@drhannahrobbins.bsky.social of Nottingham University on the wider impact of the cuts, especially to music, which the University announced yesterday. Again we ask how much longer will small groups of people, with no accountability, be allowed to make such damaging and culturally stategic decisions?

Happy #HeritageAtRisk Register Day to all who celebrate it, that is neglectful owners, dodgy developers, kick the can into the long grass officials and don't give a f*ck its the past not the future politicians. This year 129 entries were removed in a good way, however 138 entries were added.

#BonfireOfTheHumanities "they're turning it into the University of Little England." News Nottingham University UCU says redundancies are clearly on the agenda as the University SMT suspends recruitment to all modern language and music courses.

It is on the Historic England "At Risk" register & Mayor Ben Houchen suggests a replica, but Middlesborough MP Andy McDonald says, "We’ve got to do whatever it takes to restore the Transporter Bridge and get it functioning again. That’s what we should do. It’s too important to let go to the wall."

"For nine months, Sky News' Data and Forensics team has been investigating whether X's algorithm amplifies right-wing and extreme content. It does." The Sky Data and Forensics team with important research demonstrating how Elon Musk uses X-Twitter to promote the Far Right in Britain.

#SoThatsAllRight News "...there is no specific duty on owners to keep a building in a good state of repair", adding local authorities have the power to "take action where a listed building may be at risk". Culture Minister Ian Murray tells local MP Liz Twist who asks about listed Shotley Park fire

13th Century Torre dei Conti in central Rome partially collapsed Monday while under renovation. Workers trapped with at least one reported injured and in hospital.

"This is grapeshot. This is what it does." People in the media and across the archaeology of conflict are remembering the influence of Peter Watkins, director of "the Wargame" and this masterpiece of historical storytelling on a budget "Culloden", who has died.

#HeritageCrime News A 38-year-old woman and a 37-year-old man have been charged with participating in an organised theft and conspiracy to prepare a crime, with regard to the theft of jewelry from the Apollo Gallery of the Louvre. Four people have now been charged, but the jewels remain missing.

The spectre of the Tufton Street adjacent, culture war entryists of Restore Trust is once again haunting the candidates list for the National Trust AGM. If you are an NT member you have until 11.59 tonight to cross the beams and send them back to the lowest circle of GB News using the Quick Vote.

Under English Law an aquittal is an aquittal and cannot be appealed (it is held that to.disagree with a jury is an abuse of process- keep going until you get the verdict you want). The only exception is a few very serious offences where new and compelling evidence becomes available post trial.

Breaking Not A #HeritageCrime News In an echo of the Colston trial three Just Stop Oil activists acquitted of charges related to the spraying of #Stonehenge stones with washable orange powder. The case seems to have hinged on the proportionality of the charges brought and the right to protest.

And the moral of tonight's main political story in the UK... Don't delete your email history. You never know when you will need it.

In another sign of stress in the public services and cultural world hundreds of members of the PCS Union at the British Library are striking over pay until Sunday 9 November. This is their appeal for support and case to management and the public.

Overheard in No 10 Downing Street. "FFS the Sims "The Thick of It" DLC is meant to be fun, not the ffing comm's grid!"

Increasing numbers of UK voters tell pollsters #Brexit has been a disaster and a clear majority of economists state a closer relationship with the EU will achieve GOVUK's aim of boosting growth... So why put that at risk in the Planning Bill by rolling back on EU derrived environmental commitments?

The Victoria and Albert Museum hosts the #CultureInCrisis web portal with a growing list of resources, recordings of talks and seminars and other material, supporting the attempts internationally to preserve culture and heritage from natural and human generated damage and disaster.

The Mail on the Lost King defamation win for Richard Taylor. Mr Taylor's legal victory is an undoubted fact, but a health warning on the Mail's coverage. It is not celebrating justice for archaeologists. It is celebrating the defeat of two longstanding Mail pet hates, Steve Coogan and the BBC.

Breaking #HeritageCrime News Paris: Officials hold press briefing regarding the Louvre heist. More than one hundred investigators have worked on the case so far. 189 items of evidence are under seal. Two men arrested, one is a 34 year old Algerian national, known to the police for theft.

#ItsAllAboutTheHistory News Metal Detectorist George Powell has been returned to prison for failing to pay £600k he owes under the Proceeds of Crime order imposed for his role in the theft of the #LeominsterHoard. Mr Powell was arrested in Devon on a charge alleging causing grevious bodily harm.

Dame Emma Thompson reinforcing her National Treasure status by elucidating the proper relationship between a creative human being and #AI trying to second guess you. TLDR "Just F*ck Off!" She was talking specifically about Microsoft Word, but other cut and paste theft bots are available.

"In effect we, the British Public, are giving huge amounts of money – tax free – to individuals so that we can buy back our shared national heritage." In an important blogpost Dr Tess Machling says the unsayable about the real impact of #MetalDetecting on UK heritage & the people trying to save it.

As the #EAA works out what to do after the debacle over its policy towards Israel/Gaza at its annual meeting a further challenge as the Government of Israel is accused of trying to extend its control over archaeological sites in the occupied West Bank.

Remember when we all used to meet at a place called Twitter. This weekend the Observer quoted a former Executive at Twitter as saying, "The mistake I made was thinking he (Elon Musk) was buying a company and (judging) the execution on those terms when he was really buying a country."

The University of Leicester with a series of statements after the announcement of an out of court settlement in the Lost King defamation case.

