‘The 20th century is ancient history to young people.’ The V&A hopes its new branch in east London will get younger, more diverse audiences through the door – but that’s much easier said than done, writes @helenbarrett.bsky.social

Will be sold to highest bidder - collection broken up, histories lost & disappearing into private collections, some overseas... Issue of legacy collections - where owners or heirs don't want things, will only get more common... #Archaeology #Treasure #Detecting 🏺 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Picture of the century. 😍 📷 credit: Science Tube

Meet the infinity gong! @dameevelynglennie.bsky.social introduces us to this marvel, and what this means for listening in terms of how you approach an instrument, or a situation. Listening is about introducing yourself with care and attention, whether it’s to a gong, or to another person.

For our latest project Ways of Listening, we’re looking for your creative responses about what listening means to you - so what could the infinity gong tell you about the way that YOU approach listening? citiesandmemory.com/listening/

Restored Lion mooring, one of four on the new Bazalgette Embankment Garden by Blackfriars Bridge.

Cruise ship has arrived - first one of the season.

FYI, this gallery has all the photos NASA is sharing from Artemis II in one place, with descriptions.

Mud, mud and more gloop! Not a lot to be found here. This area was clear two days ago. NB: permit required from the PLA to mudlark.

A much-loved Greenwich pub will reopen in May after being closed for eight months — and will regain its old name once again. The Vanbrugh has been taken on by a family-owned business, which has turned the old pub into a hive of activity in the past week. greenwichwire.co.uk/2026/04/01/v...

Looking for a creative challenge? 🎧💖 There are just under 100 recordings left to reimagine in our 2026 Spring Project - join the call and recompose a field recording, helping us to remix the world, one sound at a time: citiesandmemory.com/2026/03/spri...

Beware ... Pounce incoming.

We’ve all done it…haven’t we? It’s just a matter of scale! (Bananas galore in Orkney after store orders 38,000 by mistake) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Feeling inspired? Choose from more than 100 remaining recordings to reimagine in our Spring Project, open until June: citiesandmemory.com/2026/03/spri...

I’m thrilled that the Guardian Saturday magazine has excerpted one of my favourite chapters from THE ASSET CLASS this weekend: www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Your periodic reminder that there is a website that lets you listen to local radio stations anywhere in the world This is honestly one of the coolest inventions ever, imo. Global access to hyper-local imagined communities

#PalmSunday • Sul y Blodau 🌸 In Wales, villages trimmed and adorned the graves of their dead relatives on Palm Sunday. The sides of the graves were raised up with fresh turf, and fresh earth was placed on the surface; the stones were whitewashed, and women planted rosemary and rue🌷 #Wales

In return for information about the thieves, Crimestoppers are offering a large bounty.

Naughty dogs and naughty children walking over wet clay tiles 2,000 years ago, now immortalised. 🏛️ Fishbourne Roman Palace / @romanpalace.bsky.social 📷mine 🏺 #AncientBlueSky

This poem from Whatever You Do, Just Don't is for anybody who's had to clear a house, who's found objects that must have had significance for someone no longer here to tell their story....

The Deptford Ragged School Archive is going to be a wonderful resource - free and online - once it's digitised. Community history at its best.

Just had a look around the Postal Museum's archive... and its parade of pillars.

Our lovely local Evri driver has just been fired after five years with the company. He was working 12-15 hours a day with two days off a month, and being paid £1.05 a parcel. Evri decided to drop that to 72p. They can do it because he is classed as self-employed. This is our gig economy, folks.

One of the most important sociological studies of our time: documenting the cat ladders of Switzerland brigitteschuster.com/swiss-cat-la...

Genuinely don't think London Bridge station managers should be allowed to turn off the escalators up to a busy platform as a crowd control method. The stairs are still in use so it doesn't stop people equally from getting up there. If you need to manage numbers up there, block it all, intermittently

Open call for artists! More than 200 field recordings from all over the world for you to reimagine and recompose, in the Cities and Memory Spring Project! 🌼🎧 Find out more and select your sound: citiesandmemory.com/2026/03/spri...

