The UK is now in a position where if your drug a disabled person enough you can turn of their human rights as the silence becomes consent. You can then shove them in a closet to rot. This cannot be shouted about loud enough. www.mind.org.uk/news-campaig...

Swearing at the top of my voice to an empty kitchen because husband walked out mid-argument to keep an appointment. Pointless, but relieves the feelings....

Barrington Court was looking wonderful yesterday. Roses, Irises and something whose name I can't remember...

Wild roses outside our kitchen window catching the sun.

#NavalHistory - anyone have access to a French navy list of 1845? I am transcribing a private journal of 1845 whose writer is dining in Sierra Leone with FX (François Xavier?) du ?Thou? Léon, commander of the brig Libre. I'd like to find out more.

I was there last weekend and very impressed with being able to get my wheelchair up the scaffolding thanks to the lift 🙂

Really appreciating this year's Newdigate Prize poem, featuring a naval surgeon on Sir John Franklin's expedition: www.magd.ox.ac.uk/news/magdale... ##NavalHistory

WIP has finally broken the 30K word barrier. Given how long I've been trying to write the thing, this is either a relief or a frustration; I'm not entirely sure. #amWriting

Somerville is delighted that Moonrise, the new album composed by Christopher Churcher and performed by The Choir of Somerville College, Oxford, has been selected as Georgia Mann’s Essential Classics Album of the Week on Radio 3. Read more and listen here: www.some.ox.ac.uk/news/somervi...

Me, cat loving since forever (1965 in this case).

#NavalHistory is anyone able to tell me whether Harry W. Dickinson is still teaching at King's College London?

'The poor become prey to their enemies, while the wealthy will prey upon them.' 12th Century English govt administrative manual.

A branch of May, what can I say, Here at your door it stands, It's nothing but a sprout but it's well budded out By the work of our Lord's hands. (traditional)

Sad to hear today of the death in March of Peter Ward Jones, who played the organ when I married my RN reservist. A slight lift of the eyebrows when we asked him, for the recessional, to segue The Wedding March into All the Nice Girls Love a Sailor, but he obliged nobly 😀

On 18 June I'll be speaking for Peterborough Cathedral about the destruction and recovery of the Cathedral's library peterborough-cathedral.org.uk/event/online...

@petermgilliver.bsky.social I'm trying to report an OED ante-date and the form locks on my phone and won't move. Any work-rounds you know of?

For ANZAC Day: Leaving Anzac. Words by Cicely Fox Smith, tune by Martyn Wyndham-Read, here sung by him. youtu.be/TwIxgycI3MM

The Schwarzman Centre is opening its doors this Saturday (25 April) for a free festival celebrating the humanities. Explore Oxford’s newest cultural space with music, dance, film, family activities & short talks from academics. ALL WELCOME! No need to book; just drop in!

Anyone going to National Archives (TNA) Kew in the near future? I need a replacement photo of one page in a ship muster list .... #NavalHistory

‘Everything is gone’: Israel destroys entire villages in Lebanon

@richove.bsky.social #BurningTheBooks spotted in the wild (Ty Newydd to be precise)

Lrp I am once again humbly recommending everyone to read these two novels.

After the Good Friday services at Sherborne Abbey.

"Military courts in the occupied West Bank will also be empowered to hand down death sentences" www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Happy Birthday to Tracy Chapman.

I’ve said it before and I’ll no doubt say it again. Universities are roughly 1000 years old. They predate most operating models including capitalism and have lasted for a reason. Installing insecure, helpless managers who ape business methods results in bad businesses, not good universities.

You've only got a few days left to object to Brighton Marina's application to dump dredged sediment on a rare chalk reek, in a marine protected area. Join thousands of people and send your objection email today. https://f.mtr.cool/haazgdbxpx

Disabled musicians out there, this is an interesting read: www.theguardian.com/music/2026/m...

Of course, I'd never be so cynical as to suggest this headline grab is Prof Licence's attempt to ensure that running a search for his name doesn't just result in countless stories about him flogging that coin hoard to the annoyance of archaelogists.

My Ides of March fun fact is that the place where Caesar was stabbed is now a cat sanctuary, and I think it’s beautiful that creatures with tiny knives on their feet live there

My lovely Mum, 1938-2008, here in the 1990s. How can it be 18 years since our last Mothering Sunday?

GO AND SEE THIS before it closes on the 21st if you can get tickets, it's bloody brilliant (sitting in the interval now). southwarkplayhouse.co.uk/productions/...

I just signed a contract with Routledge to publish my second book, titled, Authority and Disruption in Early Modern Maritime Theatre: Mock Kings at Sea. It will be the first comparative study on maritime theatre across multiple cultures and languages.

@girlsown.bsky.social posted on FB by some local ringers!

Nominations have opened for the Ursula K. Le Guin prize! Anyone can nominate book-length speculative fiction that embodies "hope, equity, and freedom; non-violence and alternatives to conflict; and a holistic view of humanity’s place in the natural world." www.ursulakleguin.com/prize-nomina...

Well, aaaargh. They have corrected the two typos on the website but not in the flyer that they were handing out. Nor have they improved the picture. However I get a fee, which is news!

#BREAKING | The Israeli army has SEALED OFF Bethlehem in the West Bank, closing all entrances and exits to the city. This has a name, It's called an illegal siege. Imagine YOU had to live like this.

Sanguine, bilious, choleric, phlegmatic.

#Engineers #Bioengineers Is anyone out there in contact with Prof Marilyn Lord with whom I, new librarian, shared an office in UCL Dept Mech Engineering 1986-1987? I'd love to get back in touch.

Hah. 1845 emoticon, anyone? "Returned to ⚓️ge by 4 Pm."

February 14, 1845. Anyone any idea on the highlighted word or words? A transcription of the rest can be seen if you click on ALT text. #NavalHistory

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

To Wells Cathedral for Candlemas eucharist; afterwards, photographs from under the tower crossing. The air in the nave is hazy because of all the incense.

Niagara Falls has partially frozen due to extreme low temperatures and heavy snow. The striking scenes at one of the world's most popular tourist destinations have attracted extra visitors who travelled to the US-Canada border in frigid conditions to witness the spectacle.

#NavalHistory #Cats "...I was spellbound to learn that it had been brought to their Lordships' attention that the cat belonging to the Admiralty Library received less for his keep than the Bell Office cat (what might the Bell Office be?) 1/2

Remembering Professor Anna Morpurgo Davies (1937-2014) on Holocaust Memorial Day. "Heroism cannot be imposed and absence of heroism is not a sin But there is something which we should strive for in our everyday life even if it is difficult: the moral courage which leads to protest ... (1/3)

Enjoy the Sunday caption contest. Give away ❤️s, retweet to encourage more competitors, include #GirlsOwnCC

In this article, Roland Chambers – children’s author and former biographer – reflects on the legacy of RLF Estates writer Arthur Ransome, who is best-known for his 'Swallows and Amazons' children's books but was a journalist during the Russian Revolution. Full article here: https://bit.ly/49rjp72