Damages paid in out of court settlement of Lost King defamation case. The film will also carry a statement clarifying the portrayal of university administrator Richard Taylor is fictional and the real Mr Taylor acted with integrity during the Richard III excavation. However, no edits will be made.

This is reminiscent of the US Project Pluto, cancelled in 1964. The missile appears to have a patchy test record, may have killed a number of its engineers in a test accident and is reported to have been described by US officials as, "uniquely stupid" and as a "flying Chernobyl."

Remember how Star Trek's Captain Jean-Luc Piccard is an archaeologist? He followed in Trowelblazing footsteps, Jaquetta Hawkes, who scripted this distopian "what if" for the BBC in 1962. Watching this it's important to remember Monitor was the BBC's leading, prime time, arts and culture programme.

#HeritageCrime News Two suspects arrested in Paris on Saturday evening (25 October) in connection with the theft of royal jewels from the Louvre a week ago. One arrest reportedly made at Charles de Gaulle airport. There is still much speculation but no hard news about the fate of the jewels.

Let an #AI bot loose on your data? "But for the benefits that AI browsers claim, the security and privacy tradeoffs just aren't worth it." "These new products might be dressed up as if they're the future of technology, but should really come with enormous warning labels: "Use at your own risk.""

The clue is in the website address bottom left. This is the latest attempt by Tufton Street adjacent, would be entryists, Restore Trust to attract support in the National Trust ballot ahead of November's AGM.

#AI News: News Research coordinated by the European Broadcssting Union and headed up by the BBC, shows AI cut and paste theft bots (sorry "assistants") get the news wrong in a significant way 45% of the time, with Gemini performing substantially worse than others.

Breaking: Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander quietly slips out the death warrent for the #Stonehenge Tunnel and dual carriageway by proposing to revoke its Development Consent Order. Of course, being the month of Halloween there's no guarantee the project won't see a Zombie resurrection in future.

Repeatedly rejected by the famously pro newbuild City of London, described by SAVE as 'damaging’ and a ‘mockery’ and by Historic England as threatening the setting of the Tower of London WHS, the plan for a 43 story tower next to the G1 listed Bevis Marks synagogue is heading for a planning appeal.

Er No...POTUS was showing off architect's drawings and CGI's at today's press huddle with the NATO Secretary General. There is no, oops, sorry, change of course. Demolition of the East Wing of the White House is what was planned all along.

Thames Valley Police will take no further action against the four men arrested after Led By Donkeys projected images of Donald Trump's record of contacts with Jeffrey Epstein onto Windsor Castle on the eve of the Trump State Visit. Quelle suprise...The point was to intimidate anti-Trump protestors.

#NoSh*tSherlock News It's called the Graham Hancock effect...

An investigation by the Architects Journal has found that there has been an increase in ministers overruling listing advice under the Starmer Government. By sheer coincidence almost all the buildings concerned were subject to development proposals. Historic England declined to comment.

Open AI launches operation to fence and launder its stolen intellectual property. There, fixed it.

#ItsAllAboutTheHistory News Statute of limitations saves metal detectorist from prosecution in Lower Saxony, Germany, after he unearths early Imperial Roman period hoard illegally and doesn't declare it for eight years. The region requires detectorists to obtain permits and report finds.

They deserve a 21% Pay Hike for the entertainment: News Just when you thought the chaos at the top of Historic Environment Scotland had reached peak comedy, with allegations of drunken twerking and insults directed at Rod Stewart, a misguided Simpsons tribute act falls victim to the Auld Alliance.

#ItsAllAboutTheHistory News Except this time it really is, because this hoard of 11th century coins was found by archaeologists from Oxford Cotswold Archaeology on the Sizewell C site and will be fully researched, reported and handed over to the Suffolk Archaeological Service for public sharing.

Quelle Suprise News Conservative Walsall Council doubles down on sale of the town's highly regarded Leather Museum after call in by members of the oposition Labour group. The Council state they are committed to giving the museum a future, but offer no details.

Prosecution tells court in Salisbury that the protest by three Just Stop Oil activists at #Stonehenge was 'blatant vandalism' and cleaning orange powder from the stones cost £620.

Trump #HeritageCrime Family News President Trump stars in $250m production of Strictly Room for Balls. Presumably they aim to finish in time for the coronation.

"The U.S. military exercise that shot live-fire artillery rounds over Interstate 5 on Saturday dropped metal shrapnel onto a California Highway Patrol protective services detail for Vice President JD Vance, agency officials said Sunday." Anyone checked behind the picket fence on the grassy knoll?

#HeritageCrime News French Police are investigating the theft this morning of nine items of jewelry from the Louvre gallery housing what remains of the French Crown Jewels. The theft is of items described as being of incalculable cultural value. The world famous museum is closed for the day.

A sad end for the Falls of Clyde, but Museum ships are money pits. Not long ago the Scottish Government and Maritime Museum couldn't get rid of the historic clipper City of Adelaide to its namesake city fast enough (& even then the new Australian owners have faced an uphill job finding support).

The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust confirms the G1 listed Halls Croft in Stattford upon Avon, once the home of Shakespeare's daughter Susanna, has been damaged by a reversing SUV. Local media reports allege the driver mistook the vehical's accelerator for the brake.

After sixty years of independent operation missed visitor targets and increasing costs such as employer's NI, are cited as the National Trust takes over the museums in Ironbridge Gorge, helped by a £9m sweetener from GOVUK. Who's next and what does this say about sustainability in heritage world?