancom.bsky.social

I wonder what Londoners know that the rest of the country don’t?

‘If a drug boasted such benefits [as the arts] governments would be pouring billions into it. Instead, funding has been slashed across the culture sector.’ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Fantastic opportunity at a wonderful University!

The first library they are “burning” is a 🔭 library

Out (again) today: ROOTS ROCK REBELS - WHEN PUNK MET REGGAE 1975-1982. 54 tracks on 3 CDs amzn.eu/d/54FcE6m www.cherryred.co.uk/various-arti... @garycrowleyonair.bsky.social @punkandnewwave.bsky.social @dubcadet.bsky.social @ndb66.bsky.social @theclash.com

Best TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.

On this day in 1982, #TheHumanLeague were at Number One in the UK album charts with Dare. youtu.be/HnjLlDY_xww?si…

Not sure they make women like this any more. Hilarious obit. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Remembering David Bowie on his birthday. Here are some snippets from his 1980 Floor Show which was filmed at London's Marquee club in 1973 for US TV. Watch the full programme at 📺▶️ youtu.be/bjC7j8cNQ2k

Think of this fella almost daily. Hope you’re giving it large on the great rock’n’roll stage in the sky, Joe.

Fabulous @delamitri.bsky.social show at Usher Hall tonight. It’s officially Christmas now.

Is Kate wearing a Choose Bruce t-shirt?! #HungryHeart

Christmas eve 1972, and the Barras is full of people doing a bit of last minute shopping. This trader seems to have his audience transfixed as he pints his wares. 📷 Reach #Glasgow #Christmas

Grease is the word…

Missing Terry Hall, and I can’t believe it’s been three years: youtu.be/SxsZsYnsCn0

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#OpenAccess! CAPTURING COMMEMORATION: Reflections on the First World War Centenary in Britain by Noakes, Pennell @teachlearnwar.bsky.social, Hanna, Hughes @lornamhughes.bsky.social, Kempshall @chriskempshall.bsky.social & Wallis has now been published! Find out more : bit.ly/47FiHAL #WWIStudies

Huge huge thanks to David, the wonderful ticket examiner on the 9:30 from Westerton to Balloch who helped me find a bag I left on the train because I’m a distracted idiot these days. He called all the stations en route and located the bag at Balloch. What a star! #Scotrail

"What's digital humanities?" 🫠

Happy Thanksgiving everybody

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This was the gateway drug to Bruce for me!

Travel on well, Jimmy Cliff m.youtube.com/watch?v=DyDY...

Goodbye Jimmy Cliff. His vocal in this 1976 SNL performance, good lord---one of the best singers of his generation, of any generation. vimeo.com/155135842

I feel seen

Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.

And another! Stories and interviews with the team behind one of the BBC's greatest ever TV dramas – "a revenge thriller, a mystical nuclear-and-environmental-apocalypse fable, a clear-eyed political document of the mid-1980s, a ghost story" – by me for @thequietus.com thequietus.com/opinion-and-...

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but a day spent reading Agatha Christie in a Scottish Highlands Cottage in front of a crackling fireplace whilst indulging in a plate of emotional support scones will indeed fix you. Anyone who tells you otherwise is not worthy of your friendship.

And the UK Web Archive is still unavailable, webarchive.org.uk -nothing to see here (literally).

I was just thinking the other day that it is mad that if this continues then the book I'm writing, about London 1560-1630, will contain basically no British Library manuscript material. Would have been unthinkable to me but there hasn't been a manuscript catalogue for two years now!

It's that magical time of the year again! Our winter lights are officially on in the Cloisters ✨

Lots of happy Scottish people and friends of Scotland today ❤️

Too soon?! m.youtube.com/watch?v=2T68... @delamitri.bsky.social

Great to see on waking up that it is still true and was not just a dream!🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Good to see the problems facing our colleagues @britishlibrary.bsky.social being raised here by @hetanshah.bsky.social (of @britishacademy.bsky.social). If this had happened in France it would be considered a national problem to be urgently addressed! www.cityam.com/the-british-...

Bruce played his first show overseas on this day 50 years ago, in London. The music he and the E Street Band performed — later released as "Hammersmith Odeon, London ’75" — struck different notes: bold, confident and unmistakably ready for the world, prepared by years of rough gigs.

I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight www.cityam.com/the-british-...

Here’s the Second Avenue Theater, later the Anderson, and for about a week the CBGBs Theater. It was the first place “Because the Night” was ever performed live, Bruce Springsteen joining the Patti Smith Group onstage, before the NYFD showed up & shut things down