If you're wondering how students from Britain’s leading African & Caribbean dance theatre company would respond to research on a C19th Ragged School in London and create a performance around it... wonder no more! Join us on Weds 25 March, either 2.30pm or 6.30pm, The Bear Church, Deptford. #history

We are delighted to share that @cotswoldarch.bsky.social have just completed a new and exciting project, creating a pottery type series for Wiltshire, dating from 400AD to the 1700s

If this is as reported, it goes against the idea of a university as an academic community

Fazer chocolate - Finnish Spring Fair at Rotherhithe. Open tomorrow and Sunday afternoon till 6pm.

There’s an office in London that contains something critical to the security of the global internet — a bunch of swinging pendulums. www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/ins...

Certain numbers accompany us through our lives, connected to our memories of people and places, of significant events. What numbers remain with you decades later? And why? This poem is taken from Whatever You Do, Just Don't (HappenStance Press, 2023), my second full collection...

What a lovely piece of writing! Thank you, @unfortunatalie.bsky.social

Bath to Brittany… with two cargo bikes and two kids 🚲 Cycling campaigner Saskia Heijltjes shares how her family travelled from Bath to Brittany by train and ferry, and spent 10 days exploring the coast by bike. A brilliant example of family flight-free travel. flightfree.co.uk/travel_artic...

Slide from John Price's fascinating talk on the Deptford Ragged School. Snapshot of one family and where they lived in the poorest part. The houses were small and conditions cramped.

It's a lovely post, genuinely a breath of fresh air to read

A reminder for us all, our heritage is so very vulnerable! Although not here in Sussex we can certainly think of so many sites that could be vulnerable here. If you ever see anything strange, suspicious or out of place please call Police at the time #HeritageCrime www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

this must be related and relevant

I will say it: I don't *love* that cafes can now be home to multiple people having work calls and Zooms while wearing noise cancelling headphones

Pollution Update: Sunday 15 March Central Catford - chemicals being stored on the edge of the River Ravensbourne on the Waterlink Way near the Halfords / Wickes site at #Catford Bridge. The delta-shaped staining from the water outfall pipe is still going strong.

Terrible news from the University of Kent

New display of Bronze Age artefacts at Horsham Museum Horsham Museum & Art Gallery has launched a new display of Bronze Age artefacts, funded by community donations after a break-in, enhancing the Fossils and Flints gallery.

Snow at the Royal Observatory at Greenwich from a postcard dated 1905 with a Greenwich postmark, posted to a child in Lowestoft with a birthday wish from his aunt and uncle. More early London postcards in my post at alondoninheritance.com/london-photo...

Freelancers, small businesses and so on have a statutory right under uk law to charge interest on unpaid bills. But the calculation can be complex. So my old friend the brill actress and podcaster Laura Shavin, built a calculator. It’s clever. fvo1.com/late-payment...

Woolwich Barracks could be used as a home for Greenwich’s archives after all - after the council ruled out the main building being used as a home for the borough's heritage centre. greenwichwire.co.uk/2026/03/13/w...

This can’t come soon enough. 👏 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

My favourite grasshopper fact: Grasshoppers first appeared on the planet 250 million years ago. Grass did not appear on the planet until 40 million years ago Imagine it: 210 million years, hopping around on any random surface you can find, waiting for the grass that will make you truly yourself.

Spring blossom - caught in yesterday's burst of afternoon sun.

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of what was then Queen Elizabeth College, @londonu.bsky.social I wrote about this for @wonkhe.bsky.social in 2022 buff.ly/Ty057Cz If you like this image, please repost it - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm

Last week, I spent £16 for a single ticket into London, and £12 for a return ticket. The train ride from my home to London is about 50 minutes long. Tomorrow, I have to head into London and single tickets are now £58. 🫠